1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 169 



a little narrower, slightly attenuated laterally towards the apex, 

 more strongly reflexed at the anterior part the margin of which 

 has a fringe of thick, stiff, spine-like erect ciliae, alternately long and 

 short, and is quite impunctate, the frontal part which is very strongly 

 punctate has a double row of similarly stiff bristles along the suture, 

 he basal part, however, is normally hairy ; the rest as in A. helvola. 



Length 11-12 mm. ; width 6-6J mm. 



Hob. Transvaal (Johannesburg). 



Achloa caffra, Erichs., 

 Entomogr., 1840, p. 42. 



" Black, clothed with greyish villose hairs, elytra fuscous. Length 

 5 lin. Body piceous, shining, head and prothorax black. Antennae 

 testaceous, club a little shorter than the pedicel. Head small, 

 frontal part somewhat plane, unequally punctate, clothed with 

 greyish hairs, clypeus concave, smooth. Thorax as broad as the 

 elytra, slightly narrowed in front, rounded laterally, emarginate at 

 apex, sub-bisinuate at the base with the posterior angles moderately 

 obtuse, slightly convex, closely, not at all strongly punctate, the 

 sides somewhat smooth and more densely pilose, the hairs greyish. 

 Scutellum sparingly punctate, clothed with decumbent greyish hairs. 

 Elytra more densely and finely closely punctate, glabrous, testaceo- 

 fuscous with the margin darker. Pygidium smooth, penultimate 

 segment with a short, depressed pubescence, last one with long 

 hairs ; pectus villose, the hairs greyish. Abdomen pubescent, the 

 pubescence greyish. Legs piceo-fuscous. 



"Not shorter but smaller and more cylindrical than J., helvola; 

 the villosity on the prothorax and on the pectus is shorter. 



Hab. Kaffirland." 



I have not yet met with this species. 



Gen. GEDANOMEEUS, Waterh., 

 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xv., 4th ser., 1875, p. 407. 



"Body thick, somewhat cylindrical, hairy. Clypeus and frontal 

 part each with a sharp transverse carina. Mentum small, diamond- 

 shaped, truncate at the base. Labium and labial palpi not found. 

 Maxilla short, acuminate, with the apex slightly truncate. Maxillary 

 palpi with the basal joint very small ; second joint much larger and 

 about three times as long as the first, truncate at the apex, the third 

 joint slightly transverse, the apical joint as long as the two pre- 

 ceding taken together, inflated, fusiform, longitudinally impressed 

 above. Mandibles triangular, 'simple. Antennae rather short, 



