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



ASTHENOPHOLIS CRASSUS, AlTOW, 



Ann. and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1902, vol. ix., 7th ser., p. 97. 



Male : Larger than A. sub-fasciata, but with the same build and the 

 same sculpture on the head and prothorax, but the Scutellum is very 

 closely and somewhat roughly punctate in the latter, and absolutely 

 impunctate in the three examples of the present species which I 

 have seen ; the ground colour is black, and the punctures on the 

 elytra show more than they would on a reddish, shining surface, but 

 they are less closely set than in A. sub-fasciata; the impunctate 

 longitudinal smooth bands are placed as in the latter species, but 

 are wider, and the hairs in the punctures of the head and prothorax 

 as well as on the abdomen are slightly thicker ; the shape of the 

 genitalia is nearly the same in both species, but the apical part of the 

 valve is produced into a short, reflexed process rounded at the tip ; 

 the antennal club is yellow, and the pedicel rusty-red. 



Length 24-25 mm. ; width 13-14 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). The species was originally described 

 from British East Africa. 



Gen. BEACHYLEPIS, Kolbe, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. d. Belg., 1894, p. 552. 



Head small ; antennas 9-jointed, the club of the male is much 

 shorter than the pedicel, and ovate, clypeus short, simple, with the 

 margin slightly reflexed, frontal part without transverse elevation or 

 keel ; prothorax short ; elytra with a distinct sutural costa ; pygidium 

 broader than long, mesostemal cone absent ; anterior tibiae tri- 

 dentate ; tarsi of all the legs slender, the joints long ; claws with a 

 sub-vertical median tooth underneath, and a short, basal one. 



The species of the genus, which has been kindly communicated 

 to me by Herr Brenske, is a massive insect, the body of which is 

 plainly ampliated past the median part, with the abdomen very 

 convex and strongly bulging laterally beyond the elytra in the 

 male in the manner of Asthenopholis, from w T hich it differs in the 

 absence of a basal or occipital ridge, by the number of joints of the 

 antennae, and the absence of a groove on the propygidium ; the 

 shape of the claws is nearly the same, but the tarsi are longer than 

 in Asthenopholis. 



Brachylepis hauseri, Brensk. ? in litt. 



Male: Euscous-black, with the antennae chestnut-red; head and 

 prothorax covered with contiguous sub-flavescent scales hiding com- 

 pletely the background of the prothorax, but slightly less dense on 



