the S. African Species f/I)iiioinetopus, cCr. 3!U 



4 curved, scaphifonn ; elytra rather narrow, oblong, suh- 

 parallel at the base, the humeri somewhat tumid. 



*? . Head wholly iuFuscate ; joint 4 of maxillary palpi 

 stout, securiform ; elytra broader, oval, convex ; wings 

 wanting, 



Len,«:th2^-2^ mm. (c^ ? .) 



Hah. S. Africa, mouth of Umkomaas River (Dr. 

 Mar.ffiall : (^ ), Malvern, Natal {}fus. Brit., Mas. Durban : 

 ? ), Isi[)ingo beach {Mit.f. Durban : ? ), Seymour (Mus. 

 Cape Town : c? ? ), River Gariep ^ '. 



Five $ ? and two ^ ^ are referred to this species, which 

 is extremely like some of the varieties of <S. oneili. Pic. The 

 ? ? of the two forms have an equally large securiform 

 apical joint to the maxillary palpi ; the ($ , however, has the 

 tooth on the l)asal joint of the autennie very small in the 

 Seymour specimen, which was sent mounted with two ? ? 

 on the same piece of card. There can be little doubt that 

 Boheinan's names refer to one species only, the differential 

 characters mentioned by him being purely sexual : S. oneili 

 may be a form of S. mijrtiiecodes ? 



6. Sphinginopalpus collaria. 



$ . Chalicorus collaris, Boh. Ins. Caffraria, i. 2, p. 478 (1851) ^ 

 2 . Sphinginopalpus martini^ Pic, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1904, p. 12 ^. 



(J . Opaque, piceous, the elytra moderately shining and 

 with a bluish lustre in certain lights, the front of the head 

 whitish, the antennal joints 1-3 (the others at most very 

 slightly darker), the base of the prothorax, the trochanters, 

 and the anterior and intermediate tarsi, testaceous or flavous; 

 the head and prothorax shagreened and very finely punctured, 

 the elytra rather coarsely subseriato-punctate to beyond the 

 middle, the apical portion smoother. Antennjc long, slender, 

 jjint 1 elongate, subcylindrical, and armed with a small tooth 

 near the base within ; maxillary palpi with joints 3 and 

 4 enormously developed, transverse, 4 scaphiform, arcuate 

 (concave seen from above). Elytra rather broad, oval, 

 sut)parallel and depressed at the base, broadly margined, the 

 posterior portion convex, the humeri subcarinate. Posterior 

 tibire feebly curved, flattened, rather broad. 



Length 2?; mm. {S ■) 



Hub. S. Africa, Malvern, Natal* (Dr. Marshall: J ? ), 

 River Limpopo ^ 



The above description of the S is taken from two precisely 

 similar examples from Malvern : one of these agrees with 

 the type of Boheman communicated by Dr. Sjostedt ; the 



