1898.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 325 



the four basal ones ; head smooth ; prothorax as broad as long, 

 truncate at both ends, a little ampliate and rounded laterally from 

 the anterior angle to the median part, slightly diagonal from there 

 to the posterior angle, lateral setae very long ; the disk is smooth, 

 and there is on each side of the longitudinal line a slightly fuscous 

 longitudinal band which is sometimes missing ; elytra ovate, slightly 

 striate, and having on each side three indistinct comma-shaped 

 slightly fuscous macules, and a nearly straight one near the scutel- 

 lary region. Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Allied to M. pieties, Chaud., Catal., p. 207, but the prothorax is a 

 little more rounded laterally in the anterior part, the elytra are a 

 little more ovate, and the markings are different. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape District). 



Metaxymorphus recticollis. 



Light testaceous with the head and the discoidal part of the elytra 

 darker ; antennae shorter than usual ; head quite smooth, supra- 

 orbital setae very long ; prothorax nearly twice as broad at apex as at 

 base, almost truncate at apex, with the lateral angles projecting very 

 little, straight laterally from the apex to the posterior angle, and 

 diagonal from there to the base with the posterior part of the outer 

 margin slightly recurved ; it is very nearly plane and smooth ; elytra 

 narrow, much sinuate at base with the shoulders very sharp and 

 projecting forward, oblongo-ovate, not ampliated in the middle, plane 

 but with the sixth and seventh striae very sharply carinate from base 

 to apex ; the other striae are normal and the intervals plane with a 

 moderately deep puncture on the third, at about one-third of the 

 length. Length 6 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). 



A very distinct species, easily recognised by the shape of the 

 prothorax, which is not at all rounded laterally, and also by the 

 more linear form of the elytra. 



Gen. CYMINDOIDEA, 

 Catal., p. 205. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Elytra entirely black, intervals between the striae plane . . . . deplanata. 



Elytra black with a humeral testaceous patch, intervals plane . . limner alis. 

 Elytra black with a sinuate ante-median dorsal patch on each side, 



intervals carinate marshalli. 



