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apical joints or the ultimate one forming an ovate, rather stout club ; 
eyes rather small and situated above the lateral margin of the hind 
part of the head; thorax uneven and with two dorsal interrupted 
median coste; scutellum indistinct; elytra soldered, coarsely punc- 
tato-striate. 
Key to the Species. 
Elytra darker, pitchy black, elongate, parallel from the base to 
two-thirds of the length; thorax reddish ferruginous.. .. .. .. peringueyt. 
Elytra and prothorax reddish ferruginous, distinctly ovate, ond at 
them widest aabout the middle) i.e. 4. 4 ssa e se be 6  Capenses. 
METOPHTHALMUS PERINGUEYI, Bel., 
Annal. Soc. Ent. Belg., 1898, p. 441. 
Hlongato-ovate; head and thorax reddish ferruginous, elytra darker, 
piceous black; under side, pronotum and lateral margins of the 
elytra covered with a white, chalk-like substance; head arched in 
front, bare on the upper side, and with two more or less oblong 
rounded tubercles in the centre; antenne ten-jointed, rather short, 
third joint minute, transverse, fourth conspicuously elongate, fifth and 
following ones a little shorter than the fourth or hardly longer than 
broad, ninth transverse, sub-globose, not fitting against the tenth, 
which is abruptly wider, three times as long, and alone forming 
the club; prothorax transverse, covered on the upper side with a 
white chalky pulverulence except on the lateral margins, which are 
narrowly denuded, likewise the dorsal costs, the basal tubercles and 
the intermediate area; it is twice as wide as the head, a little more 
attenuate in front than behind; the lateral margins about the middle 
are sub-angular or rounded, and the posterior angles are obtuse ; 
elytra elongate, parallel from the base to two-thirds of the length, 
and from there ovate, not wider than the thorax, and having eight 
deep and very coarse longitudinal series of punctures; the suture 
and alternate intervals are raised and form conspicuous cost ; the 
shoulders are not depressed, but obtusely angular, and are covered 
with a narrow strip of chalky-white pulverulence, the lateral interval 
is covered in the like manner for two-thirds of the length. Length 
1-1:2 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town, Devil’s Peak). 
I have seen two examples, which are perhaps male and female, 
because they differ in the outline of the lateral margin of the thorax, 
the one being sub-angular, the other somewhat evenly rounded. 
The antennal single-jointed club differentiates this pretty little 
