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Gen. CYMINDOIDEA, Casteln., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, vol. i., p. 390, 1832. 



Mentum with the lateral lobes long, acute at the tip, with a 

 median tooth filling the whole of the base, narrow, very slightly 

 rounded at the apex, and shorter by one-half than the lateral lobes ; 

 ligula very strong, subtruncate at the apex, the paraglossse fused 

 with it, but hardly longer ; maxillary palpi slender, the last joint 

 much longer than the penultimate, and the third one slightly bent, 

 the last joint of labial palpi very securiform; jaws arcuate at the 

 tip, with a bifid tooth at the base ; labrum truncate at the apex ; 

 prothorax in the shape of a very broad crescent with a small project- 

 ing angle above the basal part ; elytra depressed, elongated, with the 

 outer sides straight ; claws very slightly pectinate. 



This genus is represented in Africa from Algeria to the Transvaal 

 and Damaraland (Senegal, Abyssinia, Algeria, Morocco) ; it is found 

 also in Palestine (Nazareth), India (Bengal, Northern Hindustan, and 

 Coromandel). 



Cymindoidea deplanata, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., vol. i., p. 33. 



Black, subopaque, antennae, palpi, and legs testaceous ; head 

 closely plicate longitudinally ; prothorax with closely set punctures, 

 finely grooved longitudinally in the centre, a little convex, broader 

 at the apex, where it is slightly sinuate, than in any other part, and 

 with the sides gradually rounded towards the base, but with a small 

 projecting angle above the lateral part of the base, the median part 

 of which is produced behind beyond the posterior angles ; elytra 

 plane, black, with lateral margins narrowly edged with brown and 

 having a series of distant punctures, finely punctato-striate, with the 

 intervals smooth and very slightly convex ; under side black ; 

 abdomen rufescent. Length 8 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Middelburg) , Damaraland (Walfish Bay). 



If the elytra are wetted, they show broad, transverse bands more 

 opaque than the background. 



Gen. METAXYMOEPHUS, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1850, ii., p. 370. 



Mentum broad, with the outer lobes moderately long, acute at the 

 tip, and having a median tooth shorter by one-half than the lateral 

 lobes and slightly rounded at the apex ; ligula long, the paraglossse 

 fused with it and longer, broadening towards the apex, and singly 

 rounded ; palpi slender, the last joint of both maxillary and labial a 

 little inflated in the centre and subacuminate at the tip ; labrum long, 

 truncate in front ; antenuEe pubescent, with the exception of the 



