1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 57" 



part and extending across the 3-5 intervals, the legs are redder than 

 the under side, yet distinctly aeneous, the palpi and the antennae 

 are somewhat flavescent but with the club of the latter infuscated 

 from the median part to the apex ; the antennae are 9 -jointed, the 

 club is long and 5-jointed in the male, all the joints of the club 

 being equal in length, it is nearly equally long but only 4-jointed in 

 the female, but the inner joint is a little shorter than the following 

 three ; head deeply punctured, the punctures nearly coalescing on 

 the clypeal part, but less closely set in the frontal, the clypeal and 

 frontal suture are not well defined, the clypeus is very strongly and 

 sharply bi- dentate laterally, these teeth consist of the sharply 

 aculeate lateral margin and of the very sharp and somewhat divari- 

 cating outer angle, and has also a median tooth in the centre of the 

 apical margin as sharp and as recurved as the lateral ones, continued 

 as a longitudinal keel in the extreme anterior part ; prothorax punc- 

 tulate, the punctures separated by a space equal to the diameter of 

 each puncture ; scutellum closely punctulate ; elytra short, as broad 

 as long, somewhat depressed, deeply striate, intervals plane and 

 deeply punctured ; pygidium with deep, somewhat broad punctures 

 separated by an interval equal to their diameter ; abdominal seg- 

 ments and pectus deeply and somewhat broadly punctured, especially 

 the later ; anterior and posterior keels of the eyes coming very 

 close to each other ; anterior tibiae plainly tri-dentate outwardly. 



Length 4-J-5 \ mm. ; width 3J-4 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Eikatla) ; Southern Ehodesia (Enkeldoorn,. 

 Sebakwe, Salisbury, Manica) ; Ovampoland (Evari Eiver, Omrramba) ; 

 Natal (Durban). 



, i, 



? MlCROTRACHELUS XANTHOCERUS, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 162. 



" Ovate, black, not very sericeous, bronze, strongly punctate ;, 

 antennae testaceous, 4-jointed. $ . 



Length 1\ iin. 



Ovate, moderately convex, black ; head very broad behind, much 

 narrowed in front, without raised keel between frons and clypeus, 

 anterior part only one-third as broad as the head between the eyes r 

 sharply angular with a concavity on each side ; elytra more remotely 

 punctured (than in Ablaberoides atratus), distinctly striated, and 

 with a coppery sheen ; under side and legs more shiny and with 

 bronze- green iridescence; tarsi brown; antennae testaceous-yellow 

 with a tolerably long 4-jointed club (anterior tibiae tri-dentate). 



Hab. Port Natal, collected by Drege." 



