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Gen. TEIMIODYTES, Eaffr., 



Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. x., 1897, p. 52. 



Teimiodytes sulcifeons, nov. spec. 



Elongatus, angustatus, rufus, nitidus, setis aliquot longis et 

 -dispersis. Caput postice convexum et rotundatum, antrorsum leviter 

 attenuatum, fronte transversim late et profunde excavato, in medio 

 cavese tuberculato, utrinque supra antennas leviter nodoso, vertice 

 medio inter oculos impressione magna, transversa, geminata medio 

 cannula divisa. Antennae mediocres, articulis duobus primis majori- 

 bus, 3-9 moniliformibus et longitudine decrescentibus, 10 transverso, 

 paulo latiori, 11 magno, ovato, acuminato. Prothorax elongato- 

 •cordatus, postice leviter bisinuatus, sulco transverso medio angulato 

 et utrinque fovea laterali magna. Elytra latitudine sua multo 

 longiora, lateribus pone humeros obliques et notatos leviter sinuata, 

 pone medium leviter rotundata, sulco dorsali basi lato, brevi. 

 Abdomen elytris sequilongum et nonnihil angustius, segmentis 

 dorsalibus aequalibus, primo basi quadratim impresso. Metasternum 

 simplex. Long. 1-10 mm. 



This species differs from the others in the peculiar sculpture of 

 the head and in the shape of the body which is more elongate and 

 narrower. 



Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). 



Gen. BIBLOPLECTUS, Eeitter, 

 Yerh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 1881, p. 529; Eaffr., Eev. d'Ent., 



1893, p. 257. 



Plus minusve elongatum, subparallelum et deplanatum. Caput 

 trapezoidale. Oculi ad medium siti. Antennae mediocres, clava 

 plus minusve triarticulata. Prothorax plus minusve orbicularis vel 

 quadratus cum angulis omnibus rotundatis, foveis tribus sulco 

 transverso junctis. Elytra basi trifoveata, absque stria dorsali, 

 lateribus recta, humeris quadrata. Segmentis dorsalibus sequalibus, 

 ventralibus 2, 3, 4, aequalibus, 5 brevissimo, 6 quarto aquali, 7 (in 

 mare) magno triangulari, apice acuminato, operculo elongato et 

 angusto praedito, tarsi mediocres, ungue unico. 



This genus much resembles Asjjnwplectics, Eaffr., from which it 

 differs in the proportions of the dorsal and ventral segments of the 

 alidomen and the conformation of the seventh in the male. It 

 occur§ in nearly every part of the world. 



