322 Descriptive Catalogue [1898. 



testaceous, abdomen black ; legs rufescent, with the tibiae and tarsi 

 slightly fuscous. Length 4-J- mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). 



Follows B. rikatlce, Catal., p. 183; it is more convex, and in the 

 elytra the brick-red colour has displaced to a great extent the black 

 background, which is now limited to basal and a sutural band with 

 two patches on each elytron. 



Brachinus solidus. 



Head, prothorax, and basal joint of antennae dull brick-red, legs 

 flavescent, antennae fuscous ; elytra fuscous black with two lateral 

 rufescent patches on each side ; antennae thick ; head and prothorax 

 distinctly shagreened ; the latter is of the usual shape, and is slightly 

 infuscate on each side of the median longitudinal line ; elytra trun- 

 cate at base, gradually ampliated laterally from the humeral angle 

 to two-thirds of the length, where they are one-fifth wider than at 

 the base ; they are plane, briefly but densely pubescent, shagreened, 

 costulate in the dorsal part, and have two lateral, sub-rufescent 

 patches on each side : the first one is sub-ovate, situated near the 

 shoulder, reaches to about one-fifth of the length, and is disconnected 

 from both the basal and outer margins, and the second one, which 

 is not very distinct, is in a line with the first, but situated at a certain 

 distance from the apex. Length 5 mm. ; width 2-| mm. 



This species is at once distinguishable from the other South 

 African species by the more quadrate shape of the elytra ; the 

 antennae are also more robust. 



Hab. Zambesia (Salisbury). 



Gen. CEEPIDOGASTEE, 



Catal., p. 188. 

 Crepidogaster atratus. 



Head, prothorax, elytra, pectus, and abdomen black, opaque, 

 antennae sub-rufescent with the third joint deeply infuscate ; legs 

 sub-rufescent with the tibiae a little infuscate outwardly ; the head 

 and prothorax are very finely aciculate ; the elytra are very finely 

 shagreened, very briefly pubescent, and very faintly costate. Length 

 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Smaller than C. natalicus, Catal., p. 191, and with the head and 

 prothorax not so distinctly shagreened ; the elytra are only faintly 



