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MinuTES OF PROCEEDINGS, 1897-8 TRANSACTIONS, 1896-8 :— DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE COLEOPTERA OF SoutH AFRICA Family Pausside. By L, Prrincury Family Pselaplide. By A. RaFFray BIBLIOGRAPHY OF Books, PAMPHLETS, Maps, MaGazines, ARTICLES, Ertc., RELATING To SourTH AFRICA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO GEOGRAPHY. FROM THE TIME oF Vasco DA GAMA TO THE FORMATION OF THE BRITISH SoutH AFRricA Company In 1888. By H. C. ScHunkKE Hotway Notes on PorTIONS OF THE Cross oR MeEmoRIAL PILLAR ERECTED BY BARTHOLOMEW D1Az NEAR ANGRA PEQUENA, IN GERMAN SoutH-West ArFrrica. By W. L. Scuater DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE COLEOPTERA OF SoutTH AFRICA Family Cicimdelide. Second Supplement. By L. PERINGUEY . ; =. : Family Carabide. First Supplement. By L. PErtncury Family Pausside. First Supplement. By L. Parincury Family Pselaphide. Supplement. By A. Rarrray Vv PAGE 43 131 2995 303 303 315 375 381 al Contents. PAGE NotvEesS ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE DRAKENSBERGEN, NATAL. By Frank FI. CHURCHILL, AD Notes ON THE RECENT LIMESTONES ON PARTS OF THE SOUTH AND West Coasts oF CapE Cotony. By A. W. Rocers AND EK. H. L. Scuwarz : : 497 RESUME OF RECENT SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS BEARING ON SoutH AFRICA, FROM JANUARY 1, 1897, To JUNE 30, 1898 437 his! OF MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 1895. 1897. 1890. 1886. Soe 1877. 1895. Soir. 1885. 18917. S97. 1883. LST. SIT 1898. Hse Mie 1878. 39S: 1896. 1894. 1896. 1895. 1895. JULY 31, 1898. Auston, G., Gardens, Cape Town. Auston, E.G., Van Wyks Vlei, Carnarvon, C.C. AMPHLETT, G. T., Standard Bank, Cape Town AnDERSON, T. J., Kenilworth, Cape Town. ANDERSON, G. E. C., M.D., 47, Burg Street, Cape Town. ARDERNE, H. M., The Hill, Claremont, Cape Town. Baker, H., Castle Co. Chambers, Adderley Street, Cape Town. Barker, C. N., Malvern, D’ Urban, Natal. Brcs, J. H. M., M.D., Rondebosch, Cape Town. Beattiz, J. C., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., South African College, Cape Town. Brack, R. Sixcnarr, M.B., Robben Island, near Cape Town. Bopxtn, A. A.; M.A., Diocesan Coll., Rondebosch, Cape Town. Bouus, H., F.L.8., Kenilworth, Cape Town. Beaune, do VODs PhD: Port Elizabeth, -€:C. ‘Breyer, H. G., M.D., School of Mines, Pretoria, Z.A.R. Brown, F. N. Drwocx, M.R.C.8.E., Hilton College, Maritz- burg, Natal. Bucuanan, E. J., Hon. Justice, Claremont, Cape Town. CHURCHILL, FE. O. F., Chalfort, Gillets, Natal. Cooper, A., Richmond, Natal. CORSTORPHINE, G. S., B.Se., Ph.D., South African Museum, Cape Town. CowPER, SyDNEY, Claremont, Cape Town. CrEGOE, J. P., P.O. Box 1420, Johannesburg, Z.A.R. CrowHurst, J. W., F.R.C.V.8., Stellenbosch, C.C. Vil Vill 1895. 1890. 1898, 1877. 1897. 1898. 1896. 1890. Mt 1898. 1877. 1892. 1892. 1895. 1877. 1895. 1879. 1895. 1897. 1895. Theil: 1896. 1898. Ike IE 1897. 1889. 1897. 1896. Sou. 1397, 1895. 1883. 1889. 1892. 1896. 1895. List of Members. Currey, C., Department of Agriculture, Cape Town. Donpps, W. J., M.D., Mowbray, Cape Town. DreGeE, J. L., Port Elizabeth, C.C. ExBpEN, Hon. A., Rondebosch, Cape Town. Eppineton, A., M.B., Graham’s Town, C.C. Epwarps, A., Diep River, Cape Town. Evans, M. 8., F.Z.8., D’ Urban, Natal. FAIRBRIDGE, W. G., 133, Longmarket Street, Cape Town. Finuay, W. H., M.A., F.R.A.S., Royal Observatory, Cape Town. Fick, W., Roeland Street, Cape Town. Fisk, Rev. G. H. R., C.M.Z.5. (Honorary), Church House, Cape Town. FuetcHer, W., P.O. Box 79, Cape Town. Fourcabg, H. G., Agricultural Department, Cape Town. Konner, EE, B., MB, CM. fR.C:S:. Es Church “Square: Cape Town. Fuuier, T. E., M.L.A., Mowbray, Cape Town. Gincurist, J, D. H, M.A. B.Sc; Ph.D., South Atrican Museum, Cape Town. Gintt, Davin, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., F.R.A.8., Royal Obser- vatory, Cape Town. GoopENouGH, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Winuiam H., K.C.B., B.A, F.G.S., Erinville, Rondebosch, Cape Town. GRAHAM, F.. G. C., Somerset Hast, C.C. GreEGoRY, Dr. A. J., Colonial Office, Cape Town. GuTHRIE, F., LL.B., Rondebosch, Cape Town. GunnING, J. W. B., Ph.D., Staats Museum, Pretoria, Z.A.R. Hamiuton, T. H., Railway Electrical Works, Cape Town. Heenan, R. W. Hammuerstey, M.E.C.E., Port Elizabeth, C.C. Hewat, M. L., M.B., Mowbray, Cape Town. Howarp, R. N., M.B., Port Nolloth, C.C. Hueo, D. bE Vos, M.B., Worcester, C.C. Huaeo, Hon. J. D., Worcester, C.C. : Hurcueon, D., F.R.C.V.8., Department of Agriculture, Cape Town. Horcuins, D. E., F.R.M.8., Kenilworth, Cape Town. Impry, Dr., Overbeek Square, Cape Town. JaniscH, N., Colonial Office, Cape Town. Juta, Hon. Sir Henry, B.A., Q.C., Kenilworth, Cape Town. KANNEMEYER, J., Dr., Burghersdorp, C.C. Kirouine, C. McGowan, M.D., Burg Street, Cape Town. Kouse, Rev. F. C., B.A., D.D., 5t. Mary’s Presbytery, Cape Town. 1898. 1877. 1888. 1892. 1895. 1895. SS. SO 1697. 1885. 1887. 1897. 1896. 1897. 1896. 1898. 1892. 1880. 1895. 1884. 1895. 1895. 1894. 1892. 1887. 1895. 1882. L397. 1890. 1895. L377. 1896. List of Members. ix LEIBBRANDT, The Rev. H. C. Vos, House of Parliament, Cape Town. LicHtFoot, The Ven. Archdeacon, B.D., Bree Street, Cape Town. Linney, J. B., M.A., LL.B., Claremont, Cape Town. Liruman, K. V., Dock Road, Cape Town. LitttEwoop, EH. T., M.A., B.Se., High School, Wynberg. Lounspury, C. P., B.Sc., Department of Agriculture, Cape Town. McPuHerson, J. W. C., M.B., Stellenbosch, C.C. Matty, L., 8, Shortmarket Street, Cape Town. Manixus, J. F., M.D., 57, Grave Street, Cape Town. MartortH, R., Ph.D., M.A., Church Street, Cape Town. MaRcHAND, Rev. B. P., B.A., Rondebosch, Cape Town. MARSH AI Gow i, Hn. EeZis:, P:O) Box o6, Salisbury, Rhodesia. Mayer, C., Stellenbosch, C.C. Metrina, I. P. pe H., Worcester, C.C. Morrison, J. T., M.A., F.R.S.E., Victoria Coll., Stellen- bosch, C.C. MoLbLEnGRAAFF, G. LA F., Ph.D., Pretoria, Z.A.R. Muir, T., LLD., M.A., F.R.S.E., Education Office, Cape Town. Mu.turr, The Rev. H., East London. Outve, W. T., M.Inst., C.E., 4, National Bank Chambers, St. George’s Street, Cape Town. Perincuey, L., F.E.S., F.Z.8., South -African Museum, Cape Town. Purce.u, W. F., Ph.D., South African Museum, Cape Town. RaFrray, A. (Chey. de la Légion d’Honneur), Kloof Street, Cape Town. Rist, B. Van per, Ph.D., M.A., Victoria Coll., Stellen- bosch, C.C. Roserts, A. W., F.R.A.S., Lovedale, Victoria East, C.C. Ropinson, Miss L. A., All Saints’ School, Sea Point, Cape Town. Rogers, A. W., B.A., F.G.S., South African Museum, Cape Town. 7 RoseE, J. EK. B., Sea Point, Cape Town. Ross, A., F.Z.8., P.O. Box 1461, Johannesburg, Z.A.R. Ryan, P., Rosebank, Cape Town. . SAUNDERS, H. P., Cape Town. SAUNDERS, J., Sea Point, Cape Town. SCHREINER, The Hon. W. P., Q.C., Rondebosch, Cape Town. List of Members. SCHONLAND, 8., Ph.D., M.A., Albany Museum, Graham’s Mowe Ge: SCHUNKE-Hoxtuoway, H. C., E.R.G.S., Plaisir de Merle P.O., Paarl C.¢: Scuwarz, H. H. L., Assoc. R. Coll. Se., South African Museum, Cape Town. Scuater, W. L., M.A., F.Z.S., South African Museum, Cape Town. SILBERBAUER, C. F., 4, Liesbeck Villas, Rondebosch, Cape Town. Smipt, H. pz, B.A., alee Office, Cape Town. SmitH, Hon. C. pukononee i) M.A., Audit Office, Cape Town. DOuUtHEY, Elon yom iy Ko CiMGy ener GG. STaRK, A. C., M.B., Eccleston, Torquay, England. Stewart, T., F.G.S., M.Inst. C.E., St. George’s Chambers, Cape Town. Stewart, C., Meteorological Department, Cape Town. Sr. Lecer, F. Y., B.A., M.L.A., Newlands, Cape Town. Sutton, J. R., P.O. Box 142, Kimberley, C.C. TENNANT, Davip, Kenilworth, Cape Town. THomson, W., M.A., B.Sc., F.R.S.E., University Chambers, Cape Town. Tooxs, W. H., Agricultural Department, Cape Town. TREDGOLD, C. H., Buluwayo, Rhodesia. TRELEAVEN, F.., Plein Street, Cape Town. TriMEN, R., F.R.S., F.L.5. (Honorary), F.Z.5., Entomological Society of London, Chandos Street, London, W. Trotter, A. P., B.A., M.I.E.E., Post Office, Cape Town. Trotter, Lieut.-Col. J. K., R.A., The Castle, Cape Town. Turner, G., M.B., Colonial Office, Cape Town. Woy Soro, Jel Be M.B., Pretoria, Z.A.R. VERSFELD, J. 5. lip, RB. C.8., Stellenbosch, C.C. Viuuiers, The Right Hien Sir Jd: cet Em WK CN Ge eee Wynberg Hill, Wynberg, C.C. WacceEtt, The Rev. P. N., M.A., Mission House, Chapel Street, Cape Town. WestTHOFEN, W., Public Works Dissenters Cape Town. WIENER, L. | Naghadle, Cape Town. WILMAN, Miss M., Kenilworth, Cape Town. Woop, J. Mepuey, Berea, D’ Urban, Natal. ERRATA, VOL. IX. PART 2. In Mr. Fourcapbr’s Nore ON THE THREE-POINT, OR POTHENOT’S, PROBLEM. Page 51, line 6, for a, read a. 7, for A, read B. » » 9» 9, for B from C and B, read b from C and A. OZ OO On Tead c- » 038, ,, 2 from foot, for tan—! m, read tan—1 m. ,, foot of page, delete March, 1898. ” ? 9 1 me, B-A 53, add: When m >1, let mM, = al then y= ~ mf 1° r= M, y. pe) t Tey iy ¢ a ‘ Bs) 0 7 . 1 ae es 4 4 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. OrDINARY Montuuy MEBRTING. Wednesday, October 25, 1897. ‘THOMAS STEWART, E.G.S., M.1.C.E., President, in the Chair. Twelve members present. Dr. MacPuerson, Dr. J. C. Brattiz, and Mr. J. MeptEy Woop were duly elected ordinary members of the Society. Dr. VERSFELD, Dr. R. §. Buacx, Dr. M. Hewat, and Messrs. AuEx. Ross and FE’. GRAHAM were nominated for election as ordinary members. The following donations to the Library were announced : Geological Survey of Canada, Report of, Vol. VITI., 1895. Geological Survey of Canada, Maps to accompany Annual Report, New Series, Vol. VIII., 1895. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol. XXLI., Part 1, 1897. Adelaide. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Vol. XXX., 1896. Sydney. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philo- sophical Society, Vol. XLIV., Part 4. Manchester, 1896-97. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. [X., New Series, 1897. Melbourne. Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. III., No. 2. Sydney, Soi Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, Vol. XII., No. 79. Manchester, 1896. i ii Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. Annals of the Queensland Museum, No. 3. Brisbane, 1897. Decades Plantarum Novarum Austro-Africanarum, R. Schlechter, Journal of Botany, 1897. Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. XIII., Nos. 8, 9. Hdin- burgh, 1897. Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Nos. 75-78. Baltimore, 1897. Report of the Australian Museum, 1896. Sydney, 1897. Meteoreisen-Studien, V., von EH. Cohen. Wien, 1897. Sitzungsberichte d. K. Akad. der Wissenschaften, 1-80. Wien, 1896. Bulletin de la Soc. Impér. d. Natural. d. Moscou, No. 4, 1897. Moscow. Memorias y Revista de la Soc. cientif., ‘‘ Antonio Alzate,’’ 1-4. México, 1896. Boletin Mensual del Observatorio Meteorologico Central de México, Part 3, 1897. México. La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 322, 323. Paris, 1897. Ueber ein angebliches Meteoreisen von Walker Co., Alabama, von EK. Cohen. Vierteljahrsschrift d. Naturforsch. Gesellsch. in Ziirich, Part 2, 139%. Zurich: Jahrbiicher der K. K. Central-Anstalt fiir Meteorologie und Erd- Magnetismus, 1894-96. Wien. Dr. KonsBe exhibited some Natal plants which had been experi- mented upon by the Trappist Brothers with a view to their being used in the manufacture of paper. Mr. Rarrray referred to Dr. Calmette’s antivenous toxin. It has been found to remain active after a year, and it will withstand a temperature of 40° C., but should be kept away from the light. Dr. Buacr’s paper on ‘‘ The Morphology and Conditions of Growth of a Fungus Parasitic on Locusts in South Africa’”’ was then read. Orpinary Montuty MEETING. Wednesday, November 24, 1897. THomas Murr, LL.D., M.A., F.R.S.E., Vice-President, in the Chair. Twenty-one members present. Dr. VERSFELD, Dr. M. Hewat, Dr. R. S. Buacx, Messrs. ALEX. Ross, and F. GRAHAM were duly elected ordinary members of the Society. Proceedings. lil Dr. G. A. F. MotencraaFr, State Geologist, Pretoria, and the Rey. H. CG. Vos Lerppranpt, Keeper of the Colonial Archives, were nominated for election as ordinary members. Dr. J. C. Beattie read a paper on ‘“‘ The Hall Effect,” and gave a demonstration of the Tesla experiments, which was very success- fully carried out. OrpinARY Montuty MEETING. Wednesday, January 26, 1898. THomas Stewart, F.G.S., M.I.C.E., President, in the Chair. Thirteen members present and five visitors. The Rey. H. C. Vos Lerppranpt, Keeper of the Colonial Archives, and Dr. G. ‘A. F. Moueneraarr, State Geologist, Pretoria, were elected ordinary members. The following additions to the Library were announced : La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 325, 326, 1897; No. 327, 1898. Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Péters- bourg, Highth Series, Vol. III., Nos. 7 and 8; Vol. IV., No. 2 1896. Bulletin de l’ Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg, 1895, Fifth Series, Vol. III., Nos. 2-5; 1896, Fifth Series, Vol. TV., Nos. 1-5, Vol. V., Nos. 1 and 2; 1897, Vol. VIT., No. 2 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. XXXVL., Nos, 133-155, 1897. Philadelphia. Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Vol. XIX., No, 2, 1897. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Third Series, Zoology, Vol. I., Nos. 1-3 ; Geology, Vol. I., No. 1; Botany, Vol. L, No. 1, 1897. Second Series, Vol. VI., 1896. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Sciences for 1894 and 1895. Indianopolis, 1895-96. Transactions of the Texas Academy of Sciences for 1897. Austin, 1897. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, Vol. VIL, 1889-97. Davenport, 1897. The American Anthropologist, Vol. X., Nos. 4, 6, 7. Washington, DSO: ? \ lv Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Vol. VIII., No. 80, 1897. Johns Hopkins University Circulars, Vol. XVII., No. 182. Boletin Mensual del Observatorio Meteorolégico Central de México, July, September, 1897. Actes de la Société Scientifique du Chili, Vol. IV., 1896, Parts 4, 5; Vol. VIL, Parts 1-2. Santiago, 1897. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. X., New Series, Part 1. Melbourne, 1897. Meteorological Observations made at the Adelaide Observatory during 1894. Adelaide, 1897. Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. XIII., Nos. 11, 12, and mdexe 13897: Vol X1V No: 3.1883: Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, Vol. XII., Nos. 9-12, 1896; Vol. XIII., Nos. 1-3, 1897. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala. 1897. Mr. W. L. SciatTeR read a paper on “ Portions of the Cross or Memorial Pillar erected by Bartholomew Diaz near Angra Pequena, in German South-West Africa.” In the remarks made after the reading of the paper, Dr. Martotu asked if the exact spot at Angra Pequena had been marked when the fragments were removed, and suggested that the Society should take some steps to secure the proper marking of the spot. Mr. St. LeGer stated that he believed the St. Croix stone was still partly in existence, and he also urged the advantage of having the site marked. In reply to Mr. 8. Cowrrr, Dr. CorstorPHINneE stated that no similar limestone occurred near Angra Pequena, and that the rock resembled the European secondary limestone very considerably, and had most probably been brought by Diaz from Europe. The PRESIDENT, in thanking Mr. Sclater on behalf of the Meeting, said that the question of marking the sites should not be allowed to drop, and that the Society might well do something in the matter. ORDINARY MontHoty ME&eEtInG. Wednesday, February 23, 1898. Tuomas STEWART, F.G.8., M.I.C.H., President, in the Chair. Twelve members present and six visitors. Messrs. J. H. Haminton, L. Drece, Dr. BREYER and Miss M. WILLMAN were elected ordinary members. | Proceedings. Vv The following additions to the Library were announced : Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Vol. XIX., No. 3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Zoology, Third Series, Vol. I., No. 4. Geology, Third Series, Vol. I., Nor 2: Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, V., SOT: The American Anthropologist, Vol. X., Nos. 5, 8-10, 1897. Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Vol. VIII., No. 81. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, No. 2, 1897. La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 328, February, 1898. Annals of the Cape Observatory, Vol. III. Cape Photographic Durchmusterung, Vol. I.; Vol. VI. Solar parallax from Helio- meter observations of new planets, Vol. I.; Vol. VII. Solar parallax from observations of Victoria and Sappho. Dr. Git, in calling attention to Vols. III., VI., and VIL., of the Annals of the Cape Observatory, presented by the Lords Commis- sioners of the Admiralty, said that perhaps a few words in con- nection with them would not be without interest to the Members of the Society. Vol. III. represents the first volume of a work entitled the ‘‘ Cape Photographic Durchmusterung,’” and contains the places and magnitudes of 152,000 stars between Declinations 19° 8. and 37° §S. Vols. IV. and V. of the Cape Annals will contain the positions and magnitudes of all stars to about the 10th magnitude from 37° of 8. Declination to the South Pole, and the three volumes together will contain the places of 450,000 stars, thus completing for the whole heavens the work begun by Argelander at Bonn, in 1852; and carried by his successor Schonfeld to 23° South Declination. The work has been thus arranged to overlap the work of Schonfeld for the sake of comparison. Vol. IV. has been passed through the press, but is not yet issued. Vol. V. is in the hands of the printer. The history of this work is perhaps familiar to many of the Members. When the Great Comet of 1882 appeared, the observatory was entirely unprovided with photographic appliances. Dr. Gill obtained the aid of Mr. Allis, of Mowbray, and by attaching his camera to one of the equatorials so as to follow the diurnal motion, very sharp pictures of the comet and the neighbouring stars were obtained. Interesting as the pictures of the comet were, the point which riveted Dr. Gill’s attention was the large number of star images vi Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. which were sharply depicted on the plate. He had long been considering the best means of completing Argelander’s Survey of the Heavens, and photography seemed to be the means of doing it. Accordingly, with the aid of a grant from the Government Grant Fund of the Royal Society, the services of Mr. Woods were secured. and the work was begun in 1884. When in 1887 the International Scheme for the ‘‘ Carte du Ciel’? was arranged, the Royal Society seemed to think that Dr. Gill’s less ambitious plan need not be completed. He (Dr. Gill) did not take this view, especially as Prof. Kapteyn, of Groningen, had already undertaken the more laborious part of the work, viz., the measurement of the plates and their reduction, and he resolved to carry out the work. The international programme was naturally a much more ambitious one, but it would be at least fifty years before it could be carried to completion, and meanwhile some such complete nomenclature of all stars likely to be used for the ordinary purposes of the astronomer was a pressing necessity for the astronomer in the southern heavens. The work having been completed, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty undertook its publication, and the first volume was now before the Society. The other two would soon follow. Vols. VI. and VII. represent work of an entirely different kind. They contain the observations made on the minor planet Jris in 1889, on the minor planets Victoria and Sappho in 1890, with the heliometers at the Cape, Yale, Liepzig, Gottingen, and Bamberg, and of meridian observations of these planets and comparison stars made at twenty-two different observatories. The whole of this work was based on plans which Dr. Gill had proposed for determining the great fundamental constants of astronomy, viz., the Solar Parallax and the Mass of the Moon. The meridian observations had been discussed by Dr. Auwers, of Berlin, the heliometer observations of Iris by Dr. Elkin, and those of Victoria and Sappho by Dr. Guill. The whole of this labour had resulted in the following figures :— Parallax of the sun 8-“802+0-005 probable error. Mass of the moon in terms of the earth, ~;4 5. And these values have been adopted for international use at the Paris Conference of Astronomers in 1896. The value of the solar parallax was the fundamental constant of astronomy, and apparently in the judgment of his colleagues these observations and this discussion had solved a problem which all the numerous Transit of Venus expeditions of 1761, 1769, 1874, and 1882 had failed to solve, viz., to determine the mean distance of the sun within ;,)55 part of its amount. Proceedings. Vil Dr. Murr ‘drew the attention of those interested in Bushman drawings to the desirability of examining the soil at the foot of any rock on which such drawings might be found, and especially if the place seemed suitable as a haunt or as a refuge. To show the importance of this suggestion, he instanced the result of a hurried examination made by himself at the base of a rock near Molteno about five years ago, and he now exhibited a number of interesting objects obtained in the same manner in the Oudtshoorn division, and recently handed over to him by Mr. Blore, surveyor. Mr. Auston exhibited and read some notes on some Euphorbie, one of which showed a remarkable instance of fascination, and one of which he thought might prove well worthy of acclima- tisation in certain parts of the Karoo. Mr. Alston said: ‘‘ This Euphorbia (4. cervicornis) seems to be limited, as to range, to the brak Karoo slopes stretching between the Olifant’s and Orange Rivers, and west of the Kamiesbergen and the high Bushman- land plateau. I am told that it does not grow on the Kamies- bergen where the water is fresh, and it certainly does not grow in the sandy waste immediately bordering the coast. It is probably the most valuable natural botanical production in Nama- qualand, a district noted for its curious flora. It is gratefully eaten by cattle, and without it farmers and transport-riders would be badly handicapped in moving from place to place in time of drought. Unfortunately it is in imminent danger of eradica- tion. Left to itself, its large beet-shaped root is quite safe, and its crown of dwarf stems nearly so. Moreover, it seeds freely, each little stemlet carrying its one, two, or more globular seed-vessels. Less clever than the plant, farmers sacrifice it to their want without - mercy, but never sow a seed save by accident. The whole plant, heavily charged with a bland, milky sap, is ruthlessly chopped out of the ground and carried off by the waggon-load in order to feed hungry cattle on the farm itself, or to supply them with food when on the way to the coast or the village for supphes, starting in a dry season with a full load of the plants, say to Port Nolloth or Hondeklip Bay. At each outspan a suffi- ciency is roughly chopped up with a heavy knife or light axe for the immediate use of the draught cattle, and a like portion is commonly stored, perhaps in a gravel-pit, perhaps only along- side a bush. At the port the last lot is used, the waggon is loaded with grain or merchandise, and the return journey is only made possible by utilising the little stores of H. cervicormis at the outspans along the way. Cattle become so accustomed to being fed viii Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. with this plant near the waggons, that they do not willingly stray in search of local herbage, but after three or four days’ course of the plant salt, or its equivalent, seems to become a necessity, and they will for a little while graze voraciously on the bushes growing in the brak river-beds, returning, however, to the waggons in the hope of getting their usual rations. The habits of this plant seem to promise well for its easy naturalisation in other Karoo districts, and an attempt to achieve this end is well worth the making by our stock farmers. The local name of the plant is Olifant Melkbosch ; the roots grow to a considerable size, and the crown of stems often exceeds a foot in diameter. Dr. Gincurist, the marine biologist, exhibited a collection of flat- fishes (Plewronectide) from various localities in the Colony. The collection was complete as far as the known species of these fish in the Colony was concerned, but besides it contained one, and possibly two species new to science. The collection comprised the following: (1) noglossus capensis, Blgr., a new flat-fish found in False Bay by the Government trawler. It is allied to the British ‘“‘Seald fish.” (2) Solea bleekeri, the nearest approach to the sole, of northern waters that is found in the Colony. The specimen was found by the Civil Commissioner, Knysna, and kindly forwarded. (3) Achirus capensis, Kaup., of which nothing was known of its habits until now. It is found in great quantity at a very young stage in Muizenberg Vlei, but, curiously enough, no adult specimen was found during the investigations of the Government steamer. (4) Synaptura pectoralis, Kaup., the Port Elizabeth sole, which may be readily distinguished from (5) Synaptwra microlepis, Blkr., by the fact that in the former the right pectoral fin is longer than the head, and in the latter it is shorter. (6) Cynoglossus capensis, Kaup., which occurs in abundance in False Bay, but does not grow to a large size. It is normally a ‘“ left-handed” sole, and is more lightly coloured on the upper side than any of the others, the pectoral fins are absent as in Achirus capensis. In the collection was also another specimen from Knysna, which is probably a new species. There are thus six, and probably seven, kinds of valuable flat-fish found in colonial waters, and in view of the present defective know- ledge of the marine resources of the Colony there may be others. It has indeed been reported from the Kowie that the valuable fish the turbot has been found. Dr. Gincurist explained at length the evolution of the shape of the sole. Proceedings. ix OrDINARY Montuiuy MEETING. Wednesday, March 30, 1898. Tuomas Murr, LL.D., M.A., F.R.S.E., Vice-President, in the Chair, nineteen members present, and eight visitors. Colonel TrottTER, the Rev. P. N. WacGeErt, and Messrs. W. Fick, F. O. F. Cuurcuitu, and D, TENNANT, junr., were nominated for election as ordinary members. The following accessions to the Library were announced : The Scottish Geographical Magazine, Nos. 2, 3. Highth Report of the Missouri Botanical Gardens. St. Louis, 1897. Actes de la Société Scientifique du Chili, Vol. VII., Part 4. Santiago, 1897. La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 329, 1898. Catalogue de la Bibliothéque, ibid., 1898. Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, No. 82. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 1897-98, Vol. XLII., Part 1. Icebergs in the Southern Ocean, by H.C. Russell. Sydney, 1897. HK. Cohen. Ueber das Vorkommen von Hisencarbid (Cohenit) im terrestrischen Nickeleisen von Niakornak bei Jakobshavn in Nord-Gronland; Ueber ein neues Meteoreisen von Ballinoo, am Murchison fluss, Australien; Hin neues Meteoreisen von Beaconsfield, Colonie Victoria, Australien. Annals of the Queensland Museum, No. 4. Brisbane, 1897. Boletin Mensual del Observatorio Meteorologico Central. Nov. Table. Upsala Universitets Arsskrift. Mathematik och Naturvetenskap, 1868-76, 28 Parts. Festskrift Wilhelm Lilljeborg, af Svenska Zoologer. Upsala, 1896. Zur Ornithologie Kameruns nebst einigen Angaben tiber die Saugethiere des Landes, von Ungve Sjostedt. Der Wal Svedenborg’s, von Carl W. 8. Aurivilius. Stockh., 1888. Forty-four pamphlets and theses presented by the Library of the Upsala Royal University. Professor Morrison gave an exhibition of Joly’s process of colour photography, and discoursed at length on the principles on which it is based. Mr. FoucarpE exhibited stone implements found in the neighbour- hood of Knysna, one of which was of a shape hitherto unknown. x Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. Mr. Lounsspure exhibited specimens of a Coccid, Orthesia msigiis, newly discovered in the Colony, although known in Natal for several years. It might prove to be a very destructive pest. He also exhibited specimens of another Coccid of the genus Margarodes, which attacks the vines here as it does in Chili. The damage hitherto done out here is, however, not very serious, whereas in Chili it is said to be very great. ORDINARY MontHuy MEETING. Wednesday, April 27, 1898. THOMAS Stewart, F.G.8., M.I.C.E., President, in the Chair. Mr. ArtHuR Epwarps was nominated for election as ordinary member. Colonel Trorrmr, the Rev. P. N. Waccertt, and Messrs. W. Fick, F. O. F. Courcuitu, and D. Tennant were duly elected ordinary members of the Society. The following additions to the Library were announced : Neujahrsblatt herausg. v. d.. Naturforsch. Gesellschaft., 1898, C. Zurich. Vierteljahrsschrift d, Naturf. Gesellsch. in Ziirich, Parts 3, 4, 1897; pul SS: The Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. XIX., No. 3, 1898. Memoiras y Revista de la Socied. Cientific., ‘Antonio Alzate,’ Parts 5-12, 1896-97. Report of the Sixty-seventh Meeting of the British Association, held at Toronto, August, 1897. London, 1898. Tuberculosis and the Public Health, by G. L. Mullins, M.A., M.D. Sydney, 1898. Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, Vol. V., Part 4, 1898. New South Wales Department of Mines and Agriculture: Notes on Chronic Iron Ore, by J. C. Carne; Notes on the Occurrence of Tungsten Ores in New South Wales, by T. EH. Carne. Liversidge, A. Five papers read at the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Brisbane, 1895. Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Vol. IX., Nos. 83, 84, 1898. Dr. CorsTORPHINE read Mr. F, F. CHuRcHILL’s paper on “ The Geology of the Drakensberg.” Proceedings. xl OrpDINARY Montuiy MEETING. Wednesday, June 29, 1898. THomMas STrewart, F.G.S., M.1.C.E., President, in the Chair. Mr. W. L. Scuater gave notice that at the next meeting he would move that in future the meetings of the Society be held in the after- noon, either at 4.80 or 5 p.m., and that the day of meeting be changed to Friday. Messrs. Cuas. T. Hottanp (Buluwayo), C. F. Jurirz, J. C. Watermeyer, and C. L. W. Mansereu (Cape Town), were nominated for election as ordinary members. Mr. ArrHuR Epwarps was duly elected an ordinary member of the Society. Mr. W. L. SctatserR exhibited the following specimens: | I. Skin of Helogale parvula, discovered by Wahlberg many years ago in the interior of Kaffraria, and apparently not obtained since until ‘rediscovered in the Waterberg District in North- West Transvaal, whence came the present specimen, the property of the Staats Museum, Pretoria. II. Skin of Sciwrus palliatus, the red squirrel of Zululand. The specimen was obtained by Messrs. Woodward Bros., in the Umgoye Forest, and presented to the South African Museum, where the species was hitherto unrepresented. III. Stactolema woodwardi, Sharp, a new Barbet from Zululand, also obtained from Messrs. Woodward Bros. The Present exhibited a block of Syenite from the neighbour- hood of Johannesburg. The following additions to the Library were announced : Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXI., Sessions 1895-97, 1896-97. Published 1898. The Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. XIV., Nos. 5, 6. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society, Session 1896-97. Proceedings of the Scottish Microscopical Society, Vol. II., No. 2, Session 1896-97. Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philo- sophical Society, Vol. XLII., Part 2, 1897-98. La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 330-332. Liste des Périodiques compulsés pour |’élaboration de la Biblio- graphia geologica. Bruxelles, 1898. La Classification Décimale Appliquée a la Bibliographia Geologica. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l’Ouest de la, Erance, Vor Wie earn) 1896: Vol. Vil. Parts 1-3, 1897. xi Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. Etude sur les Fourmis, les Guépes et les Abeilles; 12th and 13th Notes, by C. Janet. Les Fourmis, by the same. Sur les Rapports de l’Antennophorus uhlmanm, avec le Lasius mixtus. Sur les Rapports du Discopoma comata avec le Lasius nuxtus, by the same. Vierteljahrsschrift d. Naturf. Gesellsch. in Ziirich, 1898, Part 1. Die geologische Landesaufnahme Belgiens, von Dr. R. Michael. Boletin de la Academia nacional de Ciencias in Cordoba, Vol. VIII., Part 3, 1897. Boletin de la Real Academia de Ciencias y arles de Barcelona, WOly Wey IN@sG, eee Boletin Mensual del Observat. Meteorol. Centr. d. Mexico. Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Vol. [X., No. 85. Johns Hopkins University Circular, Vol. XVII., No. 134. Messrs. A. W. Rogers and H. H. L. Scuwarz read a paper upon ‘‘ Notes on the Recent Limestones occurring on parts of the South and West Coasts of Cape Colony.”’ Proceedings. Xl REPORT OF SECRETARY. Since the last annual meeting, eight ordinary meetings have been held, and two papers, one on geology and one on geography, have been read. These will appear in the Transactions for 1897-98. During the year one member has died, two have resigned, two have rejoined, and eighteen have been elected, making a total of 121, or an increase of twenty-one ordinary members on _ that of the previous year. The books and pamphlets received, in exchange are also a little on the increase, and so is the number of societies to which the Transactions are sent. A card cata- logue of the books, pamphlets, &c., is now being prepared, and the books are now lodged in the Cape Town Public Library, and will soon be available to members and others. Mr. R. Trimen, F.R.S., has been asked to represent the Society at the Zoological Congress being now held at Cambridge, and has consented to do so. The sending of a delegate was decided upon by the Council on the representation of the Right Hon. Mr. Chamberlain. Two parts forming vol. ix. of the Transactions have been issued during the year, containing 207 pages and 4 plates; part 1. of vol. x., con- sisting of 130 pages and 4 plates, has also been issued ; proofs of part 1. of the same volume have been partly corrected, and the manuscript of part ii. of the same volume has been sent to the printers. This vol. x. will comprise three parts, and consist of 500 pages, and will be illustrated by 8 plates and numerous diagrams. The Council has decided to add to the Transactions of the year a résumé of scientific publications bearing on South Africa. The said réswmé for 1897 and the first half of 1898 will appear in part i. of volume x. According to the treasurer’s statement there was a credit balance of £408. L. Perincugy, General Secretary. 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NI Qed ONsvedd “NOH WH TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE COLEOPTERA OF SOUTH AFRICA.—Parrt III. Bie ia eRRING URN. HHS. HaAio.. ces, Assistant Director South African Musewm. (Read November, 1896.) Famiry PAUSSIDA.. Buccau aperture opening downward, labrum not much developed, labial palpi three-jomted, maxillary palpi four or five-jointed, maxillee with one inner lobe or not, short, hooked at tip, faleiform or bifid, hgula horny, concave inwardly, convex outwardly, without paraglosse, edged with bristles or sete, both palpi and ligula hiding the mouth or not; mentum with two sharp lateral, nearly parallel lobes, median part slightly aculeate; head large and with a distinct neck (Hylotorus excepted); antennz varying in number of joints from ten to two; eyes large, lateral; prothorax either entire on the upper side or nearly divided in two; elytra long, covering the abdo- men; pygidium large, declivous, all the cox contiguous and provided with trochanters; legs short, robust, nearly always more or less compressed, sometimes broadly dilated; tarsi five-jointed; pro-, meso-, and metasternum simple; abdomen with five segments, four only of which are visible. The habits of the singular insects included in this family are now sufficiently known. They are myrmecophilous, and although occasionally met with in the open, the place where they should be looked for is in ants’ nests 3 4 Descriptive Catalogue PLES: in the vicinity of the heaps of larve brought to the surface of the formicarium for warmth. In the neighbourhood of Cape Town, where four species occur, their formicarium is generally covered with a large stone. Raffray (‘ Matériaux pour servir 4 l'étude des Paus- sides’) says that almost all the Abyssinian species live with a very small black ant with red thorax, and that only Paussus Cwurtisi and Hylotorus Blanchardi are met with a small yellowish Atta. In South Africa I know of three kinds of ants, among which Paussid@ are found, and the range of two of them is very wide. Plagiolepis fallax harbours Pentaplatarthrus paussoides. The formicarium of this species is occasionally very large, and the number of P. paussoides found in one nest has been known to exceed eighty. Three more beetles are found with this ant—Thorictus capensis, Pér., Cossyphodes Bewicki, Woll., and Hupsalis vulsellata. Mr. C. N. Barker, of D’Urban, Natal, has sent me an example of Cerapterus concolor which he found dead, but still limp, being dragged to the nest by workers of this ant. Herr Guienzius, who collected for a number of years round D’Urban, says, as quoted by Westwood (‘ Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis,’ p. 73), that with few exceptions ‘‘ all the specimens which he had taken were found in ants’ nests, living with species which are carnivorous: Cerapterus, Pleuwropterus and Pentaplatarthrus, with different larger species, but the true Pawssi seem to live only with small species of ants; he had found, indeed, as many as seven distinct species of Pauwssi living with one and the same species of ants.”’ I am not aware that Cerapterus has been found, except by Guienzius in ants’ nests in South Africa, and the fact of the dead specimen above mentioned being dragged to the nest does not necessarily imply that it was being brought back to its former abode, although I have related the occurrence of a somewhat similar case, but the Paussus (P. Burmeistert) was alive. (‘‘ Notes on three Paussi,’”’ Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 1388.) Pheidole capensis, or Pheidole punctulata, harbours Paussus cul- tratus, P. cucullatus, P. Schuckardi P. Burmeisteri, P. Linnei, and P. Klugt. I do not know of any other myrmecophilous beetle harboured by this or (?) these ants. Acantholepis capensis harbours Paussus lineatus, and also two other beetles—one of the few South African Clavigeride, Fustigerodes majusculus, Pér.; and a Ptinus spec. nov. The Pausside are occasionally found flying at the hottest time of the day, but they may be said to be crepuscular or nocturnal. The numerous examples of Cerapterus (two kinds) submitted to me or 1897. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 5 received at the Museum have always been caught coming to the lights in houses or at the camp fire. Thisisalso the case with Plewropterus (two kinds) and other Pauwssus ; and the specimens thus caught are mostly males. However, because these insects are found in ants’ nests, it does not follow that they are of use to the ants in the way that Aphide are, and Clavigeride are said to be. I have kept in captivity for a lengthy period a good many examples of three Paussi (P. Burmeisteri, P. Linnet, and P. lineatus) as well as Pentaplatarthrus paussoides, and I never saw the ants attending to them at all. The Pawssi are carnivorous and are feeding on the young larve, but rather than drag them away by force, the nurses prefer removing the heap of larve and eggs from their reach. I have suggested (Proc. Entom. Soc., Lond., 1886, p. xxxvi) that either the crepitating power of the beetle is so well known to the ants that they make a virtue of necessity, or that they are so much accustomed to- the presence of Paussz in their colonies through hereditary consciousness of that crepitating power that they no longer struggle against the intruders. This latter view, if correct, seems to go far in explaining why so many species of Pawssi are found in the nests of ants belonging to the genus Phevdole.” It might be objected that Pawss: kept under unusual conditions in an artificial formicarium might adapt themselves to the conditions obtaining therein and devour the larve for want of the ordinary staple food, but the appetite of the examples under my observation was as keen when introduced into the formicarium as later on. I have in two instances caught Pawssws munching away ants’ larve in ants’ nests. The anatomy of the buccal organs shows, I think, unmistakably that the diet of the Pawss: must consist of something soft ; the mandibles are, it is true, long, sharp, and more or less falcate at tip, but this is not so much for the purpose of seizing the prey as of use for mating. It is by means of these organs that the male catches hold of the discoidal cavity in the prothorax of the female, and the small pads of flavescent hairs which, I believe, are always present in fresh examples of the genus Paussws, are also probably connected with copulating purposes. The jaws (mazille) are decidedly feeble, the internal lobe is seldom set with rigid spines, and they are, as a rule, deeply incised, or bifid; and eminently adapted for slow manducation accompanied by suction, such as I found to be the case with the * Paussus Faviert, one of the two Huropean species, and occurring in Southern France, Spain, and Algeria, is also found in the nests of a Pheidole, P. megace- phala ; and the other, P. turcicus, with Pheidole pallidula. 6 Descriptive Catalogue (L887. three kinds of Pawssws which I kept in captivity. While in the act of taking food the labial palpi hang at right angles with the mouth, and no movement of the jaws is visible ; in fact it was only by using a very shallow formicarium that I was able to watch the Paussi taking food. It is difficult to detect the sexes of Pauwsside from external characters, and, with a few exceptions, dissection is the only means available. I have already stated that the males seize hold of the prothoracic cavity of the female with their jaws for mating, but this prothoracic cavity is common to both sexes in Paussus, and there are other genera where this prothoracic cavity is wanting, but in those all the tarsi are dilated and covered underneath with dense, short papillae. It is well known that many male Carabide and Hydrophilide have the front, and sometimes the intermediate, tarsi provided with such cusp-like development in order to maintain the female for mating purpose, but in Cerapterus these papillz occur in both sexes ; of that there can be no doubt—I have proved it by dissection. It is, however, possible to recognise the female by means of the slight acumination of the median part of the apex of the pygidium. I have not yet met with the female of Arthropterus, but Raffray states that in this sex the tarsi are ciliate underneath, and it yet remains to be seen if in Plewropterus, the other South African genus having no excavated prothorax, the tarsi of the female are papillose under- neath. In Paussus Curtisi the antennal club is a little longer in the male than in the female, but in P. planicollis, an Abyssinian species, it is longer in the female than in the male. When touched either by the hand or with a straw the Pausside@ crepitate, and the detonation is accompanied by the discharge of a caustic fluid which not only stains the finger as iodine or lunar caustic would, but the whole body of the insect as well as its immediate neighbourhood is covered with a bright yellow fluid, which becomes pulverulent almost immediately, and slowly dis- appears. Free iodine is reported to have been found in the discharge of a Javanese species, Cerapterus quadrimaculatus. I am rather inclined to think that the detonation is produced by the contact of the fluid with the air, because, although expelled from behind, the anterior part of the animal is immediately covered by the yellow pulverulence, and is, therefore, in the centre of the explosion. Raffray, in his ‘ Recherches anatomiques sur le Pentaplatarthrus paussoides, has given a masterly account of the secreting and detonating organs of this Paussid. He finds that the organ for the secretion of the caustic fluid is really a duplicate one, one on each side of the body, independent from one another, and situated far 1897. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. tl from the rectum and anus and not connected ; it opens in the upper part of the lateral angle of the pygidium, and consists of a sub- pyriform vesicle partly adhering to the tergite of the copulating clasper, and opens in a pore situated near the last stigmata, but underneath it; the sides are inflated near the opening, and have two apophyses provided with a powerful fascicle of muscles ; on the top of this vesicle is a compressed, membranaceous, short tube trans- versely fibrous, acting as vas deferens, and ending in a large trilobate bladder of thick texture supporting a coiled vessel of moderately large diameter and consisting of two concentric tubes. This vessel, which is the secreting one, is not connected with any gland, but free and immerged in the adipose tissues. The position of the Paussid@ in the systematic arrangement of the Coleoptera has been much discussed. Burmeister gave as his opinion that they were true Adephaga. Itis known that among the Carabide the genus Ozaena has the same crepitating power as the Paussidie, and as Lacordaire says: ‘‘ Not only Ozaena has on each elytron the peculiar lateral, posterior tubercle, but it has also another character in common, 2.e., the trochanters project from the internal edge of the posterior coxe.’ The crepitating power of Brachinides is well known, and most of the Trwncatipennes exude from the anal segment a fluid, the emission of which, however, is seldom accompanied by a detonation ; Harpalides do the same, and under certain circumstances some of them crepitate also. Two South African species, Stenolophus capensis and Acupalpus ternunalis, do occasionally detonate, and send a small column of whitish smoke when seized. Jam not aware of any other Coleopterous insect included in other families that possess this detonating power, and this in itself might be an inducement to bring the Paussid@ in the vicinity of the Carabide, had not Raffray shown that whereas the digestive system as well as the male genital armature are like that of the Carabidous beetles, the nervous system is very dissimilar, the Carabideé having twelve ganglia, of which six are abdominal, while the Pawssid@ have seven ganglia, of which one only is abdominal. Paussid@é can thus be considered as a very distinct family, greatly modified by the diet and habits acquired through parasitism or mess- mating, but having more affinities with the Carabidé than with any of the other families of the order Coleoptera. They occur in Hurope, South America (Brazil), Asia, Ceylon, Java, Australia, Madagascar, and Africa, and now number 223 species included in 16 genera. They are represented in Africa by 7 genera, 2 of which are peculiar to this part of the- world, and 92 species, while of these 6 genera and 46 species are now 8 Descriptwe Catalogue (1897. known to occur in South Africa. The discovery of no less than 15 new species from 1885 to date leads me to believe that this number will be much increased ultimately. Synopsis of Genera. Labial and maxillary palpi free, not hiding the buccal cavity. Antenne ten-jointed, joints not fused. Ligula ovate, large; maxille with a distinct outer lobe; all tarsi with the four basal joints papillose underneath in both Sexes 23)... Pe eee, ater Pee Foe UC CNC LOmIUSE Ligula very small, triangular; maxille without outer lobe Arthropterus. Antenne ten-jointed, all joints but the basal one fused ; mmaxdililes: bilobabes (vk (nies has ee Ce De ee er a oe eee UL OPLERLUSE Antenne six-jointed, all joints but the basal one fused ; maxille# without outer lobe .. .. .. J. 4., Pentaplatarthrus. Labial and maxillary palpi hiding the buccal cavity. Antenne two-jointed. Head with a neck, no groove in front for the reception of the antennal ‘club? go." £2 a/o i 2 is eee al ce ete ern eee 2a SSIS. Head without neck, a groove in front for the reception of fhejantenwte shel se Hsp, be ee ae, ee ees so EL LOLOT ES. Gren. CHRAPTERUS, Sweder., Vetensk. Ac. Handl., ix., 1788, p. 208. Orthopterus, Westw. Huthysoma, Jas. Thoms. Head short, subelongato-quadrate, dilated behind the eyes, which are very large and prominent, narrowed into a very distinct neck ; mandibles moderately long, falcifiorm; mentum with the lateral lobes not much developed; ligula large, ovate, spatuliform, convex, finely grooved longitudinally in the centre, upper edge set with bristles ; basal joint of labial palpi annuliform, second subconical, short, third much inflated, bell-shaped, truncate and hollow at tip ; maxillary palpi four-jointed, apical joint as long as the two preceding ones together and subacuminate ; maxilla with an elongato-ovate membranaceous lobe, short, hooked at tip and pectinate along the inner edge; antenne ten-jointed, basal joint subquadrangular, the others compressed, set transversely, joined in the centre only, and nearly four times as broad as long; prothorax transverse, slightly rounded laterally and nearly twice as broad as long ; elytra elongato- quadrate, slightly tuberculate laterally at the apex; legs short, massive, much compressed ; apical part of tibize hollowed so as to partly receive the tarsi; tarsi dilated, the two basal joints fused, all 1597, | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. ) four thickly papillose underneath in both sexes, the fifth long, very slender, claws also long, slender and simple. The genus is also represented in the West Coast of Africa (Sierra Leone, Guinea, Rio Grande), and in India (Pondichery), Ceylon, and Java. Synopsis of Species. Antenne elongate, curving slightly outwards, transverse joints closely set together RE ce esr as ch shen ars. [acu abete 5 MULLIS Antenne not curved and shorter, transverse joints not closely set OCS Le eM Temes Mien AN SE voy 0 test Sa Ae yw Mc sia’ fe, CONCOLOT, CERAPTERUS SMITHI, MacLeay, Smith’s Illustr. Afric. Annul., p. 74, pl. iv., fig. 1; Westw., Arcana Entom., vol. ii, p. 7, pl. xlix., fig. 4; Raffray, Matér. Htud. Pauss., pl. xvu., 7-10. Var. Concolor, Schaum., Wiegm. Archiv., 1850, vol. i1., p. 169. Chestnut brown, shining; elytra with a U-shaped flavescent band on each side of the apical part; head plane on the vertex, frontal part punctured, each puncture bearing a long seta, no impression on the vertex ; basal joint of antennz deeply punctured, densely pubes- cent, transverse joints pilose on both sides but more densely on the upper; prothorax twice as broad as long, a little rounded laterally, with the edges densely ciliate all round, smooth on the upper part, finely grooved longitudinally in the middle, the groove interrupted at an equal distance from base and apex, and rather plane than convex ; elytra elongato-quadrate, smooth with a few short, seriated flavescent hairs on the discoidal part, denser and longer laterally ; pygidium not very declivous, moderately punctured and very briefly pubescent; legs with moderately dense punctures bearing a long flavescent bristle. Length 13-154 mm.; width 64-7 mm. Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Rustenburg), Damaraland, Ovampoland, Zambezia (Buluwayo). CERAPTERUS CONCOLOR, Westw.., Proc, Linn, Soe., u., 1849, p. 55. Closely allied to the preceding species, but differentiated by the shape of the antennz, which are not quite so long, not curved out- - wardly at all, and the transverse joints of which are more separated from one another than in C. Smithi; the head and prothorax are alike, and the elytra also, but the U-shaped apical patch is sometimes hardly distinguishable or entirely absent. C. concolor, Sch., given in the Munich Catalogue, as well as in Raffray’s list, as a variety of C. Smithi, might prove to be identical 10 Descriptive Catalogue (182% with the present species, but this I have not been able to ascertain. I had imagined that C. concolor, owing to the shorter antenne 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 114-14 mm.; width 5-6 mm. ; Hab. Natal (D’Urban), Zambezia (Zambeze Falls, Salisbury), Zululand (Eshowe), Swazieland. CERAPTERUS 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 antenne the animal is connected with C. Snuthi, Laferter; 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 antenne and tarsi, show the animal to be unmistakably a Cerapterus. The species of that genus in my collection (C. Smuthi, concolor, Laferter) are all dark brown, nearly black, but C. laceratus is hght reddish brown; this and a somewhat narrower prothorax give it a more slender appearance. I have no doubt that it is specifically different.”’ Gren. ARTHROPTERUS, MacLeay, Smith’s Illustr. Afric. Annul., 1838, p. 75. Head and antenne as in Cerapterus ; maxilla 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. S977] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. JU ARTHROPTERUS Kirpyi, Westw., Proc. Ent. Soc., 1864, p. 189; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 79, Talk, Oleg slay IL Chestnut brown, glabrous, shining; antenne long, the transverse joints of equal width, except the second one, closely set, and hardly pubescent ; head with two deep impressions on the vertex close to the eyes; prothorax subelongato-quadrate, marginate, slightly sinuate above the basal angle and with a lateral impression on each side, smooth, not fringed with hairs, and with a narrow median longitudinal groove reaching neither base nor apex; elytra straight laterally and not much broader at the base than the prothorax, but gradually ampliated till the apex, where they are not truncate, but gradually rounded off, quite smooth and hairless, with an elongated flavescent lateral patch above the subtuberculated fold, the posterior margin is also narrowly flavescent, and the suture has a very narrow line of the same colour ascending from the apex to a little past the median part; the tibize are moderately broad and compressed, and the anterior ones a little arcuate inwardly. The only specimen that I have seen (male) differs a little from the figure given by Westwood. The two impressions on the vertex are not in front of the eyes, but at about the median part and close to them ; the prothorax is of the same colour as the head and elytra, and not flavescent, and has no trace of two discoidal round impres- sions, and the elytra are not truncate behind, but sloping and gradually rounded from the posterior subtuberculated part of the fold. There is little doubt however that the two specimens belong to one species. Length 7 mm.; width 3 mm. Hab. Natal (D’Urban). Gren. PLEUROPTERUS, Westw., Trans. Linn. Soce., xvili., 1841, p. 585. Heteropaussus, Jas. Thoms. Head elongato-quadrate, not dilated behind the eyes, but slightly constricted there and prolonged into a neck not much narrower than the head ; maxillary palpi quadri-articulate, second joint as long as the two following, apical one subacuminate; maxille with a very short, subrudimentary outer lobe, inner lobe hooked at tip and pluri- dentate along the inner edge; ligula convex, broad, ovate, convex outwardly and carinate in the centre; labial palpi triarticulate, last joint swollen, subelongato-ovate and subacuminate ; labrum sharply triangular ; antenne compressed, ten-jointed, basal joint subelon- gato-quadrate, the other joints transverse, partly or completely fused 12 Descriptive Catalogue (1897. together; prothorax transverse with the sides recurved; elytra elongate, parallel, costate or partly costate, and projecting a little beyond the pygidium; legs slender, the tibie especially; inter- mediate cox irregular in shape and femora compressed; tarsi long; in the male the four basal joints of every tarsi are thickly papillose underneath, the first basal joint is small, the second is dilated, elongato-quadrate, and longer than the following two together ; posterior tibiee of male slightly sinuate. I have not seen any female example as yet. Besides the two South African species, two more are recorded from Africa (Senegal, Congo), and one from Ceylon. Synopsis of Species. Elytra with four rounded costz on each side, testaceous with two discoidal longitudinal bands on each side SET Ba -. «. alternans. Elytra with a short basal costa, black, with the Catane a short basal band, a post-median sinuate patch and the posterior margin hight testaceous! win. [ sal ee) oat) aye ken, en Act eye, aint ae MN SLC Use ‘EToaie NOEL ALTERNANS, Westw., Proce Lann: Soc., , 1849, p. 56; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 74, TOL eval aol eee Head, antenne, prothorax, and legs reddish brown; elytra tes- taceous and having on each side two broad, longitudinal dorsal black bands uniting above the apex; head deeply punctured and densely bristly ; antennze with short, squamiform hairs, very closely set to- gether and united by a broad node, basal joint and also the long outer spur of the second joint slightly pilose ; prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, almost straight in front, sinuate laterally with the posterior angle penicillate, depressed on the lateral part of the disk, subgibbose in the middle, finely grooved longitudinally and with the posterior median part excavate, with the sides of the excavation produced in a triangular projection rounded at tip; elytra with the shoulders rounded, elongate, parallel, and having on each side six distinct costs, the two dorsal ones of which are more raised than the other two, the second dorsal costa is the only one that reaches the base ; lateral and posterior margins with a few rigid sete ; pygidium glabrous with a fringe of very short bristles ; femora nearly glabrous ; tibiz setulose. Length 9-10 mm.; width 4-44 mm. Hab. Natal (D’Urban, Eshowe). Is said to have been captured in Mozambique and at Lake N’Gami. . Oe KSOT of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 12 P. HASTATUS, Westw., Proc. Linn. Soc., 1849, p. 57; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 74, le xeyle es S. Palpi, antenne, and legs dark chestnut brown ; head and prothorax varying from dark brown to piceous red; elytra black with a basal dorsal elongated flavescent patch, and a diagonal post-median trans- verse one reaching from one median part of the disk to the other, and much narrowed on each side of the suture, the posterior margin has also a moderately broad band, which narrows and ascends along the suture as far as the transverse dorsal band; head very rugose, pilose, and with two round tubercles at the apical part of the vertex ; antenne briefly pilose, with the hairs longer on the basal joint and on the inner and outer angles of the second one, joints very closely set, and seemingly fused altogether ; prothorax twice as broad as long, slightly sinuate in front with the sides rounded, recurved, sinuate in the posterior part, with the basal angle slightly sloping and penicillate, discoidal part moderately plane, and with a narrow longitudinal groove ; sides depressed ; posterior part very broadly excavate for nearly two-thirds of the width, and with a small tuber- cular projection at each end; elytra with the shoulders a little rounded, thickly but briefly pubescent, very faintly striate, but with a very well-developed basal, round costa, reaching only one-sixth of the length ; pygidium punctulate, briefly pubescent, and with a thick fringe of short hairs on the margins. Length 104-102 mm.; width 44 mm. Hab. Natal (D’ Urban, Upper Districts). Female unknown. Gen. PENTAPLATARTHRUS, Westw., Trans. Linn. Soc., xvi., 1833, p. 616; Raffray, Matér. Etud. Pauss. spt xvi, tes, ley lS. Jil. Head elongato-quadrate, surrounding the eyes behind ; neck very short ; maxillary palpi quadri-articulate, basal one conical, shorter than the other three, second as long, thicker than the apical one, which is subacuminate ; maxille broad, short, not hooked at tip, but fringed with bristles in the inner and outer edges, and without any trace of outer lobe; labial palpi triarticulate, apical joint as long as the two preceding ones, swollen truncate and hollowed at tip; labrum in the shape of a broad triangle ; mandibles straight at the base as far as the median part, and diagonal from there to the apex, which is very sharp; antenne six-jointed, basal joint irregular, a little incurved, the other five joints flat, transverse, fused together, second joint one-fourth the length of the third; prothorax spinose 14 Descriptive Catalogue [1897. laterally, tuberculate in the anterior part, excavate behind ; elytra elongato-quadrate, with the shoulders not rounded, truncate behind; pygidium perpendicular, triangular, deeply excavate on the dorsal part, and with the declivity convex, the upper margin incised in the middle, with the incision filled with a yellow pubescence ; femora and tibize compressed, dilated; tarsi neither dilated nor papillose. Two species of this genus have been lately described, from the East Coast of Africa (Dar-es-Salaam and Somaliland), which, judging from the description, are very closely allied to the two South African species. I have also seen a very large example from the Zanzibar mainland, in the collection of Mr. R. Oberthur. Synopsis of Species. Elytra totally chestnut brown Pe .. paussoides. Elytra with a broad median transverse ieee rhaiacl and a narrower supra-apical one os 2% ue - Se .. natalensis. PENTAPLATARTHRUS PAUSSOIDES, Westw., Meera Jbiraay, (Soe, Ailes 1833, p- 619, pl. xxxiil., figs. 1-14; Arcana Hntom., 10, p. oS, pli tice? Chestnut brown, gens ; antenne squamose ; head deeply punc- tured, with the punctures squamose, elongato-quadrate and with a broad, deep impression on the vertex, neck not narrower than the head, and more closely punctured; prothorax subcordate, with the anterior part ridged, the ridge high, broadly incised in the centre, with the lobes divaricating, and also on each side where the incised part is developed in a lateral blunt spine; the anterior part of the ridge has two deep impressions; the median part has a deep excavation edged on each side by a narrow, rounded ridge, and pro- duced up to the base in a deep, broad groove; it is nearly glabrous ; elytra elongato-quadrate, slightly rounded at the humeral angle, truncate behind, roughly and irregularly punctured, and very briefly pubescent ; in the outer and posterior margins there is a series of short sets, and two at the tip of the Bee declivity ; legs briefly setulose. Length 6-74 mm. ; width 24-34 mm. Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Carnarvon, Beau- fort West). PENTAPLATARTHRUS NATALENSIS, Westw., Proc, LimnS0cs ie, L840 50. ot In shape and sculpture P. natalensis can hardly be distinguished from P. paussoides, but it is always larger, and the elytra, instead of 1397 .| of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 15 being of a uniform colour all over, are distinctly redder, and have a broad median transverse dark band, sometimes piceous black, as well as a narrower one edging the apex; owing to the larger size, the punctures on the elytra are also deeper and coarser, and so far as I know P. natalensis does not occur in the Cape Colony proper, whereas I have not recorded P. paussoides from anywhere else. Length 84-94 mm. ; width 33-4 mm. Hab. Free State (Vaal River), Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Ovampoland (Okovango River). Gren. PAUSSUS, Linn., Bigee Insect., Upsal, 1775, p. 7. Maxillary palpi four-jointed, the second longer and wider than the others, labial palpi three-jointed, the apical joint longer than the others and more or less acuminate at tip; maxilla without internal lobe, short and bifid; ligula transverse, sometimes slightly sinuate, always setose at tip, concave inwardly, convex outwardly, and covering, with the palpi, the buccal cavity ; head declivous in front, more or less elongato-quadrate, dilated behind the eyes, and narrowed into a distinct neck; vertex with either a conical, some- times penicillated, spine, ridges, depressions, or prominences bearing two small fosse ; eyes reniform or oval, with the posterior part of the head edging the eye, projecting often and sometimes aculeate ; antennee two-jointed, the basal joint thick, more or less quadrate, the second one varying much in shape; prothorax either transverse or cordiform, in which case it is incised laterally and impressed trans- versely, or made bipartite by a deep, transverse, sinuous groove, but having always on each side a small patch of dense, short, flavescent hairs ; elytra elongato-quadrate, parallel or subparallel, not much convex, covering the whole abdomen except the pygidium, and having on each side of the apical angle a small but very distinct ridged tubercle; they are more or less deeply punctulate and. pubescent, the pubescence being sometimes reduced to squamiform scattered hairs, but are not striate; legs short, compressed, bristly, setulose or squamose; femora claviform, subclaviform or com- pressed ; tibiz either subcylindrical, moderately compressed or dilated ; tarsi five-jointed, joints of anterior pair bristly underneath in both sexes. From the diversity of characteristics given in this diagnosis, it is seen how difficult of arrangement the species of Paussus will prove to be. The extraordinary shape of the second joint, or antennal ‘club, is probably the means of identifying the species. No antennal 16 Descriptive Catalogue [LSST. clubs are exactly alike, and they vary in shape from a more or less regularly lenticular, round, oval, oblong, laminiform to cylindrical ; the outer margin is often amplate, excavate, or grooved, in which case the edges of the hollowed margin are more or less setigerous, and they have also on either the upper declivity, or on both sides, transverse striz, which might perhaps imply that the articulations have become fused together. Few South African Paussus can be said to have a close ally, excepting P. lineatus and P. Afzelu, which are however very distinct ; P. Schawmi and P. Germari, which will probably prove to be identical; and P. cucullatus and P. ruber. If the shape of the maxillary palpi were taken into consideration, the South African species could be divided in eight groups :— 1. Second joint of maxillary palpi about equal to or a little shorter than the two following, subcylindrical, curving a little outwardly, and tapering slightly from base to apex: P. Huwmboldti, damarinus, minus, spinicoxis, propinquus, rusticus, mamcanus, fallax, Bohemani. 2. Second joint longer than the other two following: P. signati- pennies. 3. Second joint shorter than the two following; apical joint of maxille long, and nearly tapering from base to apex: P. cultratus. 4. Second joint as long as the other two, but twice as wide ; last joint of maxillary palpi short, elongato-ovate: P. lineatus, Afzeli. 5. Second joint elongato-quadrate, or curved outwardly from base to middle, and diagonal from there to apex, truncate at tip, where it is broader than the two following: P. cylindricornis, Schuckard1, Curtist. 6. Second joint nearly straight inwardly, much swollen and rounded outwardly, the two joints following small, narrow: P. Klugi, cucullatus, Burchellianus, ruber, cochlearius, viator, Linner Burmeistert, Marshalls.* 7. Second joint broadly inflated, nearly hexagonal, irregularly rounded outwardly and deeply incised at base, inwardly: P. granu- latus. 8. Second joint broadly quadrate: P. Schawmi, Germart. Where the second joint is inflated it is shghtly convex outwardly and concave inwardly. To the first group belong all species with a conical spine on the vertex of the head, whether with bipartite prothorax or not. The second contains only one species, as does the third ; but these species are strikingly distinct, as is also the case in groups seven and eight ; * In P. Marshalli the second joint is broader and more quadrate inwardly, and the two joints following are longer. 19897.| of the Coleoptera of South Africa. Ly in group five are three species with cylindrical antennal club, but there is a little difference between Cwrtisc and cylindricorms, but they agree in having the second joint broader at tip than the third, and truncate, while the sixth group includes all species with bipar- tite prothorax, the anterior part of which is ridged, lenticular, or in the shape of a broadly truncate one. This arrangement is, however, somewhat artificial, but in order to make the identification easier I have adopted another one which is more artificial still, but which, I hope, will facilitate the identification. Synopsis of Species. Ee. Head with a conical spine on vertex. a. Club of antenne more or less ovate, but always sinuate in the posterior margin, thickened in the centre, and a little longer than broad. b. Prothorax impressed transversely and constricted laterally in” the centre, but with the anterior part not much more raised than the posterior. C. Posterior tibize compressed but slender, femora moderately clavate. Club of antenne very thick, hardly marginate behind, and with four longitudinal, shallow striz on the upper part of the outer declivity; prothorax quadrate, divided in two parts of nearly equal size by a deep, transverse impression .. .. .. hwmboldti. Club much thickened in the posterior part, binant eats wardly and having four longitudinal striz on the upper and under parts of the outer declivity and indenting the edges of the outer margin, which is slightly scooped; prothorax rounded laterally, constricted behind and deeply impressed in the middle damarius. Club subelongate, not very thick and of nearly equal thick- ness, anterior margin nearly straight .. .. minus. Club subelongate, with five deep strie on the otter Aectivity outer margin deeply grooved, both edges with five impressions.. dohri. Club subelongate, acutely marginate all round and having on both sides of the outer declivity four longitudinal striz not indenting the outer margin ; prothorax with the anterior angles rounded, the sides nearly aay and with a deep median Cavity "par ae spinicoxis. Club suboleneae! noe fave convex, Pshsepiy: canine fil oad and without any striation in the outer ae ; median part of prothorax deeply impressed | eee propingwus. Club lenticular, carinate all round, pater acne en nares very smallindentations in the middle ; prothorax with a shallow median impression, and very deeply ponetnered laterally .. .. "wusticus. 2 18 Descriptwe Catalogue Club of antenne globose, carinate all round, and without any striation on the outer declivity ; prothorax nearly parallel and with a deep, transverse impression .. CC. Femora very slender at base and strongly clavate at apex; tibie incurved. b b. Prothorax bipartite, anterior part perpendicular and much higher than the posterior. Club thick, rounded, sharply marginate inwardly, produced in a sharp, recurved spine at the tip, posterior margin nearly straight, slightly grooved, upper and under parts of the outer declivity with four shallow striz, the intervals of which dent slightly both edges Club thick, rounded, neath eS inerardige anucte a tip, outer part sinuate at apex and base with the basal angle long and sharp, margin slightly grooved, and with two faint impressions in the groove, no striz on the outer declivity .. ale Head without a vertical, conical spine; pygidium not bristly. a. Club of antenne thickened, longer than broad, outer margin neither grooved nor scooped. b. Prothorax impressed transversely, anterior part not much more raised than the posterior. C: Posterior tibiz compressed but slender. Club oblong, outer margin not sinuate; prothorax constricted laterally past the middle, and with a deep, median, transverse impression Club elongato- SLI, mass margin Sitar ad Fraclicall ih the base above the basal outer spur; prothorax constricted laterally, and with only a very slight transverse median im- pression .. a a. Club long, more or less laminate and ensiform. bb, Prothorax bipartite, the anterior part much more raised than the posterior. C. Posterior tibize slender. _ (Elytra ferruginous red.) Club long, not much curved outwardly, apex rounded and slightly narrower than the base; elytra with a black diagonal band, a post-median patch and an apical spot of the same colour (Elytra blue black, edged with ferruginous.) Club long, broad, slightly curved, outer margin broadly grooved, groove alveolate, upper edge with six serrations, inter- vals of serration setulose (1897. ardwus. bohemant. fallax. manmcanus. (anermis. : | aristotelv. signatipennis. CONCINMUS. 1897. ] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. Club a little thicker in the outer than in the inner part, a little curved, not narrower at apex than at base and having a narrow groove in the outer rae fate from the base to two-thirds of the length Club similar to the preceding one, _ bine a little THontiee cme) a little narrower at apex.. GC. Posterior tibiz broadly dilated. (Elytra piceous black, edged with ferruginous.) Club subensiform, very long, outer margin with a moderately wide groove reaching from the base to near the apex, edges of the groove faintly notched .. aaa. Club long, narrow, recurved, outer margin deeply scooped from base to past the median part or near the apex, upper edge sub- denticulate. | Gr Posterior tibiz slender. (Elytra blue black, edged with ferruginous.) Club with four impressions on the upper posterior declivity crenating the upper edge of the outer ee outer basal angle long and sharp Sea Club with six impressions Se whe, upper ete ei ahs outer margin, lower edge of posterior groove sinuate, outer basal short, sharp aaad. Club scythe-shaped. Club compressed, outer margin not grooved, basal angle long and sharp; prothorax with a eae round impression on each side, anterior part not much raised . Club rounded, not compressed, more ARaTEN Te faletiora but curved, swollen at base and narrowed in a very sharp point, no outer basal spur; prothorax nearly cleft in two in the median part; elytra with a deep supra-lateral groove on each side .. : aaaad. Club straight, narrow, sublaminiform. CC. Posterior tibize broadly dilated. Club sharp in the inner part and thicker in the outer, the margin of which is broadly grooved from base to apex with six impressions in the groove, and six denticulations in the upper edge .. aAaaaada. Club of antenne broad, dilated, and broadly excavated out- wardly. Che Posterior tibie broadly dilated. Head with a raised elevation on the vertex and two small pits, inner margin of club lamelliform and with four strize, outer 19 schaum. german. raffrayia, lineatus. afzelit. cultratus. granulatus. klugv. 20 Descriptive Catalogue margin broadly excavate for nearly all the length and striate on the upper declivity as well as in the excavation, outer basal angle broad; anterior part of prothorax cute incised in the middle, but not aculeate laterally : ce aes Head plane and with two small tubercles on Lees olne as in the preceding species but with the apical part a little more acuminate and with the outer basal angle sharper and longer; anterior part of prothorax with a sharp lateral spine .. Club compressed and laminate for half the length, the ute margin broadly scooped out at the apex, the upper edge with five slightly gee ridges; anterior part of re sub- aculeate laterally . lets Club with the inner margin share cade aaprerced: a ‘little sinuate, outer margin scooped from base to apex, and with five strie denting slightly the edges; anterior part of prothorax not aculeate Posterior tibiz slender. Club with two basal strize in the inner margin, outer margin broad, excavate and with five ridges in the excavation projecting as a rounded denticulation beyond the edges, basal outer angle as long as the whole base, narrow and cylindrical; anterior part of prothorax with a sharp spine on each side. . a Club laminate in the inner and basal margins, with ane ance margin enlarged and broadly excavate from the basal angle to the apex, lower edge of the excavation broader than the upper, the latter sinuate near the apex, both edges slightly striate in- wardly ; head with four rounded tubercles on vertex; posterior tibiz a little dilated in the median part . as Club curving outwardly, convex in ‘a. anterior Ney Beadle, scooped in the posterior one, the lower edge of which is slightly sinuate, while the upper one is briefly subdentate; hind tibiee slender aAaaAaNAaaAAA. Antenne thick, deeply and broadly grooved across the upper part. Posterior tibie not dilated. Club with two small, closely set sinuations on the inner margin, basal part nearly straight, apical part of upper surface broadly grooved diagonally .. Cre: Posterior tibiz’ broadly dilated. Club with the inner margin slightly bi-impressed, the outer one strongly bisinuate, upper surface with a broad but not deep excavation near the apex and a deep impression about the median part .. GAAAaAaAAA., Antenne long, slender, cylindrical. (1897. cucullatus. ruber. cochlearws. aviator. burchellianus. rugiceps. degeert. linnet. burmeisteri. ESOT] of the Coleoptera ef South Africa. 21 C. Posterior tibiz slender. | Club a little bent outwardly in the median part, slightly thickened at tip and with two very small teeth at the apex of the outer margin, basal part deeply incised .. . curtisi. Club very long, straight, slightly thickened at tip, 0 Ore area angle sharp, moderately long .. cylindricornis. Club moderately long, apical part afi pater sagan very y slightly grooved, outer basal angle not projecting Ree) i en ot “SCRUCHOTON. Head without a vertical spine. Pygidium with thick, stiff bristles. Club massive, broadly excavate in the posterior part, and with a thick tuft of hairs at the apical part of the excavation ... marshall. P. HUMBOLDTI, Westw., Elaie oes es 1 Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1852, p. 90; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., Iieif45, oy, (ob), FON obs aker, IU iL UreSie eres Lrangeio, airic. Phil soc. vol. iil, 1885, 4p. 83; Olle tag 10K B). Head, antenne, legs, and prothorax piceous red, elytra and pygidium ferruginous red; head with a very long and sharp conical tubercle; antennal club thick, somewhat oval, carinate all round, inner margin slightly sinuate, outer angle produced in a moderately long, sharp, stout, slightly curving spine; it is thicker in the middle, and has four shallow striz extending on the upper part of the outer declivity from about the median part towards the apex ; the club is smooth in the basal part only, the rest is very briefly pubescent ; prothorax divided in two by a broad transverse grooved impression ; the anterior part is a little emarginate in the centre and truncate behind, the posterior is as broad as the anterior, but a little less abruptly truncate, and somewhat angulate laterally ; elytra sub- parallel, shining, and with regular series of very short, slightly flavescent, moderately closely set hairs; tibiae compressed, broad, but not dilated. Length 11-114 mm. ; width 44-42 mm. 7 Hab. Natal (D’ Urban), Transvaal (Rustenburg). P. DAMARINUS, Westw., Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., 1874, p. 84, pl. vii., fig. 9. Piceous red, with the posterior part of the elytra from the median part castaneous ; head with a sharp, long, conical spine; antennal club thick, but a little compressed in the basal part of the inner declivity, marginate all along the inner apical part and slightly sinuate near the apex, slightly incurved near the apical part, which thus appears as if it were a little curved, posterior margin 22 Descriptwe Catalogue [1897. grooved for two-thirds of the length, with the edges dented slightly by the intervals of four shallow striz occurring on both upper and under sides of the outer declivity ; prothorax with the transverse median impression reaching from side to side, and with a lateral flavescent pubescence ; anterior part rounded laterally, narrowing from base to apex and slightly emarginate in the centre, posterior part bi-impressed in the centre and constricted laterally at base ; elytra parallel, covered with closely set, briefly pubescent punctures; tibiz slender. Length 102 mm. ; width 44 mm. Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg), Bechuanaland. P. MIMUS. The colour and shape of head and prothorax are as in P. damaruws, but the shape of the antennal club is different; it is not so thick in the posterior part, the inner margin is sharper, nearly straight, the emargination of the posterior part is not so pronounced, the grooved part is deeper, and the strie better defined and indent more the edges of the groove; instead of being smooth and shining they are very finely granulose, opaque, and glabrous; the spur of the outer angle is a little longer and less curved. The shape of the club is intermediate between that of P. damarinus and P. dohrm, but it is not setose as in the latter, nor is the posterior margin grooved from base to apex. Length 10$ mm.; width 4 mm. Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg). P. DoHRNI, Westw., Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1852, p. 93; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., [Oe Sn Ole xojableg) sles, JEL Dark chestnut; elytra covered with a very brief, closely set pubescence; head as in the two preceding species; antennal club longer than broad, thick, setulose, carinate in the anterior and apical margins, the former very slightly sinuate above the base, posterior part broadly grooved from end to end, and with a lateral yellow pubescence ; posterior declivity with four broad striz on both sides, the intervals of which indent the edges of the groove; prothorax shaped as in P. damarinus and P. mimus, but the anterior part is more regularly rounded laterally. | I have not seen this species, and the diagnosis here given is made from the excellent figure given by: Westwood in the ‘“‘ Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis.” The characters distinguishing this species from P. damarinus and P. mimus are the broader and longer groove in the posterior part of the club, and also the striz on both 1897. | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 23 sides of the posterior declivity, which are broader and deeper. Length 8 mm. Hab. Natal, teste Westwood. P. sprInicoxis, Westw., Proc. Linn. Soe., i1., 1849, p. 59; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 84, pl. xvii., fig. 7. Ferruginous red ; head with a sharp, conical spine on the vertex ; antennal club very briefly pubescent, moderately thick, subelongato- ovate, carinate from the base of the anterior margin to the posterior one, the latter with a faint groove, posterior part of the declivity with four longitudinal, shallow striz on each side, reaching but not indenting the rounded posterior margin; prothorax transversely impressed in the middle from side to side, and with a lateral yellow pubescence, anterior part rounded, attenuate laterally towards the neck and not emarginate in the centre of the basal part, posterior part deeply scooped in the middle almost up to the base; elytra elongate, nearly parallel, closely punctured, and glabrous; pygidium closely punctured ; anterior femora subclavate ; intermediate cox with a very small spinous process at the base. Length 7-85 mm. ; width 24 mm. Hab. Natal (D’Urban, Maritzburg), Transvaal (Rustenburg), Zambezia (Buluwayo), Mozambique (Rikatla). P. PROPINQUUS, Pér., Plate Xie ne. 7, Elave XT) fis: 7. Trans. o. Airics Phil Soe, iv, 1886, p. S3. Chestnut colour, subopaque ; head briefly pubescent, and with a sharp, conical spine on the vertex ; antennal club subelongato-ovate, moderately thick, and sharply carinate from the angle of the inner margin to the posterior basal angle, which is produced in a short, subtruncate tooth; it is finely granulose, and has a series of very short bristles on each side of the posterior margin; prothorax with a median subdiagonal transverse impression; anterior part convex, a little more raised than the posterior one, rounded laterally, punctulate, and covered with moderately long bristles, posterior part briefly pubescent, a little narrower than the anterior, and with a shallow median depression ; elytra a little lighter in colour than the head and prothorax, and covered with a closely set and dense reddish pubescence ; legs densely bristly. Length 8-9 mm. ; width 3-34 mm. Hab. Transvaal (Bloemhof, Potchefstroom, Heildeberg, Pretoria), Bechuanaland. 24 | Descriptwe Catalogue Rive P. rnusticus, Pér., Plate oiine fies l@: Trans. S. Atric? Pili Sect, m., 1885, p. 82: Reddish, shining ; head with a very conspicuous conical spine on the vertex ; antennal club subelongato-ovate, moderately thick, inner and apical margins carinate, the former nearly straight, outer margin shghtly emarginate near the apex, also carinate, but with three very small and hardly noticeable dents in the median part of the carina ; posterior basal angle not longer than the anterior; prothorax with a very shallow transverse median impression reaching from side to side, and much constricted laterally in the middle, anterior part convex, subcordiform, briefly pubescent, posterior part narrower than the anterior, subcylindrical, and without any median im- pression ; elytra parallel, very finely and closely punctured, each puncture bearing a very short hair ; posterior tibiz slightly dilate. Length 84 mm. ; width 3 mm. Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg). P. arpuus, Pér., Plate XII., fig. 8; Plate XIII, fig. 6. Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 149. Red, shining; head with a long conical tubercle on the vertex ; smooth, but slightly punctured behind; antennal club short, thick, convex on both sides, carinate all round, depressed at the base with the basal outer angle produced in a long, sharp, slightly recurving spine, no longitudinal impression in the posterior declivity; pro- thorax smooth, with a deep transverse impression reaching from side to side and having a yellow pubescent patch at each end, anterior and posterior part equally broad, the anterior a little more raised than the posterior, the sides nearly parallel; elytra elongate, sub- parallel, smooth, and very closely punctured, the punctures in the anterior part being deeper and broader than those behind ; tibiee slender. Length 8 mm.; width 24 mm. : Hab. Gambezia (Manica). Pp) BALLAX, -Pér., vans. S. Ainicee al Sock, vis GO2san OSs Head, antenne, and prothorax chestnut brown ; elytra lighter red ; head pubescent, and with a short, conical tubercle on the vertex ; antennal club shining, slightly pubescent, subovate, carinate all along the inner and apical margins, but emarginate at the apical 1 Paussus Raffrayi >. Paussus 2 =: Manicanus 6 y 3 el eholaveiia 7 os k viator bee ) Lip. JS. Taneu . J Migneaux del. & se. Barberi concinnus propinquus arduus 12 8) Paussus cylindricornis 5 lineatus 9 signatipennis 6 arduus 10 Raffray1 7] propinquus 1 manicanus Gait bold: . 12 i cults id. Lannei lL*yp. J. Taneur . J Migneaua tel & se. rugiceps 15 Barberi rusticus 14 Germari Mar shalli 15 Klugu COMCMIMEe te ME Ler 10 Burmieisteri 1897, | of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 25 part of the outer margin, which is grooved, although neither deeply nor broadly, from the emargination to the outer angle, which is produced in a long, triangular spur ; prothorax cleft in two by a very deep groove, having a small flavescent patch on each side; anterior part setose, much raised, thick, sloping towards the neck, and con- stricted laterally ; posterior part deeply excavated in the central part, and bituberculate on each side; elytra subparallel, punctured, punctures deep and setigerous; tibiz slender, arcuate; femora strongly clavate, and very slender at base. Length 5 mm. ; width J jonvan, Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). PAUSSUS BOHEMANI, Westw., Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1855, p. 83; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., Oe Bei, jal, SGjauliicg, sullex, Light brick-red, turning to flavescent in the elytra ; head pubescent, and with the whole posterior part raised in a sharp, conical spine ; antennal club shining, briefly pubescent, thick, semicircular in the inner part, which is not carinate and ends in a sharp point at the apex, outer margin narrowly but deeply grooved from the apical recurved spine to a short distance from the basal angle, which is produced in a long, slightly recurved spine ; prothorax cleft in two by a very deep transverse groove, having a small flavescent patch on each side, anterior part much raised, compressed, thin, nearly perpendicular, carinate at tip, and has a very long pubescence, posterior part deeply excavate in the central part, and bituberculate on each side (Westwood, loc. cit., has given a good side-view figure of the prothorax of this species, but the prothorax of the insect (fig. 9) is not at all correct); elytra punctulate, each puncture bearing a very long hair; pygidium with a long pubescence ; tibize arcuate, femora strongly clavate, and very slender at base. Length 54 mm. ; width 2 mm. Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley). PAUSSUS MANICANUS, Pér., Plate XII., fig. 2; Plate XIIT., fig. 4. Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 149. Reddish brown, shining: head quite flat and smooth on the | vertex ; antennal club glabrous, shining, long as the head and pro- thorax, nearly oblong, a little narrower at apex and base than in the middle, compressed but thick in the median part, carinate all round and with the posterior angle produced in a sharp, moderately recurved 26 Descriptiwe Catalogue [1897. spine; prothorax constricted laterally past the median part and with a shallow median transverse impression, having a very small flavescent patch on each side but not incising the lateral parts, the anterior part is depressed, hardly more raised than the posterior, and has a median longitudinal shallow impression, the posterior part is nearly plane, and not impressed in the centre; elytra parallel deeply and closely punctured, each puncture bearing a very short, flavescent seta ; femora a little swollen; tibiz slender. Length 84-9 mm. ; width 3 mm. Hab. Gambezia (Manica, Buluwayo). P. INERMIS, Gerstack, Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 268; Peter’s Reis. n. Mossamb., 1862, p. 268, pl. xv., fig. 12; Westw., Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 95, Ol: ODS SoS, De Reddish brown, moderately shining; head plane; antennal club subovate, but deeply emarginate in the posterior margin near the apex, carinate all round, not grooved behind, basal part nearly straight, but with a narrow transverse incision in the outer apical angle, the external part of which is produced in a moderately long recurved spine ; prothorax elongato-cordate, faintly impressed trans- versely at about the median part, anterior part convex, posterior part not depressed; elytra subparallel, very closely and finely punctured and briefly pubescent; tibiae slender. Length 8 mm. Hab. Mozambique (Tette). This description is made from the figure in Westwood’s ‘Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxoniensis.’ I am not aware that this Paussus has been met with since its capture by Dr. Peters, 1842- 1848. The type is in the Berlin Museum. PAUSSUS ARISTOTELI, Jas. Thoms., Archiv. Entom., i., 1856, p. 403, pl. xxi., fig. 2. “ Light chestnut brown; head projecting, strongly and suddenly depressed behind; eyes large, rounded; basal joint of antenne elongate, second very large, dilate, subconical, or claviform, wider at the base which has a curved spine in the outer angle; prothorax subcordiform, wider in the middle with the anterior angles rounded, divided ‘in the middle by a transverse line, median longitudinal line not much noticeable; elytra at least three times as long as the pro- thorax and broader at the base, rounded at the humeral angle, nearly truncate at the apex, and with two slight projections on the suture after about the fourth part of the length, dorsal part slightly punc- Ike) of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 27 tured ; legs strong; abdomen punctured, the other parts of the body smooth.” Length 8 mm. This species, which I have not seen, is evidently a close ally to P.inermis ; but judging from the figure, the club is more compressed, the spur is longer, but apparently also incised, the elytra are more thickly pubescent than in both the figures of iermis, and the anterior part of the prothorax is more dilated. Hab. Natal, teste Thomson, and Port Natal and Abyssinia, teste Raffray. PAUSSUS SIGNATIPENNIS, Pér., Plate XIII., fig. 2. Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc., i:, 1885, p. 83, pl. i, fig. 4. Brownish red, moderately shining; head, prothorax, elytra, and legs densely pubescent; head hexagonal, plane, a little scooped at apex ; penultimate joint thick, flattened, very pilose; antennal club compressed, sublanielliform, as long as the head and anterior part of prothorax put together, nearly as broad as the anterior part of the head, curving outwardly, carinate in the inner margin, slightly emarginate at about the median part in the posterior margin, which is not grooved thickly but briefly pubescent, outer angle produced in a more or less rounded spur ; prothorax bipartite, anterior part much raised, almost perpendicular behind, broadest in the middle, sides narrow and ridge shape, posterior part with three longitudinal impressions separated by two median ridges, lateral walls raised and tuberculated at apex above the small flavescent patch ; elytra subparallel, somewhat roughly punctured and having a dense, long, greyish pubescence; they are of the same colour as the prothorax and more shining than the head and prothorax, and have on each side a narrow black band running diagonally from under the humeral angle to a short distance of the median part of the suture, a sub- quadrate patch of the same colour in the posterior part, and the apical part of the suture is also edged with black ; tibiae compressed, slightly dilated. Length 8 mm.; width 24 mm. Hab. ‘Transvaal (Potchefstroom). PAUSSUS CONCINNUS, Pér., Plate XII., fig. 6; Plate XIII., fig. 12. Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 150. Head, prothorax, and legs brick-red; elytra black, edged with red at the base and apex; head and prothorax glabrous, the former edged in front on the vertex with a high semicircular ridge which is broadly emarginate in the middle and reaches from eye to eye, 28 Descriptive Catalogue (£897. posterior part raised above the neck into a ridge higher than the anterior one, and with a median and two lateral sinuations; median part of head plane, and with a broad depression above each eye partly edged by a very narrow groove which extends also along the posterior raised part ; antennal club long, broad, compressed, as long as the base of the prothorax, slightly curving in the inner edge, which is distinctly marginate and has besides a distinct raised line running parallel to it, outer margin broadly grooved from base to apex, and having seven round alveole as well as six obtuse serra- tions on the upper edge, the intervals of which bear each a short yellowish seta, outer basal angle of the club long and sharp; pro- thorax bipartite, the anterior part much raised, short, abruptly trun- cate, deeply incised in the centre and on each side, and with a deep transverse impression, the posterior part is narrower than the anterior, and has the shape of a truncate cone, broadly scooped out in the anterior median part, with each side of the incision produced in a sharp, short tubercle; elytra closely set with very short, greyish hairs, but very indistinctly punctured; femora not clavate; tibiz straight, not thickened. Length 6 mm.; width 24 mm. Hab. Zambezia (Salisbury). PAUSSUS SCHAUMI, Westw., Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1852, p. 94; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., Dro 4 epee ertie 46, PP povacuiatus, Pér..- Trans, S, Airc. Rhil Soc) voll am 13805 Daot (Oli ee6. Head, antenne, prothorax, and legs brownish red; elytra dark blue, with a broad basal band and a narrow apical line brownish red ; head with two high longitudinal ridges running from the neck to the apex, finely aciculate, briefly pubescent; antennal club com- pressed, curving outwardly, distinctly pedunculate at base, as long as the head and anterior part of prothorax put together, carinate in the inner margin, curving outwardly, posterior part a little thicker than the anterior, with the outer margin grooved from one-third of the length to the basal part, the outer angle of which is short and sharp, basal joint elongato-quadrate ; prothorax with the anterior part in the shape of a short, broadly truncate cone, scooped on each side, produced in the centre of the transverse impression in two narrow ridges nearly connected across the impression with two similar ones in the posterior part, which divide it into three shallow cavities, the external walls of the posterior part end in a round, blackish tubercle surrounded by the yellow pubescent patch, the 1897.| of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 29 surface of the whole prothorax is distinctly though very briefly pubescent ; elytra subparallel very finely aciculate and with a few scattered very short hairs; legs moderately slender; pygidium not incised in the posterior margin. Length 8 mm.; width PAUSSUS GERMARI, Westw., Plate XIII., fig. 14. Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1852, p. 94; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., Tos Gee Tolle sabe, jolea, 2%. The only difference between P. schawmi and P. germari seems to consist in the shape of the antennal club, which is a little shorter, a little narrowed towards the apical part and slightly less curved outwardly owing to the outer margin being slightly straighter, the base of the club is much less conspicuously pedunculate, and the space between the two occipital ridges has a faint triangular im- pression, a trace of which is found in P. schawmi; the sculpture and shape and colour of prothorax and elytra are the same as in schaum. Length 64 mm.; width 24 mm. Hab. Natal, teste Westwood. This species occurs also in Abyssinia; a specimen from that locality agrees very well with Westwood’s figure, except that the clava is entirely reddish brown. Paussus LINEATUS, Thunb., Plate XIII., fig. 5. Act Hiolm., 1781, p. 171, pl. ii., figs. 4-5. P. parrianus, Westw., ‘Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1847, p. 29, platens. >) Thesaunwdintom. Oxon. p. Qi; pl. xvil., fig. 7: Dark red, moderately shining; elytra blue black, broadly edged all round with dark red; head flat on the vertex, but with the margins raised all round, slightly aciculate and very briefly pubescent, neck very distinct; antennal club much recurved, as long as the head and the anterior part of the prothorax together anterior margin sharp and carinate, posterior part thicker, outer margin carinate from the apex to one-fourth of the length, deeply scooped from there to the base, the outer angle of which ends in a sharp, long spur, the upper edge of the scooped margin has four striations with raised intervals serrating the edge, the lower edge is not dented, and between the end of the groove and the apex there is a small rounded marginal semicircular projection; the first joint 30 Descriptive Catalogue [Leon is elongato-quadrate, nearly twice as long as broad, and like the club hardly pubescent ; prothorax bipartite, lenticular, with the edges not very sharp, incised in the centre and laterally so as to look quadri- tuberculate, and raised higher than the posterior, which has two median longitudinal impressions separated by a double ridge, with the lateral walls hardly raised, sloping towards the median transverse impression, which has a small, black tubercle on each side next to the small flavescent patch; elytra subparallel, finely shagreened and very briefly: pubescent; legs slender. Length 5-6 mm; width 2-21 mm. Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town and environs). PAUSSUS AFZELII, Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1855, p. 82; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., [Os Os, FOlls jalan alee. (o, P. laetus, Gerstiick, Stett. Zeit., 1867, p. 430. Very similar to P. lineatus in shape, sculpture, and colouring, but the shape of the antennal club and of the prothorax is different; the former has the same shape, but is longer and curves more backward, and the posterior declivity on the upper part has six longer strize instead of four, with the intervals rounded and denting the upper edge; basal spur sharp but not long; the latter is also bipartite, but the anterior raised part is not so lenticular, it is deeply incised in the middle, but not laterally, and the walls of the posterior part are a little more raised and there is only one broad median impression. Length 6-64 mm. ; width 21-24 mm. Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg, Leydenburg); occurs also in Abyssinia. PAUSSUS CULTRATUS, Westw., Plate Xe net. Proc. Linn. Soc., 1849, p. 52; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 86, (Ol excise, pieces 2 P, plinw, Thoms., Arch: Hmtom.,1;, 1857, p. 403; pl. xxi; figs 3: Light testaceous, shining; head, thorax, and elytra briefly pubescent ; head convex on vertex, elongato-quadrate ; first joint of antenne elongato-quadrate and hollowed in the upper part, club compressed, long, falciform, with both inner and outer margins sharp, the inner one nearly straight for two-thirds of the length and sharply curved, inner margin slightly sinuate past the median part, apical part narrowed and very sharp; prothorax with a deep impression on each side of the median part and with a small pubescent yellow patch on each side, anterior part not more raised than the posterior 1897.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 31 one, which is slightly narrower; elytra parallel and covered with densely set shallow setigerous punctures; tibie slender. Length 435 mm.; width 2 mm. Raffray is of opinion that P. cultratus and P. plinw are two different species, which he distinguishes by the shape of the antennal club which is nearly alike, but ‘‘in P. plinw it is longer, narrower, and more falciform, decreasing gradually from base to tip, and the more regular curve belongs to a circle of a wider diameter, and, therefore, the point is longer, more slender and sharper, while in P. cultratus the club looks like an elongate square with the sides nearly parallel as far as the tip, which is suddenly curved to form a shorter and more obtuse point.”” Headds that he possessed the two species. It is quite true. that the figure given by Westwood of the club of P. cultratus is broader in proportion to the length than that of P. pln, and that I have not seen any example as yet absolutely similar, but I think that the latter as differentiated by my excellent friend Raffray is the male, and that Westwood has exaggerated the width of the club in his figure of P. cultratus.* Hab. Natal (D’Urban, Maritzburg, Estcourt, Frere), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Pretoria). PAUSSUS GRANULATUS, Westw., Proc. Linn. Soc., ii., 1849, p. 58; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 86, jolls 2 Qiabigpesnllsz, 5) Light, testaceous glabrous, moderately shining; head granulose and with two small rounded depressions, one on each side of the ocelli; first joint of antennz swollen at base, a little attenuate at tip, club rounded, swollen at base and tapering gradually into a sharp point with a seta at tip, falcate, and without any basal outer angle ; prothorax bipartite, anterior part nearly perpendicular, narrow, emarginate in the middle, and also, but not so deeply, laterally, median excavation very wide, posterior part excavate and with only the lateral subtuberculate walls left; elytra subelongato-quadrate and with a supra-lateral, deep and broad groove running from the humeral angle to the apex, carinate outwardly, and with a faint silky white tinge, the discoidal part of the elytra is granulose and darker than the general colour, and the sides are not so closely granulose ; the inner edge of the intermediate and posterior tibiz are sinuate inwardly, the latter inflated. Length 4 mm.; width 2 mm. Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown), Transvaal (Pretoria). *Dr. C. A. Dohrn has expressed also (Zur. Literat. d. Pauss. Stett. Ent. 1887, Zeit., p. 317) an opinion similar to mine. 32 Descriptive Catalogue [1897. PAUSSUS RAFFRAYI, Pér., Plate XIL-; teal.) Piave Xie fess: Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 150. Piceous black, with the apical part of the elytra and the tarsi reddish brown; head rugulose, with the anterior part deeply impressed in the centre, and the walls of the impression raised in two short tuberculiform processes, posterior part bi-impressed; club of the antennze subensiform, very long, compressed, external margin with a moderately wide groove reaching from the base to near the apex, both edges of the groove faintly notched ; prothorax bipartite, the anterior part raised, smooth, the median transverse cavity wide and deep and having two yellow pubescent patches in the centre, posterior part depressed and with three tuberculated indentations ; elytra subparallel, shining, moderately punctured, each puncture with a very short, greyish hair; anterior and intermediate tibiz slender, posterior tibis: broadly dilated and flattened. Length 5 mm.; width 14 mm. Hab. Natal (Frere). PAUSSUS KLUGI, Westw., Plate XIII, fig. 15. Trans. Hmtom. Soc. Lond.,-p. 80, pl: ix.) ne. 2; Arcana, Emtom: vol. 11,; p: 183; pl xei-, tig. 4 Ferruginous or piceous red, moderately shining, very briefly pubescent ; head plane on the vertex, with a median longitudinal sroove, posterior part with two slight protuberances ; club elongate, very little shorter than head and thorax together, laminiform, carinate all along the inner and apical margin, posterior part thicker than the anterior, broadly grooved from base to apex, the groove with seven impressions on the lower part and with six sharp, short, briefly setigerous teeth projecting beyond the edge, upper edge not denticulate ; prothorax bipartite, anterior part lenticular, but more convex in front than behind, slightly emarginate in the centre and subangular laterally, median incision very deep and broad, pos- terior part as broad as the anterior, lateral walls short and sharp, median part with three small impressions divided by two smooth, not much raised tubercles; elytra subparallel and with a very brief and scattered pubescence; posterior tibiz much dilated, triangular, the anterior and intermediate ones slender. Length 6 mm.; width 2 mm. Hab. Natal (Maritzburg, Estcourt, Frere), Transvaal (Water- berg). In the examples from Estcourt and Frere the colour is piceous red instead of being ferruginous. 1897.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 33 PAvussuS CUCULLATUS, Westw., Proc. Linn. Soc., u., 1849, p. 59; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 93, Jol, sxrnble, inl, (6) Chestnut red, shining, nearly glabrous; head with an elevation on the vertex, encircled by a sharp ridge, and bearing two very small tubercles; club short, broad, with the anterior part compressed, sharp, and with four deep, narrow striz, outer margin broadly and deeply excavate for nearly the whole length, and with the internal part of the excavation with six moderately deep transverse striz, the intervals of which form a blunt serration on both edges ; prothorax bipartite, the anterior part in the shape of a thin disk, slightly angular laterally, and not incised in the median part, posterior part with the lateral walls sloping at apex and not much raised, median part moderately excavate and with no longitudinal impressions ; elytra subparallel, almost glabrous; femora and tibize very much compressed and inflated, the posterior tibiz more dilated than the others. Length 44 mm.; width 12 mm. Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Albany, Port Elizabeth), Natal (Estcourt, Maritzburg, Frere). PAUSSUS RUBER, Thunb., Vet. Acad. Handl., 1781, t. 2, p. 170. Reddish brown, moderately shining; head plane and with two very small tubercles on the posterior part ; club somewhat similar in shape to that of P. cucullatus, but it is not quite so much dilated, the striz of the inner margin are not so deep, and the excavated part of the outer margin is not so broad, the strie in the excavation are deeper, but the intervals, although more convex, hardly dentate the edges ; the prothorax bipartite, anterior part lenticular, incised in the middle and distinctly spinose laterally, posterior part bituberculate in the centre, lateral walls sharp and well defined ; elytra parallel, nearly glabrous ; all the tibiae are dilated, but the posterior ones are much broader than the others. Length 44-5 mm.; width 2-21 mm. Hab. Cape Colony (Vaal River, Sterkstroom), Zambezia (Limpopo River). PAUSSUS COCHLEARIUS, Westw., Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., vol. ii., p. 88, pl. ix., fig. 6; Arcana Hunton yoru, p. 189, pl. xciy., fig. 3. Chestnut brown, briefly but thickly pubescent, subopaque; head plane in the centre, carinate transversely in. the anterior edge and with two diagonal ridges behind diverging from the central part 3 34 Descriptive Catalogue [18Oe: towards the hind part of the eyes; basal joint of antennz broad, subquadrate, club laminiform for half the length, apical part of the outer margin dilated, scooped out, and having internally five strize with rounded intervals serrating the lower edge, and also, but in a lesser degree the upper one, outer basal angle moderately long and sharp ; prothorax bipartite, the anterior one lenticular and emarginate in the centre and laterally, posterior one depressed in the centre, walls sharp and not tuberculate ; elytra subparallel; tibie of all legs compressed and broad. Length 54 mm.; width 2 mm. Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Natal (Estcourt), Cape Colony (Uitenhage). PAUSSUS VIATOR, Pér., Plate XII., fig. 4; Plate XIII., fig. 19. Trans. Kntom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 151. Piceous black, opaque, with the antenne and legs very dark red ; head with three short impressions in the middle of the vertex, the median one of which is the deepest and is bounded by two short ridges; inner margin of the club sharp, quadri-impressed, a little sinuate at tip, the outer one dilated, broadly scooped out from apex to base with the outer basal angle moderately long and sharp; the cavity of the outer margin has six striew, the rounded intervals of which serrulate the two edges ; prothorax bipartite, with the anterior part lenticular and incised in the centre, posterior part long, lateral walls sloping towards the transverse incision, median part slightly incised longitudinally ; elytra parallel, nearly glabrous; tibie compressed, broad, the posterior ones much dilated. Length 5mm. ; width 14 mm. Hab. Natal (Frere, Estcourt). PAUSSUS BURCHELLIANUS, Westw., Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 319; Thesaur. Entom. Oxont p92; pl sxvi ne. 10: Chestnut brown, moderately shining; head pubescent, plane in the centre, but raised in a small protuberance behind, apex raised in a transverse ridge; club carinate for half its length in the inner margin and with three marginal impressions, the basal one of which is broader and deeper than the others, outer margin broadly dilate and scooped out, and having five deep striz extending from one edge to the other with the intervals raised, rounded, serrating both the edges, those on the lower one slightly penicillate at tip, outer basal angle very long and cylindrical; prothorax briefly pubescent, bipartite, anterior part perpendicular with the median part lamini- 1897.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 30 form, subquadrate, broadly emarginate in the centre, lateral part spinose, posterior part depressed in the anterior part with the lateral walls tuberculate ; elytra parallel and covered with a long sub- flavescent pubescence; tibiz slender. Length 5mm.; width 2 mm. Hab. Cape Colony (Albany, Sterkstroom). PAUSSUS RUGICEPS, Pér., Plate XIII., fig. 9. Trans. 8. Afric. Phil. Soc., iv., 1886, p. 82, pl. i., fig. 4. Elytra piceous red, antenne, head, prothorax, and legs dark red ; head rugose, and with a high prominence divided in two by a deep groove and tuberculose at each end; club slightly pubescent, a little. curved, inner margin sharp, not impressed, outer margin dilated, broadly and deeply scooped out from apex to base, outer angle sharp and moderately long, cavity smooth, but with five faint serrations — on both edges; prothorax bipartite, anterior part laminiform, sub- rectangular laterally and with the anterior face sloping, posterior part only a little depressed in the central part, walls not much raised and tuberculate ; elytra parallel, very finely aciculate and with regular series of very short, distinct greyish hairs; legs briefly setulose; anterior and intermediate tibia moderately slender, pos- terior ones ampliate, but not broader at the apex than at the base. Length 5 mm.; width 2 mm. Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg). The antennal club is nearly similar to that of P. Degeerv. PAUSSUS DEGEERI, Westw., Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1855, p. 82; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon, Oe BB, TOIL, oeiabigg gate, TAY, Fulvous, elytra finely punctured and covered with very short yellowish sete; head moderately wide and having two small rounded equidistant tubercles between the eyes; antennal club oblong, curved, anterior margin sharp, rounded at apex, posterior one grooved, the groove elongate, subpyriform, the upper edge with five small rounded tubercles, lower edge a little wider than the upper and simple; prothorax sub-bipartate, anterior part hardly broader than the head, angular, raised, subemarginate in the middle with the outer sides angular, posterior part narrower and with the outer sides raised and parallel, grooved tranversely at about the median part, but not deeply, and having in the middle two contiguous tubercles ; elytra much larger than the prothorax, subparallel; legs elongate, slender. Length 64 mm. | | Hab. Caffraria. 36 Descriptwe Catalogue [18o7- I have not met yet with this species, and the description here given is culled from Westwood’s. PAUSSUS BURMEISTERI, Westw., Plate XIITI., fig. 16. Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., i1., p. 86, pl. ix., fig. 3; Arcana Entom., VOLE tng 105 TVAb Goll, Ibocoxing,, 10lse, 7, Opaque and set with squamiform hairs; head, antenne, prothorax, and legs dark brown; elytra deep chestnut brown; head with an occipital protuberance with a narrow rounded ridge enclosing a small pit; club thick, longer than broad, carinate all round, inner margin slightly bi-impressed, the outer one strongly bisinuate, apical part of the upper surface deeply and broadly scooped transversely near the apical part, the lower edge of the cavity slightly serrulate and very deeply impressed at about the median part, outer basal angle short and sharp; prothorax bipartite, anterior part in the shape of a broadly truncate cone, incised in the middle, posterior part with a very deep median impression and with four small tubercles, two in the middle and one at the apex of each lateral wall; elytra subparallel, set with distant seriated squamiform hairs ; all tibiae dilated, the posterior ones broader than the others. Length 6 mm.; width 2 mm. Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). PAUSSUS LINNEI, Westw., Plate XU fie. Ws: Trans. Linn. Soce., xvi., p. 634, pl. xxxii., fig. 22; Arcana Entom., ii., p. 169, pl. Ixxxvii., fig. 4. Chestnut brown, head and prothorax a little darker, hind part of the head raised in a small prominence containing two small pits close to one another and with edges carinate; basal joint of antenne thick, elongato-quadrate; club thick, broad at the base, which is sinuate, with the outer angle sharp but not spinose, Inner margin compressed, outer part swollen and broadly and deeply scooped out transversely between the apex and the median part, the excavation is concave and the external wall thin, incurved, and slightly pubes- cent along the edge; prothorax bipartite, anterior part lenticular, very slightly emarginate in the centre and subsquamose, posterior part deeply excavate in the middle and with two small median and one lateral subtuberculiform processes ; elytra subparallel, shining, subsquamiform; legs slightly pubescent; all tibie compressed, somewhat broad, but not dilated. Length 4 mm.; width 1+ mm. Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Oudtshoorn). £397] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 37 PAUSSUS BARKERI, Pér., Plate XII., fig. 5; Plate XIII., fig. 13. Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 152. Reddish brown with very short pubescence all over; head with two median carinze aculeate in front and overlapping the point of insertion of antenne, these two ridges diverge slightly from the middle of the vertex and have a narrow groove ceasing abruptly above the neck, which is very short and not constricted; basal joint of antenne quadrate, very thick; club moderately long, not com- pressed, deeply sinuate in the inner part, which, like the rounded apical part, is acutely marginate, outer part also sinuate and having on the margin four very distinct teeth bearing several very short sete, while the apical angle is developed into a long, broad, blunt spur, the inner part of which curves so as to form a short tooth corresponding to a similar tooth situated on the opposite part of the base ; the joints of the antenne are covered with closely set, very short, squamiform hairs; prothorax bipartite, the anterior part ridged, slightly grooved in the centre, posterior part as broad as the anterior with a broad median depression nearly reaching the base ; elytra subparallel, covered with very short, closely set hairs, apparently thicker than those on the prothorax and without punc- tures; pygidium thickly pubescent and with a fringe of long, thickly set, yellowish hairs; anterior and intermediate femora and tibie slender, posterior femora and tibie dilated and compressed. Length 9 mm.; width 34 mm. Hab. Natal (D’ Urban). PAUSSUS CURTISI, Westw., Proc. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 190; Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 84, pl. xviii., fig. 11; Raffray, Matér. Etude Pauss., p. 32 pol vali hss. 39. 30. Chestnut brown, subopaque, glabrous; head with two sharp, median ridges in the anterior part uniting in the centre with the apex of a bisinuate, subtriangular one which reaches from side to side in the posterior part, and another but shorter one in the base adjoining the neck, there is also a lateral one running above the eye, these ridges enclose thus three deep impressions in the anterior part and two smaller ones in the posterior; the gene are distinctly acu- leate ; antennz densely squamiform, basal joint elongato-quadrate club long, slender, cylindrical, curving, slightly thickened at the tip, which is carinate, outer margin with a very short groove and two small teeth at the apex only, base deeply incised, outer angle blunt ; prothorax bipartite, anterior part in the shape of a broadly truncate 38 Descriptive Catalogue [1897. cone, broadly emarginate in the middle, posterior part divided by a deep, narrow, transverse groove, deeply impressed up to the base, lateral walls not tuberculate; elytra elongate, glabrous; tibiz very little compressed, nearly cylindrical; legs densely squamiform. Length 8 mm.; width 24 mm. Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Natal (Estcourt), Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth) ; occurs also in Abyssinia. PAUSSUS CYLINDRICORNIS, Pér., Plate XIIT., fig. 1. Trans. 5. Airc. Phil, Soc aie, 885; pp: Silks plas ese, Reddish brown, subopaque; head slightly squamose with two median ridges reaching from the apex to the posterior part, which is slightly raised and has two contiguous pits on each side of the head, and running above the eye is a shorter ridge running from the neck to some distance from the apex; eyes prominent and not bordered by the gene; antenne densely squamose, basal joint short, quadrate, club long, nearly cylindrical, a little compressed at the tip, which is very slightly ampliate and carinate in the rounded part, base not incised, outer angle moderately long and sharp; prothorax - bipartite, anterior part in the shape of a broadly truncate cone, widely emarginate in the middle and shorter than the posterior one, which is broadly grooved longitudinally in the centre, both parts are slightly squamose; elytra elongate, parallel and covered with densely set, squamiform, subflavescent hairs; legs bristly; tibize lmnear. Length 84 mm.; width 24 mm. Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg), Bechuanaland. PAUSSUS SCHUCKARDI, Westw., Proc. Entom. Soc. Lond., u., p. 87, pl. ix., fig. 4; Arcana Entom., vol. i., p.. 187, pl. xcii., fig. 5; Raffray, Matér. Etud. Pauss., Dp. o2, Playa sos, 30, ie Reddish brown, subopaque ; head grooved in the central parts with the edges of the groove rounded, raised and reaching the posterior part, above the eye there is also a small ridge on each side, and the space between this supra-ocular ridge and the median one is de- pressed, genz projecting a little; antennae densely squamiform, basal joint thick, elongato-quadrate, club quite cylindrical, not quite truncate at tip, the apical margin carinulate; prothorax deeply im- pressed tranversely in the middle but not exactly bipartite, anterior part nearly rounded but still sightly more raised than the posterior, which has a moderately broad, not very deep longitudinal impression ; elytra elongate, subparallel with squamiform hairs not densely set ; 1897.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 39 legs very briefly pubescent; tibia linear. Length 63-7 mm. ; width 4-23 mm. Hab. Cape Colony (Grahamstown, Vaal River, Queenstown), Transvaal (Bloemhof, Rustenburg). In the female the antenne are a little shorter than in the male. PAUSSUS MARSHALLI, Pér., Pikes 2OUTe, saves, GS Jelleniey DULL. sees ILI Trans) Hatom!. Soe. Lond., 1896, p. las: Reddish brown, shining, elytra thickly pubescent; vertex of the head nearly plane, posterior part ridged above the neck and along the outer sides; basal joint of antennz quadrate, nearly as large as the head, club broad, massive, inner margin carinate with a short, round basal spur not projecting much, outer margin broadly hollowed with the edges bisinuate, acute at the apical part of the cavity, and bearing on each side a dense tuft of long, yellowish hairs, basal outer spur very broad and subquadrate; prothorax bipartite, the anterior part compressed in a sharp ridge, slightly emarginate in the centre and subaculeate laterally, the posterior part hollowed anteriorly and with a triangular longitudinal groove, and the outer sides produced in a carina sinuate in the middle, sharp in the anterior part, and with the posterior part forming a long tooth standing at an angle with the base, both the points of the lateral carina having a distinet tuft of hairs; elytra short, subparallel; pygidium with short pubes- cence and having in the middle three transverse rows of long and very thick bristles; legs slender, anterior femora not thickened. Length 54 mm.; width 24 mm. Hab. Natal (Frere, Estcourt). Mr. A. E. Haviland writes that he found this species drowned in a trough in company with two kinds of ants. PAUSSUS BRAUNSI. Chestnut brown, moderately shining ; head hardly pubescent, not depressed in the centre, and having two small ocelli-like cavities in the posterior part; antenne very slightly and very briefly pubescent, inner margin of the club sinuate in the middle, sharply carinate, and without any transverse impression, outer margin broadly dilate, and scooped out from apex to base, cavity with four striz, the intervals of which are raised but hardly indenting the edges, basal angle produced in a long spur, subquadrate at base and cylindrical from the middle to the apex; prothorax bipartite, and similar in shape to that of P. burchellianus and P. cucullatus ; posterior part of the disk briefly pubescent; elytra parallel, shining, and having regular series of very short, pallid hairs, outer and posterior margins fringed 40 Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. [1897. with a series of long, thick bristles, curving backwards on the outer margin; pygidium with a few short bristles on the lower edge; legs slender, briefly pubescent, anterior and intermediate femora very slender at base, but not clavate, almost cylindrical lke the tibiz, posterior ones compressed and only slightly dilated, posterior tibiae also slightly dilated and compressed. Length 34 mm.; width 14mm. In shape the posterior margin of the club is nearly similar to that of P. burchellianus and P. cucullatus, but it is less broadly scooped than in both these species, and the basal spur is shorter than in the first-named species and not entirely cylindrical, the shape of the anterior margin is however very different, being sublinear owing to a median sinuation, and not impressed trans- versely ; the disposition along the outer and posterior margins of tnick, recurved, stiff bristles is unique among the South African Pausst, of which it is also the smallest. Discovered in the nest of Pheidole capensis by Dr. Brauns at Port Elizabeth, Cape Colony. Gen. HYLOTORUS, Dalman, Analect. Entom., 1823, p. 103. Head round, with two large fossz on the vertex excavated in front for the reception of the antenne, the latter are two-jointed, the first joint is very small, the other lanceolate ; maxillary palpi four-jointed, second joint very broad, rounded outwardly, sinuate inwardly, maxillze without outer lobe, bifid at tip; last joint of maxillary palpi long, attenuate and rounded at tip; prothorax subcylindrical, attenuate behind; elytra subparallel; first abdominal segment very wide, second and third very small, third wider than the preceding and emarginate; legs short, broad, compressed, the femora grooved so as to allow the insertion of the laminated inner part of the tibiz when retracted ; tarsi short, equal. Two species other than the South African one are known—one from Sierra Leone, and the other from Abyssinia. HyLotTorus HOTTENTOTUS, Westw., Thesaur. Entom. Oxon., p. 81, pl. xvil., fig. 1. Chestnut red, glabrous, moderately shining; head rugulose and with two impressions on the vertex containing a round tubercle perforated at tip; eyes not projecting, reniform ; no neck; prothorax cylindrical, posterior part narrowed from the middle to the base, discoidal part with a linear, transverse, shallow impression; elytra a little rounded at the shoulder, straight laterally and a little amphate from the shoulder to the apex, smooth and glabrous. Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. Hab, Natal (Maritzburg). (ee) POSTCRIPT. [The species described below belongs to the genus Paussus, Linn. See page 15.] PaussuUS ELIZABETH, Ferruginous red, moderately shining; head foveate, the fover shallow and bearing a short greyish seta, vertex with a slightly conical protuberance in the posterior part and two parallel elongate, ocelli- like, deep pits, with smooth raised edges in front of the conical protuberance, and in the centre of the vertex; basal joint of antennee very rugose and bristly, club swollen, anterior margin compressed, narrow, the anterior edge with a series of yellowish distant sets on each side, upper part with three deep transverse impressions situated between the base and the median part, posterior margin broadly dilated and deeply scooped, with the basal angle sharp but moderately long, both the upper and lower edges of excavation are symmetrical, but the upper edge has six serrations and the lower one five only, and less conspicuous, the concave part has six broad grooves on each side ; thorax rugose, setulose, anterior part in the shape of a disk, very narrowly incised in the centre, and angular laterally, posterior part with the lateral walls sloping, and the median part raised in the centre and grooved longitudinally ; elytra rugulose, and with closely set series of moderately long flavescent hairs, outer margins of pygidium clothed with long decumbent pale flavescent hairs; tibie of all legs compressed and dilated. Length 44 mm.; width 14 mm. Allied to P. cucullatus, and distinguished at once by the shape of the ocelli and the subconical protuberance on the vertex of the head; the antennal club is of nearly the same shape, but not so broad outwardly, and the anterior margin is narrower, and has three transverse im- pressions instead of four, and the edge of the lower margin of the excavation does not project beyond the upper edge as it does in P. cucullatus ; it differs also by the setulose elytra, and the fringe of decumbent hairs on the outer margins of the pygidium. Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 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