242 Annals q/ the South African Museum. 



wide, round punctures separated by a narrow, slightly wavy interval, 

 not impressed on the disk or sides, very little convex, and with the 

 sides plainly depressed ; elytra short, not twice as long as the 

 prothorax, strongly declivous behind, not drawn inwardly at the 

 apex, shoulders moderately sharp and projecting slightly beyond the 

 acute straight basal angle, only very slightly wider towards the 

 declivous part than across the base, and having on each side eight 

 sub-tectiform granulose costse which are more raised than the suture, 

 the second, fourth, and sixth are somewhat more raised than the 

 intervening ones, the intervals are also finely granulose ; under side 

 strongly striated longitudinally; legs sub-scabrose-punctate ; anterior 

 tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, simple inwardly, intermediate ones with 

 a sub-median angular tooth on each side of the upper groove. 



Length 18 mm. ; w r idth 10 mm. 



A close ally of A. turpis, Per., and A. plcbeius, Per., but easily 

 distinguished from both these species by the simple anterior tibiae ; 

 in A. turpis the intermediate ones are simple but arcuate, whereas 

 in A. liypocrita, they are simple also but not plainly arcuate, and 

 lastly the genital armature of the male differs from that of the two 

 species above mentioned. 



Hob. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



TEIBE COSSYPHIXI. 



GEN. ENDUSTOMUS, Brem. 

 ENDUSTOMUS RHODESIANUS, n. sp. 



Light brown with the dilated parts paler and spotted with 

 numerous dark dots ; prothorax truncate in the centre in front, 

 and sloping obliquely thence towards the sides, which are quite 

 parallel, slightly narrower at the base than across the anterior part, 

 sharply carinate longitudinally in the centre, having an arcuate 

 impression on each side of the convex part, and two or three 

 diagonal sulci on each side of the anterior, the whole surface is very 

 closely pitted; elytra projecting at the base beyond the angles of 

 the prothorax, straight thence for three-fourths of the length, deeply 

 notched on each side at apex, and plainly sinuate at the base, the 

 suture is very sharp, and there is a sharp median dorsal keel 

 reaching from the base to three-fourths of the length, and on each 

 side of it a series of small asy metric tubercles some of which 

 coalesce, the inner series reaches as far as the reflexed posterior 



