1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 277 



transverse carina, or even of genal suture, clypeus short, broadly 

 sub-emarginate at tip, genae in a line laterally with the clypeus ; 

 prothorax hardly convex, simple, not marginate along the base, 

 very little ampliate laterally, and covered with equi- distant not 

 closely set shallow punctures which are nearly obliterated in the 

 anterior median part ; elytra very little ampliate laterally, and a 

 little elongate, narrowly striate, the strige are not geminate, and 

 have shallow punctures, the intervals are plane, and have two series 

 of moderately closely set very briefly setigerous punctures, the 

 humeral callus is not very pronounced ; the pygidium is slightly 

 bronzy and punctulate ; the under side and legs are distinctly 

 metallic, and the metasternum very broadly and deeply excavate 

 in the centre from the base to past the median part and deeply 

 pitted on the sides of the excavation, the punctures bearing a long 

 seta ; anterior tibiae non-dentate outwardly, but slightly sinuate 

 there towards the apex, apical spur very slender and very short. 



Length 6|- mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Female : According to Fahroeus, the fore tibiae are strongly quadri- 

 dentate in what he thinks is the female, and in the figure given 

 by Klug the fore tibiae are also distinctly quadri-dentate. 



The description is made from King's ^ type. 



Hab. Mozambique (Sena), Natal, teste Fahroeus. 



Gen. PEDAEIA, Cast., 



Annal. Soc. Ent. d. France, 1832, p. 403. 



SarophoTUS, Erichs. 



Mentum gradually attenuate laterally from the base to the tip, 

 moderately deeply emarginate at apex, concave at base ; first and 

 second joints of labial palpi nearly equal in length and width, and in 

 the shape of an inverted truncate cone, apical one a little longer 

 than the second, a little inflated outwardly and acuminate at tip, 

 but nearly straight inwardly, and of nearly the same width as the one 

 preceding ; maxillae strong, apical lobe very long and oblong ; apical 

 joint of maxillary palpi fusiform inwardly and nearly straight out- 

 wardly ; basal joint of antennae as long as the five following, second 

 sub-spherical, third longer than the fourth, fifth and sixth broad, 

 short, and fitting somewhat closely against the first joint of the 

 antennal club, which, like the last one, is very concave ; clypeus 

 emarginate at apex, suture of genae indistinct, no frontal carinae, 

 eyes showing through a narrow longitudinal slit on the upper side ; 

 prothorax nearly straight laterally, rather plane than convex, and 



