1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 297 



convex ; head with the clypeus strongly bi-dentate in the middle, 

 upper part of the eyes convex and ovate ; antennae nine-jointed ; 

 labial palpi narrow, sub-cylindrical, third joint distinct ; elytra with 

 eight striae on each side ; pygidium free, not contracted ; meso- 

 sternum short, divided from the metasternum by a straight line ; 

 anterior tibiae quadri-dentate outwardly, truncate, straight at apex 

 with the inner angle acuminate, apical spur situated in the median 

 anterior part above the point of insertion of the tarsi ; posterior 

 ones simple, joints of tarsi little dilated, claws normal." 



XiNIDIUM DENTILABEIS, Har., 



Loc. cit., p. 98. 



''Black, moderately shining; head smooth and having a transverse 

 carina abbreviated on each side of the vertex ; prothorax regularly 

 punctate, retuse in front and slightly impressed ori each side ; 

 elytra striate, the striae filled with transverse, shallow punctures ; 

 eighth stria entire, impunctate, intervals convex, slightly punc- 

 tate, the punctures sub-confiuent, pygidium punctate, metasternum 

 smooth. 



Length 13 mm. 



Hah. Port Natal." 



I have not seen this species. 



Gen. MACEODEEES, Yv^estw., 

 Proceed. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1842, p. 59. 



Mentum straight laterally at base for one-third of the length, 

 attenuate and deeply sinuate from there to the apex, deeply incised 

 at tip, and quite concave in the middle below the incised part, the 

 anterior angles are rounded ; basal joint of maxillary palpi gradually 

 ampliated into a club, second shorter than the first, rounded and 

 curved inwardly the inward curve being much less pronounced, 

 sub-obliquely truncate at tip, third joint sub-cylindrical till past 

 the middle, a little swollen before the apex which is somewhat 

 acuminate, and more rounded outwardly than inwardly, it is half 

 the width of the previous one, and of the same length ; maxillae 

 very massive and broader at middle than the ligula, apical lobe 

 short ; last joint of maxillary palpi fusiform ; lobes of ligula slender, 

 broadly and thickly fringed with hairs ; antennae of Pedaria, but the 

 apical joint of the club is much less convex ; head with a frontal 



