the S. African Sj)ecies of Dinomcto\nis, ^]-c. .3i;5 



frotit, with a (lec[), foveato, trnusvorso, trapezoidal, inter- 

 ocular cxeavntiou, in tin; centre ot wliieli anti-riorly is an 

 ereet tritiil proniinence ; antenuie very lon}^, Hliforni. I'ro- 

 tliorax eU)n<^ate, constricttul and nuieli narrowed behind, 

 convex ant»;riorly, depressed towards the base, the base itself 

 raised. Klytra narrow, a little longer than the head and 

 prothorax, depressed below the base. Legs long and slender. 

 Wings prescnit. 



2 . Head much smaller, l)laek, slightly depressed in the 

 middle; eyes smaller ; elytra about as long as the head and 

 |)rothorax, not longer than the exposed portion of the abdo- 

 men, mneh widened |)osteriorly ; wings wanting. 



cJ . Form braehypt. Elytra short, as in ? , but much less 

 dilated ; wings wanting. 



Length 2,V-3,i„mm. (c? ?.) 



Hub. S. Africa, Camps Bay, Ceres (R. E. Turner: ? ), 

 Table Mt. (/r. Bevins, K. //. Barnard), Rhodesia (A'. H. Bar- 

 nard), Stellenbosch and Koeberg [Miis. Cape Town : c^ ? ), 

 Port Elizabeth'. 



Twelve examples seen, one of the V ? having the elytra 

 almost immaculate. The brachypterons forms, ^ ? , super- 

 ficially resemble the European Atelestus brevipennis, Cast. 

 {■=hnnipterns, Er.). 



5. Din-Hwiopus perin(juei/i, sp. n. (PI. IV. fig. 5, head, ($ .) 



(^ . Extremely like I), albonolatus, Pic, differing as fol- 

 lows : Head witli the deep inter-ocular excavation less 

 extended laterally, the fijvuaj within it larger and ini maculate, 

 one of them extending forward to near the anterior 

 margin of the epistoma (the latter broadly tlattened in 

 I), albonoiatus), the trifid prominence wanting, the vertex 

 with a short median carina; prothorax smoother and more 

 shining, more strongly constricted behind, the short basal 

 poi tion parallel-sided, the base itself bitubercidatc ; elytra 

 with a transverse flavons patch at tiie siiles before the 

 middle, the apex immaculate. 



Length 2^ mm. 



Hub. S. Africa, Rondebosch (Mas. Cap'i Tuicn). 



One cf , communicated by Dr. Peringuey. 



(J. l)inouu'topus diversifrons. (1*1. IV. iig. 0, head, (^ .) 

 Dinometopus {? ) diversifrons, Pic, L'Echoiige, xLx. p. 178 (cJ) (l!J03)'. 



J. Elongate, very narrow, shining, almost glabrous; 

 black, the antennal joints 1-t and the head (the numerous 



