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species, as well as the following one, M. capensis, from all the 
European representatives of the genus, and also, I believe, from all 
the other Metophthalm, except M. exiguus, Woll., from which 
however, it differs by the relative proportion of the third and fourth 
joints of the antenne. 
METOPHTHALMUS CAPENSIS, Bel., 
Annal Soc. Ent. d. Belg., 1898, p. 442. 
Oblongo-ovate, entirely reddish ferruginous; under side, pronotum, 
and lateral margins of the elytra covered with a white chalky sub- 
stance, the same as in the preceding species; head arched in front, 
bare on the upper side, and having two more or less rounded small 
tubercles in the middle; antenne ten-jeinted, rather short, and 
similar in shape to those of M. perimguweyz; pronotum transverse 
and also covered with a white, chalky substance; it is twice broader 
than the head, a little narrower than the elytra, angulate or almost 
rounded at middle laterally, and conspicuously more attenuate in 
the anterior than in the posterior part, the angles of which are 
obtuse ; elytra covered with the chalk-white substance in the same 
manner as IM. peringueyt, distinctly ovate, widest at about middle, 
and having eight longitudinal series of coarse punctures ; the suture 
and alternate intervals are cariniform; the shoulders are not de- 
pressed, but a little obtusely angular. Length 1-1:2 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town, Muizenberg, 
at the foot of liiaceous plants in sandy dunes). 
Very closely allied to M. peringueyr, owing to the peculiar shape 
of the antenns and the chalky-white vestiture. Jam satisfied that 
it is quite distinct from the latter on account of the shape of the 
elytra, which is oval, not parallel. 
Gren. LATHRIDIUS, Herbst, 
Kafer, v., 1793, p. 3. 
Body ovate, more or less convex ; antenne eleven-jointed, inserted 
upwards at the anterior angle of the forehead, club formed by the 
two or three ultimate joints ; eyes rounded, rather large, and lateral ; 
thorax very uneven, sinuate laterally, and having in the middle two 
longitudinal cost; scutellum distinct, transverse; elytra ovate, free, 
striato-punctate. 
