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and a transverse curved subapical spot (sometimes wanting), these 

 markings connected along the suture, inf uscate or black ; the head 

 and prothorax spai-sely, finely, the elytra closely, strongly, rugulosely 

 punctate. Head (with the convex eyes) about as wide as the 

 prothorax, canaliculate on the vertex; antennae moderately long, 

 slender. Prothorax convex, nearly as long as broad, narrowed in 

 front and behind, sharply margined. Elytra broader than the 

 prothorax, somewhat rounded at the sides from a little below the 

 base and feebly dilated posteriorly, the margins prominent. Anterior 

 tarsi slightly thickened, joint 5 nigro-setulose beneath, the upper 

 claw 0. little longer and stouter than the lower one. 



0, Head narrower than the prothorax, the antennae shorter and 

 paler; elytra much widened posteriorly. 



Var. Elytra infuscate, the lateral margins and apex only testa- 

 ceous ((^). 



Length 2^\-3l mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Mossel Bay, Cape Province {R. E. 

 Turner: iv, 1921, iii, 1922). 



Seventeen examples, including eight (^(^. A small, 

 shining, setose, testaceous insect, the elytra with dark 

 fasciae, which are coalescent along the suture and some- 

 times united into a large patch, leaving the margins and 

 apex only pale. The $ is extremely like a small Attains ; 

 the ^ has the anterior tarsal structure of Pagurodactylus. 



19. Pagurodactylus metallicus, n. sp. 



$. Elongate, narrow, slender, widened posteriorly, subopaque, 

 very finely, sparsely pubescent; caeruleous, the antennae (the partly 

 testaceous basal joints excepted) and legs piceous; the entire upper 

 surface extremely finely alutaceous (appearing dull and sericeous), 

 the elytra with very fine scattered punctures. Head oblong, rather 

 narrow, triangularly depressed anteriorly, the eyes not prominent ; 

 antennae rather short, slender. Prothorax much longer than 

 broad, a little narrowed anteriorly, hollowed along the sides pos- 

 teriorly and also in the middle at the base. Elytra elongate, wider 

 than the prothorax, narrowly margined, rounded and convex at the 

 tip. llicgs long and slender; anterior tarsi not thickened; tarsal 

 claws small, equal. 



(^. Anterior tarsi somewhat thickened, the upper claw longer and 

 stouter than the lower one; head broader, the eyes convex; antennae 

 slightly longer. 



Length 2^-3 mm. 



