894 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



as long as the tibiae, bristly like them, and having large claws ; in 

 the four anterior feet both claws are of equal size, strongly divergent, 

 (owing to the thick but non-setigerous after-claw which intrudes 

 itself between them at the base), and end in a blunt apex alongside 

 of which a sharp, shorter cleft tooth is present internally ; posterior 

 tarsi with a long, cleft, always folded claw, pygidium in the male 

 pei"pendicular and not drawm in, but projecting more posteriorly 

 in the female. Whole upper surface shiny, with solitary hairs. 

 Only one species fi'om South Africa." 



MiCRODORis AQUiLA, Burm., 

 Loc. cit., p. 33. 



"From Dr^ge. Surface of head densely and coarsely punctate, the 

 vertex almost black, with yellow hairs, prothorax very shiny, with 

 scattered punctures and with long yellow bristles at the sides ; 

 scutellum tolerably covered with yellow hairs. Elytra shiny, brown, 

 and with punctures set in irregular rows which bear appressed 

 yellow bristly hairs ; under surface, legs, antennae, and palpi pale 

 yellow, shiny, with scattered bristles ; the hairs on the sternum are 

 shorter and appressed, those at the anal margin foi-ming long ciliae. 



Length 3 lin." 



I do not know this genus, which Lacordaire places in the Hoplidcs 

 group. 



