1900.] Catalogue of the Coleojptera of South Africa. 423 



moderately sinuate on each side, and is covered with deep, closely-set 

 punctures, and in the centre there is a faint trace of a rudimentary 

 groove ; scutelium short, punctulate, slightly carinate longitudinally ; 

 elytra convex with the humeral angles sharp, very little ampliated 

 after the lateral, post-humeral sinuation which is slight, and 

 they have each twenty deeply punctured striae separated by fine 

 costae, the fourth, ninth, and thirteenth of which are slightly more 

 raised than the others, but distinctly so at the base ; only the four 

 first costae and the supra-marginal one reach to the apex, and the four 

 lateral striae reach only to the humeral callus which is smooth and 

 very oblique ; abdomen and under side very deeply and roughly 

 punctured ; the former, and also the pygidium, are briefly setulose ; 

 anterior tibiae normally tri-dentate outwardly, and simple above the 

 digits, apical spur strong, a little curved inwards at tip in the male,, 

 straight in the female. 



Length 5-7 mm.; width 2^-31 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester, 

 Malmesbury). 



Harmogaster transitoria, n. spec. 



Black, shining, glabrous ; head very closely punctured, clypeus 

 deeply emarginate with the emargination sub-arcuate, genae very 

 prominent, projecting at right angle above the eye, head very slightly 

 impressed in front and having a very faint transverse clypeal, and 

 also an intra-ocular ridge ; prothorax a little diagonally ampliate 

 laterally towards the median part, and straight from there to the 

 base which is marginate, deeply and closely punctured, very convex, 

 and has a slight, somewhat indistinct median basal impressed line ; 

 elytra deeply striate, the striae filled with transverse punctures the 

 intervals of which are a little raised, and thus form on the dorsal 

 part a crenulate line, much less conspicuous, however, than the 

 carinate intervals the first, second, and ninth of which reach to the 

 apex, while the third and eighth unite a little above the apex and 

 below the other dorsal ones, the dorsal striae reach the base, 

 and the eighth and ninth are of equal length and reach the base 

 of the humeral callus which is much slanting, but the three outer 

 ones are duplicated ; pectus, abdomen, and femora coarsely punc- 

 tured, the latter with a few scattered, short hairs ; anterior tibiae 

 strongly tri-dentate, simple above the digits. 



I have seen one female example only ; but in spite of the elytra 

 not having ten striae each, the shape of the prothorax and head 



