1892.] to the South Afircan Coleopterous Fauna. 59 



Gen. Hoplonyx. Thorns. 



275. H. afer, Fahr. 



Recorded from Northern Transvaal. 



276. H. ingratus. spec. nov. 



Oblongus, niger, sub-nitidus, capitis vertice lato, rugoso, prothorace 

 angusto, sub-convexo, marginato, in medio vage quad?i-impresso, obsolete 

 punctulato ; elytris elongatis, postice acuminatis, ad basim leviter 

 gibbosis, supra modice convexis, anguste striato-punctatis ; femoribus 

 anticis subtus valde dentatis ; tarsis antennis palpisque nigro-rufes- 

 centibus. 



Long. 13, lat. 6 mm . 



Oblong, black, moderately shining with the tarsi, the palpi and the 

 antennas reddish-black ; head punctured, ante-ocular ridges well 

 developed, space between the eyes, broad with a faint median impres- 

 sion ; prothorax narrow, but broader than long, attenuated in front, 

 marginated all round, moderately convex, nearly smooth and with 

 four faint discoidal impressions ; elytra broader than the prothorax 

 and slightly gibbose near the base, from there moderately convex,, 

 parallel, moderately aculeated behind, and having narrow lines of deep 

 punctures with the intervals smooth and hardly convex ; anterior legs> 

 with the apex of the femora armed with an acute tooth. 



277. H. clypeatus. Fahr. 



„ from the Zambeze (Victoria Falls.) 



Gen. Eupezus. Blanch. 



278. E. natalensis. Lacord. 



„ from Natal, Transvaal, Zambeze (Falls), Delagoa. 



Gen. Amarygmtjs. Dalm. 



279. A. natalensis. spec. nov. 



Globoso-ovatus, aeneus, nitidus, tarsis pedibMsque rufescentibus ; 

 capite punctulato-rugoso ; oculis haud approximatis ; prothorace 

 brevi, lato, antice attenuate, distincte marginato y punctulato ; elytris 

 sub-globosis, postice modice declivis acuminatisque, anguste sed pro- 

 funde punctulato- striatis ; femoribus subtus projunde canaliculars. 



Long. 7-9, lat. o-6 mm . 



Globose, ovate, coppery, shining, with the antennas, palpi, tarsi and. 



