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little narrower at the base than at the apex, grooved in the centre, 

 with the outer sides narrow and a little depressed, the margin sharp, 

 much recurved in the anterior part, finely plicate transversely ; 

 elytra once and a half as broad as the prothorax, rectangular, slightly 

 rounded at the humeral angle, plane, very finely punctato-striate, 

 with the intervals plane and very faintly aciculate, the third one 

 with two punctures, the first on the anterior part, the second above 

 the apex, the outer margins with a series of deep punctures ; under 

 side and legs shining ; claws pectinate, the teeth, however, very 

 short, and to be seen under a high magnifying power only. Length 

 10-12 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Peddie), Natal (D' Urban), Transvaal 

 (Potchefstroom, Johannesburg), Zambezia (Tati). 



Plagyopyga cymindoides. 



Eusty red, moderately shining ; mandibles black. Resembles 

 much P. cyclogoiia and the sculpture of head, prothorax, and 

 elytra is similar, but the elytra have a more ovate form owing to 

 the humeral part being more rounded, and the apical part a little 

 less deeply sinuate ; the claws of the legs are simple, and the joints 

 of the anterior tarsi of the male dilated. In this species the para- 

 glossae are fused with the ligula, broader, not longer, and slightly 

 diagonal laterally at tip. Length 9 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorn). 



This species has only been met with, as yet, in the depth of the 

 Cango caves. 



Gen. ANARMOSTA. 



Mentum with a moderately broad median notch, with the inner 

 part of the lateral lobes a little slanting, in the centre a long acute 

 triangular tooth ; ligula long, a little convex, of equal width, truncate 

 at the apex, having a long bristle at each angle ; paraglossae narrow, 

 hardly longer than the ligula ; last joint of palpi fusiform, a little 

 truncated at the tip ; labrum short, nearly transversal, emarginate in 

 front ; antennas subfiliform ; head elongato-quadrate, with eyes pro- 

 minent ; prothorax a little broader at the apex than at the base, with 

 the outer sides a little ampliate in the anterior part, the anterior 

 angles rounded, the posterior acute and a little recurved, the base 

 straight from one angle to another ; elytra one-third broader than 

 the prothoi'ax at the base, plane, with the outer sides slanting 

 behind ; legs moderately long, tibiee grooved inwardly, tarsi thickly 

 ciliate underneath, the three first joints of the tarsi of the anterior 

 pair short, triangular, the fourth shorter still and lobate, those of the 

 intermediate pair a little longer, and the posterior ones very long and 



