On new Coleojiterafroin South and West Africa. 71 



X. — Descriptions of neio Genera and Species of Coleoptera 

 from South and West Africa, of the Section Sen-icornia, 

 and of the Families Erotjlidas, Enrlomychidse, and Lan- 

 guriidaj. By il. S. GoRHAM, F.Z.S. &c. 



The beetles of wliicli tliis paper gives an account were prin- 

 cipally collected in 1896 by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall in 

 Natal and near Salisbury, in Maslionaland. One species 

 [Hedyhius amoenufi) had already been described by me in 

 bistant's ' Naturalist in the Transvaal ' from that district. 

 The Lycidee have also been previously described by Mr. Bour- 

 geois. Mr. Marshall sends several very closely allied species ; 

 and in general the species of small Coleoptera are very similar 

 from widely separated parts of the African continent, so that I 

 have found it convenient to include in this ])aper certain 

 species which have been known to me for some time from the 

 western parts, as they really form part of one vast fauna, 

 differing, indeed, in genera from their nearest allies in their 

 respective families, but widely distributed in the African 

 continent, both as regards these genera and even in many 

 instances as to the species. 



1 have also received from Mr. Marshall a number of Cassidie 

 and Coccinellidffi from the same countries, which will form 

 the subject of another paper. 



Section Seruicornia. 

 Fam. Cleridae. 



Fh ilocaJas compiessicorn is. 



Tillus compressicornis, King, Abliand. Berl. Akad. 1842, p. 273, t. ii. 

 fig. 3. 



Hah. Natal ; Maslionaland, Umfuli River, Gadzima 

 [MarsJudl) . 



Three specimens, Klug's examples were from Herr Krebs's 

 collecting and probably from Natal, though referred to as 

 " vom Kap." Westwood's Tillus uniforinis from Gambia may 

 possibly be the male, but it is not (as placed in the Munich. 

 Catalogue) a Macrotelus, \<A\xg=^ MonopJiylla, Spin., — a generic 

 name which only includes the American M. terminatus. 

 Fhilocali are very rare in collections ; I had not seen this 

 insect before. 



