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shoxter tooth is more than half the length of the other (pilosulus) 

 or nearly as long {)ieglectus, vanus) and slightly cleft at the tip. 



Burmeister has seen only one example of this genus, and did not 

 dissect the mouth parts, perhaps he was not allowed to do so. This 

 would account for the discrepancy between his description and mine. 

 My example, however, came from Dr^ge, and I have some reason to 

 believe that it is the identical female examined by Burmeister. 



This genus is veiy well characterised by the peculiar shape of the 

 mentum and by the tibiae being bi-carinate on the upper side. It is 

 purely South African. 



Key to the Species. 



Head and prothoiax black, with the elytra dark chestnut-brown and 

 roughly coriaceous piln.^iihi.1. 



Head black, prothorax and elytra chestnut-brown and both closely 

 punctulate illotiis. 



Whole body light testaceous, prothorax extremely closely punctured, 

 the punctures minute and irregular ; elytra also very closely punctured, 

 the punctures round and somewhat deep in the male, broader and more 

 cicatricose and enclosing a smaller puncture in the female raniix. 



Cylichnus pilosulus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 172. 



Head and prothorax black, elytra and under side chestnut-brown, 

 legs testaceous ; head very rugose, almost roughly foveolate, clypeus 

 straight at the apex and with the angles slightly rounded, reflexed at 

 tip, somewhat concave and covered like the head with a sub-fiavescent 

 pubescence ; prothorax transverse, nearly twice as broad as long, 

 attenuate diagonally towards the apex for about half the length, 

 granulose and set with long, sub-appressed, sub-fiavescent hairs ; 

 scutellum somewhat short, triangular ; elytra sub-parallel, rounded 

 behind, not sinuate laterally, plane rather than convex, pluri-costate 

 on each side, but the costae not very plain, covered with transverse, 

 closely set, somewhat irregular scar-like impressions, and clothed 

 with dense sub-erect greyish hairs ; under side and legs finely 

 pubescent ; claws of all the legs double, unequal, the smaller claw 

 is not quite as long as the stronger one and is briefly bifid at the tip. 



Length 7^ mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality). 



Cylichnus neglectus, n. spec. 

 Testaceous brown, covered with very fine, minute, sub-flavescent 

 hairs not set sufficiently close to each other to form a pubescence on 



