New Species of South African Myrmecophelous Pselaphidce. 421 



Captured by Eev. R. Godfrey, at Pirie Mission Station (King 

 William's Town District, Cape Colony) in the formicarium of a large 

 ant belonging to the genus Camponotus. 



Sub-Family CLAVIGBEIN^. 



Gen. ARTICBRODES. 

 Articerodes latus, n. sp. 



Moderately short, thick and little convex, attenuate in front, 

 reddish brown, shiny; head and prothorax with rough, confluent 

 but somewhat fine and shallow punctures bearing a few fine setae ; 

 remainder of the body smooth, with a few seriate setae on the elytra. 

 Head hardly longer than broad, sub-cylindrical, epistome dilated on 

 the sides and also in front in a very obtuse triangle ; frons declivous 

 forward, tempora angular. Eyes large, projecting, median. Antennae 

 robust, as long as the head and half the length of the prothorax, 

 joint 2 quadrate, 3 a little longer than broad, obconical, 4 long, 

 nearly straight, gradually thickened towards the end which is 

 squarely truncate. Prothorax longer than the head, as broad as 

 long, attenuated in front, rounded laterally, the base triangular, 

 an entire strongly defined longitudinal furrow deeper in front 

 than behind. Elytra hardly longer than broad, slightly attenuate 

 towards the base, posterior margin declivous, angularly sinuose, 

 and having on each side, and not far from the edge, a fascicle 

 of hairs corresponding to an abdominal excrescence, and a few 

 rigid setae in addition. Abdomen a little larger than the elytra, 

 moderately convex, rounded behind, three deep excavations at the 

 base separated by fasciculate excrescences corresponding to the 

 fascicles of hairs of the elytra, lateral cavities very narrow, the median 

 one broad, transverse, lateral margin moderately narrow, simple, 

 fasciculate inwardly at the base. Metasternum large, pubescent. 

 Legs robust, moderately short, hardly compressed, tibiae gradually 

 thickened towards the apex, intermediate ones slightly arcuate. 



(? . Metasternum triangularly depressed. Intermediate femora 

 provided at the third posterior part with a tooth of moderate size, 

 but sharp ; the intermediate tibiae with a tooth in the inner side set 

 before the apex. 



2 . Metasternum convex. Legs simple. 



Length 1-70-1-90 mm. 



Hab. Pirie Mission. (District of King WiUiam's Town), Cape 



