the S. African Species of Dinometopus, tCr. 3r)5 



vesicles are visible at the front angles of the prothorax in 

 A. perrini. The (^ of the latter has the anterior tarsi formed 

 as in Attains, the head and elytra simple, and tiie auteaual 

 joints 5-11 strongly flabellate. 



1. Anexodes longiventris. 

 A>u.rodes lo>i(/tventng, Ab. loc. cit. pp. 108, 1G6 ( $ ). 



Ilah. S.Africa, Hamman's Kraal, near Pretoria {E. Simon: 

 1893). 



Numerous examples are stated to liave been caj)tured, 

 apparently all $ ? . A shining black form, with an oblong 

 white patch on the outer part of each elytron below the base, 

 and a smaller common triangular white patch at the sutural 

 ansles. 



2. Anexodes perrini, sp.n. (PI. YI. fig. 41, antenna, ^J .) 



J . Elongate, depressed, shining, finely pubescent; aeneous 

 or nigro-a.Hieous, the elytra sometimes greenish, the tibiae and 

 tarsi in part, and the abdominal sutures, testaceous. Head 

 narrower than the prothorax, closely, rather strongly 

 punctate, longtudinally bi-impressed anteriorly ; antennai 

 moderately long, joint 1 stout, 2 very short, 3 and 4 long, 

 widened, 3 angularly dilated towards the apex and 4 

 aicuately produced at the base within, 5-11 each furnished 

 with a very long, slender, pilose ramus. Prothorax trans- 

 verse, rounded at the sides, narrowed behind ; closely, finely 

 punctate, almost smooth on the disc, which is interruptedly 

 canaliculate down the middle and distinctly foviate at the 

 base. Elytra wider than the prothorax, sul)parallel, short, 

 covering about half the abdomen shagreened and rugulosely 

 j)unctate. Anterior tarsal joints 1 and 2 slightly thickened, 

 2 nigro-pectinate along the oblique outer ed^e. 



$ . Antennie short, feebly serrate, the basal joints testa- 

 ceous ; head narrower ; terminal four abdominal segments 

 exposed ; tibiffi wholly or in part testaceous. 



\'ar. Prothorax \nth the base or hind angles reddish. 



Length 2|-3^ mm. 



H<i6. S. Africa, "Willowmore [type] {Dr. Branns: 

 30. xi. 19U3: J ? ), Kimberley [Mus. Cape Town: $, var. : 

 1912). 



Described from t«o ])airs from "Willowmore and two ? $ 

 of the variety taken at Kimberley. Separal)le from ./. lovgi- 



