570 DescrijHive Catalogue [1896. 



briefly pubescent and punctulate. Length 28-30 mm. ; width 

 10-11 mm. 



This remarkable Carabid is generally captured flying to the hghts 

 at nights. It emits a very offensive odour. In the daytime it is 

 found in the nests of white ants (Termes spec). 



Hah. Natal (Escourt, D'Urban), Zambezia (Sahsbmy). 



Gen. PEOCLETUS. 



Mentum deeply excavate, with the inner lobes ver^' straight, 

 nearly perpendicular in the basal part, and very slightly sloping 

 from about the middle to the apex, which is sharp, outer part of 

 the lobe gradually rounded, a short triangular tooth in the mentum 

 obtuse and bifid at the apex ; ligula horny, a little broader at the 

 apex than at the base, truncate and bisetose at tip ; paraglossee dis- 

 connected from the ligula at about half the length, straight, slender, 

 and slightly longer than the ligula ; ultimate joints of palpi sub- 

 cylindrical, truncate at tip ; mandibles long, falcate at tip ; labrum 

 very long, broadly incised, epistoma also broadly sinuate ; head long, 

 slightly narrowed behind the eyes, six setigerous punctures on the 

 labrum, and one over the anterior angle of the epistoma ; antennae, 

 with the exception of the two basal joints, somewhat compressed, 

 the basal joint short, thick, the second one subcorneal, very short, 

 the third one as long as the two following, these three basal joints 

 are nearly glabrous, the others pubescent ; prothorax subquadi'ate, 

 with a marginal seta inside the posterior angle ; elytra truncate at 

 the base, broader than the prothorax, parallel, almost plane in the 

 anterior part, and very little convex in the posterior, prosternum 

 produced into a short subtriangular process fitting in a deep groove 

 in the mesosternum ; legs long ; the anterior tibise sinuate externally 

 above the apical outer angle, the intermediate and posterior ones 

 slightly incurved, conspicuously grooved inwardly, and less con- 

 spicuously outwardly in the upper part ; tarsi long, joints triangular, 

 convex, slightly bristly, hairy on the upper part, the three anterior 

 ones in the male dilated inwardly, the basal one long, triangular, the 

 second transverse, not so broad as the apical part of the first, the 

 third one-half the size of the second, the three thickly papillose 

 underneath ; claws long, simple. 



Procletus singularis. 

 Plate X., fig. 8. 



Piceous, with the elytra black ; labrum smooth ; epistoma with 

 two slight longitudinal median linear impressions ; head punctulate, 

 the punctures scattered irregularly and at some distance from one 

 another, the lateral, posterior, and also those underneath distinctly 



