424 - DescriiHive Catalogue ■ [1896. 



mediate tarsi is also squamulose, instead of being glabrous as in 

 Gratognathus ; the head of the male is broader than that of the 

 female ; the labrum is long, incised in the middle, and the mandibles 

 of the male are bluntly pluridentate in the inner part. 



Encephalus capensis, Castelnau, 



Etud. Entom., p. 66, pi. ii., fig. 5. 



iJajJtomoiyhus capensis, Chaud., Bull. Mosc, 1837, vii., p. 40. 



Black, shining ; labrum, antennae, and palpi rufescent ; mandibles 

 of the male bluntly pluriserrate, the apical part incised and hooked ; 

 labrum very long, deeply incised ; head nearly smooth ; prothorax 

 nearly as broad as long, broader at the apex than at the base, not 

 sinuate behind, but slightly narrowed laterally from the median part 

 to the posterior angle, which is not acute, smooth on the disk, with 

 the lateral margin and the base narrowly rufescent ; elytra elongate, 

 nearly parallel, a little broader than the prothorax ; striate with the 

 intervals smooth, the three pre-sutural ones plane, the others a 

 little convex, but all of them subcarinate behind, third interval with- 

 out any puncture in the posterior part ; under side piceous ; the 

 posterior abdominal segments somewhat reddish brown. Length 

 6-J~8 mm. ; width 2-|-3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Worcester, Hopefield). 



Gen. ANISODACTYLUS, Dej., 

 Spec. Col., iv., 1829, p. 132. 



Mentum broad, outer part of the lobes diagonal, ending in a more 

 or less acute angle in the apex, inner lobes either sub-vertical or 

 slightly sinuate, base broad without any median tooth ; ligula very 

 narrow, parallel, truncate at the apex which bears two very long 

 set£e ; paraglossse twice as wide as the ligula, slightly detached from 

 it, but as a rule very much longer ; last joint of palpi subfusiform, 

 with the tip truncate, maxillee ending in a very long hook ; outer lobe 

 very slender ; mandibles short ; labrum very short, emarginate, 

 bearing six deep setigerous punctures ; antennas subfiliform ; 

 prothorax transverse ; elytra oblong, sinuate in the posterior part, 

 third interval with four punctures spaced from the median part 

 to near the apex ; legs short ; anterior tibise slightly increased at 

 the apex, and with a few short spines on the outer margin ; anterior 

 and intermediate tarsi, with the second, third, and fourth joints 

 dilated in the male, and very spongy underneath. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Posterior angles of prothorax blunt, slightly rounded ; intense 

 black, very shining, lateral edges of prothorax ferruginous, basal 

 part closely punctured, intervals of elytra carinate mclanarius. 



