48 Descriptive Catalogue [1897. 



quadrate and convex ; legs hardly long ; intermediate and posterior 

 coxae approximate ; both claws of tarsi of equal length. 



The genus is allied to both Sagola and Faronus, and differs mostly 

 from them by the eyes, which are very large and situated near the 

 posterior angle of the head. It includes only one species. 



Faronidius africanus, Casey, 



Trans. Entom. Soc, Lond., 1887, p. 382, c fig. (male) ; Kaffray, 



Eev. Entom., 1893, p. 4, pi. 1, fig. 15 (female). 



Moderately elongate, depressed, testaceous red, with the antennae, 

 palpi, and legs testaceous, covered with a moderately dense flavous 

 pubescence ; head much transverse and without any posterior 

 angles ; eyes large ; antennal tubercle prominent, narrow, de- 

 pressed, and slightly canaliculate ; vertex little raised transversely ; 

 antennae half the length of the body, not distant from one another at 

 base, stout, first joint elongate, subcylindrical, second ovate, third 

 smaller, subquadrate, fourth to eighth briefly oblong and slightly 

 decreasing in length, ninth to tenth subquadrate, eleventh oblong 

 and acuminate at tip ; prothorax as long as broad, a little wider than 

 the head and eyes, much attenuate in front, rounded laterally in the 

 median part and sinuate from there towards the base, lateral foveae 

 large, the median one small, and joined by a strong, transverse and 

 arcuate sulcus to two minute, oblong, basal foveae ; elytra more than 

 twice the length of the prothorax and a little longer, sutural stria 

 pluripunctate at base, dorsal stria extending as far as the median 

 part and pluripunctate at base, between the striae are four punctures 

 disposed in a line ; abdomen nearly equal in length to the elytra, the 

 three basal segments gradually increasing in length. The male is 

 distinct from the female ; the antennae are half the length of the 

 body, the joints from the fourth to the tenth inclusive are slightly 

 decreasing in length, and from the fifth to the ninth, a little angular 

 internally, and obliquely subemarginate externally at apex ; seventh 

 ventral segment small and with a quadrate median impression. 

 Length 1-30-1-60 mm. 



This insect is rather variable, especially in size ; it is in the 

 large-size males that the intermediate joints of the antennae are more 

 or less angular internally ; in the females of small size the joints are 

 slightly thicker towards the tip. The median impression of the pro- 

 thorax is somewhat quadrate with the lateral offshoots very short. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Wellington, Stellenbosch, Newlands, Cape 

 Town). 



