1896.] of the Coleoj^tera of South Africa, 535 



the same, but the striae are deeper and the intervals more convex ; 

 legs piceous red. Length 11 J mm. ; width 4 J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Grahamstown), Natal and N'Gamiland, teste 

 Chaud. 



Melanodes intebmedius. 



Black, very shining, the three basal joints of antennae, palpi, and 

 tarsi piceous red; head with two frontal sinuate grooves or rather 

 impressed lines ; prothorax very slightly attenuated laterally in the 

 anterior part, and straight from the median part to the base without 

 any sinuation whatever, base truncate, with the angle sharp, longi- 

 tudinal and basal grooves as in the other species ; elytra similar in 

 shape to those of M. eheninus, the striae are not deeper, nor the 

 intervals more convex. Length 11 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



The shape of the prothorax is exactly like in Oodes testis, Per., and 

 the general facies, allowing for the difference in size, is very similar, 

 but the presence of the two supra-orbital setae, instead of one as in 

 0. lenis, is a distinguishing feature. 



Hab. Natal (Isipingo). 



Melanodes aberrans, Chaud., 

 Monogr., loc. cit., p. 551. 



Size and colouring of M. ebeninus, but the prothorax is not so 

 broad at the base and the outer sides are more rounded in the 

 posterior part, imparting it a more quadrate look, the posterior angles 

 are somewhat blunt and rounded, the basal lines on each side of the 

 median longitudinal one are not so deep, and the anterior margin is 

 not so deeply incised ; the rest as in M. ebeninus. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban) and Lake N'Gami, according to De 

 Chaudoir. 



Teibe LICINIDES. 



Antennae long, or moderately long ; head short, not narrowed 

 behind, and with one supra-orbital seta, the labrum deeply emar- 

 ginate with a long seta in each angle ; mentum deeply emarginate, 

 without any median tooth ; ligula hardly free at the tip, truncate, 

 with a long seta in each angle ; paraglossae moderately broad, much 

 longer than the ligula ; thorax with one or two lateral setae ; the 

 three basal joints of the anterior tarsi of the male dilated, spongy 

 underneath. 



Synopsis of Genera. 



Antennae reaching the median part of the elytra ; the two basal 

 joints glabrous ; prothorax with one lateral seta Badister. 



Antennae shorter, the three basal joints glabrous ; prothorax with 

 two lateral setae . , Bhembus. 



