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the S. African Species of DIiioinct<)|»us, ^-c. 345 



9. Colotes nynntus. 

 (PI. VI. figs. 32, head, 32a, inaxillury palpus, ^ .) 



Psetidocolotett agnatiu, Ab. Rev. d'Eiit. xix. pp. 1G3, 108 ( $ ) (1000). 



(J . Head subtriangular, broad, testaceous, blaek at the 

 base (the l)lack portion truncate in front), the verte.x de- 

 pressed in the centre and somewhat tumid on each side near 

 the eyes, tlic face with a (h'cp transverse (h'|)r('ssion extending 

 to the outer mar^nns ; .intciinie \on'^, bhick, joints 1 and 2 

 (a spot at the apex of 1 excepted) testaceous, 4-0 a little 

 wider than those following ; maxillary palpi testaceous, 

 joints 3 and 4 enormously developed, 4 hammer-shaped and 

 aruu'd with a long tooth within, 3 convex, snbtriaMguhir, 

 Jind l)earing a long compressed appendage; prothorax testa- 

 ceous, with a broad, posteriorly-narrowed, Idack median 

 vitta nearly rcachiuir the base ; elytra Ijluish-green or green, 

 with a rather broad whitish lateral stripe extending from 

 the base to near the apex, finely punctured ; legs in part 

 testaceous ; anterior tarsi 4-jointed. 



? . IIe;id in front and antcnnal joints 1 and 2 testaceous, 

 the pal[)i infuscate; antennie shorter. 



Length alK)ut 2 mm. 



Hub. S. Africa, Hebron, Vaal River, near Kimberley 

 [ ? tvpe and ^j], Estcourt and Frere, Natal {Dr. Marshall : 



S ?)• 



Kedescribed from 2 c? J and 3 ? ? , including the type. 

 The ^ ^ were sent me by Dr. IV'ringuey as C. buccator, Ab. ; 

 but they do not agree with the description of that species, 

 the type of which was captured at Vryburg. The Natal 

 females agree exactly with C. agnaius, and the male from 

 the same locality certainly belongs to the same species. The 

 terminal joint of the $ maxillary palpi is armed with a long 

 hook-like tooth, as in C. buccator. 



10. ('olotes buccator. 



Pseudocolotes buccator, Ab. Rev. d'Eiit. xix. pp. 163, 168 ( J $ ) (1900) '. 



" Niger, elytris viridi-ca?rulcis, thoraco (macula longitudinali media 

 npitom, hand hasiin attiiigente, iiisia, excoi)ta) in raaro capita 

 aiiticf, jtalpis, unteiuiarum busi, tibiis it tar.><is maculaque lutcrali 

 in siiiguli elytri margine albo-flavis. Long. 2 mm." 



Hah. S. Africa, Vryburg, Bechuanaland '. 

 Tlie (^ of this s[)ccics is said to have the head convex, 

 reddish in its anterior half (the black basal portion advancing 



