1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 507 



and also lightly carinate longitudinally in the centre, as well as on 

 each side in addition to the transverse keel, it is punctate in the 

 centre, and striolate above the eyes ; prothorax marginate laterally, 

 punctate, the punctures round, simple, separated by a smooth in- 

 terval about equal to their diameter ; scutellum impunctate, carinate 

 in the centre of the apical part ; elytra strongly impressed in the 

 scutellary region, having on each side one stria along the suture 

 which is raised in the hind part only, and a conspicuous dorsal 

 sulcus on each side of which the space is raised and sparingly punc- 

 tate, the sides, the hind part, and also the sulcate part are strigillate; 

 under side and legs glabrous, strigose. 



Length 18-19 mm. ; width 11 mm. 



Hab. The whole of Natal, the Transvaal, Southern Ehodesia, 

 Cape Colony, except the south-western part. 



This species is met with in bee-hives devouring the honey, and it 

 ranges in Africa from the Cape to Senegal. 



Gen. CCENOCHILUS, Schaum., 

 Germ. Zeitschr., hi., 1841, p. 268. 



Mentum sub-quadrate at the base, gradually but slightly amphated 

 from about the median part to the anterior the angles of which are 

 broadly rounded, and the fore margin is narrowly incised or sinuate 

 in the centre, the outer face is hairy, deeply grooved longitudinally 

 in the centre and slopes very gently in the anterior part towards the 

 margin ; maxillae somewhat robust, but elongated, upper lobe armed 

 with a strong, long, bifid tooth, inner lobe provided with a similar 

 but shorter tooth ; clypeus moderately long, convex in the centre of 

 the junction with the head, slightly dilated laterally towards the 

 apex, the angles are rounded and the anterior margin is more or less 

 deeply sinuate, on the vertex is a transverse keel, wanting or oblite- 

 rated, however, in some species ; antennal club shorter than the 

 pedicel, of equal length in both sides and with a faint longitudinal 

 groove on the outer joint ; prothorax plainly narrower than the 

 elytra, sub-orbicular or broadly rounded laterally at the base which 

 is straight above the scutellum, this latter part being very long and 

 very sharply acuminate ; elytra elongated, sub-parallel, but strongly 

 sinuate above the side-pieces, plane, more or less distinctly costulate ; 

 anterior tibiae moderately dilated at apex and strongly bi-dentate, 

 intermediate and posterior legs uni-dentate on the upper side, the 

 intermediate and hind tarsi longer than the tibiae, the anterior ones 

 shorter and more or less nodose at tip ; pygidium vertical or some- 

 what convex ; sternal process very small ; spurs of hind legs long 



