40 Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. [1897. 



with a series of long, thick bristles, curving backwards on the outer 

 margin ; pygidium with a few short bristles on the lower edge ; legs 

 slender, briefly pubescent, anterior and intermediate femora very 

 slender at base, but not clavate, almost cylindrical like the tibiae, 

 posterior ones compressed and only slightly dilated, posterior tibiae 

 also slightly dilated and compressed. Length 3-§- mm. ; width ljmm. 



In shape the posterior margin of the club is nearly similar to 

 that of P. burchellianus and P. cucullatus, but it is less broadly 

 scooped than in both these species, and the basal spur is shorter 

 than in the first-named species and not entirely cylindrical, the 

 shape of the anterior margin is however very different, being 

 sublinear owing to a median sinuation, and not impressed trans- 

 versely ; the disposition along the outer and posterior margins of 

 thick, recurved, stiff bristles is unique among the South African 

 Paussi, of which it is also the smallest. 



Discovered in the nest of Pheidole capensis by Dr. Brauns at 

 Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony. 



Gen. HYLOTOKUS, Dalman, 

 Analect. Entom., 1823, p. 103. 



Head round, with two large fossae on the vertex excavated in front 

 for the reception of the antennae, the latter are two-jointed, the first 

 joint is very small, the other lanceolate ; maxillary palpi four-jointed, 

 second joint very broad, rounded outwardly, sinuate inwardly, 

 maxillae without outer lobe, bifid at tip ; last joint of maxillary palpi 

 long, attenuate and rounded at tip ; prothorax subcylindrical, attenuate 

 behind; elytra subparallel; first abdominal segment very wide, second 

 and third very small, third wider than the preceding and emarginate ; 

 legs short, broad, compressed, the femora grooved so as to allow the 

 insertion of the laminated inner part of the tibiae when retracted ; 

 tarsi short, equal. 



Two species other than the South African one are known — one 

 from Sierra Leone, and the other from Abyssinia. 



Hylotoeus hottentotus, Westw., 

 Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 81, pi. xvii., fig. 1. 



Chestnut red, glabrous, moderately shining; head rugulose and 

 with two impressions on the vertex containing a round tubercle 

 perforated at tip ; eyes not projecting, reniform ; no neck ; prothorax 

 cylindrical, posterior part narrowed from the middle to the base, 

 discoidal part with a linear, transverse, shallow impression ; elytra a 

 little rounded at the shoulder, straight laterally and a little ampliate 

 from the shoulder to the apex, smooth and glabrous. Length 6 mm. ; 

 width 3 mm. 



Hab, Natal (Maritzburg). 



