1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 651 



Sub-Family OEPHNIN^. 



Gen. OEPHNUS, Catal. L, p. 499. 

 Orphnus zambesianus, Cat. i., p. 502. 



I mistook for the female of this species another one which I 

 describe further on under the name of Orphnus parentalis. 



Female : Dull brick-red, shiny, head simple, covered all over with 

 closely-set punctures ; prothorax simple but having in the anterior 

 part a short, very little raised yet distinct arcuate ridge at a short 

 distance from the apex, and a longitudinal but also very faint 

 impression in the middle of the posterior part, the surface is covered 

 with cicatricose punctures separated by an interval about equal to 

 their own diameter, but occasionally also wider in the centre of the 

 base ; scutellum indistinctly punctate ; elytra of the normal shape, 

 but without any traces of striae and with the punctures very distinct 

 and very closely set from the base to the posterior rounded part. 



Length 8f mm. ; width 5J mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Plumtree, Sebakwe) ; Mozambique 

 (Feira). 



Orphnus kafuenus, n. sp. 



Black, shiny, with the hairs brownish, and the antennal club 

 rufescent. Closely allied undoubtedly to O.incultus ($) (Cat. i., 

 p. 504), which it should follow in the systematic arrangement; it 

 differs from it in the punctuation of the prothorax which is deeper, 

 and leaves in the centre a much broader smooth space ; it is also 

 more massive ; the elytra have the dorsal striae more distinct, and 

 the punctuation which is deeper is less obliterated past the median 

 part than in 0. incultus. 



Length 10-lOi- mm. ; width 5J-6 mm. 



Hab. North- Western Rhodesia (Kafue River). 



Orphnus parentalis, n. sp. 

 0. zambesianus, 2 , Catal. i., p. 503. 



Female : This species, which I erroneously assumed to be the $ 

 of 0. zambesianus, differs from it in the more parallel elytra, but 

 especially in the punctuation of the head the clypeal part of which, 

 and only the fringe of the frontal are punctured ; on the prothorax 

 the central dorsal part is impunctate for about one-third of the 

 whole surface, and the sides bear some round punctures separated 



