590 , Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Trechus viyax. 



Light reddish brown above and under, with the posterior part of 

 the elytra infuscate ; antennse, palpi, and legs reddish brown ; head 

 smooth ; prothorax as cordiform as in the two species preceding ; 

 elytra oblong, each with seven striae, the five dorsal ones xery distinct, 

 the sixth and seventh not so deep but very easily discernible, shorter 

 than the others and uniting at about four-fifths of the length. 

 Length 7 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Frere), Bechuanaland (Eamoutsa). 



Gen. PEEILEPTUS, Schaum., 

 Nat. Ins., i., 1860, p. 663. 



Mentum with a median, not bifid tooth ; penultimate joint of 

 maxillary palpi thickened outwardly, ultimate one slender, subulate, 

 shorter than the penultimate ; the penultimate one of the labial 

 palpi is thickened inwardly ; eyes very briefly pubescent ; prothorax 

 cordate, with the posterior angles sharp ; elytra pubescent, nearly 

 parallel, plane, striate on the disk, and without any stria cur^dng 

 outwardly behind. 



Differs from TrecJms in having a simple tooth in the mentum, by 

 the more slender penultimate joint of the maxillary palpi, the 

 depressed and tomentose elytra, and the presence of a curved spine 

 under the fourth joint of the anterior tarsi, which is not found in 

 Trechus. 



The genus has representatives in Europe, Teneriffe Island, Nubia, 

 Abyssinia, and the island of Bourbon. 



Peeileptus promontorii. 



Fulvous brown, pubescent ; labrum, the three basal joints of 

 antennse a^ little lighter testaceous ; head apparently smooth, in- 

 fuscate, frontal grooves very deep ; prothorax cordiform, a little 

 longer than broad, covered with an extremely fine aciculation, and 

 with a moderately thick pubescence, not so dense, however, than on 

 the elytra ; the latter are parallel, and very faintly striate on each 

 side of the disk, and with apparently no trace of a fifth stria ; they 

 are fulvous brown, with a triangular basal darker patch, the apex of 

 which reaches along the suture to about one-fifth of the length, and 

 there is also a moderately broad, equally dark border along the 

 posterior margin. Length 2i mm. ; width 1 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Grahamstown). 



Closely allied to the European P. arcolatiis, but the striae are 

 almost wanting, instead of being well defined ; the prothorax is not 

 infuscate, the basal triangular patch is much better defined, and the 

 posterior marginal border is not so broad nor so deeply infuscate. 



