[VM Mr. G. C. (vliniiipion on 



lotifj, filiform, joint 1 elongate, slender, simple ; maxillary 

 palpi with joints 3 and 4 stout, 3 pyrif'orm, 4 strongly trans- 

 verse, subscaphiform. Protliorax elongate, very convex, 

 abruptly constricted and narrowed posteriorly, the base 

 strongly depressed. Elytra oval, gibbous, attenuate at the 

 b:ise, narrowly margined, the humeri angular. Posterior 

 tibire curved, flattened. 



Length 2 mm. 



[fab. S. Africa, Malvern, Natal (D/-. Marshall: viii. 

 1897). 



One specimen. A small, shining black form allied to 

 S. {Chalicorus) collaris, Boh., differing from the latter in its 

 much smaller size, partly infuscate antennae, with unarmed 

 basal joint, less developed palpi, and the narrowly margined 

 elytra. The polished head and prothorax, etc., also separate 

 -S. atripennis from S. formicarlus, Gorh. The shorter an- 

 tennae and black elytra distinguish it from S. formicoides, 

 Pic. 



11. Spfiinginopa^pus fiavomarginatus, sp. n. 



(J . Elongate, narrow, siiining, the elytra oval and convex 

 from a little below the base, very sparsely pubescent and 

 with long, erect hairs intermixed on the elytra ; piceous or 

 iiigro-piceous, the head whitish in front, the antennse 

 (the slightly infuscate terminal joints excepted), the palpi 

 in great part, the narrow basal portion of the prothorax, the 

 margins of the elytra, the anterior and intermediate legs 

 (the femora in part excepted), the bases of the posterior 

 femora, and the posterior tarsi, testaceous ; the head and 

 prothorax sparsely, minutely, and the elytra to beyond the 

 middle rather coarsely, seriately, punctate. Head a little 

 wider than the prothorax ; antennae filiform, joint 1 long, 

 slender, unarmed; maxillary palpi with joints 3 and 4 very 

 large, 3 pyriform, 4 subsecuriform. Prothorax elongate, 

 the anterior portion very convex, the basal portion narrow, 

 abruptly flattened. Elytra moderately long, abruptly, 

 arcuately widened from near the base, the margins rather 

 broad, the humeri angular. Posterior tibiae flattened, arcuate, 

 .omewhat dilated. 



? . Head infuscate; joint 4 of maxillary palpi small, 

 arrow, obliquely truncate at tip; elytra more inflated, and 

 .jore rounded at the sides ; wings wanting. 



Length 2 mm. ( c^ ? •) 



Hub, S. Africa, Frere and Estcourt, Natal (Dr. Marshall) . 



Five J c?, four ? ?. Separable from /S'. o^r?)yennis, which 

 Uo has a slender unarmed basal joint to the antennae in ^ , 



