506 Transactio}is SoittJt African rhilosopJiical Socicti/. [vol. xii. 



and has a median, longitudinal groove which is more distinct in the 

 posterior than in the anterior part ; scutellum sharply ogival, granu- 

 lose ; elytra striate, striae deeply and broadly punctate, intervals 

 with a double series of small granules, and slightly convex ; epipleura 

 also gi'anulose ; under side densely pubescent, moderately shining, 

 legs almost impunctate, all femora dentate underneath at apex, the 

 tooth being stronger in the posterior ones. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Rab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). 



(The following genus and species are unknown to me. I have not 

 been able to find the locality " Sissanto " in South Africa, and it is 

 thus possible that it is north of the South African area.) 



Gex. DEEPANOGNATHUS, Lausb., 

 Notes from the Leyden Museum, vol. viii., 1886, p. 92. 



" There is in the Leyden Museum a curious small Orphnid beetle,, 

 remarkable owing to its depressed facies and its short clj'peus. It 

 cannot be interpolated in any of the known genera, and must form a 

 new one, the distinctive characters of which are as follows : — 



Antenute ten-jointed, basal joint very long, clava lenticular ; clypeus 

 very short ; labrum uncovered, horny, broadly emarginate, rounded 

 laterally and bearing long seta3 ; mandibles robust, projecting much 

 beyond the head, rounded outwardly, falciform, and enclosing an 

 empty space ; maxilUe horny ; mentum moderately elongate, ligula 

 sinuate at tip ; labial palpi short ; apical joint of maxillary palpi 

 very long and fusiform ; coxjb oblique, contiguous at the base ; 

 abdominal segments mobile, but not entirely free ; legs of Orj)hnus, 

 apical spurs of posterior tibiae very long. Facies of a Hydi'ophilid 

 l)eetle." 



DrepaxoCtXAThus maxdibularis, Lansb., 

 Loc. cit., p. 92. 

 " Oblongo-ovate, plane, very shining, black on the upper side, with 

 I lie lateral part of the clypeus and of the elytra somewhat trans- 

 parent brown, brown also beneath, abdomen testaceo-fulvous ; sides 

 of the prothorax, legs and pectus fringed with long, stiff hau-s ; head 

 smooth, transversely impressed in the centre, clj^eus very short, 

 straight in front, not refiexed ; eyes very large, no genae ; prothorax 

 reflexed at base, covered with big, remote punctures less numerous 



