1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptem of South Africa. 555 



gidium; pygidium of the female produced into the middle into a 

 Lspic^o'/s? transverse rounded ledge, overhanging an ap^.U ong. 

 tudinal impression; legs and tarsi as n. the female of Synchthus. 



Sybichthomoephus termitophilus, w.S^c. 



Female- Piceous or chestnut-brown, shining, densely hut briefly 

 fringed with fulvous hairs along the margin of the prothorax and 

 hat of the elytra to about the median part of the latter; W 

 scrobiculate, clypeus very sharply reflexed at apex gen. d.stmct 

 somewhat triangular, the anterior part of the head owmg to^ the 

 reflexed anterior part of the clypeus is concave, and past the fror^^a^ 

 r^art there is a very short, median transverse carma , piothoiax 



part with nearly conHuent, rugose fovese, and with round foveate 

 rulures behind, in the anterior margin there is a distinct shaiT,, 

 Ldian tubercle, and at a short distance ron, i begins a ong. 

 tndinal very deep groove, reaching nearly to the base, elytra 

 onv^; el^eciaUy behind, a httle ampliate laterally from about the 

 Llian part and covered with round, small, cicatncose punctures; 

 the stiJare also punctate but moderately distinct, and have a smgle 

 series, often worn olf, ot remotely distant fulvous long setse ; pio- 

 pygidium seabrose, without trace of stridulating organs and brietty 

 Bubescent; pygidium with the upper part produced into a romrded 

 conv X ledge overhanging the lower half in the median part of which 

 there is a longitudinal impression divided into two by a median, 

 also longitudinal carina; abdomen nearly glabrous; sternum densely 



villose. 



Male unknown. 



Length 18-26 mm. ; width 9^-13 mm. 



Hah Transvaal (Boksburg, Lydenburg). 



This species seems to have the same habits as Pseudocjphomstes 

 corniculatus. Mr. Harold Fry has found it with numerous larvae 

 on the underground sides of a small mound of Termes tnnervius, 

 Eamb., *n which they had made quite an excavation; they were 

 feeding on the nest itself. 



PSEUDOSYEICHTHUS, n. gen. 

 Mentum in the shape of a very elongate triangle with the apical 

 part deeply incised triangularly for nearly all the width diagonally 

 impressed on each side of the base, but not carinate, ligular part 



