1897.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 47 



1. Tarsi with a single claw ; hind coxse decidedly globular .. Bryaxini. 

 B 1. First ventral segment large, always longer than the hind 



coxse ; antennae geniculate, the first joint very long . . . . Goniacerini. 



PSELAPHID^E MaCEOSCELID^E. 



A 2. First ventral segment large, longer than the hind coxae ; 



tarsi with a single claw Pselaphini. 



A 1. First ventral segment short, more or less hidden under the 

 hind coxse or the metasternum. 



B 2. Epistoma more or less notched, prominent laterally ; pu- 

 bescence short and squamose Ctenisttni. 



B 1. Epistoma simple and not prominent laterally ; pubescence 

 generally long and hairlike, and when short never 

 squamose Tyrini. 



So far as is now known the following tribes have no representa- 

 tives in South Africa : Bythinini, Cyathigerini, Hybocepkalini, 

 Sc his toclac ty lini , Arhy todini . 



Tkibe FAKONINI. 



Baffray, Eev. Entom., 1890, pp. 82 and 84. 



Body linear and depressed ; antennae hardly clubbed at tip ; 

 middle and hind coxae conical and prominent ; first ventral segment 

 conspicuous ; tarsi with two equal claws. 



In general facies the insects included in this tribe are very much 

 like some Staphylinidcz of the group Homalini. They are some- 

 what rare, but numerous in New Zealand ; they have a few repre- 

 sentatives in the South of Europe, in Algeria, and in North America, 

 and only one species is known from South Africa. 



Gen. FAKONIDIUS, Casey, 

 Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1887, p. 381; Baffray, Eev. Entom., 



1893, p. 3. 



Elongate, somewhat depressed; head transverse, without temporal 

 prominences ; antennal tubercle large ; eyes large, set backward ; 

 maxillary palpi middling, second joint clavate, third a little shorter 

 than the preceding one, fourth more than twice as large, ovate, not 

 particularly acuminate at tip, very briefly pilose and with a hardly 

 noticeable apical appendage ; antennae moderately long, moniliform, 

 hardly thickened at tip ; prothorax subhexagonal, more attenuate 

 in front than behind, and impressed ; elytra much longer than the 

 prothorax and depressed ; abdomen strongly marginate and having 

 on the dorsal side five clearly defined segments and on the under side 

 six in the female and seven in the male ; metasternum large, sub- 



