308 Transactions South African Philosoijliical Society, [vol. xii. 



Female only known. 

 Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbmy). Caught in sweeping, 

 teste G. A. K. Marshall. 



Saprcecius optatus, n. spec. 



Head with a slight coppery bronze tinge, prothorax dark shining 

 bronze, elytra black, under side dark bronze ; a little more massive 

 than S. singularis, owing to its being a little wider in proportion to 

 the size ; the sculpture and the shape of the head are similar ; the 

 sculpture of the prothorax is also identical, but the lateral punctures 

 are not quite so rugose ; the striae of the elytra are finer, deep, and 

 not geminate, distinctly but not closely punctate, and the intervals 

 are plane, irregularly but not closely and somewhat deeply 

 punctate ; intermediate tibiae tri-jointed, the apical joint being much 

 narrower than the one preceding, which is so fused with the basal 

 one that there is only an angular projection on the upper side where 

 the junction with the basal joint should have been ; posterior tarsi 

 bi-jointed, the apical joint much narrower than the basal one, w4iich 

 has also three short denticulations on the upper side, but has other- 

 wise no trace of inner or outer suture. 



Sexes similar. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



Gen. PAEAPINOTUS, Har., 

 Mith. d. Munch. Ent. Ver., 1878, ii., 1878, p. 43. 



Mentum slightly rounded laterally at base, obliquely attenuate 

 from the middle towards the apex, where it is widely and deeply 

 emarginate ; lobes of the ligula long, moderately broad ; labial 

 palpi tri-jointed, basal one sub-conical, somewhat elongate and a 

 little obliquely truncate at tip, second one sub-cylindrical, not longer 

 than the basal one, but a little wider, and straight at tip, third one 

 one-third the width and half the length of the second, and implanted 

 in the centre of the apex, slightly inflated at middle, and rounded at 

 tip ; maxillae strong, apical lobe moderately narrow and very long ; 

 apical joint of maxillary palpi sub-fusiform, not as long as the two 

 preceding put together; basal joint of clava long, clubbed at tip, 

 second short, thick, moniliform, third and fourth obconical, fifth and 

 sixth wdder and shorter, basal joint of the club convex, apical one 



