the Dasylinae of South Africa. 391 



" Elongatus, subdepressus, nigio-caeruleus, supra caerulescens ; 

 thorace crebre punctate ; elytris coriaceis, mediocre explanatis. — 

 Long. 6-6-3 mm." [Pic] 



^. Antennae a little longer and logs stouter than in 9> the femora 

 subequal. 



Hah. S. Africa, Stellenboscli and Tulbagh {Mvs. Cape 

 Town), Ceres, Cape Province (R. E. Turner: xi, 1920), 

 Cape of Clood Hope {type of Pic). 



Narrower and more rugose than D. costatipennis ; the 

 interspaces on the disc of the prothorax smooth and 

 shining; the elytra parallel, depressed along the suture, 

 the seriately-arrangecl tubercles more prominent and more 

 numerous. The six specimens in the Cape ToAvn Museum 

 are nigro-caeruleous above, those from Ceres brassy. The 

 anterior tibiae and tarsi are sometimes wholly or in part 

 testaceous. 



9. Dasytes capensis. 

 Dasyles capensis Pic, L'Echange, xxiii, p. 133 (1907). 



Hub. S. Africa, Dunbrody {Mus. Cape Toivn). 



A specimen from Dunbrody in the Cape Town Museum 

 is perhaps referable to this species. It is less elongate and 

 much smaller (length 2| mm.) than D. oneili Pic, brassy 

 in colour, with the legs and antennae more slender and 

 almost entirely testaceous, the elytra with scattered, 

 smooth, seriately-arranged granules intermixed with the 

 rugulose sculpture, the erect hairs very long. D. rvfipes 

 Thunb. may be an ally of this insect; the diagnosis is as 

 follows — " Caeruleo-aeneus pedibus rufis. Magnitudine 

 D. nigri hirtus, violaceo-viridis, pedibus omnibus et totis 

 rufis." 



10. Dasytes parallelus, n. sp. 



^. Elongate, somewhat robust, shining, clothed with greyish 

 pubescence intermixed with erect, darker, bristly hairs; brassy- 

 black, the tibiae and tarsi in great part testaceous, the antennae 

 and palpi black; the entire upper surface densely, finely punctured. 

 Head narrower than the prothorax, bisulcate anteriorly, the eyes 

 rather large; antennae moderately long, comparatively stout, a 

 little thickened outwards, joints 7-10 longer than broad. Pro- 

 thorax broader than long, sinuously narrowed anteriorly, constricted 

 before the apex, and shallowly sulcate down the middle. Elytra 

 long, broader tha,n the prothorax, parallel, with indications of 

 shallow impressed lines on the disc. Legs long, not very slender. 

 Length 4 mm. 



