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the anterior part and rounded or truncate; the oval elytra, which are 
not much elongate, are glabrous, coarsely punctato-striate, with the 
punctures impinging transversely over the intervals which are raised 
in rounded coste, at least near the base; the punctuation of the first 
abdominal segment is fine and very dense, but coarse and denser 
on the metasternum; the post-coxal foveole have sharply plicate 
margins; the colour is often testaceous, or turns partly to brown 
and to black, while the antenne and legs are ferruginous ; the basal 
joint of the antennal club is not thicker at the base than the apical 
part of the eighth joint. Length 1:2-1:-4 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town and neighbourhood, Stellen- 
bosch). 
I am satisfied that two examples captured at Stellenbosch by Mr. 
Péringuey belong to this cosmopolitan species. They have the same 
colour and the other insignificant characters given by Motschulsky 
to differentiate his Permidius flavicorms and P. basalis ; but although 
the South African specimens do not agree absolutely with the 
description of the two alleged species, they have on the upper and 
under side the distinctive characters of the Huropean H. minutus. 
GEN. CARTODERA, Thoms., 
Skand. Col., v., p. 219. 
Body elongate, narrow, and more or less depressed; antenne 
eleven-jointed, inserted upwards at the anterior angle of the forehead, 
often remotely from the eyes, which are small and lateral, the two 
or three apical joints forming an elongate, not much dilated club; 
thorax even, more or less rugosely punctate, without longitudinal 
costa on the disc, and usually without foveole; scutellum puncti- 
form, hardly distinct; elytra free, elliptical or linear, striato-punctate, 
and having narrow interstices; anterior coxe hardly divided by the 
narrow prosternum, and sometimes contiguous. 
CARTODERA WATSONI, Woll., 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 253. 
C. bi-costata, Reit., Verh. K. K. Zool. Bot. Gess. Wien, 1877, 
p. 183. 
C. godartt, Bel., Ann. Soc. Lin. Lyon., 1881, p. 147. 
This remarkable and most elegant minute insect is distinguished 
at first sight owing to its very elongate head, oval thorax and bi- 
