Species q/'Ciuabidaj //cm South Ajricd. 35 



fiorv, wlii^Ii is, liowcvor, consi(1era])ly smaller, 35-38 mm. 

 loiifi; and LvJ-l^A mm. wide, and is descril)cd — for I have 

 not seen it — as haviiiji^ the elytral strije (U-ep from base to 

 apex, with the intervals raised and the three outer ones 

 subcariuatc, whicli i.s certainly not the case with the four 

 examples o'i y yunteus that 1 have before me. The humeral 

 angles in my species are sharjjly dentate and relative to 

 other species of the genus; these dentitions cannot be 

 described as small {vid>^ vol. vii. p. 3'J3, Trans. S.A. Phil. 

 Soc. 189G). Further, the liead and |)rothorax of duyueraui 

 are stated to be proportionately the same as those of ruijosus. 

 Compared with ruyusus the head and prothorax of y'lyauttus 

 are relatively appreciably more transverse, especially the 

 former. 



llah. Namaqualand : Port Nolloth. Plentiful in saud- 

 biarows, ttste H. D. Stanton, who collected them. 



Tribe P a x a g ^ i n i . 



Microcosmus eleyans, sp. n. 



Lengtli 8 mm. ; width 3^ mm. 



Black, shining, sparsely pubescent, lateral margins of 

 prothorax and four patches or spots (two on either side) 

 on the elytra orange-yellow ; labrum aud first two jcdnts 

 of antenna? glabrous, testaceous red, the remaining joints of 

 the latter pubescent, piceous, more or less reddish at bases 

 of articulations ; palpi pale reddish testaceous, the terminal 

 joints more or less darkened basally. 



Ijcgs orange-yellow. 



Head and proihurux shining, densely scrobiculate-punctate, 

 with a long sparse pubescence ; antenucC and palpi elongate, 

 the former slender, filiform, reaching to below middle of 

 elytra, third joint longer than the fourth, the latter with all 

 the terminal joints securiform. 



Prothorax transverse, at apex confluent with neck, 

 broaiUy ampliated to a little beyond middle, and thence 

 somewhat abruptly and sinuattly contracted and reliexed to 

 the posterior angles, which arc shai"])ly right, narrowly 

 margined from a little below apex and gradually widening 

 into a broad orange-yellow border to base; base truncate, 

 twice as wide as apex, the median groove and lateral foveic 

 vaguely defined. 



Elytra truncated and declivous at base, shoulders squarely 

 rounded, twice as wide as prothorax at base, moderately 

 convex, sides subparallel for about two-thirds the length, 



3* 



