1896.] of the Coicoptcra of South Africa. 143 



pedunculate ; anterior tibiae much dilated at the apex, and without 

 any external spur ; tarsi not dilated, short, decreasing in size. 



AXINIDIUM AFRICANUM, Sturm., 



Catal., 1843, p. 327, pi. 1, fig. 4. 



Piceous red, a little darker on the head and prothorax than on the 

 elytra ; palpi, antennae, and legs rufescent ; head smooth ; clypeus 

 and labrum short; the basal suture of the clypeus indistinct ; antennae 

 briefly pubescent, with the exception of the four basal joints, which 

 are glabrous ; the last joint is long and ovate, the basal one much 

 elongate and club-like ; prothorax convex, smooth, truncate at apex 

 and base, carinate laterally and basally, ovate laterally, much con- 

 stricted behind, with a short sharp posterior angle, the median longi- 

 tudinal groove reaching from the base towards the apex, but stopping 

 short at about two-thirds of the length ; body pedunculate ; elytra 

 elongato-ovate, with the outer angles slightly rounded, the outer 

 margin carinate, convex, a little depressed in the anterior part, 

 smooth laterally, and with four faint striae on each side of the suture 

 showing a faint trace of punctuation, and with three broad setigerous 

 punctures — basal, median, and apical — on the third stria. Length 

 7 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorn). 



Sub-Family HAEPALINI. 

 Tkibe LACHNOPHOEIDES. 



Body subpedunculate ; antennae slender, with three or four 

 glabrous joints ; mentum with a median tooth a little shorter than 

 the lateral lobes ; last joint of palpi ovoid, suddenly acuminate at 

 tip, and pubescent or subfusiform, broadly truncate at the apex 

 and glabrous ; head narrowed behind ; two supra-orbital setae ; pro- 

 thorax ovate ; elytra elongate, moderately plane, sinuate apically ; legs 

 slender ; anterior tarsi of the male not dilated ; claws not pectinate. 



Sy7iopsis of Genera. 



Last joint of palpi ovoid, suddenly acuminate at tip ; the 

 surface pubescent ; ligula shorter than the paraglossse . . . . Laclmophorus.*' 



Last joint of palpi fusiform, truncate at tip, and glabrous ; 

 paraglossse hardly longer than the ligula Lasiocera. 



Gen. LASIOCEEA, Dej., 



Spec. Col., v., p. 283. 



Mentum short, slightly notched, trilobate, the median lobe 

 nearly as long as the lateral ones ; ligula gradually ampliated from 



* This genus does not occur in Africa. 



