from South and West Africa. 79 



fourth joints very short, the t^vo basal joints longer, but 

 short, and the claw-joint longer than the two basal ones 

 taken together; the claws are thin, the anterior one of the front 

 pair (?'. e, the inner one, as set on a card) twice as long as 

 the other. From the four specimens before me I cannot 

 state if this is a sexual difference, probably it is not. The 

 antennte are simply formed, with joints two or three times as 

 long as wide (excepting of course the second) and feebly 

 serrate from the second to the tenth. In other respects the 

 insect is allied to Attains and Anthocomus. 



PagurodactyJus vitticeps^ sp. n. 



Niger, puhe erecta tenuitcr vestitus, punctatus ; autcnnaruin basi 

 pedibusque pallidis, bis fetaoribus anticis et intermediis extenie 

 posticis totis, iUis articulo basali nigrescentibus : capitis fronte et 

 occipite interdum conjuncte ferrugineo-maculatis. 



Long. 2|-3 milKm. 



Hah. Natal, Estcourt {Marshall). 



The head with the ratiier prominent eyes is a little wider 

 than the thorax ; it is thickly and strongly punctured, with 

 the mouth and front, and a spot on the crown, rusty red ; 

 these marks are often joined, forming a vitta. The thorax is 

 small, narrower than the elytra at the base, flattish and 

 impressed near the hind angles ; shining, but with erect 

 hairs and thickly punctured, the base and sides margined, 

 but only the former conspicuously so. The elytra deeply 

 subrugosely punctured, with long fine erect hairs, widening a 

 little, but not much, towards their apex. The antenuEe are 

 as long as the elytra, their first and second joints touched 

 with black above, the third quite pale, the fourth partly so; 

 the fourth to the tenth joints are gently serrate, becoming 

 gradually longer; the apical joint is a little longer than those 

 preceding it, narrow and acuminate. The palpi are blackish 

 at the tip. 'J'he legs are pale, with the exception that the 

 upper edges of the middle and front femora, or sometimes 

 the whole, and the whole of the hind femora and the hind 

 tibijB are dark, nearly black. 



Four examples in which I can detect no sexual difference. 



Apalochrus nitenSj sp. n. 



Ltete viridis, elj'tris vel viridibus vel cajriileis ; antennarum basi 



pedibusque fiavis, his tarsis nigris. 

 Long. 6 milHm. S 2 ■ 

 Mas, tarsis anticis articulo secundo apice superue elongate ; tibiis 



intermediis incrassatis, intus erosis. 



