378 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



before the middle in one specimen, the elytra (except at the tip), 

 and the bases of the femora, black; head short, small, coarsely, 

 rugosely punctured, bi-impressed in front; antennae much more 

 slender; elytra widened posteriorly; legs more slender, anterior 

 tarsi simple, the claws equal. 

 Length 3-3| mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Salisbury {Dr. Marshall : <^^ ; J. 

 O'Neil, in Mus. Cape Town : c^) and HojDe Fountain, 

 Rhodesia {NeviUe Jones : ^) ; Estcourt, Natal {Dr. 

 Marshall: c?$). 



Seven (^(^ and two 9$, the former varying in the develop- 

 ment of the black markings on the head and elytra, the 

 $$ with a small head and the elytra black to near the tip. 

 This is one of several closely allied S. African forms, the 

 females of which are scarcely separable one from another. 



14. Pagurodactylus marginipennis. 



lAtlahis margini'pennis Ab. de Perrin, Rev. d'Ent., xix, 

 pp. 164, 175 (?) (1900). 



Type, ?. Prothorax with an oblong black streak on the disc 

 anteriorl}'; elytra black, the outer margins narrowly, and the apex 

 broadly, testaceous. 



Var. ^. Very like P. cephaJotes, more thickly pubescent, the inter- 

 mixed blackish hairs shorter, softer, and more numerous ; the elytra 

 with a common, broad nigro-piceous patch extending from the base 

 to far beyond the middle, the dark space hollowed at the sides 

 anteriorly (appearing dilated at the base and apex). Head less 

 developed, about as wide as the prothorax, densely, moderately 

 coarsely punctate, unimpressed on the vertex; antennae short, 

 rather slender, as in P. cephalotes, $. Prothorax relatively broader, 

 somewhat closely punctured. Elytra more densely and not so 

 coarsely punctate. Anterior tarsi and claws as in P. cephalotes. 



$. Head small ; antennae shorter ; anterior tarsi slender, simple. 



Length 2|-3| mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Makapan, N.E. Transvaal {type of 

 Abeille de Perrin : $), Bothaville, Orange Free State {Dr. 

 Brauns, in Mus. Cape Toivn : 1, iii, 1899 : ^ $). 



The description of the sexual characters, etc., is taken 

 from two (^(^ and one $ from Bothaville ; the latter differs 

 from the type of P. {Attains) marginipennis, Ab. (lent me 

 by Dr. Peringuey), in having the infuscate portion of the 

 elytra less extended and the median streak on the prothorax 



