1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 567 



Caccobius discrepans, Per., Cat. i., p. 242. 



Caccobius anomalus, Klug, Cat. i., p. 276. 



Caccobius histerinus, Fahr., Cat. i., p. 276. 

 d'Orbigny records this species from Natal. 



Caccobius cavatus, n. sp.* 



Very small, head and prothorax often with a slight bronze sheen, 

 upper side clothed with a moderately short pubescence. Epistoma 

 very narrowly scooped out ; frontal part with an arcuate carina, 

 vertex ( $ ) with two large acute teeth and a deep excavation 

 between these teeth ; $ with only two very weak calluses and a 

 slight depression. Prothorax with the punctuation simple and con- 

 sisting of moderately large and deep punctures and of smaller and 

 very superficial ones, the sides are not sinuate near the posterior 

 angles ; the punctuation of the intervals is simple, moderately large, 

 and little closely set. 



Length 2J-2f mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



H. d'Orbigny. 



Caccobius (Diaglyptus) multifidus, n. sp. 



Very small, black, upper side with long, black, erect and very 

 remote setae. Epistoma divided into five small teeth which are 

 about equally distant from each other, the head is simple and 

 covered with an extremely closely-set punctuation ; prothorax 

 covered in a uniform manner with a simple, somewhat fine, deep 

 and very closely-set punctuation ; the sides are not sinuated near 

 the posterior angles, and the base has no fold. Intervals with a 

 simple, close and deep punctuation. 



Length 2^-2 \ mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony. 



H. d'Orbigny. 



Caccobius inconspicuus, Fahr., Cat. i., p. 234, 

 d'Orbign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 4. 



My description of this species made partly from a mutilated 

 example (Fahrseus' type) and partly from his diagnosis can be 



* d'Orbigny's descriptions of new species will be given in full in the Annales 

 de la SocieM Entomologique de France for 1908. 



