106 South African Beetles 
briefly pubescent. There are no strie to the elytra. Prothorax 
elongate cordate with a shallow median groove. 
Length 5mm. Width 2} mm. 
Hab. Salisbury, Rhodesia. Captured by, and type in the collection 
of, the Rev. J. A. O'Neil. 
CREPIDOGASTER OBSCURA, Sp. Nov. 
Vertex of head and prothorax reddish-brown; antenne, epistome 
and mandibles light red, the latter with the tips infuscated. Palpi 
flavescent with bases of terminal joints ringed with brownish. Elytra 
pectus and abdomen fuscous brown. The elytra is a shade darker 
than the abdominal segments. Vertex of head longitudinally convex, 
finely and closely aciculate punctate. The eyes small and depressed. 
The prothorax a little more finely punctulate than the head and with 
a narrow median line interrupted in the centre. It is very little 
ampliated anteriorly and not much wider than the head; obliquely 
narrowed to basal angle which is rounded and not prominent ; lateral 
edges narrowly marginate. Elytra very short, and very closely 
aciculate punctate, with the striz only faintly indicated ; very briefly 
pubescent. ‘There is a line of spaced punctures above the epipleuree ; 
the apex not deeply emarginate. 
Length 6 mm. Width 3 mm. 
Hab. Malvern, Natal. Taken by me under leaf detritus in 
garden, March, 1913. 
This is a very distinct species with narrower head than usual, small, 
non-prominent eyes, and slender prothorax which is not sinuated 
laterally above the basal angles. 
TrisE LEBIINI. 
Of the genus Callida, Déj. the collection contains no less than 
sixteen, thirteen of which are described and determined species and 
sub-species. The remaining three are probably new, but the great 
similarity of facies of the majority of this group enjoins caution in 
dealing with very limited material. Callida maryinicollis, Chaud. a 
beautiful and very distinct species appears to have a very wide range, 
though T have only met with it once, i.e., in July, 1900, on the Upper 
Umlazi River, Natal, when two examples were taken on ’Ndohne or 
waterboom tree. Hitherto it has only been recorded from Cape 
Colony (Knysna) and the Transvaal (Potchefstroom). Most of the 
species of the group, however, appear to be local in their incidence. 
