1900.] Catalogue of the ColeoiUera of Soutli Africa. 81 



broader than long and with the sides and the angles strongly- 

 rounded, striate with the intervals somewhat plane and smooth, but 

 slightly striolate behind ; pygidium convex, smooth ; anterior tibiae 

 robust, armed externally with four strong teeth, truncate at apex, 

 and fringed outw^ardly at base with long rufo-piceous hairs; 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi also fringed with dense and long rufo- 

 piceous hairs. 



Length 29 mm. 



This remarkable species is easily distinguished by the shape of the 

 head, which is deeply incised in the centre, and has on each side of 

 the incision a bilobate prolonged process ; the sides of the head are 

 depressed and dilated, and hardly narrowed in front ; the anterior 

 angles of the prothorax are rounded as in S. cBSCulapius, and the 

 elytra are smooth and have simple, well-defined striae ; the outer 

 teeth of the anterior tibiae are not triangular, and are abruptly trun- 

 cate at tip. 



Hab. Namaqualand." 



Pachysoma steiatum, Casteln., 

 Hist. Nat. d. Insect., ii., p. 68. 



" Black, clypeus not incised laterally, having in front two sharp 

 teeth ; prothorax transverse, somewhat strongly punctate ; elytra 

 feebly striate and having between each stria a longitudinal row of 

 very small tubercles ; all these lines are obliterated behind and on 

 the sides ; anterior tibiae with a fine longitudinal line reaching from 

 base to apex ; they are quadri-dentate ; sides of prothorax and legs 

 fringed with black hairs. 



Length 9 lin. ; width 6 lin." 



This species might prove to be identical with P. margiiiatum, Per. 



Gen. ANACHALCOS, Hope, 

 The Coleopt. Manual, i., 1837, p. 50. 



Mentum quadrate, deeply incised in the centre and without any 

 trace of bi-lobate ligula, labial palpi inserted behind the mentum, first 

 joint produced inwardly in a large sub-oblong process, second joint 

 not quite so large and with the inward process aculeate, third joint 

 very small, inserted not quite in the centre of the upper part of the 

 second and somewhat club-shaped; last joint of maxillary palpi 

 fusiform, grooved outwardly, upper lobe of maxillae moderately 

 curved and projecting a little beyond the inner lobe ; head broad, 



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