238 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



to examine thoroughly the hgula of the unique specimen that has 

 come under my notice. 



ASTASTUS DEBILIS. 



Light brick-red, shining ; head bi-impressed in the anterior part, 

 and deeply plicated longitudinally ; prothorax smooth, shining, with 

 a very narrow median groove; elytra elongated, gradually ampliated 

 from the shoulder to the apex, where they are about one-fourth 

 broader than at the base, nearly plane, faintly striate, with the 

 intervals slightly costate ; under side and legs pale yellow. Length 

 4 mm. ; width 1 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand), Klipfontein. 



Gen. AUTOMAIMUS. 



Mentum moderately broad, notched, with a slight sinuation in the 

 middle of the base ; ligula a little shorter than the paraglossae, the 

 latter slightly projecting, truncate at the tip; labrum short, sinuate 

 in front ; head subquadrate, constricted behind ; ultimate joints of 

 labial and maxillary palpi fusiform, truncate at the tip ; prothorax 

 one-fourth broader at the apex than at the base ; sides straight ; 

 elytra depressed, a little broader behind than in front, striate ; claws 

 not pectinate. 



AUTOMAIMUS SINGULARIS. 



Head pale yellowish red, smooth, shining, infuscated laterally 

 behind the eyes ; palpi black, with the tip flavescent ; antennae black, 

 with the two basal joints reddish ; prothorax one-fourth broader at 

 the apex than at the base, with the outer sides straight, grooved in 

 the centre with a small depression at each end of the groove, reddish, 

 with the outer margins infuscate and very finely plicated trans- 

 versely ; elytra elongated, black, subopaque, a little broader behind 

 than in front, with the outer sides straight, plane, slightly striate, 

 with the intervals moderately broad ; legs black. Length 6 mm. ; 

 width 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Gen. LIONYCHUS, Wissmann, 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1846, p. 25. 



Mentum with a median tooth not bifid, but truncate at the tip ; 

 ligula and paraglossae of Dromius ; prothorax suborbicular on the 

 outer sides, with the anterior angles projecting, the posterior ones 

 acute, but the basal part sloping from the outer angle and prolonged 

 behind ; elytra obovate ; legs long ; joints of tarsi triangular, the 

 three basal ones of the anterior legs broadly dilated ; claws not 

 pectinate. 



