1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 307 



more broadly black than the sides ; clypeus slightly incised at apex 

 with the sides slightly raised and the anterior angles almost rounded ; 

 prothorax densely rugulose punctate, fulvous pilose ; elytra sparingly 

 nigro-pilose, anterior tibiae tri-dentate, the apical tooth is the longest, 

 the basal one the shortest, but yet plain ; tarsi very slender. 



Length 11 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony." 



Beachagenius lineatipennis, Kraatz, 

 Loc. cit., p. 400, pi. ii., fig. 12. 



" Female : Black, opaque, prothorax somewhat shiny, sulcate in 

 the middle, not pilose, elytra brownish, with the suture, the apical, 

 and posterior lateral margins, and an oblique discoidal band on each 

 side black ; clypeus deeply incised at apex, and with the anterior 

 angles sharp, it is slightly excavate ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, basal 

 tooth hardly visible ; tarsi slender, posterior almost shorter than the 

 tibiae. 



Length 10 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony." 



I imagine that these two diagnoses are those of both sexes of one 

 species which I have not met with as yet. 



Gen. EEIOPELTASTES, Burmeist., 



Germar's Zeitschr., ii., 1840, p. 397 ; 



Handb. Entom., hi., 1842, p. 733. 



" This apparently new and rare Trichid is most closely allied to 

 the long-legged Stringophori, and is intermediate between them and 

 Myoderma. It resembles this last genus in the structure of the 

 head, but the recurved margin of the clypeus, which is not at all 

 sinuate in front, rises gradually, and the middle of the anterior 

 margin is not higher than the lateral ones. The whole of the head, 

 prothorax, pectus, and also the femora and tibiae, have a coating of 

 long, yellow, somewhat appressed hairs. Very peculiar are the 

 antennae, the club of which forms a very long, wide fan, equal in 

 length to that of the prothorax. The buccal parts differ from those 

 of the rest of the Trichidce in the remarkable slenderness of the 

 maxillae and of the mando, but the shape is otherwise the same ; the 

 palpi are very long and slender ; the prothorax, remarkable by its 

 great breadth and moderate length, is not at all constricted behind, 

 but broadest there; the opaque elytra have six indistinct rows of 

 punctures in which stand small hairs, and between the rows there 



