392 Mr. G. C. Champion on 



Hah. S. Africa, Table Mountain {W. Bevins). 



One example. Larger and more robust than D. ojmcus 

 and its allies, the tibiae and tarsi in part testaceous, the 

 elytra parallel. Not unhke the European D. fiavi-pes 

 Oliv. This is one of three Dasytes found by Mr. Bevins 

 on Table Mountain, and sent to the British Museum in 1906. 



11. Dasytes turneri, n. sp. 



Elongate, narrow, moderate^ sliining, clothed with fine piibescence 

 intermixed with long, semierect, soft hairs ; brassy-black, sometimes 

 with a faint cupreous tinge, the antennae, palpi, and legs black; 

 alutaceous, the head and prothorax extremely finelj^ closely 

 punctate, the elytra densely, transversely, rugulosely punctured. 

 Head narrower than the prothorax; antennae {^) elongate, rather 

 stout, joints 3 and 4 longer than 2, 6-10 much longer than broad, (?) 

 shorter and less thickened, joints 3 and 4 slender. Prothorax 

 slightly broader than long, subquadi'ate, narroAved anteriorly. 

 Elytra elongate, much wider than the prothorax, parallel to beyond 

 the middle, somewhat acuminate at the apex, more strongly so in 

 $, the epipleura wanting. Legs slender; taisal claws with a 

 membranous expansion beneath extending to beyond the middle. 



liength 2^3 mm. 



Hab. S. Africa, Ceres [type] {R. Turner : x'l, 1920 : ^^), 

 Cape Town {Mits. Cape Toivn), Wynberg {Dr. Marshall : 

 xi, 1904 : ?). 



Seven specimens, the (^(^ somewhat, injured, the two $9 

 from Wynberg apparently belonging to the same species. 



12. Dasytes thunbergi, n. sp. 



Extremely like D. turneri, but with the ujjper surface a little 

 smoother and more shining, black, with a greenish lustre; the 

 prothorax rather uneven, somewhat constricted before the apex, 

 thus appearing more narrowed anteriorly ; the antennae of ^ rather 

 stout, shorter, and with joints 6-10 as broad as long, those of 9 

 still shorter, and with joints 6-10 transverse; the elytra parallel 

 in <^, widening to near the apex in 9- 



Length 2|-3| mm. 



Hah. S. Africa, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, and Grahams- 

 town [Mus. Cape Town), Table Mountain {W. Bevins). 



A long series, $$ predominating. More shining than 

 the insect here referred to D. opacus Thunb., the antennae 

 of the (^ shorter and stouter. 



