384 . Descriptive Cataloyite [1898. 



joints fourth to eighth slightly transverse, ninth to tenth decidedly 

 transverse, eleventh globose, truncate at base and abruptly acumi- 

 nate at apex, whilst in the male the fourth to seventh joints are 

 somew^hat longer than broad, eight is square, nine to ten are very 

 little transverse, and eleven is ovate. 



Trimiodytes brevipennis. 



Chestnut, shining ; antennae and legs testaceous, pubescence long 

 but very sparse, with some long, erect, and scattered setae ; head 

 about as long as broad, very little narrowed in front, and having two 

 large fovese and two strong sulci converging in front where they are 

 roundly connected, vertex hardly carinate ; antennae of moderate 

 size, the two basal joints larger, third obconical, fourth to eighth 

 moniliform, as broad as long, ninth not much larger but transverse, 

 tenth larger, transverse, eleventh sub-conical and very acuminate ; 

 prothorax very cordate, hardly broader, but longer, than the head, 

 lateral fovea? strong, median one small, transverse sulcus angular in 

 the middle; elytra short, shoulders dentate, two foveae at the base 

 with the dorsal sulcus well defined and extending to the median 

 part; abdomen longer than the elytra, somewhat larger, and rounded 

 in the middle, attenuate at apex ; metasternum convex ; last ventral 

 segment large, sub-triangular. 



Male : Head as long as broad, hardly attenuate in front, the 

 anterior margin of the frontal part is thick on the sides, somewhat 

 depressed and minutely emarginate in the middle ; just under the 

 emargination, on the epistoma, there is a little notch bearing a fovea; 

 elytra a little longer than the prothorax, less attenuate at the base, 

 wdth the shoulders more quadrate. 



Female : Head not quite as long as broad, and a little attenuated 

 in front, the anterior margin of the frontal part is rounded and 

 altogether thick ; elytra hardly longer than the prothorax, attenuate 

 at the base, with the shoulders very oblique. Length l-20-l'40 mm. 



This new species is larger than T. palustris, and the elytra are of 

 the same colour as the body, the head is smaller, the elytra are 

 broader and shorter ; in comparison with T. setifer the head is 

 smaller, the foveae and sulci much deeper, and the transverse 

 sulcus on the front is wanting, the elytra are much shorter and 

 attenuate towards the base, whilst in T. setifer the sides are nearly 

 straight. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). 



