1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 211 



Callidomorphus vittiger, Chaud., 

 Plate v., fig. 12. 

 Metaxymorphus vittiger, Bull. Mosc, 1877, part i., p. 234. 



Light testaceous, subopaque, the three basal joints of antennae 

 and the head redder than the rest of the body ; head and prothorax 

 smooth, the latter slightly broader in the anterior than in the 

 p3sterior part, not sinuate laterally, very slightly convex along the 

 central groove on the disk ; elytra a little sloping laterally at the 

 base, parallel, not much broader than the prothorax, plane, narrowly 

 striate, with the intervals moderately broad and impunctate, the third 

 interval with two punctures, they are dull pale testaceous, with the 

 three first alternating intervals infuscate from a short distance from 

 the base to the apex, and the fourth one from the median part only ; 

 legs flavescent. Length 8 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Grahamstown, Bedford). 



De Chaudoir records this species as found in Natal. 



Gen. PEEIPHOBUS. ' . 



Mentum broad, with the internal part of the lateral lobes similar 

 to that of Metaxyr)iorphus , and a sharp, median tooth ; ligula long ; 

 the paraglossae membranaceous, much longer than the ligula, sub- 

 acuminate at the tip ; palpi long and slender, the apical joints of 

 both labial and maxillary subfusiform ; labrum long, deeply and 

 broadly notched in the anterior part, with two long setae on each 

 angle and two in the centre of the notch ; antennae slender, 

 pubescent, with the exception of the four basal joints ; prothorax 

 broader at the apex than at the base, with the outer sides gradually 

 rounded ; elytra oblong ; tarsi of Metaxymorphus ; claws with four 

 short inner teeth on each side, and two bristles on each side of the 

 anal segment in both sexes. The head of the male is twice as 

 broad as that of the female, and provided with two falciform jaws 

 as long as the head, the right one is bifid at the tip, and the left one 

 has a small inner tooth in the middle ; in the female the jaws are 

 of normal length, the prothorax is not so broad, and the labrum is 

 hardly incised. 



Periphobus ferox. 



Testaceous, shining ; head black, smooth ; antennae slightly 

 rufescent ; prothorax broader than long in the male, and as broad 

 as long in the female, straight at the apex, with the base narrower 

 by one-half than the apex and with the outer sides gradually 

 rounded with the margin sharp, slightly convex on the disk, but not 

 depressed on the outer sides, testaceous with two dorsal black 

 patches ; elytra truncate at the base, with the humeral angles 

 slightly rounded and the outer sides parallel, plane, a little broader 



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