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1. Homosodipnis luniger, sp. n. 

 (PI. VI. figs. 40, head, 4()a, auteuna, c? •) 



(J . Moderately elongate, finely cinereo-pubescent, the 

 head and prothorax subopaque, tlie elytra shining ; head 

 testaceous, the vertex black ; antennpe black, joints 1-4 and 

 the palpi (except at the tip) testaceous; prothorax testaceous, 

 with a large anteriorly-emarginate black patch on the disc ; 

 elytra fusco-creruleous or greenish, with a narrow whitish 

 stripe at the sides extending to beyond the middle; anterior 

 and intermediate legs (the bases of the femora excepted) 

 testaceous, the posterior pair, metasternum, and abdomen 

 black; elytra finely, closely i)unctate. Head broad, sub- 

 triangular, vei'y deeply, transversely excavate and trifoveate 

 anteriorly, and with an oblique groove on each side near the 

 eyes, the epistoma tumid, shining, angulate in the middle 

 behind; antennse long, joint 1 elongate, stout, compressed, 

 and slightly curved, 2 short, 3 U-shaped, 4-10 subequal, 

 longer than broad ; maxillary palpi simple, similar to those 

 of ? , joint 4 narrort', subfusifonn. Prothorax transverse. 

 Elytra moderately long. Anterior tarsi 4-jointed. 



?. Head smaller, unimpressed, testaceous in front; 

 antennai slender, much shorter; prothorax with the discoidal 

 patch sometimes divided down the middle. 



Length 2 mm. 



Hub. S. Africa, Salisbury, S. Rhodesia {Dr. Marshall). 



Ten specimens, including seven males. 



Anexodes. 

 Anexodes, Abeille de Perrin, Rev. d'Ent. xix. p. 163 (Sept. 1900). 



Anexodes was based upon ? ? of two small S. African 

 forms, a specimen of each of which has been lent me by 

 Dr. Peringuey for examination. The first of these, A. alhi- 

 cuuda, is here treated as the sexual complement of Dinome- 

 toj)us (Hedybius) cavifrons, Boh., type ^ . The second, 

 A. longiventris, belongs to a genus resembling Hdcogaster, 

 Boh., and Carjjkurus, Er., both numerous in species in the 

 Malayan Region and Australia, genera characterised by 

 their greatly elongated abdomen and short elytra in the two 

 sexes. A species allied to Anexodes lonyiventris has been 

 captured by Dr. Brauns, and the (J -characters are given 

 below under the description of that insect ; A. lonyiventris 

 can be taken as the type of the genus. The projecting 



