1900.] Cataloijuc of tJic Ci^lcoptcm of Soiitlt. Africa. 91 



and having a very tine, sometimes indistinct, median raised line 

 slightly depressed, however, at the base, the outer sides are sub- 

 diagonally attenuate in the anterior part, but the apical angle is not 

 very sharp ; elytra as broad past the shoulders as the prothorax at 

 its widest part, a little rounded latei-ally past the middle, somewhat 

 depressed, narrowly striate, striic simple, intervals raised, sub- 

 tectiform and moderately deeply punctured ; under a high power the 

 punctures are seen to be'ar a very n^inute white liair ; the seventh 

 interval is higher and more tectiform than the others ; pygidium 

 very finely aciculate and moderately deeply punctured ; abdominal 

 segments, femora, and metasternum very closely and deeply 

 punctured, the latter has a faint, median longitudinal impressed 

 line ; posterior tibiae sharply crenulate inwardly in the male. 



Female unknown. 



Length 11^ mm. ; width « mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Knysna). 



Epieinus validus, n. spec. 



Black, opaque ; head and prothorax similar in shape and sculpture 

 to E. siilcipennis ; elytra a little ampliate laterall}- behind the 

 shoulders and a little broader there than the prothorax at its widest 

 part, somewhat plane, but slightly gibbose past the middle along 

 the suture, narrowly striate, with the walls of the striae not suffi- 

 ciently sharp to make it appear geminate, and the intervals are 

 plane and have each four irregular series of minute, glabrous, shining 

 granules ; the pygidium is also granulose, and the femora and 

 under side are as deeply punctured as in E. sulcipennis ; the meta- 

 sternum has also a faint, median longitudinal impressed line, and 

 the posterior tibiae are very sharply crenulate inwardly in the male. 



Female unknown. 



Length 13 mm. ; width 8-9^- mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



Epieinus scabkatus, Fabr., 

 Ent. Syst. Append., p. 436. 

 E. fiagellatui;, Fabr., Spec. Ins., i., p. 32. 

 E. grannlatiis, Oliv., Ent., 1, 3, p. 167, pi. 8, tig. 67. 

 Dull black on head and prothorax, tubercles on the elytra very 

 shining ; clypeus broadly emarginate in the anterior part, and with 

 the angles of the emargination produced in a distinct, slightly 

 recui-ved tooth, and slightly sinuate on each side of the recurved 



