from South and Wtst Africa. 79 



fourth juiiits very short, the two basal joints longer, but 

 short, ami the cla\v-j»int Ioniser tiiaii the two basal ones 

 taken together; the claws are thin, the anterior one of the front 

 pair (i'. e. the inner one, as set on a card) twice as long as 

 the other. From the four Sjjeciinens before me I cannot 

 state if this is a sexual (litFcrence, probably it is not. The 

 antt-nniii are simply formed, with joints two or three times as 

 long as wide (excepting of course the second) and feebly 

 serrate from the second to the tenth. In other respects the 

 insect is allied to Attalus and Anthocoinus. 



Pagurodactylus vilticej)Sj sp. n. 



Niger, pube erecta tonuiter vestitus, punctatus ; antennaruin basi 

 pedibusque pallidis, bis femoribus anticis et interniediis exteriie 

 posticis totis, illis articulo basali nigrescentibus ; capitis fronte et 

 occipite interdum cunjuncte ferruginco-maculatis. 



Long. 2^-3 millim. 



I/ab. Natal, Estcourt (MarshaU). 



The head with the rather prominent eyes is a little wider 

 than the thorax ; it is thickly and strongly punctured, with 

 the mouth and front, and a spot on the crown, rusty red ; 

 these marks are often joined, forming a vitta. The thorax is 

 small, narrower than the elytra at the base, flattish and 

 impressed near the hind angles ; shining, but with erect 

 hairs and thickly punctured, the base and sides margined, 

 but only the former conspicuously so. The elytra deeply 

 subrugosely punctured, with long fine erect hairs, widening a 

 little, but not much, towards their apex. Tlie antennae are 

 as long as the elytra, their first and second joints touched 

 with black above, the third quite pale, the fourth partly so; 

 the fourth to the tenth joints are gently serrate, becoming 

 gradually longer; the apical joint is a little longer than those 

 preceding it, narrow and acuminate. The palpi are blackish 

 at the tip. 'J'he legs are pale, with the exception that the 

 upper edges of the middle and front femora, or sometimes 

 the whole, and the whole of the hind fen)ora and the hind 

 tibiae are dark, nearly black. 



Four examples in which I can detect no sexual difference. 



Apalochrus nilenSj sp. n. 



Lsete viridis, elytris vel viridibus vel caeruleis ; antennarum basi 



pedibusque flavis, his tarsis nigris. 

 Long. 6 millim. J $ . 

 Mas, tarsis anticis articulo secundo apice superne elongato ; tibiis 



intermediis incrassatis, intus erosis. 



