JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



No. III.— February, 1861. 



X. — On certain Coleopterous Insects from the Cape of Good Hope. 

 By T. Vebxon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. 



Having lately received a small, but very important, batch of 

 Coleoptera from my friend Mr. Bewicke of Madeira, collected by 

 himself during a short visit to the Cape of Good Hope in May and 

 June last, I purpose describing a few of the smaller species which 

 more immediately interest me, — either from their own singularity, 

 or from their near relationship to certain forms with which I have 

 long been acquainted in the Atlantic Islands. I may mention perhaps 

 that Mr. Bewicke's material, although got together very hastily, at 

 the worst season of the year, and under peculiar disadvantages (he 

 having omitted to take with him any nets, or other entomological 

 apparatus, on his hurried departure from Funchal), contained about 

 270 species ; and since a large proportion of these belong to the 

 smaller families, there are probably few collections which have been 

 brought to this country from the Cape Colony that have afforded so 

 fair a display of the minute Coleoptera of that almost inexhaustible 

 region. In the present Paper I shall not attempt to characterize 

 more than a very few of them, as I hope to reserve certain of the 

 others for separate notices, according as leisure and opportunities 

 may permit. 



Fam. Colydiadae. 



Genus Cossyphodes. 



Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (Xew Series) i. 168 (1851). 



Cossyphodes Bewickii, n. sp. (Plate XI. fig. 2.) 



C. subellipticus, valde depressus, limbo explanato subrecurvo, alutaceus 

 femigineus, subnitidus ; capite semicirculari, antice leviter bitubercu- 



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