84 Transactions South. African Philosojyhical Society, [vol. xii. 



Gen. BYEEHIDIUM, Har., 



Coleopt., Heft, v., 1869, p. 96. 



" Comes in the vicinity of Cojrrcecus (an Australian genus), and 

 differs from it among other things by the intermediate tibiae which 

 have two apical spurs ; body ovate, very convex, apterous ; upper 

 part of eyes very small; clypeus quadri-dentate, intermediate teeth set 

 at some distance from one another and sharp, lateral ones obtuse ; no 

 scutellum ; epipleura broad ; pygidium inflexed and sub-horizontal ; 

 antennae nine-jointed, ninth joint deeply sulcate longitudinally 

 underneath ; mesosternum large, divided from the metasternuin 

 by a nearly straight suture ; anterior tibiae truncate in a straight 

 line at tip, bi-dentate outwardly, posterior ones sinuate externally 

 before the apex ; tarsi short, posterior ones compressed and with 

 the joints of nearly equal length." 



Byerhidium ovale, Har., 

 Log. cit., p. 96. 



"Black, hardly shining, head and prothorax finely and densely 

 punctulate ; prothorax with the anterior angles rounded and the 

 posterior ones obtuse, base non-marginate, lateral margin carinate 

 lengthway ; elytra obsoletely striate, intervals plane, smooth but 

 with some fine punctures briefly pilose and disposed in series ; 

 antennae dark ferruginous ; prosternum carinate transversely and 

 foveolate in the anterior part ; pygidium, abdomen, mesosternum 

 and metasternum very finely and densely punctured. 



Length 12 mm. 



Hab. Port Natal." 



Gen. GYEONOTUS, Lansb., 

 Annal. Soc. Entom. d. Belg., 1874, p. 187. 



Mentum longer than broad, slightly rounded laterally, incised in 

 the centre and set with long bristles, some of these fasciculate, on 

 each side of the median incision, first joint of the labial palpi broadly 

 dilated inwardly, the second is also dilated inwardly but less so than 

 the first, and is somewhat triangular, the third one is small, glabrous 

 and sub-fusiform, lobes of the ligula longer than the labial palpi, 

 membranaceous and thickly fringed with hairs inwardly, last joint 

 of maxillary palpi fusiform, not grooved outwardly, upper lobe of 

 maxillae curved, not broad but long, inner lobe narrow ; head semi- 

 circular, clypeus deeply emarginate in the centre and with each angle 



