1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 413 



Dyschirius flavicornis. 



Light bronze, shining ; palpi, labrum, and antennae flavous ; head 

 and prothorax quite smooth, the median groove of the latter almost 

 indistinct ; elytra truncate at the base ; elongate, punctato-striate, 

 the punctures moderately broad and deep from the base to a 

 little beyond the median part, evanescent behind ; the three juxta- 

 sutural intervals slightly raised ; under side and legs rufescent 

 Length 3 J mm. ; width 1 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Dyschirius parvulus. 



Head and prothorax very dark blue, almost black ; elytra very 

 dark bronze ; labrum and the three basal joints of antennae rufescent, 

 the other joints black ; head and prothorax smooth, the latter 

 globose, the median groove very indistinct ; elytra elongate, 

 punctato-striate from the base to three-fifths of the length with the 

 punctures broad and deep, the striae not punctate behind, but still 

 discernible beyond the third puncture of the third interval ; under 

 side black ; legs rufescent. Length 2 J mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Grahamstown) . 



Dyschirius puncticollis. 

 • Bronze, shining ; antennae, palpi, and labrum rufescent ; head very 

 deeply impressed laterally and with small plicae on the basal part of 

 the epistoma and a small carina in the median part of the head, 

 posterior part smooth ; prothorax globose, covered with fine closely 

 set punctures ; elytra truncate at the base, shorter than in the 

 preceding species, and hence more ovate in shape, punctato-striate, 

 with the punctures deep ; the first stria punctate as far as the 

 median part only, the others as far as three-fifths of the length and 

 indistinct beyond that distance ; under side black ; legs rufescent. 

 Length 3 mm. ; width 1 mm. 

 Hah. Natal (Frere). 



Gen. EEICHEIA, Saulcy, 

 Ann. Soc. Entom. France, 1862, p. 285. 



Mentum subtriangular, with no median tooth, last joint of 

 maxillary and labial palpi swollen at the base and very acute at the 

 tip ; head with lateral impressions, the laminae in the anterior part 

 of the eyes well developed, eyes rudimentary, reduced to a single 

 facet ; antennae submoniliform, intermediate joints slightly in- 

 creasing in width from the third to the eleventh, which is ovate, 

 second joint slightly shorter than the first ; prothorax globose ; elytra 

 elongato-ovate, convex, punctured ; anterior tibiae with two long 



