288 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou. XUI. 
ASTHENOPHOLIS CRASSUS, Arrow, 
Ann. and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1902, vol. ix., 7th ser., p. 97. 
Male: Larger than A. swb-fasciata, but with the same build and the 
same sculpture on the head and prothorax, but the scutellum is very 
closely and somewhat roughly punctate in the latter, and absolutely 
impunctate in the three examples of the present species which I 
have seen; the ground colour is black, and the punctures on the 
elytra show more than they would on a reddish, shining surface, but 
they are less closely set than in A. swb-fasciata; the impunctate 
longitudinal smooth bands are placed as in the latter species, but 
are wider, and the hairs in the punctures of the head and prothorax 
as well as on the abdomen are slightly thicker; the shape of the 
genitalia is nearly the same in both species, but the apical part of the 
valve is produced into a short, reflexed process rounded at the tip ; 
the antennal club is yellow, and the pedicel rusty-red. 
Length 24-25 mm.; width 13-14 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Durban). The species was originally described 
from British East Africa. 
Gren. BRACHYLEPIS, Kolbe, 
Ann. Soc. Ent. d. Belg., 1894, p. 552. 
Head small; antenne 9-jointed, the club of the male is much 
shorter than the pedicel, and ovate, clypeus short, simple, with the 
margin slightly reflexed, frontal part without transverse elevation or 
keel; prothorax short; elytra with a distinct sutural costa; pygidium 
broader than long, mesosternal cone absent; anterior tibie tvri- 
dentate ; tarsi of all the legs slender, the joints long; claws with a 
sub-vertical median tooth underneath, and a short, basal one. 
The species of the genus, which has been kindly communicated 
to me by Herr Brenske, is a massive insect, the body of which is 
plainly ampliated past the median part, with the abdomen very 
convex and strongly bulging laterally beyond the elytra in the 
male in the manner of Asthenopholis, from which it differs in the 
absence of a basal or occipital ridge, by the number of joints of the 
antenne, and the absence of a groove on the propygidium; the 
shape of the claws is nearly the same, but the tarsi are longer than 
in Asthenopholis. 
BRACHYLEPIS HAUSERI, Brensk. ? in litt. 
Male: Fuscous-black, with the antennz chestnut-red; head and 
prothorax covered with contiguous sub-flavescent scales hiding com- 
pletely the background of the prothorax, but slightly less dense on 
