1898.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 383 



transverse, antennal tubercle short, transverse, strongly sulcate, 

 sulcus extending behind as far as the eyes ; antennae slender, very 

 moniliform, first joint long, cylindrical, second ovate, third small, 

 ovate, fourth to eighth ovate, ninth to tenth globose, eleventh shortly 

 ovate, obtusely and somewhat abruptly acuminate ; prothorax trans- 

 verse, broader than the head, sides very much rounded and hardly 

 sinuate behind the median part, lateral foveas large, median one small 

 and united by a strong transverse and arciiate sulcus to two minute 

 oblong and oblique foveae ; elytra as in F. africanus but a little 

 shorter. Abdomen similar. 



Male : Antennae a little longer, joints fourth to eighth more 

 oblong, ninth to tenth globose, not transverse, eleventh ovate. 



Female : Antennge shorter, joints fourth to eighth short, ovate, 

 ninth to tenth somewhat transverse, eleventh nearly globose. 

 Length 1-30 mm. 



This species very closely resembles F. africanus, for which I 

 mistook it at first, but the antennal tubercle is shorter and more 

 deeply sulcate, the antennae are much shorter and much more 

 moniliform ; the prothorax is shorter, much more regularly rounded 

 on the sides, which are not really sinuate behind, and hardly narrowed 

 in front, so that the sides are altogether rounded from the front to 

 the base, whilst in africanus the prothorax is narrowed in front, 

 strongly rounded in the middle and sinuate towards the base ; the 

 basal impression is smaller, the elytra shorter, the colour lighter, and 

 it is of smaller size. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Newlands). 



Much rarer than F. africanus. 



Tribe EUPLECTINI. 



Gen. TEIMIODYTES, Eaffr., 



Catal., p. 52. 



Tbimiodytes palustbis, Ealfr., 



Loc. cit., p. 52. 



When I described this species I had only one example at my dis- 

 posal ; since then I have found again this insect in the same locality. 

 It has no sexual mark whatever on the abdomen, and what I sup- 

 posed to be the female proves to be the male. The female has the 

 head smaller and more rounded in front, the antennae are shorter. 



