1900.] C((laJo(/iic of the Colcoptera of SoiiiJi. Africa. 95 



latGi'ally in the anterior pail, niodei'ately convex, and having a 

 distinct median longitudinal impressed line at a short distance 

 from the base, closely shagreened and covered, like the head, with 

 lialf-decumhent, dense greyish hairs ; elytra as broad behind the 

 shoulders as the prothorax at its widest part, not ampliate laterally, 

 moderately convex, distinctly punctato-striate with the striae 

 geminate, and the intervals not (i|uite plane, sub-rugose and having 

 each two series of stiff, curved hairs set close to one another and 

 very distinct ; pygidium and metasternum also hairy, the latter is 

 very deeply pitted in the middle, and is not callose towards the 

 apex ; posterior tibiae not serrulate inwardly. 



Length 5 mm. ; width S^ mm. 



I have seen only one example of this hirsute species ; the striie 

 are much more broadly punctured than in the other. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). 



Gen. EPILISSUS, Eeiche., 



Eev. Zoolog., 1841, p. 212. 



Nanos, Westw., Trans. Lond. Ent. Soc, 1847, p. 228. 



Mentum rounded laterally, attenuate diagonally towards the apex, 

 broadly and deeply emarginate at tip, marginate laterally ; labial 

 palpi with a very distinct palpiger nearly as long as the first, 

 or basal joint which is nearly three times as long as broad, second 

 joint in the shape of an inverted cone, and shorter than the 

 first by half, third somewhat spindle-shape, but not sharp at tip 

 and inserted in the centre of the preceding one ; lobes of the 

 ligula somewhat broad, a little shorter than the palpi and slightly 

 curving inwardly at tip ; maxillae long, moderately thick, nearly 

 truncate at tip, upper lobe moderately broad, first joint of maxillary 

 palpi short, second club-shaped, as long as the third which is much 

 less swollen, fourth not quite twice as long as the preceding one, 

 fusiform but not sharp at tip, and slightly grooved at the base out-, 

 wardly ; antennae nine-jointed, second joint thick, nearly twice as 

 long as broad, clava large, first and second joints of club, hardly 

 convex ; clypeus of head recurved slightly, deeply emarginate at tip 

 and with the angles of the emargination produced in a sharp, re- 

 curved tooth ; beyond this tooth there is a smaller one at no great 

 distance from it, but the genae are in a line with the lateral part in 

 the South African species of the genus, and there is no trace of 

 suture on the upper side ; the upper part of the eye is smaller than 

 that beneath, but is very distinct ; prothorax deeply emarginate in 



