482 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



gradually ampliated from the apex to three-fourths of the length, 

 median part of base produced behind ; elytra a little broader 

 than the prothorax, subparallel, hardly convex ; tarsi slender, the 

 three median ones of the first and second pairs of legs, short, 

 triangular, the anterior ones slightly dilated in the male, last joint 

 not incised. 



Microcosmus is also found in Senegambia, the West Coast of Africa, 

 Abyssinia, and in India (Bengal). 



Synopsis of Species. 



Anterior yellow patch reaching from the outer margin to the 

 third interval, but not reaching the base laterally; posterior 

 patch broad, somewhate ovate, and slightly sinuate on the pos- 

 terior part tenuipunctatus. 



Anterior yellow patch reaching the base from the outer magin 

 to the fifth interval, posterior patch narrow, sinuate Icetiusculus. 



Anterior yellow patch reaching the base from the outer 

 margin to the fifth interval, and extending on the disk as far 

 as the second interval, posterior patch broad, sinuate aurantiacus. 



Anterior yellow patch extending from the eighth to the fourth 

 interval, entirely disconnected from the base, posterior patch 

 narrow, bisinuate natalensis. 



Microcosmus tenuipunctatus, Laferte, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1851, p. 221. 



Black, moderately shining, briefly but densely pubescent; antennae 

 palpi, and legs reddish yellow ; head deeply punctured ; prothorax 

 gradually rounded and ampliated from the apex to two-thirds of the 

 length, not much narrowed, but sinuated from there to the posterior 

 angle which projects a little, base truncate with a slight sinuation 

 on the lateral part, disk plane with the posterior outer sides a 

 little raised, deeply punctured, black with the posterior outer sides 

 yellow ; elytra a little broader than the prothorax at the base with 

 the shoulders not much rounded, parallel, hardly convex, deeply 

 punctato-striate with the intervals broad, almost plane and densely 

 punctured, black, and having on each side two yellow patches, the 

 first one a subhumeral one, reaches from the edge of the outer margin 

 to the third interval, and is longer on the seventh and eighth in- 

 tervals, and also the outer margin, than on the sixth, fifth, and fourth, 

 but do not reach the base in the anterior part, while behind they 

 reach a little short of the median part ; posterior part obtusely 

 ovate, a little emarginate on the posterior edge, and reaching 

 from the third to the eighth interval. Length 8^-9 mm. ; width 

 3|— 4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester, ? Natal). 



