1918.] 149 



from the base, hollowed in front opposite the eyes. Elytra long, flattened near 

 the suture anteriorly, somewhat produced at the apex, sharply margined and 

 feebly rounded at the sides, without grooves or costae. Posterior coxal plates 

 rectangular. Posterior legs elongate, the tibiae moderately widened, the 

 upper spur comparatively short, barely one-half the length of the long first 

 tarsal joint. 



Length 4i, breadth 2^ mm. 

 Hah. EcxTA-DOE (C. Buclcley). 



One specimen, acquired by the Museum in 1872. Distinguishable 

 by the ru£o- testaceous head and pro thorax, black elytra, and dark legs, 

 the short tibial sp)urs, and the sparse puncturing of the upper surface, 

 the punctures on the elytra coarse, compared with those on the pro- 

 thorax. The general facies is that of an Selodes. S. gounellei Pic 

 (1915), from Caraca, Brazil, is a somewliat similarly coloured, oval, 

 larger insect (length 5 mm.), with the scutellum and knees rufescent. 



(To he continuecU) 



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A EEMARKABLE NEW OENTJS OF TENEBBIONIDAE (COLEOPTERA) 



FROM TROPICAL AFRICA. 



BY K. G. BLAIE, B.Sc, F.E.S. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



A single specimen of the remai'kable beetle here described was 

 presented to the Museum some few years ago by Dr. Gr. A. K. Marshall. 

 It was quite unlike any Tenebrionid known to me, and I was much 

 puzzled to know even Avhere to place it in the family. Two further 

 specimens having been since obtained by Mr. S. A. Neave, and my 

 efforts to find a published description of the insect being still fruitless, I 

 now venture to describe it as new. 



Catobleps, gen. nov. 



Oblong-ovate, plano-convex ; head deflexed, completely concealed beneath 

 the prothorax ; face ventral, flat, strangulated in front, the clypeal suture 

 running directly across the narrowest part ; clypeus widely eniarginate ; 

 labrum transverse ; maxillary palpi stout, the last joint elongate, subcylin- 

 drical, truncate at apex ; eyes long, narrow, arcuate round base of antennae,, 

 moderately approximate above. Antennae stout, the basal joint large and 

 distinct, the rest very compact, transverse (except the 3rd joint and the apical 

 one), without constrictions between them. Thorax evenly convex from side to 

 side, broadly and evenly rounded in front, without a trace of anterior angles, 

 sharply truncate at the base, which slightly overlaps the base of the elytra j 

 the sides and front with a Hue marginal line, beneath which the edge in 



