Coleoptera from South Africa, 357 
antenne are not long and are scarcely serrate, fuscous, with 
the basal half pale, but touched with fuscous above for the 
first two or three joints. ‘The head is large and long for the 
size of the insect and the mouth produced. The thorax is 
long and narrow, the base obviously produced, so as to lap 
over the base of the elytra, yet not as in Charopus; its 
surface is uneven and there is a vague fovea in the middle of 
its base. ‘The elytra are very thickly set with long black 
hairs, but are yet quite shining, irregularly and thickly punc- 
tate, subcoriaceous, soft in texture; in one example white at 
their apex, in the other the apex is concolorous. The white 
fascia extends a little on both sides, at the margins, and suture. 
The femora and tibia are clothed with long pubescence. 
The body beneath is fuscous, the tip of the abdomen (where 
it is not covered by the elytra) is rusty red. 
I consider it better to describe this insect than to leave it 
undescribed, because (1) I cannot be certain that one or both 
are not males, (2) because by the characters given it is easily 
to be recognized, (3) because it is, as I think, plainly not 
described by Boheman, nor to be placed in either of the genera 
quoted by him. 
Attulus ? lugens, sp. n. 
Elongatus, totus niger, nitens; elytris pube brevi civerea vestitis ; 
ore producto; capitis fronte depressa, inter oculos breviter pro- 
funde canaliculata ; prothorace oblongo-quadrato, basi haud pro- 
ducto, marginibus reflexis ; elytris perobsolete subcoriaceis. 
Long. 2°25 millim. 
Hab, Mashonaland, Salisbury (on Mosasa, Jarshall). 
This little insect is in form similar to A. albofasciatus, and, like 
it, is doubtfully of this genus ; it is, however, clearly congeneric 
with that species, but is less hairy. At first sight it is very 
like a small Ma/thodes, and, indeed, at first [ was inclined to 
believe it to be a member of the 'Telephoride. The antenne 
are, however, inserted well in front, almost at the apex of the 
rostrate part of the head. ‘he tarsi are very thin, and appa- 
rently the claws are simple and without pads. The small 
size and entirely black colour, if the exception is made of the 
pitchy second joint of the antenne, will cause this species to 
be easily recognized. 
Three examples, 
Anthocomus felix, sp. n. 
Statura A. rdentis, lete flavus ; capitis basi, prothoracis vitta (maris 
latiore), elytrorum basi et macula subapicali subquadrata, meso- 
