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longer than broad. Prothorax longer than broad, narrowed towards 

 base and apex. Elytra long, much wider then the prothorax, 

 depressed below the base, rounded at the apex, the humeri swollen. 

 Anterior tarsi moderately thickened, joints 1 and 2 subequal in 

 length, 4 and 5 nigro-setulose beneath, the upper claw longer and 

 stouter than the lower one. 



Length (with head extended) 31 mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Cape Town {3Ii(s. Ccvpe Toivn : xii, 

 1887). 



Two males. Larger and more robust than Dasytophasis 

 {Attains) albofasciatus Gorh. ; the head less elongate, and 

 strongly punctured ; the antennae long and rather stout ; 

 the ante-median fascia of the elytra interrupted at the 

 suture, the apical fascia replaced by a transverse subapical 

 spot. The present species has the general facies of an 

 elongate, spotted Anthicus. 



13. Pagurodactylus cephalotes, n. sp. (Fig. 2.) 



(J. Elongate, shining, clothed with pallid decumbent pubescence 

 intermixed with very long, black, erect, bristly hairs; testaceous 

 or rufo-testaceous, the head (except at the base and in front), the 

 outer joints of the antennae, the elytra with a basal and a post- 

 median fascia, connected along the suture, and sometimes a small spot 

 on the disc near the apex, and the metasternum, to a variable extent, 

 black, the elytral markings in some specimens evanescent. Head 

 extremely large and broad, nearly twice the length of the prothorax, 

 arcuately swollen on each side behind the eyes and obliquely 

 narrowed thence to the base, transversely bi-impressed in front 

 and longitudinally excavate at the middle of the vertex, coarsely, 

 rugosely punctured, smoother in front and at the base ; eyes convex ; 

 antennae short, stout, the joints comparatively broad, 6-10 strongly 

 transverse. Prothorax small, strongly transverse, much narrower 

 than the head or elytra, obliquely narrowed behind, very sparsely, 

 minutely punctate, grooved behind the anterior margin, the lateral 

 margins refiexed. Elytra long, subparallel in their basal half, 

 rounded at the tip; closely, rather coarselj' punctate, with coarser 

 setigerous punctures intermixed. Anterior tarsi stout, sparsely 

 nigro-setulose beneath, joint 2 produced into a strong tooth at the 

 apex within ; the upper claw long, simple, the lower one shorter and 

 more slender, angulate near the base, similar to those of the other 

 tarsi. 



$. Head entirely or to near apex, the antennae (except the basal 

 joints beneath), the prothorax with an interrupted transverse space 



