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aciculate, witli an aeneous tint. Elytra steel-blue, greenish 

 at their bases in one example, very finely coriaceous, and with 

 very short, scarcely visible pubescence. The legs are black ; 

 the tips of the femora and the tibiae are yellow, in one example 

 the hind tibise are fuscous. The hind body projects beyond 

 the elytra in both examples. 



Two specimens of this insect, which is rather like the 

 European C. pallipes, but larger and more brightly coloured, 

 were obtained. Sexual difference not apparent. 



DiNOMETOPUS, gen. nov. 



Corpus oblongum, subparallehim. Elytra abdomen haud tcgentia. 

 Caput (maris ?) fronte eroso-excavata ; erosionis marginibus 

 elevatioribus, antice laminato-reflexo, lamina sulcata. Antennae 

 vix serratae, fere simplices. Palpi maxillares apice subuliformi. 

 Pedes longi ; tarsi tibiarum fere longitudine, distincte quinque- 

 articulati, antici (maris?) articulis longis subaequalibus haud 

 multo obliquis. 



I propose this name for a singular Melyrid having at first 

 sight very much the appearance and size of Anthocomus 

 fasciutuSj but of which the head is excavated somewhat in 

 the manner of some Hedyhii. The genus Cephaloncus, West- 

 wood, from the Canary Islands, is another example of this 

 curious structure of heads in this subfamily, but has, according 

 to Westwood, the excavation situate on the hack of the head 

 and different in form. Troglops has the crown of the head 

 hollowed out, but has 4-jointed front tarsi in the male. 



Kiesenwetter has described as a Malachius a very similarly 

 constructed insect from Japan, M. foveifrons, K. ; but it is 

 necessary in classifying this subfamily to describe the sexual 

 differences in the tarsi, in the antennse, and form of the elytra 

 where they exist. 



Of the remarkable insect I describe here from Natal there 

 are three specimens only, presumably males (as the heads are 

 usually simple or only impressed in the females of Melyrids) ; 

 the thorax is produced in a lobe-like form towards the base 

 and is much depressed before the base. The elytra are not 

 much expanded, nor are they convex nor in any way contorted 

 at their apices as in many Malachii or Anthocomi. 



Dinometopus mtalensis, sp. n. 



Niger, capite flavo, elytrorum margins laterali antice, fascia lata ad 

 guturam interrupta, apicequc tenui flavis ; tibiarum apicibus et 



