ncto SjHcit's o/' lUnicndni. -ML 



nally as well as cxfcrnnlly, ami there are marginal I'urrows 

 wliicli join posteriorly, Ity the thorax being rugose at the 

 basal angles, by the different dorsal striation, and by the 

 prostcrnal keel being bistriate. The inner humeral stria is 

 complete, the outer humeriil basal and dimidiate. 

 J/ub. Pietoria, Orange Kiver Colony. 



Contipus t'mmarginatus, sp. n. 



Ovalis, convexiusculus, niger, nitidus ; mandibulis extus marginatis, 

 tenuitor punctulatis ; fronte stria Integra ; pronoto ciliato, stria 

 interna postice flexuosa ; elytris striis dorsalibus l-'3 intcgris, 3 

 basi sinuata, 4-5 fere obsoletis, suturali dimidiata ; pro[)ygidio 

 pygidioque sat dense punctulatis ; mesosterno emarginato, stria 

 inarijiiiali interrupta. 



L. 7] iniJl. 



The above is also similar to C. Jlexuostift, Sch., in the form 

 of its lateral thoracic stria, but it is oval, while Schmidt's 

 species is some« hat quadrate. The other differences are tlie 

 interstice between the thoracic striae behind the anterior angle 

 is less wide, the tburth and fifth dorsal striae are very short 

 and apical, the sutural is fine and dimidiate, the punctuation 

 of the pygidia is finer, and the niesosternal stria is interrupted 

 and not continued anteriorly round the emargination. The 

 inner humeral stria is shortened before the base, the outer is 

 basal and scarcely reaches the middle. 



J/ab. Milmil, on the northern border of Somaliland (SmiVi). 



Santalus, gen. nov. 



Body oblong, parallel laterally, and somewhat convex; head 

 retractile, labrum rather prominent and semicircular in out- 

 line, mandibles somewhat long and bidentate ; antenna, scape 

 long and bent, each joint of funiculus gradually widens from 

 the base, club oval ; thorax transverse, with the lateral inner 

 stria distant from the margin ; antennal fossettes longitudinally 

 excavated beiiind the angle and not open to view from above; 

 elytra striate ; pygidium convex; tibiaj dilated, anterior 3-U 

 dentate. In all the known species but one {/lister hititibius, 

 Mars.) the elytral striai 1-4 are complete and the fifth much 

 shortened anteriorly, but in latitibius there is al-<o a sutural 

 stiia. The genus is established to receive llister mandibular is 

 ►Sell., rupestri's, corvjruens, tabillioj and ladtihiiis, ^iars., 

 orientalis, Payk., paral/elus, Redt., and piralicus, Lew. 

 Hitherto these species have been variously placed in Jlister 

 and Contijius, but grouped together they form a natural 

 genus. 



Tyjic, pt'raU'cds, Lew. 



