189?.] PHTTOPnAGOUS COLEOPTEEA OP AFRICA. 531 



Taphius, n. gen. 



Body elongate and parallel, smooth ; antennae filiform ; head 

 broad, eyes entire, clypeus not separated from the face ; thorax 

 transverse, the sides straight, not widened, distinctly marginate, 

 the angles acute ; scutellum small ; elytra wider at the base than 

 the thorax, punctate-striate ; femora unarmed ; tibiae simple, not 

 emarginate at the apex, all furnished with a small spine, the 

 first joint of the posterior tarsi as long as the following two joints 

 together, claws appendiculate ; pros^ternum narrowly elongate, 

 the anterior margin of the thoracic episternum concave. 



I am obliged to establish this genus for the reception of a 

 species allied to the genus Lefevrea, of the same shape and 

 general structure, but differing in the entirely filiform antennae, 

 the different shape of head, and in the straight sides of the 

 thorax. 



Taphitts flatus, n. sp. 



Below piceous, above pale flavous ; antennae long and slender, 

 the apical joints fuscous ; thorax strongly and subremotely 

 punctured ; elytra depressed along the suture, strongly punctate- 

 striate laterally, more finely so near the suture ; legs flavous. 



Length 1| line. 



Head broad, flavous, strongly but remotely punctured, the 

 clypeus not separated from the face, distinctly depressed, its 

 sides raised into an acute ridge, its anterior edge moderately 

 concave; antennae extending beyond the middle of the elytra, 

 flavous, the terminal four joints black, basal joint short and thick, 

 second one-half shorter, the third twice as long as the second joint 

 and nearly as long as the following joints ; thorax one-half broader 

 than long, somewhat cylindrical and of equal width, the sides 

 nearly straight, the angles in shape of a small tooth, the disc 

 strongly but not closely punctured, flavous, anterior and posterior 

 margins straight : scutellum triangular ; elytra slightly wider at 

 the base than the thorax, parallel, longitudinally depressed along 

 the suture, with nine or ten regular rows of punctures, which are 

 deeper and larger at the sides than near the suture, they are 

 distinct to the base and apex : underside piceous, very sparingly 

 pubescent and nearly impunctate ; legs flavous. 



Hah. Mashonaland {G. Marshall). 



The head in this species is peculiarly broad and the antennae 

 are widely separated ; the lower portion of the face is broadly but 

 shallowly concave ; the shape of the thorax resembles somewhat 

 that of the genus Aulexis, but the sides are without teeth. In the 

 British Museum collection and my own. 



PSEUDOCOLASPIS APICICORNIS, n. Sp. 



^neous, strongly pubescent; antennae and legs fulvous, the 

 penultimate three joints of the former fuscous ; thorax strongiv 



