408 Descriptive Catalogue [1898. 



antennae and legs more testaceous, pubescence long, rufous ; head 

 longer than broad, sides rounded, much attenuate in front, three 

 equal foveae, the posterior ones situated a little in front of the centre 

 of the eyes, antennal tubercle nearly as long as broad, feebly sulcate, 

 the infra-ocular spine long, sharp and straight ; palpi testaceous and 

 with erect setae, the third joint long, not very broad, very obliquely 

 truncate at apex with the external angle sharp, fourth rather long, 

 sharply aculeate ; antennae long and slender, first joint cylindrical, 

 longer than the two following ones put together but hardly thicker, 

 second sub-quadrate, following ones a little more slender, third 

 hardly longer than the second, third to seventh increasing a little 

 in length, eighth nearly twice as long as seventh but hardly thicker, 

 ninth to tenth of the same length, a little stouter, eleventh nearly 

 three times as long as tenth, thickening from the base to the third 

 anterior part and then attenuate and obtuse at apex ; prothorax as 

 broad as the head and eyes included, regularly ovate, lateral foveae 

 strong, median one antibasal, smaller than the others ; elytra little 

 convex and little narrowed towards the base with the shoulders 

 rounded, much longer than broad, discoidal sulcus short and incon- 

 spicuous ; abdomen shorter than the elytra, sub-depressed, first dorsal 

 segment shorter by one-half than the following one ; the carinae are 

 situated close to the sides and reach only the middle of the second 

 segment ; metasternum hardly sulcate ; anterior femora thickened, 

 tibiae thickened in the middle, arcuate and a little sinuate, inter- 

 mediate and posterior ones nearly straight ; no sexual marks, but 

 the unique specimen is very likely a male, judging from the long 

 four-jointed club. Length 2-30 mm. 



I do not know any other African species with such long and 

 slender antennae. 



Hab. Zambesia (Salisbury). 



Centrophthalmus brevispina, 



Plate XVIII. , fig. 22. 



Oblong, rufous or castaneo-rufous, pubescence long and fine. 

 erect, yellow ; head a little longer than broad, much attenuate in 

 front, two small foveae between the eyes and in front a longitu- 

 dinal sulcus extending over the antennal tubercle ; the infra-ocular 

 spine is very small, and reduced to a thin and sharp tubercle ; palpi 

 testaceous with long, erect, whitish setae ; the third joint obconical, 

 a little arcuate with a slightly oblique truncature at the apex, fourth 



