DESCEIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE COLEOPTEEA 

 OF SOUTH AFEICA.— Part IV. 



By a. Eaffeay, M.E.S. Fiance, &c. 



Family PSELAPHID^l. 



FIEST SUPPLEMENT. 



With Plate 6 (XVIII.). 



The publication of the Descriptive Catalogue of the South African 

 PselaphidcB in 1888 has encouraged the entomologists in that part of 

 the world to collect these curious beetles, which, owing to their 

 small size, escape the attention of the ordinary collector. 



The Catalogue contained 80 species ; I now add 26 new ones to 

 this number. The accession is a considerable one. If one takes 

 into consideration the fact that these minute Coleoptera have been 

 collected in some isolated parts only of South Africa, i.e., round Cape 

 Town, Muizenberg, and Stellenbosch by Mr. Peringuey and myself, 

 Port Elizabeth by Dr. Brauns, Uitenhage by Eev. J. A. O'Neil, 

 Salisbury and Frere (Natal) by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, one is justi- 

 fied in assuming that when they have been looked for methodically 

 and systematically in this part of Africa they will number several 

 hundred. 



Many new genera and forms entirely unknown will certainly be 

 discovered, but the material which enables me to publish this First 

 Supplement goes far to corroborate the opinion I have already given, 

 that the south-western part, and more especially the Cape peninsula, 

 has a very distinct fauna, while the western part of the Colony, 

 Natal and Zambesia, are more directly connected with the general 

 African fauna. 



This Supplement contains diagnoses of five genera not until now 

 recorded from South Africa; two are entirely new (Gahata, Bryaxo- 

 novia), while three [Pselcq^hoxys, Sognorus, and Centro2)hthcdnius) 



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