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Only a single male was found by each collector. Unlike 

 tlie other species, this is uniformly rusty-brown instead of 

 blood-red, and the club of the* antenna alone is black. The 

 pronotum is very smooth and shining, but the head and 

 elytra are scarcely shining (in the male at least), their 

 puncturation being less fine and scanty than usual. The 

 antennae are very delicate and the club is rather elongate, 

 with moderately broad but loosely articulated joints. 



Euxestus angustus^ sp. n. 



Eufo-piceu3, antennis pedibusque pallidioribus ; anguste ovatus, 

 convexus, nitidus, corpore supra ubique tequaliter sat fortiter et 

 crebi'e puuctato ; antennis indistincte 11-articulatis, clava solida, 

 triangular!, apice late tnmcata. 



Long. 2'5 mm. ; lat. max. 1 mm. 



Natal : Durban [F. Muir), Malvern (G. A. K. Marshall, 

 Sept.); Rhodesia : Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall, Dec). 



Although closely related to E. parki, Woll., this is very 

 distinctly different. It is of practically tbe same size and 

 colour, but considerably more elongate and more strongly, 

 closely and evenly punctured on the head, pronotum and 

 elytra. The antennae have the same peculiar conformation, 

 but are rather less highly modified, the eleven joints com- 

 posing each being distinguishable, although the articulations 

 are not all perfect. The basal joint is large, but rather less 

 so than in the typical species ; the second smaller, but well 

 marked ; the third elongate ; the fourth to the sixth very 

 small and imperfectly articulated ; the seventh to the ninth 

 progressively widening, the ninth twice as wide as it is long 

 and closely applied to the base of the club, which forms a 

 flattened sphere, its broad terminal part plainly formed by 

 the eleventh joint, which appears as though almost sunk 

 into the tenth. 



List of African Erotylidae. 



LiNODESMrs, Bedel, ante, p. ISi 



coecus, F. 

 stuhlmanni, Kolbe. 

 x-flavus, Kuhnt. 



MiiioDACXE, Bedel, p. 138. 



abnormalis, Crotch. 

 belgarum, Bedel. 

 grandipennis, Fairm. 

 imperutrix, Gorli. 

 longiuscula, Fairm, 



magnifica, Har., p. 138. 



kolbei, Kuhnt. 

 rhodesiaca, Bedel. 



Plagiopisthex, Thorn?., p. 139. 



Platydacne, Fairm. 

 ferrugineus, Arr. 

 laevistriatus, Arr. 

 paradoxus. Thorns. 

 rufovittatus, Har. 

 subcostatus, ScfienJcL, p. 139. 

 vittulatus, Fairin. 



