1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 375 



This species has the widest range of any Anthia in South Africa. 

 The elytra are nearly always smooth, with a very faint trace of 

 convex intervals ; yet this character is liable to variation, and I have 

 seen a few examples from Manica (female) and from Ovampoland 

 (male) where the intervals are subconvex and regularly striate. To 

 this variety Chaudoir has given the collection name of stigmodera. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Fraserburg, Prince Albert, Beaufort West, 

 Willowmore, Humansdorp, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, Kimberley, 

 De Aar, Calvinia), Orange Free State (Cronstad), Natal (Newcastle), 

 Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Marico), Zambezia (Salisbury, Manica), 

 Delagoa Bay (Lourengo-Marquez, Eikatla), Damaraland, Ovampo- 

 land. 



Anthia immaculata, Wallengr., 

 Entom. Tidsk., ii., 1881, p. 13. 



Oblong, subdepressed, black, moderately shining ; head closely 

 punctured, grooved in the centre in the anterior part, impressed 

 lengthways on each side, and with a large and deep puncture 

 between the antennae ; prothorax elongated, narrowed behind, closely 

 punctured in the upper part, longitudinally grooved in the middle, 

 and with a fovea on each side of the posterior part ; elytra oblongo- 

 ovate, truncated obliquely behind, closely punctured on the upper 

 part, moderately punctato-striate, with the striae uninterrupted and 

 roughly punctured, with the intervals equally convex and very finely 

 carinated ; pectus with a white pubescence. Length 18 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Waterberg). 



This species, which I have not been able to identify, is probably 

 allied to A. limhata or A. cephalotes. 



Teibe MOKIONIDES. 



Mentum deeply emarginate, and with a median tooth ; epilobes 

 very concave ; ligula broad, short, horny ; paraglossse slender, short, 

 separated from the ligula ; antennae robust, compressed, inter- 

 mediate joints more or less moniliform ; eyes projecting, either 

 with or without a projection behind, two supra-orbital setae ; pro- 

 thorax with two setigerous punctures ; mandibles strong ; body 

 depressed (Morio) or a little convex [Stereostoma) ; legs moderately 

 long, anterior tibiae dilated at the tip, tarsi of the male slightly 

 ampliate, the basal ones sometimes pubescent underneath. 



Synopsis of Geiiera. 



Body depressed ; mandibles very long ; labrum long, deeply in- 

 cised ; eyes edged behind by the cheek Morio. 



Body convex ; mandibles short ; labrum short, not incised ; eyes 

 not edged behind by the cheek Stereostoma. 



