1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 241 



been able to identify these species. I doubt if any one can do so 

 from the descriptions given. 



Gen. TEICHIS, Klug, 

 Symb. Phys., iii., 1831, t. 31. 



TeICHIS (?) LATERIPICTA, Motsch., 



Bull. Mosc, 1864, p. 240. 



Shape of Dromius marginelhcs , but the elytra are longer and black 

 behind, elongated, parallel, moderately convex, shining, and very 

 pale testaceous ; the eyes are black, and so is a hamate lateral band 

 on the elytra, prolonged behind ; palpi, two lines on the prothorax, 

 and abdomen infuscated ; head oblong, smooth, hardly narrowed 

 behind, with the eyes moderately prominent ; prothorax as broad as 

 the head, subquadrate, attenuated in a curve behind, impressed in 

 the centre, with the angles obtuse, nearly rounded with the sides ^. 

 hardly refiexed ; elytra twice as broad as the prothorax, four times 

 as long, deeply subpunctato-striate, intervals almost plane and 

 without punctures. Length 5 J- mm. ; width If mm. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



Gen. DEYMATUS, Motsch., 

 Etud. Entom., 1862, p. 53. 



Dromiid with a robust head, convex, ovate, a little narrow^ed 

 behind, and with a transverse impression ; antennae slender, longer 

 than half the size of the body, the second joint longer than broad 

 and half the size of the first, a little shorter than the third, which is 

 as long as the others ; last joint of palpi conical ; labrum transverse, 

 sinuate in the centre ; mandibles strong ; prothorax nearly quadrate, 

 as broad as the head, slightly narrowed behind, arcuated on the 

 sides, and the angles as obtuse as in Badister ; elytra a little broader 

 and three times longer than the head, almost parallel, and very 

 truncate behind, showing the last abdominal segment, which is 

 broad and rounded on the sides, strias distinct but without punc- 

 tures, intervals moderately convex ; legs slender, femora swollen, 

 especially the hind ones, reminding one of HalticidcB ; the four joints 

 of tarsi very small, triangular, hardly incised ; claws without any 

 pectens visible to the magnifying glass; no wings. 



Drymatus tessellatus, Motsch., 

 Loc. cit., p. 53. 



Elongated, subparallel, shining, fuscous red, with the head bronze 



k black; the ten last joints of the antennae, the abdomen, and the tarsi 

 nearly black ; median part of the prothorax subaeneous ; elvtra pale 



