534 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



blunt, punctate all over in the female, much narrower, especially 

 behind, humeral angles having behind the anterior margin the 

 trace of a tubercle ; elytra smooth, equally wide, sharply marginate 

 laterally and with some punctures in place of the sutural stripe ; 

 pygidium punctate, pubescent at apex in the male and all over in 

 the female ; under side and legs red-brown, densely hairy ; anterior 

 tibiae with three obtuse outer teeth." 



Length 16-17^ mm ; width 11^ mm. 



Hah. Boheman gives the whole of Caifraria as habitat of this 

 insect. The only example I have seen is one of his types. 



Gen. TEMNOEHYNCHUS, Hope, 

 The Coleopt. Man., 1837, i., p. 93. 



Mentum elongate, ovate laterally towards the middle, constricted 

 towards the point of insertion of the antennae and broadly dilated 

 above it, very broadly and deeply emarginate at tip, and with the 

 sides of the emargination very oblique, it is very convex in the 

 middle, but the upper half is distinctly bent backwards and is very 

 broadly scooped near the anterior margin ; labial palpi short, robust, 

 apical joint broadly fusiform and truncate at tip ; maxillae densely 

 fringed with very long ciliate hairs, and having a briefly incurved 

 tooth bluntly incised in the anterior margin, and a sharply bifid one 

 a little lower down ; last joint of maxillary palpi sub-cylindrical, but 

 a little swollen inwardly and rounded at tip, fusiform inwardly 

 only ; mandibles tri-dentate, teeth rounded, not much reflexed 

 and projecting a little beyond the clypeus, the latter reduced to a 

 mere horizontal bi-dentate line and produced into a vertical lamina 

 much higher than the apical margin of the prothorax and some- 

 times bluntly incised, or very deeply cleft ; genae distinct ; antennae 

 ten- jointed, clava as long as the six preceding joints put together ; 

 prothorax dilated laterally at middle, marginate all round, excavated 

 in the anterior part in the male, slightly retuse in the female ; 

 scutellum ogival ; elytra a little wider than the prothorax, distinctly 

 sinuate laterally before the median part, callose behind; propygidium 

 partly granulose, but without any stridulating strit^ ; pygidium 

 convex, and more transversely so in the female than in the male ; 

 last joint of abdominal segments entire, all but the basal one with 

 a transverse non-interrupted row of setigerous punctures ; median 

 part of metasternum diamond-shaped, intercoxal process of pro- 

 sternum oblongo-ovate ; legs massive, intermediate and posterior 

 ones with two oblique strong cariniB, they are broadly dilated at 



