86 Rev. TT. S. Gorliim on new Coteoptei'a 



minoribus. ft-othoracis margo lateralis in medio dentato-plicatus 

 Foinora compre^sa, intermedia et postica curvata. Elytra 

 abbreviata. 



This name is proposed for a singular Telepliorid resembling 

 a very small Malthodes, but with the antennae of tlie male 

 remarkable for the three small apical joints, which spring 

 rather from one side of the oblique termination of the hirge 

 eighth joint : the three basal joints are somewhat distorted, 

 the third being a little swollen and with a minute linear 

 impression on its inner side. The femora are a little widened 

 and compress'-d, the intermediate and hinder pairs being 

 bent. The antennae of the female are quite simple. 



Prosthaptus claudus, sp. n. 



Parvus; MalOiodis minimi, Jj.^ statura, fuscus; coxis, feraorum basi, 



tibii.s(]ue dilutioribus, subtestaceis ; auteimis (maris) flavis, apice 



nigris, (femina^) basi tantum tostaceis. 

 Long. 3 millira. <J $ . 

 Mas, anteniiis parum distortis, articulo tertio iiierassato, extus 



fusco-tincto, octavo pnccedcnte sesqui longiorc, tribus ultimis 



parvis. 

 Femina, anteunis simplicibus. 



JIab. ]\raslionaland, Salisbury {Marshall). 



The head is black and shining, with the antennal sockets 

 and the epistome and mouth yellow; the antenna? are about 

 as long as the head, thorax, and elytra taken together, yellow 

 m the male, with only the outside of the third joint, the tip 

 of the eighth, and the three small apical joints blackish, in 

 tlie female they are fuscous with the base indeterminately 

 yellow. The thorax is r>mall and transverse, as wide as the 

 head, smooth, the lateral margin with a tooth-like projection 

 (somewhat as in Plecfonotum, a Central and {South American 

 genus), and the hind angle rather prominent. The elytra 

 are as in Malthodes, about half as long as the body, rather 

 o])aque, fuscous ; the wings are amply developed, covering 

 the hind-body, and are fuscous. The legs are of normal 

 length ; the femora appear to be very much compressed, and 

 the middle and hind pair to be curved and distorted. 



Many genera of Telephoridaj with the antenna? very singu- 

 larly distorted or abnormally formed have now been described, 

 but nothing like the preseut genus is known to me from the 

 African continent. It a|jpears to connect certain forms 

 which I have placed near Sili's with Malthodes ; it is a small, 

 obscurely coloured insect, but of interesting structure. 



Two males and one female were obtained by sweeping. 



