1900.] Catalogue of tlie Coleoptcra of South Africa. 459' 



verse folds vaguely enclosing transverse, very shallow pits ; pro- 

 sternum simple, anterior tibiae with a faint trace of a basal tooth set 

 not far from the second, which is separated from the apical one 

 by Qj distinct emargination ; intermediate and posterior tibiae stiffly 

 bristly, not dentate ; no wings. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 3f mm. 



This very small species resembles T. fascicularis in the disposition 

 of the fascicles of hairs and the general appearance, although the 

 elytra are a little more ampliate from past the middle, but it is easily 

 distinguished owing to the shape of the clypeus, which is very 

 sharply acuminate at tip instead of being strongly emarginate ; the 

 shape of the genital armature is nearly similar to that of T. j;e/w'ci/- 

 latits, but the upper median valve is acutely bifid at tip instead of 

 being nearly transverse, and is also longer in proportion to its 

 size. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Graham's Town). 



Trox (Phoberus) nasutus, Har., 

 Monogr., Coleopt. Heft, ix., x., 1872, p. 34. 



Black, but covered with an earthy coating ; clypeus very 

 sharply acuminate and with the apex slightly recurved ; head 

 rugose, and having a distinct, uninterrupted squamulose ridge while 

 the upper one is divided into two transverse squamose tubercles, and 

 the median longitudinal one is hardly visible ; antennae ferruginous ; 

 prothorax distinctly arcuate laterally in the anterior part ; the walls 

 of the median furrow are twice interrupted on each side, the apical 

 impression on each side of the furrow is not well defined, and the 

 lateral tubercle is divided in two, all the walls and tubercles are 

 densely squamose ; scutellum very small, triangular ; elytra distinctly 

 ampliato-ovate laterally from before the median part, and with the 

 outer margins not denticulate, but somewhat densely ciliate and 

 fasciculate from past the middle to the apex, they have on each 

 side, exclusive of the sutural part which is also fasciculate, four rows 

 of elongate equi-distant tubercles forming two distinct costae on the 

 disk only, and each bearing a fascicle of dense, earthy brown ciliae 

 directed backwards, the intervals are filled with a double series of 

 transverse, shallow pits divided by a fine row of small tubercles ; 

 prosternum simple ; anterior tibiae without any basal spine, the two 

 apical ones separated by a deep emargination ; intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae stiffly bristly, not dentate ; no wings under the 

 elytra. 



