604 Addejida. 



Gboup DROMIID^. 

 Gen. XENITENUS. 



XeNITENUS OKNATELIiUS. 



Head, prothorax, and antennae brick-red ; elytra and legs pale 

 testaceous ; prothorax very narrow, elongate, nearly parallel, slightly 

 sinuate above the posterior angle which projects a little, and has 

 two dark infuscate bands on the disk ; elytra twice as broad as the 

 prothorax, elongate, parallel, depressed, striate, alternate interv'als 

 regularly tessellate, with elongated black patches from base to apex, 

 while the second, fourth, and sixth are generally totally black ; 

 legs fiavescent. Length 6 mm. ; width 2J mm. 



Allied to X. tessellatus ; but the elytra are a little narrower, and 

 much more tessellate ; the prothorax is also a little more parallel. 



Hah. Natal (Escourt). 



Gen. KLEPTERUS. 

 Klepteeus majoeinus. 



Allied to both K. consohrinus and K. paUidicoUis, but larger as a 

 rule ; the colour and shape of the head and prothorax are identical, 

 the antennae are a little less pubescent than in C. consobrinus ; the 

 elytra are striate but the intervals are not so much carinate as in the 

 last-named species, and the striae are almost smooth, thus resembling 

 K. pallidicollis to which it is more closely allied, but the sixth interval 

 has a very well marked series of equi-distant punctures from near 

 the base to close to the apex ; this series is not discernible in K. 

 2Mllidicollis, which species is also much smaller. Length 6^7J- mm. ; 

 width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Cape Town). 



Gen. KLEPSIPHRUS. 

 Klepsipheus apicalis. 

 Piceous brown, shining; palpi, the two basal joints of antennae, 

 and the femora fiavescent ; head smooth, a little redder in the 

 posterior than in the anterior part ; prothorax one-third longer than 

 broad, nearly parallel and equally broad at base and apex, narrowly 

 grooved longitudinally in the centre and finely plicate transversely ; 

 elytra nearly twice as broad at the prothorax as at the base, slightly 

 ampliate beyond the shoulders, deeply sinuate behind, plane and 

 striate ; the second, fourth, and fifth striae have a regular series of 

 deep, narrow punctures ; the colour is piceous brown like the head 

 and prothorax, but at the apex is a transverse subflavescent band 



