56 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



but differs of course in the shape of the clypeus and the utter absence 

 of the clypeal keel. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



I think that Burmeister's following species belongs to this genus,, 

 and I should not be at all surprised if it were identical with D. 

 cur tula, Fahr. 



Seeica caebonaeia, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 167. 



Antennae 10- jointed, body in general short, spherical ; mesosternum 

 broader, middle coxae considerably remote. 



" Very deep black, with an iridescent sheen (margaritaceo-micans) ; 

 elytra completely opaque, striate, clypeus shining. 



Length 2 J- lin. 



From South Africa. Short and compact, uniformly black; under 

 side and prothorax with a bright pearly sheen, finely punctured ;. 

 clypeus shiny, densely punctured ; elytra completely opaque, dis- 

 tinctly striate, finely punctate, in each puncture a grey, smaller 

 puncture; antennae and legs shiny black." 



Gen. MICEOTEACHELUS, Brensk., 



Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1900, p. 81. 



Buccal organs of Trochalas and Ablaberoides ; clypeus very strongly 

 constricted and very sharply tri-dentate, lateral margin also sharply 

 dentate, genae very oblique and not meeting quite the hind ocular 

 keel, anterior part of the clypeus strongly reflexed with the median 

 tooth continued as a short, longitudinal keel, the depressed part is 

 edged by a slight transverse impression, and there is a frontal, faint 

 suture ; antennae 9-jointed, club 5-jointed in the male, 4-jointed in 

 the female, longer than or as long as the pedicel, according to the 

 sex ; body short, convex ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate ; the rest as in 

 Ablaberoides. 



MlCEOTEACHELUS PLAGIGEE, Per., 



Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. vi., 1892, p. 33. 



M. bipunctatus, Brensk., Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1902, p. 17. 



Dark bronze-green, sub-opaque, but occasionally slightly irides- 

 cent on the prothorax only, elytra pale testaceous-yellow with an 

 outer marginal, a basal and a sutural bronze-green band not im- 

 pinging on the six discoidal intervals, and having also an elongated 

 or oftener sub-quadrate discoidal patch situated at about the median 



