1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 285 



front and with the anterior part nearly straight and having a very 

 short clypeus marginate all round, no clypeal suture nor distinct, 

 genae, eyes not visible from above ; antennae very short, club large 

 in proportion, first joint a little convex, basal joint very concave ;: 

 prothorax as broad as long, slightly narrower behind than in front,, 

 convex in front, anterior angles very sharp, posterior ones rounded ; 

 no scutellum ; elytra sub-cylindrical, deeply striate, not covering the- 

 pygidium ; epipleurse narrow but distinct for half the length ; 

 abdominal segments fused ; metasternum very large and long, 

 intermediate coxte broadly separated, nearly longitudinal ; anterior 

 tibiae broadly dilated from the elbow, truncate at tip and with a short 

 inner spur at the inner angle, armed with three straight teeth out- 

 wardly, posterior and intermediate ones, sinuate, ciliate, slightly 

 carinate longitudinally but without any transverse ledge or dentate 

 carinse ; anterior tarsi very short, the posterior ones are slightly 

 longer, and the claws are very small. 



In spite of the presence of a labrum and of very well-developed 

 mandibles, this genus should not be included in the AjjhodiiiKE, as 

 Lacordaire and Harold have done. The presence of one distinct 

 apical spur in the posterior tibiae militates against it. In the three 

 examples at my disposal this spur is very distinct and single, but 

 the shape of the anterior tibiae, which are dentate as in Pedaria, 

 and the great remoteness of the intermediate coxae, go to prove that 

 the place of the genus is in the Coinince. I am not quite certain 

 that the South African insect which I include in this genus does 

 really belong to it, but the main characters answer very well to the 

 description, although the curious fringe of squamiform hairs on the 

 prothorax seems to be specifically peculiar. 



AULONOCNEMIS TOEQUATA, n. speC. 



Black, moderately shining ; palpi and legs piceous red ; antennae 

 fiavescent ; head twice as broad as long, much rounded laterally in 

 front, nearly straight in the anterior part, distinctly marginate ail 

 round, not much convex, without any clypeal transverse impression, 

 but having in the male a frontal, sub-basal transverse raised line, 

 and covered with equi-distant, not very closely set punctures ; pro- 

 thorax somewhat more convex in the anterior part than in the 

 middle, sub-parallel laterally but with the posterior angles more 

 rounded than the anterior, covered with closely set, round, deep, 

 moderately large punctures, and the whole of the basal part as well 

 as the rounded posterior angles have a moderately broad band of 

 fulvous, squamose, sub-lanuginose pubescence; elytra nearly parallel 



