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the S. African Species of Attalus. 573 
Two males, both wora. The anteriorly-flattened, inter- 
ocularly bituberculate head and the long, stout, sharply 
serrate antenue are conspicuous characters in the ¢ of this 
species. 
4. Attalus serratus. 
Atialus serratus, Ab. de Perrin, Rey. d’Ent, xix. pp. 164, 175 (¢ 2) 
(1900). 
3. Antenne elongate, joints 5-10 widened, sharply tri 
angular ; anterior tarsal joint 2 extending over 3 above. 
¢. Antenne more slender, short, feebly serrate; elytra 
more widened posteriorly. 
Hab. 8. Arrica, Cape Town. 
A small, short, rather convex, shining, bluish-black form, 
with a red prothorax, and black antennze (the basal joints 
in part excepted) and legs; the prothorax convex, much 
rounded at the sides; the elytra sparsely feebly punctate, 
strongly transversely depressed below the base, clothed 
with long semierect hairs intermixed with the scattered 
decumbent pubescence. The type and three other specimens 
from the Cape have been lent me by Dr. Péringuey, 
5. Attalus rufotibialis, sp. n. 
3. Moderately elongate, widened posteriorly, convex, 
very shining, clothed with fine scattered pubescence inter- 
mixed with long semierect hairs; black, the prothorax, 
tibia, and basal joints of the tarsi rufo-testaceous, the 
antennal joints 2-4 in part testaceous, the elytra nigro- 
ceeruleous. Head short, subtriangular, much narrower than 
the prothorax, flattened anteriorly, finely punctured ; 
antennz moderately long, serrate, joints 4-10 triangular and 
about as long as broad. Prothorax transverse, rounded at 
the sides, sparsely, extremely finely punctate. Elytra wider 
than the prothorax, rather short, deeply transversely 
depressed below the base (the apical portion thus appearing 
convex), conjointly rounded at the tip; very sparsely, finely, 
rugulosely punctate. Anterior tarsal joint 2 extending over 
3 above, black at the apex. 
Length 24 mm. 
Hab. &$. Arrica, Mossel Bay, Cape Province (R. EF. 
Turner: iv. 1921). 
One male. Separable from the closely allied A. serripes, 
Ab., by the clear rufo-testaceous tibize (sharply contrasting 
with the black femora), and the very much shorter, serrate 
