1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 883 



Nanaga elegans, n. spec. 



Male : Black, opaque on the upper side, slightly metallic under- 

 neath and on the legs, prothorax and elytra closely and distinctly 

 shagreened, head and clypeus strongly scabrose ; antennas also 

 black but with the club slightly rufescent ; prothorax clothed with a 

 very long, ashy-grey, erect pubescence ; scutellum pubescent ; elytra 

 very briefly pubescent, the pubescence is sub-erect and silky, greyish 

 white and a little more abundant along the suture, the base is 

 setulose ; pygidial part, abdomen, and pectus clothed with a greyish- 

 white pubescence ; hind femora somewhat robust, hind tibise shorter 

 than the femora, dilated at the apex, and having a long apical 

 spur ; all the claws are double and unequal, the shorter one being 

 about three-fourths of the length of the other, which is cleft, 

 but in the intermediate legs only is the shorter one slightly 

 cleft. 



Female unknown. 



Length 5|-6 mm. ; width 2^^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). 



Gen. CYLICHNUS, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 171. 



Mentum slightly longer than broad but very broadly ovate, 

 gradually narrowed at the apex where it is distinctly tri-dentate and 

 not penicillate, the maxillge are short, very robust, concave at apex 

 and armed there with four very strong teeth the upper one of which 

 is deeply bifid ; joints of labial palpi short, robust, apical one elon- 

 gate, ovate, last joint of the maxillary nearly as long as the two 

 preceding, fusiform outwardly only ; clypeus transverse, slightly 

 concave with the anterior margin reflexed, nearly straight at apex 

 and with the outer angles slightly rounded ; eyes veiy large ; 

 antennae nine-jointed, club long, flabellate ; prothorax nearly twice 

 as broad as long, obliquely attenuate laterally towards the anterior 

 part for more than half the length, bi-sinuate along the base ; elytra 

 a little longer than the prothorax, not sinuate or attenuate laterally 

 towards the apex, and not very convex ; pygidium sub-vertical in the 

 male, more horizontal in the female ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate out- 

 wardly, the two lower teeth are set very close to the apex, the basal 

 one is broadly separated from the others, the intermediate one is set at 

 right angles with the tibia, and there is no apical spur ; the posterior 

 tibiae are compressed, distinctly bi-carinate on the upper side, and the 

 carinas are serrulate ; all the claws are double and unequal, but the 



