1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 501 



gibbose part of the pygidium very highly carinate longitudinally ; 

 median part of abdomen alone glabrous ; mesosternal process com- 

 paratively broad, truncate at apex ; in the male the apex of the 

 anterior tibias is very sharp, whereas in the female it is obtuse and 

 obliquely truncate. 



Length 8-10 mm. ; width 4-5 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban, Pine Town, Maritzburg) ; Transvaal 

 (Potchefstroom, Pretoria, Waterval, Lydenburg, Eustenburg) ; 

 Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury) ; Zanzibar mainland. 



Cymophoeus (Clydonophoeus) inteusus, Blanch., 



Coll. Mus. Par., 1850, p. 43 ; 



Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 18, pi. viii., fig. 7. 



Black, moderately shiny, antennal club rufescent ; clypeus with 

 the median part of the anterior margin somewhat reflexed, but not 

 denticulate ; head and prothorax deeply and very closely punctate, 

 each puncture bearing a greyish or flavescent appressed scale which 

 is easily rubbed off; the prothorax is of the same shape as in 

 C. undatus, but the base is slightly arcuate above the scutellum, 

 which is sparingly scaly ; the elytra are much less closely punctate, 

 the punctures are wider and bear each only a minute greyish scale, 

 and they have on each side a minute white juxta-sutural dot at 

 about the median part, and three white patches, one small, dorsal, 

 transverse, set slightly past the middle, another and wider juxta- 

 sutural one at the apex, and a third on the outer margin of the 

 posterior part ; pygidium with one or two large macules on each 

 side ; sides of abdomen and pectus moderately, inner part of legs 

 densely squamulose hairy ; in the female the apical part of the 

 anterior tibiae is blunter than in the male. 



Length 7^-11 mm. ; width 4-6 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Maritzburg) ; Transvaal (Zoutpansberg) ; Southern 

 Ehodesia (Sebakwe, Gwelo, Enkeldoorn, Salisbury) ; Mozambique 

 (Eikatla) ; British and German East Africa ; Abyssinia. 



Cymophoeus maegaeitifeeus, Bohem., 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 46 ; 



Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 17, pi. viii., fig. 5. 



Black, very shiny ; head closely punctate and covered with 



silvery-white scales ; prothorax moderately closely punctate, and 



having a broad lateral band of thick white scales, in shape it is like 



that of the previous species ; the scutellum is without scales ; the 



