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last joint of the palpi is elongate, slender, and filiform, the antennal 

 club longer and the frontal tubercle shorter and thicker ; the elytra 

 are also more convex. In shape it resembles much M. i^alpator, 

 Eaffr., from Abyssinia, in which the elytra are also long and coarsely 

 granulated, but in this last-named species the last joint of the palpi 

 is cylindrical and slender, the prothorax shorter, and the antennal 

 club longer. 



Hab. Natal (Frere). One male example. 



Gen. PSEUDOTYCHUS. 



Body globose, attenuate in front ; head subtriangular, provided 

 with an antennal tubercle ; eyes set behind ; palpi moderate, first 

 joint inconspicuous, second arcuate and slightly clavate, third small, 

 fourth much larger, ovate, slightly securiform, acuminate ; antennae 

 not quite approximate at base, club triarticulate ; prothorax cordate, 

 trifoveate and sulcate transversely ; elytra convex, much attenuate 

 at base and bifoveate, sutural stria entire, dorsal one wanting ; 

 abdomen convex, marginate, first dorsal segment larger than the 

 others ; metasternum convex, first ventral segment hidden by the 

 metasternum, second large ; legs of moderate size, posterior coxae 

 very far apart, intermediate trochanters a little elongate, but the 

 insertion of the femora is, however, at the apex, the others short ; 

 first joint of tarsi minute, second produced inwardly, third much 

 longer, claws double and equal. 



This genus is very interesting ; the intermediate trochanters are 

 shorter than usual in this tribe, but they are nevertheless clavate, 

 and the femur is inserted at the apex ; the palpi are like those of 

 Bryaxis, and the general facies is very much like that of the 

 European genus Tychus, from which it is far removed by the 

 elongate intermediate trochanters, the first ventral segment hidden 

 by the metasternum and the two equal tarsal claws. It undoubtedly 

 belongs to the Tyrini tribe, but it is an aberrant form. 



PsEUDOTYCHUS NIGERRIMUS, 



Plate XVII., fig. 5. 



Black, shining, set with long but very sparse hairs ; antennae, 

 palpi, and legs testaceous ; head convex, subtriangular, antennal 

 tubercle quadrate, transverse ; antennjE robust, the first two joints a 

 little larger than the others, third to seventh a little longer than 

 broad, subcylindrical, eighth quadrate, ninth to tenth larger, quadrate, 

 slightly transverse, eleventh ovate, truncate at base, obtusely acumi- 

 nate at tip; prothorax much broader than the head, strongly cordate, 

 more attenuate in front than behind, and having three foveae of 



