1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 279 



Hah. This genus, which includes species from the Malay Archi- 

 pelago, New Guinea, Australia, India, Burmah, North America, and 

 Africa, is represented in South Africa by one species only, ranging 

 from Natal to the Zanzibar mainland. 



Catascopus rufofemoratus, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1837, iii., p. 9. 



G. affinis, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 78. 



Brilliant emerald green on the upper part ; labrum and mandibles 

 black ; antennae rufescent, the first and second basal joints red ; 

 head with the anterior part finely plicate on the vertex and slightly 

 punctulate behind ; prothorax short, a little broader in the anterior 

 than in the posterior part, rounded on the sides with the angles 

 sharp, the disk with a sinuate, transverse impression in front and 

 behind, and a deep, median, longitudinal groove ending at both ends 

 in a small round impression ; sides of the disk slightly raised ; 

 scutellum black ; elytra truncate at the base with the humeral 

 angles a little rounded, slightly broader in the basal than in the 

 apical part, the lateral sides nearly straight from the shoulder to the 

 outer posterior angle, which is very prominent, the basal margin 

 produced diagonally from the outer angle to the suture, which is 

 ending in a broad, blunt tooth, moderately plane, narrowly punctato- 

 striate, with the intervals a little convex, the third one with three 

 distinct, broad punctures, bearing a flavescent hair, the outer 

 margin is somewhat violaceous and has three very long setas, one 

 below the shoulder, one at about the median part, and another above 

 the outer posterior angle, while the posterior margin has one at 

 about the middle, and the other close to the suture ; under side 

 black or very deeply infuscate ; femora red ; tibiae dark red, some- 

 times black. Length 10^-11 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban, Malvern), Zululand (Eshowe), Transvaal 

 (Potchefstroom, Middelburg), Mozambique (Eikatla). 



Gen. COPTODERA, Dej., 

 Genera Coleopt., i., p. 273. 

 Mentum broad, with no median tooth ; ligula slender, very long, 

 horny ; the paraglossae membraneous, broad, much longer than the 

 ligula, surrounding it at the apex and notched at the tip ; last joint 

 of palpi subcylindrical, slightly acuminate at the tip ; mandibles 

 long ; labrum long, narrowed at the apex and slightly incised ; 

 antennae subfiliform ; prothorax short, transversal, the base nearly 

 straight, and the outer sides recurved with the margins acute ; 

 elytra depressed, punctato-striate, with the intervals convex, the 

 outer sides nearly straight, the outer postical angle acute and the 



