1898.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 329 



This species is easily distinguished from the two others known, by 

 the deep series of punctures which fill the striae. Length 10 mm. ; 

 width 4 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Lower M'Komas Eiver). 



Gen. APEISTUS, 



Catal., p. 239. 



Apeistus promontokii. 



Black, very shining; antennae, with the exception of the three 

 basal joints, apical joint of palpi, tibiae, and legs fuscous ; head 

 smooth ; prothorax and elytra covered with an extremely fine 

 aciculation ; the former is gradually attenuate laterally from the first 

 to the second seta, while the part from the first seta to the anterior 

 angle is slightly rounded, and this imparts to it a sub-cordate form ; 

 the elytra are sub-oblong, sloping at the shoulders, broader at apex 

 than at base, and have a small round fovea on each side near the 

 apical part of the scutellum, two long setae on each side of the apex, 

 one near the suture, the other near the apical angle, and three others 

 on the outer margin, one near the humeral angle, the other past the 

 middle, and the third above the apical outer angle. 



Eesembles much A. decejitor, Catal., p. 240, but the elytra are 

 more parallel, and without any trace of striation ; the antennae are 

 also longer. Length 3 J mm. ; width li mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Follows A. latipennis, Catal., p. 240. 



Gen. DEOMIUS, 



Catal., p. 234. 



Dromius nanniscus. 



Pale brown with the anterior part of the head slightly infuscate ; 

 antennae, palpi, and legs more flavescent than the rest of the body ; 

 elytra and prothorax very finely aciculate ; the latter is gradually 

 narrowed from near the apex, the apical angle itself being slightly 

 rounded to the posterior angle, where it is about one-half narrower 

 than at the widest part, the angle itself is strongly developed ; elytra 

 twice as broad at base as the base of the prothorax, gradually 

 ampliate laterally but with the sides straight up to the apex, and 



