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coxae ; elytra with a broad lateral sulcus, upper part o the body 

 with scattered long setae. In this sub-genus is included one South 

 African species. 



Sub-gen. CACCONEMUS, Jekel, 

 Rev. and Mag. d. Zool., 1872, p. 418. 

 C. castaneus, Klug, Catal. i., p. 262. 



Sub-gen. CACCOPHILUS, Jekel, 



Loc. cit., p. 410. 



Caccobius februgineus, Fahr., Catal. i., p. 247. 



d'Orbigny records this species from Somaliland, German East 

 Africa, Central Africa, Congo, Gaboon, Dahomey. It is a very rare 

 species in South Africa. 



Caccobius nigritulus, Klug, Catal. i., p. 261. 

 C. litigiosus, Per., loc. cit., p. 242. 



Black, with a faint metallic tinge, sub-opaque or very little shiny, 

 antennae and legs rufescent brown ; facies sub-parallel ; clypeus 

 arcuate but bluntly sub-triangular in the anterior part, not emargi- 

 nate there, no incision at the base of the genae which do not project ; 

 head and clypeus simple but with a slightly tubercular prominence 

 in the anterior frontal part ; the surface is moderately closely acicu- 

 late punctate and glabrous ; prothorax longer than broad, very little 

 ampliate laterally, slightly attenuate but not sinuate towards the 

 base the angles of which are very obtuse but not rounded, base not 

 distinctly marginate ; prothorax simple, sloping behind, slightly 

 sulcate longitudinally for a short distance from the base, and 

 covered all over with closely-set, elongated, aciculate non-setigerous 

 punctures ; elytra not broader than the median part of the pro- 

 thorax, striate, the striae very narrow, not distinctly geminate nor 

 punctulate, intervals plane, the dorsal ones equal in width and all 

 with very fine, nearly obliterated aciculate punctures disposed in 

 two somewhat irregular series ; pygidium glabrous, aciculate punc- 

 tate ; under side glabrous, aciculate punctate; groove of the meta- 

 sternum shallow, obliterated at both ends. 



Length 4-4 J mm. ; width 2f-3 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Rikatla). 



Caccobius inops, Per., Cat. i., p. 240. 

 C. mixtus, d'Orb., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1905, p. 384. 



