1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 311 



nearly as broad as long, and slightly narrowed laterally in front ; 

 elytra more or less transverse, narrower behind than at the base 

 and leaving the sides of the dorsal part of the 4 last abdominal 

 segments uncovered ; pygidium large, uncovered by the elytra ; 

 pygidium very broad, vertical, slightly convex in the male ; meta- 

 sternum very broad ; posterior and intermediate coxae broadly 

 separated; anterior tibiae 5-dentate, tibiae massive, compressed, 

 intermediate and posterior tarsi long, slender, the first joint of the 

 hind tarsi slightly longer than any of the others. 



COMYTHOVALGUS FASCICULATUS, Gylh., 



Plate XLVIL, fig. 13. 

 Schoenh. Syn. Ins., i., 3, p. 43. 



Fuscous, entirely covered with extremely dense scale-like, 

 appressed, light fulvous hairs, and having in well-preserved examples 

 a very plain, lighter-coloured patch of scales on each side of the 

 scutellum ; clypeus acuminate, slightly emarginate at tip ; head 

 bearing two small fascicles of hairs ; prothorax with ten fascicles 

 of squamose hairs disposed as follows : two in the middle of the 

 anterior margin, two in the centre of the disk, two in the centre 

 of the base, and two on each side of the discoidal parts ; the two 

 anterior tufts are sometimes greatly reduced ; elytra almost twice 

 as broad as the prothorax, plane, narrower at apex than at base, 

 plane, vertical laterally, leaving the sides of the dorsal part of the 

 abdominal segments uncovered as well as the propygidium, they have 

 on each side four fascicles of squamiform hairs, viz., one somewhat 

 bi-fasciculate at the shoulder, two along the outer margin, and one 

 at the apex ; the broad propygidium has two long ones at the apical 

 margin, and the pygidium two in the centre, and two smaller ones 

 at the apex ; anterior tibiae w T ith five outer teeth in the male, three 

 of these are strong and the two intermediate ones very small, only 

 tri-dentate in the female, the pygidium of which is shaped as in the 

 male, intermediate and hind tibiae sub-fasciculate. 



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



Hah. Cape Colony (Albany; Uitenhage, Port St. John), Natal 

 (Durban, Maritzburg), Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe). 



Gen. STENOVALGUS, Kolbe, 

 Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1892, p. 141; loc. cit., 1897, p. 193. 



Body narrow, parallel ; pencil of maxillae extremely long ; pro- 

 thorax straight laterally, longer than broad, the anterior angles 

 conspicuously sharp ; scutellum long ; elytra hardly longer than 



