South African Coleopterous Fauna. 187 



TRIBE PANAG^EINI. 



GEN. CEASPEDOPHOEUS, Hope. 

 CRASPEDOPHORUS LATICOLLIS, n. sp. 



Black, covered on the upper side with a sub-fulvescent, dense 

 pubescence ; head very rugose ; prothorax three times as wide as 

 the head, broadly dilated from the anterior angle, gradually ampliated 

 and rounded to about three-fourths of the length, where it is deeply 

 notched, straight thence, and notched again above the basal angle 

 which does not project beyond the top part of the incision, the outer 

 margins are strongly reflexed, the base is slightly wider than the 

 apex, it is covered with almost contiguous foveate punctures sepa- 

 rated by slightly raised walls, and the two basal impressions appear 

 very deep owing to the strongly reflexed outer margins ; elytra only 

 slightly broader at the base than the prothorax at its widest part, 

 sub-parallel, punctato-striate with the intervals moderately convex 

 but sub-tectiform in the anterior part, and having on each side two 

 pale-yellow patches, the first one consists of four very short bands 

 set on the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth intervals, the two outer 

 ones are slightly longer than the two inner, and their base is on a 

 level with the anterior part of the latter, the posterior patch consists 

 of five coalescing bands extending from the third to the eighth stria, 

 the median band projecting for half its length beyond the anterior 

 margin of the patch and being proportionally shorter in the pos- 

 terior; epipleural fold and abdomen piuictate, pectus foveate-punctate, 

 the whole under side pubescent, ventral segments not crenulated on 

 their front margin. 



This species will be easily recognised by the extremely broad 

 prothorax. 



Length 16 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong. 



CRASPEDOPHORUS MERUS, n. sp. 



Black, shining; head rugose; prothorax twice as broad as the 

 head, dilated from the rounded anterior angle, gradually ampliated 

 and rounded to nearly three-fourths of the length where it is 

 broadest, deeply sinuate there but not notched, nearly straight 

 thence and slightly notched at the base the angle of which projects 

 visibly, it is strongly scrobiculate, the outer margins are strongly 

 reflexed, and the base is slightly wider than the apex ; elytra oblong, 

 punctate-striate with the intervals convex, tectiform, very closely 



