10 Descriptive Catalogue [1897. 



with the present species, but this I have not been able to ascertain. 

 I had imagined that C. concolor, owing to the shorter antennae 

 and their straighter shape, was the female of C. Smithi, of which 

 MacLeay has given an excellent figure, but on dissection I have 

 found that these specific characters hold good in both sexes. Length 

 11-|— 14 mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban), Zambezia (Zambeze Falls, Salisbury), 

 Zululand (Eshowe), Swazieland. 



Ceeapterus laceratus, Dohrn, 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1891, p. 388. 



" Not very well preserved, but yet so far recognisable that it can 

 be plainly described, is another Paussid, the habitat of which, nearer 

 than South Africa, I am not aware of. The half of the right posterior 

 elytron and several tarsi are wanting. However, as I have waited 

 eight years in vain for a second specimen, I describe mine as follows : 

 Paussus (Cerapterus) laceratus ; brownish red ; elytra moderately 

 shining and having a fulvous lunule towards the apex ; eyes black ; 

 prothorax shining ; elytra slightly wider than the prothorax and 

 elongate. Length 15 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



" Through the shape of the well-preserved antennae the animal is 

 connected with C. Smithi, Lafertei ; this confirms its African origin. 

 It differs from these two species in having a somewhat more slender 

 facies ; the fulvous lunule at the end of the elytra, as well as the 

 characteristic antennae and tarsi, show the animal to be unmistakably 

 a Cerapterus. The species of that genus in my collection (G. Smithi, 

 concolor, Lafertei) are all dark brown, nearly black, but G. laceratus 

 is light reddish brown ; this and a somewhat narrower prothorax 

 give it a more slender appearance. I have no doubt that it is 

 specifically different." 



Gen. AETHEOPTEEUS, MacLeay, 



Smith's Illustr. Afric. Annul., 1838, p. 75. 



Head and antennae as in Cerapterus ; maxillae without outer lobe, 

 not hooked at tip but with six sharp teeth along the inner edge ; 

 ligula very small, triangular.; legs compressed, anterior tarsi of 

 male not much dilated, papillose underneath, posterior and inter- 

 mediate slightly less papillose underneath and more villose laterally, 

 those of the female ciliate underneath ; prothorax somewhat cordi- 

 form ; head with two round depressions on the vertex. 



This genus has several representatives in Australia, and another 

 species is recorded from Abyssinia. 



