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12. — Neio Species of South African Myrmecophelous Pselaphidce 

 (Coleoptera). — By A. Eaffray. 



Teibe BATEISINI. 



OEROPYGIA, n. gen. 



Fusiform. Head almost quadrate with the angles rounded and 

 the frons prolonged, but gradually depressed above the epistome. 

 Eyes almost median. Maxillary palps of moderate size ; 1st joint 

 very small, 2nd elongated, straight, thicker at the tip, 3rd very short, 

 obconical, 4th longer than the two preceding taken together, 

 irregularly fusiform, more swollen past the middle, obtusely 

 acuminate at the tip. Antennae broadly separated at the base, 

 inserted under the outer frontal angle, moderately long, club hardly 

 pronounced. Prothorax sub-cordiform, shoulders almost absent, 

 and having an uninterrupted sutural line, and an abbreviated dorsal. 

 Abdomen longer than the elytra, conical, almost horizontal, all the 

 dorsal segments distinct, tergites decreasing; the first has two lateral 

 carinas the inner of which is slightly oblique, both carinas are 

 moderately distant from each other, entire and form the margin, 

 there are only two faint traces of a very short carina on the 2nd, 3rd, 

 and 4th tergites, the 5th is plane, truncate at apex ; the sternites are 

 of the same size as and corresponding to the tergites, the first is 

 invisible. Metasternum large, projecting as an obtuse point between 

 the hind coxge which are slightly apart. Legs robust, moderately 

 long ; tarsi moderately long, slender, 1st joint very small, 2nd and 3rd 

 cylindrical, sub-equal, the two claws are very unequal. 



This new genus of the Batrisini tribe comes evidently near 

 Connodontus, the species of which are African, and mess-mates, if 

 not of ants, at least of Termites. The facies which is very much alike, 

 is especially due to the shape of the abdomen the dorsal and ventral 

 segments of which entirely correspond, the dorsal being neither 

 sloping nor incurved underneath. But it differs from Connodontus 

 in the palpi being smaller, and in the last joint being in nowise 



