1898.] of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 397 



broad, transverse prothorax, ampliated laterally. The female is 

 unknown. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 



Eaffeayia natalensis, Baffray, 

 Catal., p. 75. 



The colour varies much ; the original type of the description above 

 referred was chestnut-red. I have some suspicion that the example 

 was not quite mature, as I have seen lately two other specimens, 

 one from Natal and one from Port Elizabeth (Dr. Brauns), which 

 are more or less piceous-brown, with the elytra red-brown and the 

 legs and antennae chestnut or rufous, which I think is the normal 

 colouration. 



Gen. DALMINA, Kafir., 



Catal., p. 78. 



Dalmina elizabethana, 



Plate XVIII. , fig. 10. 



Catal., p. 121. 



When I gave the description of this species, I had only male 

 examples for examination ; since that time I received a good many 

 specimens from Dr. Brauns, including the female, which seems to be 

 far more abundant than the male. 



I have nothing to alter in the description of the male referred to. 



Female : Darker in colour, chestnut ; elytra much shorter, 

 attenuated at the base, with the sides rounded ; antennae with the 

 three first joints as in the male, fourth larger than the third, sub- 

 quadrate, fifth of the same shape but only a trifle larger, sixth to 

 tenth transverse, a little narrower and slightly decreasing, eleventh 

 as in the male, trochanters and tibiae simple. Length l-60-2*10 mm. 



In this species the female is somewhat variable in size ; in the 

 large specimens the antennae are thicker with the joints more 

 transverse. 



Compared with the female of B. concolor from Natal, there are 

 the same differences in the head as mentioned already for the male, 

 and the antennae are much thicker with the joints more transverse ; 

 compared with the female of B. globubicomis the sixth to eighth 

 joints of the antennae are smaller. It differs from the female of B. 



