152 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



somewhat plane, and not impressed round the scutellum ; meso- 

 sternum very short, metasternum large ; abdomen short, pygidium 

 sub-inflexed ; intermediate tibiae carinate externally, anterior ones 

 sinuate and having some very long slender tarsi ; posterior tibiae 

 denticulate externally, sinuate at apex, tarsi long, densely ciliate." 



Tapeinopterus ateuchoides, Lansb., 

 Loc. cit., p. 16. 



" Oblongo-ovate, black, with the elytra piceous, opaque ; head 

 with a recurved margin, and closely rugosely granulate ; clypeus 

 transverse, broadly but not deeply emarginate and having no clypeal 

 carina ; frontal carina sub-arcuate, vertex with a sharp median 

 tubercle the basal part of which is connected with the frontal carina 

 by a small longitudinal smooth carina, posterior margin bi-sinuate, 

 gense straight ; prothorax ample, sub-convex, finely punctate in front, 

 more densely asperous behind and having in the middle a longi- 

 tudinal smooth line, sub-obliquely truncate on each side of the base, 

 immarginate, advancing a little in the middle of the base the im- 

 pressions of which are very near to each other, outer sides mode- 

 rately ampliate, narrowed and straight behind, rounded from there, 

 and having no basal angle ; scutellum narrow ; elytra longer than 

 broad, narrower than the prothorax, obsoletely striate, striae indis- 

 tinctly punctate, intervals very finely and sparsely punctulate, plane, 

 nearly equal in width, eighth stria crenulate ; pygidium sparingly 

 granulate ; under side shining, granulate, clothed with long, fulvous 

 hairs ; metasternum plane, carinulate at apex ; antennae, mouth, and 

 tarsi brownish. 



Length 20 mm. ; width 10 mm. 



Male : Anterior tibiae moderately thick, slightly incurved at apex,' 

 crenulate beneath, mucro short, acute, inflexed, suddenly curving 

 inwards; intermediate femora crenulate near the base, posterior 

 ones elongate, narrow, simple ; intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 moderately elongate. 



Female not known." 



Hah. South Africa, teste Lansberge. 



I do not know this species. 



Gen. NEONITIS, n. gen. 



Buccal organs of Cheironitis, but the second joint of the maxil- 

 lary palpi is very diagonally truncate inwardly, the third joint is 

 inserted in the central part of the truncate part, and curves slightly 



