326 Descriptive Catalogue [1898. 



Cymindoldea humeealis. 



Black, sub-opaque, with the labrum, antennae, legs, and the outer 

 margin of the prothorax light testaceous, elytra also with a narrow 

 outer margin and having a humeral elongato-quadrate patch of the 

 same colour extending from the outer margin to the fourth stria and 

 reaching from the base to about one-fourth of the length ; head very 

 finely plicate longitudinally ; prothorax very finely aciculate, median 

 longitudinal line deep ; elytra plane, oblong, a little attenuate at the 

 shoulders, striate, the striae with a series of fine punctures ; under 

 side piceous-brown. Length 8 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (no exact locality). 



Cymindoidea maeshalli. 



Black, not much shining, antennae and legs sub-flavescent, the 

 former darker than the latter ; elytra with a bisinuate flavescent 

 patch reaching from near the suture to the third dorsal carina, and 

 situated nearer the median part ; head conspicuously plicate longi- 

 tudinally ; antennae short, hardly reaching the base of the elytra ; 

 prothorax very evenly shagreened, the median longitudinal groove 

 deep and relatively broad ; elytra oblong but a little attenuate late- 

 rally at the shoulders, plane, finely carinate with the carinae sharper 

 in the middle of the dorsal part, intervals broad, deeply and very 

 closely aciculate ; the juxta-marginal costa has disappeared, and on 

 the second costa are two or three asymetrical punctures ; under side 

 black, shining. 



This species, although having the same facies as the other two 

 included in this genus, is very distinct, owing to the peculiar sculp- 

 ture of the elytra, which are carinate with the intervals filled with 

 three rows of very closely set and minute punctures, the intervals of 

 which form very fine lines. Length 12 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Zambesia (Salisbury). 



Gen. HYSTEICHOPUS, 



Catal., p. 212. 



Hystmchopus altitudinis. 



Black, moderately shining with the elytra sub-opaque, basal joints 

 of antennae and palpi piceous-red ; prothorax broad, not cordiform, 

 very slightly broader laterally in the median pait than at apex or 



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