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prothorax, and are much shorter than in any described 

 species of the Malachiid genera Carphurus and Helcogaster. 



1. Apterodasytes staphylinoides, n. sp. (Fig. 4.) 



Black, shining, the antennae in part or ahnost wholly, tibiae, 

 and tar.si testaceous or obscvu'e testaceous ; sparsely clothed with 

 long, erect, blackish hairs which on the elytra and abdomen are 

 intermixed with an abundant, adpressed, rather long, cinereous 

 pubescence; the head and prothorax very sparsely, the elytra 

 and abdomen densely, rugulosely punctate, the punctures on the 

 elytra rather coarse. Head moderately long, deeply longitudinally 

 sulcate on each side anteriorly; antennae rather short, joints 9-11 

 perceptibly wider than those preceding, 9 and 10 about as long as 

 broad, 11 ovate. Prothorax convex, as long as broad, narrowed 

 towards the base and apex and deeply, transversely furrowed behind 

 the anterior margin. Elytra at the base narrower than the pro- 

 thorax, rapidly widening to the apex, obliquely truncate behind. 

 Abdomen as long as or longer than the rest of the body, widening 

 to beyond the middle, somewhat pointed at tlie tip. Legs moder- 

 ately slender. 



Length 2i-.3^ mm. 



Hah. S. Africa, Prince Albert {Dr. Purcell, Mus. Cape 

 Toivn). 

 Six specimens. 



Alphabetical numbered List of Species enumerated 

 IN this Paper. 



The generic names in brackets abbreviated thus : P.^=Paguro- 

 dactyl us, Dasyloph. = Dasi/tophasis, D.=Dasytes, A.=A2)terodasi/tcs ; 

 those marked with an asterisk are described as new. 



albofasciatus {Dasytoph.), 2. *crihrosus {P.), 3. 



*angulatus (P.), 17. *debilis (P.), 16. 



angustissimus (P.), 21. disjunct us (P.), 20. 



*angustulus (P.), 4. *fenestrafus (P.), 18. 



capensis {D.), 9. *fibulatus (P.), 1. 



*capicola {Dasytoph.), I. *flavocinctus (P.), 11. 



*cephaloies (P.), 13. *Jlavosignatus (P.), 1"?. 



circumcindus (P.), 7. *funereus (P.), 5. 



coriaceipennis (D.), 8. Ingens (P.), 6. 



coriaceus {D.), 4. luleopubeyis {D.), 14. 



coronatus (P.), 9. marginipennis (P.), 14. 



CQstatipennis {D.), 5. *masaicus (P.), 23. 



*cribricolUs {D.), 6. *metaUicus (P.), 19. 



