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1900.] Catalogue of the Cokoptera of South Africa. 461 



elbow, intermediate and posterior tibiic stiffly- bristly, not dentate ; 

 no wings under the elytra. 



Ijength 15-20 mm; width 9-13 nun. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester, 

 Beaufort West, Malmesbury, Namaqualand). 



While the species obtained from the neighbourhood of Cape Town 

 usually have the bristles and fascicles of hairs black, and very little 

 squamosity on the prothorax, a very large female example received 

 from Garies, Namaqualand, has the prothorax densely squamose, the 

 fascicles of hairs on the elytra are somewhat flavescent, and the 

 elytra a little more ampliate laterally. 



In the figure of the genital armature the outer branch of the 

 forceps has the point turned outwardly; this is a mistake, the apical 

 part should bend downwards. 



Tkox (Phobekus) aculeatus, Har., 

 Monogr., Coleopt. Heft, ix., x., 1872, p. 37. 



"Very closely allied to the preceding species, from which it differs- 

 by the smaller size, the entirely black antennte, the walls of the 

 median furrow^ of the prothorax which are divided at base while the 

 lateral ones are bi-partite ; the elytra a,re narrower than the pro- 

 thorax, oblongo-ovate, there is no alternate tuberculate costa?, and 

 the intervals are filled with deeper, excavate foveas separated by 

 transverse folds ; mesosternum carinate." 



Length 14 mm. 



I have only seen the type of this species in Harold's collection, 

 and it is so closely allied to T. horridus that at the time I noted it 

 down as being thg same species. 



Hah. Caffraria. 



Teox penicillatus, Frdn'., 



Plate XXXIX., fig. 12. 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 883. 



Black, opaque, but with the tufts or hairs and squama? flavescent ; 

 head ruo'vilose, clypeus triangular but not quite acuminate at tip ; the 

 frontal transverse carinae are somewhat arcuate, and the median 

 lono-itudinal carina is more in the shape of a tubercle; prothorax 

 arcuate laterally in the anterior part, not serrate, densely ciliate all 



