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Fam. Mycetophagidae. 

 Genus Mycet-ea. 

 (Kby.) Steph., IU. Brit. Ent. iii. 80 (1830). 

 Mycetcea ovulum, n. sp. 

 M. ovata, nitida, pallido-ferruginea, longe pilosa; prothorace parvo an- 

 gusto, profunde et parce punctate, postice integro (i. e. linea basali 

 transversa haud impresso) sed intra marginem lateralem ct>sta longi- 

 tudinali subcurvata (antice minus distincta) utrinque instructo ; elytris 

 valde profunde punctatis sed baud striatis; antennis (elongatis gra- 

 cilibus) pedibusque pallido-testaceis. 

 Long, corp. lin. f. 



A most distinct and interesting little Mycetcea, differing {inter 

 alia) from tbe common M. hirta in its smaller size, more globose 

 form, narrower and mucb less ample protborax (which is apparently 

 free from the transverse impression at its hinder margin), and by 

 the punctures of its elytra having no tendency to be disposed in 

 longitudinal rows. I possess a single specimen, captured by Mr. 

 Bewicke at the Cape, but have no information as to its habits. 



Genus Microxenus, nov. gen. (Plate XI. fig. 3.) 



Corpus minutum, Myeetece obovatum, forma et affinitate proximum, sed 

 antennarum structura omnino difiert : prothorace lato, ad latera margi- 

 nato sed baud crenulato : alis obsoletis : abdomine e segmentis sex 

 composito, lm° mag-no lato, ultimo parvo fere immerso. Antennae 

 (fig. 3a) lO-articulatse, breves, clavatse, inter oculos insertae ; articu- 

 latis l mo et 2 do robustis crassis, illo majore crassiore subquadrato, 3 ti( > 

 ad 8 vura minutis subaequalibus (8™ vix majore), 9no et 10mo clavam 

 magnam 2-articulatam effieientibus (9 no poculiformi, 10 mo subovato 

 basi truncate). Labrum (fig. 3 c/) transverso-subquadratum, pilosum, 

 apice fere integrum sed ibidem tenuissime membranaceum ciliatum, 

 angidis anticis rotundatis longe pilosis. Mandibular (fig. 3c) magna? 

 validse corneae arcuatae, extus ad basin incisae et ante basin valde 

 rotundato-ampliatae, ad apicem incurvae acutae bifida?, mox intra 

 apicem (in uno saltern) unidentatae, et infra versus basin submembra- 

 naceae. Maxillas et labium baud observavi ; sed palpi maxillares arti- 

 culate l m0 minute, 2 do paulo majore crassiore, 3 tio buic latitudine 

 83quali sed breviore, 4 t0 elongate (reliquis conjunctim vix longiore) 

 subfusiformi, — i. e. basi truncate et apicem versus leviter acuminate. 

 Pedes (fig. 3 b) basi distantes : tibiis gracilibus subrectis, paulo ante 

 apicem leviter dilatatis : tarsis 4-articulatis, articulatis l mo et 2 d ° inter 

 se arctissime conjunctis (sutura obliqua nisi ocido valde armato haud 

 observanda), illo hoc paido longiore, 2 d ° et 3''° subtus productis, 4<*» 

 elongate unyuiculis sirnplicibus muni to. 



A fxiKpoi parvus, et £euos hospes. 



