120 Annals of the South African Museum. 



BiBLOPLECTUS ANGUSTULUS, nOV. SpeC. 



Elongatus, angustus, parallelus, brunneus, abdomine obscuriori,. 

 antennis pedibtisque pallide testaceis, breviter et parce griseo- 

 ptibescens. Caput mediocre, longitudine et latitudine sequale, 

 antrorsum valde attenuatum, lateribus obliquis, inter oculos fovei&: 

 duabus magnis, juxta coUum medio breviter sulcatum. Antennae 

 graeiles, articulis 1, 2 mtilto majoribus, ovatis, 3-8 minutis, monili- 

 formibtis, 9 prsecedenti paulo majori, 11 ovato, acuminate, decimo 

 vix latiori. Prothorax capite hand latior, latitudine sua paulo 

 longior, postice leviter attenuatus. Elytra latitudine sua multo 

 longiora. Abdomen elytris longitudine vix sequale. Long. 

 0-90 mm. 



This species differs from B. variahilis, Eaffr., and unicolor, Eaffr., 

 from Zanzibar, in the much more elongate and narrower body and 

 the larger size of the tenth joint of the antenna ; from B. hiformis, 

 Eeitter, from the Gold Coast (West Africa) it differs in its much 

 darker colour, smaller size, shorter head and much larger club of 

 the antennge. 



Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



Gen. ASYMOPLECTUS, Eaffr., 



Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. x. 1897, p. 55. 



Asymoplectus skbiipunctatus, nov. spec. 



Elongatus, angustulus, subdepressus, nigropiceus, antennis pedi- 

 busque brunneis, pube subtilissima grisea, vix perspicue (magis in 

 abdomine) punctatus. Caput latitudine sua vix longius, antrorsum 

 valde attenuatum, lateribus obliquis, fronte medio leviter depresso, 

 inter oculos foveis duabus magnis, ovalibus, vertice juxta collum vix 

 perspicue impressum, antenna sat crassae, gradatim incrassatae, 

 clava fere inconspicua, articulis 1-2 majoribus, ovatis, 3 subconico, 

 4-8 moniliformibus, longitudine decrescentibus, 9 transverso, 10 

 nono multo majori, transverso, 11 breviter ovato, acuminate. Pro- 

 thorax latitudine sua sequilongus, antice posticeque sequaliter 

 rotundatus, foveis lateralibus validis, sulco transverso profundo, 

 medio angulato et minute foveato, in disco sulco longitudinali 

 obsoletissimo et abbreviate. Elytra latitudine sua dimidio longiora, 

 lateribus recta et parallela. Abdominis segmentis dersalibus 8 

 secundo vix dimidie lengiori, 4 fere duple. Metasternum cen- 

 vexum, simplex. Tibiis omnibus extus medio incrassatis. 



Mas. Segmentis ventralibus 4 apice medio minutissime et breviter- 



