6 Dr. G. A. K. Marshall on African 
inwardly at the base, the episternal stria complete, the hind 
coxze widely separated from the elytra. Venter with the 
intercoxal process slightly angulated at the base and nar- 
rower than the coxa; segment 1 with the hind margin 
straight, its length behind the coxa equal to that of 2, which 
is longer than 3 or 4. Legs short; tibize armed with stout 
spines, but the external apical angle not produced, the 
corbels of the hind pair open, squamose and very oblique ; 
tarsi narrow, setose beneath, not spongy. 
o unknown. 
Genotype, Mimauledes fimbriatus, sp. n. 
The general form is entirely that of Mimau/odes, and the 
insects are similarly covered with a thick earthy incrusta- 
tion, so that several of the structural characters given above 
can only be observed when the specimen has been scraped. 
Mimaulodes fimbriatus, sp. n. 
Integument pale brown, densely clothed with grey scales 
mingled with a natural earthy indumentum, and nearly 
always more or less coated with mud. 
Head with stout, dark, suberect setee and a dense patch of 
paler ones above each eye; eyes nearly circular and with a 
complete ring of pale scales. Rostrum almost flat above, 
with a very shallow transverse impression near the apex, so 
that the apical area appears to be raised; the sides quite 
vertical, so that no sign of the scrobe can be seen from above, 
the dorsal edge obtusely angulated above the base of the 
scrobe. Prothorax twice and a half as broad as long, broadest 
near the base and much narrower in front ; the integment, 
when scraped, appears uneven and finely rugulose, being set 
with short, subrecumbent, stout, dark sete, and there is 
along the lateral margin an uneven fringe of very long, 
upwardly curved sete. Ji/ytra broadly ovate, the sides 
gently rounded, broadest about the middle, the apical outline 
broadly rounded ; the base not fitting very closely to the 
prothorax, jointly sinuate in the middle and rounding away 
at the sides ; the dorsal surface with very shallow and broad 
sulci, the narrower raised intervals each bearing a row of 
stout, suberect, dark setze, while at the shoulders and along 
the dorsal margins 1s an outstanding fringe of much longer 
sete, these being longest at the shoulders and gradually 
diminishing behind. Legs densely squamose and with stout 
raised sete ; anterior pairs of tibiz with four spines along 
the apical edge, two or three on the apical third of the dorsal 
