118 Trmisactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 



it agrees except in the structure of the meso- and meta-sternum. 

 Owing to the wide separation of the intermediate coxae, the inter- 

 coxal process of the raesosternum is slightly broader than the coxae, 

 being broadly truncate posteriorly and without any trace of a median 

 tubercle. Similarly the intercoxal process of the metasternum is 

 very broadly truncate, instead of being acuminate, as in Brotheus. 



1. EURYXENA BEUCHOIDES, PaSC. 



E. bruchoides, Pasc, Trans. Ent. Soc. L., 1887, p. 338, pi. xi., 

 fig. 1. 



Long. 4f-5| ; lat. 4-4^ mm. 



Colour black, the thorax and the elevations on the elytra with 

 earthy- brown scaling, the two median basal tubercles on the elytra 

 dull red. 



Head rugose, impressed in the middle and with a prominence 

 above each eye. JRostrmn separated from head by a deep angulated 

 incision, very deeply and rugosely punctured throughout. Prothorax 

 slightly transverse, its sides scarcely rounded, broadest near base 

 and narrowed anteriorly, the basal part very abruptly narrowed 

 laterally and depressed dorsally for the reception of the projecting 

 basal tubercles of the elytra, the dorsal anterior lobe slightly sinuate 

 in the middle ; upper surface rugosely tuberculate, with a high 

 lateral costa on each side and with a deep oblique furrow adjoining 

 it, the depressed basal portion almost smooth. Elytra broader than 

 long, the basal margin deeply sinuate and with four large tubercles 

 projecting over the base of the prothorax, shoulders very broad and 

 with a rounded lateral dilatation, the sides gently sinuate about the 

 middle and almost as broad at the declivity as at the shoulders, the 

 declivity very abrupt and subangulate dorsally ; upper surface quite 

 plane as far as the dorsal margin (equivalent to the 6th interval), 

 with close irregular shallow punctures, each elytron with a fine 

 strongly bisinuate carina terminating at the declivity, the suture 

 itself very narrowly carinate to beyond the middle ; the dorsal 

 margin carinate to the summit of the declivity and bearing in the 

 type a row of small tubercles, which are absent in the other 

 specimen ; the declivity with a straight juxta-sutural carina, bearing 

 a row of small faint tubercles. Legs with dense brown scaling and 

 rather long pale setae. 



Cape Colony : Malmesbury. 



Type in the British Museum. 



In addition to the type I have seen only two other specimens 

 of this curious species, one being at Oxford and the other in the 

 South African Museum. 



