88 Transactions South African Philosoijhical Societi/. [vol. xii. 



tooth is very small ; prothorax nearly straight laterally, hut rounded 

 towards the apex, marginate in front only, convex, but a little 

 depressed near the anterior angles which are not very sharp, and 

 with a median basal impression ; it is covered with deep foveolate 

 punctures, closely set, and having some scattered whitish sub- 

 decumbent bristles, which occur also partially on the head ; 

 elytra a little longer than broad, convex, somewhat ampliate towards 

 the middle, not very declivous behind, narrowly striate with the 

 edges of the striae carinulate ; the intervals have three irregularly 

 arranged series of foveolate punctures, from which spring a row of 

 white, sub-erect, thick bristles, set at some distance from one 

 another ; the lateral supra-marginal ridge does not begin quite at the 

 base, but is very distinct and runs to a short distance from the 

 rounded posterior part ; pygidium rugosely punctured, sub-arcuate at 

 the base, plane, and set with whitish bristles ; abdominal seg- 

 ments with a series of deep punctures ; metasternum and presternum 

 also very deeply punctured all over ; intermediate and posterior legs 

 nearly smooth, anterior ones closely punctured. 



Length 2-2^ mm ; width 1-J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage), Natal (Frere). 



Odontoloma I'YGiDiALE. n. spec. 



Black, moderately shining ; legs black ; head closely and deeply 

 pitted all over, teeth of the clypeus sharp, but the angle formed by 

 the genae is much more blunt than in the preceding species; the 

 prothorax has the same shape, but it is more broadly pitted ; the 

 elytra are also nearly of the same shape, iDut they are more ampliate 

 laterally at middle, the striae are wider, the intervals are also wider, 

 and have an additional irregular row of punctures, the seriate bristles 

 of the intervals are fewer, and black ; the basal margin of the 

 pygidium is distinctly aculeate in the middle, the median part is 

 raised, and there is a transverse series of black, stiff bristles, the 

 whole pygidium is very finely striate transversely, and the under side 

 is still more deeply punctured than in 0. ])auxillum. 



Length 2-4 mm. ; width li-2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl). 



Odontoloma dentin um, Har., 

 Coleopt., Heft, iv., 1868, p. 80. 

 The description of 0. pygidiale suits this species ; the difference 

 consists in the prothorax having a distinct, raised, smooth line 



