880 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, i vol. xii. 



MiCROPLIDUS ALGOENSIS, 11. spec. 



Chestnut-brown, clothed above and underneath with a somewhat 

 dense appressed greyish pubescence assuming on the elytra a some- 

 what squamiform appearance ; antennae rufescent ; clypeus, head, and 

 prothorax normally punctured and scabrose ; elytra elongate, very 

 little sinuate laterally, not plainly costulate ; legs very pubescent ; 

 claws of the intermediate and posterior legs single, simple; the 

 prothorax is a little more rounded laterally in the middle than in the 

 other species. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 3^ mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Delagoa Bay). 



MiCROPLIDUS vuLGus, u. spec. 



Eusty brown with the legs a little paler, clothed above and under- 

 neath with a fine appressed greyish pubescence not dense enough 

 to hide the colour of the background, and nowhere squamulose ; it 

 is similar in shape to the preceding species, the prothorax being also 

 rounded and more ampliated laterally at the middle, but the apical 

 margin of the clypeus is more reflexed ; the elytra are very faintly 

 hi- or tri-costulate, and have no series of short bristles ; the claws 

 of the intermediate legs are double and both slightly cleft, that of 

 the hind ones single and also slightly cleft. 



Length 6h-7 mm. ; width 3-3i mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie). 



BLIKANA, n. gen. 



Mentum oblong but distinctly attenuate laterally towards the 

 apex and not deeply incised at the point of insertion of the labial 

 palpi, not dilated thence, broadly but not deeply emarginate at the 

 tip where the angles are rounded and not penicillate, the surface is 

 very densely villose ; the maxillae are strong, horny, the two lobes 

 are indistinct, straight at the tip and with a few non-penicillate 

 bristles, concave and having no inner teeth ; apical joint of labial 

 palpi very swollen outwardly but not inwardly, that of the maxillary 

 in the shape of a spindle conspicuously swollen at the centre and 

 very sharp at the tip ; clypeus quite parabolic and slightly elongate, 

 not divided from the head by a suture ; antennae nine-jointed, club 

 elotigate, as long as all the four joints preceding, prothorax as in 

 Harpina; elytra also elongated, parallel, rounded behind and covering 

 the propygidium, the latter is vertical in the male; al)domen not 



