South African Coleopterous Fauna. 205 



GAZANUS ELEGANS, n. sp. 



Bronze black, very shiny ; the palpi, the three basal joints of 

 antennae and the legs are pale flavescent, but the anterior part of 

 the femora and the tarsi are infuscate ; head deeply impressed 

 longitudinally along the antennal ridge, impunctate on the centre 

 and neck ; prothorax strongly cordate with the outer margins plainly 

 reflexed, especially the part forming the basal angle which is very 

 acute, the median part of the disk is somewhat convex and hardly 

 punctate, but the depressed lateral, anterior and posterior parts are 

 sub-foveolato punctate, the basal part is especially rugose ; scutellum 

 punctate ; elytra oblong, moderately sinuate in the posterior part, 

 narrowly striate, the striae extremely closely punctate, intervals 

 plane and having each a row of elongated punctures separated from 

 each other by a space nearly equal to their own diameter, and 

 bearing each a somewhat long, erect black hair ; underside glabrous 

 like the head and prothorax ; the three basal joints of the anterior 

 tarsi are not grooved laterally, but the posterior ones are. 



Length 9-94- mm. ; w r idth 3-3^ mm. 



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



FAMILY PAUSSID^E. 



GEN. HYLOTOBUS, Dalm. 

 HYLOTORUS SEBAKUANUS, n. sp. 



Reddish-brown, moderately shining ; head as broad as long, highly 

 convex in the anterior part, and having there a deep triangular 

 impression continued into a longitudinal sulcus reaching to beyond 

 the raised part behind the ocelli, which are very minute, the head is 

 plainly angular laterally and the eyes have a very prominent keel 

 underneath, the antennae are strongly cultriforrn and as long as the 

 head which is not narrowed behind the eyes ; prothorax only 

 slightly longer than the head, very deeply constricted laterally, 

 being really bi-partite, and deeply, although narrowly, excavated, the 

 anterior part is sub-cylindrical, and very much more raised than the 

 posterior, which is excavated in the manner of many species of 

 Paussus and faintlj* tuberculate laterally ; elytra sub-parallel, slightly 

 wider at the truncate apex than across the base, faintly aciculate and 

 glabrous ; femora swollen, tibiae broadly dilated. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 1|- mm. 



This species is at once distinguished from H. hottentotus, Westw., 



