82 Descriytive Catalogue [1897. 



Dalmina elegans, 

 Plate XVII., fig. 1. 



Elongate, slender, ferruginous, covered with a flexible, sparse, 

 flavous pubescence, tibiae, tarsi, and palpi, as well as the tip of the 

 antennae, paler ; head hexagonal, equally attenuate in front and 

 behind, moderately depressed, bifoveate behind the median part, the 

 two sulci slightly arcuate, vertex with a long carinule ; eyes of 

 moderate size, median and prominent ; antennae elongate, first joint 

 cylindrical, second briefly ovate, third to eighth decreasing, having 

 nearly the same shape but less transverse, and serrate inwardly, 

 third one transversely ovate, and all attenuate at base and apex, 

 ninth and tenth subcorneal, ninth rather elongate and narrower, 

 tenth shorter and thicker, eleventh hardly larger, suboblong, truncate 

 at base, acuminate at tip ; prothorax of nearly the same size as the 

 head, very cordate, with the sides sinuate behind the median part, 

 longitudinal sulcus strong, shortened in front and behind, the trans- 

 verse one hardly angular, lateral foveas strong ; elytra little 

 elongate, attenuate at base, no shoulders, dorsal sulcus very short ; 

 abdomen a little longer than the elytra, rather convex, first 

 dorsal segment slightly larger than the others, and transversely im- 

 pressed at base ; legs elongate, slender ; head irregular underneath, 

 impressed in a subtriangular shape in the middle, and having in each 

 side of the anterior part a squamose, depressed area, it is nodose in 

 the median part near the neck, fasciculate and broadly foveate on 

 each side ; metasternum convex ; last ventral segment impressed 

 and much sinuate at apex. Male. Length 2 mm. 



This species differs much from the others owing to the j)eculiar 

 shape of the head, the much longer antennae, the joints of which are 

 isolated from one another, the longitudinal sulcus of the prothorax, 

 and the long and slender legs. 



Hah. Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town, Newlands). 



Tribe BATEISINI. 



The distinctive characters of the tribe are as follows : Median and 

 hind coxae globular and not prominent, the latter somewhat depressed 

 and triangular, approximate or very little distant from each other ; 

 first ventral segment of abdomen concealed under the metasternum 

 or the coxae, or, when the latter are not quite approximate, looking 

 like a small notch ; two very unequal claws to the tarsi. 



The other parts of the body are most variable, but it can be said 

 that as a rule in the African insects the body is rather elongate and 

 somewhat cylindrical, the antennae very distant at base, and the 



