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are known to occur in other parts of Africa. Gabata has been found 

 at Port Elizabeth ; Bryaxonoma is from Muizenberg, near Cape 

 Town ; Pselaphoxys, described at first from Abyssinia, has been met 

 with at Uitenhage, and the species is even identical with the Abys- 

 sinian one, Centr ophthalmitis, found on the eastern and western 

 coasts of Africa, and reaching northwards as far as Algeria, is 

 represented by two species — one from Salisbury, Mashunaland, the 

 other from Uitenhage, Cape Colony. Sognorus, which is spread on 

 Europe, Asia, and America, and has also one representative on the 

 African West Coast, is represented by one new species found in 

 Uitenhage. 



This last-named locality seems to be a connecting point between 

 the South- Western fauna of the Colony and the African one, for 

 there the genus Trimiodytes, which is exclusively South African, and 

 the number of species of which seems to be on the increase, occurs 

 together with Sognorus ; but so far the genus Baffrayia, which has 

 now 26 representatives, and Pselaphocerus which has 6, both of which 

 are so characteristic of the Pselaphid fauna of that part of the world, 

 have not as yet been met there. Port Elizabeth, on the other hand, 

 has 4 species of Baffrayia, 1 Pselaphocerus , 2 Trimiodytes, and 

 1 Fits tiger odes, and seems to have more affinity with the distinct 

 fauna of the peninsula. 



The division of the South African PselaphidcB in two faunas, 

 although so interesting, is not possible yet, and I do not know that 

 it can ever be a very precise one ; there will always be found species 

 which for one reason or other have a very wide area of geographical 

 distribution, and there will always be points where the two faunas 

 will commingle, yet my opinion is that the study of these insects, 

 taken as a whole, will confirm the division in two faunas — one 

 restricted to the South- Western region, and peculiar to it, the other 

 spread on the Northern and Eastern side, and having a close affinity 

 to the general African fauna. 



Tkibe FAKONINL 



Gen. FABONIDIUS, Casey, 



Catal., p. 47. 



Faronidius monilis. 



Moderately elongate, rufous or testaceous, antennae and legs tes- 

 taceous, covered with a rather dense fulvous pubescence ; head very 



