1904. | Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. OT 
part and extending across the 3-5 intervals, the legs are redder than 
the under side, yet distinctly aneous, the palpi and the antenne 
are somewhat flavescent but with the club of the latter infuscated 
from the median part to the apex; the antennz are 9-jointed, the 
club is long and 5-jointed in the male, all the joints of the club 
being equal in length, it is nearly equally long but only 4-jointed in 
the female, but the inner joint is a little shorter than the following 
three ; head deeply punctured, the punctures nearly coalescing on 
the clypeal part, but less closely set in the frontal, the clypeal and 
frontal suture are not well defined, the clypeus is very strongly and 
sharply bi-dentate laterally, these teeth consist of the sharply 
aculeate lateral margin and of the very sharp and somewhat divari- 
cating outer angle, and has also a median tooth in the centre of the 
apical margin as sharp and as recurved as the lateral ones, continued 
as a longitudinal keel in the extreme anterior part; prothorax punc- 
tulate, the punctures separated by a space equal to the diameter of 
each puncture ; scutellum closely punctulate ; elytra short, as broad 
as long, somewhat depressed, deeply striate, intervals plane and 
deeply punctured; pygidium with deep, somewhat broad punctures 
separated by an interval equal to their diameter ; abdominal seg- 
ments and pectus deeply and somewhat broadly punctured, especially 
the later; anterior and posterior keels of the eyes coming very 
close to each other ; anterior tibiz plainly tri-dentate outwardly. 
Length 44-54 mm. ; width 34-4 mm. 
Hab. Mozambique (Rikatla); Southern Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn, 
Sebakwe, Salisbury, Manica); Ovampoland (Evari River, Omrramba) ; 
Natal (Durban). 
? MICROTRACHELUS XANTHOCERUS, Burm., 
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 162. 
““Ovate, black, not very sericeous, bronze, strongly punctate ; 
antenne testaceous, 4-jomted. ¢. 
Length 24 lin. 
Ovate, moderately convex, black; head very broad behind, much 
narrowed in front, without raised keel between frons and clypeus, 
anterior part only one-third as broad as the head between the eyes, 
sharply angular with a concavity on each side ; elytra more remotely 
punctured (than in Ablaberoides atratus), distinctly striated, and 
with a coppery sheen ; under side and legs more shiny and with 
bronze-green iridescence ; tarsi brown; antenne testaceous-yellow 
with a tolerably long 4-jointed club (anterior tibiz tri-dentate). 
Hab. Port Natal, collected by Drége.” 
