the S. African Species o/ Dlnometopus, d'c. 317 



? . Ilciul and antennae (joints \-\ excepted) black ; ])r()- 

 tlioiax not an<;ulate hiterallv ; clvtra niucli widened pos- 

 teriorly, incompletely eovcrinj; tlie abdcnncn ; uinj^s wantinjj. 



Lenylli l>-^i mm.' (<?$.) 



Hub. S. Ai'KicA, Cape of (lood IIo|te (type), Table ^U. 

 (//'. Bevins), Camps Hay {R. E. Turner : 9. x. 1920 : J' ? ); 

 Cape Town {L. Perinyuci/ : 1897: ^). 



Fonr cf (S . t^^'o ? ? seen. Smaller tban IHnometopus 

 albonutatus. Pic, tlie elytra witli a similar wliitisb ante-median 

 fascia, tlie apical inar<rin black ; the (^ with J-jointed anterior 

 tarsi, the anterior portion of the head dill'erently shaped, 

 the protliorax (as in certain European Troglups) annulate 

 laterally. The fourth joint of the maxillary palpi is rather 

 slender, obli(|Utly truncated at thetip. Cltaropiis bh/uttatus, 

 Uedt., fiom S. Africa, a name omitted from the " ^lunicli 

 Catalogue' seems to have been based upon a $ of this 

 si)ecies ; the type, Dr. Iloldhaus informs me, cannot be found 

 in the Vienna Museum. 



3. Troylops ciclndeloides, sp. n. (PI. IV. fig. 9, head, (^ .) 



(J . Very elongate, narrow, rather convex, opaque, finely 

 cinereo-pubesceut ; black, the basal half of the aiiieunie, the 

 front of the head (two small spots on the frontal plate ex- 

 cepted, the black basal portion bilobed anteriorly), the ante- 

 rior and intermediate tibia?, and the tarsi in gieat part or 

 entirely, testaceous ; the protlorax with a short triangular 

 or transverse space at the base, and the el\tra with an 

 externally-uidcncd, ante-median fascia on the outer part of 

 the disc, Mhiiish or Havescent ; the upper surface densely, 

 very finely, rugulosely puuciured. Head broader than the 

 protliorax, the irontal excavation deep, transverse, extending 

 backwards triangularly in the middle behind, and with 

 a transverse, erect, bimaculate lamella in the centre, 

 the ejjistoma triangular, sulcate down tlie middle, and 

 angnlate and eiliatc jjostcriorly ; eyes large; antenna? long, 

 filiform, joint 3 compressed, hollowed on its inner aspect, 

 as long as 4. Protliorax very elongate, narrowed and con- 

 stricted towards the base, the sides subangulate at a little 

 before the middle, the di^c flattened posteriorly. Elvtra 

 elongate, parallel. Anterior tarsi 4-j()inted, joints 1 and 2 

 elongate, 1 longer than 2. 



? . Head black, flattened ; antenna; shorter ; protliorax 

 piriform; elytra widened posteriorly ; wings wauling. 



Var. ? . Less elongate, the protliorax immaculate, the 

 basal joint of the antenna? sometimes infuscale above, 

 the elytra shorter and more dilated jio-teriorly. 



