1900.] Catalogue of the ColeoiJtera of South Africa. 461 



elbow, intermediate and posterior tibiae stiffly bristly, not dentate ; 

 no wings under the elytra. 



Length 15-20 mm ; width 9-13 mm. 



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

 Beaufort West, Malmesbury, Namaqualand). 



While the species obtained from the neighbourhood of Cape Town 

 usually have the bristles and fascicles of hairs black, and very little 

 squamosity on the prothorax, a very large female example received 

 from Garies, Namaqualand, has the prothorax densely squamose, the 

 fascicles of hairs on the elytra are somewhat flavescent, and the 

 elytra a little more ampliate laterally. 



In the figure of the genital armature the outer branch of the 

 forceps has the point turned outwardly; this is a mistake, the apical 

 part should bend downwards. 



Teox (Phobeeus) aculeatus, Har., 

 Monogr., Coleopt. Heft, ix., x., 1872, p. 37. 



" Very closely allied to the preceding species, from which it differs 

 by the smaller size, the entirely black antennae, the walls of the 

 median furrow of the prothorax which are divided at base while the 

 lateral ones are bi-partite ; the elytra are narrower than the pro- 

 thorax, oblongo-ovate, there is no alternate tuberculate costse, and 

 the intervals are filled with deeper, excavate fovese separated by 

 transverse folds ; mesosternum carinate." 



Length 14 mm. 



I have only seen the type of this species in Harold's collection, 

 and it is so closely allied to T. horridus that at the time I noted it 

 down as being th^ same species. 



Hah. Caffraria. 



Teox penicillatus, Fahr., 



Plate XXXIX., fig. 12. 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 383. 



Black, opaque, but with the tufts or hairs and squamae flavescent ; 

 head rugulose, clypeus triangular but not quite acuminate at tip ; the 

 frontal transverse carinae are somewhat arcuate, and the median 

 longitudinal carina is more in the shape of a tubercle ; prothorax 

 arcuate laterally in the anterior part, not serrate, densely ciliate all 



