1944 ] Three New African Species of Mordellid Beetles 11 
lary palpi enlarged, slender, two and one-half times as long as 
broad, with the form of a scalene triangle, outer edge straight, 
other margins and angles rounded, broadest at a postmedian 
point. 
Pronotum as long as broad (1 mm.), sides and angles broadly 
rounded, basal angles obtuse, base arcuate, midbasal lobe short, 
subtruncate. 
Elytra two and seven-tenths times as long as broad (2.7 X 1 
mm.), sides subparallel on basal half, thence distinctly curved 
to apex, apices individually rounded. Anterior and intermediate 
tarsi longer than their tibiae. Posterior tibiae with three strong, 
equal ridges (excluding subapical one) ; basitarsi with three (one 
specimen with a rudimentary fourth), second segment with two 
oblique ridges. Anal style moderately long, attenuate, subtrun- 
cate at apex, two and one-third times length of apical ventral 
segment (1.4 X 0.6 mm.). 
Length: to apices of elytra, 3.7 mm.; to tip of anal style, 
5.1 mm. 
Two specimens: Type from Plain below J. Kaboija, J, Midob, 
N. E. Darfur, August 7, 1930, on leaves and flowers of large suc- 
culent grasses; paratype from N. E. Darfur, August 5-13, 1930 
(Michelmore) . 
This species may be separated from its closest ally, atriventris 
Pic (Rev. zool. bot. afr. 21, 1931, p. 47), by the flavocastaneous 
head, the black elytra, the flavocinereous pubescence, the uni- 
colored legs, the shorter anal style and the larger size. The short 
description of atriventris indicates that the posterior tarsi of his 
type specimen may be missing. Other differences probably exist, 
but Pic’s short description deals chiefly with color — the antennae 
and maxillary palpi are not mentioned. 
