Soutli African Coleopterous Fauna. 279 



tertio quintoque punctis validis 8 vel 10 a basi supra apicem 

 seriatis remotis priBditis. 



Long. 9 mm. ; lat. 3|- mm. 



Hah. Natal (Isipingo). C. N. Barker. 



Hypolithus rivalis, n. sp. 



Niger, nitidus glaber ; antennae flavo testaceae articulis 7-8 supra 

 longitudinaliter infuscatis ; palpi pedesque flavo testacei ; caput 

 impunctatum, labro rufo ferrugineo ; prothorax lateraliter anguste 

 flavo testaceus, modice rotundato arcuatus, basi apice nonnihil 

 angustior lateribus posticis distinctis at baud acutis, longitudine 

 media fere quarto latior, vix convexiusculus, ab apice longe pone 

 medium impunctatus, basi, prsesertim ad latera, creberrime acicu- 

 latus; elytra protborace nonnihil latiora, humeris sub-obliquis, 

 lateribus recta, versus apicem conjunctim rotundato attenuata, 

 striata, interstitiis planis, creberrime punctatis, punctis simplicibus, 

 interstitiis tertio quintoque punctis majoribus seriatis nullis. 



Long. 9f mm. ; lat. 2f mm. 



Allied to H. glaber and H. interstitial is, Boh., but differs in having 

 no rows of deeper punctures on any of the intervals between the 

 elytral strige. 



Hab. Natal (Lower Umkomas). C. N. Barker. 



Hypolithus turbatus, n. sp. 



Niger, nitidus, glaber, elytris leviter micantibus, sutura marginisque 

 lateralibus anguste testaceis; antennae pallide flavo testaceae articulis 

 supra longitudinaliter vix infuscatis ; palpi pedesque pallide flavi ; 

 caput impunctatum, mandibulis labroque rufo testaceis; prothorax 

 subanguste flavo marginatus, longitudine media quarto latior, basi 

 apice latitudine fere baud brevior angulis posticis distinctis at baud 

 acutis, lateribus vix arcuatus, supra deplanatus, in medio leviter 

 canaliculatus, ab apice longe ultra medium levis, impressionibus 

 posticis aciculato punctatis basi ipsa in medio substrigillata ; elytra 

 ut in specie praecedenti, interstitiis planis, ci-ebre simplice punc- 

 tulatis, tertio, quinto septimoque punctis evidentioribus remote 

 seriatis, sutura Hnea testacea a basi ultra medium obliterata. 



Long. 7^ mm. ; lat. 2f mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall. 



Distinguished by the three alternate intervals of each elytron 

 bearing a series of larger, remote punctures, and also by the testa- 



