Species f)/'Caral)ithc/ro?n South Africa, '.V.\ 



Tribe M o r i o n i \ i . 



Murio atteniiatus^ sp. ii. 



Length l.S^ mm.; width 4.} mm.; width ol' piuthoiax 

 .'Vj mm. 



Jet-black, very shiny; p:dj)i, month -j)arts, pectus, abdo- 

 men, eox'c, and femora dark to picecus red. 



Head smooth, shiny ; clypens broadly incised ; epistomc 

 eniarginate, impressed centrally ; on either side, from between 

 eyes and reaching to epistome, a long narrow sinnate groove; 

 supra-ocniar carime moderately developed ; antnunoi black, 

 first three joints smooth, shiny, fourth a little pubescent 

 apieally, remainder densely clothed with dirty yellowish 

 pubescence. 



Protliorux transverse, shiny, faintly plicate, declivous 

 latei'ally and at front angles, anterior margin squarely 

 truncate, its angles briefly rounded, sides gently amj)liated 

 to beyond middle, gent'y contracted and hardly sinuate, 

 tlienee to the acute posterior angles ; margins moderately 

 reliexed, mediau line narrow and faintly punctate, lateral 

 basal grooves and depressions moderately deep, base 

 emarginate. 



Elytra elongate, narrow, a very little wider than pro- 

 thorax, shoulders brieHy rounded, dentate, sides straight, 

 gently rounded towards apex, and a little sinnate at outer 

 angles, narrowly striate, intervals smooth, a little raised 

 laterally, margins with spaced punctures iuside the epipleuijc, 

 more clos^y set in the posterior parts, a puncture on the 

 third interval, above the posterior declivity. 



Smaller and narrower than M. ymueensis, Imhoff, and 

 dillerentiated from it on the following points: — Apex of the 

 prothorax straight, angles not piojicting upwards, sides 

 evenly rounded and more declivous, giving it a convex 

 appearance. Supraocular carinje more rounded, less pro- 

 minent ; antenme relatively longer and more slender, joints 

 less moniliform. 'I he coloration of the legs and underside 

 are (juite different. 



]\l.seue(jalerisii<, Lafert. : M-Jtronioicles, Thorns. ; 3/, acuti- 

 co/tis, Putz. ; and 31. an//iraci/nis, Boh., are all placed as 

 synonyms of M. yuineensis by Periuguey, so if he be correct 

 they cannot refer to this species. Boheman gives the 

 dimensions of his M. anthracinus as 13 mm. long by 5 mm. 

 wide, which differentiates it as a much broader insect than 

 utteiiuatus, mihi. 



The two examples in my possession ( J and ? ) have been 

 Ann. tt- May. N. Ilist. Ser. U. Vol. ix. 6 



