1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 193 



very roughly shagreened, the latter narrowly edged with black ; 

 elytra moderately elongated, brownish black, edged with reddish 

 brown all round, the suture also reddish ; each one with six sharp 

 costae, the outer one much higher than the others and running from 

 base to apex, the intervals very finely granulated ; abdomen infus- 

 cate. Length 9 mm. ; width 4 mm. 

 Hah. Namaqualand (O'okiep). 



Crepidogaster posticalis. 



Pale yellow, with a broad postical black patch extending from 

 one side to the other from about the median part and reaching the 

 apical margin ; head and prothorax roughly shagreened ; elytra 

 dilated behind, each one with six sharp raised costae, the outer one 

 slightly higher than the others and reaching to a little short of the 

 apex, intervals finely shagreened and very briefly pubescent. Length 

 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Allied in shape to the preceding species, but differentiated by the 

 black patch on the elytra ; the costae also are not so much raised. 



Hah. Damaraland (Kookarrah). 



Teibe LEBIIDES. 



Head oval, narrowed into a neck or not, having two supra-orbital 

 setae ; eyes prominent ; antennae with the three basal joints 

 glabrous * ; paraglossae united with the ligula, either as long or 

 slightly longer, but rounded laterally, always more or less densely 

 pilose ; labrum transverse, short (Dromius), moderately long [Callida, 

 Cymmdoidea, Lehia), or greatly developed [Thyreopterus, &c.); palpi 

 variable, but with the ultimate joints not swollen ; prothorax more 

 or less slender, cordate, or elongato-cordate, with the base truncate 

 and the posterior angles sharp, type Calleida, Cylindrocranius, 

 Demetrias, nearly parallel, or not sinuate laterally above the basal 

 part, type Hystrichopus, Dromius, &c., or short and with the 

 median part of the base produced beyond the outer angles, type 

 Lehia, Phlceozetus, and with two lateral setae, one in the anterior 

 part and the other at the basal angle, while in Pentagonica the first 

 one is exactly in the middle of the lateral part ; elytra depressed, 

 seldom convex [Cylindrocranius, Lehistina), truncate or very deeply 

 sinuate behind ; legs slender, moderately long, intermediate ones 

 notched in the male {Lehiidce, some Pericalidce), fourth joint of tarsi 

 narrow or broad, incised, lobate, cordiform, or truncate; claws simple, 

 serrulate, or pectinate. 



I have tried in vain to find characters that would lead to a division 



* Catascopiis excepted. 



