372 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



acutely produced at the inner apical angle, 5 nigro-setulose beneath, 

 the upper claw longer and a little stouter than the lower one. 



$. Antennae shorter; elytra more widened posteriorly. 



Length 2^-3 mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Table Mountain {Dr. Marshall), Con- 

 stantia Nek and Rondebosch {E. B. Poullon). 



Found in abundance by Dr. Marshall and Prof. Poulton 

 in August 1905. This insect agrees in some respects with 

 the description of P. donceeli Pic (1907), type from Port 

 Elizabeth ; but the latter is said to have the head long and 

 narrow, the prothorax smooth on the disc, and the body 

 broader than in P. angustissimus, a definition that will not 

 apply to P. angustulus. P. donceeli, moreover, is stated to 

 have the facies of certain species of Attains near Pecterojms, 

 instead of that of a narrow Dasytes, for which P. angustidus 

 might easily be mistaken. 



5. Pagurodactylus funereus, n. sp. 



^. Elongate, narrow, shining, clothed with fine greyish pubescence 

 intermixed with long, erect, blackish, bristly hairs ; black, the basal 

 joints of the antennae (except joint 1 above) testaceous, the legs 

 piceous ; the head and prothorax sjiarscly, finely, the elytra densely, 

 rugnlosely punctate. Head oblong, rather convex, narrower than 

 the prothorax, triangularly depressed between the eyes and bisulcate 

 in front, the eyes somewhat prominent ; antennae short, moderately 

 slender. Prothorax as long as broad, convex, narrowed anteriorly, 

 transversely grooved behind the anterior margin, sulcate along the 

 sides posteriorly, and foveate in the centre at the base, the lateral 

 margins reflexed. Elytra long, much broader than the prothorax, 

 a little widened posteriorly, narrowly margined. Anterior tarsi 

 thickened, nigro-setulose beneath, the upper claw long and rather 

 stout, the lower one short, slender, toothed near the base beneath. 



$. Head narrow, the eyes not prominent ; elytra longer and more 

 rounded at the sides beyond the middle. 



Length (with head) 2^-3^ mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Malvern, Natal {Dr. Marshall, Mus. 

 Cafe Town and Mus. Durban : iv, 1897 ; iv, v, 1898). 



Two <^^ and one $. This insect has the general facies 

 of a small narrow Dasytes ; but no Dasytes has the anterior 

 tarsal claws of ^ formed as in P. funereus, which is certainly 

 congeneric with P. vitticeps Gorh., the latter having a shorter 

 prothorax, long antennae in (^, etc. P. circumcinctus has 

 the antennae formed as in P. funereus. Compared with 



