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nearly three times as broad near the apex as the prothorax at its 

 widest part ; they have three very faint striae on the dorsal part, and 

 are very finely aciculate ; legs moderately long and slender ; in the 

 male the first, second, and third basal joints of the anterior tarsi 

 are dilated, the two basal ones especially ; the claws have an almost 

 rudimentary tooth (with the accompanying sinuation) on each side ; 

 there are no wings under the elytra. Length 2 mm. ; width 1 mm. 

 Hab. Zambesia (Salisbury). 



All the South African species (i.e., six) which I have included in the 

 genus Dromius, differ from many of the European and other Dromius 

 in one character, which, considering that the pectination of the claws 

 is a very important factor in the classification of this group, induces 

 me to separate them into another section. The claws, instead of 

 being multipectinate, have from one to three stout teeth on each side. 

 I propose, therefore, a new genus, Dromiops, for the reception of the 

 South African species. 



Gen. PHLCEOZETUS, 

 CataL, p. 244. 



PHLffiOZETUS FERUS. 



Testaceous with the head and prothorax brick-red ; elytra with an 

 apical sutural fuscous black patch ; head punctulate along the eyes 

 and in the anterior part ; prothorax ampliate, rounded laterally 

 from the anterior angle to two-thirds of the length, and sinuate from 

 there to the posterior angle ; elytra elongate, finely striate with the 

 striae punctulate and the intervals plane and smooth ; they have a 

 sutural elongato -quadrate patch, sometimes oblique at tip, extending 

 on each side of the suture as far as fourth stria, beginning from two- 

 thirds of the length and stopping short of the apical margin ; 

 abdomen infuscate. Length 7-7-^- mm. ; width 3-3-J- mm. 



Allied to P. nmbraculatus , CataL, p. 251, but very different in the 

 shape of the prothorax, which is ampliated and rounded laterally 

 from the anterior angle, and sinuate above the posterior one ; the 

 posterior part of the head and the prothorax are less rugose ; the 

 intervals of the elytra are plane instead of being carinate, and there 

 is no depression on the second and third intervals close to the apex 

 of the pre-scutellary stria which is so characteristic of P. umbracu- 

 latus. 



Hab. Zambesia (Marandellas). 



