1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 683 



Length 11-11J mm. ; width 5J-6 mm. 



Hab. Natal (no exact locality). 



This species is more nearly related to S. zebra than to S. longipes, 

 if the name of that species is what I believe it to be, but it differs 

 from S. zebra, in which the clypeus is also deeply incised, in having 

 the angles of the prothorax very sharp, and even dentate underneath 

 in the 2 ', the elytra are shorter and the humeral callus very much 

 longer. 



I have seen two examples (<? ? ) sent to me by Mr. O. E. Janson 

 as being possibly S. longipes, Swed. I have not seen the original 

 description, nor have I found that of S. swederi in Schonherr's Syn. 

 Insect., quoted wrongly in the Munich Catalogue as being on p. 106 

 of vol. i., pt. 3, but Burmeister's description of this insect agrees 

 very well with S. flavipennis and horsfieldi, which I place in 

 synonymy with S. longipes. Another reason for Mr. Janson's 

 specimens not being what he thinks they are is that they are labelled 

 "Natal," which was a terra incognita at the time of Swederus, 

 whereas S. longipes is found not far from the first Cape settlement. 



Tribe VALGINL 



Gen. COMYTHOVALGUS, Kolb., Cat. ii., p. 310. 



Line 7. After "anterior tibiae five-dentate," add "outwardly in 

 the <? , three-dentate only in the ? ." 



Comythovalgus fasciculatus, Gyth., Cat. ii., p. 311. 



C. plumatus, Fahr., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 57, is the ? of C. fasci- 

 culatus. 



Valgus smithii, McLeay, 

 Illust. Zoolog. S. Afric, 1849, p. 16. 



" Valgus thoraci postice utrinque macula nigra, abdominisque 

 fascia alba. 



Long. Corp. 4 lines. 



This species is scarcely distinct from the Valgus hemipterus of 

 Europe. It has the same rugae of the thorax, the same size and 

 general form, and only differs slightly in the disposition of the scales. 

 In V. hemipterus, for instance, the abdomen is quite white, with 

 thickly set scales. In V. smithi there is merely a white band. V. 



