352 Mr. G. C. Champion oti 



form, with the face wliitish in the cJ , is referred to Colpo- 

 vietopiis, both species having metallic elytra and the sides of 

 the prothorax usually rufo-testaceons. Honueodipnis, Duv., 

 to which a S. African re[)resentative is here added, also 

 has 4-jointed anterior tarsi in (^ , and simple palpi, but differs 

 in the form of the basal joint of the antenna3 in that sex. 

 The ? of C basicornis is apterous. 



1. Colpometopus basicornis. 

 (PI. YI. fig. 38, head, S •) 



Troqlops basicornis, Fairm. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxviii. p. 655 (J $) 



(1894) \ 

 Colpometopus pithecus, Ab. Rev.d'Eut. xix. pp. 164, 1 70 ( d' $ ) (1900) ^ 



^ . Antennre witli joint 1 very stout, elongate, compressed, 

 concave on its inner aspect, 4 longer than 3, 4-10 subequal 

 in length ; head black, triangular, with a deep transverse 

 sulcus extending completely across the upper surface behind 

 the points of insertion of the antenna?, and also transversely 

 hollowed in the middle behind this, the cavity limited on each 

 side anteriorly by a small oblique tuberculiform plica ; elytra 

 subparallel. 



$ . Autennse with joint 1 smaller and less elongate ; head 

 simply transversely depressed on each side before the eyes; 

 elytra much widened posteriorly, not nearly covering the 

 abdomen ; wings wanting. 



Vur. The prothorax narrowly testaceous at the sides or 

 wholly metallic. ( ? .) 



Hub. S. Africa, Cape Town ' ^ (Simon, Perinffuey), Stellen- 

 bosch (Peringuei/), Table Mountain (IV. Bevins), Cah^don 

 District (Lightfoot), Port Nolloth, Namaqualand {Mua. 

 Durban : var., ? ). 



There is a long series of this species in the Cape Town 

 Mnseum. The three ? ? sent me from the Durban JNlusenra 

 have the prothorax cyaneous. Found at Cape Town under 

 large decaying sea-bamboo plants (Ecklonia) which are 

 thrown on the beach and left there to rot, the insect 

 preying on the fly-maggots living in the partly decomposed 

 mass [L. P.). 



2, Colpometopus leucostomus, sp, u. 

 (PI. VI. fig. 39, head, S •) 



(J . Moderately elongate, finely cinereo-pubescent, shining; 

 head whitish, black at the base ; antennae and palpi testa- 

 ceous, the outer five or six joints of the former more or 



