370 Mr. B, P. Uvaiov on 



but iu the collection before me now there are two species 

 ■which imdoubtedly belong to the genus Aulacobotarus, Bob, 

 known hitherto from India only ; both these species are 

 new and described below. 



1. Pseudoarcyptera carvalhoi, Bol. 



The species was described by I. Bolivar from Lourenco 

 MarqueZj and a single male in the British Museum from the 

 same locality agrees perfectly with the descrijjtion. The 

 venation of the elytra, in this species is very much like that 

 in Prostethophyma cephalica, Bol. (see fig. 1, A). 



2. AuJacobothrus africanus, sp. n. 



^ . Smaller, but less slender, than any of the known 

 Indian representatives of the genus. Antennae a little 

 longer than the head and pronotum together. Head 

 strongly reclinate ; frontal ridge in profile perfectly straight, 

 forming a rounded acute angle with the fastigium, distinctly 

 sulcate and rugosely punctured throughout ; its margins 

 raised, not punctured, parallel, slightly convergent at the 

 fastiginm. Fastigium of the vertex rotundo-pentagonal, 

 distinctly broader than long ; its surface slightly concave ; 

 median keel low, rather thick, but irregular, interrupted in 

 the middle of the fastigium, prolonged ail across the occiput; 

 lateral occipital keels distinct, but very irregular, not nearly 

 reaching the pronotum ; temporal foveolse very distinct, 

 much longer than broad, parallel, with the ajiex obliquely 

 rounded. Pronotum rather compressed latei-ally, but with- 

 out a constriction; its disc smooth, but dull in the prozona, 

 and strongly rugosely punctured in the metazona, median 

 keel running throughout the pronotum, distinctly raised, 

 shining, cut just behind its middle by the third sulcus ; 

 lateral keels rather feeble and irregular, slightly convex and 

 feebly convergent between the fore margin and the first 

 sulcus, scarcely perceptible, subpai'allel between the first 

 and second sulci, distinctly convex and not strongly 

 divergent behind the latter, not reaching the hind margin ; 

 fore margin of the pronotum rounded ; hind angle straight ; 

 lateral lobes very coarsely punctured, less so in the middle 

 where the punctures are not dense, and two elongate spots 

 near the upper margin are not punctured at all, smooth ; 

 lower margin of the lobes obtusely angulate behind its 

 middle ; their hind angle straight, rounded; the fore angle 

 obtuse, rounded. ^Mesopleurte and metapleuric very coarsely 



