Clnsaification of the Coleo])lerovs faimlif EndomycMdae. 37 



Iiostjcis fortitcr curvatis, postice excavatis, medio leviter laminatis, 

 tibiis omnibus apicc paulo dilatatis, rectis, postica intus pone basin 

 fortiter rctrorsuni dentata. 

 Long. 4 mm. 



Hah. Nyasaland : Mlanjo {^. A. Neave, Nov.); 

 N. Nigeria : Ziiiigeru (J. W. Scotl-Macfie, Nov.). 



A sin<i;le male from Nigeria appears to agree in all respects 

 with a male and three females from Nyasaland. 



The male of this species is easily recognised by the very 

 peculiar structure of the hind legs (see page 41, fig. 3). 

 The tibia bears a large and very prominent tooth placed a 

 little beyond the base at the inner edge, in the form of a 

 flattened plate, a little hollowed on its upper side, bluntly 

 pointed and directed oblif(uely backwards, and the femur 

 is curved, hollowed out beliind, and has a broad rounded 

 lobe or lamina at the middle of the upper edge of the 

 excavation. All the tibiae are slender at the base and 

 slightly thickened towards the extremity. 



The inflated 9th joint of the antenna is very deeply 

 scooped out beneath just beyond the base. The upper 

 surface is shining, the pronotum rather flat and very 

 lightly punctured, the sides very feebly excised behind, 

 the hind angles scarcely produced and the elevated lateral 

 margins not angularly narrowed behind but the inner 

 edge very slightly curved towards the hind angle. 



Danae tibialis, sp. n. 



Rufo-fenujjinoa, anteniiis jiedibusquo (tarsis exceptis) nigris, 

 nitida, ubiqne fulvo-pubescens, pronoto lato, parum convexo, 

 lateribus postice fere rectis, angulis posticis vix acutis, marginibus 

 elevatis, postice hand angulatim angiistatis : 



fj, corporc elongato, an tennis robnstis, articulis 2-8 moniliformi- 

 bus, 9° valde inflate, pyriformi, longitudine ad latitudinem fere 

 aequali, subtus leviter excavato, 10° transverso, 11° breviter ovali; 

 pedibus giacilibns, tibiis rectis, tibiis posticis pone basin obtuse 

 dentato, femoribusque posticis tenuis et curvatis. 



Long. 4 mm. 



Hob. Nyasaland; Mlanje (N. A. Naive, ll-l'J Nov., 

 1912). 



A single male specimen. 



This has a very close resemblance to D.fcmoralis in which 

 also the antennae, femora and tibiae are black, but the 



