1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 513 



part with scabrose punctures replaced at the base by deep, simple 

 ones, whole surface clothed with a flavescent, somewhat long and 

 dense pubescence, finer and sparser on the occipital part the trans- 

 verse keel of which is distinct, and in front of which are two faint 

 impressions, fore margin of clypeus slightly sinuate ; prothorax 

 almost orbicular, very plainly marginate all round, covered with 

 moderately deep punctures separated by transverse, narrow, raised 

 walls in the anterior and lateral parts, but not on the hind part of 

 the disk, and each bearing a moderately short appressed, flavescent 

 hair forming a plain pubescence, there is a very faint, longitudinal 

 median impressed line, visible only near the base, on each side of 

 which is a narrow, transverse, marginal depression, and above these 

 and equi-distant from the base and the centre are two plain, 

 discoidal impressions ; scutellum briefly yet conspicuously hairy at 

 the base and sides ; elytra shaped as in G. termiticola, and with the 

 dorsal costae similar, but the surface is covered with non-cicatricose 

 punctures, bearing each a small, appressed hair similar to those on 

 the prothorax, the suture is not raised in the posterior part ; 

 pygidium convex towards the apex, briefly pubescent ; abdomen 

 equally briefly yet densely pubescent; pectus, femora, and inner side 

 of tibiae pubescent, the pubescence of all these parts fulvous ; hind 

 tibiae of normal shape ; joints of intermediate and hind tarsi long, 

 briefly pubescent. 



Allied to C. termiticola, from which it differs by the sculpture of 

 the head, the more orbicular prothorax, and the somewhat dense 

 pubescence. 



This species has been met with termites by Dr. H. Brauns in the 

 Orange Eiver Colony, in the termitarium of Termes tubicola, Wasm. 

 There can be no doubt that C. termiticola, Wasm., and C. hospes, 

 Per., are the same species, and I am not sure that, as far as date 

 of publication goes, my name will not prevail. My example was 

 obtained from British Bechuanaland (Kenya). 



Length 18-22 mm. ; width 8-9 mm. 



CffiNOCHILUS TURBATUS, Westw., 



Thesaur. Entomol., p. 37, pi. xii., fig. 7. 

 C. braunsi, Wasm., Illustr. Zeitsch. f. Ent. v., 1900, p. 82, fig. 2. 

 Piceous, shiny, antennal club chestnut-brown at apex ; clypeus 

 plainly angular laterally, closely foveolate punctate with the walls of 

 the punctures transversely plicate in the centre, and somewhat longi- 

 tudinally so on the vertex, the transverse ridge is very plain, and 

 the anterior margin is broadly and deeply emarginate ; prothorax 



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