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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  Microplidus 
  algoensis, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Chestnut-brown, 
  clothed 
  above 
  and 
  underneath 
  with 
  a 
  somewhat 
  

   dense 
  appressed 
  greyish 
  pubescence 
  assuming 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  a 
  some- 
  

   what 
  squamiform 
  appearance 
  ; 
  antennae 
  rufescent 
  ; 
  clypeus, 
  head, 
  and 
  

   prothorax 
  normally 
  punctured 
  and 
  scabrose 
  ; 
  elytra 
  elongate, 
  very 
  

   little 
  sinuate 
  laterally, 
  not 
  plainly 
  costulate 
  ; 
  legs 
  very 
  pubescent 
  ; 
  

   claws 
  of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  and 
  posterior 
  legs 
  single, 
  simple; 
  the 
  

   prothorax 
  is 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  rounded 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  

   other 
  species. 
  

  

  Length 
  8 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3 
  \ 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Mozambique 
  (Delagoa 
  Bay). 
  

  

  Microplidus 
  vulgus, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Eusty 
  brown 
  with 
  the 
  legs 
  a 
  little 
  paler, 
  clothed 
  above 
  and 
  under- 
  

   neath 
  with 
  a 
  fine 
  appressed 
  greyish 
  pubescence 
  not 
  dense 
  enough 
  

   to 
  hide 
  the 
  colour 
  of 
  the 
  background, 
  and 
  nowhere 
  squamulose 
  ; 
  it 
  

   is 
  similar 
  in 
  shape 
  to 
  the 
  preceding 
  species, 
  the 
  prothorax 
  being 
  also 
  

   rounded 
  and 
  more 
  ampliated 
  laterally 
  at 
  the 
  middle, 
  but 
  the 
  apical 
  

   margin 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  more 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  very 
  faintly 
  

   bi- 
  or 
  tri-costulate, 
  and 
  have 
  no 
  series 
  of 
  short 
  bristles 
  ; 
  the 
  claws 
  

   of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  are 
  double 
  and 
  both 
  slightly 
  cleft, 
  that 
  of 
  

   the 
  hind 
  ones 
  single 
  and 
  also 
  slightly 
  cleft. 
  

  

  Length 
  6J-7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3-3f 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Kowie). 
  

  

  BLIKANA, 
  n. 
  gen. 
  

  

  Mentum 
  oblong 
  but 
  distinctly 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  

   apex 
  and 
  not 
  deeply 
  incised 
  at 
  the 
  point 
  of 
  insertion 
  of 
  the 
  labial 
  

   palpi, 
  not 
  dilated 
  thence, 
  broadly 
  but 
  not 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  at 
  the 
  

   tip 
  where 
  the 
  angles 
  are 
  rounded 
  and 
  not 
  penicillate, 
  the 
  surface 
  is 
  

   very 
  densely 
  villose 
  ; 
  the 
  maxillae 
  are 
  strong, 
  horny, 
  the 
  two 
  lobes 
  

   are 
  indistinct, 
  straight 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  non-penicillate 
  

   bristles, 
  concave 
  and 
  having 
  no 
  inner 
  teeth 
  ; 
  apical 
  joint 
  of 
  labial 
  

   palpi 
  very 
  swollen 
  outwardly 
  but 
  not 
  inwardly, 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  maxillary 
  

   in 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  a 
  spindle 
  conspicuously 
  swollen 
  at 
  the 
  centre 
  and 
  

   very 
  sharp 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  quite 
  parabolic 
  and 
  slightly 
  elongate, 
  

   not 
  divided 
  from 
  the 
  head 
  by 
  a 
  suture 
  ; 
  antennae 
  nine-jointed, 
  club 
  

   elongate, 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  all 
  the 
  four 
  joints 
  preceding, 
  prothorax 
  as 
  in 
  

   Harpina; 
  elytra 
  also 
  elongated, 
  parallel, 
  rounded 
  behind 
  and 
  covering 
  

   the 
  propygidium, 
  the 
  latter 
  is 
  vertical 
  in 
  the 
  male; 
  abdomen 
  not 
  

  

  