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slightly flavescent and very short appressed hair, there are 

 also a few erect bristles on the disk, and a fringe of them along 

 the anterior and lateral margins ; elytra nearly oblong, but not 

 quite parallel owing to a supra-lateral sinuation, they are not 

 plainly costulate, but are somewhat striate in the discoidal part, 

 moderately deeply but somewhat closely and irregularly punctate, 

 and have on each side eight series of short, white setae regularly 

 disposed and not closely set, between these rows are some 

 scattered, small, flavescent hair - like scales which are a little less 

 remote on the posterior part, and often rubl)ed off; the pygidium, 

 abdomen, and pectus are clothed with appressed flavescent hairs, 

 and the legs are more bristly than pubescent. 



Length 7^-8 mm. ; width 3f-4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



This species is crepuscular. 



MICEOPLIDUS, n. gen. 



Mentum oblongo-ovate, not very deeply narrowed at the point of 

 insertion of the antennae, nearly straight at the tip with the angles 

 somewhat rounded and not penicillate ; inner lobe of maxillae indis- 

 tinct, but sharp at the tip, the upper one is short, has a thick pencil 

 of hairs at the tip, and four or five sharp teeth inwardly ; apical 

 joint of labial palpi short, swollen, that of the maxillary moderately 

 long, sub-fusiform ; clypeus broadly rounded laterally, and with the 

 margin slightly reflexed, it is a little shorter than the head, which is 

 very rugose ; antennae nine-jointed, club short, ovate ; prothorax 

 convex, distinctly narrowed obliquely laterally in the anterior part 

 and nearly straight from there to the posterior angle, but also 

 occasionally a little ampliated and rounded in the middle, the base 

 is slightly bi-sinuate ; scutellum moderately long, narrow, ogival ; 

 elytra somewhat convex, very little emarginate laterally Ik'Iow the 

 humeral part, but a little attenuated thence towards the apex, and 

 covering the greater part of the propygidium ; pygidium nearly 

 vertical ; tibiae with an apical spur, anterior ones bi-dentate or 

 occasionally with a third tooth {pnmilus), the two teeth very 

 oblique and long, posterior legs robust, the tibias broad, shorter 

 than the thigh ; claws of forelegs double, unequal, the stouter one 

 cleft at the tip ; those of the intermediate and posterior legs single 

 or double, simple or cleft. 



The insects included in this genus have a peculiar facies owing to 

 their narrow elongate body. They can be divided into two sections, 

 according to the body being entirely or partly covered by scales, or 



