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1900.] Calalo.jne of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 457 



.houlder at sonie distance fron. it, and slightly ampliated frona there 

 it has on each side along the sutural part four very distmct coste^ 

 the three outer ones of which are transversely interrupted at equa 

 distances, and the intervals are filled ^vith two rows of foveas divided 

 by a very slightly raised median line, the outer margin is not 

 serrate, and the humeral part is very oblique ; the pix^sternum does 

 not project at apex; the two apical spines of the anterior tibia, a e 

 divided by a distinct sinuation, there is no basal tooth and no 

 serration above it, the intermediate and posterior tibi^ are not very 

 distinctly carinate, and the carina are stifEy bristly, but not dentate , 

 wnngs under the elytra. 



Length Qh-7h mm. ; width 3i-3f mm. , -t i 



The .hape "of the genital armature of the male is stnkmgly 

 different from that of the other South African species 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch Malmesbury 

 Worcester, Kimberley, Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, Somerset East). 



Trox (?Phoberus) talpa, Fahr., 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 380. 



"Obloncr, little dilated behind; prothorax narrowed in front, and 

 ^vith the sides nearly straight in the anterior part, obtusely rounded 

 at middle slightly sinuate before the posterior angles which are 

 somewhat acute, dorsal furrow narrow, and obtusely cristate; elytra 

 not serrate along the outer margin with the exception of a few apical 

 tubercles, the margin being densely setose ; on each side are four 

 narrow costal briefly penicillate with squamules, and not mterrupted, 

 the intervals are filled with sub-quadrate punctures with transverse 

 walls ; antenna. ferrugin<5us ; anterior tibia, obsoletely denticulate 

 above the basal tooth." 



Length 11-11* mm. 



Hab Neighbourhood of the Orange River. 



I have seen only Fahrceus' type. The species is evidently allied 

 to T. rhyparoides, but is easily recognised by the non-mterrupted, 

 sharp costse of the elytra. 



Trox (Phoberus) fascicularis, Wied., 

 Plate XXXIX., fig 13. 

 Germ. Magaz., iv., 1821, p. 129. 

 Black, opaque; head roughly punctulate, and having two trans- 

 verse squamulose carina, united in the centre by a longitudinal one, 



