On new Coleoptera from South and West Afrlm. 71 



X. — Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Coleoptera 

 from South and ]Vest Africa, of (he Section Sorric-»rin;i, 

 and if the Families Krotjlidju, Hn<lomycliiila3, and Laii- 

 guriidfe. By 11. S. Gohham, F.Z.S. 6cc. 



1'llE beetles of wliich this j)a|)er (;ive.s a.\\ account were piiii- 

 cipally collected in 18"JG by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall in 

 Natal and near Salisbury, in Maslionalan 1. One species 

 [Hedyhius amocnus) had already been described by me in 

 i'istant's 'Naturalist in the Transvaal' from that district. 

 The Lycidiv 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 

 t'rora widely separated parts of the African continent, so that I 

 have found it convenient to include in this paper 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 Cassidae 

 and Coccinellidaj from the same countries, which will form 

 the subject of another paper. 



Section S K i: u i cu k x i a. 

 Fam. Clerids. 



rh ilooilus comjjreasicorn is. 



Tillus cnmpresmcoru{.i, Kluu', Abluind. JJerl. AkuJ. 1842, p. l'7.S, t. ii. 

 fig. 3. 



Hah. Natal ; Mashonaland, Umfiili River, Gadzima 

 (Marshall). 



Three specimens. King's examples were from lierr Krebs's 

 collecting and probably from Natal, though referred to a.=» 

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

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

 Catalogue) a Macrotelus, Klug=.l/o/<oy>/(_y//a,Spin., — a generic 

 name which only includes the American .1/. terminatus. 

 Philocali are \eiy \aie in collections; I had not seen this 

 insect before. 



