1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 457 



shoulder at some distance from it, and slightly ampliated from there, 

 it has on each side along the sutm'al part four very distinct costse 

 the three outer ones of which are transversely interrupted at equal 

 distances, and the intervals are filled with two rows of fovese divided 

 by a very slightly raised median line, the outer margin is not 

 serrate, and the humeral part is very oblique ; the prosternum does 

 not project at apex ; the two apical spines of the anterior tibiae are 

 divided by a distinct sinuation, there is no basal tooth and no 

 serration above it, the intermediate and posterior tibiae are not very 

 distinctly carinate, and the carinae are stiffly bristly, but not dentate ; 

 wings under the elytra. 



Length 6^-7J mm. ; width 3f-3f mm. 



The shape of the genital armature of the male is strikingly 

 different from that of the other South African species. 



Hab, Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, 

 Worcester, Kimberley, Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, Somerset East). 



Teox (? Phoberus) talpa, Fahr., 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 380. 



"Oblong, little dilated behind; prothorax narrowed in front, and 

 with the sides nearly straight in the anterior part, obtusely rounded 

 at middle, slightly sinuate before the posterior angles which are 

 somewhat acute, dorsal furrow narrow, and obtusely cristate ; elytra 

 not serrate along the outer margin with the exception of a few apical 

 tubercles, the margin being densely setose ; on each side are four 

 narrow costge briefly penicillate with squamules, and not interrupted, 

 the intervals are filled with sub-quadrate punctures with transverse 

 walls ; antennae ferruginous ; anterior tibiae obsoletely denticulate 

 above the basal tooth." 



Length 11-11-|- mm. 



Hab. Neighbourhood of the Orange Eiver. 



I have seen only Eahroeus' type. The species is evidently allied 

 to T. rhyjoaroides, but is easily recognised by the non-interrupted, 

 sharp costae of the elytra. 



Teox (Phobeeus) fasciculaeis, Wied., 



Plate XXXIX., fig 13. 



Germ. Magaz., iv., 1821, p. 129. 



Black, opaque; head roughly punctulate, and having two trans- 

 verse squamulose carinae united in the centre by a longitudinal one, 



