424 Transactions South African. Pliilosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



is exactly that of Harniogaster, and the three hxtei'al striae are 

 dupHcated. 



Length 6 mm ; width 2^ mm. 



Hccb. Cape Colony (Port EHzabeth), Natal (Dm'ban). 



(Species which I have not been able to identify with certainty.) 



Harmogaster nasuta, Har., 

 Coleopt., Heft, v., 1869, p. 101. 



" Slightly convex, somewhat elongate, little shining, piceous red, 

 margins of prothorax red, elytra fusco-testaceous ; head obsoletely 

 punctulate, clypeus moderately emarginate in front, lobate on each 

 side, genae obtuse ; prothorax deeply punctate, the punctures are 

 elongate on the sides and the posterior angles are rounded ; elytra 

 with striae containing twenty punctures, and intervals alternately 

 plane and carinate, the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth intervals 

 join and form a humeral callus ; under side piceous red, anterior 

 tibiae of male slightly incurved, apical spur incurved. 



Length 4 mm. 



Hab. South Africa. Xobar." 



Harmogaster opacula, Har., 

 Loc. cit., p. 101. 



" Very similar to H. gcminata, but more densely punctate, and 

 with the intervals more raised and less convex. It is very little 

 shining, black, with the elytra sometimes fuscous reddish ; head 

 vere finely and very closely punctate, genae rounded ; prothorax 

 very finely and very closely punctate, and having a longitudinal 

 impressed median line, somewhat indistinct ; elytra crenato-striate, 

 geminate at bottom, but set near enough to one another to appeal- 

 double, intervals broader than the stritB, not much raised, slightly 

 convex, and very finely and densely punctulate ; legs obscure 

 red. 



Length 4^ mm. 



Hah. Cape of Good Hope." 



Gen. TEUCHESTES, Muls., 

 Lamelhc. d. France, 1842, p. 164. 

 Mentum obliquely attenuate laterally from near the base, deeply 



