Goleo-ptera frurii South Africa. 167 



Family TENEBRIONID^. 



MOLURIDES. 



Gen. Amiantus, Fahr. 



A. ocfocostatus, n. sp. 



Black, covered on the upper part with a dense, light-brown 

 tomeatum ; head rugose ; prothorax gibbous, a little retuse in the 

 anterior part, covered with very broad, confluent punctures ; 

 elytra suborbicular, convex, dehiscent behind, and having on each 

 side four sharp, highly raised, slightly tuberculated costjB reaching 

 from the base to the posterior declivity, intervals and outer sides 

 smooth ; legs densely tomentose ; underside glabrous. Length 16, 

 width 10 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Barberton). 



Allied to A. upacus, Haag-Rutenb., but larger and 

 with four distinct costae on each elytron instead of 

 three. 



A. glohulipeiinis, n. sp. 



Black, with the elytra covered with a greyish tomentum ; head 

 very rugose ; prothorax gibbous, a little compressed laterally in 

 the anterior and basal part, deeply but regularly scrobiculate ; 

 elytra globose, very dehiscent behind, and having on each side five 

 sharp, smooth, conspicuous costae reaching from the base to the 

 posterior declivity, the intervals broad and filled with closely 

 set sharp granules, not so dense on the lateral part, and absent on 

 the epipleurte ; legs rugose, with short pubescence. Length 20, 

 width 13 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Manica). 



Allied to A. octocostatus, but larger ; the prothorax 

 is compressed laterally, which is not the case in A. octo- 

 costatus, and the elytra have five distinct smooth costse 

 on each side, instead of four subtubercuiated ones. 



A. mashunus, n. sp. 



Black, but dark- brown on the elytra ; head subscrobiculate ; 

 prothorax subgibbose, not deeply foveate, the fovete confluent, 

 central part with a longitudinal smooth line reaching from apex to 



