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slender ; all the joints grooved uppermost, the anterior tarsi of the 

 male with a double row of laminiform scales underneath ; claws 

 slender, widely opened, and not pectinate. 



Anabmosta dispar. 



Head, mandibles, antennge, prothorax, and legs pale red ; head 

 shining, faintly punctured ; labrum emarginate ; prothorax truncate 

 at the base, rounder and a little ampliate on the anterior part, with 

 the base also truncate, but with the angles slightly diagonal, grooved 

 in the centre, faintly strigose across, and slightly punctulate on the 

 outer sides ; scutellum small, red ; elytra elongato-quadrate, gradu- 

 ally rounded behind, slightly sinuose at the base, plane, narrowly 

 but deeply striate, with the intervals plane and with three punctures 

 on the third, piceous and a very narrow red margin running round 

 the base and sides ; under side pale red ; abdomen infuscate. 

 Length 9 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Gen. SYNDETUS. 



Mentum as in Plagyopyga ; median tooth short, narrow, very 

 sharp, articulate ; ligula as long as the paraglossae, all three trun- 

 cate at the tip ; palpi acuminate at the tip ; labrum moderately long, 

 slightly emarginate in the centre at the apex ; prothorax not longer 

 than broad, with the sides sharp and a little attenuated towards the 

 base ; elytra subrectangular, a little broader at the apex than at the 

 base, truncate behind, but with the posterior margin hardly sinuate ; 

 tarsi narrow, the basal one long, the other two subtriangular, 

 decreasing in size, the fourth small, very little incised ; claws 

 strongly pectinate. 



Syndetus simplex. 



Very dark reddish brown, moderately shining ; antennae, palpi, 

 and legs of a lighter brown ; head nearl}" smooth ; prothorax as 

 broad as long, with the outer sides slightly narrowed towards the 

 base, sinuate in the centre of the apical margin, somewhat convex in 

 the disk, with the outer sides a little recurved, and the margin sharp, 

 deeply grooved in the central part, and finely plicate transversely ; 

 elytra twice as broad as the prothorax at the base, and more than 

 twice as long, a little ampliate behind, plane on the upper part, 

 narrowly punctato-striate, with the intervals carinate, and the third, 

 fifth, and seventh with a series of distant moderately deep punctures, 

 those on the outer margins hardly defined ; intermediate and pos- 

 terior tibiae slightly incurved. Length 8 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



