ftf» [March, 



long, slender, joint 2 short, 3-11 elongate, sub-cylindrical, about equal in length. 

 Prothorax transverse, convex, arcuately narrowed anteriorly and slightly 

 narrowed behind, the hind angles sub-rectangular, the sides sharply margined to 

 near the apex, the base deeply bisinviate, the foveae very shallow and only just 

 indicated. Elytra long, not wider than the prothorax, narrowed from a little 

 below the base, finely striate, the sutural stria well marked. Anterior tarsi 

 slightly dilated in <? . Length 7-8^, breadth l|-2^ mm. 



Hah. : Natal (Mus. Brit.) ; E. Africa, Valley of the Rualia Eiver 

 (Neave: xii, 1910) ; Ashanti, Obuasi (Dr. W. M. Gralmm: 1908). 



Five specimens, the two from Natal received by the Museum in 

 1855 and 1858 respectively. Shaped like the Australian T. elongata, 

 but with the prothorax strongly bisinuate at the base, the elytra dis- 

 tinctly striate, and the lower spur of the posterior tibiae much shorter 

 than the upper. T. africana might easily l)e mistaken for a Eucnemid. 

 The only described Melandryids of this group from S. Africa are two 

 species of the genus Daemon* Motsch., both of which are unknown 

 to me. 



Dapsilodertjs Fairm. 



The greatly developed, contiguous anterior and intermediate coxae, 

 the very short aute-coxal poi'tion of the prosternum, the long second 

 joint and narrower apical joint of the maxillary palpi, and the broadly 

 sulcate genae distinguish Dapmloderus from the allied genus inhabiting 

 the same regions. 



1. — Dapsiloderus terminaUs. 



Hylotasfes ierminalis Pasc, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), ix, 

 pp. 25, 26 (1882) (sub Eucnemidae) ; Waterh.,Aid ident. Ins. ii, p. 8, 

 pi. 103 (1882). 



Dapsilodervs costipennis Fairm., Notes Leyd. Mus. ix, p. 157 

 (1887). 



Hab. : Borneo ; Sumatra ; Malacca. ; 



In Ent. Mo. Mag., LI, p. 140t (April, 1915), attention was 

 called to the possible identity of the insects described by Pascoe and 

 Fairmaire. A third specimen, from Malacca, has since been detected 

 in the British Museum, with the head red on each side behind the eyes, 

 and the black marginal stripe on the prothorax wanting. There can 

 be no doubt that they all belong to one species. Pascoe's Bomean 

 type and the Malaccan example have a large, oval, depressed area on 



* a preoccupied name : Laporte, 1S36. 

 t Erratum : fur " Tenebrionidae, but" read " Eucnemidae, and." 



