78 Rev, H. S. GDrliara on new Gohoptera 



The legs aiul antennre are deep yellow, and the apex, the 

 suture, and the margins of the elytra have a tendency to this 

 red colour, which is no doubt more conspicuous in the living 

 insect. The tip of the prolonged second tarsal joint in the 

 male is blackish, as in several other species; the claws are 

 cin-ved, with short pads, that give them the effect of being 

 thickened at their bases when closed. 



Two males and one female oidy occurred in December 

 1894, and a male and a female in January 1895, in sweeping 

 to Mr. Guy Marshall. 



Anthocomus apricus, sp. n. 



Niger, tenuiter pubescens, antennarum articulls secundo ad quin- 

 tum, elytrorum lateribus in medio et apice tibiisque fiavis ; tarsis 

 fuseis, ad basin dilutioribus ; autennis seiTatis. 



Long-. 4 raillim. $ , 



Ilab. Natal, Estconrt {Marshall), 



Head black, shining, tiie membranous base of the labrum 

 alone yellow, narrower than the thorax ; the antennse are a 

 little longer than the head and thorax, yellow as far as the 

 filth or sixth joint, but the basal joint marked with black 

 above, the fourth to the tenth joints acutely serrate. Tlie 

 thorax is half as wide again as long, of the usual form, trun- 

 cate in front, the sides and base rounded, without angles, 

 entirely black and shining. Elytra very closely and very 

 obsoletely punctured, rather shining, clothed with upright 

 black hairs, especially on the apical half, black, with the 

 margin in the middle and the apex broadly orange-yellow, 

 the yellow returning a little up the suture. The body 

 beneath and the femora black; the tibise and bases of the 

 tarsi yellow. 



The examples, three in number, appear to be all females; 

 at least there is no sexual character in either the antennas or 

 tarsi. The claws appear to have membranous short pads. 



Pagurodactylus, gen. nov. 



Corpus subparallelum, pubescens. Antenntic Icviter serrata?. Tarsi 

 quinque-articulati,unguiciili anteriores iiioequalos, anteriore multo 

 longiori. 



This new genus of Malachiid^ is sufficiently characterized 

 by the unequal anterior claws, a structure not known in any 

 other genus of the subfamily. The tarsi are rather long, 

 especially the hind pair ; the front pair have tlie joints all 

 oblique and produced at the apex beneath, the third and 



