540 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



part, sloping behind and having on each side eight series of deep 

 punctures turning to small fovese on the dorsal part ; the pubescence is 

 long and erect ; legs briefly pubescent. Length 4 mm. ; width 1^ nini. 

 Hah. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). 



Apotomus flavescens, Apetz., 

 Col. Brehm., 1854, p. 9. 



Closely allied to the preceding species ; it is darker red, the 

 antennae are entirely ferruginous and so are the legs and palpi ; 

 the prothorax is similar, but the pubescence covering it, as well as 

 the elytra is denser, but shorter and decumbent, the dorsal punctures 

 on the elytra are not so broad and the discoidal depression is more 

 marked in A. flavescens than in A. anniilaticornis. Length 3f mm. ; 

 width 1^ mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Pretoria). 



This species was originally described from specimens found in 

 Upper Egypt (Sennar). 



Gen. BASCANUS. 



Mentum transverse, trilobate, the median tooth broad, not as long 

 as the outer lobes and nearly equally broad, deeply incised at tip, 

 inner part of the lobes slightly diagonal, outer one not much slanting ; 

 ligula truncate at tip, a little broader than the paraglossse, which are 

 united with it and a little longer ; last joints of maxillary palpi long, 

 very fusiform, sharp at tip, that of the labial more ovoid at tip, also 

 long, both densely spinulose, second joint of the maxillary palpi as 

 long as the ultimate one ; maxillae blunt at tip, and very stiffly ciliate 

 inwardly ; antennae thick, the three first joints glabrous, the first 

 one thick, a little longer than the third, the second short, the others 

 subequal, except the last one which is twice as long as the pen- 

 ultimate one, and subacuminate but not sw^ollen in the middle ; 

 mandibles long, falcate, sharp ; labrum moderately long, a little 

 emarginate and with one puncture on each side of the emargina- 

 tion, and another at the basal angle ; no trace of clypeus ; head 

 elongate, with a lateral ante-ocular ridge, and one supra-orbital seta ; 

 no neck ; eyes prominent, set back ; prothorax elongate, cordiform, 

 with three median grooves, the two lateral ones a little shorter than 

 the middle one ; elytra ovate, moderately plane, not much sinuatie 

 l)ehind, soldered ; no wings ; legs short, moderately slender, anterior 

 tibiae deeply incised inwardly, all of them without any spines out- 

 wardly ; tarsi short, in the two anterior pairs, claws very small, 

 simple. 



The facies of the two species included in this genus is not unlike 

 that of Diapliorus elegans. 



