52 Descriptive Catalogue [1897. 



Female : Antennae slender ; eyes minute ; elytra truncate, straight 

 at apex ; third to fifth ventral segment decreasing in size, sixth 

 large, transversely triangular. Length 1 mm. 



The seventh ventral ring in the male seems to be reduced to a 

 strong tubercle situated in the centre of a depression at the apex of 

 the preceding segment, but it is, I think, without doubt a true 

 segment. 



I have found two examples only : one, a female, in the Platklip 

 Stream at the foot of Table Mountain, and one male at Newlands, 

 also at the foot of Table Mountain. 



Gen. TEIMIODYTES. 



Subelongate and hardly convex ; head large ; antennae distant at 

 base, moniliform, and with an inconspicuous club ; palpi moderately 

 elongate, the two basal joints slightly thickened at apex, third 

 minute, fourth large, fusiform, subelongate and acuminate ; pro- 

 thorax cordate, transversely sulcate and trifoveate ; elytra little 

 elongate, without shoulders and not dentate, marginal sulcus deficient, 

 sutural stria entire, dorsal one short ; abdominal segments equal, 

 the second ventral one larger than the others ; intermediate and 

 posterior coxae approximate ; tarsi large, first joint very small, second 

 conical, third cylindrical; a single strong claw. 



This genus is very closely allied to Prodalma, from which it diifers 

 by the more elongate body, the elytra having neither humeral tooth 

 nor subepipleural groove, the first dorsal segment equal in size to 

 the following, and the longer tarsi. 



Teimiodytes palustris, 

 Plate XVI., fig. 18. 

 Totally chestnut red ; the legs, antennae, and palpi red, with 

 scattered yellowish hairs ; elytra darker than the rest of the body ; 

 head large, shghtly attenuate in the anterior part, frontal part little 

 oblique on each side, vertex slightly convex, briefly and indistinctly 

 carinate, and having two small distant fovete placed nearly before 

 the eyes, merging into one another and joined in the anterior part 

 by two round sulci ; eyes small, median ; antennae elongate, stout, 

 with the first joint bigger than the others, the second ovate and 

 larger than the others, the third suboblong, slightly obconical, fourth 

 to eighth inclusive moniliform, ninth a little bigger and shghtly 

 transverse, tenth larger than the preceding, eleventh ovate, truncate 

 at base, acuminate at apex ; prothorax a little narrower than the 

 head, strongly cordate, slightly sinuate behind the median part and 

 having deep but not broad lateral foveas, median one large, shallow, 



