1896.] of the ColeoiMra of South Africa. 435 



part, anterior part of the disk smooth, posterior one finely shagreened, 

 outer margins narrowly ferruginous ; elytra elongate, subparallel, 

 narrowly striate, intervals plane, very finely aciculate, and without 

 any seriated punctures. Length 9|-11 mm. ; width 3f-4 mm. 



Less pubescent than H. holosericeus, and differing in the sculpture 

 of the head and prothorax. I have not seen the male, but the eight 

 females I have examined have no trace of any seriated punctures on 

 the alternating intervals, as mentioned by Bohem., loc. cit., in his 

 description. 



Hab. Zambezia (Salisbury), Natal (Newcastle, Maritzburg), Cape 

 Colony (Grahamstown). 



Hypolithus puncticollis, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caff'r., i., p. 200. 



Black, subopaque, briefly pubescent ; palpi, labrum, antennae, and 

 legs ferruginous, under side piceous ; head closely punctured, the 

 punctures deep ; prothorax slightly ampliate laterally from the apex 

 to the median part, attenuate from the median part to the base 

 which is narrower than the apex, posterior angles obtuse, disk plane, 

 slightly impressed laterally behind and covered with closely-set, deep 

 punctures, edge of lateral margins slightly recurved and ferruginous ; 

 elytra elongate, subparallel, intervals plane, finely shagreened ; striae 

 very narrow, third and fifth intervals with some indistinct seriated 

 punctures. Length 8 mm. ; width 3-|- mm. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban, teste Bohem). 



Easily identified through the well-defined punctures, not acicula- 

 tion, of the head and prothorax ; the shape of the latter is also 

 different from that of the other species, being much more narrowed 

 behind, almost subcordiform. 



I have seen only Boheman's type ; this species might perhaps 

 belong to the genus Opho7ius, which has a few representatives in 

 Morocco, Senegambia, Egypt, and Abyssinia. 



Hypolithus integer. 



Black, with a faint greenish iridescent tinge on the upper part, 

 under side piceous ; palpi, labrum, legs, and the two basal joints of 

 antennae flavescent, the other joints ferruginous ; head finely acicu- 

 late ; prothorax of the usual shape, very finely aciculate on the disk 

 and shagreened along the base and in the lateral posterior depres- 

 sions ; elytra elongate, subparallel, plane, narrowly striate, intervals 

 closely shagreened, the three juxta-sutural ones slightly convex and 

 very slightly carinate, seriated punctures on the fifth and third inter- 

 vals not visible. Length 11 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Natal (? Maritzburg). 



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