ihe S. AfiicdH Species of Diiioinetopus, c&c. ?)'20 



Hnb. S. Africa, Dunbrody ', Sfcellcuboscli, Cape Town 

 {Mus. Cape '/'own: (^ ?), Camps Hav, Rapcnburg {li. I'J. 

 Turner: S)^ Salisbury (/>/•. Marshall': (^ ? ). 



A variable insect, of wliicli there is a loii<j^ series in tlic 

 Cape Town Museum. It is one of several imperfectly 

 se<;re^ate(l, extremely closely related South African fornis, 

 and mainly distinjjuishable amongst them by its narrow shape 

 and the strongly toothed basal joint of the antenuie in tli*^ 

 J, this tooth being very small in S. rnyrinecudes. The head 

 is in one example wholly infuscate as in ? ; and the elytral 

 niaikings may be reduced to a marginal stripe. The palpi 

 are testaceous in the single (S captured at Camps Bay. 



3. Sph'my'nwpalpits iongidens, sp. n. 



^ . Elongate, narrow, very shining, clothed with scattered, 

 long, whitish, erect hairs; black, the anteunal joints 1—5 or 

 1-G (except 3 and the basal half of 1), base of prothorax, 

 outer halves of anterior and intermediate tibise, and bases of 

 the tarsi, testaceous, the elytra with an elongate whitish or 

 flavous patch at the sides below the base ; head and pro- 

 thorax very sparsely punctulate, the elytra coarsely seriato- 

 pnnctate to near the tip. Head a little wider than the 

 prothorax; antennae moderately long, subfiliform, joint 1 

 slender at the base and then abruptly thickened to the apex, 

 the narrow basal portion slightly angulate and the thickened 

 outer portion armed with a long, straight tooth at the 

 proximal end within, 3 longer than 2 or 4 ; joints 3 and 4 of 

 maxillary palpi extreniely large, transverse, 4 scaphiform, 

 concave. Prothorax long, convex, constricted and much 

 narrowed at the base, the transverse basal groove deep. 

 Elytra oval, narrow at the base, the margins arcuately 

 widened, the humeri tumid. Posterior tibite curved, 



? . Elytra broader, more rounded at the sides, inflated 

 posteriorly, the humeri dentiform ; fourth joint of maxillary 

 palpi triangular, not very large; wings wanting. 



Length 2 mm. 



Hab.' S. Afiuca, Mosscl Bay (R. E. Turner: ii. 1922). 



Ten examples, four of which are males. Smaller and less 

 elongate than jS. one'di. Pic ; the antenuie shorter, joints 1 

 and 3 [)artly or wholly black, the long narrow tooth on joint 1 

 straighter and the joint itself abiuptly widened in its outer 

 half in ^ ; the elytra more rounded at the sides in both 

 sexes, the whitish markings reduced to an elongate lateral 

 j)atch ; the head black or piceons in (^ and ? . 



