1896.] of the Coleoi^tera of South Africa. 533 



gated, very little broader than the base of the prothorax, not 

 ampliated laterally, somewhat convex, very finely striate ; the strias 

 beginning at some distance from the base, but the sixth one on each 

 side reaches nearer to the base, the intervals are plane and smooth. 

 Length 7-9 ; width 3f-4 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Frere, D'Urban), Zambezia (Salisbury). 



This species has a wide range ; described originally from Angola ; 

 it has been found to occur also in Abyssinia, according to De 

 Chaudoir. In my examples from Salisbury, the palpi and basal 

 joints of antennae are yellowish red. 



OoDES suBSTRiATus, Chaud., 

 Monogr., loc. cit., p. 372. 



Shape, size, and colour of 0. angolejisis, differs only in the elytra 

 having each the two, or sometimes the three, inner striae defined, 

 while the others are evanescent, these inner striae do not reach the 

 base and are less distinct in the posterior part, the round basal 

 puncture above the second stria is very well defined. The evanescence 

 of the striae seems to vary among examples from the same locality. 

 I have seen a specimen from Eikatla, where the juxta-sutural stria 

 alone is visible. Length 7-8J mm. ; width 3J-4J- mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Rikatla). 



Gen. MEL anodes, Chaud., 

 Monogr., loc. cit., p. 545. 



Ligula horny, long, broad, and with two long setae set at some 

 distance from one another at the tip, which is truncate ; paraglossae 

 disconnected from the ligula at a short distance from the apical 

 part, slender, subfalcate inwardly and longer ; mentum with a short 

 median tooth, broadly truncate and with two long setae below the 

 median part, shorter than the inner lobes, which are slanting, acute 

 at the tip and gradually rounded outwardly from tip to base ; labrum 

 broader than long, truncate, with six setigerous punctures, the 

 median ones close together and nearly obsolete, mandibles mode- 

 rately long, arcuated ; palpi moderately slender, penultimate joints 

 of the maxillary and labial nearly as long as the last ones, which 

 are elongated and briefly truncate at the tip ; head with a lateral 

 setigerous puncture, on each side of the epistoma, and two above 

 each eye ; antennae reaching the base of the prothorax, with the 

 three basal joints glabrous, the others pubescent, shorter and very 

 much thicker than in Oodes ; prosternum with a blunt, short process ; 

 legs of Oodes, the three basal joints of the anterior tibiae in the male 

 dilated and very spongy underneath, the first and third are of nearly 

 equal size, but the first is cordiform, while the third is subquadraie, 



