108 South African Beetles 
The description of Pelioeypas natalensis as given in Péringuey’s 
Catalogue of S. African Coleoptera is copied from de Chaudoir’s 
manuscripts and was not published by him. I would therefore suggest 
that the name be altered to Peliocypas chaudoiri. 
XENITENUS MARSHALLI, sp. nov. 
Fulvescent. Head, mouth-parts and antenne reddish fulvous. 
Elytra fulvescent with the whole discoidal area covered with a diffuse 
fuscous brown band, leaving only a somewhat ill-defined space, on 
either side of the suture and the lateral margins, of the ground colour. 
Head smooth and very shiny without punctulation; on either side 
between and extending below the eyes an irregular plicated groove. 
Prothorax a little wider at apex than at base; angles, both anterior 
and posterior, sharply rounded; outer sides straight, narrowly 
recurved ; apex emarginate ; base truncate. The dise very shiny with 
faint transverse plications; a well-defined central groove intersected 
sub-basally by a short transverse impression. Elytra sub-parallel ; 
shoulders broadly rounded; surface shiny and faintly aciculated ; 
strie shallow, especially towards sides where they become hardly 
defined ; spaced punctures on the third, fifth and seventh intervals. 
Length 7} mm. Width 2} mm. 
Hab. Salisbury, Rhodesia. Taken under bark in October, 1898, 
by my friend, Dr. G. A. K. Marshall, after whom I propose to name it. 
KLEPSIPHERUS MALVERNENSIS, Sp. nov. 
Head, prothorax, elytra and underneath pitch black, shiny. 
Antenne, palpi and tarsi red. Legs piceous red ; the femora a shade 
darker than the tibie. Vertex smooth, very shiny; neck shallowly 
transversely grooved and narrowed basally ; on either side between 
the eyes an elongate rugose groove which reaches down as far as the 
clypeus. Apex of prothorax deeply emarginate; angles sharply 
rounded ; lateral sides gently ampliated for a short distance, then 
nearly straightly narrowed to the posterior angle which is rounded, 
base truncate ; a well-defined median groove reaches from centre of 
the apical emargination to a short distance above base, where it 
deflects outwardly into elongated sub-marginal impressions on either 
side, the whole surface of the dise strongly transversely plicate. 
Elytra more than double the width of the prothorax at base, short ; 
basal and apical angles broadly rounded, sides nearly straight, drawn 
in a little towards apex and sinuate between the outer and inner 
angles ; deeply punctate, strie with the intervals almost carinate, 
