828 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 

 Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



MiTEOPHOBUS MOKio, Buim., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 478. 



" Black, strongly punctate, briefly setose, elytra fuscous. 



Length 3 lin. S • 



From Kaffirland. 



Somewhat smaller than M. atcuchoides, but similarly shaped, 

 black, little shining, without scales, transversely scabroso-punctate 

 all over, and having a black flat bristle in each puncture, those along 

 the margin are longer, broader, and project like cilia ; anterior 

 margin of clypeus with two blunt notches and rounded angles ; 

 anterior tibiae with three strong, blunt teeth, all the tarsi with two 

 claws, the largest claw of the intermediate legs with a strong tooth 

 at the base, and cleft, the smaller claw very closely pressed against 

 the larger, and also cleft, hindermost claws similarly formed, except 

 that the larger one is without the tooth." 



I have not seen this species. 



Gen. MONOCHELUS, Serv., 

 Encyclop. Method, x., 1825, p. 375. 



Mentum short, or moderately short, ampliated laterally towards the 

 median part, very strongly constricted towards the apex, the angles 

 of which are rounded but project greatly, the apex is deeply emar- 

 ginate, and is not penicillate laterally ; maxillary lobe short, robust, 

 not penicillate at the tip, more or less deeply concave and having 

 three or four robust hooked inner teeth, the basal one of which is 

 sometimes trifid (J/, calcaratus), or even quadrifid (3/. aurantiacus, 

 glaherrivius, &c.) ; last joint of labial and maxillary palpi somewhat 

 short, fusiform but very swollen at the base, and truncate at the 

 tip ; clypeus sub-parallel, truncate at tip, or slightly attenuate laterally 

 with the angles rounded ; antennae nine-jointed, club similar in both 

 sexes ; pro thorax moderately convex, somewhat obliquely attenuated 

 laterally in the anterior part and straight in the posterior, or a little 

 ampliate in the median part ; scutellum sub-ogival or ogival, some- 

 what short ; elytra narrowed laterally towards the apex, distinctly 

 sinuate past the humeral part, and leaving the edge of the dorsal 

 abdominal segments uncovered, they are never strongly costate, as 

 often as not non-costulate, and the humeral callus is always distinct 

 and has a more or less shallow depression on each side ; propy- 



