650 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



entire longitudinal, median, impressed line ; scutellum scabrose 

 punctate, elytra oblong, elongate, faintly bi-costulate on each side, 

 and covered like the prothorax with contiguous elongated granules, 

 imparting to them a strongly shagreened appearance ; pygidium and 

 underside densely villose. 



Differs from Ghoetocanthus insuetus, Pering. (Catal. i., p. 496), by the 

 slightly more oblong shape, the plainly impressed prothoracic median 

 line and the very much finer granulation of the upper side. 



Length 6-8J mm ; width 3-3J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Vryburg District). 



Gen. SYNOCHODtEUS, Koibe, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. li., 1907, p. 27. 



" Body oblong, pilose ; labrum entire, rounded in front ; eyes semi- 

 globose, entire ; elytra elongate, a little broader than the prothorax, 

 sub- striate ; tibiae of the first pair tri -dentate outwardly, the two 

 apical teeth strongly elongated ; posterior tibiae compressed, mode- 

 rately broad, least ampliate towards the apex, briefly carinulate and 

 bi-denticulate outwardly and with two somewhat elongated spurs at 

 apex, the lateral, longer spur crenulate outwardly and more or less 

 sparsely and briefly setose. 



Synochodceus differs from Ochodceus in the labrum being rounded 

 in the anterior part (in Ochodceus it is deeply scooped out), in the 

 oroad, truncate apical joint of the maxillary palps, the more 

 elongated elytra, the more slender tarsi ; the tibiae of all the legs 

 have hairs at apex, and the longer spurs of all the tibiae are 

 crenulate." 



Synochod^us modestus, Kolbe, 

 Loc. cit., p. 27. 



" Oblong, ferruginous, moderately shiny, plentifully flavopilose, 

 moderately softly hirtose ; frontal part rugose, vertex and epistoma 

 shiny, impunctate, labrum moderately shiny, glabrous; prothorax 

 rounded, attenuate in front with the anterior angles sharp, whole 

 disc thickly but not very closely punctate ; scutellum rugose punc- 

 tate, sub-acuminate behind ; elytra moderately narrow, slightly 

 elongate, plentifully and moderately deeply, irregularly punctate 

 but not punctate striate, partly, however, minutely, indistinctly 

 striate, the striae lightly impressed ; pygidium with a very long 

 pubescence, shining, minutely rugose punctate. 



Length 5J mm. 



Hab. German South- West Africa." 



