Phillip V. Tobias died on June 7, 2012 in Johannesburg at Wits University Donald Gordon Medical Centre, at the age of 86. Phillip Tobias was born in Durban, Natal, Republic of South Africa, on October 14, 1925, the only son and second child of Joseph Newman Tobias (who was born in Portsmouth, England) and Fanny Rosendorff (who was born in Edenburg, Orange Free State). He learned to read by the ...

The adults of Calochromini with male flabellate antennae were studied. Two new Calochromus Guérin-Méneville, 1833 species with flabellate antennae, C. kelantanensis spec. nov. and C. harauensis spec. nov. are described. Dumbrellia Lea, 1909 (Calochromini) is proposed as a new junior synonym of Plateros Bourgeois, 1879 (Lycinae: Platerodini). Flabellochromus Pic, 1925 is transferred to Calochrom...