1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 887 



Eabula maequeza, n. spec. 



Female : Dark chestnut-brown ; clypeus straight laterally and in 

 front, but broadly rounded on each side, very deeply hollowed, 

 with the margins slightly reflexed, and divided from the head by a 

 distinct raised line, it is granulose, l)ut the head is finely punctured ; 

 prothorax very obliquely attenuate laterally from the anterior to the 

 median part, ampliated and rounded thence to the base, very finely 

 punctulate, without any traces of larger punctures, and having some 

 appressed squamulose hairs short and not set close to each other ; 

 scutellum with a few squamose hairs ; elytra a little broader at the 

 base than the base of the prothorax, but not broader than the latter 

 at its widest part, a little ampliated from the shoulder to the apex, 

 modei'ately convex, plainly tri-costate on each side, the suture 

 is a little raised, the two intermediate spaces between the suture 

 and the second costa are also slightly raised in the centre, they 

 are very coriaceous, and moderately densely clothed with small, 

 not closely set squamulose greyish scales ; the hind tibiae have a 

 small, apical spur, and the double but unequal claws of the anterior 

 and intermediate legs are strongly diverging. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Lourencjo-Marquez). 



CONGELLA, n. gen. 



Mentum broadly grooved longitudinally in the anterior face, ovate 

 laterally and very plainly attenuated towards the apex where it 

 expands, the angles are rounded, not penicillate, and the apical 

 part is somewhat broadly sinuate, maxillae robust, moderately 

 elongated, inner lobe indistinct but ending into a sharp tooth, upper 

 lobe horny, short not penicillate at the apex, concave and armed 

 inw^ardly with six sharp, powerful teeth, apical joints of the labial 

 and maxillary palpi elongated, fusiform ; clypeus short, nearly para- 

 bolic but a little obtuse in the median anterior part, not plainly 

 separated from the head by a suture : antennge ten-jointed, basal 

 joint gradually thickened from base to apex and as long as the seven 

 following joints taken together, second joint strongly moniliform, the 

 other four conical and of nearly equal length, seventh aculeate under- 

 neath, the three-jointed club moderately small, elongato-ovate ; eyes 

 large, deeply divided by the canthus of the genae, prothorax short 

 but broad, rounded laterally, base not arcuate but slightly bi- 

 sinuate ; scutellum short, ogival ; elytra broader than the prothorax, 

 sub-parallel, a little convex in the dorsal part, slightly callose on each 

 side near the apex, not sinuate nor attenuate laterally, covering the 



