1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 89 



reaching from the apex to about the median part, the outer sides are 

 also more rounded laterally, and the punctuation seems deeper ; the 

 shape of the elytra is the same, but the striae are more in relief, and 

 the punctures are deeper ; the pygidium is also slightly aculeate at 

 base, and has several very distinctly raised transverse folds almost 

 carinate. 



Length 3 J mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Gen. EPIEINUS, Eeich., 

 Eev. Zoolog., 1841, p. 212. 



Mentum sub-parallel laterally from the base to the median part, 

 diagonally attenuated from there to the apex, broadly but not deeply 

 emarginate in the centre, ligula divided in two short lobes, strongly 

 ciliate inwardly, hardly longer than the basal joint of the labial palpi, 

 the latter are short, the basal one is sub-clavate, the second is one- 

 third shorter and has somewhat the shape of an inverted cone and 

 is a little broader at the tip than the apical part of the first, the third 

 one is very distinct, swollen, truncate at tip, and extends at the base 

 on one-half of the apical width of the second joint ; maxillae not very 

 broad but long, upper lobe apical, long and not broad, inner lobe 

 narrow, maxillary palpi long, basal joint bent and very slender, 

 second and third somewhat in the shape of a long, truncate cone, 

 apical one fusiform but a little more swollen inwardly in the middle, 

 and with a long median groove outwardly ; clypeus with semi- 

 circular emargination in front and with the angles of the 

 emargination projecting and recurved, genae without suture but 

 projecting slightly laterally beyond the line of the clypeus, eyes not 

 equally divided by the canthus of the genae, the low^er part being 

 more developed ; prothorax moderately convex, sinuate in the 

 anterior part, sub-diagonally ampliate from the anterior angle to 

 about one-third of the length, and a little attenuate from there to 

 near the basal part, and marginate all round ; elytra as broad as the 

 prothorax at base, hardly ampliate laterally, but a little attenuate 

 towards the posterior part, and more or less depressed; they are 

 striate with the striae more or less geminate ; epipleura broad ; pygi- 

 dium vertical, metasternum trapezoid at middle, finely marginate, and 

 with a slight transverse impression at apex extending all along the 

 length ; mesosternum reduced to a mere line at the apex of the 

 cotyloid cavities ; anterior legs strongly tri-dentate outwardly as well 

 as denticulate below the digits, and having a long, inner, apical spur 

 slightly curving downwards ; anterior tarsi short, last joint long. 



