86 Rev. H. S. Govliafti on new Goleopterd 



minoribus. ttothoracis margo lateralis in medio dentato-plicatu s 

 Femora compressa, intermedia et postica curvata. Elytra 

 abbreviata. 



This name is proposed for a singular Telepliorid resembling 

 a very small Malthodes, but with the antennae of the male 

 remarkable for the three small apical joints, which spring 

 ratlier from one side of the oblique termination of the hirge 

 eighth joint : the three basal joints are somewhat distorted, 

 tlie third being a little swollen and with a minute linear 

 ini})ression on its inner side. The femora are a little widened 

 and compressed, the intermediate and hinder pairs being 

 bent. The antenna of the female are quite simple. 



Prosthiptas claudus, sp. n. 



Parvus ; MaWiodis minimi, L., statura, fuscus ; coxis, fetnorum basi, 



tibiisque dilutioribus, subtestaceis ; anteunis (maris) flavis, apice 



nigris, (femina3) basi tantum testaceis. 

 Long. 3 millim. tS $ • 

 Mas, anteniiis parum distortis, articulo tertio incrassato, estus 



fusco-tincto, octavo prajccdente sesqui longiore, tribus ultimis 



parvis. 

 Femina, antennis simplicibus. 



Hab. Maslionaland, Salisbury {Mamhall). 



The head is black and shining, with the antennal sockets 

 and the epistome and mouth yellow; the antennae are about 

 as long as the head, thorax, and elytra taken together, yellow 

 in the male, with only the outside of the third joint, the tip 

 of the eighth, and the tliree small apical joints blackish, in 

 the female they are fuscous with the base indeterminately 

 yellow. The thorax is .small and transverse, as wide as the 

 head, smooth, the lateral margin with a tooth-lilvc projection 

 (somewhat as in Fhcfonotum, a Central and South American 

 genus), and the hind angle rather prominent. The elytra 

 are as in Malthodes, about half as long as the body, rather 

 opaque, fuscous ; the wings are amply developed, covering 

 the hind-body, and are fuscous. Tlie legs are of normal 

 length ; the femora appear to be very much compressed, and 

 the middle and hind pair to be curved and distorted. 



Many genera of Telephoridas with the antennse very singu- 

 larly distorted or abnormally formed have now been described, 

 but nothing like the present genus is known to me from the 

 African continent. It appears to connect certain forms 

 which I have placed near Silis with Malthodes ; it is a small, 

 obscurely coloured insect, but of interesting structure. 



Two males and one female were obtained by sweeping. 



