428 DescrijHive Catalogue [1896. 



at the tip ; head moderately broad, smooth ; prothorax broad, 

 rounded laterally, sinuate behind, with the posterior angles sharp ; 

 elytra a little broader than the prothorax, elongato -ovate, with the 

 humeral angle produced in a short tooth, somewhat convex, striate, 

 with the intervals smooth, no puncture on the third one ; anterior 

 tarsi short in both sexes, those of the male slightly ampliate and 

 with two rows of squamulge underneath ; joints triangular, not 

 incised, the fourth one a little narrower than the two preceding 

 ones ; median and posterior tarsi longer than the anterior, the inter- 

 mediate ones without squamulae on each side and not at all dilated 

 in the male ; claws very long in both sexes. 



BEADYBiENUS PSEUDOSCALAEIS, BertoL, 



Nov. Comm. Ac. Bonon., 1849; Klug, Peters' Eeise n. Moss., 1862, 



. p. 170, pi. 12, fig. 2. 



B. opulentics, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 194. 



Light testaceous, almost flavescent ; apical part of the mandibles 

 infuscate ; head smooth ; prothorax ampliated laterally from the apex 

 to about the median part, sinuate from there to the posterior angle 

 which is acute, base as broad as the apex, lateral posterior sides 

 of the disk slightly deplanate, base aciculate from side to side, a 

 transverse median green band in the apical and basal part ; elytra 

 elongato-ovate, truncate at the base with the humeral angle pro- 

 duced in a very short tooth, slightly convex, narrowly striate, with 

 the intervals subconvex and smooth, moderately shining, flavescent, 

 with an elongated green dorsal band on each side, uninterrupted on 

 the second and third intervals, and broadly and obliquely obliterated 

 in the median part on the fourth and fifth, where it does not reach 

 behind quite as far as on the second and third, where it extends from 

 the base to a short distance from the apex. Length 11-12 mm. ; 

 wadth 5-5f mm. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban, Escourt, Tugela Eiver). 



Gen. PSEUDOSELENOPHOEUS. 



Mentum short, deeply emarginate, with the median part straight, 

 the inner lobes sloping a little, sharp at the tip, rounded laterally ; 

 ligula very narrow and slender ; paraglossse nearly three times 

 as broad, straight, rounded apically, longer than the ligula, and 

 almost joining above it ; last joint of maxillary palpi ovate, truncate 

 at the tip, plurisetose, as well as the preceding one ; head short ; 

 basal suture of the clypeus hardly distinct ; prothorax rounded 

 laterally, attenuate behind, the posterior angles sharp ; elytra sub- 

 oblong, striate, with three rows of distinct punctures ; the three 

 joints of the anterior tarsi of the male slightly dilated, squamulose 



