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median line, the ponctures rather strong aod well separated; abdomen 

 anbequal in width to the elytra, parallel, finely, not densely punctate, 

 the three basal impressioos decreasing ulightly in depth, more sparsely 

 and not at all more coarsely pnnctured than the remainder of the sur- 

 face. Length 2.7 mm. ; width 0.9 mm. South Africa (Cape Town) . 



bisolata n. sp. 



Allied to nitida and verna^ having the same structure of the 

 intermesocoxal parts, but differing from the former in its less 

 transverse prothorax and elytra, and, from verna^ in its more 

 «lender and parallel form ; from both it differs in having the 

 «ide8 of the prothorax much less converging from base to 

 ■apex. 



Mtrmedoniini. 

 TlnotiM Shp. 



Tinotus is the Myrmedoniid representative of Baryodma 

 •tind is so similar in facies as to be readily confounded with 

 that genus at first sight. The intermesocoxal parts are 

 broad, the mesosternal process slightly overlapping the me- 

 tasternum and carinate along the middle as in Baryodma ; 

 .these parts seem to be normally constituted in the following 

 species, which is remarkable in not having a medial excava- 

 tion on the head or pronotum and in the singular basal im- 

 pressions of the latter : — 



form moderately stout, convex and shining; antennae toward base and 

 legs more or less pale plceo-rufous; integuments feebly mioro-retlcu- 

 late, minutely, not densely punctate, rather more distinctly and asper- 

 ately on the elytra, each of the very minute abdominal punctures at 

 the anterior convergence of two long fine straight lines; pubescence 

 sparse and short but extremely coarse, suberect and setiform, pale in 

 color; head unimpressed, as long as wide, the eyes moderate; antennae 

 short, barely as long as the head and prothorax, gradually and rather 

 .strongly incrassate distally, the subapical joints distinctly transverse, 

 the second and third subequal; prothorax transverse, three-fourths 

 wider than long, not quite twice as wide as the head, the sides 

 parallel and rounded, becoming strongly convergent at apex, the base 

 broadly arcuate, the surface wholly unimpressed except at the basal 

 margin, where there are two short straight oblique impressions almost 

 equally trisecting the basal margin and diverging anteriorly; elytra 

 'equal in width to the prothorax and but little longer; abdomen at base 

 nearly as wide as the elytra, gradually and moderately tapering thence 

 to the tip, with the sides feebly arcuate, the side margins rather thick. 



