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the head, the clypeus of which is sinuate in the centre, and some-
what short ; the short prothorax is serrulate laterally and the basal
angles project longitudinally beyond the line of the base ; scutellum
scaly; elytra slightly broader than the prothorax at the base, slightly
sinuate past the humeral part and strongly ampliated thence to the
posterior part, the suture is costate, and there are faint traces of two
or three costules, both the humeral and postical calluses are very
distinct and the surface is deeply punctate, the punctures being
only moderately closely set and filled each with a greyish-white
scale ; propygidium extremely closely punctulate and very briefly
pubescent pygidium broader than long, covered with contiguous
sub-flavescent scales ; abdomen strongly bulging out laterally and
very convex, covered also with contiguous small white scales, pectus
and episterna clothed with appressed thick squamose hairs, which
in the former are mingled with a sub-fulvescent pubescence ; legs
scaly ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate.

I have not ascertained by dissection the sex of the only example
known to me, but I am satisfied, in spite of the shape of the antennal
club, that it is a 3 , owing to the shape of the spurs of the hind
tarsi.

Length 27 mm. ; width 141 mm.

Neighbourhood of Zambesi Eiver (Ikuta), communicated by Herr
Brenske.

Group DIPLOTAXIDES.

Labrum transverse or arcuate, not incised ; anterior coxae strongly
oblique and vertical at apex ; clypeus either very short in both sexes
or strongly prolonged and even bi-lobate in the male.

The shape of the labrum and of the anterior coxae characterise
this group which is represented in South Africa by five species,
belonging to one or possibly two genera, the males of which have
the two or three basal tarsal joints dilated and hairy underneath ;
this dilatation can also be traced in the female of some species.

Gen. APOGONIA, Kirby,
Trans. Lin. Soc, xii., 1818, p. 401.
Catagonia, Kolbe, Entomol. Nachr., vol. xxv., 1899, p. 57.
Ceratogonia, Kolbe, loc. cit., p. 45.

Mentum quadrate, plane, fused with the ligular part which is
truncate at the tip, but the suture is visible ; last joint of labial palpi
cylindrical but somewhat acuminate at the apex; maxillae robust,
swollen at the base and ending in four strong arcuate teeth, without

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traces of an inner lobe ; last joint of maxillary palps fusiform, twice
as long as the third, and not impressed laterally, maxillae laminate
and bifid at the tip ; labium narrow, transverse, not sub-cordate, not
incised ; clypeus separated from the head by a very faint suture,
either diagonally narrowed laterally and truncate in front (Apogonia),
or strongly aculeate and incised in the centre, or even bi-lobate in
the male (Catagonia, Ceratogonia), bead large, ryes large, divided in
the anterior part by the canthus of the genae which are, however,
fused with the clypeus ; antenna; 10-jointed, the first and second
joints are as long as the rest of the pedicel, much thicker than the
other joints which are small and monilifonn, the three-jointed club is
elongate in the male, ovate in the female ; prothorax twice as broad
as long, anterior angles very sharp, posterior ones angular, anterior
margin not fringed with hairs; scutellum ogival ; elytra broader than
the prothorax and with the humeral angles sharp, moderately convex,
costulate, not callose behind, covering the propygidium or the greatest
part of it ; pygidium small, cordate, declivous ; abdomen convex, the
segments fused, pectus not hairy ; anterior tibiae hi- or tri-dentate
outwardly, and with a very distinct inner spur {Catagonia Apogonia),
or without (Ceratogonia), posterior ones without a distinct oblique
ridge, tarsi long, hairy underneath, especially in the male, in which
sex the two basal joints of the anterior tarsi are somewhat dilated at
the apex, especially the second (Apogonia), or the three basal joints,
the second in particular, very broadly dilated in all the tarsi (Cata-
gonia, Ceratogonia), claws somewhat robust, deeply cleft at the apex,
the lower tooth as arcuate as the upper, nearly as long, and slightly
broader.

The genus is represented in India, Ceylon, Borneo, Java, Sumatra,
&c. It occurs also in East and West Africa, and five South African
species are now known.

Key to the Species.
A-. Anterior tibise tri-dentate.

B. Clypeus narrow in both »'xcs, truncate laterally, straight at

apex ; anterior tibise with an inner spur in both sexes .. .. Apogonia.

« . Punctures on the elytra round, intervals very little raised
in the male, smoother in the female.

Testaceous or ferruginous with a metallic sheen .. .. citrtula.

Dark hronzc, very shiny imirroba.

o*. Punctures on the elytra very deep and the intervals cori-

uginous tinge mashona.

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A1. Anterior tibiae bi-dentate.

B-. Clypeus aculeate laterally, deeply incised in front, and con-
siderably produced in tbe male Catagonia.

Testaceous-red with a bronze sbeen ovata.

B1. Clypeus aculeate laterally, deeply incised in front and pro-
duced in tbe male into two very long, born-like lobes ;
anterior tibiae without an inner spur in both sexes . . . . Ceratogonia.

Elytra pale testaceous, with a metallic sheen marshalli.

Apogonia curtula, Pering.
Schizonycha curtula, Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. vi., 1892,
p. 37.

Testaceous-red, with a metallic sheen, palpi and club of antennae
yellowish ; clypeus deeply and somewhat rugosely punctured, trun-
cate in front in the male, sinuate in the female, suture fairly distinct,
punctures on the head not as rugose as on the clypeus, and separated
from each other by a space equal to their diameter ; prothorax more
attenuated laterally in the anterior than in the posterior part,
bulging and rounded in the middle, very slightly convex, with the
margins not reflexed, and covered with round, not contiguous
punctures more closely set on the sides than on the disk, and
slightly deeper in the male than in the female ; scutellum ogival,
finely punctate laterally ; elytra plainly callose close to the humeral
angle, slightly sinuate there, and thence very slightly ampliated,
moderately convex, and with two dorsal costules on each side, the
suture is raised, and the intervals are filled with round punctures
with smooth intervals nearly equal in width to the diameter of
the punctures, the latter are seriate on the sides ; apical part of pro-
pygidium and pygidium deeply punctured; abdomen and meta-
sternum also deeply and closely punctured, each puncture bears a
minute, sub-flavescent hair ; legs slightly hairy ; anterior tibiae tri-
dentate, tarsi longer in the male than in the female, and much more
densely hairy underneath especially the anterior and intermediate
ones, the second and third joints of the anterior tarsi, and also the
apical part of the first which is longer than either of the other two,
are very plainly dilated triangularly at the tip ; the joints of the
intermediate and posterior ones are normal ; in the female the
second and third joints of the anterior tarsi are also dilated, but
only slightly.

Length 8^-9^ mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba).

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Apogonia improba, n. spec.

Female : Size and shape of the preceding species, but dark bi'onze
and very shiny ; the shape and sculpture are the same, but the
punctures on the elytra are somewhat finer, and the intervals quite
smooth and plane.

I have seen only one female example. It is quite possible that
the male has more characteristic differences.

Length 9£ mm. ; width oi mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury).

Apogonia mashona, n. spec.

Testaceous-red, turning to bronze-green, on the elytra ; in shape it
closely resembles A. curtula and A. improba, but it is at once
distinguished by the constantly smaller size, and the much deeper
and coarser punctures on the upper part, and also by the shape of
the clypeus which is not so sharply diagonally narrowed laterally
nor so truncate in front in the male, and not at all sinuate there in
the female ; the second and third joints of the anterior tarsi are only
slightly dilated.

Length 1-1\ mm. ; width 4-44/ mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe ; Umtali, Mazoe).

Apogonia ovata, Fahr.,

Plate XL VI., fig. 17.
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 94.

Ceratogonia kolbei, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entoml. Zeitsch., 1899, p. 141.

Chestnut or reddish-brown, with a strong metallic tinge, club of
antennae flavescent ; head and prothorax covered with fine, although
deep punctures, separated by a smooth interval, nearly equal in
width to their own diameter; scutellum finely but not densely
punctate ; elytra with the humeral angles sharp and Blightly pro-
jecting beyond the rounded base of the prothorax, covered with
deep, round, somewhat closely-set punctures, and having on each
elytron two dorsal costules, edged on either side by a regular row
of punctures, suture plainly raised; underside coarsely punctate;
anterior tibia1 bi-dentate; in the male the clypeus is as long as the
head, strongly aculeate laterally, and the apical part is deeply
incised, the two angles of the incision being remarkably sharp, the
three basal joints of all the tarsi are very much dilated, the second
one especially, and provided underneath with a somewhat flat brush
of flavescent hairs; io the female, the clypeus, which is not as long

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as the head, is diagonally attenuate laterally and deeply emarginate
at apex, with the angles sharp, but not projecting ; the tarsi of the
anterior tibias have the three penultimate joints slightly ampliated
at the tip, but the joints of the other tarsi are normal.

Length 7-7i mm. ; width 3|— 4 mm.

Fahrgeus's description was made from a female, the type of which
I have seen.

Hab. Orange Eiver Colony (Bothaville) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg,
Rustenberg, Zoutpansberg) ; Southern Rhodesia (Umtali, Sebakwe) ;
Natal (Estcourt) ; Bechuanaland (Kanya).

Apogonia marshalli, Arrow.,
Plate XLVL, figs. 9, 16.
Ceratogonia marshalli, Arr., Ann. and Magaz. Nat. Hist., ix.,
1902, p. 94.

Pale testaceous, shining with a faint metallic tinge ; head and
prothorax covered with fine punctures nearly equi-distant and
separated from each other by a smooth interval equal in width to
their diameter, and having a faint supra-lateral impression on each
side ; scutellum more or less plainly punctured ; elytra very deeply
and closely punctured and having each two dorsal, fine costules
edged on each side by a regular row of punctures ; anterior tibiae
bi-dentate ; pygidium and underside briefly pubescent ; in the male
the clypeus is cleft right to the base, and produced into two long
sharply aculeate lobes, slightly divaricating, and also slightly
bi-sinuate outwardly, longer than the head, and looking like two
porrect horns ; the joints of all the tarsi have a thick brush of hairs
underneath, and the three basal ones, particularly the second, are
very greatly dilated ; in the female the clypeus is very obliquely
narrowed laterally towards the median part, which is deeply cleft
triangularly, but at its longest part it is only half the length of the
head, and all the tarsi, except for a very slight ampliation of the
three basal joints of the anterior pair are normal.

Length 6—7^ mm. ; width 3^-4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe, Umtali).

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Sub-Family CETONINI.

Body moderately convex or plane above ; labrum hidden under
the clypeus; ligula fused with the mentum ; maxillae robust or
slender, but not as massive or as robustly dentate as in the
Melolonthini, except in the genus Diplognatha, and provided
with an inner corneous lamina or inner lobe, and surmounted
by an upper lobe varying in size and Bhape ; antennae 10-jointed,
antennal club tri-jointed ; elytra leaving the margin of the propy-
gidium and the pygidium uncovered, and also the edge of the
dorsal part of the three abdominal segments ; mesothoracic epimera
always greatly developed, vertical or strongly bulging; anterior coxae
vertical ; abdominal segments seemingly ankylosed but with the
sutures plainly distinct; claws of tarsi strong, simple, of equal length;
hind tarsi with two long spurs at the inner angle.

The affinities of the Cetonin.k lie in two directions. Certain
Trichini and Myodermini connect this Sub-Family with the Melo-
lonthin-E ; the Cetonini seem to be more closely allied to the
Dynastin^:. From the latter they are divided by the shape of the
mentum, and that of the mandibles, whereas these two parts are
nearly akin to those of the Melolonthini ; in many species the lower
spur of the hind tibiae of the female is often greatly dilated, and even
spatuliform, also in the manner of many Melolontliini, and when of
normal shape it is always blunter than that of the male. The mode
of flight is unique among the Coleoptera, the wing-covers being
merely raised vertically while the wings protrude underneath.

Although the majority of these insects are living in the imago
state on the pollen of flowers, the juice, sap, or gum exuding from
many plants, many are termitobious or mvrmecobious ; others are
coprophagous, some of them live in the larval state in the nests of
birds, feeding on the excrements of the young, and making there
their cocoon of stercorarious matter.

The Sub-Family is divided into five sections, based on the shape of
the scutellum and of the mesothoracic epimera.

A . Scutellum short, cordiform, not acuminate at tip.

B . Mesothoracic epimera invisible if looked at from above. . Tpichiini.

B'. Mesothoracic epimera vertical, laminiform, visible from

above Myodermini.

A1. Scutellum long, or very long, sharply acuminate at tip.

B3. Mi isothoraoio epimera vertical, not visible from above .. Valgini.

B'. Mesothoraoia epimera large, or very large, plainly visible

from above Cetonini.

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The number of species recorded from the South African area is
223 divided into 101 genera. This is a good example of how great
the tendency is, nowadays, to divide the genera on the slightest
plausible reasons ; for there are few Sub-Families among the Coleop-
tera which are as closely related to each other as the Cetonin^: are.
The multiplication of species on the flimsiest characters excels that
of the genera. I have satisfied myself, by an examination of the
male genital organs, that a great many of them cannot be considered
as valid.

The endemic genera number 33, distributed as follows : —

Tkichiini, 4. Agcnius ; Stegopterus ; Brachagcenius ; Eriopel-

tastes.
Myodermini, 2. Elpidus, Xiphoscelidus.

Cetononi (Cetonides) 15. Xiphoscelis; Bhinocceta ; Lipoclita ;
Atrichelaphinis ; Goraqua ; Trichostctha ; Odontorrhina ;
Ischnostoma ; Gariep ; Heteroclita ; Baceloma ; Mazoe ;
Gnathocerida ; Amazula ; Atrichia.

(Cremastochilides) 12. Macromima ; Phymatopteryx ;
Anatochilus; Plagiochilus ; Proxenus ; Astoxenus ; Genu-
chus; Trichoplus; Myrmecochila; Anatochilus; Scaptobius;
Placodidus.

Six of these genera will probably be met with outside the South
African area.

Tribe TKICHIINI

In the insects included in this Tribe, the elytra are either convex
or plane, the ligular part of the mentum is deeply and broadly
scooped out, the labial palpi are inserted in the outer face of the
mentum, the upper lobe of maxillae is elongated, simple, and bears a
long pencil of hairs, and the inner lobe is not distinct, the clypeus is
a little longer than the head, the antennal club is as long or much
longer than the pedicel in the £ ; the basal angles of the prothorax
are not rounded but are always angular, and even sharply so, and
the median part is not arcuate ; the scutellum is cordiform and as
broad as long ; the apical end of the hind tibiae does not end in three
teeth or spines, and the spurs are long, the upper one is occasionally
strongly compressed in the 5 (Stegopterus) ; the tarsi, especially the
hind ones, are very long and slender, with the claws long ; the basal
joint is longer than the second, and there is no mesosternal process,
except in Stripsipher. The body is partly pubescent, or glabrous,
the pubescence is not squamose.

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The South African species are found on flowers. They fly with
great rapidity. The livery of the female differs from that of the male
in some species belonging to the genus Agenius. It is not known
if the laiwae make for themselves a cocoon.

The characters distinguishing this Tribe are constant, provided
that the genus Polyplastus, which, however, has not been met with
as yet in the South African area, be removed from it. It is a
very abnormal form, having dentate maxillae, a quadrate mentum,
a scutellum as sharp at apex as the Cetonini, the mesothoracic
episterna are conspicuous, and the hind coxae project beyond the
elytra. The facies is, however, that of a Trichiid, the outer angles
of the prothorax are sharp, and the outer teeth of the fore tibiae are
similar to those of Stripsipher.

Key to the Genera.
A2. Elytra convex.

B*. Anterior tibiae of c? bi-dentate, tri-dentate in the ? .

Clypeus emarginate ; spurs of the hind tibiae sharp in

the <? , compressed and obtuse in the ? Stegopterus.

A1. Elytra plane.

B2. Anterior tibiae tri-dentate in both sexes.

Clypeus not sinuate nor emarginate at apex ; elytra
nan-owing towards the posterior part Agenius.

Clypeus sinuate or deeply emarginate ; elytra as broad f Stripsipher .
at apex as at the base {Brachagenius.

B\ Anterior tibiae bi-dentate in the d Eriopeltastcs.

Gen. STEGOPTERUS, Schaum.,
Germ. Zeitschr., ii., 1840, p. 404.
Mentum as broad as long, plane, almost parallel, very hairy,
ligular part very deeply and broadly scooped out in front, almost
bi-lobate, labial palpi inserted at some distance from the apex, last
joint swollen, maxillae somewhat robust, fringed inwardly with dense
hairs, upper lobe, or mando small, set at right angles to the maxilla
and healing a very long pencil of hairs projecting plainly beyond
the clypeus if looked at from above, maxillary palpi of the usual
type, the last joint very little longer than the preceding one ; clypeus
a little Longer than the head, slightly contracted near the base,
emarginate or not in front ; antennal club longer in the male than
in the female, and as long or much longer than the pedicel ; pro-
thorax slightly broader than long, more attenuate laterally in the

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anterior than in the posterior part, and with the basal angles plainly
distinct; scutellum cordiform, as broad as long; elytra elongate,
not plane ; pygidium vertical ; under side very densely hairy, as are
also the head and prothorax, but the elytra are glabrous ; legs long,
tarsi longer than the tibiae, strongly spinose underneath ; anterior
tibse bi-dentate outwardly in the male, but tri-dentate in the female,
in which sex the lower spur of the hind tarsi are very plainly com-
pressed and blunted at tip ; the intermediate tibiae of the male are
somewhat curved inwardly in some species, not in others.

Three of the species of this genus seem restricted to the western
South African area, but another one occurs also in Natal, where it
seems to be rare.

Key to the Species.

A2. Clypeus emarginate in front.

Elytra with the suture, the outer margin and a diagonal band

on each side green vittatus.

Elytra with the suture and the outer margin green suturalis.

A1. Clypeus not emarginate in front.

Elytra with the suture and the outer margin infuscate ; pygidium
concolorous • • . . septus.

Elytra with the outer margin only black ; pygidium with two

wide whitish patches natalensis.

Stegopterus vittatus, Fabric,

Syst. Ent. App., p. 819;

Gor. and Perch. Monogr. Cet., 1883, p. 83, pi. 9, fig. 5.

surinamensis, Herbst. Kaf., hi., p. 71, pi. 23, fig. 7.
tomentosus, de Geer. Mem., vii., p. 644, pi. 48, fig. 8.
tricolor, Lin. Syst. Nat. Ed. Gmel., i., 4, p. 1574.
zebra, Oliv. Ent., i., 5, p. 54, pi. 7, fig. 75; Gu6r. Icon. Eegn.
Anim. Ins., pi. 26, fig. 3.

Metallic green ; elytra flavescent and having on each side a fuscous
longitudinal, somewhat narrow infuscate band reaching from the
shoulder to the apex, the outer margin is also narrowly infuscate
laterally, and the suture has a broad green band in the male, and a
fuscous one in the female.

Male : Head closely punctate, and covered in the frontal part by
a dense pile of flavescent hairs ; clypeus a little shorter than the
head, not much ampliated laterally, as broad as long, broadly
emarginate at apex, with the angles broadly rounded ; antennae
deeply infuscate, the club longer than the whole pedicel ; prothorax

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longer than broad, plainly narrowing laterally from the median part
to the apex, hut nearly straight from the middle to the base the
angle of which is very sharp, closely rugose punctate and covered
with a long, sub-erect, very dense flavescent pubescence ; scutellum
deeply and somewhat roughly punctate ; elytra one-fifth longer than
broad, hardly narrower at apex than at base, somewhat convex in
the anterior dorsal part, but not so in the posterior, and having
a distinctly raised, rounded, supra-marginal ridge on which the
fuscous band runs, and reaching from the humeral callus to the
apex ; on the surface are sparsely scattered, very shallow, and
extremely fine punctures ; pygidium finely shagreened and clothed
with long hairs ; abdomen punctulate ; pectus shagreened, the whole
under side and legs very hairy, the hairs sub-flavescent ; intermediate
tibia? slightly arcuate, anterior tibiae with two distinct apical outer
teeth and a sinuation above the second tooth.

Female : Clypeus more arcuate laterally from the base to the
apex the anterior part of which is thus narrower than in the male,
but is equally deeply emarginate, the sculpture is nearly the same,
but the head is not thickly pubescent in my examples, nor is the
prothorax which bears only a few scattered hairs, and is much more
broadly and more deeply punctate instead of being shagreened ; the
elytra are more convex, plainly ampliate behind, and coarsely
punctate, especially in the median part, the pubescence of the
pygidium and also of the under side is shorter ; the anterior tibiae
are plainly tri-dentate outwardly, and the lower spur of the hind
tarsi, more compressed and blunter at tip than the upper.

Length 13-17| mm. ; width 8-9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

Stegopterus suturalis, Gory and Perch.,
Monogr. Cet., 1833, p. 84, pi. 9, fig. 6.

Metallic green, with the elytra greenish flavescent or flavescent
and very narrowly marginated with black, suture with a bright
green band ; legs bluish-black. This species so closely resembles
S. rittatus in general appearance, as well as in colouration, that it
might be easily taken for the same, but it is smaller; the elytra
have no traces of the supra-lateral infusoate band; the antennae
including the club are rufescent instead of being black or deeply
infuscate ; the head and prothorax of the female are as densely
hairy as those of the male, but in the latter the punctures are
slightly more asperous, the body is narrower and less ampliated
behind in the female; the elytra of the male are more distinctly

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punctured, but those of the female are alike in both species ; the
genital armature differs, the clasps enclosing a broader open space
and being less diagonally truncate outwardly at apex in S. suturalis ;
the intermediate tibiae of the male are also more strongly curved
inwardly than in S. vittatus.

In examples from Worcester and Beaufort West, the punctures
on the prothorax are not quite as asperous as in the examples from
the neighbourhood of Cape Town; this character is variable.

Length 14^-15 mm. ; width 7^-8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town ; Worcester,
Hex River Valley.

Stegopterus septus, Sch.,
Germar's Zeitschr., ii., 1840, p. 404.

Male : Bronze black ; elytra pale testaceous, with the suture and
the outer margins infuscate ; head, prothorax, under side and legs
clothed with a very long and very dense greyish or sub-flavescent
pubescence ; clypeus as long as the head, not narrowed at the base
but rounded laterally in the anterior part, and not emarginate in
front ; antennal club very long, half as long again as the whole
pedicel ; the sculpture of the head and prothorax and the shape of
elytra and pygidium similar to those of the two preceding species
from which it is easily distinguished by the shape of the clypeus
and the much greater length of the antennal club ; the intermediate
tibiae are not curved inwardly.

Female unknown.

I have seen only two male examples of this species.

Length 10-10i mm. ; width 4i-5 mm.

Hob. Cape Colony (? Knysna ; Clanwilliam).

Stegopterus natalensis, n. sp.
Plate XLV1L, fig. 6.
Male : Bronze-black, with the antennae and the elytra testaceous
yellow, the latter have the recurved outer margin black ; clypeus
somewhat concave, rounded in front, owing to the margin being
raised all round, very slightly emarginate in the centre, densely
hairy like the head ; antennal club extremely long ; prothorax of
the usual shape, clothed with a very dense and long flavescent
pubescence, and covered with somewhat broad, sub-contiguous
punctures ; along the outer margin there is occasionally a whitish
band ; scutellum closely punctate ; elytra somewhat short, being
only twice the length of the prothorax, more deeply striate than in

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the other species of the genus ; pygidium with a greyish-white
coating leaving a median longitudinal black band beginning at
a short distance from the base, but reaching the apex, and having
in addition a moderately dense, long yellowish-white pubescence
similar to the one clothing the under side ; the tarsi of the inter-
mediate tibia?, which are not curved, are shorter than the tibia?, but
those of the hind legs are much longer.

The facies is slightly different from that of the other three species
of Stegopterus, in which the whitish pygidial macules are also
absent, owing to the somewhat more plane and shorter elytra. The
antennal club of the $ is still more developed than that of S. septus,
and in many respects this species agrees with Burmeister's descrip-
tion of Eriopeltastes leucoprymnus, but the buccal organs are those
of Stegopterus, the maxilla and mando not being unusually slender,
and the hind tarsi are also of a normal length.

Length 10 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Natal (Estcourt).

Gen. AGENIUS, Serville,
Encycl. Meth., x., 1825, p. 702.

Men turn plane, sub-ovate laterally for a little more than two-
thirds of the length, notched laterally at the ligular part which
is twice as long as broad, deeply incised in the centre, with the two
apical parts rounded, labial palpi inserted near the apex of the outer
face, last joint ovoid, truncate at the tip ; lower maxillary lobe
moderately robust, densely ciliate inwardly, upper lobe or mando
corneous, thickly hairy at tip, the penicillate hairs plainly projecting
beyond the clypeus, last joint of maxillary palps sub-fusiform out-
wardly, blunt at apex ; clypeus longer than the head or not, not
incised in front ; antennal club either longer than the six preceding
joints of the pedicel (<?) or of equal length (?); prothorax plane,
sub-hexagonal ; scutellum sub-ogival ; elytra plane, elongate,
either tapering slightly laterally from the base to the apex
or as broad there as at the base {rufipennis) ; pygidium sub-
vertical in the male, sub-horizontal in the female ; legs long,
especially the tarsi, very slender ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate out-
wardly in both sexes ; spurs of hind tibiae sharp in both sexes.

Five species included in this genus are now known ; four of them
seem restricted to the south-western parts of the Cape Colony, and
one is recorded from the Transvaal ; in two species the colouration
of the female differs much from that of the male.

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Key to the Species.

A2. Clypeus longer than the head and acuminate.

B2. Both sexes similarly coloured.

C2. Head and prothorax almost glabrous in both sexes.

Elytra rufescent and having a discoidal black patch, a
sutural cuneiform black band running from the middle
to the apex, and a narrow black band along the outer
margin limbatus.

B1. Both sexes differently coloured.

C2. Head and prothorax almost glabrous in both sexes.

Elytra flavescent in the <? , and with a sutural black
band reaching from the middle to the apex, outer
margin with a narrow black band; elytra quite black
in the ? clavus.

C\ Head and prothorax pubescent.

Elytra almost straw-coloured in the <$ , suture with a
non-interrupted black band, outer margin with a
narrow black band ; elytra rufescent in the ? but with
a very broad black sutural and outer marginal band . . suturalis.

A1. Clypeus slightly shorter than the head, and not acuminate.

Elytra not narrowed at apex, red, with a narrow sutural black

band slightly dilated in the centre ' rufipennis.

Elytra slightly narrowing towards the apex, pale yellow with a
median quadrate black patch continued as a broad band along
the suture, outer margin black plagosus.

Agenius limbatus, Olivier,

Entomol., i., 5, p. 59, pi. 9, fig. 100 ;

Gory and Perch., Mon. Cet., p. 95, pi. 11, fig. 4.

Black, with the elytra testaceous yellow, upper part not shiny ;
clypeus longer than the head in both sexes, more deeply strangulate
laterally at the base, broader and also slightly more emarginate at
apex in the male than in the female, covered, like the head, with
deep, round, sub-confluent punctures, and with the vertex of the
head sparsely villose ; antennas black, with the club one-third longer
in the male than in the female ; prothorax diagonally ampliated
from the apex to about the median part, almost equally narrowed
thence to the posterior angle which is plain, and with the base
slightly bi-sinuate, plane, closely punctured, the punctures deeper

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and somewhat coarser in the female than in the male, in which sex
the anterior margin bears a few scattered, long flavescent hairs
which are entirely wanting in the female in which also the prothorax
is wholly black, whereas in the male there is a broad supra-lateral,
rufo-flavescent band ; scutellum cordiform but somewhat acute at
tip ; elytra plane, elongate, narrower at apex than at base, having on
each side a longitudinal impression between the humeral part and
the suture, this latter part being plainly convex in the posterior
part ; the testaceous yellow elytra have an elongated discoidal, black
median patch on each side, a sutural black band beginning at about
the median part, and very narrow there, but widening as it reaches
the apex, and an outer marginal black band, tapering, however, in
the direction of the base ; pygidium and abdomen black, glabrous ;
anterior tibiae sharply tri -dentate ; tarsi longer than the tibia?, the
intermediate ones strongly curved inwardly at apex in the male,
spurs of hind tibiae not compressed in the female, and although
slightly thicker than in the male, yet nearly equally sharp.

Length 12-14^ mm. ; width 6-7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury,
Paarl, Worcester).

Agexius clavus, Schaum.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1844, p. 422.
3 clcgans, Per., Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc, vi., 1892, p. 115.
$ grandis, Per., loc. cit., hi., 1885, p. 100.

Male : Black, with the elytra pale flavescent and having a narrow
outer marginal black band, the suture has a moderately broad black
band ascending from the apex to the median part, where it some-
times expands in a short triangular patch ; the clypeus is acuminate
as in the preceding species, but is straight in front, the head and
prothorax are similarly shaped and sculptured, the latter has a
median groove and is either moderately pubescent or almost
glabrous ; the elytra are not quite as narrowly elongate as in
A. limbatus, but the sculpture is the same; the under side is
moderately pubescent.

Female : More elongated than the male, but equally plane, and
with the clypeus more attenuate laterally towards the tip, the punc-
tures on the head and prothorax are coarser and deeper; the whole
body is black, and the elytra are deeply and somewhat coarsely
punctate ; the under side is glabrous.

Length 12^—18 mm. ; width 6^-9 mm.

Hub. Cape Colony (Worcester).

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Agenius suturalis, Waterh.,

Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), xv., 1885, p. 379.

namaquensis, Pering., Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc, iii., 1885, p. 100.

Male : Black, with the elytra light straw-colour, and having a
somewhat broad outer marginal black band and a sutural one reach-
ing from the base to the apex ; clypeus, head, and prothorax shaped
and sculptured as in A. davits, but the latter is covered with a
moderately dense, long, greyish pubescence ; the elytra, which are
shaped like those of the preceding species, are more distinctly punc-
tate, and the intermediate tibiae are also strongly curved inwardly ;
the pygidium and under side are clothed with a very dense greyish
pubescence.

Female : Similar in shape and sculpture to the same sex of A.
clavus, but the elytra instead of being entirely black are brick -red,
with a very broad sutural band reaching from base to apex, and
have a similarly broad outer marginal one ; these two bands coalesce
occasionally, leaving only the basal part red; the under side is
glabrous.

Length 13|— 16^ mm. ; width 6|-8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

Agenius rufipennis, Gory and Perch.,
Mon. Cet., p. 96, pi. 11, fig. 5.

Male : Black, with the elytra brick-red, very little shining,
glabrous ; antennas rufo-flavescent with the exception of the basal
joint which is black ; clypeus with the margins thickly reflexed,
slightly arcuate in front, not much constricted laterally, and, like the
head, which is a little longer, thickly punctate ; prothorax ampliated
laterally in the centre, and equally narrowed towards the apex as
towards the base which is plainly bi-sinuate with the angles not
sharp but not rounded, the disk is covered with round, equi-distant
punctures ; scutellum sparsely punctate ; elytra plane, slightly
broader across the middle than across the base or the apex, not
striate but having rows of serrate punctures especially distinct in
the median dorsal part, they are brick-red, and along the suture runs
a narrow black band reaching from the base to the apex and some-
what dilated in the centre, the outer marginal fold is black ; pygidium
concolorous ; intermediate tibiae not arcuate.

I have seen two males only of this seemingly rare species ; they
have no white markings, nor traces of them, and they are not shiny,

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as mentioned by Burmeister in his description of the species
(Handb. d. Entomol., 3, p. 735).

Length 9-11 mm. ; width 5-5J mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town).

Agenius plagosus, Per.,

Plate XLV., fig. 10.

Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc, iii., 1885, p. 101.

Male : Glabrous, black, with the antennae flavescent, and the elytra
pale yellow but marginate with black and having a broad sutural
band reaching from the apex to the median part, where it expands
in a quadrate patch ; clypeus slightly arcuate in front in the same
manner as the preceding species, but the reflexed margins are not so
thick ; both the head and prothorax are covered with deep, nearly
contiguous punctures ; the prothorax is sub -angular laterally a little
before the median part and evenly attenuate thence to the apex or the
base which is bi-sinuate with the angles acute, the punctures on the
disk are not as deep nor as closely set as those of the head ; scutellum
deeply but sparsely punctate ; elytra hardly ampliate laterally in the
median part, and narrower at apex than at the base, non-striate and
not distinctly punctate ; legs and tarsi very long ; intermediate tibiae
not arcuate.

Length 11-11^ mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg), Natal (Upper Tongaat).

Gen. STEIPSIPHER, Gory and Perch.,
Monogr. Cet., 1833, p. 35.
Stringophorus, Burm., Germar's Zeits., ii., p. 398.

Buccal parts of Agenius ; clypeus not longer than the head ;
antennal club of equal length in both sexes; body glabrous ; elytra
slightly ampliated laterally in the middle, as broad at apex as at
base, barely covering the propygidium ; prothorax with a distinct
round supra-marginal impression on each side of the disk ; legs long,
slender, glabrous; spurs of bind tarsi neither compressed nor blunt
in the female ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly in both sexes,
the two apical teeth nearer to one another than the third ; a
sternal process projecting beyond the coxae and sub-obtuse at
apex.

The two species included in this genus have retained the two
,tl pi'othoracie impression which obtains in the MelolonthincB,

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Coprince, &c, and which, to the hest of my knowledge, have entirely
disappeared in the Cetonince.

Two species extremely variable in colouration are included in this
genus.

Key to the Species.

Clypeus sinuate in front longipes.

Clypeus deeply incised zebra.

Stripsipher longipes, Sweder.,
Act. Holm., 1787, p. 192.

sivederi, Schonh., Syn. Ins., i., 3, 106.

flavipennis, Gor. and Per., Monog. Cet., p. 96, pi. 11, fig. 6.

horsfieldi, McLeay, Illust. Zool. S. Afric, hi., p. 14, pi. i.

Glabrous, black, shiny ; prothorax with a while outer marginal
band, which, however, is often obliterated ; scutellum with two
white spots ; elytra either flavous and maculated with black or quite
black, they have on each side two white spots above the outer
margin, and two on each side of the suture ; pygidium with two
yellowish or whitish spots on each side, these spots coalesce often
and thus form an arcuate patch ; the anterior legs and the clypeus
are occasionally rufo-fiavescent ; clypeus shorter than the head,
sinuate in front, not much strangulate laterally at the base, head
somewhat coarsely punctate ; antennal club very little longer in the
male than in the female ; prothorax more attenuate laterally in the
anterior part than behind, the base is deeply bi-sinuate and the angles
almost rounded, the disk is covered with round punctures separated
by a smooth space equal to their own diameter, and there is on each
side a round supra-marginal impression near the median part ;
scutellum sparsely punctate ; elytra slightly ampliated in the median
part, and equal in width at base and apex, plane with the supra
outer marginal part sloping, sub-costate in the discoidal part, deeply
and regularly striate punctate with the apical part irregularly punc-
tured ; legs glabrous, long, very slender ; intermediate tibiae of male
slightly arcuate.

The colouration of this species varies considerably ; black or
piceous-red elytra predominate in the female.

Length 9|— 13 mm. ; width 5-^-7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony.

Gory and Percheron's figure is not a good one ; that given by
McLeay (S. horsfieldi) is very accurate, and the colouration very
true.

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Stripsiper zebra, Gory and Perch.,
Mmd. Cet, p. 98, pi. 12, fig. 1.

niger, G. and P., loc. cit., p. 99, pi. 12, fig. 3.

Head black, with the clypeus flavous or maculated with black
prothorax flavous and having two broad black bands and one small
black patch surrounding the lateral impression ; elytra flavous, with
a longitudinal humeral broad fuscous band which coalesces more or
less regularly with a post-median one reaching from side to side,
and connected along the outer margin which is broadly infuscate,
also along the discoidal part and along the suture with an apical,
equally broad band ; the flavous space is thus reduced to a sub-
diagonal band reaching from the humeral part to the middle, a
sub-humeral, supra-marginal transverse patch, and two similar
supra-apical ones, but as often as not the fuscous or black bands
impinge more and more on the flavous part, and the whole body,
with the exception of the antennas, which remain flavescent, is black
(S. niger, G. and P.) ; in the species where the flavous parts are dis-
tinct the pygidium has a very broad, median, flavescent apical patch,
and the legs, with the exception of the tarsi, are pale yellow. The
facies of this species is the same as that of S. longipes, Sw., but the
body is broader, the clypeus is very deeply incised in the anterior
part, and more deeply strangulate at the base, but the shape of the
prothorax and elytra and their sculpture are the same.

Length 13-15 mm. ; width 7-74- mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (George, Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage, Albany).

Gen. BRACHAGENIUS, Kraatz,
Deutscb. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1890, p. 399.

"Clypeus of $ slightly excised at tip, that of the $ more deeply,
the Lateral part is raised, the lateral angles are sub-rounded in the
male and acute in the female; prothorax transverse, more narrowed
towards the apex, and with the posterior angles moderately rounded
in the male, or obtuse in the female, sides crenulate ; scutellum of
male obtuse at apex, tbat of the female shorter; elytra of the male
abbreviate, not covering the last segment and pygidium ; anterior
tibia; moderately robust, tri-dentate, the first tooth of those of the
female little distinct ; tarsi very Blender, moderately elongated."

BrACHAOI.MI S l'H TIl'KNMS, KllUltZ,

Loc. cit., 1890, p. 400, pi. ii., fig. 13.
"Male: Black, opaque, elytra brownish, with the suture, the
sides, an oblique discoidal line and a median spot black, the apex

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more broadly black than the sides ; clypeus slightly incised at apex
with the sides slightly raised and the anterior angles almost rounded ;
prothorax densely rugulose punctate, fulvous pilose ; elytra sparingly
nigro-pilose, anterior tibiae tri-dentate, the apical tooth is the longest,
the basal one the shortest, but yet plain ; tarsi very slender.

Length 11 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony."

Brachagenius lineatipennis, Kraatz,
Loc. cit., p. 400, pi. ii., fig. 12.

" Female : Black, opaque, prothorax somewhat shiny, sulcate in
the middle, not pilose, elytra brownish, with the suture, the apical,
and posterior lateral margins, and an oblique discoidal band on each
side black ; clypeus deeply incised at apex, and with the anterior
angles sharp, it is slightly excavate ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, basal
tooth hardly visible ; tarsi slender, posterior almost shorter than the
tibiae.

Length 10 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony."

I imagine that these two diagnoses are those of both sexes of one
species which I have not met with as yet.

Gen. ERIOPELTASTES, Burmeist.,

Germar's Zeitschr., -ii., 1840, p. 397 ;

Handb. Entom., hi., 1842, p. 733.

" This apparently new and rare Trichid is most closely allied to
the long-legged Stringophori, and is intermediate between them and
Myoderma. It resembles this last genus in the structure of the
head, but the recurved margin of the clypeus, which is not at all
sinuate in front, rises gradually, and the middle of the anterior
margin is not higher than the lateral ones. The whole of the head,
prothorax, pectus, and also the femora and tibiae, have a coating of
long, yellow, somewhat appressed hairs. Very peculiar are the
antennee, the club of which forms a very long, wide fan, equal in
length to that of the prothorax. The buccal parts differ from those
of the rest of the Tricludce in the remarkable slenderness of the
maxillae and of the mando, but the shape is otherwise the same ; the
palpi are very long and slender ; the prothorax, remarkable by its
great breadth and moderate length, is not at all constricted behind,
but broadest there , the opaque elytra have six indistinct rows of
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are similar scattered punctures ; the legs are noticeable for their
slenderness, which is even greater than that of the males of Agenius,
although the body of the latter is proportionately broader than that
of Eriopeltastes ; the anterior tibiae have two very broad, curved,
remote teeth, and also traces of a third in the form of ar angular
outcurving of the margin ; the intermediate tibiae are almost straight
and spiny on the outer surface like the hind ones, on which, owing
to the scattered spines, no teeth can be any longer detected, and it
differs thus most markedly in that respect from Stringophorus. The
tarsi are more than twice as long as the tibiae, very slender, glabrous,
spiny at the joints ; the very slender claws are only slightly bent,
and the " after claw " between them is unusually small and emits two
bristles ; the mesosternum is scooped out between the middle coxae,
and does not project. On account of tbe short, not convex, strongly
retracted abdomen, I take the only example I have obtained to be
a male; I suppose that in tbe female the upper tooth of the anterior
tibiae will be more distinct, the tarsi shorter, and the antennal club
smaller.

Eriopeltastes leucoprymnus.

Black, with a flavous pubescence; antennae, palpi, anterior tibiae
and tarsi, median tarsi and elytra yellowish fulvous ; anal opercule
(pygidium) greyish white. Length 3| mm."

I have not yet met with this species.

Tribe VALGINI.

The only valid character I find to separate the insects included in
this Tribe from the Trichiini is the shape of the scutellum, which is
sharply triangular, ami moderately loiii^ or very elongate. The great
distance separating the intermediate and posterior coxae was deemed
at one time to be the distinctive mark of the genus Valgus, contain-
ing many widely dispersed species. It has been now split into many
genera — too many, 1 think — but as in some of them that great
separation between the coxse is greatly reduced, it does no longer
remain a fundamental character. This induces me to include in the
Tribe the somewhat aberrant genus Calometopus, which seems to
form a link between the Trichiini and the Valgini. It cannot
remain in the former on account of its sharply triangular scutellum ;
it differs greatly in general facies bom the true Valgini, but it is also
clothed, although partly, with squamulose hairs.

In the true Valgini the clypeus is very elongated but not cleft,

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the head can be retracted into a prosternal cavity ; the elytra are
short, quite plane, truncate at apex, leaving the greatest part of the
propygiclium, which is very large, uncovered ; the hind legs especially
are very long.

This Tribe is divided into two sections.

A3. Elytra not truncate behind ; pygidium not vertical ; ter-
minal end of hind tibiae with three digit-like processes.

Head non-retractile ; coxse not broadly separated ; pygidium

slanting, very convex ; white markings squarnose . . . . Calometopus.

A1. Elytra truncate behind ; pygidium vertical; terminal part
of hind tibiae muticous.

Head retractile ; coxse very broadly separated ; elytra much
broader than the prothorax ; last abdominal spiracle
spinose ; body covered with scales and fascicles of squarnose
hairs; anterior tibiae 5-dentate in the <? , 3-dentate in the 9 Comythovalgus.

Head retractile ; coxae not broadly separated ; elytra not
broader than the prothorax ; last abdominal spiracle spinose ;
body covered with minute, scale-like hairs ; anterior tibiae
5-dentate in the <? , 3-dentate in the ? Stenovalgus.

Gen. CALOMETOPUS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Mus., Par. Ins., i., p. 45.

Mentum parallel laterally, fused with the ligula, deeply and quad-
rately incised at tip, the excised part being nearly one-quarter of the
whole length, the two lobate parts are still broad and rounded at
tip, the labial palpi are inserted on the outer face ; maxillae long,
hairy inwardly, upper lobe slender, horizontal bearing a thick pencil
of long hairs ; clypeus longer than the head, as deeply incised at
apex as the mentum, but the incision is more triangular ; antennal
club slender, longer than the pedicel in the male (the only sex
known to me) ; eyes very large ; prothorax as broad as long,
sub-hexagonal but with the hind angles not quite rounded; elytra
plane, elongate conspicuously narrowed behind, leaving the sides of
the dorsal part of the four ultimate abdominal segments uncovered ;
pygidium triangular, sub-vertical ; abdomen and pectus compressed
laterally ; no mesosternal process ; legs very slender, long, especially
the tarsi which are longer than the tibiae the fore ones of which are
unidentate, the terminal part of the hind tibiae end in three long
digit-like processes, and the two spurs are very long and extremely
slender.

Differs from the other genera included in this Tribe in having
the scutellum sharply acuminate ; the genus has a representative in
Senegambia, and another in Central Africa.

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Calometopus nyass-e, Westw.,

Plate XLIL, fig. 8.

Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 27, pi. i., fig. 1.

Male : Black, not shiny ; clypeus clothed with greyish-white,
appressed, thin hairs, head covered with a very short blackish
pubescence; the prothorax is also covered with a similar tomentum,
but has on the sides a broad band of long, appressed, squamiforni
whitish hairs mixed with a few flavescent ones; the very long,
acuminate scutellum is concolorous ; the glabrous elytra are strongly
callose at the shoulder, and the triangular callus is continued as a
sharp ridge reaching the apex, the supra-epipleural fold is almost
vertical, and from the median part is so narrowed that the sides of
the dorsal part of the abdominal segments are uncovered, and the
apical part of the elytra is hardly more than half the width of the
base, the dorsal part is plane but the suture is as sharply carinate
as the dorsal ridge, the ground colour is black, but there is on each
side three straw-coloured patches along the suture, and a longi-
tudinal band along the dorsal ridge ; they are faintly punctate and
singly sub-acuminate rounded at apex, with the angle of the suture
very sharp, and they cover only a part of the propygidium ; pygidium
not vertical, as long as broad, acuminate, red, punctulate, glabrous
but having in the centre a narrow band of appressed, squamose, white
hairs; the lateral dorsal part of the abdominal segments has a patch
of similar hairs, which form also on the three basal ventral segments
a band extending from the centre to half the width, the pectus is
sparsely clothed with a greyish pubescence, and the mesothoracic
epimera have each ;i patch of squamose hairs ; anterior and inter-
mediate fermora briefly pubescent ; tibiae and tarsi glabrous ; the
edges of the three digit-like processes of the terminal part of the
hind tibiae are pubescent.

Length 13 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hob. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwej.

COMYTHOVALGUS, Kolb.,
Berl. Entom. Zeitschr., 1884, p. 166.
Mentum elongate, sub-parallel, deeply incised in front, the lobes
slender, upper lobe of maxillae surmounted by a very long pencil
of hairs; clypeus of about the same Length as the head, slightly
attenuate and emarginate in front ; antennas short, club ovate,
shorter than the pedicel ; head retractable into a prosternal cavity,
in the manner of Citrculionidcc, i.e., it can be drawn flush with the
vertical margins of the anterior part of the prothorax ; prothorax

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nearly as broad as long, and slightly narrowed laterally in front ;
elytra more or less transverse, narrower behind than at the base
and leaving the sides of the dorsal part of the 4 last abdominal
segments uncovered ; pygidium large, uncovered by the elytra ;
pygidium very broad, vertical, slightly convex in the male ; meta-
sternum very broad ; posterior and intermediate coxae broadly
separated ; anterior tibiae 5-dentate, tibiae massive, compressed,
intermediate and posterior tarsi long, slender, the first joint of the
hind tarsi slightly longer than any of the others.

COMYTHOVALGUS FASCICULATUS, Gylh.,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 13.
Schoenh. Syn. Ins., i., 3, p. 43.

Fuscous, entirely covered with extremely dense scale-like,
appressed, light fulvous hairs, and having in well-preserved examples
a very plain, lighter-coloured patch of scales on each side of the
scutellum ; clypeus acuminate, slightly emarginate at tip ; head
bearing two small fascicles of hairs ; prothorax with ten fascicles
of squamose hairs disposed as follows : two in the middle of the
anterior margin, two in the centre of the disk, two in the centre
of the base, and two on each side of the discoidal parts ; the two
anterior tufts are sometimes greatly reduced ; elytra almost twice
as broad as the prothorax, plane, narrower at apex than at base,
plane, vertical laterally, leaving the sides of the dorsal part of the
abdominal segments uncovered as well as the propygidium, they have
on each side four fascicles of squamiform hairs, viz., one somewhat
bi-fasciculate at the shoulder, two along the outer margin, and one
at the apex ; the broad propygidium has two long ones at the apical
margin, and the pygidium two in the centre, and two smaller ones
at the apex ; anterior tibiae with five outer teeth in the male, three
of these are strong and the two intermediate ones very small, only
tri-dentate in the female, the pygidium of which is shaped as in the
male, intermediate and hind tibiae sub-fasciculate.

Length 5-5|- mm. ; width 3^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Albany; Uitenhage, Port St. John), Natal
(Durban, Maritzburg), Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe).

Gen. STENOVALGUS, Kolbe,
Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1892, p. 141 ; loc. cit., 1897, p. 193.
Body narrow, parallel ; pencil of maxillae extremely long ; pro-
thorax straight laterally, longer than broad, the anterior angles
conspicuously sharp ; scutellum long ; elytra hardly longer than

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the prothorax not wider, and about as wide as long, plane and
striolate; propygidium wide, last abdominal spiracle spinose ;
pygidium rounded at apex; anterior tibiae 5 and 3 dentate according
to the sexes; body covered on the upper side with minute recumbent,
squaniulose hairs.

Key to the Species.
Dorsal part of elytra with series of whitish scaly hairs sebakuanus.

Dorsal part of elytra with series of flavescent minute hairs, and a

broad transverse band of yellow scales on each side bimaculatus.

Stenovalgus sebakuanus, n. sp.

Male : Black, with the palpi and antennae flavo-rufescent, covered
with short, whitish, hair-like pcali 3 which are not sufficiently dense
to hide the teguments ; clypeus attenuate towards the apex which
is rounded, and not incised ; prothorax almost parallel, longer than
broad, and as long almost as the elytra, almost plane but sloping in
front, the anterior angles are sharp and strong and project con-
spicuously beyond the anterior margin ; the surface is strigillate
longitudinally, there is a longitudinal median raised line reaching
from apex to base, and the surface is beset with sub-erect, small
white scales; scutellum densely scaly; elytra parallel, slightly
longer than broad, truncate behind, plane, vertical laterally and
covering there the dorsal part of the abdomen ; they have on the
flat dorsal part and on the sides regular series of erect, hair-like
white sculi-,; propygidium uncovered, sharply dentate laterally;
pygidium vertical, squamose ; anterior tibiae 5-dentate ; posterior
tarsi very long, the basal joint longer than any of the others.

Female: Eufescent, with the head and prothorax black ; clothed
like the male with whitish hair-like scales, and smaller and less
parallel, the narrower prothorax is more attenuate laterally towards
the apex; the elytra are narrowed behind, but they still cover the
dorsal part of the abdomen, and also almost the whole propygidium;
the pygidinm is sub-horizontal and vertically convex at apex ; tarsi
as long as in the male.

Length 4 mm. ; width 2 mm.

Hub. Southern Rhodesia (Scbakwe).

Stenovalgus himaculatus, n. sp.
Plate XLYI1.. fig. 14.
Black, with a piceous tinge, vertical outer side of elytra sub-
rufescenl ; head with thick scales, clypeus with minute sub-flavescent

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scales ; prothorax very elongated, strigillate longitudinally, and with
a median raised line, moderately densely squamose on the disk and
with denser scaly hairs laterally behind ; scutellum strigose punctate,
glabrous ; elytra parallel, vertical laterally, having on each side five
discoidal striae and a series of very short squamose hairs in each
interval, and also on the deflexed sides, slightly in front of the
median part is a transverse band of fiavous scales ; the propygidium
is almost completely uncovered, the pygidium is vertical in the male,
sloping and convex in the female, and both are clothed with con-
tiguous golden-yellow scales, like the abdomen and part of the
pectus ; legs and antennae slightly rufescent.

This description of the $ is made from an example from Beira,
Mozambique. In another example, which I take to be a ? from
Sebakwe in Southern Ehodesia, and which is in a bad state of
preservation, the scales are much more scattered, and there are no
traces of the two discoidal elytral bands.

Length 4^ mm. ; width 2 mm.

Tkibe MYODERMLNL

The insects included in this Tribe differ from the Tkichiini
in having much shorter tarsi ; the clypeus, which is of a very
variable shape, differs from that of the Trichiini, the labial palps are
inserted in a deep, lateral cavity, the maxillae are more robust, and
in most cases plurisetose only at apex instead of being penicillate,
the antennal club is not longer than the pedicel in the $ , the
lateral part of the base of the prothorax is sharp, but also
occasionally slightly rounded (Xiphoscelidus) and the median part
is not arcuate ; the scutellem is cordiform ; the elytra moderately
plane or convex ; the basal joint of hind tarsi is as long as or
longer than the second, ampliate and sub-nodose at apex, or
sometimes angular ; the apical part of the posterior tibiae is not
dentate or spinose ; and there is no mesosternal process.

This Tribe, which seems to consist of termitobious insects, must
be divided into two groups. In the first, the external edge of the
hind coxae, or side pieces, do not project beyond the edge of
the abdomen (Myodcrmidcs), whereas in the second {Elpidides), the
edge of the coxae does plainly project, this being due to the great
development of the hind femora in both sexes. One of the genera,
Diploa, was included in the Tribe Cetonini (Prototypic Cetonides)
by Kolbe, and interpolated by him between Hetcroclita and
Xiphoscelis, but it differs greatly from the latter on account of the
shape of the scutellum, and the absence of sternal process.

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Key to the Genera.

A2. External edge of coxae completely hidden by the elytra in

both sexes Myodermides.

B-. Upper lobe of maxillae very short, spatulatc, sparsely
setulose at tip.

Ligular part, broadly scooped at apex.

Hind tibiae very little dilated at apex Myoderma.

Hind tibiae plainly dilated at apex Diploa.

B\ Upper lobe of maxillae lanceolate and pcnicillate at tip.

Ligular part bi-lobatc Diploeida.

A'. External edge of coxae bulging beyond the elytra in the male (Elpidides.)

Upper lobe of maxillae very short, sub-quadrate.

Hind femora and tibiae abnormally developed in the male.

Ligular part of mentum projecting as a small bi-lobate

process Elpidus.

Ligular part of mentum truncate at tip, the cavities for the

insertion of palpi quite apical Xiphoscelidus.

Gen. MYODERMA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iii., 1842, p. 732.

Mentum longer than broad, narrower at base than at apex and
without any traces of a ligular part, deeply and broadly emarginate
in the centre and having quite laterally a very broad cavity reaching
the outer angle for the insertion of the labial palpi the last joint
of which is sub-cylindrical, but tapers slightly towards the apex
where it is truncate; maxilla somewhat robust, but laminate
inwardly and ending at apex in a rounded process, upper lobe, or
galea, reduced to a spatuliform process slightly longer than broad,
and pluri-setose at tip ; clypeus parallel, produced in the middle of
the anterior part in a short, reflexed lamina more sharply triangular
in the 3 than in the 2 ', eyes very large, canthus long, very sharp ;
antenna! club not longer than the pedicel in either sex ; prothorax
broader than long, ampliate rounded laterally in the middle,
bi-sinuate at base with the basal angle sharp; scutellum triangular,
sharp at tip; elytra sub-parallel, but plane, costate, mesothoracic
epimera narrow but visible from above : pygidium sub-vertical ;
mesosternum with a short, blunt process; legs moderately long;

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anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate outwardly ; and hind tibiae
pluri-spinose on the upper side, tarsi hardly longer than the
tibiae.

This African genus is represented by three species. The South
African one has a wide range, reaching Mombassa in British East
Africa.

The dried specimens have a most powerful, unpleasant smell.
Mr. G. A. K. Marshall states that his only record of this species is
"found on dead wood," but that he believes it will prove to be
termitophilous.

Myoderma rupa, Ch. Waterh.,
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xv., 1885, p. 379.

Head, prothorax, elytra and abdomen brick-red, moderately shiny,
edge of clypeus, breast and legs black, upper and under sides clothed
with a very dense, short, yellowish pubescence forming almost
a pile ; antennae red ; clypeus produced triangularly in the anterior
part in the male and with the two anterior angles more rounded
than in the female in which the anterior part is bi-sinuate on each
side of the median elevation, and the edge of the clypeus is produced
into a little crest above the ocular canthus ; the surface of the head,
as well as that of the prothorax, is covered with contiguous, small
cicatricose punctures ; the prothorax is a little wider than long,
somewhat convex, gradually ampliated and rounded laterally in the
centre, and has an impressed longitudinal median line, sometimes,
however, difficult to trace ; the red scutellum is narrowly edged with
black ; the elytra, which are punctured somewhat as the prothorax,
have on each side five rounded costae including the suture ; the
pygidium, which is slightly more slanting in the female than in
the male, is also finely punctate, and as pubescent as the elytra ; the
abdomen is finely punctulate, like the pectus.

Kolbe has described under the name of M. gestroi a species
which, judging from his description, differs mainly from M. rufa in
being larger and in the pubescence of the prothorax and elytra being
longer. I have seen such examples from Southern Ehodesia, but
I cannot consider them as a different species as I have seen inter-
mediate forms between them and M. rufa, of which I have a co-type
given me by C. Waterhouse.

Length 12-17 mm. ; width 7-9^ mm.

Hab. Natal (Zululand), Transvaal (Pietersburg, Zoutpansberg,
Lydenburg), Southern Ehodesia (Bulawayo, Sebakwe), British East
Africa (Mombassa).

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Gen. DIPLOA, Kolbe,
Sitzungsb. Gesellsch. naturf. Freund. Berl., 1893, p. 65;
Kaf. Ost. Al'iikas, 1897, p. 179.
Lygyromorphus, Arrow, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., viii., 1901,
p. 207.

Mentum elongated, slightly ampliated laterally towards the apex
which is broadly notched, and without any visible traces of separa-
tion with the ligula ; the labial palpi are inserted in a very deep
lateral cavity similar to that of Myoderma, and the maxillae have also
the same shape, but they are more slender, and the galea is slightly
shorter and more ovate ; clypeus as long as the head and with the
central part of the anterior part projecting, but not reflexed ;
antennae short, club nearly equal in length to the pedicel ($);
prothorax moderately convex, and moderately attenuate rounded
in the anterior part, nearly straight laterally, strongly bi-sinuate at
the base the outer angles of which are not rounded ; scutellum cordi-
form ; elytra slightly sinuate laterally below the humeral callus, and
slightly ampliated thence to the posterior part, convex behind ;
pygidium broad, sub- vertical, slightly convex in the female ; pro-
sternum simple, hind coxie not greatly developed ( ? ) ; legs short,
anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly, but the upper tooth is almost
obliterated ; intermediate and posterior tibiae with a feeble tooth
on the upper edge, which is plainly crenulate ; apical part of the
hind tibiae dilated, upper spur compressed, blunt at tip in the 5 ; all
tarsi short, last joint of hind ones dilated at apex but not angular.

The facies of the insect on which this genus is founded is more
that of a Melolonthidous than of a Cetonidous insect, and Mr. G. A. K.
Marshall informs me that it flies somewhat in the manner of the
former. The buccal organs are similar to those of Myoderma, but
the hind le^rs arc more powerfully built, and the thickened hind
spurs imply digging or burrowing habits.

DlPLOA PROLES, Kolb.,

Loc. cit., p. 65 ;
Kaf. Ost. Afrikas, 1897, p. 179, pi. 2, fig. 18.
D. rufiventris, Arrow, I.e., p. 257.

Dark chestnut-brown, with the antennae flavescent ; clypeus as
long as the head, somewhat concave owing to the anterior margin
being plainly raised, diagonally produced in front from the rounded
outer angles to a broadly triangular projection, and, like the head,
covered witli contiguous, sub-scabrose punctures from which spring

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minute, somewhat scattered, fulvous hairs ; prothorax convex, as
broad as long, slightly attenuate rounded in the anterior part for
about one-third of the length, nearly but not quite parallel thence
to the outer basal angle which is not rounded, but is not sharp, the
base is strongly bi-sinuate, and the surface is covered with con-
tiguous, scabrose punctures divided by a very thin, sharp wall, which
gives them a shagreened appearance ; from these punctures spring
sparse, minute, fulvous hairs, but the outer margin is fringed with
moderately long fulvous hairs ; in the female there is a median,
anterior smooth line, occasionally obliterated ; elytra ampliated
behind from about the median part, slightly sinuate laterally, convex
in the posterior part, and covered with scabrose, contiguous punc-
tures, bearing each a minute, fulvous hair ; they are slightly striate,
the suture is raised, and there are on each side two costules in the
discoidal part ; pygidium and under side closely punctate and
clothed, like the legs, with a long, fulvous pubescence ; upper spur
of hind tibise slightly compressed and rounded at apex in both sexes.

Length 12^—13 mm. ; width 7-7| mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Enkeldoorn, Umtali). De-
scribed originally from German East Africa.

DIPLOEIDA, n. gen.

Mentum quadrate, with the ligular part conspicuously attenuate
laterally, and divided at apex into two lobes by a deep, broadly
triangular incision, labial palpi inserted almost on the outer face of
the lobate part, last joint sub-fusiform outwardly, maxillae somewhat
robust, upper lobe somewhat elongate, simple, surmounted by a
lateral fascicle of hairs ; clypeus diagonally narrowed laterally,
triangularly incised at apex, a little longer than the head ; eyes
moderately large, the canthus dipping and very hairy ; prothorax
slightly longer than broad, narrower at the apex than at the base
with the hind angles rounded, strongly sinuate along the base,
somewhat convex in the posterior part ; scutellum cordiform, nearly
as broad as long ; elytra with the humeral callus strongly developed
and almost overhanging the outer margin, which is only slightly
sinuate, and covers the metathoracic epirnera ; mesothoracic epimera
vertical, hardly visible when looked at from above ; legs robust ;
anterior tibiae tri-dentate, the intermediate and posterior dilated at
apex, plainly toothed on the upper margin, tarsi moderately short ;
metasternum moderately broad, the epimera not bulging, meso-
sternum scooped out.

Allied to Diploa, but apart from the shape of the clypeus, which is
very different, it is differentiated by the upper maxillaiy lobe, which

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is lanceolate instead of being spatuliform, the labial palpi are inserted
on the outer face instead of laterally, the ligular part is differently
incised, and the last joint of the labial palps is not so broadly swollen
outwardly.

DlPLOEIDA MODESTA, n. Sp.

Dark chestnut-brown, sub-opaque ; antennae light chestnut ;
clypeus sub-parallel laterally for half its length, attenuated diagonally
thence to the anterior part which is triangularly incised, the apex of
the incision is prolonged into a slightly raised line dividing the
anterior part of the clypeus into two shallow hollows, both head and
clypeus are roughly and closely punctured, and the canthus of the
eyes is very densely hairy ; prothorax convex, one-fourth broader at
the base than at the apex, not sinuate laterally and with the basal
angles rounded, the base itself is bi-sinuate ; the surface is covered
with round, shallow punctures separated from each other by a
smooth space equal to their own diameter, and the outer margin has
a fringe of moderately long, fulvous hairs ; prothorax cordiform, deeply
punctate ; elytra a little broader than the prothorax, slightly sinuate
laterally, and somewhat ampliated thence towards the posterior
part, they are coriaceous rather than punctate, the suture is tecti-
form, and they are costate, with the discoidal costae better defined
than the lateral ones ; pygidium sloping, glabrous, faintly punctate
except at apex ; abdominal segments with one or more series of
punctures bearing each a long, fulvous hair; pectus and legs
moderately hairy ; legs strong, tarsi short ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate;
upper spur of hind tarsi slightly obtuse at tip, and not very broad ;
mesothoracic epimera reduced to a mere lamina hardly visible from
above.

Male unknown.

Length 12i mm. ; width (J mm.

Hah. Transvaal (no exact locality).

ELPIDUS, n. gen.
Mentum ovate, very convex, so broadly scooped out laterally for the
insertion of the labial palps that the ligular part is at the back of the
transverse excavation, and projects as a small, bi-lobate process ; last
joint of labial palps very thickly swollen in the lower part, and sub-
acuminate at tip, maxillae short, weak, the galea very small, hardly
longer than broad and surmounted by a few setae ; last joint of
maxillary palps very l'»ng, fusiform, but somewhat blunted at the tip ;
clypeus straight, em urinate in front, plainly concave in both sexes;

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canthus long, thick, eyes moderately broad ; antennal club ovate, as
long only as the pedicel in the male, shorter in the female ; prothorax
diagonally attenuate laterally in the anterior part, straight in the
posterior, the base strongly bi-sinuate with the outer angles distinct,
discoidal part somewhat convex behind ; scutellum cordate, rounded
at apex ; elytra broader than the prothorax at the base, slightly
sinuate in both sexes, slightly longer than broad, narrower at apex
than at base especially in the $ , and covering the propygidium ;
mesothoracic epimera vertical, but distinct in the $ , more narrowly
laminate in the J ; pygidium vertical and moderately convex in both
sexes ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, tarsi long, anterior and intermediate
slender, posterior robust, the joints greatly compressed ; in both
sexes the hind femora are greatly thickened, in the $ still more than
in the £ , the hind tibiae are very broadly dilated and mucronate at
each end in the $ , but not in the $ , the inner mucro being nearly
as long as the broad but sharp upper spur, in the ? this spur is
compressed and blunt at tip ; owing to the great development of the
hind thighs, the metasternal epimera stand away from the elytral
fold, which, however, is not emarginate above it ; this character is
very conspicuous in the $ , but much less so in the 2 , although
in that sex the thighs are also greatly developed; the intermediate
and posterior tibiae have only a faint trace outwardly of the oblique
carinas.

I am informed by the Eev. J. A. O'Neil that the species included
in this genus is termitophilous. It has a great likeness to
Xiphoscelis owing to the great development of the hind coxae, but it
differs from it in many important characters, especially in the shape
of the hind tarsi, which are much compressed as in several species
of Heterochelus (H. detritus, H. chiragricus, &c.) of the Sub-Family
Hopliince, and the terminal part of the hind tibiae is mucronate in
the $ as in other species of the genus above mentioned. The shape
of the genital clasps of the $ is not unlike that of some species of
the Sparrmannini.

Elpidus hopei, Burmeister,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 5.

Handb. Entom. hi., 1842, p. 614.

Black, antennae and elytra testaceous yellow, the latter with the

suture, a diagonal discoidal band on each side, and the outer margin

black; upper side nearly opaque; head and clypeus closely

shagreened ; prothorax plainly shagreened, convex in the posterior

part, grooved longitudinally in the centre, and having along the

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outer margin a series of black bristles ; scutellum closely scabrose
punctate ; elytra very slightly costate and not distinctly seriate
punctate, plane, a little attenuated behind in the male, not in the
female ; pygidium glabrous, closely punctulate, black or reddish in
the female, but having in the male along the base two broad, trans-
verse, white bands, divided by a narrow interval ; abdomen and legs
glabrous, shiny, sparsely punctate ; pectus sparsely clothed with a
light fulvous pubescence.

Length 11 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Humansdorp). Appears in March, and the
Rev. J. A. O'Neil considers it to be termitobious.

XIPHOSCELIDUS, n. gen.

Mentum ovate, ligular part narrowed, the cavities for the insertion
of the palpi almost contiguous at the apex, last joint of labial palpi
thick, twice and a half as long as broad, slightly attenuate at tip ;
maxillae short, feeble, upper lobe, or galea, very small, oblong, and
bearing a few setose hairs at tip ; maxillary palps long, the apical
one sub-fusiform outwardly, blunt at tip ; clypeus shorter than the
head, slightly narrower at the base than at the apex, where it is only
slightly sinuate with the angles slightly rounded, yet distinct, in both
sexes, canthus of the eyes very thick and long ; antennal ciub longer
than the pedicel in both sexes, but especially so in the male ; prothorax
diagonally ampliated laterally from the apex to a third of the length,
straight thence to the strongly arcuate base the angles of which are
rounded; scutellum cordiform ; elytra elongate, plane, not sinuate
laterally, and narrower at apex than at base in the <? , slightly
sinuate and of equal width at both ends in the $ ; propygidium
partly uncovered in both sexes, and partly overhanging the pygidium
which is vertical in the $ and sub-horizontal in the female ; abdo-
men compressed in the male, and with the hind femora very robust
in both sexes, but especially so in the male ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate
in both sexes, upper inner angle produced inwardly in the J into
a very long, strongly mucronate broad process which has absorbed
the upper spur ; in the J the shape is normal, and both spurs
are blunt at tip ; the intermediate tibiae have only a faint trace
of a tooth on the upper edge, but none on the hind ones in
either sex.

The singular species on which the genus is founded is probably
crepuscular. It is found at a certain depth in the heaps of excrements
of ancient date, that have been heaped outside the galleries by the
white ants of the genus Hodotermes.

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Xiphoscelidus lugubris, Pering.,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 4.

Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iv., 1888, p. 105.

Male : Black, with the elytra rufescent-brown, and having on each
side a discoidal, black, sub-velvety patch ; head and clypeus deeply
punctured, clothed with moderately dense, long, flavescent hairs ;
antennal club very long ; prothorax shagreened and clothed with
partly appressed, long, but not very dense, flavescent hairs ; scutellum
scabrosely punctate, glabrous ; elytra elongated, narrowed behind,
not sinuate laterally, plane above, declivous laterally, not costate nor
punctate striate, but having series of short, equi-distant, erect, black
bristles ; the mesothoracic episterna are visible, but are not flush
with the humeral part of the elytra ; the propygidium is only partly
covered by the elytra, and their apical edge overhangs the triangular,
vertical, but slightly convex pygidium ; the abdomen is compressed
laterally owing to the very great development of the hind femora,
which are nearly as broad as long ; owing to the great development
of the thighs, the metasternal epimera project strongly beyond
the non-sinuate elytral fold, the short, hind tibiae have the inner
angle produced into a conspicuous, hamate inner process which has
absorbed the upper spur, the lower one only being left, and it is very
slender ; the inner spur of the anterior tibiae is long and slender ; all
the tarsi are long, and the joints very spinose. The shape of the
clasps of the genital armature is similar to that obtaining among the
Pachypodini of the Sub-Family Mclolonthince.

Female : Completely black, and with the sub-velvety discoidal
band on each side of the elytra always conspicuous ; clypeus as in
the male, but slightly more narrowed near the base ; prothorax also
like that of the male, but with long, bristly hairs laterally ; elytra
more sinute laterally than in the male, but not uncovering the edge
of the coxae, slightly ampliated thence to the posterior part where
they are, if anything, slightly wider than at the base, slightly
depressed on each side of the suture in the anterior part, and having
a distinct ridge running from the shoulder to the apex, the humeral
callus alone is punctured, and the seriate hairs are smaller than on
the male, and greyish ; pygidium and abdomen almost glabrous ;
pectus briefly pubescent, the pubescence greyish, legs normal. The
species was originally described from one $ example.

Length 9-11 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch).

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Tribe CETONINI.

As I have already mentioned in the Key to the rive divisions of the
Sub-Family, the two characteristic features of the genera and species
included in this Tribe consist : (a) in the forcing forward of the meso-
thoracic epimera in such a manner that they have become inserted
between the prothorax and the elytra. (There is no exception to this
rule, and any insect, however much Cetonidous its appearance, must
be removed from the Tribe if that character is wanting : this
bulging, however, is a matter of degree, and in the Ischnostomii
these epimera are not very conspicuous in the male, but they are
more marked in the female.) (b) The scutellum is long, sharply or
very sharply acuminate at tip, seldom slightly obtuse, even in such
species where the base of the prothorax impinges on or covers entirely
that part. The elytra are more or less attenuated behind, very
seldom parallel (some species of Cremastochilides), never gibbose
convex ; they are deeply sinuated laterally, at some distance from the
base, and this sinuation exposes to the view the external edge of
the hind coxae which does not lie plane with the metasternum, and
the apical angle of which projects often strongly, and is angular or
even spinose ; the propygidium is covered by the elytra in the
Cetonides, but not completely in the Cremastochilides. The pygidium
is vertical in both sexes in the first-named Sub-Tribe, often gibbose in
the second. The last abdominal spiracle is plane in the Cetonides t
but in the Cremastochilides , with the exception of Macroma and
Hoplostomus it is tubular, aculeate or even spinose, but this
character is also very conspicuous in two species of Maitsolcojisis, of
the Leucocelites, and in their case this would seem to point to a
myrmecobious or termitobious mode of life, because the great majority
of the Cremastochilides lead such a life. The legs are compressed
laterally, and either massive, robust, or slender ; owing to their
compression the slanting ridge " en chevron " found on the upper
outer side of the intermediate anil posterior tibia? of many
Melolonthini has disappeared, and is reduced to a more or less sharp
or distinct tooth in the great majority of species ; occasionally it is
almost obliterated ; in the genera Trichostetha and Odontorrhina the
intermediate tibia* have two superposed teeth ; this occurs also in
Diplognatha gagates, but its variety silicea, its local representative
here, has only one; in the genus PorptyronotQ the hind tibiae are
Berrulate on the upper ridge in addition to the normal tooth, which
is, however, occasionally absent. The hind tibiae are always ending
at the outer apical end in three spinose processes, the outer of which

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is usually short, sometimes even only angular. This character dis-
tinguishes the Cetonini from the Ageniini, Myodermini, and Valgini,
in which these processes are wanting. The spurs, set close to each
other, are inserted in the outer angle. Another important character
is the presence of a sternal process formed by the meso- and meta-
sternum, and which may be very long, plane, arcuate or hamate,
porrect or declivous, projecting much beyond the coxae, only
moderately projecting, or truncate in front in a line with the coxae.
This sternal process is occasionally present in the Ageniini
(Stripsipher), but in the Cetonini the only exception is that of
Xiphoscelis, one of the most aberrant genera of the Tribe, and in
which this process is absent, the mesosternum being broadly grooved
longitudinally in front, resembling thus that of some Myodermini,
with which Xiphoscelis is undoubtedly connected, but even in this
case the metasternum emits a slender carinulate process penetrating
well into the base of the coxas. The greatest part of this sternal
process is produced by the intrusion in a more or less aculeate form
between the intermediate coxae of the metasternum, the point of which
is fused with the base of the mesosternum, which is thus thrust
forwards. In many cases there are plain traces of a transverse or
arcuate suture dividing the two, in many cases also it is totally
obliterated ; in most Leucocelites this suture is quite apical, and the
sternal process is thus marginate.

In many species the sexual differences are very great ; in the
majority of cases, however, the two sexes are alike. The Cetonides
comprise some of the most brilliantly clad species of Coleoptera, but
the species of Cremastochi tides have seldom bright colours.

The division of this Tribe into natural groups is a most difficult
one, as, owing to the great affinities that many genera have in several
directions, it is well-nigh impossible to assign them one place only
in a synoptic table. Their arrangement is thus arbitrary. Burmeister
endeavoured to characterise his groups more fully than he did in his
" Handbuch der Entomologie," but he admitted himself his partial
failure by not doing so ; Lacordaire's arrangement seems more
natural, yet it is unsatisfactory on the whole.

Kolbe has proposed a division into two distinct groups according
to the facies coupled with the shape of the basal joint of the hind tarsi.

The massive or somewhat massive species, the basal joint of the
hind tarsi of which is angular and acuminate or even spinose out-
wardly on the upper side, he places among the Prototypic Cetonides.

The plane, elongated species, with usually long tarsi, the basal
one of which is small, short, and obtuse at apex, come in the True
Cetonides.

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This division, like all divisions resting on one or two characters
only, is open to grave objections. The dilatation of apex of the basal
joint of the hind tarsi is found occasionally in the female only
(Micrelaphinis) ; a slender form like Homalothyrea, the general
appearance of which is that of Leucocclis, or a depressed one like
Tcphraa, will have to be interpolated in the vicinity of Anoplochilus
or Psacadoptera, with which they have no relationship whatever, &c.
On the other hand, in the second division we are led to include, as
Kolbe himself has done (Die Kafer Deuts. Ost. Afrikas, 1897), the
Cremastochilidcs, the habits and facies of which are so very
peculiar, with the Ceratorrhinides, Schizorrhinides, &c. This is a
most unnatural grouping.

But if we associate with the two characters mentioned by Kolbe
others, such as (a) the presence or absence of an antecoxal pro-
sternal vertical process, and (b) the shape of the elytral costae, when
they exist, and especially the sculpture of the first two, or more,
dorsal intervals, we find that, in so far as the African Cetonini are
concerned, the arrangement which I propose brings together species
and genera the affinities of which are made evident by close examina-
tion. I may add that I believe that this grouping will prove equally
natural when applied to the Cetonini of the whole world.

A linear arrangement is never a perfect one ; thus, for instance,
Elaphinis is greatly removed from Micrelaphinis, and Clinteroides
from Pseudoclinteria, of which they are undoubtedly near relatives.
It is owing in the first case to Micrelaphinis having non-geminate
elytra, striae, and a broadly dilated basal joint of the bind tarsi in
the $ , two characters lacking in Elaphinis. In the case of the
other two genera which have in common a scutellum covered by
the base of the prothorax, only one character is resorted to for
separating them, viz., the non-dilatation, in Pseudoclinteria, of the
basal hind tarsal joint, this character being strongly in evidence in
Clinteroides ; although the arrangement I propose relegates these
genera in two different sub-divisions, it should not be inferred that
their affinities are impaired thereby. It is only an instance of the
homogeneity of the Cetonini ; others are Gametis (Cetonides)
and Dulcinea (Goliathides) ; Discopeltis (Cetonides) and Glaucocelis
(Leucocelites), &c.

Key to the Sith-Tribcs.
A-. Prosternum without an ante-coxal vertical process.

Spiracle of last abdominal segment plane • Cktoxidks.

* One species of Mausoleqpsia excepted.

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Bs. Body more or less massive, elytra more or less dis-
tinctly costate, dorsal intervals striate punctate
or not.

Basal joint of hind tarsi as long as or longer than
the second, broadly triangular, or angular, even
spinose outwardly Goliathites.

B2. Body plane, elongated, seldom convex ( ? ) ; elytra
costulate or not, dorsal intervals punctate, striate
punctate, or when geminate striate, striate from
base to apex.

Basal joint of hind tarsi sub-cylindrical outwardly Cetonites.

B1. Body mostly plane and elongated ; elytra costate,
the two dorsal intervals geminate striate in the
posterior half only Leucocelites.

A1. Presternum with an ante-coxal vertical process.

Spiracle of last abdominal segment acute or

spinose * Cremastochilides.

Sub-Teibe GOLIATHITES.

In this Sub-Tribe are included nearly all the Cetoninous species
the facies of which is somewhat massive, the elytra bi- or pluri-
costate on each side, with the dorsal intervals either non-punctate,
or, if punctate, normally punctate or striate-punctate ; the basal joint
of the hind tarsi is either angular, sharply angular, and even spinose
outwardly.

This section comprises some of the largest Cetonid (Goliath us), as
well as some of the smallest ones (Micrelaphinis).

Key to the Genera.

A2. Basal joint of tarsi angular or spinose outwardly in both
sexes. Body massive, suture not highly carinate.

B2. Anterior margin of prothorax angular or sub-dentate in
the centre.

C4. Clypeus similar in both sexes, the outer angles
rounded.

a2. Base of prothorax straight above the scutellum.

Elytra considerably broader than the prothorax ;
scutellum deeply sunken ; hind tibiae strongly
mucronate at apex ; joints of hind tarsi long in
the s XipJwscelis.

Macroma excepted.

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a'. Base of prothorax emarginate above the
scutellum.

Last joint of palpi cylindrical ; maxillse in-
ermous; hind tarsi short, joints triangular, very
hairy Rhinocceta.

Last joint of palpi obliquely truncate; upper
lobe of maxillae strongly hooked ; hind tarsi
short, joints triangular, moderately densely
hairy Lipoclita.

C3. Clypeus differently shaped in both sexes.

Basal joint of hind tibia? longer than the second,
sharply spinose on each side.

a-. Base of prothorax arcuate above the scutellum.

Upper maxillary lobe with two inner sharp

teeth; elytra costulate Hypselogenia .

a'. Base of prothorax hardly emarginate above the
scutellum.

Upper maxillary lobe bluntly bifid ; elytra non-

costate Goliathus.

C2. Clypeus similar in both sexes, quadrate, outer
angles sharp.

Basal joint of hind tibiae not longer than the
second, angular outwardly.

Base of prothorax hardly sinuate above the
scutellum; upper maxillary lobe inermous, last
joint of palpi long, cylindrical, truncate at tip .. Hcematonotus.

C. Clypeus very sharply acuminate towards the apex
and incised there.

Antennal club of cf shorter than the pedicel, and
anterior tibia- uni-dentate in the $ , bi-deutate in
the ? Phoxomela.

A'. Basal joint of hind tarsi spinose outwardly in the ? only.
Body le^s massive, suture raised and sub-carinate in the
apical part.

Base of prothorax straight above the scutellum.

Clypeus elongate-ovate, deeply emarginate in front ;
antennal club of i as long as the pedicel.

Body slightly convex Micrelaphinis.

Body depressed Dulcinea.

Clypeus ampliate-ovate, antennal club of i not as long as
the pedicel.

Body massive AtricJielaphinis.

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B'. Anterior margin of prothorax not angular nor sub-
dentate in the centre.

a-. Intermediate tibiae Uni-spinose on the upper side.

b1. Elytra bi- or pluri-costate.

Clypeus quadrate, outer angles sharp, fore margin
reflexed, simple.

c4. Inner lobe of maxillae simple, upper lobe with a
bifid hamate tooth.

Prothorax strongly arcuate above the scutellum ;

elytra pluri-costate Tetragonorhina.

c3. Inner lobe of maxillae simple, upper lobe with two
superposed teeth.

Clypeus attenuate in front ; elytra uni-costate . . Psacacloptera.

c2. Inner lobe of maxillae dentate, upper lobe with two
teeth.

Clypeus bi- or quadri-dentate in front Anoplocliilus.

Clypeus sub-parallel, simple in front ; body very

densely villose Sisyraphora.

Clypeus rounded laterally in front ; prothorax

densely villose Goraqua.

a1. Intermediate tibiae bi-spinose on the upper side.

b-. Elytra with the humeral callus continued as a
costa, obliterated past the median part.

c'. Maxillary lobes inermous.

Clypeus sub-parallel, deeply emarginate in front. . Tricliostetha.

b1. Elytra normally costulate.

Clypeus attenuate in front, the margin bi- or
quadri-dentate Odontarrhina.

Gen. XIPHOSCELIS, Burmeister,
Handb. d. Entomol., iii., 1842, p. 613.
Mentuin sub-parallel, contracted at tbe ligular part which is a
little narrowed and one-third the length of the mentum, sub-truncate
at apex but slightly sinuate in the centre, the labial palpi are inserted
at the very apex of the lateral part ; maxillae narrow, mando straight,
not ciliate, galea sub-quadrate, surmounted by numerous bristly
hairs ; last joint of maxillary palps sub-cylindrical and similar in
shape to the labial one ; clypeus strongly contracted laterally at the
base, not attenuate in front, deeply emarginate with the outer angles

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rounded; antennal club shorter than the whole pedicel in both sexes;
prothorax diagonally narrowed laterally from a third of the length to
the apical part, straight behind with the outer angles of the base
broadly rounded, the latter is very little wider than the anterior part,
and not sinuate ; scutellum very long and very sharply acuminate ;
elytra considerably wider at the base than the prothorax, and with
the metathoracic epimera bulging out most conspicuously in both
sexes, the outer margin is plainly sinuate above the hind coxae
which are standing out conspicuously in both sexes ; the pro-
pygidium is very wide, the basal part alone is covered by the elytra,
and the apical edge overhangs the triangular pygidium; the abdomen
is somewhat compressed laterally owing to the great development
of the hind thighs, and this is especially the case in the $ , but it is
also noticeable in the 2 ; the four anterior legs are moderately
slender, the fore tibia? tri-dentate with the apical tooth situated at a
great distance from the second and third ; the intermediate and hind
tibiae have a plain tooth on the upper edge ; the outer terminal part
of the intermediate is produced into a bi-dentate process and the
lower spur into a long mucro-like spine in both sexes; the hind
thighs are very swollen in both sexes, especially in the 3 the hind
tibiae of which are ending in a strongly curved, massive mucro, only
one-third shorter than the whole tibia, and the two apical spurs are
very long; in the $ the inner apical angle of the hind tibiae is some-
what developed, but not mucronate, and the spurs are compressed
and blunted at apex.

This genus includes one species which is one of the most singular
among South African Cetoninae. I suspected it to be termitobious,
and Dr. Hans Brauns has ascertained it to be the case.

The genus would seem to be purely South African, and to belong
to the Karrooid fauna.

Xiphoscelis GAKiKi'ixA, 2 , Gory and Perch.,
Monogr. Cet., 1833, p. 262, nee pi. 50, fig. 3;
Lacord. Gen6r. Coleopt. Atlas, pi. 38, fig. 3, $ .
schuckardi, $ , Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iii., p. 614.

Black, with a faint tinge of piceous ; antennae piceous, legs
reddish brown ; head and clypeus covered with rough punctures,
the latter is a little pubescent, and the pubescence is black ; ocular
canthus hairy ; prothorax covered with broad, cicatricose punctures
bearing each a black hair, the outer margin has a fringe of longer
hairs ; scutellum very long and very sharp at tip, sub-carinate
longitudinally in the centre ; elytra almost half as broad again at the

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base as the prothorax, the humeral callus is greatly developed, and
the metathoracic epimera are very large and bulging, they are some-
what depressed along the scutellum which is strongly sunken, and
fairly plane on the dorsal part, but slanting laterally from the slightly
diagonal costule that runs from the humeral angle to the posterior
part where it becomes a greatly elongated callus, the dorsal part is
plainly striate, with the striae faintly punctate, and the suture, as well
as the first four dorsal intervals, are plainly sub-tectiform, while on
the sides the striae are very distinctly punctured, but the intervals
are plane; all the punctures bear a black bristle; the under side and
legs are superficially punctured, each puncture is setigerous, the setae
on the legs and breast being the longest.

Length 13^-17 mm. ; width 7i-9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Fraserburg, Beaufort West, Willowmore).

Schaum states (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fi\, 1849, p. 284) that Cetonia
gariepina, Gory and Perch., is identical with Xiphoscelis schuckardi,
Burm. It is very plain, however, that the figure given in Gory and
Percheron's monograph has nothing to do with the latter species,
and that in all probability it is a small female of Bhinocata cor nut a.
Schaum admits that the figure is very faulty ("la figure de ces
auteurs est cependant peu reconnaissable ") ; he might have added
that the description was altogether misleading. I strongly suspect
that Gory and Percheron's example seen by Schaum was not the one
from which the description of these authors was made.

Gen. KHINOGETA, Burmeister,
Handb. d. Entomol., iii., 1842, p. 612.

Mentum sub-parallel, fused with the ligular part which is
rounded laterally and deeply sinuate or incised at apex (sanguinipes),
labial palpi inserted laterally near the apex (cornuta), last joint sub-
cylindrical, but thicker at base than at apex where it is somewhat
truncate ; maxillae robust, inermous, galea or upper lobe short, horny,
triangular, set outwardly with penicillate hairs ; clypeus incised
laterally at base, sub-parallel, deeply emarginate with the angles
rounded, and somewhat concave in front ; antennal club ovate
and not longer than the pedicel in either sex ; prothorax broader
than long by one-third, ampliated laterally from the apex to the
base which is broadly rounded and only slightly sinuate above
the very long and very acute scutellum ; elytra slightly narrowed
behind, moderately plane and more or less distinctly bi-costate on
each side ; pygidium broader than long, vertical ; legs very robust,
especially the thighs, anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate ; inter-

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mediate tibiae ending in two long spines nearly as long as the apical
spurs, posterior ones broadly dilated at apex and deeply scooped
inwardly, the spurs are robust and compressed in both sexes, and
blunt at apex in the female, both tibiae are strongly uni-carinate
outwardly, and the tarsi are short and numerously bristly under-
neath ; mesosternum extremely small, not excavate, mesothoracic
episterna very large ; metasternum sending a small, bluntly triangular
process between the median coxae.

This genus seems to be restricted to the Karrooid fauna. It
comprises two species which will prove probably to be coprophagous,
as I found them alive, and also dead in or near cattle kraals. They
fly at night. They may, however, prove also to be living in the
heaps of excrements of termitaria. That they are burrowing insects
is well proven by their very robust legs and powerful hind spurs.

Key to the Species.

Black, with a very broad, reddish-brown band along tbe outer
margin of tbe prothorax ; anterior part of prothorax witb a small
elevation in both sexes sanguinipes.

Black; anterior part of prothorax excavate or not in the <? , but

always witb a distinct tubercle comuta.

Khixoceta sanguinipes, Gory and Perch.,
Monogr. Get., 1839, p. 254, pi. 48, fig. 2 ;
MacLeay, Illustr. Zool. Afric, hi., p. 43.

Piceous- black on the upper side but with the sides of the
prothorax and occasionally the centre sanguineous ; under side and
legs chestnut-red or chestnut-brown, but occasionally the whole
body is quite black ; the head is also sometimes rufescent ; antennae
rufescent ; clypeus deeply sinuate in front in both sexes, sparsely
punctate like the head, which is clothed with a not very dense
fulvous pubescence ; prothorax very little convex, ampliated laterally
from the apex to the rounded outer part of the base, glabrous on the
upper side hut having a fringe of rufo-fulvous bristly hairs along
the outer margin and also a few setulose ones in the supra-marginal
punctures, the anterior margin has a small, tubercle-like prominence
in the centre in both sexes ; the surface is deeply punctate, the
punctures are more numerous and much more scabrose on the sides;
scutellum very long, very sharp at apex, deeply punctate, each
puncture bearing a small, fulvous hair; elytra elongated, slightly
narrowed behind, plane or nearly so, with the humeral callus not
strongly pronounced, there are on each side two sub-sinuate
discoidal costules reaching the hind callus, and the suture is

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carinate only at the apical part ; propygidium and pygidium
rufescent, the former pubescent, the other glabrous and punctulate ;
abdomen and pectus sparsely hairy, anterior and intermediate femora
clothed with a long, fulvous pubescence.

Length 20-23 mm. ; width 10^-13^- mm.

Rah. Cape Colony (Worcester, Somerset East, Humansdorp,
Fraserburg, Cape Town).

Ehinoc^ta cornuta, Fab.,

Spec. Ins. Append., p. 497 ;

Gory and Perch., Monogr. Cet., p. 252, pi. 48, fig. 2.

areas, Oliv., Ent., i., 3, p. 44, pi. 9, fig. 83.

eoniigera, Lin., Ed. Gmel., i., 4, p. 1579.

hispido-lugubris, Voet., Col., i., p. 25, pi. 5, fig. 38.

armata, Boh., Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 17.

? minor, Kraatz, Deutsch. Ent. Zeit., 27, 1883, p. 390.

? garicpina, Gor. and Perch., Mon. Cet., p. 262, pi. 50, fig. 3.

Male : Black, not very shiny, antennas black, but occasionally
flavescent ; clypeus of the same shape as in the preceding species,
but much more deeply incised in front, and with the anterior margin
more reflexed, the head is sparsely pubescent, the pubescence being
flavous, the ocular canthus is also pubescent ; prothorax ampliate
rounded laterally in the anterior part only, more parallel behind, and
less broadly rounded at the base which is only very slightly sinuate
above the scutellum, there is often a strong sub-vertical depression
in the anterior part of the disk, and the anterior margin bears a
distinct median tubercle, but this depression does either not exist in
small developed examples, or is hardly noticeable, but the tubercle
is always conspicuous, the whole disk is covered with very closely
set and very briefly setigerous cicatricose scabrose punctures which
are wider on the sides than in the median part ; scutellum closely
punctate ; elytra more attenuate behind than in B. sanguinipes, and
having also two discoidal costules which disappear before reaching
the apical callus in large examples, but not in the small ones, the
surface is covered with a network of cicatricose punctures, and in
well-preserved examples are seen rows of moderately remote, short,
light fulvous bristly hairs.

This species varies much in size. As I have already stated, it is in
male examples having attained a great development that the sub-
vertical or sloping impression in the anterior part of the prothorax is
to be found. But I have ascertained by my examination of the
genital organs of the $ , that B. armata, Boh., of which I saw

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the type, is merely the small development of B. cornuta, and
although I know B. minor, Kraatz, from description only, I doubt
not that it is the same insect as Boheman's. The identity of
a r mat a and cornuta is also corroborated by the shape of the ligula,
which is identical for the two, and is much less deeply emarginate
than in B. sanguinipes.

Length $ 13-20 mm. ; width 8-12 mm. Length ? 16-23 mm. ;
width 94-13£ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Humansdorp, Graaft'-Beinet, Gradock, Mon-
tagu, Worcester, Kimberley) ; Southern Khodesia (Bulawayo) ;
Damaraland (Nolagi), teste Boheman.

LIPOCLITA, n. gen.

Mentum elongated, sub-parallel, but broader at apex than at base,
fused with the ligula, depressed in the anterior part of the outer face,
sinuate at apex ; labial palps short, sub-lateral, the ultimate joint
short, obliquely truncate at tip ; maxillae somewhat robust, inner
lobe inermous, moderately ciliate inwardly at tip, upper lobe or galea
strongly hooked, slightly bifid at tip, and bearing on the outer margin
a thick pencil of hairs ; maxillary palps short, last joint cylindrical,
truncate at tip like the ultimate labial one, the truncate part slightly
oblique; clypeus ($) sub-parallel, emarginate in the centre in
front, head simple; prothorax strongly narrowed in front, and slightly
sinuate laterally in the post-median part ; moderately arcuate above
the scutellum which is long and very acute ; elytra somewhat short,
twice the length of the prothorax ; mesosternal process somewhat
strongly projecting but blunt at tip ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate out-
wardly, all the tarsi short, the two basal ones of the hind legs
strongly triangular ; hind spurs thickened in the J .

The only species included in this genus, and of which I know the
female only, is very remarkable owing to the short cylindrical terminal
joints of both the labial and maxillary palps, which are truncate at
apex. Owing to the short, somewhat broadly triangular basal joints
of the hind tarsi, as well as the thickened hind spurs of the female,
it is more or less connected with Bhinoaeta, but the diet probably
differs from that of the latter, because the galea is short, sub-
quadrate, and simple, instead of being strongljr hooked and very
sharply toothed inwardly, as in L. limbaticollis.

LrPOCLl l'\ LIMBATICOLLIS, n. sp.

Female : Piceous black, with the elytra turning to piceous red or
dark chestnut • brown ; club of antennae flavous ; prothorax with a

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lateral moderately narrow yellowish band ; head deeply and some-
what closely punctate, clypeus sub-carinate laterally ; antennal
club shorter than the pedicel ; prothorax very broad at the base,
slightly arcuate there on each side, and sinuate above the scutellum,
sub-diagonally narrowed laterally in the anterior part, sinuate at
about the middle, covered with deep, irregular, and moderately
closely set punctures ; scutellum long and sharp at tip, punctulate
at the base, and with an impressed median line at apex ; elytra
somewhat short, and with the mesothoracic epimera strongly
developed, sinuate laterally, somewhat convex in the posterior
part, weakly bi-costulate on each side in the dorsal part, the
surface is covered with shallow, irregularly distributed, sub-
cicatricose punctures ; pygidium slightly depressed on each side
towards the apex, faintly punctulate, and having two somewhat
transversely elongate white patches ; under side briefly pilose on
the sides of the pro- and meso-sternum and on the thighs.

Length 18 mm. ; width 10^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Vaal Eiver).

Gen. HYPSELOGENIA, Burm.,
Gen. Insect., i., 1846, No. 10.

Mentum slightly longer than broad, moderately ampliate rounded
laterally, moderately constricted there near the ligular part the
narrowed anterior part of which is emarginate in the centre with
the angles well rounded, the outer part of the mentum is convex
instead of being concave as in Goliathus, and is provided at the base
with a vertical, sub-bifid process; maxillae robust at the base, but
with the densely hairy upper lobe somewhat slender and sharply
bi-dentate inwardly, inner lobe simple ; head concave in both sexes,
very highly carinate laterally on the upper side with the anterior
part produced into a highly reflexed laminate horn trifid at apex in
the male, whereas in the female the anterior margin is highly rerlexed
with the outer angles sharply angular and the median part highly
carinate and sharply pointed in the centre ; canthus of eyes sharply
angular ; antennal club shorter than the pedicel in either sex ;
prothorax highly roofed in the anterior part above the hollow frontal
part, broader than long, ampliate rounded laterally in the middle,
basal angles distinct, base slightly sinuate on each side and
moderately arcuate above the scutellum which is very long and
somewhat sharply acuminate ; elytra short, massive, very little
attenuate behind, weakly bi-costate ; anterior tibiae sharply tri-
dentate outwardly in both sexes ; intermediate and posterior

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uni-dentate on the upper edge ; tarsi moderately long, the basal
joints of the hind ones almost spinose on each side in both sexes ;
under side not densely pubescent on the pectus ; sternal process
horizontal, moderately long, acuminate, marginate all round and
grooved in the centre nearly to the apex.

The shape of the mentum and also the massive body connect the
species included in this genus with Goliathus. It is, however, the
only true Cetonid known to me in which the mentum is provided
at the base with a vertical process ; in the Cremastoch ilini this is
a common enough feature. The South African species has a very
wide range in South Africa, and another species is recorded from
Eastern Africa.

HVPSELOGENIA GEOTRUPINA, Billb.

Schonh., Syn. Ins., i., 3, p. 461.
albojJitnctata, Gory and Perch., Monog. Cet., p. 122, pi. 17, fig. 5.
billbergi, Thorns., Typi Cetonid., 1878, p. 7.
concava, Gory and Perch., Monogr. p. 121, pi. 17, fig. 4.
goryi, J. Thorns., Typi Ceton., 1878, p. 8.

Piceous, moderately shiny, occasionally spotless or without bands
on the prothorax (concava); spotless but with a narrow fiavescent
marginal band on the prothorax ; with a narrow marginal band on
the prothorax and with scattered fiavescent macules on the elytra
and a band of the same colour in the posterior part (gcotrujnna) ; or
with the elytra similarly maculated but with a broad marginal band
and a discoidal narrower one on each side of the prothorax
[billbergi).

Male: Head very concave ami deeply punctured, the reflexed
horn is usually sharply tri-dentate at apex, but occasionally also
the two outer teeth arc blunted laterally, and the median one is
only moderately sharp ; prothorax with a very indistinct prominence
in the centre of the anterior margin, moderately closely punctate
but with the median part of the disk usually smooth ; scutellum
smooth; elytra indistinctly bi-costate on eacli side and having series
of punctures on the dorsal part, but on the defiexed sides these
punctures are not seriate; pygidium with two fiavescent macules or
without any; abdomen impunctate ; pectus verj deeply and closely
punctate, briefly pubescent, the pubescence black.

Female : Clypeus deeply incised in front with the angles sharply
reflexed, or with the anterior part broadly emarginate {goryi) and
having in the centre a carinate tubercle ; the prothorax has a blunt,
hook-like tubercle in the anterior part above the concave frontal

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part, and it is more closely punctate in the anterior part than in
the male, but in other respects it is similar.

The spotless variety is rarer than the spotted and banded ones
but occurs also with it, and it is impossible to separate any of the
varieties above-mentioned as they gradually merge into one another.

Length (horn excl.) 17-24 mm. ; width 11-14 mm.

Hah. The whole of South Africa except the extreme end of the
South-western districts in the Cape Colony.

Nothing is known of the habits of this species. It feeds on Acacia
gum, according to Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, but is found also " flying
round manure heaps " or near cattle kraals in the Cape Colony,
somewhat in the manner of Hhinocata.

Gen. GOLIATHUS, Lamark.,
Syst. Anim. s. vert. 1801, p. 209.

Mentum broadly ampliate rounded and transversely truncate in
the anterior part at the base of the deep cavity for the insertion of
the palps, the fused ligular part greatly narrowed, being across less
than half the width of the mentum, and with the apex of the cavity
reaching nearly the rounded angle of the anterior part which is
broadly and very deeply incised ; maxilla? robust, inner lobe pro-
jecting and truncate at tip, very densely ciliate inwardly, upper
lobe slightly incurved, and with two superposed blunt teeth, densely
penicillate at the top and outwardly ; clypeus carinate laterally on
the upper side, parallel with the anterior angles projecting and the
anterior part truncate and produced in the middle into a short,
narrow process reflexed and furcate at the tip in the $ whereas in
the ? the outer angles are rounded and the median part is pro-
jecting and slightly sinuate ; antennal club not longer than the
pedicel in either sex ; prothorax with a sharp median tubercle in
the anterior part in the $ , diagonally ampliated laterally from
the anterior part to the middle, and only slightly attenuated thence
to the base the outer angles of which are not rounded, base semi-
circular and slightly emarginate above the scutellum which is
long, sharp, and grooved laterally, especially in the $ ; elytra
elongated, attenuate behind, not costate, the suture is only slightly
raised behind and weakly acuminate at apex ; legs bi- or tri-dentate
outwardly according to the sexes, spinose on the upper side of the
intermediate tibia? in the $ only, tarsi long, the two basal joints
of the posterior ones spinose inwardly and outwardly, the spine
more pronounced in the ? than in the 3 , in which sex the
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equal length in the ? ; sternal process long, horizontal, acuminate
at apex ; under side sparingly hairy ; inner part of intermediate and
posterior tibiae fringed with very dense fiavescent or black hairs.

The genus is represented in Western and East Central Africa, and
includes species attaining the largest size in the Order Coleoptera.

Goliathus albosignatus, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 10.

kirki, Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., 3 Ser. iv., 1864, p. 311 ; Proc.
Zoolog. Soc, 1864, p. 34, pi. 5.

Male : Black head and clypeus coated with white in the upper
part, but still distinctly carinate longitudinally, the deflexed sides and
the furcate process black ; antennae piceous ; prothorax with a broad
lateral marginal white band enclosing in the anterior part an
elongated patch of the black background, a narrow discoidal one
on each side, and a narrower one in the central part, all these bands
reach from apex to base ; the black parts are quite opaque, and the
sub-velvety coating hides the sculpture ; scutellum with a median
white line and a broader lateral one tilling the lateral groove ; elytra
broadly white laterally and behind with the black discoidal part
including both the anterior and posterior callus interrupted by
transverse, sinuose, somewhat narrow white bands; the sculpture
is hidden by the black and white coating ; pygidium black, fringed
with black or more or less light fulvescent, fairly long hairs ;
abdomen glabrous, pectus briefly pubescent ; abdomen, pectus, and
femora closely punctate; median part of metastermim smooth,
grooved to a short distance from the apex, where there is no trace
of suture.

Female: Head very rugose, black with only the frontal part white,
and carinate longitudinally in the frontal part only ; prothorax
punctate foveate, impressed Longitudinally in the centre of the
anterior part, the impression ending in a sharp tubercle in the
anterior margin, and having a narrow white line in the centre
reaching from the apex to the middle, a shorter discoidal one
beginning at the apex, and a broad marginal one enclosing a long
band of the black background ; the disposition of the white sinuate
bands on the black, not opaque background is the same as in the
male, but the punctures on the surface are quite distinct; under side
as in the male but more deeply punctured, and with the sternal
process more triangularly acute at the tip.

1 am informed that in G. kirki, the pubescence on the margin
of the pygidium, and on the inner part of the legs is fulvescent

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instead of being black. This seems to me to be too trivial a
distinction ; moreover, Boheman, in his description of the unique
specimen collected by Wahlberg, does not mention the colour of
these hairs, which, for aught we know, might have been of that
colour.

Length (horn excluded) 36 mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Rustenburg, Waterberg) ; Southern Rhodesia
(Salisbury) ; Mazoe (var. Kirki).

This species feeds " only on the gum exuding from certain species
of Acacia." (G. A. K. Marshall.)

Gen. HiEMATONOTUS, Kraatz,
Entom. Monatsbl., ii., 1880, p. 20.

Mentum long, fused with the ligula, very slightly sinuate laterally,
arcuate and not deeply incised in the centre in front, labial palps
somewhat long, especially the apical one which is cylindrical but
incurved, and truncate at tip ; maxillae somewhat robust, inner lobe
straight but sharp at apex, upper lobe very sharply triangular with
the outer margin penicillate, maxillary palps long, the last one
cylindrical, truncate at tip, and as long as the three preceding ones
taken together ; clypeus longer than the head, contracted laterally
at base, straight, nearly as broad at the apex as long, and with the
anterior margin strongly reflexed ; antennal club as long as the
pedicel in both sexes ; prothorax somewhat narrowed in the anterior
part and gradually ampliated to the base which is very slightly
arcuate and almost straight above the scutellum, the anterior margin
bears a small median tubercle in both sexes ; scutellum long, sharply
acuminate ; elytra moderately elongate, twice the length of the pro-
thorax, attenuate behind ; pygidium declivous, slightly convex ;
mesothoracic epimera very bulging ; mesosternal process truncate ;
legs short, anterior tibiae uni-dentate in the male, bi-dentate in the
female ; hind tarsi short, the four basal ones triangular ; inter-
mediate and posterior tibiae weakly dentate on the upper margin.

H^MATONOTUS TURBIDUS, Boh.,

Ofvers af. K. Vet. Akad., Forh, 1860, p. 120.

fritschi, Kraatz, Entomol. Monatsbl., ii., 1880, p. 20. ; Deutsch.
Entom. Zeitschr., 1880, pi. 1, fig. 8.

minor, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1896, p. 373.

lugens, Jans., Cist. Entomol., ii., 1882, p. 603.

irictus, Per., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, Hi., 1885, p. 96, pi. 1, fig. 7.

The colouration of this species varies greatly. The type is entirely

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black, with a whitish outer marginal prothoracic band (turbid/us,
higens), without this outer marginal prothoracic band (minor), or
reddish with two discoidal black prothoracic bands reaching from
the base to about the middle, and the elytra immaculate or with an
evanescent, infuscate, transverse band in the posterior part ; but it
is oftener black with the prothorax and elytra brick-red and opaque ;
in the median part of the base there is a black patch which is some-
times nearly obliterated, but which invades occasionally the greatest
part of the disk, and on each side there is a marginal, narrow white
band ; scutellum partly red and black, or totally black ; elytra with
two arcuate irregular sinuate patches, especially the posterior ones,
on each side; pygidium with two white patches coalescing some-
times along the apical margin ; upper lateral part of abdominal
segments maculated with white ; frontal part and also the concavity
of the clypeus clothed with a fiavescent pubescence ; frontal part
densely punctate ; prothorax with a very distinct tubercle in the
centre of the anterior part, and clothed with a brief rlavescent
pubescence, it is very closely punctate ; scutellum sub-cicatricose
punctate; elytra closely punctate, bi-costate on each side; pygidium
reddish and having on each side a broad white patch extending
sometimes along the base ; sides of abdomen sparely, of pectus
densely pubescent ; abdominal segments and epimera maculated with
white, legs also pubescent, basal joint of hind tarsi longer and wider
than the second, sharply angular outwardly; antennal club flavous.

Length 15^-16* mm. ; width 8i-9i mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Rustenburg, Pietersburg) ; Bechuana-
land (Ramoutsa) ; Southern Rhodesia (Hamyani River, Umcheki
River); N'Gamiland, teste Boheman ; Ovampoland.

Gen. PHOXOMELA, Sch.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. d. Franc, l&U, p. 407.

This genus, which contains one species only, differs from Micrela-
phinis in the shape of the clypeus, which is very sharply acuminate
laterally in the anterior part, and very deeply incised there ; the
palps cavity reach almost the centre of the outer face which thus
looks as if it were carinate ; the other chief differences are that the
prothorax is plainly arcuate above the scutellum ; the anterior tibite
are dentate at apex only and sinuate above it in the 3 , bi-dentate
in the ? ; the plane sternal process projects slightly more than in
Micrelaphinis, is broader, and only very weakly arcuate at tip ; the
elytra are costulate, and shiny ; the basal joint of the hind tarsi are
very sharply spinose outwardly in both sexes.

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The genus includes only one species which does not seem to have
been met beyond the South African area.

Phoxomela umbrosa, Gory and Perch,
Monogr. d. Cet., p. 282, pi. 55, fig. 1.

abrupta, Sch., Ann. Fr., 1844, p. 407 ; do. 1849, p. 265.

alessanclrini, Bertol., Ins. Mozamb. Dissert., i., p. 18, pi. 1, fig. 5.

Black, shiny ; prothorax with a lateral, marginal, flavescent
white band slightly notched inwardly by the lateral fossule ; elytra
with nine flavescent white macules, the two apical ones coalesce along
the posterior margin {umbrosa) ; or, {alessanclrini) all the macules
are orange-yellow, and those on the deflexed sides coalesce along the
outer margin so as to form often a longitudinal band emitting a
small ramus towards the median part ; pygidium with two super-
posed white macules on each side of the centre ; under side immacu-
late, but the hind femora have a small white patch on the outer side ;
clypeus closely punctulate, and having occasionally a white patch in
the centre ; frontal part clothed with a moderately dense light
fulvescent pubescence ; prothorax not very closely punctate ;
scutellum without punctures ; elytra bi-costulate on each side, but the
costules are obliterated in the anterior and the posterior parts, the
intervals are plainly punctate till about the middle, and very closely
aciculate thence to the apex in the male, less plainly so in the
female, in which the costules are also less well defined ; pygidium
finely aciculate ; abdominal segments with a lateral row of
punctures ; pectus aciculate and sparingly hairy.

Length 11-12 mm. ; width 6-7 mm.

The two forms, umbrosa and alessanclrini, are found together. I
have ascertained that the colour variation occurs in both the sexes.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Frere, Zululand), Transvaal (Pretoria,
Zoutpansberg, Lydenburg, Potchefstroom, Waterberg), Ehodesia
(Bulawayo, Mount Chirinda).

MICEELAPHINIS, Schoch.,
Mith. Schweiz. Entom. Gesel, 1896, p. 331.
The characters differentiating this new genus from Elaphinis are
the shape of the clypeus which is equally oblong-ovate but deeply
incised at apex, with the outer angles sharp, and the narrower and
much more elongated scutellum ; in the S the antennal club is as
long or longer than the pedicel ; the facies is less robust, although one
species {irrorata) is a form of transition. In all the species included
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sharply spinose outwardly, and the lower spur broad in the female.
The intervals between the suture and the dorsal costae of the elytra
are seriate punctate.

In some species the livery of the ? differs considerably from that
of the 3 , and even in the 3 it varies greatly.

Key to the Species.

A3. Upper side with an opaque coating in both sexes.

B2. Anterior tibite bi-clentate outwardly in both sexes.

Sides of prothorax and of elytra with wide, almost non-
interrupted bands ; body robust irrorata.

Sides of prothorax and of elytra with white macules in

both sexes ; body less robust pumila.

A". Upper Bide with an opaque coating in the <j , shiny in the ? .
Prothorax and elytra with white seriate macules in the $ ;
seneo-rufescent, and immaculate with the suture of the elytra
black, the posterior part only black, or totally black in
the ? dclatjoensi*.

B1. Anterior tibire of i uni-dentate, bi-dentate in the ? .
Prothorax and elytra multi-maculate with white in the
S ; prothorax and elytra black, the latter immaculate
or with a few white dots in the ? nigritula.

A'. Upper side shiny in both sexes.

B2. Anterior tibiae bi-dentate in both sexes.

Prothorax with a lateral white margin and a discoidal
row of white spots; elytra with four rows of white dots

on each sheppardi.

Prothorax with a broad marginal white hand; elytra

with four large white macules on each side vwc. plagiata.

Prothorax and pygidium red, prothorax and elytra

immaculate var. collaris.

MlCRELAPHIMS IKHOKATA, Fabr.,

Ent. Syst. Suppl., p. 130.
serva, Gory and Perch., Mon., p. 273, pi. 53, fig. 3.
aerifera, McLeay, 111. Zool. Afric, iii., 1849, p. 47.
bclht, McLeay, loc. cit., p. 47.
mitmisniatica, McLeay, loc. cit., p. 47.
puma, McLeay, loc. cit., p. 47.

niocsta, Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 292, pi. 56, fig. 7.
The colouring of this species is very variable.
Bronze rufescent, or greenish bronze coated on the upper side
witli an opaque indumentum hiding completely or nearly so the

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sculpture, and adorned with white bands or macules which often
disappear or are incomplete without having been rubbed off; the
background of the elytra is maculated with fuscous on the dis-
coidal part, and also on the deflexed part when the white coating-
does not predominate there. The white bands are more conspicuous
in the male, while in the female there are only a few small macules
on the prothorax, and hardly any on the sides of the elytra ; in
many males the elytra are often without bands or spots, but not so
the prothorax wbicb bears always strong traces of a lateral white
band. Clypeus lightly punctulate, margins slightly raised, head
sparsely hairy in the posterior part ; prothorax dull green, not
closely punctate, and with the punctures very shallow, it has on
each side a broad band of cretaceous white coating, and in the dis-
coidal part are a few minute dots of the same substance ; scutellum
impunctate ; elytra sub-testaceous with the humeral part very
bulging, plainly bi-costate with the suture equally raised in the
posterior part and weakly acuminate at apex ; the whole of the
deflexed sides and the posterior part are covered with a cretaceous
coating as well as the second costal interval and the hind part of the
first, but there is always a large spot of the background left un-
covered round the posterior callus, the costal are not free from the
coating ; pygidium either completely covered with a white coating or
only maculated with the same ; abdominal segments each with a
broad white band on each side, pectus also white ; in the female this
coating is often partly or even completely obliterated ; pectus
densely hairy ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate in both sexes, but having an
upper sinuation in the female, the basal tarsal joint of the hind legs
is strongly spinose outwardly.

Length 10^—12^ mm. ; width 6-7 mm.

Hab. Natal, Transvaal, Cape Colony (eastern part).

Micrelaphinis ? pumila, Bohem.,
Insect Caffrar., ii., 1857, p. 40.

Smaller than the preceding species, but otherwise so similar in
colouration and shape that had I not seen a very long series I
would have taken it for a dwarfish variety of it. The shape of the
genital armature of the male is slightly different. Tbe colour is
reddish bronze, the base of the clypeus is maculated with white ; the
opaque prothorax has a dull greenish tinge, a lateral wbite band, and
more or less coalescent white patches on the disk ; very often there
is a small white spot on each side of the base of the scutellum ; the
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a series of white spots, and the deflexed part two rows of white
macules, but as often as not most of these spots and macules are
partly or almost completely obliterated, and in that case irregular
fuscous macules are easily discernible ; pygidium and under side as
in the preceding species. The antennal club of the $ is very long.

Length &| \)\ mm. ; width 4f-5| mm.

Hah. Natal (Durban, TJnivoti, Maritzburg, Zululand).

MlCRELAPHINIB DELAGOENSIS, Schoch.,

Mith. Schw. Entom. Gesels., 1894, p. 188.
gracilis, Schoch., loc. cit., 1896, p. 331.

The colour of this species is most variable, the male is opaque on
the upper side and the female shiny.

Type. Male: Head, sub-coppery, shiny; prothorax, scutellum
greenish, elytra greenish fuscous with a faint tinge of rufescent in the
basal part, or light sienna-brown numerously intermixed with small
fuscous patches, the prothorax and the intervals of the elytra are
maculated with numerous small white dots, and there are two
spots on the scutellum; the pygidium is hroadly maculated with
flavescent white, and so are the sides of the pectus ; the abdominal
segments have either a lateral macule or an interrupted white band.

Type. Female : Head and prothorax dark bronze or bronze-green,
the latter is either immaculate or spotted with white ; the elytra are
black and are numerously dotted with white ; the pygidium has two
or four broad lateral macules ; the under side has onby a few white
dots.

Var. a. Male and Female: Prothorax and elytra dark green;
elytra rufescent for about one-third of the length, the rufescent part
extending from the first interval to the outer margin, and black along
the suture and the whole of the remaining surface ; pygidium and
under side not maculated with white.

Var. /'. Male : Prothorax and scutellum opaque dull green,
numerously or moderately sparingly sprinkled with white dots;
elytra light sienna-brown unspeekled with white, or with an outer
marginal row of remote minute white spots and a few small fuscous
macules mixed with a few white spots ; pygidium and under side
maculated with white.

Female: Prothorax and scutellum bronze-red or bronze-green,
unspotted, elytra light sienna, with a metallic tinge, the suture con-
colorous, or occasionally fuscous; pygidium with two broad, white
patches, underside almost unspotted.

This variety b closel) approximates M. pwnila. Boh.

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Length 10-10f mm. ; width 5^-6 mm.
Hob. Mozambique (Eikatla, Lourenco-Marquez).
I have seen Schoch's type of M. delagoensis, but not that of
M. gracilis.

MlCRELAPHINIS NIGRITULA, Boh.,

Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 39.

Male: Black, opaque on the upper side, elytra rufous brown, or
black with rufescent basal longitudinal stripes, antennal club longer
than the pedicel, and rufescent ; head with two white macules,
apical margins of the clypeus slightly more reflexed than in the
three preceding species ; prothorax very slightly arcuate above the
scutellum, deeply punctate, and having on each side a plain, unin-
terrupted white band, and several white spots on the discoidal part ;
elytra with three dorsal series of white spots and a lateral row of
white macules the lower of which is produced as a band rounding
the apical part ; under side black, shiny, abdominal segments with
an upper white macule, the penultimate with two.

Female : More robust than the male, totally black, shiny ; elytra
with a few somewhat irregular small white dots very variable in
number, and occasionally totally absent ; pygidium with two small
white spots ; under side without white spots or macules.

The shape of the genital forceps of the male of this pretty species
differs more distinctly from that of the previously described species
than the other three do from each other. Boheman described the
species from a female example.

Length 10-10^ mm. ; width 5-5^ mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pienaar's Eiver, Pretoria District ; Bustenburg,
Lydenburg, Zoutpansberg) ; Southern Bhodesia (Middle Limpopo) ;
Natal (Weenen).

MlCRELAPHINIS SHEPPARDI, n. Sp.

The colouration of this species varies much.

Type. Male : Black, shiny, but without a metallic sheen in both
sexes, and thus differing from the female of M. delagoensis, antennge
black, slightly rufescent at apex ; prothorax with three or four white
macules coalescing oftener than not into a lateral marginal band,
on each side of the disk there is a row of three or four white dots,
and often a single median central dot ; scutellum concolorous ;
elytra with four series of white dots on each side ; pygidium with
two sub-transverse white patches ; pectus with several white lateral
macules, abdominal segments with a white dot each. Head and
clypeus evenly closely punctulate ; prothorax moderately closely

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punctate, the punctures more than superficial, but more scattered
and very shallow in the basal part; scutellum impunctate ; elytra
with the two dorsal costae smooth but well raised and sub-tectiform,
the rounded punctures in the intervals arc variolose and deep, those
on the deflexed side somewhat shallow and coalescing; pygidium
with nearly coalescing sub-variolose punctures ; sides of abdomen
and of pectus sparsely punctate ; pubescence of legs ashy grey.

Length 11 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

I retain for this species and its varieties the in litt. names given
by Mr. O. E. Janson.

Var. PLAGIATA.

Male and female : Black, very shiny and with a faint metallic
sheen more noticeable in examples which are not quite mature ;
prothorax with only two large supra-marginal lateral white macules,
the hind one being the largest of the two ; elytra with three large
macules on each side, the first is situated at the sinuation and
reaches from the first discoidal costa to the deflexed part, the second
is nearly median and reaches the outer margin, the third set near
the apical callus is smaller than the other two but is sometimes also
reduced to a mere dot, and the juxta-sutural one is triangular; in
addition to these well-defined patches there are occasionally a few
white dots scattered in the posterior part ; pygidium with two broad
white patches.

This varietal form differs from the type in the obliteration of some
of the dorsal white dots, and the coalescing of others into patches.

Length 11 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

Var. collaris.

Male : Black, with the prothorax, the pygidium, and the two last
abdominal segments red ; there are no white markings on the pro-
thorax, nor on the dorsal part of the elytra, but along the lateral
and apical margin are a few seriate white dots; the pygidium has
no traces of white patches or spot. The sculpture and vestiture is
in other respects similar to the type and to the variety plagiata.

Length 10-10^ nun. ; width oh mm.

Hah. Mozambique (Beira).

Blaphinib latecostata, Bohem.,
Coleopt. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 38.
"Ovate, little convex, rulotestaceous, shiny; head aeneous ; pro-

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thorax sparely punctulate and having on the disk two oblique
bronze bands connected behind ; scutellum bronze, punctulate at
the base ; elytra closely tessellate with black, finely punctate striate,
the striae geminate ; tri-costate on the dorsal part, the costae broad,
little convex, very finely but sparingly punctulate ; anterior tibiae
bi-dentate outwardly, the teeth remote. Size and general ap-
pearance of E. irrorata, differs by the more sparingly punctate
prothorax, the aeneous scutellum, the finely yet distinctly punctate,
striate elytra, and the broader, little convex, dorsal costae."
This species belongs possibly to the genus Micrelaphinis.

DULCINEA, n. gen.

Closely allied in appearance to Gametis, and similarly depressed,
but differs by the base of the prothorax being straight above the
scutellum ; the latter is shorter, broader at the base, and more
triangular ; the elytra are plainly bi-costate on each side ; the
sternal process is strongly aculeate, and the anterior tibiae bi-
dentate outwardly in both sexes ; the basal joint of the hind
tibiae is strongly spinose outwardly.

The only species known to me seems an intermediate form
between Elaphinis and Gametis. Owing to its depressed form
the latter, however, belongs to a different division.

Dulcinea Levis. Jans.,
Cist. Entomol., ii., 1868, p. 256.
Type. Black, somewhat metallic underneath, opaque on the
upper side ; the greatest part of the disk of the prothorax is black
with a more or less broad flavescent border in front and on the
sides but not in the basal part, that discoidal black part is, however,
occasionally divided into spots or patches ; the elytra are flavo-
testaceous and have a long, triangular infuscate patch which
seems to be the continuation of the prothoracic discoidal one,
and the apex of which reaches the median part of the suture,
extreme apical part triangularly black. Clypeus very long, slightly
sinuous near the base, deeply and very broadly incised at the apex
the margin of which is slightly reflexed ; head and prothorax
moderately closely punctate, the punctures distinct only in rubbed
specimens ; elytra plainly sinuate laterally, bi-costate on each side,
striate on the dorsal part, striate punctate beyond, suture acuminate
at apex ; sides of abdomen and of metasternum somewhat roughly
punctate ; sternal process without suture, projecting somewhat
strongly, truncate in front.

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Var. a. Head and prothorax black, the latter with a fairly well-
defined narrow lateral band; at the apex of the triangular basal
patch of the elytra is an ill-defined transverse black band and
spots.

\ ar. /;. Prothorax flavo-testaceous splashed with black macules
and a few lateral white spots ; elytra also flavo-testaceous, splashed
with numerous black macules.

\ ar. c. Black, shiny, prothorax with a narrow, lateral, flavescent
band with a few white spots, epimera of the prosternum and hind
callus of elytra flavo-rufescent. I take this variety to be the female.

Length 10-11 mm. ; width 5^-6^ mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe ; between Limpopo and
Zambesi) ; Nyassaland.

Gen. ATBICHELAPHINIS, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1898, p. 220.
Buccal organs of Elaphinis ; clypeus oblongo-ovate. antei'ior
angles rounded, anterior margin roundly incised ; antennal club
of male nearly as long as the pedicel ; prothorax shaped as in
Elaphinis but quite straight above the scutellum which is also
less sharply acuminate than in the last-named genus ; elytra
hi-costate, the inner costa only moderately raised, the dorsal
intervals geminate striate, the stria; normally punctulate ; sternal
process very short, transversely obtuse ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate
in both sexes ; tarsi moderately long, basal joint of hind tarsi
spinose outwardly in the female only. The shape of the clasps
of the male is very different from that of Elaphinis.

In general appearance the species included in this genus is very
closely allied to those of the genus Elaphinis, the distinctive charac-
ters consist in the straight base of the prothorax, the bi-dentate
fore tibiae, the spinose basal joint of the hind tibiae, and specially
the normally punctulate dorsal stria1. It plainly unites the first
division, or Goliathitcs, to the second or Cetonites.

Atbiohelaphinis cinereobulosa, De Geer,

Mrm. Ins., vii., p. 643.

cinerascens, Kabr., Syst. Eleuth., ii., p. 156 ; Gory and Perch.,
Mon., p. 269, pi. 52, fig." 3.

irregularis, Oliv., Bnt., i., 6, p. 51, pi. 6, fig. 39.

Metallic dark brown clothed on the upper side by an opaque, ashy
violaceous coating, forming on the prothorax a lateral, often inter-

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rupted band, and several longitudinal macules on the discoidal part ;
the scutellum has a lateral band of the same colour ; on the elytra
this coating invades most of the surface, leaving, however, numerous
patches of the background bare; the pygidium is partly or com-
pletely covered with the coating which forms on the abdominal
segments an upper macule, or a band; head aud clypeus deeply
and closely punctate, the former, and also the base of the clypeus,
are moderately densely hairy, the latter is somewhat ampliate
laterally, and deeply emarginate in the centre ; prothorax sparsely
punctulate ; scutellum impunctate, not very sharp at apex ; elytra
bi-costulate on each side, the dorsal intervals have each two weakly
bi-geminate striae somewhat indistinctly punctulate, and the suture
is very slightly acuminate at apex; propygidium and pygidium
transversely plicate and briefly pubescent; abdominal segments
sparingly punctate on the upper side; pectus scabrose punctate
and somewhat densely but moderately briefly pubescent; legs
robust, anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly in both sexes, but
with a slight upper sinuation in the female in which the basal
tarsal joint of the hind legs is produced at apex in a long, apical
spine on the outer side.

Length 11-13^ mm. ; width 6^-7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Uitenhage, Knysna).

TETEAGONOEHINA, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entom. Zeits., 1896, p. 369.
Mentum parallel, truncate at apex with the angles not rounded ;
maxillae robust, inner lobe not densely pubescent inwardly and
armed with a strong hamate tooth ; upper lobe nearly glabrous on
the outer side, and produced into a broadly divergent, bifid, hamate
tooth ; last joint of palps slender, sub-cylindrical, truncate at tip ;
clypeus quadrate, slightly broader than long, truncate at apex with
the angles acute, the anterior margin is very slightly sinuate and
sharply reflexed ; antennae moderately long, the club not longer
than the pedicel in the $ ; prothorax attenuate, sinuate laterally in
the anterior part almost straight in the posterior with the hind
angles broadly rounded, strongly arcuate above the scutellum
which is long, sharply acuminate and broadly grooved laterally ;
elytra moderately attenuate laterally behind, highly bi-costate on
each side and with two intervening costules, sparsely maculated
with white, and copiously hairy ; sternal process short, blunt, pro-
jecting slightly beyond the coxae ; anterior tibiae dentate at apex
only and hardly sinuate above it in the male, tri-dentate in the female ;

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intermediate and posterior obsoletely denticulate on the upper side ;
tarsi long, basal joint of hind tarsi sub-spinose outwardly.

The shape of the teeth of the maxillae and also the sub-spinose
basal joint of the posterior tarsi certainly closely resemble the
genus Anoplochilus, but it differs in many other characters. Its
nearest ally is Hcsmatonotus.

Tetragonorhina induta, Jans.,
Cist. Entom., ii., 1877, p. 257.

albomaculata, Kraatz, Deuts. Ent. Zeits., 1896, p. 370; Kraatz,
loc. cit., 1898, pi. ii., fig. 2.

Black or fuscous black, shiny but covered on the upper side with
an upright sub-flavescent pubescence resulting from all the punctures
being setigerous ; under side densely hairy ; clypeus and head very
closely punctate, antenna? flavous rufescent ; punctures on the
prothorax closely set but with the intervals irregular and rugose ;
scutellum roughly punctate on each side ; elytra with the two
dorsal costae highly raised and sub-tectiform, in the first interval
there is a costa nearly as much raised in the anterior part as the
second dorsal one, but which disappears at about two- thirds of
the length, in the second interval there is also a costule much less
raised, however, than the second dorsal costa, and the deflexed
sides, like the dorsal intervals, are somewhat roughly punctate ;
on each elytron there are four dorsal white macules — two in the
anterior part of the second interval, and two in the posterior of
the first — in addition to these there are two marginal ones in the
rounded posterior part, and occasionally one on the hind part of
the lateral margin ; abdominal segments closely punctate ; pectus
closely shagreened.

Length 11-12 mm.; width 6-7 mm.

Hub. Natal (Weenen) ; Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Mazoe,
Umtali). Originally described from Nyassaland ; it occurs also in
East Central Africa.

Gen. PSACADOPTERA, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entom. Zeits., 1882, p. 67.
Mentum elongated, sub-parallel, but slightly ampliated towards
the apical part, which is somewhat deeply incised in the centre, and
the outer angles rounded ; palps of the normal shape ; maxillae
robust, inner lobe simple, pubescent inwardly, upper lobe with two
superposed, sharp, somewhat hooked teeth ; clypeus sub-parallel

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and carinate laterally but slightly attenuate near the apex the
margin of which is sinuate and moderately or highly reflexed ;
antennal club of male not quite as long as the pedicel ; prothorax
plainly narrowed laterally in front, sub-trapezoidal from about the
median part, plainly arcuate above the scutellum which is sharply
triangular, a little longer than broad, and grooved laterally ; elytra
somewhat broad and short, moderately broadly sinuate laterally,
bi-costulate, seriate punctate ; pygidium of the normal shape and
maculated with white or fiavescent, under side with flavescent
bands or patches, sternal process projecting beyond the coxae,
broadly and ovately transversely ampliated ; pectus and legs
pubescent ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly, the upper tooth
short in the male ; tarsi somewhat short, the basal joint plainly
sub-spinose or spinose outwardly in both sexes ; intermediate tibiae
dentate on the upper side.

The genus includes two species which might be taken for varietal
forms of each other, but which are greatly separated by the different
shape of the genital armature of the male.

Key to the Species.

A2. Light testaceous brown on the upper side ; each elytron with
four discoidal black patches, and seriate white spots.

B2. Frontal part glabrous, clypeus highly reflexed in front ;

prothorax with four black patches leucomclana.

A'. Light testaceous brown, with four discoidal white spot on
each elytron, or totally black on the upper side.

B1. Frontal part densely pubescent; prothorax with two
fuscous longitudinal discoidal bands either entire or
interrupted simonsi.

Psacadoptera leucomelana, Gor. and Perch.,
Monogr. d. Cet., p. 202, pi. 36, fig. 6.
Light testaceous brown, sub-opaque and glabrous on the upper
side; head glabrous, closely and finely punctate like the clypeus
which is plainly attenuate and sinuate laterally towards the apex
the margin of which, plainly sinuate in the middle, is strongly
reflexed and on that account sub-dentate, on the basal part of the
head there are three fuscous macules ; prothorax moderately closely
punctate, the round punctures being separated from each other
by a space nearly double the size of their diameter, in the median
discoidal part are four fuscous patches the anterior ones of which
are half the size of the others ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra deeply

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sei'iate punctate, on each of them are four more or less elongated
fuscous or white patches astride of, or set close to the second
discoidal costa, on these patches there is a white macule, and in
addition to these there is a row of somewhat irregularly shaped
white macules along the outer and posterior margins, these macules
being more or less regularly connected with fuscous ones, the seriate
punctures are cicatricose in the apical part ; pygidium sub-reticulate
strigose, and having four white patches; abdominal segments with
cretaceous bands, the band divided into two, sides of abdomen and
of pectus cicatricose punctate, especially the latter which is also
hardly pubescent.

Length 13-16 mm. ; width 7-9$ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (East London, Kimberley, Transkei) ; Natal
(Maritzburg, Tugela Eiver, Estcourt) ; Transvaal (Klerksdorp, Rus-
tenburg, Lydenburg, Potchefstroom, Pretoria) ; British Bechuana-
land (Macloutsie) ; Southern Rhodesia (Bulawayo, Enkeldoorn).

PflADACOPTEBA BIMON8I, Jans.,

Cist. Entomol., ii., 1868, p. 263.

hi punctata, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1898, p. 92.

simulatrix, Kraatz, loc. cit., 1882, p. 67.

Var. rclntina, Pering., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iv., 2, 1886,
p. 103.

Type. Black, but prothorax, scutellum, elytra, and pygidium
light testaceous brown, opaque; head closely punctate, clypeus
gradually attenuate towards the apex, only slightly reflexed in front,
and not deeply emarginate there, frontal part clothed with a dense
fulvous pubescence ; prothorax not closely punctate and having
on each side of the median part of the disk a somewhat broad
longitudinal fuscous band acuminated towards the apex, and a small,
supra-marginal fuscous dot set slightly before the median part, the
basal part is also narrowly edged with black or fuscous ; scutellum
impunctate except along the edge of the base ; elytra moderately
deeply punctate and having along the inner dorsal part three small
whitish patches the median one of which is ringed with fuscous,
along the outer margin is a row of similar white patches ; pygidium
briefly pubescent and with two lateral white patches; abdominal
segments with two lateral rows of flavescent laminae, and moderately
pubescent on the upper side, pectus and legs densely pubescent, the
pubescence flavescent ; the hind femora have two flavescent bands,
the intermediate ones one.

Var. As often as not the whole upper side and the pygidium are

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black, opaque, and the markings on the elytra, pygidium, and under
side white. This melanic form is common.

P. bi-punctata, Kr., does not seem to differ from P. simonsi.

P. velutina was described by me from a very small example from
Natal clothed with a dense velvety coating, and having only a small
transverse white streak situated near the suture in the posterior
part of the elytra. I never saw but one example of this variety.

Kolbe considers (Kaf. Deuts. Ost. Afrik., p. 180) P. simonsi as
a variety of P. leucomelana, but apart from the shape of the clypeus
and the vestiture of the head it is greatly differentiated by the shape
of the genital armature of the male, the clasps of which are simple
laterally in the latter, but are longer and sharply hamate at a short
distance from the apex in P. simonsi.

Length 12-18 mm. ; width 8-8-| mm.

Hab. Natal (Maritzburg, Eshowe) ; Transvaal (Zoutpansberg) ;
Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe, Manica) ; also Nyassaland
and Eastern Africa (Zanzibar, Bagamoyo).

Gen. ANOPLOCHILUS, McLeay,
Illustr. Zool. Afric, 1838, hi., p. 21.

Diathermies, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1897, p. 402.

Odontothyrea, Schoch., Mith. Schw. Ent. Ges. x., 1897, p. 50.

Onychotarsus, Schoch., loc. cit.

Sisyrapha, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1881, p. 264.

Xeloma, Kraatz, loc. cit., 1881, p. 264.

Mentum parallel, fused with the ligular part which is not narrower
than the mentum and is truncate at apex, labial palpi inserted
laterally on the outer face, last joint similar in shape to the terminal
maxillary one and either fusiform at the base and obtuse at the tip,
or fusiform outwardly only ; inner lobe generally long and hooked
at tip ; upper lobe of maxillae short and ending in two incurved
teeth ; clypeus as long as the head, slightly acuminate and more
or less distinctly pluri-dentate in front ; antennas normal ; prothorax
dehiscent in the anterior parfc, plainly narrowed laterally there,
sub-parallel thence, deeply sinuate above the scutellurn which
is very broad at the base, long and sharply acuminate ; elytra
broader than the prothorax, slightly narrowed behind, pluri-costate ;
pygidium broader than long, vertical ; mesosternum with a bluntly
knobby process ; legs moderately long, robust, especially the hind
femora ; anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate ; basal joint of hind tarsi
very strongly dentate or spinose outwardly ; body short, massive,
head pubescent ; elytra glabrous, under side densely pubescent.

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Some of the species included in this genus, such as A, rusticus,
germari, variabilis, have fossorial habits ; in those the upper spur
of the hind tibiae of the £ is more compressed and slightly blunter
than in the others. When the basal joint of the hind tarsi is greatly
produced outwardly, the same joint of the median tarsi and even
the second are also similarly produced although in a lesser degree ;
the other species seem to be floricolous, and in these the basal joint
of the hind tarsus is gradually reduced and becomes even quite
normal (A. tomentosus).

Kraatz has founded the sub-genus Sisyraphora tor A. tomentosus,
which certainly differs from the other species in the vestiture, the
shape of the clypeus, and of the hind tarsi, and the sub-genus Xcloma
for A. otliosus, which differs also not only in the shape of the clypeus
but the sculpture approximates greatly that of the genus Pscudo-
protaetia with which it forms an undoubted link, although Pseudo-
protaetia belongs to another group of Cetoniche according to mv
arrangement of the same. The differences of the genus Diathermus,
also of the same author, are more specific than generic. Odonto-
thyrea, Schoch., is merely distinguished by the two median teeth
of the clypeus projecting beyond the other two, which are thus
almost sub-lateral.

Key to the Species.

A5. Basal joints of intermediate and hind tarsi spinose outwardly.

</-'. Clypeus weakly quadri-dentate.

Hind spurs almost as long as the four basal joints taken

together rusticus.

a'. Clypeus strongly quadri-dentate.

Hind spurs not as long as the four basal joints taken

together germari.

A4. Basal joint of hind tarsi ending in a long hamate tooth out-
wardly.

Clypeus bi-dentate variabilis.

A3. Basal joint of hind tarsi spinose only outwardly.

Clypeus sharply acuminate, deeply emarginate in the centre
and with the outer angles upturned.

Prothorax strongly sloping laterally in front odiosus.

Prothorax ampliated laterally from near thv apex niashunus.

Clypeus quadri-dentate, the two median teeth longer than the

lateral flgurattiB.

A2. Basal joint of hind tarsi angular only outwardly.

Clypeus sharply quadri-dentate, the teeth of equal size . . . . globosus.

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A1. Basal joint of hind tarsi normal.

Clypeus parallel, deeply sinuate in front; whole body covered

with a thick pile of golden -yellow pubescence tomentosus.

Anoplochilus rusticus, Gor. and Perch.,
Monogr. Get., p. 263, pi. 50, fig. 4.
ruricola, G. and P., loc. cit., p. 264, pi. 50, fig. 6.

Either entirely black or with the elytra more or less testaceous ;
head and clypeus deeply and scabrosely punctured, and densely
pubescent, the pubescence flavescent ; the clypeus is slightly
narrowed towards the apex the upturned truncate margin of which
bears four small teeth ; the galea is bluntly 3-dentate ; prothorax
diagonally narrowed laterally from the median part to the apex,
parallel behind, plainly dehiscent in the anterior part of the disk,
covered all over with round, deep punctures separated from each
other by an interval much narrower than their own diameter except
in the median basal part, and each setigerous, the hairs along the
outer margins are very long ; scutellum punctate but having the
basal part and a median longitudinal space impunctate ; elytra
narrowing slightly in the posterior part, plainly bi-costate on each
side, but having also traces of other costules, shallowly punctate,
each puncture bearing a minute flavescent hair ; pygidium glabrous ;
sides of abdomen, of pectus, and femora pubescent ; basal joint of
intermediate tarsi moderately spinose outwardly, first and second
joints of the hind ones more strongly spinose, the spine of the first
one being more produced than that of the second ; the development
of the outer part of these tarsal joints vary, however, in individuals,
and also according to the sex.

This species seems to have subterranean habits. It is occasionally
found in sandy places, dragging itself along, much in the manner of
the Dynastid species of Hcteronychus ; it is somewhat rare in the
neighbourhood of Cape Town, but I have found it twice in fairly
good numbers in submerged or flooded places. Examples with
testaceous wing-cases are commoner than those which are completely
black.

Length 10-12 mm. ; width 6-7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl).

Anoplochilus germari, Wiedem.,
Zoolog. Magaz., ii., p. 86.

Black, with a transverse reddish-yellow patch at the base of the
prothorax and immediately above the scutellum, elytra flavescent;

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head, prothorax, pectus and sides of abdomen clothed with a dense
sub-flavescent pubescence ; the median part of the scutellum, and
also of the pygidium, is occasionally longitudinally brick-red. This
species is so closely allied to the preceding one that it might easily
be taken for a variety of the same. It is, however, one-third larger,
the anterior margin of the clypeus is much more plainly quadri-
dentate ; the pubescence is conspicuously longer on the prothorax ;
the elytra have a series of small, black patches on the two dorsal
costae, but there is occasionally faint traces of similar spots in
A. rusticus ; the upper spur of the hind tibiae is slightly shorter, and
in the male the spinose outer part of the hind tarsi is more robust.
The clasps of the genital organ of the male are only moderately
curved at apex and slightly sinuate laterally at about the median
part in A. rusticus, but they curve more abruptly downwards in
A. germari, and they are not sinuate laterally.

The habits of this species are those of the preceding ones. I have
found it also under sand on the sea-shore.

Length 13-16 mm. ; width 8-9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Neighbourhood of Cape Town, Kowie,
Albany).

Anoplochilus variabilis, Gor. and Perch.,
Mon., p. 261, pi. 50, fig. 1.

s/iinitarsis, McLeay, 111. Zool. S. Afr., hi., p. 21, pi. 1.

Colour very variable ; hrick-red on the upper side and black
underneath, brick-red on the upper side with two longitudinal
black patches in the discoidal part of the prothorax, dark olive-
green on the surface only, or totally black ; hairy on the head, but
glabrous on the prothorax and elytra, and with a light fulvous
pubescence on the pectus ; palpi and pedicel of antennae rufescent ;
the maxillary galea is sharply bi-dentate ; clypeus distinctly narrowed
towards the apical part, which is very deeply sinuated, with the outer
angles sharp and reflexed, and the central part of the emargination
slightly bi-dentate in the male, but simple in the female, in which
sex the outer clypeal angles of the clypeus are slightly rounded ;
prothorax covered with deep punctures set closer to each other on
the sides than on the disk ; scutellum punctured laterally but not at
the base; elytra, narrowed behind, plainly pluri-costate in the dorsal
part with the intervals deeply and broadly punctured, almost foveo-
late, and punctate seriate laterally ; pygidium covered with slightly
cicatricose shallow punctures, moderately pubescent ; basal joint of
intermediate tarsi spinose outwardly, that of the hind tarsi pro-

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duced into a hamate, long process, second joint of both tarsi
normal.

Length 15-16 mm. ; width 9-9^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie, Albany).

The colour of the upper surface is very variable, the olive-green
turns often to reddish on the sides of the elytra.

A. odiosus, Gor. and Perch.,
Monog., p. 263, pi. 50, fig. 5.

setosus, McLeay, 111. Zool. S. Afr., iii., p. 21.

maurus, Boh., Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 117.

Black, sprinkled all over with flavescent minute patches filling up
the punctures over which they are sprinkled ; antennae dark chestnut-
brown ; clypeus very narrowed laterally towards the apex, sinuate in
front and with the two outer angles sharp and reflexed in the $ , but
less acute in the 5 , and somewhat hollowed on each side at the
extremity, closely punctate like the head which is only sparsely and
briefly setulose, not pubescent as in the other species ; the galea of the
maxillae is sharply bi-dentate in both sexes, but in the ? — and this
seems to be an exception — the mando or lower lobe has a short but
sharp inner tooth ; prothorax sloping diagonally laterally from the
apex to a third of the length, broadly rounded towards the base,
almost glabrous, deeply and closely punctured, faintly bi-impressed
on each side of the disk, and having a longitudinal, raised, nearly
smooth median line ; scutellum closely punctured, but having a
longitudinal, median impunctate band ; elytra slightly narrower at
the apex than at the base, plainly bi-costate on each side, and covered
with somewhat irregular cicatricose punctures ; pygidium punctate and
having occasionally a sprinkling of small, flavescent macules similar
to those on the elytra ; pectus sparingly pubescent ; basal joint of
intermediate tarsi normal, that of the hind ones produced outwardly
in a somewhat long spine of equal length in both sexes.

Length 12-13 mm. ; width 7-8 mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Eustenburg, Lydenburg, Pretoria, Waterberg
Zoutpansberg), Bechuanaland (Bamoutsa), Ovampoland.

Anoplochilus mashunus, n. sp.

Pemale : Black, moderately shiny, antennae chestnut-brown ; very
closely allied to A. odiosus, and likewise almost glabrous on the head,
prothorax, and elytra ; the clypeus is also narrowed laterally towards
the apex and sinuate there, but the outer angles are more reflexed
and sharper than in the female of A. odiosus, and there is a median

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longitudinal ridge dividing the anterior part into two depressions ;
the prothorax, instead of being sloping laterally from the apex to
about one-third of the length, is ampliated from a short distance
from the apex, and instead of being sprinkled with sub-rlavescent
macules, it has a broad lateral greyish-white band, and a broad patch
of the same substance and colour on each side of the base ; the
sculpture is identical with that of A. odiosus ; the elytra, which have
the same sculpture, are faintly maculated with greyish white in the
dorsal part, but the outer margins are filled with closely set macules,
and the anterior part of the under side of hind coxae, as well as the
sides of the metasternum, are greyish white ; basal hind spur spinose
outwardly as in A. odiosus.

Length 12 mm. ; width 7^ mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Upper Hanyani River).

Anoplochilus (Odontothyrea) figuratus, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., 1857, ii., p. 28.
cinnamoneus, Schoch., Mith. Schw. Ent. Ges., x., 1897, p. 50.
Either quite black, opaque, or black with the upper part light
testaceous, the prothorax when testaceous lias three longitudinal
median black bands and two maculae on each side ; scutellum with
a median elongated, sharply pointed black patch ; elytra numerously
maculated, almost tessellated with black ; pygidium with two large
white patches, frontal part clothed with a light flavescent dense
pubescence, clypeus with the median part produced beyond the
sharply spinose outer angles, and very sharply dentate on each side
of the median arcuate emargination ; palpi and antennae rufescent ;
prothorax moderately briefly pubescent, ampliated diagonally from
the apex to about one-third of the length, and nearly straight
bhence to the base, covered on the upper side with round,
equi-distant setigerous punctures; scutellum sparingly punctate
illy ; elytra slightly narrower behind than at the base, plainly
bi-costate on each side, but with the intervals striate punctate, the
raised interspaces have a few, scattered, briefly setigerous punc-
tures ; pygidium faintly punctate, glabrous ; sides of abdomen and
pectus clothed with a dense, slightly flavescent pubescence ; basal
joint of bind tarsi triangularly produced outwardly.

Length 13^ mm. ; width &$ mm.

This species is easily recognised from among its South African
congeners by the shape of the clypeus, and the two white patches on
the pygidium. The black variety seems to be rarer.

Hab. Transvaal ^Kustenlairg.Potchefstroom, Pretoria, Pietsrsburg).

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Anoplochilus (Diathermus) globosus, Schoch.,
Mith. Schw. Entomol. Gesels, 1897, p. 55.

Black, the upper side light testaceous, or completely black, opaque
in both cases; when the upper part is testaceous the prothorax has
three somewhat broad and entire fuscous discoidal bands, the scutel-
lum has a median longitudinal black band, and is edged with black ;
the elytra are tessellated more or less regularly with fuscous, and the
black pygidium is concolorous ; this species is somewhat closely allied
to A. figuratus, Boh., but it differs in the following points : the teeth
of the quadri-dentate clypeus are in a line along the anterior margin,
instead of the two median ones projecting considerably from the base
beyond the two sub-lateral ones, as in A. figuratus ; the prothorax is
much more densely pubescent, the pubescence being longer and very
flavescent, and the punctures are very much deeper and much more
closely set ; elytra slightly narrower behind than at the base, pluri-
costate on the dorsal part, and plainly punctate striate laterally ;
pygidium irregularly punctate ; sides of abdomen clothed with a
moderately dense fulvescent pubescence which is very thick on the
pectus ; the basal joint of the anterior tarsi is plainly triangular in
both sexes, but the upper angle does not project as much as in
A. figuratus, in which species the length is, however, very variable.
The shape of the genitalia of the male differs considerably in each
species.

Length 13i-14| mm. ; width 8^-9 mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

Anoplochilus (Sisyraphora) tomentosus, Gor. and Perch.,
Monogr. p. 266, pi. 51, fig. 5.

Black, covered all over with a thick pile of golden-yellow pubes-
cence hiding completely the teguments ; antennae chestnut-brown ;
mando of maxillae strongly hamate ; clypeus parallel, rounded
laterally in the anterior part with the anterior margin deeply sinuate
and simple ; prothorax normally attenuated diagonally laterally in
the anterior part and deeply and closely punctate ; scutellum and
elytra of the normal shape, very little narrower at apex than at base,
distinctly bi-costate on each side ; pygidium, with two small denuded
patches in the centre, and occasionally also on the sides, but the
number of patches varies a good deal ; legs as hairy as the body ;
basal joint of hind tarsi not sharply angular laterally.

The shape of the genital clasps of the g greatly approximates to
that of A. odiosus.

Is found on flowers, especially Compositae.

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This species appears to be very abundant where it occurs ; it is
distributed over Natal, the Orange River Colony, and the Trans-
vaal. In the Cape Colony it is met with in the Eastern Provinces
only.

Length 12-13* mm. ; width 8-8£ mm.

GORAQUA, n. gen.

Male: Facies moderately robust, clypeus Bub-parallel but arcuate
laterally towards the apex the margin of which is narrowly sinuate
in the centre ; mentum long, sub-parallel, sinuate at apex, the labial
palps inserted near the apex, maxillae slender, the lobes inermous,
upper one surmounted by a long pencil of hairs ; prothorax sub-
trapezoidal, deeply arcuate above the scutellum ; elytra shaped as in
Atrichelapkims and Elaphinis, and thus less short and less robust
than in Anoplochilus, bi-costulate on each side with the intervals
slightly striolate, but the striae not geminate ; anterior tibiae tri-
dentate (?) in the manner of Anoplochilus ; the two basal joints of
hind tarsi triangular, the basal one shorter than the second, but not
spinose outwardly, sternal process broadly arcuate, not projecting
much beyond the coxae, and with a plain longitudinal groove.

Intermediate in form between Atrichclaphinis, the buccal organs
and the mode of sculpture of the elytra of which are similar, and
Sisyraplwra, but differing from the latter in the non-dentate lobes of
the maxillae, and the less robust body.

GORAQUA SMITHSANA, n. Sp.

Female : Black, with the elytra fiavous testaceous, under side with
a somewhat metallic sheen, upper side opaque ; club of antennae
sub -rufescent. Head, with the exception of the clypeus and prothorax
very densely villose, the villosity light flavescent, decumbent in the
only example I have as yet seen, the whole disk covered with punc-
tures, but the arcuate part of the l>ase above the scutellum is broadly
impunctate, and therefore bare; scutellum impunctate, except along
the basal margin where there are a few briefly setigerous punctures;
epimera as densely rlavous pubescent as the prothorax ; elytra deeply
sinuate laterally, very little attenuate behind, hi-costate on each side
with the apical part of the suture sharp, but not acuminate, the
fiavous testaceous background is tessellated with black ; pygidium
covered with light yellow hairs not sufficiently dense, however, to
hide the black background ; sides of the abdomen and the whole
pectus clothed with dense, long fiavous testaceous hairs, except along

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the median part which is grooved longitudinally ; anterior tibiae tri-
dentate, the upper tooth small, but very distinct.

Length 12 mm. ; width 7 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Lady smith).

Gen. TKICHOSTETHA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., hi., 1842, p. 398.

Mentum very broadly dilated laterally from the median part to the
apex which is almost bi-lobate, each lobe being broadly rounded,
palps cavity narrow, shallow ; maxillae broad, robust, inner lobe
simple, densely hairy, upper lobe narrow, styliform, coated with
long, dense hairs; last joint of palpi nearly cylindrical; clypeus
parallel, if seen from above, and plainly carinate laterally, anterior
margin not carinate, broadly but not deeply scooped out in the
centre with the angles moderately rounded ; antennal club not quite
as long as the pedicel in the $ ; clypeus sub-parallel and carinate
laterally but with the lower margin slightly ampliate ; the anterior
margin is not reflexed and is broadly but not deeply scooped;
prothorax sub-trapezoid, base arcuate above the scutellum which
is long, sharply acuminate, and very distinctly grooved laterally ;
elytra broader than the prothorax at the base, moderately attenuate
behind, strongly sinuate laterally, and having on each side a dorsal
costa beginning at the strong humeral callus and reaching to a
short distance from, or to half the length ; sternal process
broad, transverse, or slightly arcuate, projecting somewhat beyond
the coxae ; anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate outwardly, intermediate
bi-dentate on the upper side, posterior uni-dentate ; tarsi somewhat
short, joints triangularly elongated and angular outwardly in both
sexes, but less so in the S than in the ? .

The species included in this genus are strictly South African. One
species (T. fascicularis) ranges from Cape Town to Natal and the
Transvaal, and will probably be found in the South African area
wherever Protcea grow. The larvae of another species {T. capensis)
are found under the base of the small mounds made by the white
ant (Termcs latericius), and are commonly found there in company
with the large grubs of the Dynastid Pseudocyphonistes comiculatus ;
they both feed on the material the mound is made of.

This is the only genus in the Sub-Family Cetonini known to
me in which the humeral callus is continued as a supra-lateral
costa.

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Key to the Species.

k". Each elytron with only one humeral costa.

B2. Upper part of abdominal segments with fascicles of
long, dense hairs.

C3. Prothorax black, shiny, with four white longi-
tudinal lines.

Elytra opaque, green or olivaceous, concolorous. . fascictdaris.

Elytra opaque, prune, sparsely albo-punctate . . var. prunipewmis.

Elytra opaque, dark bottle-green splashed with

more or less numerous white patches and dots . . var. natalensis.

A'. Each elytron with two costffi.

B'. Upper part of abdominal segments densely pubescent.

a-. The dorsal costa very feebly indicated.

C=. Prothorax and elytra with numerous sub-seriate
white macules.

Upper side fleshy red capensift.

Upper side black, elytra with an elongated
reddish dorsal patch bicolor.

a1. The dorsal costa entire, well defined.

Upper side black ; prothorax and elytra with
numerous sub-seriate white macules . . . . albopicta.

C. Thorax black, reddish in the centre, marginated
with white; elytra light testaceous with the
suture, the humeral costa and the hind callus
fuscous signata.

Trichostetha fascicularis, Linn.,
System. Natur., i., 2, p. 557;
Gor. and Perch., Monogr., p. 255, pi. 48, fig. G.
Var. prtimpennis, Burm., Handb. d. Entomol., iii., p. 400.
Var. natalis, Burm., loc. cit., p. 401.

Type. Black, shiny on the upper and under sides but the elytra
are opaque green or greenish olivaceous without any traces of white
macules ; on the prothorax are four white longitudinal lines, the
under side is almost completely clothed with long, sub-appressed
fulvo-fiavescent hairs which are disposed in fascicles on the epimera
ami along tin' edge of the dorsal part of the abdominal segments;
the pygidium bears also three long fascicles ; clypeus with a
longitudinal impression on each side, and like the head sparsely
punctulate ; palps and antenna' black ; prothorax glabrous, very
weakly punctulate ; scutellum impunctate ; an opaque tomentum

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hides the sculpture of the elytra, which seem to be weakly striolate
in the neighbourhood of the suture, the humeral costa reaches only
to about one-fourth of the length, and there are no traces of a
discoidal one ; the legs are shiny and sparingly punctate.

This type form seems restricted to tbe extreme part of the South-
western Districts of the Cape Colony.

Var. prunipennis. Like the type, but the elytra and pygidium
are opaque, roseate brown with a short marginal white line along
the humeral part, and a few white dots, they are sometimes
sub-seriate, in the anterior dorsal part.

This variety occurs in Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Frere) ; Trans-
vaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg, Pretoria).

Var. natalis. Like the var. prunipennis, but in addition to the
four longitudinal white bands of the prothorax there is occasionally
a central median very short line or elongated spots, the elytra are
opaque, dark bottle-green and splashed all over with white macules ;
some examples have no traces of a central line on the prothorax, and
are only sparingly splashed with white punctures.

Burmeister described this variety as having been captured by
Drege in Natal. My examples are from Victoria West and
Dordrecht, in the Cape Colony.

Length 21-25 mm. ; width 13-15 mm.

Trichostetha capensis, Linn.,

Plate XLIIL, fig. 15.

Syst. Nat., i., 2, p. 556 ;
Gory and Perch., Monogr. p. 257, pi. 49, fig. 2.

albopunctata, de Geer., Mem. Ins., vii., p. 640, pi. 48, fig. 2.

barbatula, Voet., Col., L, p. 12, pi. 2, fig. 11 ; Herbst., Kaf., hi.,
p. 259, pi. 32, fig. 7.

Var. fuscorubra, Voet., Col., i., p. 12, pi. 2, fig. 12 ; Herbst, Kaf.,
p. 245, pi. 30, fig. 12.

hirsuta, McLeay, 111. Zool. Afric, hi., p. 46.

Jwttentota, Gor. and Perch., Monogr., p. 62.

oculata, McLeay, loc. cit., p. 46.

Black, opaque on the upper side, shiny underneath ; the prothorax
is rufescent in the centre, fuscous on the sides, and has there
three more or less regular series of white macules and a row of
white dots in the red central part ; the scutellum has a lateral basal
white band or several dots on each side ; the elytra are brownish red
and ornamented with numerous, more or less seriate white macules,
but the suture is always fuscous, the pygidium is also maculated

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with white ; the brownish-red indumentum is opaque. Clypeus
glabrous, deeply punctulate, the punctures not closely set, frontal
part clothed with a fairly long ashy-grey pubescence ; the prothorax
is moderately closely punctulate, and the punctures, although hidden
by the opaque indumentum, bear each a long greyish or whitish
seta ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra with the humeral costa reaching
to about the median part, and having also a dorsal one reaching
slightly further down, this dorsal costa is oftener than not nearly
obliterated, the intervals are tilled with numerous, shallow sub-
seriaie punctures, all the dorsal ones of which bear a long erect
greyish or whitish seta ; pygidium with a long greyish or whitish
pubescence; pectus, edge of the dorsal part of abdomen, and also the
sides of the ventral part clothed with a long greyish or greyish-white
pubescence ; legs and under side shiny.

The opaque indumentum, the white markings, especially those on
the elytra, and the dorsal setae are very often partly rubbed off
(T. oculata, hottentota, fusco-r libra). These examples are then very
different from the newly emerged imagoes.

Length 16-19 mm. ; width 9-10 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury,
Worcester, Ceres, Caledon).

Tkichostetha bicolok, n. sp.

Black, opaque on the upper side, but having on each elytron an
elongated brownish-red band extending from the base to about the
median part, and situated between the humeral costa and the
slightly raised dorsal one ; the thorax, elytra, and pygidium are
splashed with white dots and macules as in T. capensis, with which
it might be easily confounded, except for the constant rufescent
patch on the elytra. The shape of the genital clasps of the male
differs, however, considerably from that of T. albopicta, signata, and
cape us is, in not being acuminate or attenuate at apex, but almost
truncate there.

Length 18-19 mm. ; width 10-11 mm.

This species has only been met with, to my knowledge, in the
neighbourhood of Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town.

Tmchostetha albopicta, Gor. and Perch.,

Plate XLIIL, fig. 12.

^lonogr. d. Get., p. 256, pi. 49, fig. 1.

This species might be taken for a black variety of T. capensis,
but the shape of the genitalia of the male is different. Black,

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clothed laterally and underneath with a dense fulvous pubescence ;
the prothorax has a narrow lateral white band, and two dorsal rows
of white elongated macules situated in three hollow elongated im-
pressions, there are occasionally three or four other small macules
filling also each an impression ; scutellum immaculate ; elytra
splashed with numerous white, seriate dots and macules; pygidium
with a divided, larger white patch on each side. The upper side is
not opaque, the head and prothorax are glabrous and punctulate ;
the elytra have in the intervals series of very remote upright setae,
the humeral costa reach the median part, and the dorsal one is plainly
continued on each side so as to coalesce with the posterior callus.

Length 16-17 mm. ; width 9i-10 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Knysna, Eiversdale).

Trichostetha signata, Fabr.,

Plate XLIIL, tig. 13.

Syst. Ent. App., p. 818;
Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 258, pi. 49, fig. 3.

This species closely approximates rubbed examples of T. capensis,
but the genital armature of the male differs considerably in shape.
The head and prothorax are black and shiny, the latter has a
narrow median reddish band, often reduced to a triangular reddish
patch above the base, and a non-interrupted narrow white band along
the lateral margin, both head and prothorax are glabrous, and the
latter is very distinctly punctate laterally ; scutellum black ; elytra
bright sienna-brown with the suture, the humeral costa, and the
hind callus infuscate, they are opaque, indistinctly punctulate, the
humeral costa reaches to about the median part, but the posterior
callus is elongated, the dorsal costa is almost obliterated in the
posterior part, and there are a few setae in the first and second
intervals ; the pygidium is pubescent and has four longitudinal
flavescent- white macules, the pectus and sides of abdomen are clothed
with a dense fulvous pubescence. In some examples the elytra have
a narrow sub-flavescent marginal band in the rounded posterior part.

Length 19-22 mm. ; width 101-12 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Knysna, Mossel Bay, Eiversdale, Willowmore,
Tulbagh).

Gen. ODONTORRHINA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., hi., 1842, p. 396.
Mentum slightly longer than broad, contracted laterally (imhescens),
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mentum, deeply emarginate or almost incised in front; maxillae
robust, inermous, mando setose, upper lobe triangular, densely
pubescent outwardly, last joint of palps sub-cylindrical, blunted at
tip, clypeus slightly longer than the head, strongly parabolic,
anterior margin bi- or quadri-dentate ; prothorax narrowed laterally
in the anterior part, straight thence to the base which is sinuate on
each side, and arcuate above the scutellum which is sharply
acuminate ; elytra massive, more or less distinctly bi-costate on
each side, narrower at apex than at base, and covering only one-
half of the propygidium; pygidium sub-vertical; mesosternal process
projecting beyond the coxae in a moderately elongate triangular
arcuate process ; legs robust, anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate
outwardly, intermediate ones with two sharp teeth, basal joint of
hind tarsi not angular laterally in the male the antennal club of
which is nearly as long as the whole pedicel.

The genus is restricted to the South-Western part of the Cape
Colony.

The two massive species included in this genus belong plainly, in
spite of the conformation of the basal joint of the hind tarsi of the
male, to the Goliathites.

Westerman states that he has found 0. jiubescens under dry cow-
dung. Both 0. pubescens and 0. hispida fly round such places
where cattle congregate, very much in the manner of a Scarabaus
searching its provender, but they have not been detected, to my
knowledge, in either the fresh or the dry cow-dung.

Key to the Species.

Clypeus sharply quadri-dentate in front: body densely hairy above

and underneath hispida.

Olypeus bi-dentate in front, briefly pubescent above, and densely
underneath pubescens.

Odontokrhina hispida, Oliv.,

Ent., i., 6, p. 90, pi. 12, fig. 113;
Gor. and Perch., Mon., p. 260, pi. 49, fig. 5.

hirsuta, Thunb., Mem. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 412.
pubescens, var., Illig. Mag., vi., p. 303.

Bronze, moderately shiny, clothed on the whole upper side with a
long light fulvous pubescence, prothorax with a somewhat wide
white lateral margin stopping at the base ; clypeus parabolic
Laterally, sharply angular at apex, and with the narrowed anterior
margin produced into four horizontal teeth the two median ones of

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which are longer than the others ; prothorax covered with small but
deep round setigerous punctures divided by an interval slightly
narrower than their own diameter ; scutellum punctate, hirtose
laterally, the apical acuminate part is smooth ; elytra very little
narrower at apex than at base, and having on each side two
discoidal costse, the second one being, however, almost obliterated,
and covered with shallow but somewhat broad cicatricose impres-
sions forming a slight network ; pygidium similarly sculptured ;
abdomen covered with deep, round setigerous punctures ; pectus
very densely villose ; anterior tibiae sharply tri-dentate outwardly ;
basal joint of hind tarsi nodose, not sharply angular outwardly.

Length 18 mm. width 11 mm.

Hab. Neighbourhood of Cape Town.

Odontokrhina pubescens, Oliv.,

Ent., i., 6, p. 21, pi. 11, fig. 100;
Gory and Perch., Mon., p. 259, pi. 49, fig. 4.

cicatricosa, Wied., Zool. Mag., ii., 1, p. 84.
pubera, Thunb., Mem. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 420.

Bronze-green, with the humeral part of the elytra darker bronze,
or the whole surface is totally bronze with the margins of the
prothorax and the legs bright green ; clypeus parabolic laterally
from the base to the anterior margin which is also rounded laterally,
incised at the apex and with each angle of the incision produced into
two small, slightly reflexed teeth ; prothorax similar to that of
0. hispida and similarly sculptured, but the pubescence which, like
that on the head, is much shorter, is flavescent, and along the outer
margin there is a narrow white line ; the median apical part of the
scutellum is impunctate ; elytra narrower at apex than at base, very
faintly costulate, covered with deep, round punctures bearing each a
somewhat flavescent hair, these punctures are separated by a raised
wall, and as they are broader than in 0. hispida, the pubescence is
therefore much less dense ; pygidium somewhat densely hairy,
irregularly cicatricose punctate, and having on each side a
moderately large white patch and occasionally a transverse white
line along the base, but these markings are oftener than not entirely
obliterated ; the penultimate abdominal segment has a small white
patch on each side, and the lower outer face of the intermediate and
hind femora is white.

Length 18-22 mm. ; width 11-14 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Paarl, Malmesbury, Namaqualand).

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smaller and more bronzy on the upper side ; the pubescence on the
prothorax is also sparer and at times completely obliterated, but
the shape of the genital clasps is the same in both varieties.

Sub-Tribe CETONITES.

In this Sub-Tribe are included all the Cetoninous insects, the
facies of which is somewhat elongated, and usually plane or depressed
above, and in which the elytra when striate have the striae simply
punctate, or geminate without punctures and reaching from base
to apex; the basal joint of hind tarsi is obtuse at apex or sub-
nodose.

While the first group of this section, the Ischnostomii, have very
distinct characters separating them from the others, the Cerator-
rhinii, Heterorrhinii, Uymnctii, Pachnodii, Elaphinii, Porphyronotii,
and Diplognathii merge into one another in such a manner that it is
impossible to define them except by purely arbitrary characters.

Key to the Genera.
A-. Body plane in the $ , convex and massive in the ? .

B. Basal joint of hind tarsi as long as the second or
shorter ; inner hind spur of the ? spatuliform.

C. Antennal cluh of <? as long as or longer than the

pedicel Ischnostomii.

D. Clypeus much longer than the head in both
sexes.

E-. Sternal process not projecting beyond the
coxse.

F-. Base of prothorax not arcuate above
the scutellum.

Frontal part not divided from the

clypeus by a transverse ridge .. .. Ischnostoma.

Frontal part divided from the clypeus

by a transverse ridge Gariep.

F'. Base of prothorax arcuate above the
scutellum.

Clypeus not longer than the head and

simple in both sexes Heteroclita.

\ . Body plane in both sexes.

B. Basal joint of hind tarsi shorter than the second; inner
hind spur of the ? not spatulatr.

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C. Antennal club of <s not as long as the pedicel.

D6. Outer angles of clypeus sharply dentate, the
centre of the anterior margin produced into
a recurved bi- or tri-fid horn in the <s . . . . Ceratorrhinii.

E. Sternal process strongly projecting beyond
the coxae.

P. Base of prothorax sinuate or arcuate
above the scutellum.

a2. Scutellum not grooved laterally.

b-. Head of j with two hamate teeth
near the vertex.

c-. Apical joint of fore tarsi pubescent
underneath in the <? .

d-. Inner part of anterior tibise den-
ticulate in the s .

Mesosternal process horizontal, tri-
angularly produced, inner maxillary
lobe simple, upper lobe styliform,
not hooked at tip in either sex . . Dicranorrhina.

Mesosternal process truncate at
apex, maxillary lobes simple in
both sexes Rumania.

d1. Inner part of anterior tibise of i not
denticulate.

Mesosternal process bluntly round-
ed at apex, both maxillary lobes
hamate, more strongly so in the ?
than in the <? ; basal anterior tibise
densely pubescent in the s from the
base to half the length Cheirolasia.

C1. Apical joint of fore tarsi not pubescent under-
neath in the $ .

Mesosternal process arcuate at apex, maxillary
lobes simple in the $ , upper one strongly hamate
in the ? Amaurodes.

a1. Scutellum grooved laterally.

b'. Head of <? without hamate teeth near the

vertex.

c2. Apical joint of anterior tibise glabrous under-
neath in the s •

Mesosternal process horizontal, triangularly
produced ; maxillary lobes simple in the <r ,
upper one strongly hamate in the ? . , . . Etidicellu.

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Mesosternal process arcuate at apex, maxillary
lobes simple in both sexes; anterior tibia in-
cised at the base, and femora strongly hamate
in the i Neptunides.

d'. Inner part of anterior tibiae not denticulate

in the g .

Mesosternal process long, laminate, slightly
reflexed at tip ; inner lobe of maxillae dentate
in the <? , both hamate in the ? Ccelorrhina.

Mesosternal process laminiform, triangularly

acuminate, slightly reflexed at tip Stephanorrhina.

1) . Clypeus sub-parallel in the <j , the centre of
the anterior margin produced in the £ into a
hi- or tri-fid. horn, occasionally reflexed and
laminate, or simple (Hetekoiuuiimi.

E-. Sternal process strongly projecting beyond
the coxae.

F2. Base of prothorax sinuate or arcuate
above the scutellum.

a-. Scutellum grooved laterally.

b-. Head simple in either sex.

Mesosternal process with an orbicu-
lar or sub-orbicular suture ; inner
lobe of maxillae simple, upper one
truncate at apex and concave in-
wardly ; hind femora strongly deve-
loped, dentate at base in the 3 . . Eccoptocnemis.

Mesosternal process very short, tri-
angular, both maxillary lobes simple
in either sex Scythropesthes.

Mesosternal process long, broadly
triangular, slightly slanting down-
wards Inhambanc.

bl. Head of J simple or provided with
two sub-porrect or porrect horns in
the<j .

Mesosternal process long, slender
and st rongly recurred at apes ; inner
lobe of maxilla' hamate, upper one
sharply bi-hamate Melinesthes.

Inner lobe of maxilla- with a hamate
tooth, upper lobe mucronate only
in both sexes. Head of J with an
horizontal basal horn overlying the
centre of the clypeus, the anterior
margin of which is reflexed into a
laminate process Genyodonta.

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a1. Scutellum not grooved laterally.

61. Clypeus of s and occasionally of ?
with a basal median horizontal tooth
or lamina not reaching the apex.

c2. Scutellum longer than broad, very
sharp at tip.

Mesosternal process strongly re-
curved at apex ; inner lobe of
maxillae with a distinct hook . . Isandula.

b". Clypeus of s simple as in the ? .

d=. Sternal process long, aculeate not
recurved

Inner lobe of maxillae simple,
upper lobe long, sub-falcate ; elytra
plainly costulate Ptychodesthes.

d-. Sternal process short, bluntly acu-
leate.

Maxillary lobes simple in both
sexes ; clypeus deeply incised late-
rally at base, outer angles broadly
rounded, fore margin broadly
emarginate Raceloma.

c1. Scutellum almost as broad as long,
sharp at tip.

d\ Sternal process long, strongly re-
curved.

Inner lobe of maxillae simple, upper
lobe strongly hamate, head with a
short carina ending in a tooth in
the centre of the clypeus . . . . Taniesthes.

Inner lobe of maxillae simple, upper
lobe acuminate, head simple in both
sexes Plcesiorrhina

E'. Sternal process not projecting beyond the
coxae.

F1. Base of prothorax straight above the
scutellum.

a. Scutellum elongated, sharply tri-
angular.

Clypeus simple ; truncate at apex with
the margin reflexed ; elytra pluri-
costate ; livery black with fulvous or
whitish patches on the prothorax, and
a white margin on the elytra . . . . Mazoe.
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!>'. Clypeus strongly uttonuated in front, simple
in both sexes. Sternal process long, mode-
rately long or sub-obtuse Schizorrhinii.

G2. Intervals of elytra punctate or
seriate punctate.

a. Maxillary lobes inermous, upper
one with a long pencil of hairs.

F3. Base of prothorax strongly arcuate
above the scutellum.

a2. Scutellum sharply acuminate at

apex, grooved laterally Schizorrhiua.

Outer angles of clypeus sharply
produced beyond the fore margin.

Sternal process long, incurved,

body glabrous Gnatliocera .

Sternal process projecting but
little beyond the coxse, body
villose Oiiathocerida.

a'. Scutellum little acuminate at tip,
not grooved laterally.

Anterior margin of prothorax

slightly tectiform in the centre ;

body very plane, elytra not ■

costate, anterior tibiae tri-den-

tate Gametis.

F2. Base of prothorax straight above scu-
tellum.

Anterior margin of prothorax simple ;
elytra slightly or not costate, anterior
tibia? bi-dentate Cosmiopluzna.

F'. Base of prothorax produced triangu-
larly above the scutellum so as to
cover part or the whole of it . . Gymnetii.

a-. Base of prothorax covering the
base only of the scutellum.

Anterior margin of clypeus not
reflexed ; sternal process hardly
projecting beyond the coxae . . Discopeltis.

a'. Base of prothorax covering the
whole of the scutellum.

Anterior margin of clypeus not
reflexed; sternal process long,
strongly incurved Amazula.

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Anterior angles of clypeus re-
flexed ; sternal process very long,
slightly slanting downwards and
obliquely truncate at tip . . . . Stethosdema.

Anterior margin of clypeus not
flexed, sternal process short, sharp-
ly acuminate Pseudoclinteria .

\ Clypeus slightly attenuate in front, simple in
both sexes ; median part of fore margin of
prothorax raised or sub-tuberculate . . . . Pachnodii.

F1. Prothorax arcuate above the scutellum.

G°. Intervals of elytra not deeply striate
punctate.

a-. Maxillary upper lobe dentate.

Anterior tibiae of <? uni-dentate,
fore margin of clypeus plainly
reflexed; sternal process blunt . . Atrichia.

Anterior tibiae of j uni-dentate,
fore margin of clypeus simple,
sternal process short, obtuse . . Pachnoda.

Anterior tibiae of <? uni-dentate,
fore margin of clypeus simple,
sternal process sub-porrect, elon-
gated Rliabdotis.

G1. Intervals of elytra each with two
geminate, impunctate striae.

a1. Maxillary lobes inermous, upper
one with a long pencil of hairs.

Base of prothorax very slightly
sinuate above the scutellum ;
elytra bi-costate, suture sharp,
but not projecting much . . . . Elaphinis.

-. Base of prothorax arcuate above the scutel-
lum ; body depressed ; dorsal intervals of
elytra geminate, striate Porphyronotii.

a-. Maxillary lobes simple, penicillate.

Suture of elytra very sharp and strongly
projecting, upper side of hindtibise uni-
dentate Niphetophora.

a1. Maxillary lobes dentate.

Body depressed, suture of elytra sharp but
not projecting, upper side of hind tibiae
pluri-spinose Poiphyranota.

Angles of clypeus recurved, dentate ;

angles of clypeus not recurved Chirinda,

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D1. Clypeus carinate laterally, the angles sharply
angular or projecting considerably beyond the
anterior margin Diplognathii.

a. Maxillae strongly dentate.

Anterior angles of clypeus very sharply
angular ; elytra neither costate nor striate ;
sternal process acuminate Diplognatlui.

Anterior angles of clypeus projecting far
beyond the anterior margin ; elytra pluri-
costate, sternal process strongly aculeate. . Apocnosis.

Gkoup ISCHNOSTOMII.
This Group includes soberly clad insects, differing from the
Ceratorrhinii in the absence of a long projecting sternal process,
the metasternum merely penetrating the apex of the intermediate
coxae, or bluntly triangular there ; the shape of the clypeus is very
singular in some of the males, in which sex the antennal club is
much longer than in the female, and in some cases (Gariep) as
much developed as in any South African Pachypodin/i. The very
strongly spatulated shape of the upper spur of the hind tibiae in
the 2 plainly implies a mode of life akin to the representatives of
that Sub-Family. That in the adult stage they feed only on semi-
liquid matter is proved by the shape of the maxillae. Except for one
species met with in Central Africa, representatives of this Group are,
so far as now known, restricted to South Africa.

Gen. ISCHNOSTOMA, Gory and Percheron,

Monogr. d. Cet., 1833, p. 42.

Mentum ovoid, concave, ligular part parallel, nearly half the
length of the mentum, scooped laterally along almost its whole
length for the reception of the labial palpi which are inserted at
the apex, and sub-arcuate in front ; labial palps as long as the
three apical maxillary ; maxillae very slender, upper lobe very
narrow, twice as long as broad, and with a long pencil of black
hairs at tip; maxillary palps extremely long; the mentum and
maxillae are clothed with very long, black hairs; clypeus of J
longer than the head and differently shaped, that of the $ very
elongated, deeply emarginate at apex, canthus of the eyes horizontal
and spinose ; antennae long, club as long or longer than the pedicel
and laminiform in the $ , shorter and oblong in the $ ; prothorax of
the S diagonally attenuate laterally in front, straight from near the

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median part to the outer basal angle which covers part of the some-
what narrowed and vertical mesothoracic epimera, base very slightly
arcuate ; the surface is nearly plane ; in the 5 the prothorax is
broader than long, more ampliate rounded laterally and thus leaving
the mesothoracic epimera uncovered, the base is slightly bi-sinuate ;
scutellum very long and very sharp ; elytra sub-parallel in the $ ,
plane and as broad as long in both sexes, but more ampliated behind
in the ? ; pygidium vertical ; legs slender with the tarsi as long as
the tibiae in the $ , slightly shorter in the ? ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate
outwardly in the $ with sometimes a small trace of a third upper
tooth, tri-dentate in the $ ; in that sex the terminal part of the hind
tibiae is dilated, and the upper hind spur is broadly spatulate, while
in the $ that terminal part is somewhat slender and the two spurs
are long and sharp ; mesosternum with a small process between the
coxae, this process is sub-vertical (I. rostrata) or sloping and not
well denned (I. cuspidata, I. nasuta).

It seems that the insects included in this genus live on fresh
excrements of herbivorous animals. They are, however, found also
on trees in flower. Female examples are very rare, and that they
are powerful burrowers is proven by their spatuliform hind spurs.
I am of opinion that in the larval stage some live in the detritus
heaps of termitaria. The synonymy of the described species of this
singular genus, which does not seem to have any ally outside the
South African Sub-Kegion, is very complicated. Three undoubtedly
different species are known to me, and one described by Burmeister
would appear also to be a valid one.

Key to the Species (3 $ ).

A2. Clypeus much longer than the head ; antennal club very
long.

B2. Black, with the prothorax and elytra marginated with
white.

Antennal club very much longer than the pedicel ;
clypeus deeply bi-incised laterally at base, acuminate
and truncate at apex ; two white patches on the
pygidium cuspidata.

Antennal club not much longer than the pedicel,
clypeus parallel for two-thirds of the length, incised
there and contracted thence into a peduncle expand-
ing at apex into a strongly hamate projection on each
side ; no white patches on the pygidium rostrata.

B'. Black, with the elytra pale testaceous.

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Antennal club much longer than the pedicel ; clypeus
parallel for two-thirds of the length, incised and con-
tracted thence into a triangular process strongly
hamate on each side ; no white patches on pygidium nasuta.

A'. Clypeus moderately long ; antennal club also moderately
long.

Clypeus not incised laterally luridipennis.

Key to the Species ( ? ? ) •
Elytra black.

Clypeus short, quadrate, sharply incised at apex cuspidata.

Clypeus long, sub-oblong, deeply sinuate at apex rostrata.

Elytra testaceous yellow.

Clypeus long, sub-parallel, truncate at apex, and incised in

the centre nasuta.

ISCHNOSTOMA CUSPIDATA, Filbl.,

Ent. Syst., i., 2, p. 129.

3 albomarginata, Herbst., Kiif., iii., p. 174, pi. 27, fig. 8.
J erythropus, Lin., Ed. Gmel., i., 4, p. 1581.

4 pica, McLeay, Illus. Zool. S. Afric, 1849, p. 44, pi. i.

$ albomaculata, Gor. and Perch., Mon. Cet., p. 302, pi. 58, tig. 5.

J tristis, Sch., Ann. Fi\, 1844, p. 393.

? heteroclita, G. and Perch., Mon. Cet., p. 303, pi. 58, tig. 6.

J rufipes, Fab., Mant., i., p. 27.

? cordata, Fabr., Ent. Syst., i., 2, p. 129.

? lundi, Lin., Ed. Gmel., i., 4, p. 1581.

? nobilis, Fab., Mant. Ins., i., p. 27.

? spatulvpes, McLeay, 111. Zool. S. Afric, 1849, p. 44, pi. 1.

Male: Black, opaque, outer margin of prothorax and elytra having
a narrow white band ; pygidium with two apical, small white patches ;
clypeus four times as long as the head, strongly and highly carinate
above the insertion of the antenna?, and strongly sinuate there, deeply
and broadly incised laterally at about one-third of the length, with the
lateral basal part of bhe incision produced into a short longitudinal
spine, triangularly ampliated beyond the incision and acuminate
thence to the apex where it is truncate and slightly sinuate and as
broad there as in the incised part ; this is the typical form, but in the
lesser development the lateral part of the retiexed margin of the
clypeus is only slightly bi-sinuate, and slightly angular at about
one-third of the length [heteroclita, G. and P.) or only a little longer
than broad, merely sinuate and slightly less narrowed towards the

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apex (albomaculata, G. and P. nee. ~H.erhsb. = tristis, Sch.) ; the ocular
canthus is horizontal and spiny at apex ; the pedicel of antennae is
also very long, and the antennal club longer and laminate, both the
clypeus and bead are covered with contiguous, elongated, cicatricose
punctures ; prothorax having a slight, median longitudinal impression
in the posterior part, covered with closely set but not contiguous
punctures bearing each a minute black setulose hair becoming more
bristly towards the sides ; scutellum very closely punctate and setu-
lose ; elytra plane, with the suture raised behind, and without any
traces of costules in the majority of cases, but occasionally also
slightly bi- or tri-costulate, faintly punctate, each puncture bearing
a setulose black hair ; pygidium impunctate, pectus and legs briefly
pubescent ; the four fore tibiae are almost glabrous underneath, but
the hind ones are very hirtose.

Female : Unknown to me ; McLeay has figured the female of
this species under the name of I. spatulipes. It certainly closely
resembles that of I. rostrata ; the clypeus is mucb shorter and
quadrate, deeply incised in front.

The three developments of the $ were taken together and at the
same time at Port Elizabeth (Cape Colony) ; at no great distance
from that locality I obtained the typical albomarginata, G. and P., in
which the part of the clypeus following the lateral incision is slightly
shorter and less attenuate towards the apex, and in which the elytra
have narrow white lines in tbe shallow striae.

Length 15^-20 mm. ; width 9-10 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth; Riversdale, Albany).

ISCHNOSTOMA BOSTRATA, Jans.,

Cist. Entom., ii., 1878, p. 299; Aid to Ident. Ins., i., pi. 94.
Male : Black, opaque on the upper side ; margins of prothorax
and elytra with a white band, clypeus not incised laterally, very
long, slightly ampliated laterally, truncate at about two-thirds of its
length, with the outer angles of the truncate part prolonged as a long,
horizontal spine, thence the clypeus is produced as a strongly com-
pressed carinate very narrow lamina expanding at apex into two
narrow mucronate processes somewhat in the shape of an anchor,
both the head and the clypeus are rugose and bear even in the
narrowed part of tbe latter long, black, setulose hairs ; the antennal
club, although very long, is not longer than the pedicel ; the ocular
canthus is as in the preceding species ; the very singular shape of
the clypeus varies also a little, and in the smaller development the
narrow compressed median process is longer in proportion, and tbe

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outer angles of the truncate part, which is then median, are broadly
hamate inwardly ; prothorax shaped as in the preceding species, but
with the outer angles fitting more against the elytra and hiding thus
the greatest part of the mesothoracic epimera which are densely
pubescent, -covered with deep not closely set punctures bearing each
a long, setose black hair ; scutellum not punctate ; elytra plane, only
moderately sinuate laterally, indistinctly bi-costulate, and having
faintly seriate, minute, black bristle-like hairs ; pygidium glabrous,
impunctate and having no white patches ; pectus and legs villose,
the villose hairs black ; mesosternal process distinct, and vertical in
front.

Female : More robust than the male, black, with the elytra having
a faint reddish tinge, there is no marginal white band on the pro-
thorax or on the elytra; the clypeus is nearly twice as long as the
head and is slightly narrower at base than at apex with the outer
angles rounded and the anterior part deeply emarginate ; head and
clypeus deeply punctate ; antennal club somewhat long, ovate ; pro-
thorax sparsely punctate, the punctures setigerous ; elytra plainly
ampliated laterally from the median part, indistinctly costulate and
punctate ; under side almost glabrous, sternal process short, grooved
longitudinally ; anterior tibia^ tri-dentate, upper hind spur broadly
patelliform, racket -like at apex.

Length 17-21 mm. ; width 8$-10£ mm.

Rob. Cape Colony (Fraserburg, Beaufort West).

ISCHNOSTOMA NASUTA, Schaum.,

Plate XLV., fig. 5.

Trans. Entom. Soc, v., 1818, p. 75, pi. 8, fig. 5 $ ;

Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., 18, p. 41.

Male: Black, opaque, with the elytra light testaceous yellow; no
white marking on the prothorax, elytra, or pygidium ; head and pro-
thorax clothed with a long, moderately dense villose flavescent
pubescence; clypeus slightly more than twice as long as the head,
strongly ami broadly constricted laterally a little above the median
part, with the basal outer angles of the constricted part sharply
hamate dentate ; the constricted part which is about one-fourth of the
length expands at apex into a triangular process strongly hamate at
each end, and from the base of the clypeus to the apex there runs a
sharply carinate longitudinal ridge, the ocular canthus is horizontal,
but is not sharply acute, both head and clypeus are sub-foveate
punctate, but the prothorax and the scutellum are only finely

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punctate; elytra plane, slightly sinuate laterally, punctate but with
the punctures very shallow and minutely setulose, the two dorsal
costules are distinct, and the suture raised, the narrow fold of the
elytra is black ; under side moderately densely villose, hind legs also
villose, the hairs black.

Female : Black, the elytra light testaceous yellow with the mar-
ginal fold only narrowly edged with black ; body shorter, more
robust, prothorax and elytra more convex than in the $ ; clypeus
nearly parallel, truncate at apex and incised in the anterior margin
which is strongly reflexed and make thus the anterior part look
concave ; prothorax twice as broad as long, and slightly grooved
longitudinally in the centre, moderately sparsely punctured and
with the pubescence shorter, and probably obliterated in the only
example I have seen ; elytra ampliated in the posterior part ; more
distinctly pitted ; pygidium glabrous, plainly convex at apex and
having there a marginal fringe of black hairs ; legs and pectus
hardly hairy ; hind thighs robust, terminal part of hind tarsi very
broadly dilated ; upper hind spur expanded at apex like a tennis
racket ; anterior tibiae with two long, strong outer teeth and a
smaller but distinct one above the two ; antennas piceous red.

Length 13*-18 mm. ; width 7£-8£ mm.

Hob. British Bechuanaland (Ramoutsa).

ISCHNOSTOMA LURIDIPENNIS, Burm.,

Handb. Entomol., hi., 1842, p. 608.

Male : " Clypeus not much longer than the head, anterior margin
angularly pointed, no lateral incision before the insertion of antennas,
the rest deepened by a raised margin. Clypeus thickly punctate,
hollow, sharply raised and rounded, sharp laterally at end, and
having a blunt angular rise in the centre of the anterior margin ;
prothorax shorter than in the preceding species (I. cuspidata), more
convex, strongly punctate, slightly grooved longitudinally in the
centre, opaque black, like the punctured scutellum ; elytra dirty dull
yellow, moderately raised, somewhat longer than the preceding-
species, and having on each side two weak costae and shallow
scattered punctures ; pygidium opaque ; under side strongly shiny
black, punctate and hairy as in the other species ; legs also just the
same.

Length 5 mm.

Hab. Eastern South Africa."

I have not met with this species.

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GARIEP, n. gen.

Mentum sub-parallel, then incised at about the median part, and
continued as a ligular part also parallel, as long as the mentum, and
deeply sinuate at apex, the condyle is moderately long, sub-lateral,

and the labial palpi are thus inserted on the outer face of the men-
tum, last joint of labial palpi sub-cylindrical and very long ; rnaxilke
not robust, long, inermous, the upper lobe narrow, long, somewhat
oblong and surmounted by a very long, dense, not penicillate pubes-
cence, last joint of maxillary palps slightly swollen inwardly at
base, sub-truncate at tip, and hardly longer than the ultimate labial
one ; clypeus very strongly incised laterally above the base, expand-
ing triangularly to the apex which is truncate, twice as broad there
as at the base, very plainly tri-sinuate with the angles acute, so
deeply concave that the outer anterior side is quite declivous, frontal
part with a very high transverse lamina between the antennas; eyes
very large, canthus very hairy and transverse ; pedicel of antennae
very long, club still longer lamellate and arcuate ( $ ) ; prothorax
ampliated laterally from the apex to the slightly rounded basal angle,
not sinuate along the base which is slightly arcuate, and does not
cover the mesothoracic episterna ; scutellum very long and sharply
acute at tip ; elytra plainly sinuate laterally above the hind coxae, not
attenuate behind, plane ; propygidium slightly concave, vertical ;
mesosternum with a bluntly triangular process between the median
coxae, and separated in the $ from the metasternum by a distinct
suture ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, and with slight traces of
a third one, outer terminal part of median ones bi-dentate, hind ones
also bi-dentate at apex, but having, unlike the median ones, no traces
of a tooth on the upper edge ; fore and median tarsi somewhat long
and slender, hind ones shorter and slightly compressed, hind spurs
(3 ) long and sharp, ( $ ) spatuliform.

I have seen only one female example, which I picked up dead in
Namaqualand ; it has lost all its pubescence, and is partly bleached,
but I have no doubt thai it is the female sex of G. patent ; the clypeus
is rounded laterally in front and not sinuate, at its junction with the
head there is a small transverse carina; the antenna' are missing ;
the ligular part of the mentum is not quite so elongated as in the <? ,
hut the maxilla are identical; the prothorax is alike; the elytra are
more elongated, and plainly ampliated in the posterior part ; the
pygidium is sub-vertical and convex; the terminal part of the hind
tibia are dilated, and the upper hind spur, the only one left in my
example, strongly spatuliform; the process between the intermediate
coxae has no transverse suture.

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The general appearance of this female resembles sufficiently well
the figure of Getonia pimeloides, Gor. and Perch. (Mon.,pl. 50., fig. 2)
to lead me to believe that it will prove to be identical.

The only species included in this genus seems to be crepuscular in
its habits, and is one of the rarest in collections of the South African
Cetonids.

Gariep, patera, Gor. and Perch.,
Monogr. Get., 1833, p. 260, pi. 49, fig. 6.

Male : Black, moderately shiny ; antennae rufescent ; head and
clypeus clothed with a very long flavescent pubescence ; prothorax
also clothed with a very long flavescent pubescence, closely shagreened
and having along the outer margin a somewhat broad, white band ;
mesothoracic epimera very densely pubescent ; scutellum covered
with very closely set punctures from which springs a long, appressed
pubescence ; elytra plane, covered with almost contiguous cicatricose,
irregular, nearly coalescing punctures, and having on each side
two tectiform discoidal costas, they are glabrous, and have on each
side six white patches disposed transversely along the humeral, the
median ani the supra-apical parts ; pygidium with two broad, white
macules ; pectus and anterior and median femora clothed with a
somewhat dense pubescence ; hind tibiae briefly pubescent.

Female : Black, with the elytra and thighs reddish brown ; the
hairy coating is lost in my partly bleached specimen ; the sculpture
of the head and clypeus is like that of the $ , and the clypeus is
divided from the head by a small transverse carina ; the elytra, which
are also like those of the $ , retain still a white patch on the juxta-
sutural costae, corresponding to that seen in the $ .

Length 16-19 mm. ; width 9-11 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand, Calvinia, Willowmore).

Gen. HETEEOCLITA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iii., 1842, p. 604.

Clypeus short, slightly ampliate laterally, plainly narrowed at the
base, rounded in the anterior part and arcuately emarginate there,
the edges raised all round ; mentum very hairy, parallel, elongate,
with the ligular portion sinuate at tip ; the galea moderately large ;
last joint of all palps cylindrical, truncate at tip ; prothorax very
elongate, conspicuously narrowed at apex in the $ , and one-third
broader at the base than long, ampliate and half as long as broad in
the 3 , strongly arcuate emarginate above the scutellum ; clypeus
sharply acuminate ; elytra sub-parallel in the $ , more ampliate

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laterally behind and more convex at apex in the $ ; pygidium vertical
in both sexes ; lateral metasternal process sharply bulging ; meso-
sternal process blunt, not projecting ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate in the
S , tri-dentate in the $ ; legs robust, intermediate and posterior tibiae
sharply dentate on the upper edge, tarsi moderately long in the J ,
shorter and more broadly triangular in the female, basal joint shorter
than the second ; hind spurs sharp in the 3 , compressed and
thickened in the $ .

In the <3 of this genu-;, the antennal club is as long and as curved
as in the genus Garicp, but the shape of the head and of the last
joint of palpi is different ; the facics is also different ; the basal joint
of the hind tarsi is shorter than the second, and much more sharply
angular outwardly in the manner of Rhinocata ; the 2 is not unlike
a 2 Ischnostoma, but the clypeus is similar to that of Rhinocata
cornuta.

Heteroclita haworthi, Gory and Perch.,
Monogr., p. 265, pi. 51, fig. 2 $ .

H. pinicloidcs, Gor. and Perch., loc. cit., p. 262, pi. 50, fig. 2.

Black, with the elytra testaceous, but with a sutural and marginal
narrow infuscate hand in the <? , testaceous and infuscate in the ? ;
antennal club chestnut-brown.

Male : Head and prothorax, mesothoracic epimera, pectus and legs
clothed with a somewhat dense and long fiavescent pubescence ;
clypeus and head closely punctate, vertex with a small conical projec-
tion ; prothorax sub-triangular, sinuate laterally past the median
part, moderately rounded above the metasternal epimera, arcuate
above the scutellum which is very long and triangular, and coarsely
punctate at base, outer margin serrulate ; elytra glabrous, somewhat
elongate, deeply sinuate laterally, plainly bi-costate on each side and
haying faintly seriate, almost obliterated punctures on the whole
surface ; the suture is sub-carinate on the median dorsal part ;
pygidium impunctate, apical margin of first segment with a fringe of
long hairs.

Female : Head as in the male, but glabrous; the conical projection
on the vertex is blunter; prothorax glabrous, except along the serrate
margin, which is briefly ciliate, ampliated from near the apex to near
the median part, nearly straight thence, less straight along the base
than in the male, but equall\ arcuate above the scutellum ; elytra
more ampliate rounded laterally in the posterior part, and with the
two costules on each side less well defined than in the male ; the
punctuation is very slight ; under side less hairy than in the male;
the joints of the tarsi are shorter, the inner hind spur is spatulate at

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tip, the antennal club is ovate and shorter than the pedicel, and the
third upper tooth of the fore tibiae is very well denned.

Length 14-15 mm. ; width 8-9 mm.

I am indebted to 0. E. Janson, Esq., for the loan of the two
sexes of this interesting species, but I have not been able to examine
the maxillae. In all probability the female has occasionally quite
black elytra, as figured by Gory and Percheron. This figure, how-
ever, is very unsatisfactory, but that of the male is fairly accurate.
Nothing is known of the habits of this species.

Schaum has described another species, which I have not yet
met with.

Heteroclita raeuperi, Schaum,

Anal. Entom., p. 48;

Burm., Hand. d. Entom., hi., p. 605.

" Black, head and prothorax densely punctate and clothed with
greyish flavescent hairs ; the scutellum and epimera are similarly
hairy ; antennas and palpi reddish yellow ; elytra less purely reddish
yellow, tolerably opaque, and having the suture, a spot on the
shoulders and a stripe up to the end of the terminal callus black,
upper surface with regularly scattered punctures, and bi-costate on
each side ; pygidium yellowish red, opaque, covered with curved
striae, lower margin with yellowish ciliae ; abdomen black, the
depressed middle part yellowish ; pectus black, striate-rugose and
bearing yellow-grey hairs, likewise the posterior coxae and all the
femora, tibiae and tarsi, which are reddish yellow but with the spinose
part of the latter blackish.

Length 6 lines. $ ."

Hab. Port Natal — teste Drege.

Burmeister adds that he saw in Drege's collection 50 examples of
males, from which it concludes that the female leads a life other than
that of the male, and has a different appearance.

Group CEKATOKRHINII.

In this Group are included large and richly-clad species, in
which the sexual differences are strongly marked ; in the male the
outer angles of the clypeus are sharply dentate, and the centre of
the anterior margin is produced into a bi- or trifid horn, varying in
size and shape ; but in the female the clypeus is sub-parallel and
simple ; the sternal process is usually very long ; the tarsi are long
or moderately long, and the basal joint of the hind tarsi is shorter
than the second.

382 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, "vol. xiii.

Gen. DICEANOEEHINA, Bnrm.,

Handb. d. Entomol., iii., 1842, p. 187.

Mentum as broad as long, greatly ampliate laterally in the centre,
ligular part very little depressed in the outer face, deeply, somewhat
narrowly notched in the centre, cavity of labial palps very narrow
and quite lateral, the outer margin hiding the inner to such an
extent that the palps look as if they were inserted in the inner part ;
maxillae robust, inner lobe simple, densely fringed with hairs, upper
lobe very long, styliform very slightly hooked at the tip, densely
hairy along the outer margin ; antennal club shorter than the
pedicel in both sexes ; clypeus of $ strongly bi-angulate on each side,
and produced in the centre in a curved horn broadly dilated and
trifidous at apex, head with a short, sub-porrect horn on each side
above the eye ; in the ? the clypeus is trapezoid, carinate on each
side above the somewhat depressed outer margin, slightly emargi-
nate at apex with the angles of the emargination weakly angular ;
prothorax diagonally ampliated laterally from the apex to about the
median part, nearly parallel, but slightly sinuate thence to the
moderately rounded basal angle, base very little sinuate on each
side, and almost straight above the scutellum ; elytra slightly wider
than the prothorax at the base, elongate, attenuate behind, being
at apex only one-half the width of the base ; not sinuate laterally
and with the side pieces of the metasternum not visible ; pygidium
sloping ; metasternal process horizontal, triangularly aculeate ;
anterior tibiae of $ strongly dentate inwardly, merely angular at
apex outwardly, fifth joint of anterior tarsi with a thick pencil
of hairs underneath ; in the 2 the anterior tibiae are plainly
3-dentate, and the anterior tarsi glabrous.

The genus is represented on the East and West Coasts of Africa,
and a colour variety of the South African species reaches as far
north as the Zanzibar mainland.

DlCRANORRHINA DERBYANA, Westw.,

Aican. Entom., i., p. 173, pi. 42, <J 2 .
Male : Green with a reddish-golden tinge in the basal part of the
prothorax and on the under side, shiny, glabrous, tarsi, and antennae
black; head with the fcrifid recurved part of the clypeai horn and
the two occipital sub-porrect horns black, the rest of the surface
is covered with a cretaceous coating ; prothorax extremely finely
aciculate on the whole surface and bearing also somewhat scattered
punctures ; the sides have a very broad cretaceous band ; scutellum

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aciculate and punctate like the scutellum ; the elytra have the same
aciculation hut the punctures are plainer, they each have a white
cretaceous band reaching from near the humeral angle to the suture,
and ascending there to a very short distance from the apex ;
pygidium white with the apical margin green ; under side aciculate
and punctate as on the prothorax ; metasternum grooved from the
base to the apex of the mesosternal process which is glabrous ;
anterior tibiae with 5 or 6 remote conspicuous inner teeth, hind ones
without a tooth on the upper side.

Female : Colour of the male but less shiny, especially on the
prothorax, the upper part of the head is covered with the same
cretaceous coating, except for a median longitudinal black line ; the
presternum is broadly, deeply, and very closely punctate, the outer
marginal white band is narrower than in the male, the scutellum
and elytra are strongly punctate, but not so closely or deeply as
on the prothorax; the outer marginal band of the elytra is continued
along the suture to one-third of the length, and the punctures on the
under side are more numerous than in the male.

Length 29-47 mm. ; width 13-22 mm.

This is the typical insect described by Westwood, and procured
for the first time by Burton in Eustenburg (Transvaal).

It is this form which occurs in the Transvaal (Lydenburg,
Pretoria, Eustenburg, Potchefstroom, Zoutpansberg, Waterberg,
Barberton, Pietersburg, Waterval, &c. ; also in Natal (Tugela Eiver),
Southern Ehodesia (Umtali, Matopos, Salisbury, Mazoe, Enkeldoorn,
Sebakwe), and Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez, Inhambane teste
Klug, Beira).

Feeds on Acacia gum, but is also found on the wounded branches
of a species of Combretiim (G. A. K. Marshall).

Vae. layaedi, Per., pi. xlv., fig. 2, Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc.
vi., 1892, p. 38.

This variety differs from the type form in having the cretaceous
band of the elytra prolonged slantingly in both sexes from the apex
of the suture to the base at a point equi-distant from the humeral
angle and the scutellum.

This variety, for it can hardly be called otherwise, seems to have
a different habitat from that of the type form. The latter is restricted
to the Transvaal and parts of Natal, but the variety layardi is to
be found in Damaraland and Ovampoland ; it occurs also on the
Zambesi near the Victoria Falls, and it has been recorded from the
neighbourhood of Salisbury in Southern Ehodesia. Some males
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type form I have met with, but the genitalia do not in the least
differ.

Length 26-48 mm ; width 13-23 mm.

Var. oberthuri, Deyr., Bull. Soc. Entom. Franc, 1876, p. lxxxii.

If the type form, and especially the variety layarcli, seem to have
a somewhat restricted range, the same cannot be said of the var.
oberthuri, which ranges from the Zanzibar mainland to Lourenco-
Marquez.

It is quite similar to D. layardi, except that it has no white bands
on the elytra. But several examples of this species which I have
examined exhibit patches, and occasionally traces of such bands.
When I add that such examples have been noticed and described
under the varietal names of bifasciata, Kr., cyanca, Kr., htcirfa, Ex.,
I have shown to what length "splitters" have gone in the determina-
tion of Cetonini.

Length 33-47 mm. ; width 16-22 mm.

Mv examples from Delagoa Bay are females. Kolbe records this
so-called species and the 3 varieties above-mentioned from Usam-
bara, Zanzibar, Dar-es-Salaam, and Bagamoyo in Eastern Africa.

Gen. EANZANIA, Bertol.,
Mem. Ac. Bologn., 1855, p. 420.
Mentum ampliate rounded laterally, ligular part narrower than
the mentum and divided by a very deep, straight notch into two
parallel lobes truncate at apex, palps cavity very long, deep and
broad and quite lateral, the outer face of the cavity is narrower than
the inner ; maxilkn robust, inner lobe simple, upper lobe elongated,
styliform, slightly hooked inwardly at tip, and very densely peni-
cillate on the upper and outer edge ; head and clypeus of male
produced into a long, deeply concave, shovel-like, sub-parallel
process slightly broader at apex than at base, curving upwards in
the anterior part the margin of which is briefly bi-dentate in the
centre, and the angles dentate ; there is a small tooth on each side
of the lateral margin at about the median part, and a long, hook-like,
sub- vertical one on each side of the base above each eye ; in the
female the clypeus is nearly parallel and slightly tri-sinuate in front ;
prothorax one-fourth broader than long, and ampliate rounded
laterally in the anterior part, the base is very slightly sinuate on
each side of the scutellum, but straight above it ; elytra elongated,
moderately attenuate towards the apex which is two-thirds of the
width of the base; me^osternal process parallel, truncate at tip;

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anterior tibiae of $ strongly incised and hamate inwardly at the
base, and pluri-dentate along the inner part, dentate outwardly
at apex, but having underneath a short, tooth-like process, which
is not, however, a lateral tooth, fifth joint of anterior tarsi densely
pubescent underneath ; in the $ the anterior tibiae are strongly
tri-dentate outwardly, and the fifth joint of the anterior tarsi
glabrous.

This genus consists of one species which seems to be restricted
to the South African area, and is replaced in British and German
East Africa by another having a similar livery, but included into
another genus, or sub-genus (MepJiistis), owing to some difference in
the shape of the armature of the $ .

Eanzania petersiana, Klug,
Plate XLV., fig. 1.

Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 660;
Peter's Pveis. n. Moss., 1862, p. 262, pi. 15, fig. 7.
splendens, Bertol. Mem. Ac. Bologn. vi., 1855, p. 420, pi. 21,
figs. 1-7;

Thorns., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1856, p. 320, pi. 7, figs. 2-3.

Male : Bright, shiny green, glabrous, under side of clypeus and
abdomen with a reddish-golden sheen ; antennae piceous ; head and
clypeus covered with a chalky-white coating, the basal hooked horns
and the outer margins of the clypeus are black ; prothorax very
faintly aciculate and having on each side of the base a short, narrow,
sub-transverse white band, which is probably extending all along
the base in some examples ; scutellum with two lateral white
macules ; the elytra are covered with a white coating except the
suture which is green like the humeral and supra-apical callus ;
and on each side of the point of the scutellum there is also a small,
sub-quadrate patch of the green background showing ; pygidium
completely covered by the cretaceous coating ; sides of the meta-
and meso-sternum cretaceous ; under side and legs glabrous ; hind
tibiae not dentate.

Pemale : Green, and with a reddish-golden sheen underneath
like the male, but on the upper side less shiny ; the head and
clypeus are cretaceous white ; the prothorax has no white markings
and is nearly smooth in the centre only, the sides being distinctly
punctured ; the scutellum is quite smooth ; the elytra have a
broad marginal white band ascending the suture at apex and
expanding there from the suture to about the median part into a
broad, elongate band, the green uncovered part is sprinkled with

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minute granules ; the white indument of the pygidium is sometimes
divided into patches, the under side is more punctulate than in the
male, and the punctures on the inner part of the tibiae are briefly
pubescent.

Length 29-32 mm. ; width 14-15 mm.

Hab. Southern Khodesia (Salisbury, Matopos, Manica, Sebakwe) ;
Mozambique (Tette) ; Transvaal (Pietersburg).

This species feeds on the same plants as Dicranorrhina derbyana.

Gen. CHEIROLASIA, Westw.,
Arcan. Entom., i., 1843, p. 178.
Mentum hairy, ampliated laterally, somewhat narrowed at the
ligular part which is almost quadrately scooped out in the centre
with the apical outer angles moderately rounded, the excavation
for the insertion of the labial palpi is greatly elongated, beginning
at about one-third of the length of the mentum and reaching the
apex, and so wide that it can be said to be supra-lateral, maxillae
long, inner lobe hairy inwardly and ending in a very sharp, strongly
falcate tooth, upper lobe short, sharp at tip, and densely penicillate,
in the $ the upper lobe is longer and ends in a hooked tooth ; in
the $ the anterior angles of the clypeus are produced into a sub-
porrect tooth, and the central part into a triangular horn slanting
upwards, dilated at tip into a sub-hamate process on each side, this
horn is sharply carinate longitudinally in the centre, the carina
branching off on each side along the sub-hamate apical process, the
head has above the eye a thick laminate, sub-porrect horn diagonally
truncate towards the anterior part, the outside part left being
produced into a hamate process ; in the female the clypeus is sub-
parallel with the median part slightly diagonally produced beyond
the outer angles and truncate, the anterior margin being slightly
raised ; antennal club slightly larger than the pedicel in the <J ,
equal in length in the ? ; prothorax ampliated laterally from the
apex to the base, but not very diagonal in the anterior part, and
only slightly Binuate in the posterior, base very little arcuate laterally
as well as above the scutellum which is sharply elongate ; elytra
elongate, attenuate behind, half the width of the base at apex;
slightly sinuate on the sides, but with the lateral process visibly
exposed; pygidium slightly slanting; prosternal process not pix>-
jecting much, bluntly and broadly triangular at tip ; anterior femora
ami tibiae of $ densely pubescent inwardly and very faintly tri-
dentate outwardly, the rudiments of teeth, including the apical ones,
far apart ; apical joint of fore tarsi densely pubescent underneath ;

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anterior tibiae of the female sharply tri-dentate, apical joint of the
fore tarsi simple, intermediate and posterior tibiae pubescent inwardly
in both sexes, the hind ones plainly dentate on the upper side in
both sexes.

This genus includes only one species which ranges from Natal to
Mamboia and German East Africa.

Cheirolasia buekei, Westw.,
Arcan. Entomol., i., 1843, p. 178, pi. 45, fig. 1 ;
Schaum. Ann. Soc. Ent. Ft., 1849, p. 242, ? .

hopei, Bert., Nov. Comm. Ac. Bon., x., 1849, p. 424, pi. 10, fig. 2.

histrio, Bat., Entom. Monthl. Mag., 1881, vol. 18, p. 157.

Male : Head and antennas rufescent, the surface of the clypeus
and head with the exception of the horns or aculeate parts is covered
with a whitish flavescent coating, and sparsely punctate and
pubescent ; prothorax black or fuscous black and having on each
side a very broad whitish flavescent band notched inwardly past
the middle and leaving uncovered a supra marginal, slightly ante-
median round, denuded black spot, in the median part of the disk
there is a narrow, sub-flavescent line reaching from the apex to
about the median part, the black surface of the disk is somewhat
opaque and sparsely punctured ; scutellum also sparsely punctured,
the punctures setigerous ; elytra piceous, moderately shiny, sparsely
punctate and having on each side three pale flavescent patches
disposed longitudinally in the dorsal part, the first one is set at
a small distance from the base, the second, the largest of the three,
is at about the middle and the third is abutting on the suture, along
or close to the outer margin are three patches of the same colour,
the first one of which, an elongated one which is occasionally
divided into two, is right above the metasternal lateral process, the
second is more or less rounded, and the third is situated on the side
of the apical elytral callus ; the pygidium, which is as a rule reddish
at apex, bears two ovate flavescent patches ; the abdominal segments
have each two transverse flavescent maculae on each side, the hind
coxae have a similar patch near the lateral edge, and the metasternum
is almost completely coated with the same substance, which, how-
ever, is sometimes divided into two large patches on each side ; on
the sides of the red under part of the prothorax there is also a large
flavescent macule ; the legs are red, and the pectus clothed with
moderately dense flavescent hairs.

Female : Like the male. The head is red, except the basal part
of the head which is black ; the lateral band of the prothorax is

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narrower and the anterior lateral denuded patch is connected with
the black discoidal part ; the punctures on the upper side are
setigerous.

Length 18-29 mm. (horns excluded) ; width 11-14 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Karkloof) ; Transvaal (Rusten-
burg, Pretoria, Lydenburg, Waterberg, Zoutpansberjj;) ; Mozam-
bique (Lourenco-Marquez) ; Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Enkel-
doorn, Sebakwe, Manica, Mazoe, Bulawayo) ; Ovampoland ;
Northern Damaraland.

About Salisbury this species is specially partial to the flowers of
a small tree, name unknown ; but also occurs on Cassia pods ; at
Bulawayo and Mazoe it is found only on Acacia gum (G. A. K.
Marshall).

Gen. AMAURODES, Westw.,
Arcan. Entomol., ii., 1844, p. 71.

Mentum broad, as long as the ligular part which is narrower, parallel
laterally with the outer angles moderately rounded, and emarginate
at apex, the palps cavity reaches from the mentum proper to the
apical part, and is very broad and impinges considerably on the
outer face, maxillae robust, inner lobe mucronate in the $ , and
with a long, slender hamate tooth in the ? ; upper lobe styliform,
mucronate, not dentate in both sexes; head of 3 with two hamate
teeth on the margin of the vertex, and the outer margin raised into
a sharp protuberance above the eyes, the clypeus is broader at the
apex than at the base with the outer angles acuminate, and nearly
the whole of the anterior margin is produced into a curved horn
narrowed at about half its length, and expanding there into a
bifurcate process more or less strongly divaricating ; in the ? the
clypeus is simple, carinate laterally, but with the lateral part bulging
beyond the upper carina; prothorax of the normal shape, bi-sinuate
laterally and only slightly arcuate above the scutellum ; elytra
elongated, gradually attenuate towards the posterior part ; anterior
tibiaa uni-dentate at apex in the 3 , set inwardly with numerous
sharp teeth, lower edge of outer face of anterior femora densely
pubescent in both sexes, but in the ? the anterior tibia' are
strongly tri-dentate outwardly and simple inwardly ; under side
nearly glabrous, sternal process horizontal, arcuately rounded at
apex, without any traces of suture, and grooved longitudinally
in the basal part only.

The type form of the only species included in this genus seems
to be restricted to the South African area, but very slight varieties
of the same occur in Central and East Africa.

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Amaukodes passeeinii, Westw.,

Arcan. Bntomol. ii., 1844, p. 71, pi. 67, fig. 1, $ ;

Schaum, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1844, p. 401, pi. xi., fig. 1, ? ;

Bcrtoloni, Nov. Comm. Acad. Bonon., x., p. 395, pi. viii., fig. 4, $ .

Male : Black, covered on the upper side of the head and cephalic
horns as well as on the prothorax with a muddy grey tomentum
with the exception of a moderately broad, median longitudinal
velvety black band which reaches from apex to base, and a minute,
round, supra-marginal spot of the same colour on each side of the
prothorax ; the elytra are covered with a velvety black tomentum
and have on each side a dorsal row of four round, orange fulvous
patches, and a lateral one of five similar but slightly smaller ones ;
under side black, pectus very sparingly hairy, legs black with the
hind tibiae and tarsi red ; the tomentum hides entirely the sculpture
of the upper side ; the clypeal horn varies much in size (4-8^ mm.
in the curve), the bifid process being almost straight in the smaller
development and strongly divaricating in the larger, but the two
hamate teeth of the vertex and the supra-ocular raised process are
equally strongly developed in all the examples that I have seen,
irrespective of their size ; the lower margin of the pygidium is
densely hairy, and the hind tibiae have a few hairs near the base,
and are not dentate on the upper side.

Female : Coloured like the male, but the head has no tomentum,
and is black with a median longitudinal red band on the clypeus ;
the median thoracic black band is broader than in the male, the
pygidium is briefly pubescent, and the pubescence along the margin
is as long as in the male.

Length 31-40 mm. ; width 14-17 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Lower Tugela) ; Transvaal
(Potchefstroom, Barberton) ; Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez, In-
hambane) ; East Central Africa (Usambara, &c).

In the South African examples the colouration is singularly
constant, the lateral denuded macule of the prothorax being,
however, almost obliterated in some females, but in examples
from East Africa that spot develops into patches, and even in a
supra-lateral band reaching from apex to base, and partly or com-
pletely connected along the base with the median longitudinal one
(Boileau, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1898, p. 217, c. fig. ; Kraatz, D. E. Z.,
1896, p. 349).

About Durban this species feeds chiefly on the gum of the "flat-
crown " (Albtzzia fastigiata).

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Gex. EUDICELLA, White,
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1839, p. 34.

Mentum ampliate-rounded laterally, slightly narrower at the
ligular part the anterior margin of which is rounded and very
deeply notched in the centre, palps cavity very hroad and long,
upper face considerably narrower than the inner, maxillae robust,
inner lobe sharply angular at tip in the J , but with a sharp
incurved tooth in the ? and densely pubescent inwardly in both,
upper lobe long, styliform sharp at tip but not hooked, in either sex
thickly penicillate ; clypeus of the $ produced laterally in front into
two moderately long, almost erect sub-triangular teeth, the ecu tie
of the anterior margin is developed into a long incurved horn ending
into a bifurcate divaricating process of variable length ; in the $ the
clypeus is simple, somewhat short, slightly wider at apex than at
base and very weakly sinuate in the anterior margin ; prothorax,
sub-diagonally ampliate-rounded from the apex to about the median
part, sub-parallel there, weakly sinuate along the base on each side
of the scutellum, but almost straight above it ; scutellum normal ;
elytra elongated, plainly attenuated behind, being only across the
apex not more than half the width of the base ; metasternal process
horizontal, triangularly aculeate, the metasternal separated from the
mesosternal by a suture ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly and
with a strong serration inwardly in the 3 , tri-dentate outwardly
and simple inwardly in the $ ; fifth joint of anterior tarsi glabrous
in both sexes.

The genus is represented in Africa by several species and
numerous varieties.

Key to the Species.
Ar. Head glabrous.

Prothorax closely shagreened, greenish bronze, somewhat opaque
in both sexes ; elytra straw-colour, suture and the two patches
on each side black, the latter small smitlri.

Prothorax finely aciculate, bright green with a golden tinge ;
elytra yellowish green, suture green, hind macula1 much larger
than in smithi trimeni.

A1. Head pubescent.

Elytra without any patches carmclita.

Eudicella smithi, McLeay,
Ilhist. Zool. S. Afric., p. 34, pi. 1.

Var. euthalia, Bat., Ent. M. Mag., vol. xviii., 1881, p. 156.
Var. hereroensis, Kraatz, Deuts. Ent. Zeitschr., 1900, p. 416.

Male : Clypeus and horns, under part of the prothorax and legs

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rufescent, prothorax and scutellum bronze-green or light bronze ;
elytra straw-colour or flavescent, with the suture, the edge of the
outer margin and a humeral and a supra-apical patch of moderate
size on each side black, under side greenish bronze, the pygidium,
the sternal process, and the two apical abdominal segments are
somewhat rufescent ; antennal club rufescent ; head deeply pitted ;
clypeus excavated with the sides produced on each side at apex into
a recurved tooth, while the anterior margin is continued as a curved
stalk diverging into a long, bifurcate divaricating process ; this horn
varies in length from 4 to 12 mm. in the curve ; prothorax closely
shagreened, the edge of the margin is reddish ; scutellum closely
aciculate ; elytra very closely aciculate and having also several rows
of round, not deep punctures ; pygidium closely aciculate ; abdomen
glabrous, pectus sparsely and briefly hairy, deeply punctate on the
sides, sternal process grooved, smooth, the mesosternal part divided
by a faint suture ; anterior coxa? and margin of the outer face of the
anterior femora densely ciliate, anterior tibiae sharply denticulate
inwardly, bi-dentate outwardly, and glabrous, intermediate and
hind legs also glabrous, hind tibiae without a tooth on the
upper edge.

Female : Head and clypeus simple, the latter with the angles
moderately rounded, and both deeply and somewhat closely pitted ;
the prothorax is much more deeply pitted than in the male, and
the intervals between the punctures are aciculate ; the lateral
punctures of the scutellum and the seriate rows of punctures on
the elytra are much more distinct ; the outer face of the marginal
part of the anterior femora is as densely ciliate as in the male, and
the fore tibiae are sharply tri-dentate outwardly.

In the examples from Natal the prothorax is occasionally dull
dark green, and the elytra of a lighter straw-colour than in
examples from the Northern Transvaal and Southern Ehodesia.
Yet I have received from Manica specimens with brighter green
thorax and light elytra, but among them were examples of the
normal hue. It is a somewhat similar light-coloured variety from
Damaraland that Kraatz described under the name of E. hereroensis.

North of the South African limit (Mamboia, Usambara, &c.) the
type form is replaced by the variety euthalia, Bat., which differs
from it in the colour of the elytra being of a rufescent yellowish hue
with a tinge of green, the suture is narrow and green, and the apical
elytral patch is narrowly edged with green. The variety penetrates
also in the South African area, as it has been recorded from Mel-
setter in Southern Ehodesia, but the solitary example which I saw
is still nearer to the light variety of the type form than to my

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examples of cuthalia from Mamboia. The genital organs of the
type form and of the varieties are absolutely alike.

Length 24-35 mm. (horns excl.) ; width 14-19 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Tugela Eiver) ; Transvaal (Potchef stroom) ;
Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Melsetter, Manica).

Feed on Acacia gum, but is also found on the wounded branches
of a species of Combretum ; has never been seen on flowers; about
Durban it feeds on the gum of Albizzia fastigiata. The var. cuthalia
is found on flowers of Protea (G. A. K. Marshall).

Eudicella caemelita, Fairm.,
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1894, p. lxxxvi.

Fairmaire has described, loc. cit., a species the habitat of which
is unknown, but that he considers to be South African, and which,
from the description, appears to be very closely allied to E. smithi.
The upper side is chestnut-red, opaque ; the head and the anterior
margin of the prothorax are clothed with a dense white-greyish
pubescence; the suture of the elytra is vaguely infuscate, and each
elytron has a very narrow marginal fuscous line which disappears
before the apex ; the pygidium is fuscous with two testaceous
macules. In the rnale— the only sex known — the clypeus is armed
with a moderately strong and moderately elongate horn bare at the
tip which is bifid, and the cephalic lateral horns are moderately
short and little diverging.

The main distinctive characters of this species would thus seem
to be the pubescence on the head and clypeus, except the apex of
the clypeal horn which is bare, and on the anterior margin of the
prothorax, also the absence of dark patches on the elytra.

I doubt, however, if this insect inhabits the South African area,
except on its confines.

Length 32 mm.

Eudicella trimbni, Jans.,
Cist. EntomoL, hi., 1884, p. 103 ;
Waterh., Aid., 1890, ii. pi. 182, fig. 1, ? .
E. chloc, Raffr., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1885, p. 33.
Bright golden-green, extremely shiny, prothorax and elytra
looking almost tiavescent ; in the male the clypeus and cephalic
horns are dark chestnut-brown, the elytra in both sexes have a
verj broad dark bottle-green border invading the humeral greenish-
black humeral patch ; this border is continued as a moderately
narrow lighter green band along the suture, and outwardly as an

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equally broad but darker marginal band as far as about the median
part, whence it is continued as a narrow line as far as the suture,
the apical patch is very broad and greenish black ; in one $ example
there is a dark discoidal band uniting the humeral and supra-apical
patches, but narrower than the posterior ; tarsi and legs piceous.

Male : Head punctulate ; clypeus impunctate, outer angles pro-
duced each in a moderately long, almost vertical horn, and the
centre of the anterior part into a curved horn, bifid at the top, but
the bifid process is not divaricating much ; the length of that
horn varies from 2 to 7 mm. in the large development, and the
shape is very much like that of E. smithi, but the curve of the
central clypeal horn is stronger ; prothorax and elytra finely acicu-
late punctulate except for a series of punctures along the suture and
the outer margin ; pygidium concolorous, finely aciculate ; under
side very weakly punctulate on the pectus, each puncture briefly
setigerous ; sternal process grooved from the base to the meso-
sternal suture, and impunctate ; legs as in E. smithi, but with a
plain, although small, tooth on the upper edge of the hind tibial.

Female: Shape like the female of E. smithi; the head is not so
deeply punctate, and the punctures on the sides of the prothorax
are small, and not rugose, those on the elytra are similarly fine and
not set more closely ; the under side is more deeply punctate than
in the male.

Length 28-38^- mm. ; width 15-19* mm.

Hah. Natal (Tugela River, Karkloof).

There seems to be no doubt that E. chloc, Raff., is identical with
E. trimeni, and Raffray himself told me so when he was shown an
example captured by A. F. Millar in Natal. The rarity of this
insect in South Africa is probably due to it being a straggler from
the north. Raffray captured his examples in the Bogos province
of Abyssinia.

Gen. NEPTUNIDES, J. Thorns.,
Bull. Soc. Entom. Fr., ix., 1879, p. 106.
Mentum ampliated and rounded laterally, ligular part narrower
than the mentum, parallel, very deeply triangularly notched, palps
cavity very long and broad ; both the lobes of maxilla? mucronate
but not hamate in either sex ; antennal club of $ a little shorter
than the whole pedicel ; in the $ the clypeus is broadly triangularly
dilated from the base to the apex where the outer angles are pro-
duced into a long, somewhat reflexed mucronate point, and the
central part into an erect horn moderately dilated at apex, the

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head is simple ; in the ? the head is simple, the clypeus carinate
laterally with the sides bulging a little beyond the carina, and the
apex is bluntly sub-dentate in the centre; prothorax sub-trapezoidal,
with the base slightly bi-sinuate on each side of the scutellum, and
somewhat arcuate above it; elytra elongate, attenuate behind where
they are only half the width of the base ; sternal process bluntly
arcuate at the end and with a sub-apical transverse suture ; anterior
tibiae of $ laminate inwardly and having a deep notch at the base,
tri- or quadri-dentate near the apex and with the apical tooth con-
spicuously triangular, weakly bi-dentate outwTardly, the upper tooth
is very remote from the apical one; inner part of anterior femora
sparingly pubescent, the apical part provided with a strong hamate
tooth ; hind tibias moderately densely pubescent inwardly and not
dentate on the upper side ; in the $ the anterior tibiae are strongly
tri-dentate outwTardly ; the inner part is also laminate and notched
at the base, and the anterior femora hamate at apex, but less
conspicuously than in the J .

The genus includes two species, one of which is a denizen of East
and Central Africa, but it reaches also the South African area, and
is so variable in colouring that no less than six varieties have been
described. The other species is recorded from the Congo.

The shape of the mentum greatly resembles that of Cozlorrhina,
Burm., but the palps cavity is wider, and apart from the differences
in the sexual characters of the males of both genera, that of the
sternal process is sufficient to separate the two.

Neptunides polychrous, J. Thorns.,

Plate XLV., fig. 4.

Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1879, p. 106.

Var. abundans, Thorns., loc. cit.

fasciicollis, Thorns., loc. cit.

laeta, Kolb., Kaf., D. Ost, Afrik., 1897, p. 181.

Uneaticollis, Kraatz, Deut. Ent. Zeits., 1881, p. 258.

marginicollis, Kraatz, loc. cit., p. 258.

purpurascens, Thorns., Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1879, p. 106.

Male : Bright metallic green with the prothorax black and the
elytra green, tlnviscent green or coppery-green, the margins of the
dentate lateral processes of the clypeus and the median horn are
black, the head is broadly excavated to a short distance from the
base, and punctulate laterally above the eyes only, the whole clypeal
surface being smooth ; the prothorax and scutellum are also impunc-

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tate ; the elytra are not costulate but the supra-lateral elevation
delimitating the dorsal part is plain, they are most sparsely and
finely aciculate, the colour is very variable, the shiny green or yellow
predominating according to the direction of the light falling upon
them ; pygidium with transverse punctures, under side glabrous
except for a few hairs on the sides of the pectus, and on the inner
face of the sternal process ; inner face of outer part of anterior
femora moderately pubescent ; inner part of tibiaB and also the knees
somewhat infuscate. The colouration of the prothorax is extremely
variable, it may be totally green with a supra-lateral anterior black
patch, and two median elongated ones broader at apex than at base ;
coppery green with a supra-lateral black patch and three comma-
shaped ones disposed longitudinally on each side of the median
part ; the whole disk may be black with a coppery border, or
entirely green without traces of black markings.

Female : Coloured like the male, but the piceous black thorax has
a broad greenish flavescent lateral margin, and a median longitudinal
band of the same colour which reaches from the apex to the base or
not ; the head and clypeus are almost foveolate punctate, and some
fine punctures are discernible on the prothorax ; the scutellum,
however, is impunctate, and the elytra bear series of aciculate
punctures almost obliterated in the posterior part but more distinct
on the sides ; the sculpture of the legs and under side is rougher than
in the male.

Length 27-30 mm. (horns excl), width 13-14 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Manica, Gazaland, Mt. Chirinda).

It is said by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall to attack pineapples.

Gen. CCELOEEHINA, Burm.,
Handb. d. EntomoL, vol. in., 1842, p. 207.
Mentum ampliate and rounded laterally, ligular part narrower
than the mentum, nearly parallel but with the palps cavity only
moderately wide, the inner maxillary lobe is hamate in both sexes,
much more sharply in the ? than in the $ , but the styliform
upper one is slightly hamate in that sex only, that of the $ being
sharply mucronate ; antennae shorter than the pedicel ; in the $ the
head is hollowed from the base the margin of which bears a short,
bifid median process or two contiguous horizontal teeth, to the
apex, the sides of the head, which is hollowed from the base, are
parallel with the apical angles bluntly rounded but projecting
very distinctly beyond the anterior margin of the clypeus, the
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dilated at apex into a strongly triangularly divergent, bluntly
furcate, thick process, carinate across the diverging parts and
longitudinally along the basal part of the horn, which varies in
length from 1 to 3 mm.; in the small development the short
anterior horn is very considerably reduced, being little more than
1 mm. in length, the head is excavated only as far back as the
eyes and deeply emarginate in the centre instead of being bi-
dentate ; in the $ the head and clypeus are not excavate, the
latter is narrowed at the base and slightly rounded laterally, the
anterior margin is plainly sinuate in the centre ; prothorax of
the usual shape, but slightly more trapezoidal in the $ than in
the $ , arcuate on each side of the scutellum, and equally so above
it ; elytra elongated, attenuate towards the apex in the usual
manner ; anterior tibiae of $ dentate outwardly at apex only, and
simple inwardly, those of the J sharply tri-dentatc, sternal process
grooved from the base to a distinct suture separating the metasternal
from the mesosternal, the latter short, bluntly triangular with the
apical part slightly reflexed.

The genus includes one species having many (so-called) varieties,
and which ranges west and east from Senegambia to Southern
Rhodesia.

CffiLORRHIXA QUADRIMACULATA, Fabl\,

Plates XLV., fig. 3; XLVIL, fig. 15.

Spec. Ins., i., p. 56, $ ;

Gory and Perch., Mom, p. 131, pi. 19, fig. 4 ;

Bates, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1879, pi. 1, figs. 3, a, b, S .

Var. loricata, Jans., Cist. Entom., ii., 1877, p. 141.

furcata, Kolbe, Berl. Ent. Zeits., 1884, p. 83.

glabrata, Kolbe, loc. cit., p. 81.

iiiiiht/r/,f, Kolbe, loc. cit., p. 35, fig. 6.

nyassica, Kraatz, Deuts. Ent. Zeits., 1900, p. 366.

oberthuri, Eraatz, loc. cit., p. 367.

poggci, Kolbe, Ber. Get. Ent. Zeits., 1884, p. 84, figs. 3, 4, 5.

radei, Kolbe, loc. cit., p. 82, figs. 1, 2.

rufieeps, Kolbe, loc. cit., p. 83.

Var. hornimani, Bat., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1877, p. 202, loc. cit., 1879,
pi. 1, figs. 3, a, 6, c? •

grandyi, Bat., loc. cit., 1877, p. 202.

Male: Clypeus, horn, and excavated part of the head red, or
reddish with a Blight greenish tinge, the marginal part of the head
green, rufescent green, or occasionally flavescent ; prothorax and

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scutellum bluish green, quite green or golden flavescent ; elytra
flavous with a greenish tinge especially noticeable in the dorsal
part, or completely golden-yellow, the suture is plainly green, and
on each side are a humeral and a supra-apical greenish black or
dark green round patches ; under side greenish blue, or green with
often a slight reddish tinge ; legs seldom completely red, but
occasionally completely green ; antennae and palpi chestnut-brown
head and clypeus finely aciculate, the latter punctate above the eyes ;
prothorax finely aciculate, plainly punctate, the punctures somewhat
remote and equi-distant but almost absent in the median longi-
tudinal part ; scutellum with only a few, almost obliterated
punctures ; elytra numerously punctate, with the punctures seriate ;
pygidium reddish or green, and somewhat indistinctly transversely
plicate, outer part of tibiae plicate and punctate ; under side well-nigh
glabrous except the inner face of the mesosternal process, and the
margin of the inner face of the anterior femora ; inner part of hind
tibiae moderately hairy only from the base to the median part, upper
part not dentate.

Female : Coloured like the $ , except that the simple clypeus is
reddish on the sides and on the extremity only, and even sometimes
nearly completely green, the whole head is somewhat coarsely
punctate, and the punctuation of the prothorax, scutellum, and
elytra is similar to that of the male, but slightly deeper ; the
pygidium is more plainly plicate, and the pectus very deeply
punctate and briefly pubescent.

Bates has given a figure of C. quadrimaculata $ . In that figure
the two median teeth of the head instead of being set close
to each other are broadly separated, being almost equidistant
from the centre of the occipital excavation and from the outer
wall. In C. lorigera, Jans., these two teeth are contiguous
and median ; they are also median and somewhat longer in
the great development of C. homimani, but broadly emarginate
with the angles of the emargination very remote, and thus
approximating C. quadrimaculata in the minor development,
which I take to be C. grandyi of the same author ; C. homimani has
greener elytra than G. lorigera, with a distinct longitudinal deeper
green band reaching from the humeral to the supra-apical callus.
As for the numerous species described by Kolbe, Kraatz, himself,
whom no one will take to be a "lumper," gives it as his view that
C. glabrata, radei, f areata, ruficeps, poggei, and imitatrix are one
species. I entirely agree with him with regard to furcata, ruficeps,
and imitatrix, the authenticated examples of which are synonymous
with lorigera, Jans., and this is corroborated by the genitalia of the

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S which are absolutely similar in all those varieties, with those of
hornimani. I have not, however, been able to obtain an assumed
typical C. quadrimaculata, as figured by Bates, but if its genitalia
differ, which I doubt, then C. lorigcra, Jans., would stand as the
type form of all the varieties here mentioned.

Length 23-30 mm. ; width 10-13* mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Manica, Salisbury; ? Victoria Falls;
Sebakwe, Umtali, Matopos, Mazoe), Nyassaland ; Angola ; Came-
roons, Congo ; Dieli, Senegal, &c, &c.

Feeds on gum of Acacia and Combrctum, on pods of Cassia, and
on flowers of Protea.

Gen. STEPHANOEEHINA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., hi., 1842, p. 208.

Mentum broad at the base, ligular part with almost the whole of
the anterior part broadly incised and the outer angles rounded, the
palps cavity extremely wide, maxillae moderately robust, inner lobe
inermous, upper lobe elongated, not hooked, both densely hairy ;
head of $ with a T-shaped vertical frontal horn (guttata), or an
horizontal lamina (simpler), clypeus parallel, the sides dentate in
front at about one-third or sometimes half the length, the anterior
part is notched in the centre, and produced on each side of the
notch into a more or less highly raised vertical horn or highly
reflexed lamina; head and clypeus simple in the ? , the latter
sinuate in front ; antermal club shorter than the pedicel in either
sex; prothorax of tbe usual shape; scutellum sharply acuminate;
elytra elongated, attenuate behind ; sternal process laminiform,
triangularly acuminate, slightly recurved at tip ; grooved longi-
tudinally, and with a plain mesothoracic suture ; anterior tibiae
dentate at apex only in the $ , tri-dentate in the ? , inner part of
all the tibiae pubescent.

This genus is represented in West, Central, and East Africa.

Stephanokrhina simplex, n. sp.

Plate XLVIL, figs. 1, la.

Male : Metallic green with a slight flavescent tinge on the head
and prothorax, the latter has two darker green discoidal round
patches; elytra greener along the suture, the base, and the posterior
part than on the rest of the surface which has a slightly amethystine
tinge, and completely concolorous ; under side and legs greenish
flavescent ; head with a somewhat broad, laminiform, slightly

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tectate, porrect process lightly emarginate at apex, beginning at
the anterior part of the head and overhanging the base of the
clypeus which is carinate longitudinally in the centre, the sides are
highly carinate, the carina truncate at about the median part with
the apex of the truncate part sharp, the anterior margin is produced
into a high vertical wall truncate at apex and broadly scooped in a
V-shape in the centre, the clypeus is sparsely pubescent ; prothorax
moderately closely punctate on the sides but not in the centre ;
scutellum very sharp, and bearing a few aciculate punctures ; elytra
non-costate, and somewhat closely punctate all over, the punctures
are nearly round, and moderately deep ; pygidium strigillate ; under
side sparingly pubescent on the pectus, glabrous on the abdomen,
and the strigillate legs ; sternal process closely punctate.

This species differs from the typical Stephanorrhina (guttata;
princeps, adelpha, &c.) in having concolorous elytra ; the shape of
the head of the male is also very different owing to the absence of
anterior clypeal vertical horns, and the presence of an horizontal
frontal lamina instead of an erect T-shaped cephalic horn. The
genital armature of the male differs slightly only from that of
S. guttata. Female unknown.

Length 26 mm. ; width 1(H mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Gazaland).

Group HETEEOEEHINII.

In this group the sexual differences, when they exist, are not so
strongly manifest as in the Ceratorrhinii ; the clypeus in the $ when
differing from that of the ? is sub-parallel, and the centre of the
anterior margin is produced into a bi- or tri-fid horn, occasionally
reflexed and laminate ; the sternal process is usually long, but also
occasionally aculeate only.

Gen. ECCOPTOCNEMIS, Kraatz,
Deuts. Entom. Zeitschr., 1880, p. 150.
Mentum hairy, very little ampliated laterally, hardly broader than
the ligular part which is broadly emarginate at apex ; maxillae
robust, inner lobe simple, upper one broad, laminate, concave
inwardly and truncate at apex ; head and clypeus simple in both
sexes, the latter sub-parallel, deeply emarginate in front, antennal
club as long as the pedicel; prothorax of the usual trapezoid form,
sinuate on each side of the base and arcuate above the scutellum
which is long, sharp, and grooved on each side ; elytra elongated,

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attenuate behind ; mesosternal process short, either orbicular or
bluntly sub-arcuate {thoreyi), and separated from the metasternal by
a fine suture ; anterior tibiae sharply bi-dentate in the 3 , tri-dentate
in the 2 ', hind femora greatly developed in both, those of the 3
strongly dentate inwardly at apex, intermediate and posterior tibia1
densely fringed inwardly with light fulvous hairs, the latter strongly
dentate outwardly on the upper side in both sexes.

The genus is represented in Western, Central, and Eastern
Africa.

Key to the Species.

Body and legs green or greenish -blue ; prothorax distinctly punctate
laterally barthi.

Body piceous red, elytra greenish blue with the suture black ; pro-
thorax finely shagreened laterally reluccns.

ECCOPTOCNEMIS BARTHI, Hal'.,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 1G.
Mitt., Munch. Ent. Ver., ii., 1878, p. 102.

Bright green, with occasionally a faint yellowish tinge in the dorsal
part of the elytra; this green hue is, however, apt to turn bluish ;
antennas chestnut-brown ; head moderately closely punctate, the
punctures deeper in the anterior part ; prothorax very little punctate
in the central part where there is a median impunctate longitudinal
space, more densely and also more deeply on the sides where the
punctures are separated by a space equal to twice their own
diameter, this punctuation is the same in either sex ; scutellum
almost impunctate ; elytra non-costate, plainly denticulate at the
apex of the suture, very faintly punctulate in the male but more
distinctly so in the female, especially in the dorsal part where the
fine punctures are seriate ; pygidium transversely strigillate in the
female, but with transverse punctures in the male ; under side
glabrous, except on the anterior coxae and also on the outer face of
the mention ; the abdomen is almost impunctate, but the pectus
is punctulate and the legs deeply punctate and plicate.

This handsome species was first described from the Guinea
Hinterland. It does not seem to have been met with in the South
African area further south than Rhodesia, but it is said to occur also
at Beira. It bears a great resemblance to E. thoreyi from the West
Coast, and to E. latipes from West Central Africa, but the genital
armature of the male is very different from that of these two species,
as also from that of E. relucens.

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Length 27-29 mm. ; width 13 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Mazoe).

Feeds on Acacia gum, or wounded branches of other trees.

Eccoptocnemis relucens, Bates,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 17.
Entom. Magaz., xviii., 1880, p. 157.

Male : Head, prothorax, scutellum black, tibiae very dark red,
almost piceous ; elytra green with a strong bluish tinge, under side
and tibiae dark chestnut-red ; antennae piceous ; in the general build
and outline this species closely resembles E. barthi, and were it not
for the punctuation of the prothorax, and the great dissimilarity of
the genital armature of the male, this very distinct species might be
easily mistaken for a colour variety of the same. The prothorax,
however, is most finely and closely shagreened except along the
median longitudinal part, instead of being plainly punctate later-
ally ; the finely alutaceous elytra have no traces of punctures,
and the suture is distinctly black ; the sub-rufescent pygidium is
closely and finely plicate longitudinally ; the hind tibiae are glabrous
inwardly, the inner sinuate ridge is much more raised, and the
space between it and the upper edge much more deeply grooved
than in E. barthi.

Female differs from the male merely in having the anterior tibiae
tri-dentate outwardly, and the hind tibiae of normal shape. The
sculpture is the same as in the male.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira). The species was originally described
from Mamboia and Mwapwa in German East Africa.

Length 25-30 mm. ; width 12-15 mm.

Gen. SCYTHROPESTHES, Kraatz,
Entom. Monatsbl., u\, 1«80, p. 29.

Anisorrhina, Westw.

Genyodonta (part), Burm.

Mentum very little ampliated laterally with the ligular part as
broad as the mentum, the outer angles are obtusely rounded, and the
anterior part broadly and very deeply emarginate in the centre, palps
cavity long, broadly open, outer face of mentum and ligula clothed
with long almost bristle-like hairs ; maxillae somewhat robust, inner
lobe simple, upper lobe, short, transverse, also simple and sur-
mounted by a very thick and long brush of hairs ; head simple in
both sexes, clypeus more deeply incised in front of the antennae

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in the $ than in the 9 ; antennal club not quite as long as the
pedicel in the <$ ; prothorax sub-trapezoidal, sinuate on each side
of the scutellum and arcuate above it ; scutellum long, sharp, grooved
laterally in the posterior half ; elytra elongated, but slightly attenu-
ated behind where they are at apex not less than two-thirds the
width of the base ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate in both sexes, although
the superior tooth is very weakly indicated in the $ , all pubescent
inwardly in both sexes, but, of course, much more briefly so in the
anterior tibiae, hind ones plainly dentate on the upper side in either
sex ; sternal cavity not projecting much but triangularly aculeate,
grooved for nearly all the length and without a mesosternal trans-
verse suture.

The genus seems restricted to South Africa.

SCYTHROPESTHES BICOLOR, Burm.,

Handb. d. Entom., iii., 1842, p. 238 ;
Westw., Arc. Entom., ii., p. 186, pi. 46, fig. 5, $ .

Black, very shiny, elytra with a rufescent patch extending from
one humeral callus to the other, and reaching the middle but not
invading the supra-lateral part ; head and clypeus sparingly punctate,
the punctures small, but deep ; prothorax very sparingly punctuhitc
in the male, while in the female the punctures are more numerous
and deep on the sides ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra also impunc-
tate, except for a somewhat indistinct juxta-sutural row in the male,
but bearing a few remote minute punctures in the anterior part in
the female, and non-costate in both ; pygidium transversely plicate ;
abdomen very sparsely punctate ; pectus foveolate punctate, sternal
process grooved to a short distance from the apex ; inner part of
intermediate and posterior tibiae clothed with a long, dense, black
pubescence.

This species seems to be rare where it occurs, and its habitat very
restricted.

Length 21-23 mm. ; width 10-12 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Seymour). Natal (Karkloof).

INHAMBANE, n. gen.
Closely allied to Melinesthes and Genyodonta; clypeus simple.
very long, quite parallel Laterally, and emarginate in the centre of
the anterior part, in both sexes ; antennal club as long as the pedicel
in the $ ; prothorax as in Melinesthes, but a little more elongated
and slightly narrower in the anterior part ; scutellum grooved on
9a eh. si l - ; elytra el >ngate 1, on }-third narrower across the apex than

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across the base ; posternal process triangular, sharp at apex, slanting
slightly downwards ; anterior tibiae slender, dentate outwardly at the
apex only, and not sinuate above the apical tooth in the $ , bi-dentate
in the ? .

I have not been able to examine the maxillae of the type (cf ),
which belongs to Mr. 0. E. Janson, who described it as a species of
Melinesthes. Its nearest ally is, however, Genyodonta, but it differs
from both in the shape of the posternal process, which is triangularly
aculeate instead of being long and curved upwards as in the two
genera above mentioned.

Inhambana serripes, Jans.,
Cist. Entomol., hi., 1885, p. 142.

Male : Head, prothorax, scutellum, under side, and legs brick-red,
on the prothorax are two large posteriorly dilated longitudinal black
bands, and a somewhat indistinct black spot on each side of the
scutellum ; elytra elongated, straw-yellow with the suture and apical
margins moderately broadly dark chestnut-brown, the lateral margin
is also narrowly chestnut-brown, and the humeral callus, as well as
the edge of the base, is of the same colour ; head simple, slightly
impressed longitudinally on each side for nearly all the length,
closely punctate and glabrous ; the whole surface of the prothorax is
also very closely pitted, and so is the anterior part of the scutellum ;
elytra not distinctly costulate, but having on each side two longi-
tudinal dorsal impressions the sides of which simulate faint costules,
they are finely and moderately punctate, some of the punctures are
plainly seriate in the dorsal part, and the suture is raised behind ;
abdomen and pectus punctate, with the sides of the pectus very
briefly pubescent ; legs slender, very coarsely punctured, anterior
tibiae with one apical tooth, inner edge of anterior femora briefly
pubescent, that of all the tarsi somewhat briefly and not densely
hairy, the hind ones strongly serrate, the teeth sharper and slightly
hamate towards the knee.

Female : The female differs in being of a rather larger and broader
form, more strongly punctured, with the club of the antennae a little
shorter, and the abdomen convex in the centre ; the legs are shorter
and stouter, the anterior tibiae broader and provided with two
lateral teeth, the inner side of the hind tibiae is not serrate.

The serration of the hind tibiae in the male is not peculiar to this
species, it is found also, although in a lesser degree, in Genyodonta
var. egregia, Boh.

Length 25-27 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Inhambane).

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Gen. MELINESTHES, Kraatz,
Ent. Monatsbl., xii., 1880, p. 24.

Mentum broadly scooped laterally for the insertion of the palpi,
deeply and broadly emarginate in front ; maxillae robust, inner lobe
ending in a long, hamate tooth, upper lobe very small and produced
in two sharply hamate teeth ; antenna! club slightly longer than the
pedicel in the $ , equal in length in the $ ; clypeus simple in both
sexes, or with two more or less parallel, porrect horns in the male ;
prothorax diagonally ampliated laterally from apex to base, and
slightly sinuate past the middle, base slightly slanting and arcuate
above the scutellum which is grooved on each side; elytra elongated,
narrower at apex than at base ; mesosternum produced into a long,
sharp process, curving more or less strongly upwards and slightly
pubescent at tip ; anterior tibiae uni- or bi-dentate in the $ , bi- or
tri-dentate in the $ ; all the tibia? fringed inwardly with somewhat
long hairs.

Of the 7 species included in this genus one must be removed from
it (serripcs) ; one falls into synonomy (calvipes), a third can only be
regarded as a varietal form {flavipennis), and the differences between
two (umbonata and exMs) are so small, that I feel somewhat diffident
in considering them as distinct species ; the seventh occurs in
British East Africa.

Key to the Species.

A3. Clypeus simple in the male.

B2. Frontal part of both sexes pubescent.

Mesosternal process very Ion", curved and impunctate . . umbonata.

Mesostemal process moderately long, closely punctate at base exilis.

A". Clypeus with two porrect horns in the <j .

B1. Frontal part glabrous in both sexes.

Clypeal boms of j diverging, and broadly dilated singly at

:il"-'x (dgoensis.

Clypeal boms of i parallel and with the apical part curved
upwards like a hook hamula.

Melinesthbs umbonata, Gor. and Perch.,
Monogr., p. Ill, pi. 22, fig. 1.
Var. atricollis, Jans., Cist. Entom., hi., 1885, p. 139.
Var. vitticollis, K torn. Mfonatsb., ii., 1880, p. 24.

I'll, with the exception of the apical part of the clypeus, the
tst part of the surface of the prothorax, and the under side

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black, with exception of the two last apical abdominal segments
which are red like the anterior part of the clypeus, the lateral margin
of the thorax, the pygidium, and the legs ; elytra flavous with the
somewhat broad suture, the marginal fold and a humeral patch
fuscous or black ; antennae reddish ; clypeus slightly broader than
long, somewhat strangulate at base, the anterior border is plainly
reflexed, broadly emarginate in the centre, faintly bi-impressed
longitudinally, and closely punctulate, vertex clothed in both sexes
with a dense flavescent pubescence ; this pubescence is often partly
or wholly obliterated ; prothorax glabrous, shiny, closely punctulate
especially on the sides ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra shiny, very
weakly punctulate, and having on each side two thin, somewhat
faint costules ; pygidium finely transversely plicate ; abdominal
segments with scattered punctures ; sternum coarsely scabrose
punctate, scarcely hairy except on the fore thighs, mesosternum
grooved longitudinally in the centre, the process long, triangular
with the apical part curving slightly upwards and hairy in the inner
face, this process, including the basal part, is glabrous ; inner part
of all tibiae fringed with flavescent hairs which are longer in the
intermediate and posterior legs ; anterior tibiae uni-dentate in the 3 ,
tri-dentate in the ? .

This species is variable in shape, as well as in the colouring of the
prothorax. In tbe male the elytra are either plainly more attenuate
laterally behind than in the female or only slightly less so. In the
type form, the disk of the prothorax is black or darkly infuscate
with a somewhat narrow red margin ; this is, however, the exception,
the most common form being that in which the discoidal black patch
is divided into two bands (var. vitticollis, Kr.) ; but occasionally the
whole thorax is black (var. atricollis, Jans.).

Length 15-19 mm. ; width 8^-10 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Albany, Butterworth, East London) ; Natal
(Hilton Eoad, Upper Tongaat, Maritzburg, Eshowe) ; Transvaal
(Pretoria, Potchefstroom, Lydenburg, Pietersburg).

Feeds on thistles and Composites.

Melinesthes exilis, Jans.,

Cistul. Entomol., vol. hi., 1885, p. 141.

? M. simillima, Kr., Entom. Monastsb., ii., 1880, p. 25.

The species, of which the type, a $ , was kindly communicated to

me by Mr. 0. E. Janson, is so closely allied to the preceding species

that it is with the greatest diffidence that I accept it as being

distinct. The shape of the elytra of the male varies as it does in

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M. umbonata; in the type it is plainly attenuate behind. The
characteristics are : the prothorax slightly more deeply punctate ;
the scutellum punctate, although very sparingly, in some cases ; the
metasternal process shorter, not reflexed at apex, and, therefore,
more triangular, and its basal part punctate, the punctures being
setigerous.

In all but one case the examples of cxilis which I have examined
are from localities different from those where umbonata occurs.

I have not met with much variation in the colour of the prothorax,
the pattern seems so far to consist of two black bands in the median
part of the red surface ; these bands seldom reach the base.

Length 15-18 mm. ; width 8V-9-J mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Burghersdorp, Kimberley) ; Orange Biver
Colony (Vredeford) ; Transvaal (Boksburg, Potchefstroom) ; Natal
(Durban, Frere).

Melinesthes algoensis, Westw.,
Arcan. Entom., i., p. 184, pi. 45, fig. a.

'.' M. lOror, Kr., Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1891, p. 1.

Male : Head, prothorax, with the exception of two elongate
longitudinal black bands, scutellum, pygidium, the two apical
segments of the abdomen, legs, posternum, and antennae red;
elytra flavous and having on each side a humeral black round spot,
suture with a conspicuous black band, outer margin very narrowly
rufescent ; clypeus deeply excavate, the sides produced into two
long horizontal horns sensibly divergent, dilated at apex and
truncate there with the broadly dilated part reflexed, the upper part
of the horns is carinate, the outer vertical, but the inner is concave
with the lower margin conspicuously carinate, the head is bi-
impressed and bears in the centre an horizontal tooth projecting
above the clypeal excavation, the horns and the excavations are
smooth, but the two cephalic impressions are filled with setigerous
punctures ; prothorax smooth on the disk but weakly punctate
laterally; scutellum impunctate; elytra elongated, much attenuate
laterally towards the apex which is only half the width of the base,
v.r\ fainilx bi-costulate on each side, and slightly yet distinctly
punctulate ; pygidium transversely plicate ; abdomen weakly
punctate except on the sides ; metasternum covered with rugose
setigerous punctures ; metasternal process long, incurved at tip, and
slightly pubescent there ; anterior tibiae dentate at apex only.

Female : Coloured like the male ; the head is simple, but divided
in the cent], by a longitudinal ridge extending from the base to the

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median part of the clypeus which is broadly and deeply emarginate
in front ; the whole head is very roughly punctate ; the prothorax is
somewhat closely punctate, and the scutellum slightly so ; the
anterior tibiae are sharply bi-dentate.

Length 16^—22^ mm. (horns included).

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe ; Salisbury, Mazoe, Matopos,
Bulawayo.

I believe that M. soror of Kraatz is referable to this species.

Feeds on Cassia pods, wild figs, Protea flowers, Acacia flowers,
and Acacia gum (G. A. K. Marshall).

Var. flavipennis, Westw., Arcan. Entom., i., p. 185, pi. 45, fig. 5.

M. calvipes, Jans., Cist., iii., 1885, p. 140.

Shape, size, and sculpturing of M. algoensis, but usually with the
body completely black, and the elytra flavous with the suture and
the two humeral spots black ; occasionally, however, and occurring
in the same locality as the melanic variety, are also found examples
with a rufescent prothorax and two longitudinal discoidal bands, as
well as partly red and partly infuscate prothorax.

It is worthy of note that in this variety the clypeal horns of the
male are more parallel, and less broadly dilated at apex than in
the type form as figured by Westwood, but I have seen several
passages between the two.

Janson's M. calvipes is an example which through abrasion or bad
usage has lost all traces of pubescence ; the apical part of the clypeal
horn is slightly more ampliated at tip than in the majority of my
male examples, and thus approximates more the type form ; in the
ype which was kindly lent me by Mr. Janson, the carina which
unites the two horns at the base is not distinct, but while in some
of my examples this carina is almost obsolete, it is either moderately
strong or very well developed in others.

Length 17-22 mm. (horns included) ; width 8-10 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg, Eustenburg, Lydenburg, Potchef-
stroom, Pretoria, Waterberg) ; Bechuanaland (Eamoutsa).

Melinesthes hamula, Jans.,

Plate XLVIL, figs. 2, 2a.

Cist. Entomol., hi., 1885, p. 141.

Black, like M. algoensis, var. flavipennis, with the elytra pale

yellow, the suture and the posterior margin moderately broadly

black, the outer margin has a very narrowly black edge, and the

humeral patch on each side is brownish black. "While the female is

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absolutely similar to that of the variety of M. algoensis already men-
tioned, the male differs in the shape of the cephalic horns, which,
similar to those of M. algoensis from the base to two-thirds of the
length, have there the upper carina vertically truncate, and continued
as a sub-cylindrical process strongly curved and hamate at apex,
and much more raised than the upper angle of the truncate part
instead of being triangularly dilated and truncate at tip as in
algoensis; these horns are not as diverging as in the latter, and
the median porrect frontal horn is not more developed than in the
var. jlaripennis.

I have seen five males, including the type, and two females. The
genital clasps of the male are hardly distinguishable from those of
M. algoensis, and, in spite of the different shape of the cephalic
horns, I am strongly inclined to consider the present species as
only a variety of M. algoensis. Intermediate forms will probably
be met with, much more so than in the intermediate and small
development it is quite plain that the hamate part of the horns is
the increase of the inner angle at the expense of the outer, the latter
being still noticeable.

Length 18-22 mm. ; width 10-12 mm.

Hob. Natal (Tugela Kiver), Transvaal (Barberton).

Gen. GENYODONTA, Burin.,
Handb. d. Entom., hi., 1842, p. 234.

Mriitum ampliate, rounded laterally, ligular part slightly dilated
in front, narrowly and deeply incised in the centre and with the
outer angles conspicuously rounded ; palps cavity moderately long
and moderately broad ; inner lobe of maxillas sharply hamate, upper
one laminate, arcuate, truncate at apex and concave ; antennal club of
nearly equal size in both sexes, and shorter than the pedicel ; head
of the <? incised laterally with the outer margin raised as a high,
laminate wall reaching to half the length of the clypeus, and either
truncate at apex or gradually sloping there ; from the centre of the
base projects an horizontal lanceolate horn extending forward as far
as the lateral walls, the clypeus is broader than the lateral walls of
the head, parallel, quadrangular, but with the anterior margin pro-
duced in the centre into a laminate vertical process, sub-quadrate,
or slightly rounded at aprx ; in the $ the head is simple but the
clypeus is strongly carinate above the outer margin from near the
eye almost to the anterior margin, and the sides project a good deal
beyond this ridge , in the centre of both head and clypeus there is a
longitudinal elevation, forming in conjunction with the lateral ridges

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a moderately deep depression on each side ; the prothorax is of the
usual sub-trapezoidal form, moderately sinuate on each side of the
scutellum and strongly arcuate above' it ; scutellum long and sharp,
grooved laterally ; elytra elongated, and narrowing behind ; sternal
process long, slanting slightly downwards, but with the cylindrical
apical part curving upwards without being, however, much hamate ;
anterior tibiae of <? dentate outwardly at the apex only, those of the
? tri-dentate ; inner part of tibiae not pubescent but with seriate
hairs in both sexes ; hind femora of g thickened but in a much
lesser degree than in Eccoptocnemis, and inner part of tibiae either
moderately or strongly serrate.

Genyodonta flavomaculata, Fabr.,
Plate XLIII., tigs. 16, 17.

Ent. Syst. Suppl., p. 129 ;
Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 139, pi. 21, fig. 3.

bimaculata, de Geer, Mem. Ins., vii., p. 369, pi. 47, fig. 19.
Oliv., Entom., i., 6, p. 14, pi. 2, fig. 6.

bisignata, Herbst., Kaf., hi., p. 164, pi. 27, fig. 5.

Var. egregia, Boh., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 15.

quadricomis, Jans., Cist. Ent., hi., 1884, p. 104.

Light chestnut, with four black patches on the prothorax, and
two small ones on the scutellum, past the median part of the elytra
there is on each side a quadrate flavous patch the outer edge of
which is continued along the outer margin in the shape of a lateral
band which does not reach quite the posterior outer angle, the dorsal
part of the patch, which with its prolongation is not unlike a huge
zigzagged comma, is often sinuate, and either partly or completely
edged with black ; in some examples from the Transvaal the four
patches on the thorax, the hind ones of which are normally larger
than the anterior, have invaded the greatest part of the disk, and the
elytra with the exception of the outer margins, and also the
scutellum, are very dark brown ; head almost impunctate in the
male, closely punctate in the female, but the punctures on the
prothorax are few and more noticeable in either sex on the sides
which are slightly transversely sigillate towards the median part ;
scutellum impunctate ; elytra non-costulate and very obsoletely
seriate punctulate ; pygidium more conspicuously plicate trans-
versely in the female than in the male ; under side glabrous except
for a short pubescence on the anterior coxae, weakly punctate in the
male, but strongly and closely in the female ; the serration of the
inner part of the hind tibiae of the male varies greatly in individuals

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from the same locality, it may be altogether absent, or nearly as
strong as in Inhambane serripes.

The type of this species I take to be the form occurring in the
Cape Colony, and also in Natal ; in the Transvaal the examples are
often partly melanic, but the size is about the same as that of the
type form ; in Northern Rhodesia, Beira, and Ovampoland the
examples are usually smaller, lighter in colour, and the lateral
clypeal ridge of the male as often as not is more vertically truncate.
It is this form which Boheman described as G. egregia, and 0. E.
Janson as G. quadricornis. The apical angles of the genital arma-
ture of the male are very slightly more angular in the variety than
in the type ; fig. 16 is not a faithful one. Fig. 17 is quite correct.

Length 21-28 mm. ; width 10-14i mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (the whole of the Eastern Provinces, Kim-
berley) ; Orange River Colony; Transvaal ; Natal; Southern Rhodesia
(Salisbury, Mazoe, Sebakwe, Limpopo River, Tati, Victoria Falls,
Bulawayo) ; Ovampoland ; Nyassaland ; Mozambique (Beira).

This species is very destructive to cultivated fruit (peaches, plums,
bananas, &c.) in the Cape Colony and Natal; in Rhodesia, however,
where the cultivation of fruit is still in its infancy, it feeds on Acacia
gum (G. A. K. Marshall).

Gen. ISANDULA, J. Thorns.,
Le Natur., ii., p. 294.

Smaragdesthes (part), Kraatz.

Mentum and ligula nearly straight laterally but slightly narrower
at base than at apex, where it is deeply sinuate in the centre and
hairy in the sinuation, the basal median part of the outer face is
broadly excavated, and the palps cavity moderately broad ; maxillae
short, robust, inner lobe with a strong tooth set at right angles with
the lobe, upper lobe short, sub-transverse, blunt inwardly and sub-
laminate ; in both sexes the clypeus is parallel, sub-carinate juxta
laterally, concave at apex with the anterior margin strongly rerlexed
into a laminate wall in the centre, and over the basal part of the
clypeal excavation there projects slightly a short, horizontal, blunt,
transverse tooth which is the continuation of a median, rounded
itudinal cephalic ridge beginning near the occipital part;
antennal club of <J almost as long as the pedicel ; prothorax of the
usual sub-trapezoidal type; scutellum longer than broad and verj
acute, not grooved laterally, and slightly depressed in the centre;
elytra very elongated, and only one-third narrower at apex than at
the base : sternal process very long, slender, horizontal, but tapering

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and strongly curving upwards at apex ; anterior tibiae dentate at
apex in the $ , weakly bi-dentate in the $ ; under side, except the
anterior coxae, glabrous ; intermediate and posterior tibiae slightly
pubescent inwardly.

Thomson has proposed this genus for a species ranging from
Senegambia and Guinea to Southern Ehodesia and Delagoa Bay.

ISANDULA AFRICANA, DrUl\,

Illustr. exot. Ins., ii., p. 54, pi. 30, fig. 4 ;
Oliv., Entom., i., 6, p. 31, pi. 8, fig. 70.

Var. subsuturalis, Kraatz.

Shiny green or greenish blue, with the dorsal part of the elytra
suffused with a fiavescent sheen, which is more distinct when the
elytra are bluish green instead of emerald-green, and which occa-
sionally invades three- fourths of the dorsal part ; head deeply punc-
tate on each side of the longitudinal raised part, and sparingly so in
the clypeal cavity ; prothorax covered with equi-distant, moderately
deep punctures distant from each other, but obliterated in the centre
of the disk, except occasionally in some female examples ; scutellum
impunctate, but occasionally with a few punctures ; elytra with
regular series of round, distinct punctures, or with the punctures
finer but still seriate, the short, declivous part is strongly and
irregularly plicate transversely, and more roughly so than on the
pygidium ; the under side is more numerously punctate in the female
than in the male, where the punctures are very scarce, and the
sternal process has a distinct transverse suture in the female, but
not in the male.

Owing to its great range this species has developed into numerous
local races or varieties, and even in South Africa there is a slight
variation in colour and sculpture in examples from different localities.
The Mozambique examples are nearer to the Senegal form ; the
colour is not so deep emerald-green as in the specimens from the
Gold Coast, and there is either a faint tinge of yellow on the elytra
or a well-defined parallel fiavescent band, but the seriate punctures
are equally deep ; it is this form which Mr. 0. E. Janson has identi-
fied for me as the variety subsuturalis of Kraatz. In Southern
Rhodesia the fiavescent sheen of the greatest part of the elytra is
intensified and the seriate punctures are much smaller and shallower;
these characters, however, are very variable in examples from the
same locality. The shape of the genital armature is the same for
examples from Senegambia, the Gold Coast, and also for the var.
urauia, Bat., from the Zanzibar mainland.

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Length 20-23 mm. ; width 9£-ll mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Mazoe, Matopos, Rusapi,
Sebakwe) ; Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez, Rikatla, Beira).

Feeds, like Galorrhina loricata, on gum of Acacia and Combretum,
on pods of Cassia, and on flowers of Protea (G. A. K. Marshall).

Gen. PTYCIIODESTHES, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1883, p. 391.

M< ntum of Raccloma, but slightly more parallel laterally, very
hairy on the outer face ; maxillae long, moderately slender, inner
lobe simple, upper lobe long, sub-falcate, densely hairy even on the
greatest part of the outer face ; last joint of palps of the normal
shape ; head and clypeus simple in both sexes ; clypeus incised
laterally at base, parallel, the outer angles plainly marked, although
slightly rounded, only slightly sinuate in front, carinate all round
but with the sides not projecting beyond the ridge, cephalic part
somewhat hairy ; antennal club longer than the pedicel in the 3 ,
nearly as long in the $ ; prothorax of the usual shape ; scutellum
very sharply acuminate; elytra sub-parallel, pluri-costate ; sternal
process elongated, aculeate and sub-acuminate, not quite horizontal,
slightly slanting downwards, grooved along metasternal part, and
with a slight mesosternal suture ; anterior tibiae dentate at apex
only in the $ , those of the $ bi-dentate ; pectus somewhat hairy.
inner part of all tibia? sparsely pubescent ; hind ones with a sharp
tooth on the upper side.

Kraatz proposed this genus for a series of African species formerly
included by Burmeister in the genus Coryphocera, sect. B, such as
('. alternata, Kb, bicostata, Bch., africana, Drury, &c.; but however
much the characters drawn from the shape of the sternal process
and given by him may apply to some species such as africana, &c.,
viz., " mesosterni processus elongatus, gracilis, mucronatus, recur-
vus," it certainly does not to Coryphocera alternata. We have
already Bees that a new genus {Isandula) was proposed by J.
Thomson for Coryi^liocera africana and allies previous to Kraatz's
publication of bis genus Smaragdesthes. To this genus, with an
amended diagnosis must then be referred C. alternata. Kb, bicostata,
Sch., &c. Not so, however, S. oertzeni, Kolbe, which although
uncommonly like S. alternans, but larger, differs considerably in the
shape of the mentum and of the buccal organs, especially of the
upper maxillary lobe. The shape of the genital valves of the two
i^ oi a quite different pattern.

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Ptychodesthes alternata, Klug,

Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 660 ;

Peter's Reis., 1862, p. 263, pi. 15, fig. 8.

Bright green, shiny ; elytra occasionally with a slight bluish tinge
in the median dorsal part ; antennae chestnut-brown ; clypeus punc-
tulate only but with the central part of the head punctate and
moderately densely pubescent in tbe male, but deeply and closely
punctured all over, except at the occipital base, and with the
flavescent pubescence very short and scanty in the female ; pro-
thorax extremely finely aciculate and bearing some round scattered
punctures along the sides and especially the base in the male, but
more numerous, deeper, and nearly equi-distant in the female, in
which also the background is quite smooth ; scutellum impunctate ;
elytra with two conspicuous tectiform costae uniting on each side at
the posterior callus, and bearing each seven punctate striae ; pygidium
covered with very shallow, partly obliterated cicatricose punctures ;
sides of abdominal segments and legs punctate ; pectus closely punc-
tate in both sexes and clothed with a flavescent pubescence which is
denser in the male than in the female, in which sex the legs are
somewhat rufescent.

Length 16 mm. ; width 8-8-J mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Manica) ; Mozambique (Tette, teste
Klug, Beira).

Gen. RACELOMA, J. Thorns.,
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1877, p. cxiii.

Mentum elongated, ovoid laterally, ligular part slightly ampliated,
very deeply and triangularly incised in front with the outer part of
the lateral lobe diagonal, palps cavity very wide, outer face clothed
with very long hairs ; maxillae moderately massive, inner and upper
lobe not dentate, the latter long and surmounted by a very long and
thick pencil of hairs ; clypeus deeply incised laterally in front of the
first antennal joint, carinate but with the sides bulging, broadly and
arcuately emarginate in front and rounded laterally ; antennal club
nearly as long as the pedicel in the $ , shorter in the ? ; prothorax
of the usual sub-trapezoidal shape ; sub-arcuate above the scutellum,
which is long and sharp, and the acuminate part slightly carinate ;
sternal process short, bluntly acuminate, grooved on the meta-
sternum, but without any traces of suture on the mesosternum ;
anterior tibiae dentate at apex only in the $ , tri-dentate in the $ ;
inner part of all the tibiae moderately deeply pubescent in both sexes.

This genus, which comprises two species, seems to be restricted
to South Africa.

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Key to the Sj)ecies.

Scutellum almost impunctate ; anterior clypea] margin plainly
emarginate natalcnsis.

Scutellum closely aciculate ; anterior clypeal margin slightly sinuate jansoni.

Kaceloma NATALEN8IS, Hope,

Proc. Ent. Soc, 1841, p. 33 ;

Westw., Arcan. Entom., i., p. 186, pi. 46, fig. 4, 3 .

R. induta, Sch., Ann. Fr., 1844, p. 404, pi. 11, fig. 4, $ .

Dark bottle-green, almost black underneath, with the elytra viola-
ceous on the sides, but with the scutellum and the median dorsal
part either bright green or blue ; antennae piceous, legs very dark
green or dark blue ; anterior part of the clypeus plainly emarginate,
head deeply and somewhat coarsely punctured as on the prothorax,
where the punctures are somewhat closely set, but very uneven ;
scutellum with only a few, scattered, shallow punctures ; elytra
elongated, very little narrower across the apex than at the base, bi-
costulate on each side, and covered with closely set deep punctures
which are sometimes surrounded by a smooth raised wall in the
anterior dorsal part of the female ; pygidium finely plicate ; pectus
hairy in both sexes, but more densely so in the female, the hairs
fulvescent.

Length 16-18 mm. ; width 8-9 mm.

Hub. Natal (Durban).

Kaceloma jansoni, Dist.,
Ann. and Mag. Nnt. Hist., xix., 1S97, p. 577.
Male: Head, prothorax, and scutellum deep green, moderately
shiny, immaculate ; elytra dark blue, and without any traces of
white marginal hands ; pygidium black, immaculate ; under side
legs, antennas and palpi black ; antennal club as long as the whole
head ; clypeus slightly rounded laterally, and slightly sinuate at
apex, deeply and closely pitted like the head, on the vertex of the
latter the punctures are briefly setigerous ; prothorax very closely
and deeph pitted, especially on the sides, in the centre there is a
smooth Longitudinal line; scutellum deeply and closely aciculate
punctate ; elytra elongate, plainly sinuate laterally, coarsely punc-
tate, the punctures deep and cicatricose, bi-costate on each side in
the dorsal part, but having also a costule running from the humeral
part to two-thirds of the length, and almost parallel with the outer

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dorsal one, the intervals are not striate ; abdomen glabrous ; pectus
briefly pubescent.

Length 12 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria) ; Natal.

Gen. T^NIESTHES, Kraatz,
Entom. Monatsb., ii., 1880, p. 27.

Mentum of Isandula, maxillae robust, inner lobe with a small,
slightly hooked inner tooth, upper lobe robust, and moderately
hooked, vertical inwardly, with the two angles sharp ; body short,
somewhat massive ; the shape of the head and of the clypeus are
similar in both sexes, clypeus parallel, broadly emarginate at apex
with the outer angles well rounded, and with a longitudinal, median,
rounded keel beginning at a short distance from the cephalic base
and ending at about the median part of the clypeus in a briefly
projecting horizontal tooth ; antennal club not quite as long as the
pedicel in the $ ; prothorax somewhat short, sub-trapezoidal, as
much arcuate on each side of the base as above the scutellum which
is as broad as long, but sharply acuminate and not depressed in the
centre ; elytra somewhat short, not very much attenuated behind ;
sternal process horizontal, slender towards the apex and strongly
curving upwards there in the manner of Isandula, &c. ; legs some-
what short, anterior tibiae dentate at apex in the $ , bi-dentate in
the $ , but with the upper tooth very blunt, inner side of inter-
mediate and posterior tibiae moderately densely pubescent, the upper
ridge of the posterior one dentate in either sex.

This description is made from examples of the South African
representative, but the genus was founded by Kraatz for Heteror-
rhina spccidaris, Gerst., from the Zanzibar mainland, in which the
clypeus is simple in the ? , the only sex I know.

T^NIESTHES PICTURATA, Har.,

Mitt. Munch. Ent. Ver., ii., 1878, p. 103.

bradsliatoi, Poll. Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1886, p. 300.

Light brick-red with the elytra more flavescent ; head fuscous
with the central part of the clypeus rufescent ; prothorax with three
dorsal black longitudinal bands ; scutellum narrowly fuscous across
the base ; elytra with a broad reddish-brown sutural band which is
continued from the top of the hind declivity as a narrow line, the
anterior and posterior callus bear each a quadrate patch of the
same colour, but that of the hind callus is usually elongated, con

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nected on the upper inner edge with the lateral band, and also con-
tinued transversely across the median part of the apical margin. I
have seen examples in which the prothoracic bands as well as the
elytral hand and spot have invaded the whole of the disk, leaving
only a very narrow line of the reddish and flavescent oi'iginal hack-
ground uncovered, the under side in this melanic variety is also
black ; head and clypeus deeply but not closely punctate, the punc-
tures being somewhat cicatricose ; prothorax deeply punctate except
on a broad, longitudinal median area, these punctures are round and
separated by a space equal to their own diameter, but close to the
outer margin they become transversal ; scutellum sparingly punc-
tate ; elytra somewhat short, covered with round punctures, closely
set but not seriate, and having no traces of costules ; pygidium
rufescent, closely plicatulate transversely ; abdomen very weakly
punctate in the male, more deeply so in the female, but the meta-
sternum is deeply punctate in both, and moderately briefly
pubescent.

Length 15— 15$ mm. : width 8-8$ mm.

Originally described by Harold from West Central Africa. This
species is recorded in South Africa from Southern Ehodesia (Mazoe,
Victoria Falls, Sebakwe, Salisbury, Umcheki River), and also from
the Transvaal (Waterberg).

Found on flowering shrubs (G. A. K. Marshall ; D. Dod).

Gen. PLJESIOKRHINA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iii., p. 211.

Dyspilophora, Kraatz, Entom. Monatsb., ii., 1880, p. 27.

Mentum broader or slightly broader at apex than at base but with
the sides parallel ; inner lobe of maxillae simple, upper lobe short,
more or less sharply toothed ; head and clypeus simple in both
sexes, the latter is sub-parallel, carinate above the sides, broadly but
not deeply emarginate in front ; prothorax of the normal shape ;
scutellum as broad as long, not very much elongated, but sharp at
apex : elytra elongated, parallel and not attenuated behind (Plasior-
rhina), or only very slightly so {Dyspilophora); sternal process
elongated, slender, strongly curving upwards at apex ; anterior tibia'
dentate at apes only in both sexes ; intermediate and posterior tibiae
simple ainl moderately pubescent inwardly in both sexes of Dys
j>h<>r,i and also in the T of /'/,, tiorrhina, but dilated in the centre
inwardly and with a long pubescence in the posterior part of the
hind tibiae in the J of Plcesiorrhina.

The genus is represented in Senegambia, Guinea, Tropical Eastern

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Africa, and South Africa. The only difference between Plasiorrhina
and Dyspilophora is that the latter is smaller, the elytra are less
parallel laterally, and in the $ the hind tibiee are evenly pubescent
inwardly.

Key to the Species.

Clypeus slightly sinuate in front (Plcesiorrhina.)

Elytra elongated, parallel, and bearing a transverse narrow
yellow band extending from side to side past the median part . . plana.

Clypeus deeply emarginate in front {Dyspilophora.

Elytra with a broad sub-sinuate yellow patch on each side . . trivittata.

Plcesiorrhina plana, Wied.,
Germ. Mag., iv., p. 145.

hcrschcli, McLeay, Illust. Zool. Afric, iii., p. 31.

taenia var., Wied., Zool. Mag., ii., 1, p. 163.

deussi, Schoch., Entomol. Nachr., vii., 1898, p. 101.

Dark bronze on the upper side with a very narrow fiavescent
border on the prothorax and a transverse, moderately broad, bi-
sinuate flavous band on the elytra reaching from the outer margin to
the suture ; pygidium bronze with a fiavescent median patch ;
abdominal segments and all sternal parts as well as the side-pieces
fiavescent and edged with bronze ; tibiae bronze ; antennae piceous
with a metallic tinge ; head and clypeus closely punctate, the
punctures on the sides of the prothorax turning to somewhat fine
transverse folds ; scutellum sparingly punctulate ; elytra almost
parallel, not costulate, punctate, the punctures deep but only
moderately closely set, and non-seriate ; pygidium finely plicate
transversely ; under side glabrous and sparsely punctate ; inter-
mediate tibiae slightly arcuate in the male, the posterior ones bluntly
triangularly ampliated at about the median part of the inner side and
densely pubescent in the posterior part of the tibia only, while the
intermediate tibiae are moderately pubescent along their whole
length ; the female differs from the male merely in the non-dilatation
of the inner part of the hind tibiae, which, like the intermediate ones,
are pubescent along the whole length.

This species is replaced in East Central Africa by the colour
variety P. unchilata, Bat., which is of a redder bronze colour with a
more distinct greenish sheen, and in which the post-median elytral
band is greatly narrowed and edged with fuscous, but in which the
genital armature of the male is absolutely similar to that of

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P. plana; in Western Africa is another colour variety, P. mecliana,
Westw., differing from the type form in being greenish bronze
instead of dark bronze, and having a slightly narrower elytra]
band.

Length 22-23 mm.; width 11-1LV mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Albany, East London, Port
St. John, Kimberley) ; Natal (the whole Colony) ; Orange River
Colony (Vredeford, Bloemfontein, Kroonstadt) ; Transvaal (in
every district) ; Southern Rhodesia (Umtali, Salisbury, Mazoe,
Matopos).

In the Cape Colony this species, like Genyodonta maculata, is
injurious to cultivated fruit ; Mr. G. A. K. Marshall informs me that
in Rhodesia it feeds on gum of Combrctum and Acacia; also on
flowers of Acacia, Protea, and Zizyphus, on roses, and on various
wild and cultivated fruit.

Pl^siorrhina (Dyspilophora) trivittata, Sch.,

Anal. Entom., p. 41.
Westw., Arcan. Entom., i., p. 186, pi. 46, tig. 3, g .
Var. nigricans, Kraatz, Entom. Monatsb., ii., 1880, p. 27.

Chestnut-red, with three black longitudinal discoidal bands reach-
ing from near the apex to a short distance from the base on the
prothorax, elytra with a very large, median yellow patch, somewhat
sinuate in the posterior part, occupying about one-third of the
length, slanting towards the suture which it does not reach, and con-
nected with the outer margin, this patch is usually edged with
fuscous; pygidium rufescent, somewhat infuscate longitudinally in the
centre. The colour of the type form is, however, very variable, and
as often as not the whole dorsal part of the prothorax, except for a
narrow flavescent margin, is fuscous or almost black and the elytra
also totally fuscous with the exception of the dorsal tiavous patches ;
this is the variety nigricans, Kr. ; but I have examples from the same
locality in which the elytra are fuscous from the base to four-fifths of
the length only, with the prothoracic black bands of the normal
shape, or forming a wide black triangle enclosing two short bands of
the reddish background. Head and clypeus covered with round,
closely set punctures ; prothorax almost impunctate in the centre
and along the base, but deeply punctate on the sides; scutellum im-
punctate; elytra deeply sinuate Laterally, and slightly attenuate in
the posterior part, not costulate, and covered with somewhat closely
set non-seriate punetuivs ; under side glabrous, scabrose punctate
and plicate in the male, sparsely pubescent in the female; inter-

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mediate and posterior tibiae somewhat densely fringed with fulvous
hairs all along their length in both sexes.

The range of this species is very wide in South Africa, but the
type form seems to be restricted to the Cape Colony, Natal, Orange
Eiver Colony, and the southern part of the Transvaal ; further north
the melanic or partly melanic variety nigricans prevails, and reaches
East Central Africa.

Length 15-17 m ; width 8-9 mm.

Hob. Cape Colony (Transkei) ; Natal (every district) ; Transvaal
(every district) ; Bechuanaland ; Ovampoland ; Southern Ehodesia
(Bulawayo, Salisbury, Mazoe, Sebakwe, Massikessi, Umtali,
Untokos).

Gen. MAZOE, Pering.,
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 162.

Mentum sub-parallel, ligular part very little narrower than the
mentum, truncate at apex and very slightly sinuate there, the
condyle of the labial palpi is lateral and apical, and only moderately
long, the apical joint of the labial palps is straight inwardly, sub-
fusiform outwardly ; maxillae moderately robust, upper lobe broadly
triangular, corneous, densely ciliate at the tip; joints of maxillary
palps moderately long, last one sub-cylindrical ; clypeus slightly
longer than the head, sub-parallel, or slightly rounded laterally, nearly
straight at apex, strangulate at the base and with the lateral and
apical margins very slightly raised, ocular canthus quite transverse ;
antennal club as long as the pedicel ; prothorax three times broader
at the base than at the apex and gradually sloping laterally from the
apex to about the median part, past which it is conspicuously
sinuate, the lateral part of the base is so produced as to cover half
the mesothoracic epimera, which are very narrow, the base is quite
straight ; scutellum very long and very sharp ; elytra not broader at
the shoulders than the base of the prothorax, attenuate behind,
plane, pluri-costate on each side ; pygidium one-third broader than
long, vertical in the $ ; legs slender, anterior tibiae bi-dentate
outwardly and with a faint trace of a third tooth ; hind tibiae with
a distinct tooth on the upper side, terminal part truncate, briefly
3-dentate, median and hind tarsi ciliate underneath, hind ones
somewhat compressed ; metathorax sending between the median
coxae a blunt process, which is vertical at tip ; the prothorax is
almost straight along the base, and thus hides the greatest part of
the mesothoracic epimera, which are not much developed.

The genus appears to be restricted to South Africa.

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Mazob albonotata, Pering.,
Plate XLV., fig. G.

Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc, 3, 1885, p. 28.
jucunda, Per., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 162.

Black, somewhat opaque on the upper side, head either with an
elongated pale fulvous patch extending to half the length of the
clypeus, or entirely without it; prothorax with nine whitish or
yellowish patches, which are occasionally coalescing and thus cover
the greatest part of the surface, hut are also entirely wanting in some
examples ; scutellum also with or without a flavescent patch ; elytra
with a supra-marginal white or flavescent band which is not unseldom
either completely or partially obliterated ; in several examples, the
background or the intervals of the discoidal part is somewhat
brownish red ; pygidium with two white patches ; clypeus and head
moderately deeply punctate, palps and antenna' piceous black;
prothorax strongly narrowed laterally in front, diagonally ampliated
the apex to about the middle, very strongly sinuate there,
widest along the base which is straight and fits so closely along the
elytra that the mesothoracic epimera are partly hidden, the surface
is covered with rough sub-contiguous punctures separated by thin,
irregular walls; elytra elongated, very little sinuate laterally, nar-
rower at apex than at base, plane, and having on the discoidal part
six distinct costac, including the suture, these costae as well as the
intervals and the supra-marginal part are coarsely punctate ;
pygidium vertical, and having along the apical margin a fringe of
small black hairs ; abdomen glabrous, pectus and legs sparsely
punctate, the punctures briefly setigerous, the hairs black ; antenme
and palpi piceous red, the club equal in length in both sexes.

The type form of -V. albonotata was described from an example
with nine white macules on the prothorax, and a white supra-
marginal band and a patch on each side of the apical part on each
elytron, the latter being black ; 31. jucunda was described from an
example in which the patches on the thorax are light fulvous, instead
of white, and have invaded nearly the whole surface; the intervals
of the elytra are rufescent. But the colouring is very variable.
According to Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, this species is termitobious,
never seen on gum or flowers, and flies in the sunshine.

Length 16-20 mm. ; width 8J-9i mm.

I l,il>. Bechuanaland (Ramoutsa); Transvaal (Pietersburg, Rusten-
barg, Pretoria) ; Southern Riiodesia (Salisbury, Enkeldoorn,
Marandellas).

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Gkoup SCHIZOEEHINII.

Gen. GNATHOCEEA, Kirb.,
Trans. Linn. Soc, xiv., 1825, p. 571.
Amphistoros, Gory and Perch., Monogr. d. Cet., p. 145.

Body almost glabrous ; rnentum greatly elongated, sub-oblong,
parallel, with the whole anterior margin deeply scooped, the outer
angles sharp, the outer face of the ligular part is convex, and the
palps cavities very long and very wide ; maxillae long, somewhat
slender, upper lobe short, dentate, and also very stiffly ciliate
inwardly ; clypeus attenuate in front, carinate laterally, and with
the outer angles prolonged in a compressed, acuminate process half
as long as the head ; antennal club shorter than the whole pedicel ;
prothorax sub-trapezoidal, with the basal angles sub-obtuse, and the
base arcuate above the sharply triangular scutellum ; elytra broader
than the prothorax, strongly sinuate laterally, slightly attenuate
behind, and plainly bi-costate on each side, the suture raised ; the
prosternal epimera are greatly reduced, triangular at the top, and
vertical ; sternal process very long, conical, curving strongly inwards
at the tip. Interior tibiae sharply tri-dentate ; tarsi slender, claws
very long; posterior tibiae incurved in the male.

This genus is easily identified by the shape of the clypeus.

The species of this genus inhabit Eastern, Western, and Central
Africa, but one species originally described from Nyassaland occurs
in the north-eastern part of the South African Eegion.

Gnathocera valida, Jans.,
Cistul. Entomol, iii., 1884, p. 105.
Almost glabrous, black, with the elytra navo-testaceous or flavous
and the antennas and legs rufescent ; the clypeus is longitudinally
striolate and the head moderately closely punctate, on the clypeus
are two cretaceous white bands and two spots of similar colour on
each side of the head ; the prothorax is deeply and irregularly punc-
tured and sparsely setulose like the frontal part of the head, very
broadly grooved in the centre of the disk, and deeply arcuately
emarginate above the scutellum, the longitudinal groove is coated
with white, and there is on each side a similar white band covering
a quarter of the whole surface ; the very long scutellum is strongly
arcuate at the base, broadly grooved in the centre, the groove coated
with white ; elytra glabrous, highly bi-costate, the costae smooth, and
the intervals filled with closely set, seriate punctures, along the outer

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margin runs a humeral slender white band followed by four sub-
transverse white patches, and there is a broader one on each side of
the apex ; pygidium with a wide white patch on each side ; the
whole under side is banded laterally with white, the central part of
the abdomen is narrowly black with a median series of white spots,
the femora are coated with white, and the inner part has a fine,
flavescent white pubescence.

Feeds on flowering grasses.

Length 15^-16 mm. ; width 8|-8f mm.

Eab. Transvaal (Pietersburg, Zoutpansberg) ; Southern Rhodesia
(Victoria Falls, Manica, Salisbury) ; Natal (Frere).

GNATHOCEEIDA, n. gen.
This genus differs from Gnathoccra in the shape of the sternal
process which projects very little beyond the coxae and is there
vertically truncate ; the body is very densely hairy on both the
upper and lower sides ; the basal part of the prothorax is only
moderately arcuate above the scutellum which is shorter, broader
at the base and not furrowed in the centre ; the upper lobe of
maxillae is edentate, but the bristles are so stiff as to resemble
spines.

Gnathoceka hirta, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., 1842, hi., p. 547.

Dark green but occasionally rufescent green, clad on the upper
side with slightly flavescent, very long setulose hairs, which are
denser on the under side and legs ; clypeal part partly or completely
coated with white; prothorax very closely punctate, and having a
somewhat narrow marginal lateral wnite band; prothorax punctulate
except at the base ; elytra with the intervals between the suture
and costae very deeply punctate, along the outer margin is a
band of interrupted white macules somewhat variable in number,
one on each side of the apex, and two or four dorsal ones on each
side in the posterior part ; the number of these macules is very
variable, and I have seen examples from Johannesburg in which
there are, in addition to four well-defined ones, five or six small white
spots ; in this varietal form the scutellum has a large white patch,
and the prothorax from two to five minute white macules; pygidium
broadly maculated occasionally with white on each side; lateral
part of the body broadly handed with white, also the femora; central
part of abdomen with a median series of white spots,

Feeds on the flowers of various plants,

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Length 14-14^ mm. ; width 7| mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Tugela Eiver, Malvern, Frere);
Transvaal (Johannesburg, Pretoria, Lydenburg).

Gen. GAMETIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iii., 1842, p. 356.
Phonotania, Kraatz. Deuts. Entom. Zeitschr. 1880, p. 154.

Mentum long, sub-parallel or somewhat oblong, emarginate in
front, the palps cavity very elongated ; maxillae long, somewhat
slender, lobes simple, upper one with a very long pencil of fulvous
hairs ; clypeus attenuate laterally from near the median part to the
apex, and somewhat deeply incised there ; prothorax attenuate
laterally in the anterior part for about one-third of the length, nearly
parallel thence to the base the angles of which are well rounded,
deeply arcuate above the scutellum which is narrow but long, and
not sharply acuminate at the apex ; elytra plane, non-costate, or
very obsoletely so , sternal process projecting, more or less broadly
triangular ; anterior tibia? tri-dentate ; inner part of legs pubescent.

The genus is represented in Eastern and Western Africa.

Key to the Species.

A-. Clypeus very sharply acuminate at apex.

Elytra non-costate, and with a quadrate scutellary patch, a

sutural band, a median transverse band, and the apex black. . sub-fasciata.

A1. Clypeus less sharply acuminate at apex.

Elytra weakly costulate, basal part with a long triangular

black patch, apex black balteata.

Gametis subfasciata, Swed.,
Vet. Ak. Nya. Handb., 1787, iii., p. 191.

cliscoidea, Pabr., Ent. Syst., i., 2, p. 151.

fiammea, Vig., Zool. Journ., ii., p. 237, pi. 9, fig. 2.

velutina, Oliv., Ent., i., 6, p. 89, pi. 12, fig. 114.

Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 246, pi. 46, fig. 5.

Black, opaque on the upper side, epimera and elytra orange-red,
the latter has a quadrate basal patch continued as a band along the
suture, and extending in the median part as a more or less narrow
transverse band which does not reach the outer margin, the whole of
the apical part is black. Head and clypeus closely punctate ; pro-

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thorax nearly straight laterally in the posterior part, cicatricose
punctate but with the punctures hidden by the black tomentum ;
scutellum impunctate ; elytra non-costulate and with the apical
part of the suture non-acuminate, striate, the striae shallow and
with elongated cicatricose punctures which do not quite coalesce,
the apical part is much more plainly punctate, the punctures are
transverse and strongly cicatricose ; pygidium transversely plicate ;
under side glabrous, except the inner part of the legs, sparsely
punctate, the median part of the metasternum is smooth, and the
sternal process projects very plainly and is broadly triangular.

Length 14-16 mm. ; width 8-9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay, Knysna, Humansdorp, Uitenhage,
Port Elizabeth) ; Natal (Durban, "SYeenen).

Gametis balteata, de Geer,
Mem. Ins., vii., p. 642, pi. 48, fig. 4.

controversa, Gory and Perch., Mon., p. 246, pi. 46, fig. 6.
curtisii, Vig., Zool. Journ., ii., p. 237, pi. 9, fig. 1.
dulcinea, Thorns., Arch. Entom., i., p. 285.
lasciva, Thorns., loc. cit., p. 286.
natalensis, Thorns., loc. cit., p. 286.
zambesiana, Kraatz, Deutsch. Ent. Zeit., 1900, p. 78.
zanzibarica, Kaffr., Eev. and Mag. Zool., 1877, p. 331, pi. 2,
fig. 3.

Black, opaque on the upper side ; prothorax with a narrow, light
flavescent lateral margin ; elytra orange-red with a basal median
triangular black patch the point of which reaches to about one-third
of the length and sometimes further, the apical part is black from
outer margin to outer margin, the upper edge of this black patch is
bi-sinuate on each side. Head and prothorax somewhat moderately
closely punctate, the punctures on the latter are not cicatricose, but
they are usually hidden on the black tomentum; the sides of the
prothorax are more sinuate laterally behind than in G. sub-fascia ta ;
the elongated and somewhat narrow elytra are striolate in the dorsal
part, and punctate beyond it, and there are two not very plain
costules on each side, in the apical part the punctures are broad,
shallow, Bomewhat transverse and form a kind of weak reticulation,
apical part of the suture plainly acuminate ; pygidium transversely
plicate ; under side as in (/. balteata, the sternal process is a little
more rounded laterally.

Length 14-15 mm. ; width 7 mm.

//<//'. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Uitenhage, East London,

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Port St. John) ; Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Malvern, Frere, Tugela
Eiver) ; the whole of the Transvaal ; Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury,
Chirindi Forest, Sebakwe, Enkeldoorn) ; Zanzibar mainland.

Gen. COSMIOPH^NA, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1899, p. 120.

Buccal organs of Micrelaphinis, and clypeus similar in shape ;
prothorax not arcuate at the base above the scutellum, the latter
long, sharp at apex, about one-third longer than broad ; elytra
without any traces of costules, or occasionally with two distinct
costules ; sternal process transverse, not projecting beyond the
coxae, anterior tibiae bi-dentate ; hind tarsi not aculeate out-
wardly.

Kraatz places this genus in the neighbourhood of Glyciphana.

CosMioPHiENA pilosula, Kraatz,
Loc. cit., p. 120.

Eufescent and with a metallic tinge underneath, opaque on the
upper side ; the head and prothorax are green and the base of the
latter is narrowly brighter than the disk ; epimera and scutellum
sub-flavescent, elytra light brownish with the sides of the scutellary
region and the suture, as far as the median part, greenish, the back-
ground is dotted with numerous flavous macules ; clypeus attenuated
in front, the outer angles are plainly rounded, and the anterior part
incised, both the frontal part and the clypeus are closely punctate,
the former is briefly pubescent and bears a white band on each side ;
the prothorax is moderately closely punctulate, scutellum without
punctures ; elytra without any traces of costules, the suture itself
being only slightly raised in the posterior part, and slightly acu-
minate at apex, the posterior margin is briefly pubescent; on the
dorsal part are six series of well-defined punctures ; pygidium
punctulate, each puncture bearing an appressed fulvescent hair, it
bears seven cretaceous splashes ; abdominal segments punctulate,
each puncture briefly setigerous, each segment covered with a cre-
taceous coating for nearly half its length ; pectus with numerous,
briefly setigerous punctures.

Length 10 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hob. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). Mozambique (Guenzera).

This species is a straggler from the North. It was originally
described from the Tanganyka Region.

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Group SCHIZOKKHINI1.

The insects included in this group have the maxillae simple and
penicillate, the central part of the base of the prothorax is lobate,
the lobate part is rudimentary in Discopeltis, but covers the whole
scutellum in Amazula, Stethosdema, and Pseudoclinteria. This cha-
racter is also met with in Glinteroides, and to a much lesser degree
in Glaucocelis, but these two genera, owing to the sculpture of the
elytra, are included in the Sub- Tribe Leucocelites.

Gen. DISCOPELTIS, Burm.,
Handh. d. Entom., iii., 1842, p. 599.

Muntum somewhat ampliate laterally, slightly broader at the apex
than at the base, deeply incised in the central part of the apex ; last
joint of labial palpi fusiform outwardly, somewhat acuminate ;
maxilla* long, the two lobes simple, the upper with a long pencil
of hairs, the inner densely pubescent; clypeus attenuate in front,
slightly sinuose laterally, deeply emarginate in the centre; eyes
large ; antennae normal ; prothorax diagonally ampliated laterally
from the apex to about the middle which is somewhat angular,
almost straight thence, but with a slight sinuation towards the
basal part the angle of which is moderately rounded, the median
put of the base itself being broadly triangularly produced in the
centre, and covering the base of the very elongated, sharply tri-
angular scutellum ; elytra deeply sinuate laterally, and having on
each side two dorsal costae obliterated or less strong in the anterior
pari ; the suture is plainly keeled also in the posterior part, and the
two intervals have two rows of elongated cicatricose punctures;
sternal process sub-aculeate, projecting slightly beyond the coxae,
grooved in the centre right to the apex, sub-truncate at apex, and
barely projecting beyond the coxa} ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate in
both sexes, the teeth remote ; intermediate tibiae sharply dentate
on the upper side.

This genus has representatives on the Guinea coast and also in
SeiK'gambia.

Key to the Species.

Seriate punctures <>f the first interval of elytra obliterated in the
anterior part vidua.

Seriate punctures of the first interval of elytra not obliterated in the

anterior part tricolor.

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DlSCOPELTIS VIDUA, Klug,

Monatsb. Berl. Akad., 1855, p. 660.
Peter's Eeis., 1862, p. 264, pi. 15, fig. 9.
holubi, Schoch., Mith. Schw. Ent. Ges., x., 1897, p. 51.

Black, covered on the upper side with an opaque tomentum ;
prothorax with a very broad lateral white patch reaching from the
apex to a short distance from the base, and extending to about one-
third of the width, in the very centre of the apex of the base
is a small white dot, and the scutellum bears a long white patch ;
each elytron has three white lateral patches abutting on the suture,
the first one, set at the lateral sinuation, is small, the median one is
the largest of the three, and reaches from the outer margin to the
first dorsal costule, the third surrounds the hind part of the posterior
callus ; pygidium with two large round white patches. Head and
clypeus closely punctulate, the punctures broader in the frontal
part ; prothorax moderately closely punctate, the punctures quite
invisible under the white tomentose patches, and only slightly so
under the black tomentum ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra deeply
sinuate laterally, and only moderately attenuated behind, the first
and second costules are distinct only from the median part of the
disk to the apex where the two intervals have two series of some-
what cicatricose punctures which disappear altogether in the
anterior part of the first interval, the humeral and the deflexed parts
are sparingly punctate ; propygidium partly uncovered, pygidium
slightly slanting, the former aciculate, the latter punctate ; under side
shiny, sides of abdomen punctate, the second, third, and fourth
penultimate segments have a lateral white patch much larger on the
third than on the other two, but occasionally these patches are
missing altogether, the sides of the metasternum are coated with
white ; legs cicatricose-punctate, inner part of femora and tibiee
briefly pubescent.

Length 10^-11 mm. ; width 5i— 6 mm.

Hab. Bechuanaland ; Transvaal (Lydenburg, Waterberg) ;
Northern Darnaraland ; Southern Bhodesia (Victoria Falls).

1 have seen examples from the Waterberg District of the Trans-
vaal in which the head, the median part of the thorax, and the
pygidum are reddish, thus approximating D. tricolor, Burrn., of
which D. vidua may prove to be merely a melanic variety. These
Waterberg examples were taken with the normally coloured type
form, i.e., D. viduata.

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DlSCOPELTIS TRICOLOR, BuiTO.,

Handb. d. Entom., iii., 18-42, p. 600.

Black, head and clypeus, central part of the prothorax, a large
quadrate patch on the elytra below the scutellurn, and pygidium red,
white patches as in D. vidua. It is so closely allied to the former
as to make me doubtful of its specific value. I have seen female
examples only, and I cannot thus make use of the shape of the genital
armature to distinguish the two. My examples are, however, more
elongated, and the two rows of punctures of the elytra between the
suture and the first interval reach the base although less plain there
than in the posterior part. In D. vidua they are completely
obliterated there.

Length V2h mm. ; width 7 mm.

Ilab. Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg,
Waterberg).

Gen. AMAZULA, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1882, p. 51.
The only species included in this genus has almost all the charac-
teristics of Stethodema, except that the sternal process is more
porrect and slightly hamate inwardly at the tip, but it is not more
produced towards the anterior femora than in Stethodema. The
livery, however, is very different; the scutellurn is completely
hidden by the apical part of the prothorax; and the elytra have
no traces of costules, and are thus intermediate in shape between
those of Stethodema and of Pseudoclinteria.

Amazula suavis, Burm.,

Plate XLV., fig. 7.

Handb. d. Entomol., v., 1847, p. 554.

egregia, Boh., Ofv. Yet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 117.

tricolorata, Westw., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1874, p. 477, pi. 8, fig. 4.

Black, clothed on the upper side with an opaque tomentum ; sides
of prothorax broadly white from the apex to about the median part
and Bub-crimson red thence to the base ; elytra with a broad, trans-
verse, or transversely ovate white patch extending at about the
median part from the outer margin to about the middle of the disk,
and at the apex there is a marginal one, much smaller, transverse,
about equi-distant from the outer margin and from the suture ;
pygidium red, opaque, and with two white macules ; the two penul-
timate abdominal BegmentB, and also the metasternal epimera bear
a large while patch, Bmaller, however, on the first penultimate seg-

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ment ; head and clypeus closely punctate, the punctures not con-
tiguous ; prothorax covered with sub-contiguous cicatricose punctures
hidden almost completely by the tomentum ; the elongated elytra
have no traces of costules, the suture is slightly raised at the apex
only, and the surface is seriate punctate, the shallow cicatricose
punctures are like those of Pseudoclinteria ; under side glabrous,
shiny, the whole abdomen and pectus very closely cicatricose
punctate.

Length 15^-1 1\ mm. ; width 8-9 mm.

Hob. Transvaal (Lydenburg) ; Southern Ehodesia (Upper Lim-
popo Eiver, Umfuli Eiver) ; Mozambique (Louren§o-Marquez).

Gen. STETHOSDEMA, Bainbr.,
Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., hi., 1842, p. 220.

Mentum elongated, sub-parallel, but broadening towards the
apex, and slightly obliquely attenuate from near the top of the
palps cavity to the apex the centre of which is broadly and deeply
triangularly notched ; inner and upper maxillary lobes simple, both
densely hairy ; last joint of labial and maxillary palps truncate at
apex ; clypeus triangularly acuminate towards the apex in the $ ,
slightly ampliate laterally in the ? , deeply notched there with the
narrow outer angles truncate, frontal part short, simple, eyes
extremely bulging ; prothorax sub-trapezoidal but very plainly
sinuate laterally near the apex, basal angles rounded, the base
prolonged into a broad, long triangle overlapping the scutellum
almost up to the tip which is almost linear ; elytra elongated,
attenuate behind, plane, uni-costate, suture raised from the median
part, acuminate at apex ; sternal process very long, compressed,
diagonally truncate at apex from tip to base ; anterior tibias plainly
bi-dentate, and slightly sinuate at a distance from the upper tooth;
intermediate and posterior tibiae without any spine or transverse
carina on the upper side ; inner part fimbriate ; all tarsal joints
cylindrical on the upper part, claws long ; antennal club nearly as
long as the rest of the peduncle ; body almost glabrous.

This genus was founded on a species from Guinea.

Stethosdema servillei, White,
Proceed. Zool. Soc, xxiv., 1856, p. 15, pi. 41, fig. 3.
Var. cincticollis, Eaffr., Eev. &Mag. d. Zool., 1877, p. 330, pi. ii.,fig.2.
dejcani, T. Thorns., Scient., i., 1860, p. 32.
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the prothorax, opaque on the upper side, shiny underneath ; elytra
with numerous white macules disposed in four somewhat transverse
rows, and having in addition to these a marginal sub-humeral white
lineole, the number of these spots is very variable ; pygidium with a
lateral white macule and a median longitudinal line ; under side with
an upper white macule and a longitudinal band on each ventral
segment ; metasternum and side-pieces maculated with white ;
clypeus plainly impressed longitudinally on each side, the im-
pressions punctulate ; prothorax and elytra covered with an opaque
coating hiding the sculpture completely on the prothorax, but
less so on the elytra where, on the median dorsal part, minute,
seriate punctures are distinguishable, the dorsal costa is well
developed from about the median part ; between it and the suture
are faint traces of another equally separated from the suture and
from the dorsal costa by non-geminate rows of small punctures ;
under side glabrous, except on the anterior coxae, upper side of
abdominal segments and of metasternum sparsely punctulate ; legs
sub-striolate.

Length 20-26 mm. ; width 11-13 mm.

Hill. Natal (Durban); Southern Ehodesia (Mazoe, Kusapi,
Hartley, Mt. Chirinda).

S. cincticollis, Raffr., seems to differ from the type in having two
white discoidal spots on the prothorax.

S. dejeani, J. Thorns, can be considered identical with S. servillci.

Gen. PSETJDOCLINTERIA, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1882 p. 49.

Clinteria, Burm., Handb. d. Entomol., hi., 1842, p. 299 (part).

Mi ■ntum long, somewhat oblong or slightly broader towards the
apex than at the base, upper and lower lobes of the long, somewhat
slender maxillae simple, the former with a long pencil of hairs, the
latter densely fringed with hairs inwardly ; last joint of palps
sub-cylindrical, blunt at tip; head simple, clypeus attenuated
towards the apex, with the outer angles well rounded, and the
narrowed apex deeply sinuate in the centre; antennal club not quite
as long as the pedicel; prothorax sub-trapezoidal with the base
sinuate and prolonged in the centre in a triangle slightly rounded at
apex and hiding almosl the whole of the scutellum except the line-
like apex of the latter ; elytra moderately sinuate' laterally, slightly
attenuate behind, plane, with the suture raised behind and more or
less aculeate at apex, faintly costulate, and with regular series of
varicose punctures ; under side almost glabrous except on the lower

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edge of the femora, sternal process strongly aculeate acuminate,
projecting well between the coxa? and slanting slightly downwards ;
anterior tibiae of $ bi-dentate outwardly in both sexes ; tarsi
moderately long, sub-cylindrical on the upper side, the basal ones
not triangularly dilated in either sex.

The genus was founded by Kraatz for the reception of two African
species, one of which I have removed into another genus.

Key to the Species.

Prothorax red with two black dots ; elytra slightly attenuate behind,
reddish brown, narrowly marginate with fuscous and with the suture
black, or completely black infuscata.

Prothorax flavous, with a wide central black patch, occasionally

divided into two ; elytra black, distinctly narrowed behind clnctkollis.

Pseudoclintebia infuscata, Gor. and Perch.,
Monogr. d. Cet., p. 379, pi. 77, fig. 6.

Var. maculicollis, Schoch., Ent. Nachr., 1896, p. 330.

Black, glabrous, moderately opaque on the upper side ; the
prothorax is either black (type form) or brick-red, and has in the
centre two black dots. This type form is, however, seldom met with
in the South African area, the examples found there have the elytra
reddish brown with a slight lake tinge, the suture is black, the basal
moderately broadly infuscate, and the outer margins narrowly so ;
the head is deeply and closely punctate, the punctures are smaller
on the clypeus ; prothorax sparingly punctate, the punctures are
small and partially or completely hidden by the opaque tomentum ;
elytra only slightly attenuate behind, very obsoletely bi-costulate
and having regular series of ovate non-coalescing cicatricose
punctures which are no longer seriate in the lateral deflexed part ;
sides of abdomen with cicatricose, scattered punctures ; metasternum
and legs strigillate punctate, sternal process punctulate, the suture
faintly distinct laterally ; legs briefly pubescent inwardly.

Length 12|-13^ mm. ; width 6i-7 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria) ; Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe — type
form and also variety — Manica, Victoria Falls, Enkeldoorn, Salisbury,
Mt. Chirinda) ; Mozambique (Beira).

I have not seen the type of C. maculicollis, Sch., but from the
description it seems to be a slight variety of the type, the difference
consisting in the discoidal black patch of the prothorax being divided
not two triangular macules.

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Originally described from Senegal. The var. with red thorax
is much more abundant in the South African area than the type
form which is met with in the northern limit only.

PSEUDOCLIXTERIA CINCTICOLLIS, Burm.,

Handb. d. Entom., v., p. 554.

Black, glabrous, moderately opaque on the upper side ; the
prothorax is fiavous with a very broad median black patch very
variable in shape ; the anterior margin is occasionally infuscate, and
there is on each side of the anterior part a supra-lateral black dot
which coalesces with the dorsal patch when the latter is greatly
developed. Head and clypeus deeply and closely punctate ;
prothorax moderately closely punctate, and very narrowly edged
with black along the base ; elytra plainly attenuate in the posterior
part, being one-third narrower at apex than at base, very faintly
bi-costulate, and with the suture plainly raised in the posterior part,
the dorsal surface bears regular series of somewhat small, ovate,
cicatricose, non-coalescing punctures, the deflexed part is rugulose,
almost reticulate; under side as in the preceding species, sternal
process grooved for the greatest part of the length, and sparingly
punctate, the suture is distinct.

Length 10i-12i mm. ; width 6-7 mm.

II, th. Bechuan aland; Northern Damaraland; Southern Ehodesia
(Plumtree).

Gboup PACHNODII.

In this group are included three genera, Pachnoda, Atrichia, and
Bhabdotis, the hind tarsi of which in several species approximate
somewhat in shape those of the Goliathii. In Pachnoda and
Bhabdotis the median part of the anterior margin of the prothorax is
angular or tuberculate as in the first group of the Goliathii.

Gen. ATRICHIA, Schocb.,
Mith. Schw., Ent. Gesels., ix., 189G, p. 199.
Mention parallel, deeply incised in front, with the angles rounded,
palpi of normal shape, upper and inner lobe of maxillae sharply
toothed and densely eiliate ; clypeus sub-parallel, sinuate in the
centre of the anterior part, and with the anterior margin plainly
reflexed ; antenna! club of 3 slightly shorter than the pedicel ; head
pubescent; prothorax greatly attenuated in front, and slightly
tuberculate in the centre, sinuate above the scutellum, which is

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sharply triangular and grooved laterally ; elytra plainly sinuate
laterally, and with two distinct dorsal costae on each side ; sternal
process sub-transversely aculeate, projecting beyond the coxae ;
anterior tibiae dentate outwardly at the apex only and only very
slightly sinuate above it ; intermediate tibiae without tooth or spine
on the upper side, posterior ones with only a rudimentary one ; the
basal joint of the hind tarsi is moderately angular outwardly, and
the anterior claws are long and broadly divaricating.

This genus is founded for the reception of Trichostetha placida,
Boh., which differs greatly from Trichostetha, not only in the
toothed maxillae, but in the absence of the two teeth on the upper
side of the intermediate tibiae, the uni-dentate anterior ones, the
position of the two dorsal costae on the elytra, &c.

Atrichia placida, Bohem.,

Plate XLIIL, fig. 14.
Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 20.

Var. algoensis, Pering., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, hi., 1885, p. 90.

Var. bugnioni, Sch., loc. cit., p. 400.

Type. Black, glabrous on the upper side ; the prothorax and
elytra light sienna-brown ; the head is closely punctate, and the
frontal part very densely pubescent, the pubescence is greyish ; the
prothorax, very narrowed in front, has two broad fuscous dorsal
bands gradually narrowing in width from base to apex, and is very
deeply and closely punctate except in the median dorsal part
between the two fuscous bands ; the scutellum has a few remote,
dot-like punctures; the elytra are closely and somewhat broadly
punctate, but the punctures are very shallow, the sutural part from
the sides of the scutellum to the apex is fuscous black, and on each
side there is a round, or quadrate black macule at about three-fourths
of the length on the deflexed part, the posterior callus is infuscate ;
pygidium glabrous, and with four or six white macules ; abdominal
segments somewhat pubescent along the sides and having on each a
short white macule-like band ; pectus clothed with a light fulvous
pubescence ; hind legs densely pubescent inwardly.

Var. algoensis. A little more elongated than the type, and, as a
rule, opaque on the upper side ; the prothorax is either totally black
or the two dorsal black bands have invaded the greatest part of the
disk, and the elytra are irregularly suffused with black on the dorsal
part, or are, as in the type ; the abdominal segments have two rows
of white macules, and the metasternum three or four ; in most cases
there is a white dot at the base of the tibiae.

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Var. bugnioni. Upper and under side completely black, except for
a very narrow marginal testaceous band in tbe anterior part of the
elytra. It is this variety which Schoch described under the name of
A. bugnioni.

Length 15-18i mm. ; width 9-10 mm.

Hab. (Type.) Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Tugela River) ; Trans-
vaal (no exact locality).

(Var.) Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez, Rikatla).

Gen. PACHNODA, Burin.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iii., 1842, p. 511.

Dischista, Burm., loc. cit., p. 512.

Conostethus, Schoch., Schw., Entom. Gess., ix., 1894, p. 186.

Phoxomcloides, Schoch., Schw., Ent. Ges., 1898, p. 109.

Mentum sub-parallel, more or less deeply emarginate in front,
outer face concave at the base and also near the apex ; maxillae
robust, upper lobe with a slightly incurved tooth occasionally slightly
bifid, inner lobe sharp at tip, and oftener than not slightly toothed;
last joint of both palps sub-cylindrical ; clypeus slightly attenuate in
front, more or less deeply emarginate there, head simple ; eyes large
and with a short canthus ; antennal club shorter than the whole
pedicel ; prothorax sub-trapezoidal, anterior margin with a small
median protuberance, sometiin«s suh-conical, little convex ; scutellum
triangular, longer than broad, sub-acuminate at apex ; elytra a little
attenuate behind or sub-parallel, plane, obsoletely costulate in the
dorsal part, or with the costule distinct in the posterior part only,
plane, seldom distinctly seriate punctate, covering the greatest part
if not the whole, of the propygidium, and not aculeate at the suture;
pygidium more than twice as broad as long, sub-vertical; meta-
Bternum broad, grooved, mesosternal process projecting beyond the
coxae, more or less orbicular and horizontal, or compressed laterally
and defiexed ; legs somewhat robust ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate
outwardly and with an upper, slight sinuation in the male; sharply
in dentate in the female; tarsal joints sub-cylindrical on the upper
side.

The genus, as now restricted, is found in Africa, Nubia, and
Arabia.

Key to the Species.

A. Elytra with the apical part of the suture not acuminate. .
B3. Mesosternal process flat, more or less rounded in front.
C . Abdominal segments with white bands.

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Upper side brownish red, sides of prothorax lighter than
the disk, pygidium with a lateral white macule ; abdominal
segments with white bands rufa.

Upper side greenish black ; prothorax with a broad yellow
lateral band ; elytra with a similarly broad yellow band
all round, and also a post-median transverse fascia
reaching the suture ; pygidium immaculate or with 6
small white spots sinuata.

Upper side very broadly marginate with yellow, the black
background of the elytra greatly reduced, post-median
transverse fascia short, reaching the suture :

Upper side opaque laticincta.

Upper side shiny bella.

Prothorax broadly marginate with yellow and having
also a median longitudinal band of the same colour ;
elytra broadly marginate with yellow, and having an
ante-median yellow transverse band and a post-median
one interrupted in the centre cordata.

Upper side opaque-green ; prothorax and elytra with a
broad yellow lateral band ; sides of abdomen and pectus
maculated with white marginella.

Upper side olive-green ; prothorax with a broad lateral
border and an arcuate basal band ; elytra with a similar
border and a transverse uninterrupted post-median band rufovirens.

Pale yellow; prothorax with 2 narrow black, median
lines ; elytra with 2 black patches, and a narrow arcuate
transverse band on each side picturata.

B1. Mesosternal process long, deflexed, compressed, truncate at
the tip.

Upper side testaceous-yellow, the prothorax darker and with
a broad, lighter border all round ; abdominal segments and
pectus white cincta .

C1. Sides of abdomen and pectus with flavescent bands.
Upper side olive green ; prothorax with a broad yellow,
lateral border ; elytra with a similar border and with a
post-median transverse fascia interrupted in the middle impressa.

Pachnoda kufa, de Geer,

Plate XLIIL, fig. 11.

Mem. Ins., vii., p. 640, pi. 48, fig. 1.

carmclita, Fabr., Mant. Ins., i., p. 28.

Gory and Perch., Monogr. Get., p. 238, pi. 45, fig. 2.
frenata, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., v., 561.

Dark green, upper side somewhat opaque, chestnut-brown with
the sides of the prothorax lighter than the disk (type) or fulvous

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olivaceous with the sides of the prothorax and elytra flavescent
(Jrcnata) ; upper lobe of maxilla? dentate, tooth simple, inner lobe
toothless ; clypeus arcuately and somewhat deeply emarginate, much
more closely punctate than the frontal part on each side of which
is a white band ; prothorax sparsely punctulate ; scutellum im-
punctate ; elytra with small, seriate punctures ; pygidium with a
transverse basal white band reaching from side to side, and a
broader, slanting lateral one occasionally divided into two ; each abdo-
minal segments with a white band reaching from the upper part to
three-fourths of the length, but as often as not interrupted at a short
distance from the upper part, and occasionally with the lower portion
obliterated ; sides of pectus and epimera either completely white
or maculated with white ; femora streaked with white ; sternal pro-
cess horizontal, not ampliated, or rounded at the tip, and without
suture ; pectus and legs variolose punctate, femora and tibiae fringed
with flavescent hairs.

In the type form the white bands of the under side are often
nearly obliterated ; this form seems to be restricted to the South-
western districts of the Cape Colony. In Natal and the Orange River
Colony, the colour becomes lighter, the thorax is greener, and it then
resembles P. cincta, from which it is easily distinguished by the
horizontal sternal process not compressed laterally.

Length 17-22 mm. ; width 9-13 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (the whole of the Eastern and Central
Provinces, but not the Western part, to the east of Knysna) Natal,
Transvaal, Southern Ehodesia (Manica, Plumtree, Bulawayo,
Salisbury).

Pachnoda sinuata, Fabr.,

Syst. Ent. App., p. 819.

Gory and Perch., Monogr. Cet., p. 182, pi. 32, fig. 5.

sinuo&a, Lin., Syst. Nat. Ed. Gmel., i., 4, p. 1576.
punctata marginata, de Geer, Mem. Ins., vii.,p. 639, pi. 47, fig. 20.
Var. flaviventris, Gory and Perch., Monogr. Cet., p. 178, pi. 31,
fig. 6.

Greenish black on the upper side and either opaque or moderately
shiny ; head with or without a yellow, lateral hand; prothorax with
a broad yellow lateral band, a black spot in the anterior part, and
with either three triangularly disposed yellow patches on the dis-
coidal part or two only, or, oftener than not, entirely without ;
scutellum with two lateral macules or not, elytra with a broad yellow
border, a black humeral spot, and another apical one, this holder

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emits past the median part a transverse yellow band stopping
slightly short of the suture (flaviventris), and edging thus an elongate
quadrate discoidal part which is either immaculate, or is marked
with two yellow patches near the scutellary part ; this band is also
often interrupted in the middle, in which case the black dorsal part
bears on each side two juxta-sutural yellow patches; pygidium
brownish purple and with six minute white spots ; under side either
brownish red or black with a few yellowish macules, or bright yellow
with the sides reddish, and a spot or a very short silvery band on
the upper side of the abdomen and the epimera; clypeus closely
aciculate, head sparingly punctate, the upper part is almost
impunctate, except for a few faintly seriate punctures in the
posterior part ; glabrous underneath except on the presternum ;
the last abdominal segment is closely aciculate, the others have
a few lateral punctures ; the sides of the pectus and legs are
strigillate ; the horizontal sternal process is almost orbicular and
without suture.

This is the most protean of the South African Cetonids. The
colour of the upper side changes from opaque velvety black to
shiny olive-green ; that of the under side varies equally, and is dark
brown or almost black and with very few yellow macules in the
species with opaque upper side in which the transverse post-median
transverse band is interrupted, and bright yellow except along the
upper sides in those in which the transverse band is entire.

P. flaviventris, Gory and Perch., is a variety in which the prothorax
and scutellum are immaculate, the transverse band of the elytra
complete and the discoidal background immaculate. I am of
opinion that it is really the type form, and that P. sinuata is the
variety. Kraatz has figured and described some 19 varietal forms
(Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1885, p. 341, pi. v.). I could add to
this number, but in all of them the genital clasps are absolutely
alike.

Length 21-24^ mm. ; width 12-15 mm.

Hab. The whole of South Africa, except the South- Western part
of the Cape Colony ; also Angola, and Central and Eastern Africa as
far north as Somaliland.

Pachnoda laticincta, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., v., 1847, p. 562.
? arborescens, Vig. Zoolog. Journ., ii., p. 238, pi. 9, fig. 4.
Black ; upper side opaque ; prothorax with a broad yellow band
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about one-fifth of the whole, and in the anterior part there is a small
black spot, often obliterated ; scutellum black, elytra with a very
broad yellow band invading the black background to such an extent
that the latter is reduced to a quadrate dorsal patch more or less
deeply incised on each side, prolonged for a short distance as a nar-
row band along the suture, and coalescing there with a transverse or
slightly arcuate patch as broad as the anterior one but of only half
the length, in addition to these two discoidal patches there is a
Lateral supra-marginal small black patch or spot situated past the
median part ; the pygidium is black with a flavescent triangular
patch at apex ; the under side is black and immaculate. Clypeus
deeply emarginate in front, closely punctulate, frontal part deeply
and numerously variolose punctate, punctures on the prothorax also
numerous and deep ; those on the elytra plainly seriate punctate in
shiny examples, less distinctly so in the opaque ones ; pectus and
inner part of legs pubescent ; sternal process horizontal, ampliate
rounded laterally but only moderately deeply arcuate in front.

Length 15|-17£ mm. ; width 9-9£ mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg), Southern Ehodesia (Middle Lim-
popo), British Bechuanaland (Macloutsie).

The figure of P. arborcsecns, Vigors, does greatly agree with this
insect, the only difference being the absence of the post-median,
supra-lateral round black patch.

Pachnoda bella, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1898, p. 16, pi. ii., fig. 10.

picta {Phoxomcloides), Schoch., Schw., Ent. Ges., 1898, p. 109.

Very closely allied to P. laticincta, but very shiny on the upper
side instead of being opaque, the black markings are exactly
similar, and the prothorax appears more deeply and more numerously
punctate, owing perhaps to the absence of the opaque indumentum ;
the pygidium is also flavo-rufescent in the centre. The genital
clasps of the male, although of the same pattern as those of laticincta
differ in being a little shorter and less slender in the anterior half.

Length 12£-15£ mm. ; width 7-8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska, Kenhardt, Hay), Damaraland.

Pachnoda cordata, Drury,
111. exot. Ins., ii., 1773, p. 59, pi. 32, fig. 5.
olivacea, Gor. and Perch., Mon., p. 186, pi. 33, fig. 3.
circumscripta, .1. Thorns., Typ. Ceton., 1879, p. 29.
llavous, sub-opaque; frontal part, and occasionally the apex of

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the clypeus which is deeply arcuately emarginate, black ; prothorax
with two median fusco-rufescent longitudinal bands acuminate at
the apex and a supra-marginal spot of the same colour in the
anterior part, the margin itself is very narrowly infuscate all round ;
scutellum with the sides narrowly fuscous ; elytra with a quadrate
discoidal patch deeply incised laterally and reaching short of the
median part, continued as a narrow, sutural line and expanding past
the middle in a transverse band wider than the anterior patch, and
connected with a supra-apical transverse band of not quite the same
width by a short, longitudinal patch, this apical band is sometimes
disconnected near the suture, there is also a large humeral infuscate
spot ; the greatest part of the pygidium is flavescent, the margins
being, however, darker. Head, clypeus, and prothorax deeply
punctate, the punctures somewhat closely set ; the elytra have
shallow punctures indistinct on the sides, seriate and fairly distinct
in the dorsal part ; under side glabrous ; abdomen sparsely and
finely punctate, pectus deeply punctate ; sternal process ampliate
rounded laterally, somewhat bluntly rounded in front ; pygidium
transversely striolate. The tooth of the upper maxillary lobe is
plainly bifid, and the inner lobe is slenderly dentate.

I cannot decide if P. tridcntata, Oliv., is identical with P. cor data,
Drury, but I find that the South African species of the latter are,
even the females, more elongated than the examples from Kumasi
and Senegal, the pattern of the fusco-rufescent bands or patches
seems to be less variable, the shape of the genital valves of the
males are absolutely similar.

Length 17-19 mm. ; width 11 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe, Umtali, MtChirinda),
Mozambique (Christmas Pass; Inhambane, teste Klug), N'Gami-
land, teste J. Thomson.

Pachnoda marginella, Fabric,

Syst. Entom., p. 46.

Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 239, pi. 45, fig. 3.

cuneata, Klug, Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 660.

Green, opaque above, shiny underneath, antennae rufescent ; pro-
thorax with a not very broad yellow border continued along the
lateral and posterior margins ; pygidium with two broad median
longitudinal yellow bands divided by a narrow green band and a
small white patch at each corner of the base ; abdominal segments
each with a short elongated whitish tlavescent band on the upper

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side and a longer one lower down, pectus, coxae and side pieces
with macules of the same colour. Elongated, depressed, clypeus
and sides of head moderately punctulate ; prothorax remotely
punctulate, the punctures hidden by the coating ; the scutellum is
impunctate ; in the dorsal part of the elytra the punctures are
plainly seriate ; the sides of the abdomen and pectus are punctate,
each puncture setigerous ; the horizontal sternal process is sub-
orbicular and the suture plainly distinct. In the $ the under side
of the tarsal joints is very densely hairy.

Length 20 mm. ; width 10 mm.

Hab. Mozambique Lourencjo-Marquez, Eikatla ; Tette, teste
King.

Pachnoda eufovirexs, Qued.,
Berl. Entom. Zeitsch., 1884, p. 332.

? discolor, Kolb., Stett. Ent. Zeit,, vol. 56, 1895, p. 278.

Flavous, with a triangularly elongated greenish-black band on each
side of the head ; prothorax with a crescent-shaped green patch the
horns of which are directed backwards, and reaching the base,
enclose there a part of the yellow background, narrowly marginated
with fuscous, no black supra-marginal macule in the anterior part ;
scutellum with a narrow fuscous basal border; elytra with a dis-
coidal, elongate quadrate, greenish-black patch continued at about
the middle as a narrow sutural border and extending above the
apical part into a broad transverse sinuate band slightly wider than
the discoidal patch, between the two, but situated outside the dorsal
costule, is a transverse spot the inner edge of which coalesces oftener
than not with the posterior band ; pygidium reddish brown, fuscous
along the base and having four white spots transversely disposed ;
under side and legs either yellow with the upper border of the
abdomen rufescent and a small yellowish macule on each segment,
or rufescent but similarly maculated. The sculpture of the upper
side is similar to that of P. cordata, but the sides of the pectus are
more villose, and the sternal process more rounded in front.

The livery of this species closely approximates that of P. imjjrcssa,
but in the latter, which is also differentiated by the shape of the
sternal process, the green background has invaded the whole of
the discoidal part of the prothorax, and also the scutellum. The
shape of the genital armature of the two is strikingly dis-
similar.

Length 17-18 mm. ; width 94-9$ mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Umtali).

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Pachnoda picturata, Bohem.,
Ofvers. K. Vet. Akad. Forh., I860, p. 119.

Stramineous or flavescent on the upper side, chestnut-brown
on the under side, shiny on both, antennae chestnut-brown; head
very closely aciculate on the clypeus and deeply punctate on the
vertex ; prothorax very broad, somewhat short, finely but not closely
punctulate, in the median part of the prothorax are two slightly
divaricating narrow longitudinal lines reaching the apex, but not
quite the base, which has a very narrow black border ; scutellum
narrowly edged with fuscous ; elytra with one discoidal black spot
before the median part, another supra-lateral past the median part, a
short arcuate band reaching the suture, set at some distance from
the apex and an apical marginal transverse band on each side, the
surface is very vaguely punctulate ; pygidium chestnut-red and
bearing six small, white spots ; under side very sparsely pubescent ;
each abdominal segment has two very small white macules, and
there are a few, also small ones, on the metasternum, sidepieces
and legs ; sternal process ampliate rounded laterally, bluntly arcuate
in front.

This species is the most massive of the South African species of
Protcetia.

Length 19^— 22 mm. ; width 13-15 mm.

Originally described from the Lake N'Gami Eegion, this species is
now recorded from Zanzibar and Tabora, in East Africa.

Pachnoda cincta, de Geer,

Plate XLIIL, fig. 10.

Mem. Ins., vii., p. 641, pi. 38, fig. 3.

brachypinica, Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 237, pi. 45, fig. 1.
burchelli, Fish., Mem. Mosc, vi., 1823, p. 256, pi. 22, fig. 3.

Dark green, moderately shiny only on the upper side, very shiny
underneath ; prothorax with a broad flavescent border, scutellum
and elytra completely flavescent ; head green with a lateral white
band on each side reaching to a short distance from the apex of the
clypeus, which is narrowly yet deeply emarginate, it is closely acicu-
late and the frontal part deeply punctate; prothorax deeply punctate,
especially on the sides, the punctures are numerous but somewhat
remote ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra with rows of very plain punc-
tures in the dorsal as well as in the deflexed parts ; pygidium dark
green, rufo-flavescent in the centre, and with a broad, bi-sinuate basal

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white band ; abdominal segments with a non-interrupted silvery-
white band running from the upper side to the centre ; pectus and
outer part of femora almost wholly white, especially the former;
external process compressed laterally, aculeate, truncate in front and
deflexed, inner part of legs somewhat densely fringed with light
fulvescent hairs.

This species occurs in great abundance in the northern part of the
South African area from east to west. It greatly resembles the
lighter-coloured examples of P. rufa, which occurs also in the same
localities. It is, however, easily distinguished by the shape of the
sternal process, and that of the genitalia is very different. It does
not seem to have been met with north of the Zambesi.

Length 19-22 mm. ; width 11-13 mm.

Pachnoda (Qonostethus) impressa, Goldf.

Enum. Ins. cap., 1805, p. 42, pi. 1, fig. 6.

Gor. and Perch., Monogr., p. 178, pi. 31, fig. 5.

colorata, Schonh., Syn. Ins., i., 3, p. 129.

leonina, MacLeay, 111. Zool. Afric, iii., p. 50, pi. 1.

Very dark green, sub-opaque on the upper side, brownish-red
underneath ; clypeus rufescent, moderately emarginate in front,
whole frontal part dark green ; elytra with a fairly broad marginal
yellow band enclosing past the median part a quadrate patch of the
background, reduced sometimes to a mere spot, nearly in a line with
it is a transverse yellow band reaching the suture and divided from
the lateral yellow band by a narrow or somewhat moderately broad
longitudinal green band ; pygidium green and with seven rufescent
white macules ; abdominal segments each with an upper rufescent
macule and a lateral band of the same colour ; pectus and side-
pieces maculated with yellow, antennae and legs rufescent; clypeus
closely punctulate ; head with more distant punctures ; the very
remote punctures on the prothorax are partly hidden by the dull
coating, the anterior margin is distinctly sub-tuberculate in the
centre; scutellum impunctate, slightly impressed longitudinally at
apex ; elytra with a plain dorsal costule in the posterior part only,
the discoidal part is distinctly punctate seriate, but not the sides ;
lower part of the body sparsely punctate along the sides ; femora
strigillate, tibiae punctate ; sternal process, aculeate, compressed
laterally, deflexed and truncate at the apex.

Length 20-22 mm. ; width 11 L2 mm.

I iih. The whole of South Africa except the South-Western or
KaiToid districts of the Cape Colony.

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Gen. KHABDOTIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iii. , 1842, p. 526.
Mentum twice as long as broad with the outer face plane at the
base, concave in front, hairy but not in the centre, nearly parallel
laterally, but broadly rounded and deeply incised in the centre in
front ; upper lobe of maxillae armed with a moderately curved tooth
slightly bifid at the tip ; inner lobe simple, densely pubescent ; last
joint of labial palps somewhat swollen, that of the maxillary sub-
cylindrical ; clypeus sub-parallel or slightly ampliated laterally,
marginate all round, angles rounded, anterior margin deeply
notched ; prothorax with a sharp tubercle in the centre of the
anterior margin ; elytra elongated, sinuate laterally, very little
attenuated behind and bearing a number of white lines and macules
set in depressions on a green or black background ; sternal process
very long, curving slightly downwards, without suture ; anterior
tibiae bi-dentate ; the two basal joints of the hind tarsi strongly
triangular outwardly ; inner spur of the hind tibiae somewhat
dilated in the female.

Key to the Species.

A2. Prothorax with only a rudimentary discoidal white line, or
without any.

Elytra without a humeral diagonal entire white line.

Elytra with a large white spot on the humeral callus and two

smaller ones underneath ; the two basal joints of hind tarsi

strongly spinose outwardly albinigra.

Elytra with a minute white spot on the humeral callus, and
none underneath ; the two basal joints of hind tarsi spinose
outwardly aulica.

A1. Prothorax with a complete discoidal white line.

Prothorax with four uninterrupted white lines ; hind tarsi only

moderately densely hairy inwardly semipunctata.

Prothorax with five uninterrupted white lines ; hind tarsi

thickly hairy inwardly sobrina.

Rhabdotis albinigra, Burm.,
Plate XLIIL, fig. 1.
Handb. d. Entomol, v., 1847, p. 563.
albopicta, Boh., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 35.

Black, moderately shiny ; head immaculate, deeply and closely
punctate, the punctures on the vertex are larger and less closely set
than in the anterior part the margin of which is deeply notched ;
prothorax with the median tubercle of the anterior margin sharp,

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moderately closely punctate, except in the median basal part where
the punctures are fewer and more separated, the outer margin has a
broad white band reaching from apex to base, and there is occasion-
ally a rudimentary, short, discoidal white line, often reduced to a
mere dot, and as often entirely wanting ; the prothorax is more
abruptly sloping in front than in the other species of the genus;
elytra somewhat short, the suture is raised, there is a median
distinct costule on each side, and a shorter, less defined one between
the dorsal and the suture, they are covered with nearly seriate round
punctures, and have each a large humeral white patch with a smaller
one unconnected with it, and occasionally a third under it, two
superposed transverse ones in the posterior part between the suture
and the dorsal costa, along the outer margin, the upper one being the
largest, and one or two smaller ones partly coalescing in most cases
with a white line running along the margin from the base ; pygidium
with two large white macules; abdominal segments each with a
si i mil marginal macule and a broad band on each side, coxae and
epimera with a broad patch ; metasternum entirely white ; pectus
and femora clothed with a greyish-white pubescence ; abdominal
segments sparsely villose ; metasternum slightly grooved in the
anterior part.

Length 15-18 mm. ; width 8-11 mm.

Hab. British Bechuanaland (Macloutsie) ; Southern Ehodesia
(Upper Limpopo, Umfuli Kiver) ; Ovampoland.

in a small example which I believe to come from Ovampo-
land, the head has two small white spots at the base of the
clypeus, there is only one humeral patch on the elytra, the
marginal, sub-humeral band is very much reduced, and barely
reaches the end of the sinuate part.

I have seen Boheman's type only, but I don't think that there is
any doubt that it is identical with Burmeister's species.

Bhabdotis aulica, Oliv.,
Entom., i., 6, p. 15, pi. 2, fig. 7, pi. 8, fig. 67.
Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 236, pi. 44, fig. 6.
caffra, Lin., Syst. Nat. Ed. Gmel. i., 4, p. 1578.
wympha, McLeay, 111. Zool. Afric, hi., p. 51.
Var. intermedia, Burin., Handb. d. Entom., v., p. 563.
cyanea, Schoch., Entom. Nachr., 1896, p. 84.

Glossy green, with occasionally a slight flavescent tinge on the
elytra ; head somewhat closely punctate in front, and more broadly
at the base, slightly impressed laterally from above the eyes to the

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median part of the clypeus, the impression often covered with a
white, interrupted band ; prothorax sparingly punctulate, outer
margin with a white band ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra somewhat
massive, not costulate, irregularly punctulate and having on each
side a white patch on the humeral callus, four transverse ones in the
posterior part alongside the suture, five along the outer margin, a
marginal white line running from the shoulder to short of the median
part and coalescing often with the patch below it, and a sub-
transverse sub-discoidal one situate between the upper two marginal
and the upper two juxta-sutural macules ; pygidium white with a
green central band, and a slanting one on each side ; under side
reddish green, densely hairy, abdominal segments each with an upper
patch and a longitudinal band; pectus white ; sternal process grooved
to a very short distance from the apex.

B. intermedia, Burm., seems to be a varietal form in which the
prothorax has four white lines, and the elytra of which are maculate
at the apex only.

The posterior dorsal white macules are often only very slightly
indicated.

Length 21-22 mm. ; width 1H-12 mm.

Hab. The whole of South Africa, except the south-western part
of the Cape Colony ; also East Central Africa.

Ehabdotis semipunctata, Fabr.,
Plate XLIIL, fig. 2.
Ent. Syst., i., 2, p. 140.
chalcea, Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 235, pi. 44, fig. 5.

Smaller than the preceding, and a little more slender ; the clypeus
is very slightly emarginate in the centre, the punctuation is a little
finer, the white band extends from the base of the head to nearly
the apex of tbe clypeus ; the very sparingly punctulate prothorax
has a broad silvery-white marginal band and a slender, entire
one on each side of the median part of the disk ; the scutellum,
which is oftener than not impunctate, is slightly grooved in the
centre at the apex ; the elytra, which are not costulate, and are
irregularly seriate punctate, have a discoidal diagonal white band
reaching to near the median part, four juxta-sutural white patches,
the second of which is transverse, three alongside the outer margin,
the apical one being plainly formed by two which have coalesced, an
outer marginal white band running from the shoulder, a little longer
than the discoidal one, and a round supra-marginal spot situated near
the terminal part of this marginal band ; pygidium white with a

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central green longitudinal band, and occasionally another small
slanting lateral band of the same colour ; under side as in R. aulica ;
sternal process not grooved in the anterior part.

Var. transvaalica . Very dark green or occasionally dark blue ;
like the type form in build and sculpture, but noticeable by the
slenderness of the wide bands, the macules are reduced to slender,
transverse lines ; the pygidium is white with three diamond-shape
denuded spots and the pubescence underneath is silvery-white. This
variety occurs in the Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

Length 14-17 mm. ; width 7-10 mm.

Hab. The whole of South Africa.

Ehabdotis sobkina, Gory and Perch.,

Plate XLIII., fig. 3.

Monogr., p. 234, pi. 44, fig. 4.

Var. virginea, Klug, Peter's Reis., 1862, p. 267, pi. 15, fig. 11.

Olive-green, shiny ; more elongated than the preceding species ;
head punctate in the same manner but with the punctures deeper ;
prothorax also more deeply punctate, especially on the sides, in
additional to the marginal and discoidal bands there is a fifth one in
the very centre of the disk ; scutellum impressed from base to apex,
the line white ; elytra with a diagonal dorsal white line and five
white, juxta-sutural patches, the two ante-penultimate being trans-
verse lines, the outer marginal band is short, below it are six
marginal macules, and four seriate ones in the space extending
slightly past the median part between the juxta-sutural and the outer
marginal macules ; pygidium white with three longitudinal denuded
bands ; sternal process grooved to the apex ; under side as in B.
semi punctata ; inner part of tibiae and under side of tarsi very
densely hairy ; the pubescence on the pectus and legs is flavescent.

Length 19-22 mm. ; width 10-1H mm.

Hab. British Bechuanaland (Macloutsie) ; Southern Rhodesia
(Salisbury, Umfuli River, Matopos, Victoria Falls); Mozambique
(Tette) ; also East Central Africa, Somali, Kordofan, &c.

Group ELAPHINISIL

Gen. ELAPHINIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., hi., 1842, p. 595.
Mentum sub-oblong, palps cavity very broad and shallow, the apex
is deeply incised ; maxillae long, slender, upper one with a long

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pencil of hairs, the inner densely pubescent, last joint of both palps
cylindrical ; clypeus slightly alternate in front, the outer angles are
moderately rounded, and the apex more or less deeply sinuate ;
antennal club of male not as long as the pedicel ; prothorax sub-
trapezoidal, not distinctly arcuate above the scutellum which is
sharply acuminate, but only one-third longer than broad at the
base ; elytra robust, bi-costate on each side, each of the two
intervals geminate striate ; sternal process projecting slightly
beyond the coxaB and transversely ampliate there; anterior tibia?
uni-, bi-, or tri-dentate, when not uni-dentate the two apical teeth
are set close to each other; tarsi moderately long, the basal joint of
the hind ones normal in both sexes.

Key to the Species.

A^. Anterior tibiae tri-dentate in both sexes.

Head and disk of prothorax bronze-green ; elytra testaceous,
maculated with black spots tigrina.

A2. Anterior tibiae bi-dentate in the S , tri-dentate in the 5 .

The two teeth of the fore tibiae set very close to each other
( <?), upper side flavo-testaceous, prothorax and elytra pluri-

maculate with black nigropimctiilata.

A1. Anterior tibiae uni-dentate in the i , bi-dentate in the ? .

Head black, upper side flavo-testaceous, disk of prothorax

and elytra maculated with black barber tonensis.

Elaphinis tigkina, Oliv.,

Entomol, i., p. 91, pi. 12, fig. 112.

Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 272, pi. 53, fig. 2.

furvata, Fabric, Ent. Syst. Suppl., p. 130.

iEneo-rufescent, with the head somewhat infuscate, sub-opaque on
the upper side ; the prothorax is either totally dull bronze-green on the
disk with the sides flavous testaceous, or the bronze patch is divided
into several longitudinal bands more or less coalescent in the
centre, and splashed with irregular, small whitish macules which are
often absent ; the scutellum is testaceous yellow marginated with
fuscous ; and the elytra, which are also testaceous yellow, have on
each side three or four rows of black macules ; the pygidium is also
maculated with fuscous. Head and clypeus closely punctate, the
latter part is only slightly attenuate in front with the outer angles
moderately rounded and the anterior part somewhat broadly
emarginate, each puncture bears a very short hair ; prothorax very
closely punctate, the punctures fine and deep ; scutellum impunctate;

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elytra not distinctly punctate, and without any traces of white
coating, the two costules are very distinct, and the two first dorsal
intervals have each two geminate striae ; the under side is very shiny,
the sides of the abdomen are either maculated or banded with an
ochraceous flavescent coating; the pectus and femora are clothed
with a light fulvous, dense pubescence ; the anterior tibiae are tri-
dentate in both sexes, the two apical teeth are set very close to each
other, and the third is remote ; in the female the spurs of the hind
tibiae are very little thicker than in the male, and the basal tarsal
joint not spinose or widely broadened outwardly.

Length 10-14 mm. ; width 7-8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Knysna, Uitenhage, Graham's Town, Port
Elizabeth, the whole Transkei) ; Natal (Durban, Frere, Karkloof,
Maritzburg) ; Transvaal (Pretoria).

Elaphinis nigropunctata, Pering.,
Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 163.

This species is very closely allied to E. tigrina, and the facies is
very much like that of a Protatia. The upper side is light testaceous
yellow, but the frontal part of the head is black ; the prothorax has
in the centre two longitudinal rows of three macules each, two similar
ones on each side and one in the centre of the hase ; the elytra are
maculated with black in the manner of E. tigrina ; the pygidium is
of the same colour as the elytra and immaculate, the antennae are
fiavo-rufescent ; the anterior tibiae are bi-dentate with the teeth set
close to each other in the male, but tri-dentate in the female as in
A', tigrina, from which this species differs mostly in the larger size,
much lighter colour, the evenness of the black markings on the
thorax, although these may be found to be more variable than in the
examples which I have seen, and in the total absence of cretaceous
coating even on the under side. The shape of the genital armature
of the 3 is very similar in both species, but the lateral margin is
more carinate at apex in /•,'. nigropunctata.

Length 15-17 mm. ; width 7£-9i mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Barberton).

Elaphinis barbertonensis, n. sp.
iEneous black, upper side very light testaceous yellow ; head
black ; prothorax with four fuscous macules on the disk, and a
smaller one above the median part of the base, or with nearly the
whole surface of the disk suffused with aeneous black ; scutellum
totally or partly black ; elytra with two or three rows of black

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macules, moderately large with smaller ones intervening. The
livery, sculpture, and vestiture are very similar to those of E. nigro-
punctata, the size is very much smaller, the clypeus especially in the
male is more oblong with the angles more rounded, and the fore
margin more deeply scooped but also more raised ; the anterior
tibiae of the male are dentate at apex only and sinuate above the
tooth ; those of the female are bi-dentate, but the teeth are not
closely set, and there is only a slight upper sinuation ; the pectus
and femora are densely hairy, the hairs flavescent ; the black
pygidium is occasionally splashed with a cretaceous coating.

Length 9i-10i mm. ; width 5f— 6 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Barberton).

{Species ivhich I have not been able to identify.)

ELAPHINIS CAF.INICOLLIS, Kl\,

Deutsch. Entomol. Zeits., 1895, p. 382.

" Similar to E. tigrina Oliv., but more obscure, under side fuscous,
greenish bronze, shiny, upper side opaque ; the densely punctate
head and the prothorax are greenish, the latter is concolorous, sub-
carinate from the median part to the apex, sometimes rufous trans-
lucid above the scutellum ; elytra rufous brown, tessellate with black ;
pygidium closely striolate, variegated with white, anterior tarsi
sub-tridentate.

Length 13 mm.

Hab. Caffraria."

Most probably a slight variety of the very variable E. tigrina.

Group POEPHYEONOTII.
In this group are included insects with a depressed, sub-hexagonal
prothorax, and with entire, impunctate, geminate striae on each
interval of the elytra ; they are remarkable by their livery, which is
rufescent-brown or testaceous tessellated with fuscous. The maxillae
are either simple or plainly dentate ; the hind tibiae of the genus
Porphyronota are serrate spinose on the upper side ; the clypeal
anterior angles are moderately rounded or reflexed.

Gen. NIPHETOPHORA, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1883, p. 384.
Oxyrrhaphia, Kolbe, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1895, p. 279.
Mentum short, broader than long, hardly sinuate in front, maxillae

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long, slender, the lobes inermous, the upper one with a long pencil
of hairs ; last joint of labial palps slightly swollen outwardly, that
of the maxillary cylindrical ; clypeus sub-parallel, being slightly
narrower at apex than at the base, the outer angles are slightly
rounded, and the anterior margin reflexed ; antenna normal ; pro-
thorax sub-trapezoidal, strongly arcuate above the scutellum which
is long and sharp ; elytra elongated, depressed, plainly attenuate
behind, with the suture sharply raised and very sharply acuminate
and projecting at apex ; propygidium sharply marginate at apex, the
margin slightly overhanging the pygidium which is of normal shape ;
anterior tibiae sharply dentate outwardly at apex and bi-angular
above the tooth in the J , bi-dentate and with a slight sinuation
above the second tooth in the 5 ; tarsi normal ; sternal process
arcuate ampliate, projecting beyond the coxae somewhat in the
manner o Protatia.

NlPHETOPHORA CARNEOLA, Burm.,

Handb. d. Entomol., v., 1847, p. 559.
Bohem., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 31.

hildebrandti, Har., Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1878, p. 213.
maculipes, Kraatz, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1883, p. 384.
spinipennis, Fairm., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1887, p. 132.

Fuscous metallic underneath, opaque above, the upper side and legs
light cinnamon colour, maculated with numerous small fuscous spots
and sprinkled with still more numerous minute white dots; on the pro-
thorax are traces of two discoidal fuscous, narrow bands ; the pygidium
bears numerous white patches, each of the abdominal segments are
similarly maculated, and so are the sides of the pectus ; head with a
median carinule separating two broadly pitted impressions ; clypeus
finely punctate : prothorax moderately closely variolose punctate on
the sides and in front, but with only very few shallow punctures in
the centre and above the base, and clothed with a very fine and very
short greyish pubescence on the sides of the disk ; scutellum briefly
fringed with greyish hairs along the base, impunctate ; elylra very
plane and having on each side two very flat costules, the three dorsul
intervals have each two geminate, non-punctate striae, the back-
ground is very finely aciculate, the suture is produced into a long,
triangular spine, which varies, however, greatly in length in the
male, this spine is shorter, or very short, in the female ; pectus
cicatricose punctate, each puncture bearing a squamose hair; legs
roughly punctate, briefly pubescent*

Length 10-15A mm. ; width 6-8 mm

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Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley) ; Orange Eiver Colony (Vrede-
ford) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg, Pietersburg, Waterburg, Pretoria,
Leysdorp, Rustenbiu'g) ; Natal (Weenen, Durban) ; Bechuanaland
(Ramoutsa) ; Southern Rhodesia (Bulawayo, Salisbury, Upper
Limpopo, Enkeldoorn, Sebakwe).

NlPHETOPHOEA RH0DE8IANA, n. Sp.

Rufescent metallic on the under side, light testaceous opaque on
the upper ; frontal part fuscous-green maculated with white ; pro-
thorax with two longitudinal, median, fuscous-green bands and a
supra-basal median spot, sides maculated with fuscous green, the
macules interspaced with numerous white dots ; scutellum con-
colorous ; elytra very numerously maculated with fuscous spots
forming an irregular patch and sprinkled over with equally
numerous white dots ; antennae sub-rufescent, antennal club nearly
as long as the pedicel in the male ; clypeus closely punctulate,
frontal part punctate on each side only ; on the prothorax the
punctures are not very closely set, and on the sides they are filled
with a white coating, irrespective of the white splashed dots ;
scutellum impunctate ; elytra uni-costate, the inner dorsal costa is
geminate striate, and the suture which is highly carinate behind
ends in a distinctly long spine ; pygidium punctulate and with short,
appressed, scale-like hairs and sprinkled with minute white spots ;
sides of abdominal segments with a white macule, punctate, the
punctures squamose.

I have seen one male example only.

Length 11^ mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali).

Gen. PORPHYRONOTA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., in., 1842, p. 622.

Poecilophila, Kolbe, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1893, p. 210.

Mentum sub-parallel, convex at the junction with the ligular part,
slightly sinuate in front with the outer angles moderately rounded,
and twice as long as broad ; last joint of palps of the normal shape ;
maxillae not very robust, provided at the tip with a short, bifid
tooth, the diverging points of which coalesce on the left maxilla, and
with a small inner tooth partly hidden by the thick fringe of hairs
lining the inner part for half the length ; clypeus moderately
acuminate, scooped more or less deeply in front, and with the outer
angles triangularly recurved ; prothorax diagonally ampliated from

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the apex to about the median part, sinuate thence to a short distance
from the moderately rounded basal angle, where it is as broad as
across the median part ; prothorax elongated, but not sharply
acuminated at tip ; elytra depressed, more or less plainly bi-costate ;
prosternal process with a distinct suture or not, and more or less,
bluntly acuminate ; anterior tibiae sharply tri-dentate, inner part of
tibiae pubescent ; intermediate tibiae strongly bi-dentate on the upper-
side, serrate or pluri-dentate on the posterior ones.

Kolbe's characteristics of the genus Poccilophila are the shape of
the clypeus, and the absence of a spine on the upper part of the hind
tibiae. While this character holds good for two of the species, it.
certainly does not for the third (carnifcx), which, however, cannot be
separated from the other two, and was included by Burmeister in
the genus Porphyronota.

Key to the Sj)ecies.

Posterior tibue pluri-dentate on the upper *ide (Porphyronota.))

Suture of prosternal process obliterated, the process blunt . . carnifcx.

Posterior tibiae serrate on the upper side (Fokcilophila.)

Suture of prosternal process very distinct, process aculeate ;
metasternum punctate in the centre hebrcea.

Prosternal process moro sharply aculeate and shorter ; meta-
sternum nearly impunctate in the centre maculatisa'vna.

P. carnifex, Fabr.,
Plate XLIIL, figs. 4 and 5.
Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 124, pi. 18, fig. 2.
Spec. Ins., i., p. 53.
lanius, Voet., Col., i., p. 13, pi. 2, fig. 16.
rauca, Fabr., Spec. Ins., ii., App., p. 496.
Var. variegata, Boh., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 43.

Type. Brick-red, turning sometimes to cinabar-red on the upper
side, nearly opaque ; clypeus infuscate at tip, closely and deeply
punctate, antennal pedicel reddish ; prothorax slightly ciliate along the-
margin in the anterior part, sub-foveolate punctate, the punctures
somewhat cicatricose and moderately scattered, there are ten irregular
black patches on the disk; scutellum fuscous, and with a series of deep*
punctures on each side ; elytra somewhat ampliated in the anterior
part, sinuate in front of the side-pieces, narrowed behind and having
on each side three plain striae the outer of which is cicatricose
punctured in the anterior part only, next to that punctured part.

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there are also two or three series of similar punctures reaching from
the hase to about one-fourth of the length or further down, and the
three alternate intervals are sub-tectiform or even tectiform, there is
a black, irregular tessellation ; pygidium aciculate plicate ; under
side glabrous except the prosternal part, black maculated with red,
the sides of the pectus and also the legs are irregularly foveate
punctate, the metasternal part is also roughly punctate and deeply
grooved, the receding aculeate mesosternal part is smooth and
triangular, and the suture is nearly always obliterated ; intermediate
tibia? with two sharp teeth, hind ones with four long, sharp ones set
at about the median part, sometimes also with six.

The variety variegata, Bohem., is usually much darker than the
type form, that is to say the black tessellation has invaded the upper
and under surface, and there is thus a red instead of a black
tessellation ; and the four or six teeth on the upper side of the hind
tibias are serrate rather than dentate ; the punctuation on the pro-
thorax is certainly broader and deeper, and on that account the
punctures are closer to each other, and the seriate rows of cicatricose
punctures on the elytra reach further down, but the size or depth of
these punctures is very variable ; the shape of the genital clasps
of the male (pi. xliii., fig. 4) are similar ; fig. 5 (type form) is not
quite correct. An example from Frere, Natal, is as red on the upper
side as the type form.

This species is met with only under dry cow-dung, and it seems
to be always solitary.

Length 17-18 mm. ; width 10^-11 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Worcester, Knysna, Malmes-
bury, Dordrech) ; Natal (Frere).

P. HEBR-EA, Oliv.,

Plate XLIII., fig. 7.

Ent., i., 6, p. 89, pi. 12, fig. 115.

Gor. and Perch., Monogr., p. 125, pi. 18, fig. 3.

Shape of the preceding species, but smaller and with the clypeal

part more acuminate in front, and the angles more sharply

upturned ; the colour is more flavescent, and the black macules

more numerous ; the sides of the prothorax are not sparsely villose,

or serrulate ; the punctures on the disk are greatly scattered, and

although deep, not cicatricose ; the scutellum is sparingly punctate,

and sometimes not at all ; the stria? on the dorsal part of the elytra

are very plain and the third interval plainly tectiform ; pygidium

briefly pubescent towards the apical part, finely plicate ; under side

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glabrous, except on the mesosternum, roughly punctate like the
legs; sternal process smooth, triangularly aculeate, and with
the suture visible on the sides ; metasternum plainly punctate in
the centre ; outer upper ridge of hind tibiae serrulate all along its
length, all tibiae densely fringed with light fulvous hairs.

Length 17-18 mm. ; width 10 mm.

" Feeds on various flowering shrubs and roses (Natal). I have not
yet seen it on flowers in Salisbury, but only feeding on the
stems of various herbaceous plants, also on Combretum "(G. A. K.
Marshall). It is principally a grass insect in Natal (C. N. Barker).

Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley, Graham's Town, East London,
Port St. John) ; Natal and Transvaal, almost everywhere ; Southern
Rhodesia (Salisbury, Mazoe, Enkeldoorn, Umtali) ; Mozambique
(Beira, Lourenco-Marquez). The whole of Eastern and East Central
Africa as far as Abyssinia ; also Angola.

P. MACULATISSIMA, Boheill.,

Plate XLIIL, fig. 6.
Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh., i860, p. 120.

Distinguished from the preceding species by the more parallel and
more elongated shape and more depressed elytra, the tessellation is
also darker and the spots more numerous ; every abdominal segment
has a lateral fascicle of flavescent hairs, the metasternal process is
smooth in the centre, and the mesosternal is as broadly triangular
but distinctly shorter, and the suture is very well defined all round ;
the shape of the genitalia of the male is different, and the habits of
the two species do not seem to be the same. Marshall writes that it
is found under the bark of dead Acacia, and on Acacia gum; and
Barker says that it has arboreal habits in Natal, differing in that
respect from P. hebraa.

Length 16-19i mm. ; width bi-10 nun.

Hab. Eastern part of the Cape Colony, the whole Transvaal and
Natal ; Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Mpudzi River) ; Eastern and
East Central Africa ; Central Congo, Angola.

CHIRINDA, n. gen.
Strictly speaking this genus differs from P&iyhyronata merely by
the shape of the clypeus, which is parallel and only slightly sinuate
in front with the anterior angles slightly rounded and not reflexed ;
the intermediate and posterior tibia? are uni-dentate on the upper
side, and the latter are weakly serrate ; the inner part is not densely
ciliate.

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Key to the Species.

Upper side covered with a velvety-black tomentum, maculated with
sienna ; mesosternal process truncate in front and with a distinct
porrect tooth above the apical truncate part ,. .. xylvntica.

Upper side red, tessellated with black, prosternal process normal,

somewhat sharply aculeate _. . , / okovanga.

Chibinda sylvatica, n. sp.
Plate XLVIL, fig. 28.

Shape of P. vidcalatissima but a little smaller ; upper side covered
with a velvety-black tomentum variegated with numerous small,
yellow-ochre markings, much in the manner of P . maculatissima ;
under side black ; clypeus with the angles rounded laterally, and
slightly wider at the apex than at the base, weakly sinuate in front,
and marginate all round ; head and clypeus deeply punctured, the
former with a few ochraceous markings ; prothorax sinuate laterally
from about the median part to the base, the margin serrulate, the
discoidal part is deeply cicatricose punctate, but the punctures are
hidden by the velvety tomentum ; scutellum roughly punctate at the
base ; elytra elongated, striate, the third interval highly tectiform,
the fifth costate, the tomentum hides also the elongated, moderately
shallow punctures, and forms on each side three triangularly
disposed, darker patches at about the median part ; pygidium
strigillate, sparingly maculated with yellow ochre ; abdomen
glabrous, punctate ; pectus punctate and briefly pubescent, the
pubescence black, metastemum punctate in the centre, grooved,
metasternal process without suture, bluntly aculeate, and produced
above the aculeate part into a short conical, porrect tooth ; inner
side of tibiae moderately pubescent, intermediate and posterior ones
uni-dentate, upper side of the latter closely serrulate.

Length 15-16i mm. ; width 9-9^ mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Chirinda Forest, Gazaland).

Mr. G. A. K. Marshall writes of this species, which he discovered,
that he " found it flying in the dense forest, and settling on fallen,
rotten tree-trunks, into which they were burrowing."

Chirinda okovanga, n. sp.

This species might at first sight be taken for a small example of
P. camifex, var. variegata, except for the shape of the clypeus.
Head black, prothorax brick-red with two small black macules in

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the anterior part of the disk, one on each side ; scutellum black ;
elytra red, but with irregular transverse black bands forming with the
red background a tessellation in which the black patches are broader
than the red ; under side and legs black, abdomen with a lateral series
of reddish macules ; head and clypeus covered with confluent,
elongated punctures the walls of which form a network ; prothorax
covered with a similar network, but the walls of the punctures are
somewhat obliterated in the central part of the disk, the punctures
being there strongly cicatricose ; apical part of scutellum impunc-
tate ; elytra distinctly bi-costate and with a third rudimentary costa
on each side, the first two intervals are separated by geminate
lines, the others by several turning on the sides to a duplicate series
of oval, cicatricose punctures ; pygidium strigillate ; abdomen dis-
tinctly punctate ; pectus strongly punctate and very briefly
pubescent ; median part of metasternum punctate, mesosternal
sharply aculeate, the triangular suture well-nigh obliterated.

Length 13£ mm. ; width 7 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Okovango River).

I have seen one example only ( $ ).

Group DIPLOGNATHII.

I include in this group two genera characterised by the shape of
the clypeus which is carinate laterally, the angles being sharply
angular, or projecting considerably beyond the anterior margin
in both sexes.

Gen. DIPLOGNATHA, Gory and Perch.,
Monogr. d. Get., 1833, p. 31.

Mentum very convex, sinuate in the anterior part, with the
outer angles rounded ; maxillae robust, upper lobe short, produced
in two strong, hamate teeth and with a dense pencil of hairs
outwardly, inner lobe hairy inwardly and armed with a sharp hooked
tooth ; clypeus carinate laterally and with the outer angles
acuminate and reflexed ; prothorax gradually ampliated laterally
as far as the median part, sinuate thence to the base ; the latter very
slanting on each side ; scutellum sunken, sharply acuminate ; elytra
elongated, non-costate or striate ; sternal process aculeate acumi-
nate, without suture ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, intermediate and
posterior uni-dentate; the inner part densely ciliate.

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Diplognatha gagates, Fabric,

Plate XLI1L, figs. 8 and 9.

Syst. Entom., p. 49.

Var. D. silicca, McLeay, 111. Zool. Afric, iii., p. 22.

Shiny, black, glabrous ; head and clypeus almost impunctate, or
very obsoletely punctulate ; prothorax impunctate in the discoidal
part, but finely aciculate on the sides, the margin of which is dis-
tinctly serrate and briefly ciliate, the arcuate emargination above the
scutellum is also ciliate , scutellum impunctate ; elytra quite smooth,
without any traces of striae or costules ; pygidium very finely
aciculate plicate ; under side glabrous except on the prosternum, the
median part of the metasternum is impunctate and slightly grooved
except in the anterior part ; tibiae coarsely punctate.

Length 21-28 mm. ; width 12-15 mm.

Fairmaire has rightly pointed out that there is a difference
between the type form and its variety. In I). gagates the upper
side of the intermediate tibiae bears two teeth, while in_D. silicea there
is one only. This character does not hold good throughout, because
I have been able to verify the partial obliteration of one of these
teeth in some examples of D. gagates from Komasi. Moreover, the
shape of the genital clasps of the $ is identical in both the typical
and the varietal form ; ::: and this is, after all, the true test. The
variety silicea is found all over Southern, Eastern, and Central
Africa, whereas the type form gagates would appear to be restricted
to the Western coast only, from Senegambia to Loanda. The South
African examples are usually larger than the others.

I have bred this species from the nest of a hawk, Buteo jakal ;
the larvae feed on the excrements, and use also this material for
making their cocoon. I found no less than 29 of these cocoons in
one nest.

Gen. APOCNOSIS, J. Thorns.,
Typ. Cetonid., p. 30.

Mentum parallel, truncate at apex with the outer angles slightly
rounded ; maxillae robust, outer lobe with two strongly hamate teeth
at apex, inner lobe ending in a similar tooth, and not densely ciliate
inwardly ; clypeus sharply carinate laterally, parallel, produced on
each side of the anterior part in a reflexed, quadrate tooth-like
process projecting beyond the straight anterior margin ; prothorax

* The figure of I), (jugate, pi. 43, fig. 8 is wrong, the apex having become
contorted through the example to which it belonged being slightly immature.

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narrowed laterally in the anterior part, and not sinuate in the
posterior, hind angles broadly rounded, base nearly straight ;
scutellum long and sharp ; elytra elongated, narrowing behind,
plane, pluri-costate ; sternal process long, aculeate, and without
suture ; anterior legs tri-dentate, intermediate and posterior ones
uni-dentate ; tibiae sparsely ciliate inwardly.

This genus includes one species only, originally described from
Nyassaland.

Al'OCNOSIS STRIATA, JailS.,

Plate XLVII., fig. 6.
Cist. Entomol., ii., p. 263.

brunneonigra, J. Thorns; Typ. Ceton., p. 30.

Shiny, black, but occasionally rufescent, especially the elytra ;
clypeus with broad but shallow fossae in the anterior part, and
shallow impressions in the posterior, somewhat villose in the apical
part and also on the vertex ; prothorax covered with fairly deep
punctures which are broader and more elongated on the sides, the
outer margin is slightly serrate ; scutellum sunken, impunctate ;
elytra deeply striate and with the intervals plainly raised ; pygidium
aciculate ; under side glabrous, except on the femora ; sternal process
grooved longitudinally as far as the prosternal part which has no
suture, the whole median part is impunctate ; legs and sides of
pectus roughly punctate.

Feeds on gum of Acacia and Combrctum (G. A. K. Marshall).

Length 18-24 mm.; width 10-12 mm.

Hub. Natal (Weenen); Transvaal (Barberton) ; Southern
Rhodesia (Salisbury, Umtali, Matopos, Mt. Chirinda, Manica).

Sub-Teebe LBUCOCBLITES.

The insects grouped in this Sub-Tribe are distinguished by the
sculpture of the elytra. There is always a basal longitudinal
impression inside of the humeral callus, the first, or the first
and second dorsal intervals begin with two rows of punctures
which from the median part to the apex turn into two geminate
impunctate striae : these geminate stria may not be always well
defined in the second interval, but they are always clearly seen
in the first. There is a tendency for the first costa or cos-
tule to disappear after the median part, the exception among
the South Africa genera being Clintcroides and Tcphrwa, but these
two genera form a connecting Link with Pseudoclinteria, and thus

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unite the Goliathites with the Leucocelites. It is worthy of note
that in these two genera, and also in Pscudoprotcetia, the shape of the
basal joint of the hind tarsi is that of the Goliathites, but I have
already explained that I subordinate this character to the mode of
sculpture of the elytra, in spite of the somewhat robust faciesof the
species belonging to the above-named genera ; in the other genera
this basal joint is rounded at apex, but in Homalothyrea, the whole
facies and colouration of which is that of Leucocelis, this joint is
elongated and dentiform in the 2 , but short and only acute in the $ .
The sexual differences are not easily distinguishable, but in Mauso-
leopsis the claws of the anterior tarsi of the S , and in some species
of the same genus the hind tibiae, differ in shape from those of
the 5 . In Pseudoprotcetia the shape of the clypeus is slightly
different in the two sexes.

Key to the Genera.

A2. Basal joint of hind tarsi sharply angular or spinose outwardly
in both sexes.

B2. Basal part of prothorax covering the greatest part of the
scutellum.

C. Inner costa of elytra not obliterated in the posterior
part.

a-. Maxillee toothless, and provided with a long pencil
of hairs.

Body somewhat massive, pubescent underneath and

sometimes above ; sternal process bluntly knobby Clinteroide*.

B1. Basal part of prothorax normal, plane, arcuate above
the scutellum.

a1. Maxilla? dentate on the upper side, which is also
penicillate with hairs.

Body depressed, attenuate behind, punctures on the
elytra strongly cicatricose, sternal process constricted
between the coxse, transversely arcuate Tephrcea,

Body massive, not much attenuated behind, upper
maxillary lobe strongly bi-dentate, sternal process
constricted, transversely arcuate, inner costa of elytra
transversely coalescing with the outer in the centre. . Pseudoprot<rti«.

A1. Basal joint of hind tarsi not angular or spinose outwardly.

B2. Basal part of the prothorax normal, sides of scutellum
deeply sunk.

C2. Sternal process not marginate in front.

D^. Inner costa of elytra obliterated in the anterior
part, post-scutellary region strongly depressed.

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Maxillae sub-mucronate.

Body moderately attenuated behind, elypeus
rounded laterally, body quite black, prothorax
with t> broad, deep impressions, sternal process
cuneiform Trymodera.

B\ Basal part of prothorax normal, scutellum plane, sharply
triangular.

I) . Inner costa of elytra not quite obliterated in the
posterior part.

Maxillae simple, penicillate.

Body moderately attenuated behind, sternal

process long, plane, sub-hamate at the tip .. Lipothyrea.

D1. Inner costa of elytra obliterated past the median
part.

a . Maxillary upper lobe uni-dentate, penicillate.

Body plainly attenuated behind, base of
prothorax moderately arcuate above the
scutellum Polystalactica.

a1. Maxilla? simple, penicillate.

Body moderately attenuated behind, pro-
thorax ampliate rounded laterally, very
slightly projecting in the centre of the base Glaucoctlis.

C. Sternal process plainly marginate in front.

<i. Maxillae inermous and provided with a long
pencil of hairs.

b. No sexual differences.

E2 Body not strongly attenuated behind ; elypeus
sub-truncate, not emarginate in front.

c . Basal part of prothorax arcuate above the
scutellum.

Body plane, lateral part of the base of the
pro-thorax plainly angular ; sternal process
sub-triangularly arcuate ; livery black and
white Lonchothyrea.

. Basal part of prothorax not arcuate above
the scutellum.

Body moderately deplanated, base of pro-
thorax rounded laterally, sternal process
bluntly arcuate ; livery black and white . . Leptothyrea.

E1 Body strongly attenuated behind, elypeus
long, attenuated and emarginate or incised

in front.

c'. Basal part of prothorax straight above
the scutellum.

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Upper part of the body metallic ; elytra
green, greenish, blue, sometimes red, seldom
black.

c2. Basal joints of hind tarsi not dilated nor
spinose outwards.

Sternal process comparatively short, sub- ) Leucocelix.
arcuate at apex \ Erythroderma.

c'. Basal joint of hind tarsi dilated outwardly Hcnialothyrea..

Body black and white, not metallic.

Sternal process longer.

ft1. Sexual differences.

Inner claw of fore tarsi conspicuously
longer and somewhat malformed in the 3 ;
hind femora of same sex often arcuate . . Mauxoleopsis.

Gen. CLINTEKOIDES, Schoch.,
Mith. Schw. Ent. Gesells., x., 1898, p. 102.

This genus is differentiated from Pseucloclinteria by the more
obtuse and quite horizontal sternal process, the deeply punctate
prothorax, the elytra strongly bi-costate on each side with two
geminate strides in each interval, and the plainly triangular basal
joint of the hind tarsi in both sexes.

The genus seems to be restricted to South Africa, but one of the
species is probably a straggler from East Central Africa.

Key to the Species.

Upper side glabrous ; prothorax without a supra-basal longitudinal

median keel permutans.

Upper side briefly pubescent ; prothorax with a supra-basal longi-
tudinal median keel curiam.

Clinteroides permutans, Burm.,

Handb. d. Entom., v., 1847, p. 554.

borni, Schoch., Mith. Schw. Ent. Ges., 1894, p. 188.

Type. Black, glabrous on the upper side, the prothorax with a

moderately narrow lateral marginal white band ; elytra black,

sprinkled with white spots varying in number from 15 to 10;

pygidium with 4 or 6 white spots ; abdominal segments occasionally

with a few white macules and with or without a white lateral band.

The colouration of this type form is the rarest ; in most examples the

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profchorax is red, and the elytra black, or rufescent in the anterior
part ; occasionally, although seldom, the elytra are rufescent with a
broad sutural band fuscous black ; the number of white macules is
most irregular, and the two apical ventral segments are rufous in
these varietal forms. Head very closely punctulate, the punctures
on the frontal part slightly broader than on the clypeus ; prothorax
with a very slight longitudinal median keel in the anterior part, the
pointed, central basal part is slightly depressed at the apex, the
surface is covered with deep, moderately remote punctures ; elytra
with the suture raised and with two high costae on each side, the
space between the suture and the first costa has two geminate
striae, and there are two in the second interval also but running
from the median part only ; the anterior is punctate, and so is the
humeral part and the deflexed sides ; pygidium closely aciculate ;
abdomen sparsely cicatricose punctate ; pectus moderately densely
hairy, strigillate punctate.

Length 12-14 mm. ; width 7-8£ mm.

There is no end to the variation in colour of this species. I know
of a varietal form with the prothorax red and having two elongated
triangular discoidal black patches. I have verified the identity of
C borni with C. varians from an examination of Schoch's type.

llab. Transvaal (Rustenburg, Northern Transvaal), the whole of
Rhodesia, Cape Colony (Kimberley).

Clinteroides cariosa, Jans.,

Cistul. Entom., ii., 1877, p. 247.

hirta, Schoch., Mith. Schw. Ent. Ges., 1898, p. 102.

Black, moderately shiny ; head and prothorax briefly pubescent ;

elytra with seriate, remote, greyish setulose hairs mixed with a few

squamiform, lanceolate white ones, each elytron with small white

spots varying in number from nine to twelve ; head very closely

punctate ; prothorax covered with rugose sub-contiguous punctures

divided by a slightly raised wall on the sides, in the centre there is

a raised longitudinal keel, almost obliterated in the anterior part but

very distinct in the posterior basal part ; elytra strongly bi-costate

on each side, and with the suture equally raised, each interval

between the suture and the costae bears two geminate striae, the

, basal and humeral parts and also the deflexed sides are coarsely

punctate ; pygidium closely variolose punctate and with six white

macules ; sides of abdomen variolose punctate, briefly pubescent,

each segment with a white macule on the upper side ; pectus and

,femora clothed with a dense flavesccnt pubescence. In one of my

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■examples the prothorax has a not very distinct, interrupted, outer
marginal greyish-white band.'

Length 14 mm. ; width 7-J— S mm.

Hab. Southern Khodesia (Enkeldoorn, Umtali, Salisbury, Maran-
della's, Mtokos, Matopos, Gazaland).

Is found, like C. infuscata, on various flowers.

Gen. TEPHK/EA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iii., 1842, p. 419.

Anaplasta, Burm., loc. cit., v., 1847, p. 561.
Aplasia, Schaum., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1844, p. 411.

Men turn elongated, sub-parallel, slightly sinuate in the anterior
partv the outer angles of which are moderately rounded ; inner lobe
of maxillae simple, upper lobe with a minute tooth ; clypeus a little
attenuate towards the anterior part, carinate laterally and with the
apical margin slightly reflexed ; antennal club as long as the pedicel
in the male ; prothorax and elytra depressed, the former moderately
or strongly arcuate above the scutellum, the latter with two dorsal
costae and with series of elongated, strongly cicatricose punctures
which, in the dorsal part, end towards' the apex in geminate striate
rows ; sternal process projecting much beyond the coxae, arcuately
ampliate, and with a distinct transverse suture separating the meso-
sternal from the metasternal parts ; anterior tibiae tri- dentate out-
wardly, the upper tooth reduced to a moderately distinct sinuation
in the $ ; intermediate and posterior tibiae very plainly dentate on
the upper side ; tarsi moderately long, the two basal ones of the
posterior legs triangular, the first one plainly acuminate outwardly
in the $ , sub-spinose in the ? , upper and under sides glabrous, the
latter part roughly cicatricose punctate on the pectus and the lateral
part of abdomen.

The genus is represented in East Central Africa and Senegambia.
One of the South African species (T. dichroa) ranges from Natal to
the Lake Nyanza, and the livery of the other species (T. collaris) is
very variable, and has led to the description as new species of colour
varieties.

Key to the Species.

Antenna! club rufescent ; prothorax moderately arcuate at the base
above the scutellum ; scutellum punctate at the base ; elytra with two
white spots on each side dichroa.

Antennal club piceous ; prothorax strongly arcuate above the scutel-
lum; scutellum punctate laterally ; elytra without white spots .. .. morosa.

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Tephrj^a dichroa, Schaum.,
Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr., 1844, p. 411 ; ibid., 1849, p. 268.

? lutulenta, Schaum., loc. cit., 1844, p. 412.

Type. Male : Black, with the thorax red, and the elytra dark
reddish brown ; the red prothorax bears two discoidal fuscous spots
and a supra-marginal one on each side, and the base is almost always
narrowly infuscate ; on each elytron are two white dots situated
slightly past the middle. Female ashy-grey on the upper side, and
having also the two white dots on each elytron, but the prothorax is
unspotted. Head very closely punctate, antennal club rufescent ;
prothorax covered with round, non-cicatricose punctures separated
from each other by an interval equal to twice the wTidth of their own
diameter, but in the centre there is a narrow longitudinal impunctate
line, or very narrow band, those punctures are often hidden by an
opaque coating in the male, but not so in the female ; scutellum with
a few punctures at the base ; elytra with series of cicatricose ovate
punctures in the intervals of the two costules as well as on the
deflexed part, these seriate punctures are more regular in the male
than in the female; pygidium shagreened, and with a lateral light
rufescent patch in the male, or a white spot in the female ; under
side almost glabrous, pectus sub-reticulate, abdominal segments with
a white macule on each, metasternum and epimera always maculated
with white or grey in the female, occasionally so on the metasternum
in the male.

Var. Male : Similar to the type except that the round black spots
on the thorax are elongated into bands which reach neither the
apex nor the base. Female like the type.

Length 12-14 mm. ; width 7^-8 mm.

I Jab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Frere, Newcastle) ; Orange
River Colony ; the whole of the Transvaal and of Southern Rhodesia.

Tephr^a morosa, Schaum.,
Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond., 1848, vol. v., p. 71.

anccps, Dohrn., Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1868, p. 240.

bcinlingi, Nonfr. Ent. Nachr., 18, 1892, p. 124.

collaris, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 22.

napcea, Boh., Ofv. Vet. Akad. Forh., 1860, p. 118.

rufoornata, Jans., Cist. Entom., ii., p. 259.

Black, sub-opaque on the upper side, and very depressed ; antennas
piceous, the club somewhat brownish-red at tip ; head very closely
punctate ; prothorax covered with deep, ovate cicatricose punctures

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closely set, especially on the sides, but in the centre there is a longi-
tudinal impunctate narrow band ; scutellum with an irregular series
of deep punctures on each side ; elytra with seriate ovate, nearly
coalescing cicatricose, very deep punctures ; pygidium reddish ;
under side nearly glabrous, immaculate.

Var. collaris. Black, sub-opaque on the upper side ; prothorax
rusty-red, narrowly marginate with fuscous ; occasionally there are
faint traces of two discoidal fuscous spots.

Var. napcea. Black, with the thorax and elytra ferruginous-red,
the base of the thorax is narrowly edged with fuscous, and on the
median discoidal part are two comma-shaped black macules or two
small dots ; the elytra have a narrow lateral and posterior fuscous
margin, the suture is black and the pygidium is either ferruginous
or black.

Var. rufoomata. Hardly distinguishable from the var. napcea.

The type form is rarer than the variety collaris ; both forms occur
in the same locality.

Length 11-15 mm. ; width 6^—9 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Eustenburg, Zoutpansberg, Pieters-
burg, Waterberg) ; Southern Ehodesia (Middle Limpopo, Enkel-
doorn, Sebakwe, Bulawayo, Salisbury) ; Damaraland.

Gen. PSEUDOPEOT^ETIA, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1882, p. 76.
Mentum elongated, sub-parallel, hardly sinuate at apex ; upper
lobe of maxillae with two sharp curved teeth, inner lobe simple
(stictica) or hooked (amakosa) ; clypeus moderately sub-parallel
laterally, and either diagonally narrowed towards the apex the
margin of which is conspicuously reflexed and incised in the $
(stictica), or parallel and with the anterior margin weakly bi-dentate
in the centre (amakosa) ; in the ? , however, the clypeus is parallel,
transverse at apex, with the margin only slightly raised ; in the
male the antennal club is almost as long as the pedicel ; prothorax
sub-trapezoidal, very plainly arcuate above the scutellum ; the latter
is longer than broad, broad at base, but not sharply acuminate at
apex ; elytra broader than the thorax, not acuminate behind, and
each has a distinct rounded discoidal costa and a short inner one
connected transversely with the discoidal and also with the suture ;
the striae in the dorsal part are quite distinct but at the apex there
are traces of a very short costule uniting with the discoidal at the
apical callus, the suture is plainly raised and acute at apex ; sternal
process plane, constricted between the coxa), projecting beyond

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them and arcuate transverse ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, legs strong,
short, tarsi also short, joints of hind ones plainly angular in-
wardly, first and second joints also angular outwardly in both
sexes.

The genus is represented by one species in Senegambia, and by
another in Central East Africa.

Key to the Species.

Prothorax with three longitudinal median, smooth, raised lines in the
anterior part ; upper side very closely punctate, all the punctures
setigerous leprosa.

Prothorax with one longitudinal smooth median line, upper side
moderately closely punctate; elytra glabrous amakosa.

Pseudopkot^tia ? lepkosa, Brum.,
Handb. d. Entomol., v. 1847, p. 560.

aspersa, Pering., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 163.

Bronze, shiny, covered on the upper side with short, erect, sub-
fulvescent hairs, pectus somewhat densely pubescent ; whole upper
side splashed with sub-contiguous, sub-opalescent whitish macules,
p\ -^idium, sides of abdomen, pectus and femora covered with a white
scale-like coating ; frontal part plainly impressed laterally, more
deeply punctate in the male than in the female, and densely hairy
in the frontal part, in the male especially ; prothorax witli a plain,
median smooth line running from apex to base and having on each
side a less distinct band coalescing with the median one at about the
middle, on each side are two or three faint depressions, and two
plainly distinct, especially the inner, along the base, the surface is
deeply and irregularly punctured, each puncture is setigerous ;
scutellum deeply pitted but with a median smooth longitudinal
space; elytra with the dorsal costa tectiform, the stria1 in the
depressed juxta-sutural part are partly linear, partly punctate, on
the deflexed sides the punctures are deep, sub-cicatricose, and all
setigerous ; pygidium cicatricose punctate, the punctures setigerous ;
abdomen and pectus, except the median part, coated with a thick
sub-opaline coating ; sides of pectus and legs moderately densely
hairy.

Length 11-12 mm. ; width 7-7i mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg) ; Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe,
Manica, Salisbury).

I am not quite sure of the identity of T. leprosa, Burm.

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PSEUDOPROT^TIA AMAKOSA, Bohem.,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 32.
Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 30.
? stictica, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entom. Zeitsch., 1882, p. 70.

Bronze, shiny ; prothorax with two discoidal, plain rows of slightly
flavescent or flavescent-whitish macules, and also a supra-marginal
and a marginal one ; scutellum with a lateral patch ; elytra very
numerously maculated with the same colour ; greatest part of
pygidium almost completely covered with large patches ; the under
side, except the median part of the abdomen and the pectus, are
covered with a flavescent coating ; anterior margin of clypeus almost
straight, the median part slightly sub-bidentate in the male, in
which sex the frontal part is sub-bifoveate, densely villose, and
moderately closely punctate ; the prothorax is moderately closely
punctate, the punctures being elongated and somewhat close to each
other on the sides, but the median part and also the arcuate part of
the base are smooth, each puncture is very briefly setigerous ;
scutellum smooth, but narrowly punctate along the base ; epimera
deeply punctate ; elytra slightly attenuate behind, the basal part is
sparsely punctate for some distance from the base, the striae in tbe
depressed juxta-sutural part are partly linear, partly catenulate, on
the deflexed sides the punctures are ovate, but towards the margin
they turn to transverse folds, and all the punctures are glabrous ;
pygidium closely cicatricose punctate ; sides of pectus and legs very
briefly pubescent.

Length 11-12 mm. ; width 6f mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg, Lydenburg, Eustenburg) ; Southern
Bhodesia (Molopos, Salisbury, Bulawayo, Enkeldoorn, Sebakwe,
Victoria Falls, Manica, Mtoko, Umfuli Biver).

Gen. TBYMODEBA, Gerst.,
Arch. f. Naturgesch., 33, 1866, p. 34.
Charadria, Schoch., Mith. Schw. Ent. Ges., 1898, p. 175.

Mentum of exactly the same shape as in Eaceloma ; maxillary
lobes moderately robust, upper lobe sharply mucronate but not
hooked at tip, thickly penicillate ; apical joint of maxillary palps
truncate at tip ; clypeus deeply incised laterally at the base, slightly
ampliate there in the centre, the anterior angles are broadly rounded
and the anterior margin deeply and somewhat broadly incised ; head
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anterior part, nearly, but not quite, rectangular in the posterior, very
conspicuously quadri-impressed along the base ; scutellum tectiform
in the posterior part, not very sharply acuminate at apex ; elytra
with the humeral part strongly developed, attenuated towards the
side pieces and nearly straight thence to the apical part, strongly
unicostate on each side ; mesosternal process very short, sub-
aculeate, truncate in front ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate in the $ , tri-
dentate in the $ ; inner side of all tibiae briefly and moderately
densely pubescent.

The only species included in this genus was originally described
from what was then known as the Zanzibar mainland.

This species is found on Protea flowers (G. A. K. Marshall).

Trymodera aterrima, Gerst.,
Loc. cit., p. 34.
Decken's Eeis., Glied., 1873, p. 97 ; pi. vi., figs. 2, 2a.
duvivieri, Sch., Mith. Schw. Ent. Ges., 1898, p. 175.

Completely black and very shiny ; clypeus covered with deep even
punctures, closely set, on each side of the clypeus is a moderately
deep impression, and two in the anterior part of the head, which is
strigillate in front and smooth behind ; prothorax with eight plain
impressions, being on each side a juxta-median anterior one not
always clearly defined, two lateral, and a supra-basal, the intervals
are sparsely punctate, but the impressions are strongly strigillate ;
base of scutellum strongly strigillate transversely, the convex part
smooth ; elytra with a strong, smooth, tectiform costa beginning
near the base and equi-distant from the humeral callus and the
scutellum, the suture is conspicuously carinate, the space between
the costa and the suture is quite smooth in the anterior part, but
faintly bi-impressed and set with cicatricose punctures in fche
posterior, while the pai't lying between the dorsal costa and the
outer margin bears three or four transverse impressions, is irregu-
larly plicate, but bears in addition three short, sub-punctate stria* ;
pygidium strigillate ; under side glabrous, very sparingly punctate,
the punctures cicatricose.

The sculpture of this interesting species, which has no ally,
closely approximates that of the genus Lcucocelis, which in turn is
nearly similar to that of many of the Crcmastochilidcs.

Through the courtesy of Dr. Standfuss, of the Zurich Museum, I
have een able to examine the type of Charadria duvivieri, Sch., and
cau thns corroborate its identity with Trymodera aterrima, Gerst.

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Length 13-14 mm. ; width 7-8 mm.

Hab. ? Transvaal (Lydenburg) ; Southern Ehodesia (Manica,
Enkeldoorn, Sebakwe, Salisbury) ; Mozambique (Beira).

Gen. POLYSTALACTICA, Kraatz,

Deutsch. Entom. Zeitsch., 1882, p. 69.
P scurf otephr&a, Kraatz, loc. cit., p. 70.

Mentum long, sub-parallel, broadly and deeply emarginate in
front ; palpi of the normal shape, inner and upper lobe of maxillae
very distinctly dentate, but the teeth are not hooked ; clypeus
slightly attenuate towards the apex, emarginate there ; prothorax
sub-arcuate at the base, nearly straight above the scutellum which is
sharply acuminate and hardly sunken, there are two deep impres-
sions along the base ; elytra moderately deeply sinuate laterally,
each with a sharply tectiform entire discoidal costa, and an inner one
reaching hardly the median part, the suture is highly carinate in the
posterior part and sharply angular at apex ; pygidium one-fourth
broader than long, arcuate, rounded at apex ; sternal process con-
stricted between the coxae and expanding into a very short trans-
versely truncate process projecting very slightly only ; anterior
tibiae bi-dentate in both sexes but with a plain sinuation above the
second tooth in the female ; tarsi somewhat short, joints not angular
outwardly and very little inwardly in the ? .

The three species known to me are speckled with white dots on
the prothorax and the elytra. The characters assigned by Kraatz to
his genus, Pscudotephraa, are of too slight importance to be taken
into account ; moreover they are not quite correct.

Key to the Species.

A2. Discoidal costa of elytra very sharp, body shiny.

B2. Body not much attenuated behind (Pseudotephr^a).

Prothorax and elytra with very numerous white

dots furfurosa.

B\ Body plainly attenuated behind (Polystalactica).

Prothorax with eight somewhat large yellowish-
white macules ; elytra also with macules, body
remotely villose on upper side mashona.

A1. Discoidal costa of elytra bluntly tectiform, body opaque.

Prothorax and elytra speckled with numerous white

dots sansibarica.

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POLYSTALACTICA MASHONA, n. Sp.

Black, shiny, upper and under side with moderately long, remote
flavescent villose hairs ; clypeus somewhat deeply incised in front,
shagreened, frontal part deeply and closely sub-foveolate punctate ;
prothorax narrower laterally behind than in P. furfurosa and P.
sansibarica, the epimera are more bulging on that account, it is
covered with deep round punctures separated by an interval barely
equal to their own diameter in the median and posterior part
of the disk, but nearly contiguous in front, it is marked with eight
moderately large flavescent white spots disposed transversely
2 — 4 — 2, and the base is straight above the scutellum which is
vaguely punctate along the base; the elytra are bulging laterally
at the humeral part and they are moderately attenuate behind, the
discoidal costa is sharp, the punctures in the intervals moderately
deep, and there are numerous flavescent white macules larger than
the white dots of P. furfurosa and P. sansibarica, numbering six-
teen on each side in my examples, there are series of remote hairs
on the dorsal part, and the raised suture is not sharply acuminate ;
pygidium rufescent, sparsely dotted with white ; under side not
maculated with white, and moderately densely pubescent ; anterior
bibise with two somewhat robust outer teeth.

I have seen only a female example of this species, which differs
somewhat from the true Polystalactica in the shape of the outer
teeth of the anterior tibiae and the not sharply acuminate suture.

Length 10 mm. ; width 5^ mm.

I iih. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

Polystalactica furfurosa, Burm.,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 34.
Handb. d. Entomol, v., 1847, p. 558.
Black, shiny, upper side glabrous, antennae chestnut-brown,
clypeus more closely punctate than on the frontal part where the
punctures are also deeper, and which bears four white dots, occa-
sionally obliterated ; prothorax covered with moderately remote
deep, round punctures in the discoidal part, with the sides sub-
foveate, and having five rows of more or less rounded white dots,
the three median rows are regular, but not so the two lateral ones,
where the spots sometimes commingle ; scutellum punctate along
the base and with a lateral row of few punctures ; elytra sinuate
Laterally but otherwise sub-parallel with the suture, sharply raised
in tin' posterior part and sharply acuminate, the discoidal and the
inner costa' are sharp, and there is a third, plainly visible in the

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male but less so in the female, in the deflexed part, where the punc-
tures are deep and slightly scrobiculate, the white dots are very
numerous ; pygidium numerously dotted with white ; the sides of
the abdomen and pectus are similarly dotted.

Length 10|-11 mm. ; widtb 6-7 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Enkeldoorn, Salisbury, Mazoe, Umtali).

POLYSTALACTICA SANSIBARICA, Kolb.,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 33.
Sitz. Ges. naturf. Freund., Berlin, 1893, p. 75.

Dull dark brown in the male, olivaceous grey in the female,
glabrous, opaque ; antennae piceous ; clypeus aciculate, frontal part
deeply but only moderately closely punctate ; prothorax covered in
the discoidal part with small, round punctures separated by an
interval about equal to their own diameter, but on the sides the
punctures are sub-contiguous, deep, and scabrose, on the disk are
five rows of minute white dots resembling those of P. furfurosa, but
still smaller, the lateral row is indistinct ; scutellum punctate late-
rally ; elytra plainly acuminate behind, sprinkled with very
numerous white dots ; the two dorsal costae are rounded, sub-
tectiform, the punctures in the intervals and on the deflexed side
are arcuate ovate, not closed behind and cicatricose, clypeus splashed
with white ; under side covered laterally with a slightly fleshy-white
coating ; anterior tibias bi-dentate but with a distinct sinuation above
the upper tooth.

Length lOi-ll^ mm.; width 6-7 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Umtali, Enkeldoorn, Sebakwe, Mount
Chirinde) ; Mozambique (Beira).

LIPOTHYEEA, n. gen.
Buccal organs of Leucocelis ; head and prothorax of the same
shape, the latter, however, is not quite straight above the scutellum ;
the elytra are very little attenuated behind, although deeply sinuate
laterally, but the shoulders bulge as much beyond the epimera as
in Leucocelis; the suture is not so sharply carinate, and is not
sharply angular at apex ; there are on each side two costas, little
raised m the anterior part, more so in the posterior where the
intervals are geminate ; the pygidium is arcuate instead of being
acuminate truncate ; the abdomen is less compressed laterally, and
the sternal process which is not constricted between the middle
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of the anterior coxae ; joints of intermediate and hind tarsi less
elongated and move ampliate at apex than in Leucocclis.

The species included in this genus differs from the Lcucocchdes in
having a plain inner costa in the posterior part of the elytra, but the
sculpture of the intervals, and also the humeral impression, show-
that it belongs to the group.

LirOTHYREA BARKERI, n. sp.

Bright shiny green with the head dark green, a broad lateral
orange band on the prothorax, and the epimera of the same colour ;
the pygidium, the ultimate abdominal segment, and the greater part
of the penultimate are brick-red, and the tibiae rufescent ; antennae
piceous. Head closely punctulate ; prothorax covered with deep,
round punctures separated by an interval about equal to twice their
diameter; scutellum impunctate ; elytra shiny, the punctures of the
first duplicate series are shallow, those of the second and third
intervals are deeper, on the defiexed side they are moderately
shallow, and sub-seriate ; pygidium covered with round, cicatricose
punctures ; abdomen remotely but deeply punctate, sides of pectus
irregularly plicate punctate, median part smooth, no traces of trans-
verse suture on the sternal process.

Length 13 mm. ; width 7 mm.

1 1 iih. Natal (Karkloof).

Gen. GLATJCOCELIS, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1896, p. 375.
Mentum elongated, sub-parallel, slightly wider at the apex than at
the base, moderately deeply incised in the centre and with the outer
angles rounded, inner lobe of maxillae bluntly acuminate but not
dentate at apex, densely pubescent inwardly, upper lobe with a long
pencil of rufous hairs ; clypeus acuminate, deeply incised in the
centre with the outer angles sharp, not reflexed ; antennal club
shorter than the pedicel in both sexes; prothorax ampliate rounded
laterally in such a way as to be sub-orbicular, but the non-sinuate
basal part is slightly acuminate in the centre above the scutellum
which is very sharply acuminate, and deeply grooved laterally ;
elytra moderately sinuate laterally, but with the humeral angles
strongly developed, and impressed on the upper side, bi-costate on
each side, but with the inner costa obliterated from the median part,
and the two intervals geminate striate from those to the apex, but
punctate in the basal part ; pygidium convex in the apical part more

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strongly so in the male than in the female, and with a weak longi-
tudinal keel in both sexes ; sternal process sub-truncate at apex, not
projecting beyond the coxae, grooved to the tip ; anterior tibiae
strongly tri-dentate in both sexes ; intermediate and posterior tibiae
very strongly dentate on the upper side ; tarsi moderately long,
slender.

The convexity of the apical part of the pygidium is not unlike that
obtaining in myrmecobious or termitobious species of Canochilides.
The genus is easily recognised by the rounded lateral shape of the
prothorax the central basal part of which, instead of being quite
straight, impinges slightly over the scutellum in the manner of
Discopeltis, in which genus the only species then known was formerly
included ; but Glaucocelis differs in the shape of the elytral costae
and sculpture, the latter connecting it plainly with the Leucocelides.

Glaucocelis bellula, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 17.

thoracica, Schoch., Entom. Nachr., 1896, p. 181.

Black, shiny, prothorax blood-red with a supra-lateral black round
spot at about the median part, and two basal, median broad macules
coalescing along the basal margin ; elytra sprinkled with a few,
irregularly disposed white macules ; pygidium blood-red with a few
white macules along the basal edge. Head and clypeus closely
punctulate ; prothorax covered with moderately deep punctures
separated from each other by an interval about equal to their own
diameter, outer margin with a fringe of somewhat remote, long,
setose hairs ; scutellum impunctate, somewhat sunk ; elytra with
the humeral part very strongly developed, and impressed on the
upper side, the first dorsal costa disappears at about the median
part, the second is plainly visible, the intervals of the two are broadly
but somewhat shallowy punctate from the base to the median part,
the punctures on the second interval being deeper, broader, and
ovate, from the median part or thereabout these punctures are
replaced by geminate striae, but in the deflexed part, deep, seriate,
sub-cicatricose punctures are very plainly discernible, and there are
on each side five rows of remote shoi^t, bristly, whitish grey hairs ;
propygidium closely, somewhat deeply aciculate and carinate longi-
tudinally in the centre ; pygidium with deep, uneven cicatricose
punctures ; under side deeply punctate, all the punctures setigerous.

Length 10-11 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg, Bustenburg) ; Southern Bhodesia
(Victoria Falls).

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Gen. LONCHOTHYKEA, Kolbe,
Stett. Entomol. Zeit., 1895, p. 289.
Body remarkably depi'essed ; head somewhat broad ; clypeus
broad, parallel, straight in front, clypeal margin very little reflexed ;
prothorax trapezoidal, moderately narrowed in front, with the base
arcuate, although not deeply in front of the scutellum, the lateral
margin sinuate before the rounded posterior angles ; elytra depressed,
sub-costate, hardly attenuate, sutural apical angle strongly pro-
duced ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate externally ; tarsi of the hind legs
shorter in each sex than the tibia?, those of the female less slender;
mesosternal process broad, plane, broadly arcuate at apex, projecting
beyond the coxa? and plainly marginate ; scutellum very sharp at
apex.

LONCHOTHYREA MOZAMBICA, Bertol.,

Nov. Comm. Bonon., Disc, hi., 1849, p. 47, pi. 3, fig. 3.

Black, shiny ; head with a white patch on each side of the frontal
part, prothorax with a marginal white line and on each side of the
discoidal part a row of four white dots, between this row and the
outer margin are two serrate white dots ; elytra with four longi-
tudinal series of white dots of the same size as those on the pro-
thorax ; pygidium with a transverse row of four white dots, and
having also two small dots at the apex ; the four central abdominal
segments have each a longitudinal series of white dots, the prothoracic
epimera each bear a white spot, and there is a similar dot on the
upper angle of the pectus, and also on the under part of the inter-
mediate femora near the knee. Body depressed ; clypeus parallel,
truncate at apex but with the angles slightly obtuse, head and
clypeus deeply punctured, the punctures on the clypeus finer and set
more closely than on the frontal part ; prothorax deeply and some-
what closely punctate, the punctures in the median part of the disk
are less deep than on the sides, and disappear completely above the
arcuate part of the base ; on the elytra the inner abbreviated costa
<ui each side is almost plane and smooth, but the two entire outer
ones are distinct and sub-tectiform, the punctures in the intervals
are very deep, those on the deflexed sides are not seriate ; pygidium
closely variolose punctate, the punctures coalescing ; under side
glabrous, sides of abdominal segments closely and deeply ovate
punctate; inner part of femora and tibiae briefly pubescent; palpi
and club of antenna' rufescent.

Length 12-14 mm.; width G-7 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

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Gen. LEPTOTHYEEA, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1882, p. 72.

Buccal organs of Mausoleopsis, with which it is so closely allied
that the only distinctive characters are the sub-parallel elytra, and
the sternal process which is more arnpliated and strongly arcuate at
apex ; the inner claw of the anterior tarsi and the hind legs are
simple in both sexes. In the female the anterior tibiae are somewhat
sharply sinuate above the second outer tooth. The livery is that of
Mausoleopsis, the facies that of Pscudotephrcea, but slightly more
attenuate behind.

Leptothyrea perroudi, Schaum.,

Plate XLVII., fig. 27.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Franc, 1844, p. 410.

Black, shiny ; clypeus truncate at apex, not acuminate, frontal
part deeply punctate and with two or three white macules on each
side ; prothorax moderately narrowed laterally in the anterior part,
and with the base straight, moderately deeply but closely punctate,
and having on each side a broad white band and two rows of three
punctures each on the discoidal part ; some of those punctures may
be obliterated, but the two basal ones are always showing; scutellum
impunctate ; elytra with the entire dorsal costa very sharp, and the
inner one short, the basal part is roughly punctate and the punc-
tures on the deflexed sides are for the most part covered by three
broad and long white marginal macules partly coalescent at times,
on the humeral part there is a distinct white dot, and a small white
patch at the apex, in the dorsal part are several small white dots the
number of which is sometimes variable, and also a small median sub-
transverse macule which occasionally unites with the median lateral
patch ; pygidium with two irregular, large white macules often
coalescing ; sides of abdomen and pectus maculated with white,
knees and epimera with a white mark.

Length 10^-12 mm. ; width 6-7 mm.

Hab. The whole of Natal, of the Transvaal, and of Southern
Rhodesia. In the Cape Colony it has been recorded only from the
border of Natal. I am not aware of it having being found in the
Orange Biver Colony or to the west of it, nor in Damaraland or
Ovampoland.

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Gen. LEUCOCELIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iii., 1842, p. 421.

Cyrtothyrea Kolb. Stett. Ent., Zeit., 1895, p. 286.'

Erythroderma Kolb., loc. cit., p. 285.

Mentum very long, four times as long as broad, nearly parallel and
not broader at apex than at base, deeply incised in the centre of the
anterior margin, and with the outer angles moderately rounded, last
joint of labial palps thickened, the palps cavity broad but short
owing to the great length of the mentum ; inner maxillary lobe very
densely pubescent but ending in a short, sharp tooth, upper lobe
with a very long pencil of hairs ; last joint of labial palps thick, sub-
truncate at apex ; clypeus long, slightly acuminate, incised in the
centre at apex, and with the angles not rounded ; eyes large ;
antennal club shorter than the pedicel in both sexes ; prothorax as
long as broad, diagonally ampliated laterally from the apex to about
one-third of the length, nearly straight thence to the rounded basal
angle, the base straight above the scutellum, except in L. natalica ;
the latter longer than broad, very sharply acuminate and some-
what sunk in ; prothoracic epimera greatly developed ; elytra strongly
bulging out beyond the epimera, deeply sinuate below the shoulder,
elongated and very narrowed behind, somewhat depressed, and
having on each side a discoidal costa entire and an inner one
disappearing at about the middle and replaced thence to the
apex by two geminate lines, the suture is much raised and generally
acuminate at apex ; the pygidium is long, triangular, truncate at
apex ; sternal process plane, either projecting much beyond the
coxae, or moderately so, or not at all, usually with the trans-
verse suture visible, and either sub-orbicular, arcuate, or almost
transverse at apex; abdomen compressed laterally; anterior tibia?
bi-dentate, intermediate and posterior with a weak spine on the
upper side, all fringed with a moderately long pubescence inwardly ;
tarsi long, joints sub-cylindrical.

Kolbe has split the genus in several sub-genera. I am, however,
of opinion that in so far as the South African are concerned, specific
characters have been mistaken by him for generic ones.

The species included in this genus are all found on flowers of
various kinds. They vary greatly in colour and markings.

Key to the Species.

A . Hind marginal prothorax quite straight above the Bontellnm.

B3. Sternal process strongly projecting, sub-orbicular at

apex (Erythroderma).

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Body rufo-testaceous, legs black ; sternal process with a
transverse suture at apex rubra.

Black, thorax with a reddish flavescent outer marginal
band, elytra greenish blue, sternal process without
transverse suture amoena.

B-. Sternal process, moderately projecting, and sub-arcuate.

C2. Prothorax red, unspotted, with white ; elytra bright
green with very few white dots.

Sternal process plainly projecting, prothorax with a

basal, transverse black band amethystina.

Sternal process only moderately projecting.

Prothorax red ; elytra with a few white spots . . hcemorhoidalis.

Prothorax black, elytra immaculate var. nigricollis.

Prothorax with a longitudinal black median band ;

elytra spotted with white along the outer margin. . var. vitticollis.

C1. Prothorax with white impressions.

a2. Each elytron with one supra-marginal row of
deep punctures.

Prothorax totally ameous, or with a lateral
narrow reddish band.

Elytra not very much attenuate behind . . . . adspersa.

, i ceneicollis.

Elytra much attenuated behind - . TT.

J { cupncollts.

a1. Each elytron with two marginal rows of deep
punctures.

Elytra green or bluish, dorsal costa moderately

raised lucens.

Elytra blue-black, dorsal costa highly raised . . umtalina.

A1. Hind margin of prothorax sinuate above the scutellum.

B'. Sternal process almost transverse, not projecting.

O. Pygidium plane.

Elytra black, pygidium rufescent, without white
macules, prothorax black with a short rufescent
margin natalica.

Upper part pygidium black or rufescent, and with
white macules.

Prothorax black, with a white outer margin; pygi-
dium with three small, white macules testaceoguttata.

C'. Pygidium convex, sub-binodose (Cyrtothyrea).

Totally black, pygidium with one white macule on

each side brevis.

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Leucocelis (Erythroderma) rubra, Gory and Perch.,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 18.

Monogr. d. Cet., p. 299, pi. 58, fig. 1.

viargarita, Schoch., Mith. Schw. Ent. Ges., x., p. 52.

Testaceous bronze-red, with the legs and head dark, almost fuscous
bronze. Shape and sculpture of L. hcsmorhoidalis, but it is a little
larger and in proportion more acuminate behind. It differs also
from most of the South African species of the genus in having the
mesosternal process more produced beyond the coxae. Anterior part
of clypeus aciculate, posterior part closely and deeply punctate ;
prothorax sparingly punctulate in the posterior part ; scutellum
punctulate ; discoidal costa of elytra much raised in the posterior
part, supra-marginal row of punctures very distinct, marginal row
weakly punctate ; pygidium with ovate, non-contiguous cicatricose
punctures ; sides of abdomen with long, cicatricose punctures, sides
of presternum almost strigose ; under side almost glabrous, except
the femora, tibia?, and tarsi, which are fringed inwardly with dense,
flavescent hairs ; sternal process Btraight, projecting greatly beyond
the coxa?, and strongly arcuately rounded.

Length 10^-12 mm. ; width 5|-5.|,nnn.

Hab. Cape Colony (East London, Port St. John), Natal (every-
where), Orange River Colony and Transvaal (throughout).*

Leucocelis (Erythroderma) amoena, n. sp.

Black, prothorax with a narrow rufescent yellowish outer marginal
band tapering much towards both the apex and base, elytra greenish
blue ; pygidium black. Larger than any other South African species
of Leucocelis ; the clypeus and head have the normal sculpture ; the
prothoracic punctures are very small, and far remote from each
other ; the scutellum is impunctate ; the elytra are greatly attenu-
ated behind, the discoidal costa is hardly raised, and the dis-
coidal series of punctures are far from deep, those on the deflexed
part arc extremely shallow, and those of the supra-marginal and
marginal rows are very shallow ; pygidium cicatricose punctate ;
under side sculptured in the same manner as in L. rubra ; sternal
process long, slightly slanting downwards, more sub-orbicular at
apex than in L. rubra, and without an\ traces of transverse suture.

Length 13 mm. ; width 7 nun.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Gazaland).

* The Transvaal examples are slightly smaller than those from Natal, and more
Havescent-red.

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Leucocelis amethystina, McLeay,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 20.

Illustr. Zool. S. Afric. Invert., 1849, p. 48.

Black, with the two apical abdominal segments red, the prothorax
is red, but the median part of the base has a broad, transverse black
band ; the elytra are much attenuated behind and are greenish blue,
bluish, or amethystine violet without any traces of white macules, or
having three rows of minute white dots on each side ; the pygidium is
immaculate ; and the sides of the pectus and of the abdomen are
more strigillate than cicatricose punctate, as in L. hcemorhoidalis
which it so closely resembles that were it not for the differently
shaped genital clasps of the male, and the transverse black basal
band of the elytra, which is constant, it might be mistaken for the
former.

Length 10-11 mm. ; width 5|— 6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley) ; Transvaal; Southern Ehodesia,
Damaraland, Ovampoland, Mozambique.

In examples from Umtali in Southern Ehodesia, each elytron has
three series of small white dots.

Leucocelis h^mokhoidalis, Fabric,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 19.

Syst. Entom., App., p. 819.

Gory and Perch., Mom, p. 298, pi. 57, fig. 8.

Herbst. Kaf., vol. 3, p. 246, pi. 31, fig. 1.

Olivier, Entom., vol. 1, p. 56, 66, pi. 11, fig. 246.

dysenterica, McLeay, 111. Zool. Afric, hi., p. 48.

dyscnterica, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 24.

rubra, de Geer, Mem. Ins., vii., p. 643, pi. 48, fig. 6.

vitticollis, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 25.

Bronze-black, with the two apical abdominal segments rufescent,
the prothorax broadly red laterally (var. vitticollis), almost completely
red, or entirely black; (var. nigricollis) pygidium red. Head very
closely punctate but with the punctures of the clypeus finer and
more shallow than those on the frontal part ; prothorax moderately
closely punctate in the anterior part, but much less so in the pos-
terior, and without any white macules or impressions ; scutellum
impunctate, but occasionally with a few fine punctures ; elytra much
attenuated behind, bright green or greenish blue with a violaceous
tinge, seldom with any traces of white markings except on the
posterior margin, but in the variety vitticollis, Boh., there are three

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rows of spaced white dots on the dorsal part, and the outer margin
is almost contiguously maculated with white ; these markings, how-
ever, are very variable in number, and are even almost completely
obliterated ; the three duplicate rows of punctures are distinct, but
there is no distinct one along the outer margin ; under side sparsely
pubescent, pectus and abdomen cicatricose punctate ; pygidium
concolorous and covered with non-contiguous, ovate, cicatricose,
deep punctures.

It is well-nigh impossible to say which is the type in that most
variable species. It occurs everywhere in South Africa, but it would
seem, however, to become rarer in the Northern Transvaal, where it is
replaced by L. lucens, and in some parts by L. amcthystina.

Length 11-12| mm. ; width b\-§\ mm.

Leucocelis adspersa, Fabric,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 21.

Syst. Eleuth., ii., p. 154.

adspersa, Gor. and Perch., Mon., p. 297, pi. 57, fig. 7.

albosparsa, Schoch., Gen. and Sp. m. Cetonid, Samml., p. 110.

attalica, Schonh., Syn. Insect., i., 3, p. 138.

.intuitu, Thunb., Mem. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 423.

maryinalis, Swartz. Schonh., Syn. Ins. Append., p. 55.

Var. verreauxi, Gor. and Perch., Monogr., p. 297, pi. 57, fig. 5.

Dark bronze, brighter on the prothorax, the outer margin of
which has a somewhat narrow reddish band reaching from the apex
to the base, but this band is occasionally quite obliterated ; the elytra
arc dark green or green with a faint reddish tinge ; the pygidium is
very dark red, and occasionally dark bronze; palpi and antenna]
club rufescent. Head very closely punctulate; prothorax moderately
closely punctate, the punctures separated by an interval about equal
to their own diameter in the anterior part, but more than double
that width in the posterior, in the discoidal part are two rows con-
sisting each of three white impressions, and there are two similar
impressions in the outer marginal part; scutellum impunctate ;
elytra moderately attenuate towards the posterior part, and hardly
impressed near the humeral part, the double rows of punctures in
the first two intervals are more or less distinct, and so is the double
one outside the discoidal costa which is well raised, the defiexed part
is punctate sub-seriate, but the punctures arc very shallow, and on
each elytron are three rows of white macules; under side greyish
pubescent especially on the pectus and femora; pygidium closely
shagreened scrobiculate, and having two or three small white

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macules on each side, these macules are occasionally wanting ;
sternal process quite transverse.

The variety L. verreauxi differs from the type in the absence of
the reddish marginal band of the prothorax, and the dark bronze
pygidium. So far as I know, it seems restricted to the south-
western parts of the Cape Colony, and is rare. The typical form
is abundant in the eastern parts of the Colony, and reaches Natal.

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 5—54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Ceres, Tulbagh, Worcester, Graham's Town),
Natal (Maritzburg, Durban).

Leucocelis ^ineicollis, Schaum,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Franc, 1844, p. 109.
Var. minor, Kolbe, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1895, p. 290.

Size and shape of L. amethyst ma, but the under side and legs,
head, prothorax, and scutellum are bright bronze ; the prothorax is
remotely punctulate and has on each side a supra-marginal, some-
what diagonal white band, oftener than not partly obliterated, and
two basal discoidal white spots or impressions, the sub-median one
of which is very often obliterated ; the elytra are green or greenish
rufescent, numerously or sparingly maculated or not ; and have a
very distinct supra-marginal row of punctures better defined than
the marginal one ; pygidium bronze-rufescent.

In the variety minor, which is much smaller than the type, the
hind part of the prothorax is almost impunctate and the two
marginal striae of the elytra are impunctate.

Length 9-11 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

All the examples I have seen are from the neighbourhood of
Durban, Natal, the var. minor, of which one example was kindly lent
me by Mr. O. E. Janson, is labelled Delagoa Bay.

Leucocelis cupricollis, Kraatz,
Entom. Monatsbl., ii., p. 153.
Under side and legs, head, prothorax, and scutellum bright bronze,
almost coppery ; pygidium coppery red ; elytra bright green, spotted
with white. Similar to L. ceneicollis, from which it differs by the
much more closely punctured prothorax ; the punctures, especially
on the sides, are elongated, and the outer margin of the elytra is as
plainly punctate as the supra-marginal row.
Length 12 mm. ; width 6 mm.

This species is recorded from the Lake Nyassa region, and the

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example which I have seen, through the kindness of Mr. 0. E.
Janson, is labelled as such. But I believe that it has been recorded
also from the northern parts of Southern Rhodesia.

Leucocelis lucens, Jans.,
Cistul. Entomol., ii., 1877, p. 258.

? discolor, Kolb., Stett. Entom. Zeit., vol. 56, 1895, p. 292

A most variable species. Bronze-black underneath, with the head
and scutellum black, the prothorax red or rufescent with the central
part almost always teneo-fuscous, but occasionally also rufescent
with a transverse black basal band as in L. amcthystina : the elytra
are bright green, greenish blue, or violaceous, and are seldom
without numerous white elongated macules ; pygidium dark rufes-
cent, and also seldom without three white macules on each side.
The prothorax is very sparingly punctate in the posterior part, but in
most of the examples there are two rows, each of three white impres-
sions, on each side of the disk, and three or four white dots on the
supra-marginal side, often coalescing there so as to form a band.
Even if these white markings are obliterated the impressions are
still discernible ; the deeply punctured elytra have two lateral
rows of distinct punctures ; the upper part of the abdominal seg-
ments and the epimera bear a white macule, and the under side and
legs are sparingly hairy.

The genitalia of the male do not differ in shape from those of
L. cencicollis. I have not seen the type of L. discolor, Kolb., but
I am of opinion that it is the same species as L. lucens.

I have seen two examples from Northern Damaraland, the whole
body of which is black, even the pygidium ; the elytra are blue with
a few white spots. This variety might be named amcenula.

Length 9-10^ mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Gwelo, Sebakwe, Manica,
Victoria Falls, Enkeldoorn, Northern Damaraland).

liKUCOCELIS UMTALINA, 11. Sp.

.Eneous black, the prothorax also aeneous black bui very broadly
marginated with red, elytra dark bottle-green ; pygidium and the two
apical abdominal segments red. Head sculptured as in the preced-
ing species, viz., finely acieulate on the clypeus and deeply and
closely punctate on the frontal part ; prothorax deeply punctate, the
punctures moderately closely set in the posterior part, and having
on each side two rows of deep, elongated impressions filled with

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white ; scutellum iinpunctate ; elytra with the two dorsal costse
highly tectiform and with a third outer costa plainly distinct, in
each interval there is a row of deep, elongated white macules and a
supra-marginal one making four on each side, and on the margin are
two superposed non-striated rows of elongated punctures ; the red
pygidium is sculptured in the usual manner and bears on each side
three small white macules ; the sculpture and vestiture of the
under side is as usual.

This species is easily recognised from its congeners by the very
deep, white impressions on both the prothorax and elytra, and the
three high costee on each elytron.

Length 7-8 mm. ; width 3|-4 mm.

Hab. Southern Khodesia (Sebakwe).

Leucocblis natalica, n. sp.
Plate XLVIL, fig. 22.

Black, with a reddish broad outer marginal band of red reaching
from the apex to the median part only, pygidium reddish, edged
with black and with a median longitudinal black narrow line. Very
closely allied to the preceding species and with the white markings
on the prothorax and elytra similarly disposed, but the prothorax is
much more closely punctate, and is not aeneous, the lateral red band
does not reach beyond the median part, the black elytra have no
greenish tinge, and are much more attenuate behind ; the discoidal
costa is much more raised and there is a deep impression alongside
the humeral callus. The sternal process projects slightly more than
in L. adspersa. The shape of the male genitalia differs in the two
species.

Length 9-9^- mm. ; width 5-5^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port St. John, East London), Natal (Durban).

Leucocelis testaceoguttata, Blanch.,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 23.

Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus. Par., 1850, p. 10.

Black, with the pygidium rufescent, under side bronze-black. This

species somewhat resembles L. natalica, but the elytra are more

parallel. The prothorax is more deeply punctate, the three discoidal

white impressions are broader and deeper, and the outer margin has

an entire moderately broad white band consisting plainly of three

elongated coalescing patches ; the elytra, the sculpture of which

closely resembles that of L. natalica, has on each side four regular

rows of white patches instead of three ; the pygidium is totally

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rufescent and has two white macules on each side : sternal process
quite transverse.

Length 9 mm. ; width 4f mm.

Hob. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

{Species which I have not been able to identify.)

Leucocelis (Cyrtothyrea) brevis, Kolh.,
Stett. Ent. Zeit., vol. 56, 1895, p. 286.

" Short, moderately convex, totally black, shiny, spotted with white
on the upper side, posterior margin of prothorax sinuate above the
scutellum ; elytra sub-bicostate with the inner costa abbreviated, dis-
tinctly and almost roughly punctate striate, aud with five geminate
striae on each side, some of the punctures semicircularly dug out ;
pygidium with a white macule on each side and annulate punctate ;
abdomen and pectus shiny, sparsely flavo-pilose, glabrous in the
centre."

Length 8& mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Swazieland).

I have not yet met with this species, which seems to differ from
L. testaceoguttata in having the pygidium black.

Leucocelis discolor, Kolb.,
Loc. cit., 1895, p. 292.

" Black, sub-aeneous, pygidium and the two last abdominal
segments red, legs black, sub-aeneous ; prothorax red, and having
a median broad (black) band reaching from apex to base ; elytra
green, cyaneous or amethystine and maculated with white ; prothorax
with an irregular, oblique, sub-marginal band, and bearing four
discoidal macules, rounded behind, straight or most slightly sub-
sinuate above the scutellum ; striae of elytra geminate punctate,
fourth stria reaching the posterior callus, or abbreviated, intervals
plane in the anterior half ; prothorax moderately punctate nearly all
over, but more densely so in the anterior part, and without any
median discoidal stria ; pygidium covered with regular, ringed
punctures, separated from each other.

Length 85-95 mm.

Kolbe compares this species with L. adsj)crsa, of which it is a
close ally.

Leucocelis nickerli, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1895, p. 362.
" Black, shiny, prothorax, pygidium anal segment red ; thorax

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with 2-3 white dots, and a lateral oblique white patch ; elytra with
white points, the latter are green, very finely punctate-striate, the
lateral striae are strong and deeply impressed behind.

Var. cyanip&nnis. Elytra cyaneous, with white dots.

Var. dorsalis. Elytra without white dots ; thorax black in the
centre.

Var. nigricollis. Elytra without white dots ; thorax completely
black.

Length 8 mm.

Hab. Southern Zambesi.

Gen. HOMALOTHYEEA, Kolbe,

Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1895, p. 288.
" Similar at first sight to the species of the genus Leucocelh, but the
clypeus is less attenuated, the prothorax is arcuate behind, moderately
rounded, very little tri-sinuate before the scutellum, almost obtuse
with almost no posterior angles ; posterior sutural angle simple ;
pectus and abdomen very slightly pilose ; mesosternal process
broadly obtuse ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate ; the teeth rather remote ;
first joint of the posterior tarsi compressed, posterior upper angle
short, acute in the male, elongated, dentiform in the female."

According to Kolbe, the shape of the first joint of the hind tarsi
should lead one to include the genus among the prototypic Cetoninae.

HOMALOTHYREA FRANKI, JanS.,

Notes Leyd. Mus., x., 1888, p. 109.
" Head black; closely punctured, the punctures confluent and
forming striae on each side between the eyes, slightly convex in the
middle, apex of the clypeus reflexed and slightly emarginate in the
centre ; antennae red-brown. Thorax red, with a blue or green tinge,
the anterior margin, a small spot on each side, a large longitudinal
spot in the centre and an ill-defined transverse mark in front of the
scutellum black, or green with a bluish tinge, strongly rounded at
the base on each side, straight in front of the scutellum, slightly
narrowed from the base to the middle, thence rounded and narrowed
to apex, the disk rather finely and sparsely punctured, the punctures
coarser towards the sides. Scutellum black or green, impunctate,
the apex very acute. Elytra red tinged with blue, the entire margin
and the apical part blue or blue-black, two lateral spots behind the
middle, two (sometimes confluent) close to the apex and a variable
number of smaller spots near the suture and outer margin and on the

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disk, white, ten rows of coarse punctures on each elytron, the first
and second rows assuming striae behind the middle, the second and
fourth interstices broader and convex, the suture elevated posteriorly
and obtuse at the apex. Pygidium red, with coarse ring-shaped
punctures. Beneath black, sides of the prothorax, a spot on the
upper side of the epimera, outer margin of the posterior coxae and
the two apical abdominal segments red ; coarsely punctate and
strigose, with sparse grey hairs ; mesosternal process very broad,
truncate in front, a transverse impressed line with a fringe of grey
hairs at the apex. Legs black, &c.

Length 9-12 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland."

In spite of the conformation of the basal joint of the hind tarsi, it
is very evident that this species is a true Lcucocelite as borne out by
the sculpture of the elytra and the marginate sternal process. It
resembles examples of Leucocelis lucens, Jans., from Northern
Damaraland.

Gen. MAUSOLEOPSIS, Lansb.,
C. R. Soc. Entom., Belg., 1882, p. 29.
Revoil's Faun, and Flor., Comalis. Coleopt., 1882, p. 39.
Microthyrea, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1882, p. 76.

Buccal organs of Leucocelis ; head similarly shaped ; prothorax
more ampliated towards the base ; the sternal process is broader,
arcuate, and does not project much. The species of this genus differ
from Leucocelis merely in the livery, which is black splashed with
white macules or spots. In the males of some species the hind
femora are broadened and arcuate {amabilis, luctifera) or not
(ruhricrps), but in all the inner claw of the fore tarsi is conspicuously
longer than the outer, and somewhat difform.

Key to the Species.

A . Spiracle of the last abdominal segment conspicuously spinose.

Prothorax with one basal white spot and two lateral white
patch is ; elytra with three broad lateral white patches, and
often with a fine sutural median white spot amabilis.

Prothorax with one basal white spot, a small lateral white
patch, and also a small white dot ; elytra with three white
lateral patches and two or three intermixed white dots, and a
dorsal series of threewhite spots lucttfera,

\'. Spiracle of last abdominal Begment normal,

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Prothorax greatly attenuated towards the apex, and having on
each side two large white lateral patches and a small basal white
dot ; elytra with three marginal white patches and one dot,
dorsal par with fine white dots albomaculata.

Prothorax not much attenuated towards the apex, and bearing-
six or eight white dots ; elytra with eleven or fourteen white
dots ; clypeus and pygidium red ruortceps.

Mausoleopsis amabilis, Schaum.,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 25.

Ann. Soc. Ent. d. France, 1884, p. 408.

Coquerel, loc. cit., 1848, p. 280, pi. 8, figs. 3, 4.

Black, shiny, antennae piceous black ; frontal part slightly im-
pressed on each side near the eyes, more deeply and less closely
punctured than on the clypeus ; prothorax broad, only moderately
attenuate laterally in the anterior part, the base is arcuate, but the
central part is almost straight above the scutellum, the disk is very
closely punctate in the anterior and median part, but less so in the
posterior especially in the male, and there are on each side two
elongated white patches, the anterior of which is half the size of the
posterior, the two seldom commingle, and there are two marginal
white dots very seldom obliterated in the base ; the humeral part of
the elytra is remarkably bulging, and the posterior part is greatly
attenuate on that account, the disk and the sides have series of
cicatricose more or less shallow punctures, and they are each adorned
with a supra-median, sub-quadrate, somewhat large marginal white
patch, a sub-arcuate one past the middle and a transverse one ex-
tending along the apical margin, in some examples from the extreme
northern part of the South African area there are occasionally one or
two white dots near the suture, and I know of examples from
Ovampoland where there are three such spots, and also a marginal one
below the second lateral patch ; pygidium transversely plicate, and
having on each side a white patch ; abdominal segments with a tiny
white macule, upper part of coxae with an ovate one, sides of meta-
sternum with a broad white patch; abdominal segments roughly
punctate longitudinally on the sides, pectus briefly pubescent, the
pubescence silvery, metasternum cicatricose laterally, and punctate
in the median part ; hind femora of male thickened, arcuate, tibia;
broad, laminate inwardly, inner claw spe&r-like but contorted.

Length 9-12| mm. ; width 5-7 mm.

The whole of South Africa with the exception of the Cape
Colony.

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Mausoleopsis luctifera, Klug,

Plate XLVII., fig. 26.

Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 660.

Peter's Eeis., 1862, p. 265, pi. 15, tig. 10.

More robust than the large forms of M. amabilis, but differing
mostly in the smaller size and greater number of the white macules
and dots. In the prothorax, the sculpture of which is identical to
that of M. amabilis, both the lateral macules are reduced to a round
spot, and the anterior one is often wanting, as in the type ; on the
elytra the two lateral patches and also the apical one are greatly
reduced, and in addition to these three patches there are also either
one round spot above the upper marginal patch, or not, and in the
four examples that I have seen, another spot between the post-
median patch and the apex, in the discoidal part are three seriate
dots; the pygidium and the under side have the same markings as
in M. amabilis, and the shape of the hind legs and of the inner claw
of the anterior tarsi of the male are similar. In EQug's figure there
is only one discoidal white dot on the elytron, but the markings are
very variable.

In ,1/. amabilis these small spots are frequent in many examples, but
the two lateral white macules are never reduced in size. M. luctifera
seems to me to be a varietal form of E. eustalacta, which is found in
Madagascar and the Comoro Islands.

Length 13-14 mm. ; width 7-J-8 mm.

Hah. Mozambique (locality unknown). Klug also does not men-
tion the pari of Mozambique from which his examples came.

Mauseoleopsis albomaculata, Moser,
Berlin Entom. Zeitschr., 1904, p. 65.
This species might be mistaken at tirst sight for a small example
of M. amabilis with white dots on the discoidal part of the elytra,
but it differs in the shape of the prothorax which is more regularly
elongated laterally from the basal angle to the apex, and is less broad
across the base than in M. amabilis ; the sculpture of the head and
prothorax is the same, and the white markings of the latter arc
equally large, but in the elytra there is a large median marginal
white patch, one spot above and another below it, and a moderately
large apical patch, in the discoidal part there is on each side a
diagonal hand, consisting of two coalescing spots in the basal part of
the dorsal interval, two in the median part of the disk, the upper one
Of which is set close to the suture, and a, juxta-siitural one midway

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between the median and the apical part ; the pygidium bears two
large white macules ; the four basal abdominal segments have a
band of white, and the pectus is also broadly maculated laterally
with white ; the spiracle of the last segment is not raised.

Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

Mausoleopsis kubriceps, Eaffr.,

Plate XLVIL, fig. 24.
Rev. et. Mag. Zool., 1877, p. 334.

Black, shiny, clypeus, antennae, pygidium, and last abdominal
segment red ; head plainly impressed, although not deeply, on each
side of the frontal part, the middle of which is thus sub-carinate, and
more deeply punctate there than in the clypeal part ; prothorax
hardly punctulate in the discoidal part in the male, regularly
punctulate all over in the female, in the discoidal part are two rows
of three white dots, and there is a white lateral median spot ;
scutellum impunctate ; elytra elongate, attenuate behind, the
punctures moderately deep, and having on each side small white
dots varying from twelve to fourteen ; the dark-red pygidium is
without white macules, finely aciculate, and somewhat depressed
longitudinally in the female ; the under side is without any traces of
white patches or dots ; in the male the hind thighs are not much
arcuate, but the lower edge of the tibige is laminate ; the pectus and
legs are very briefly setulose.

Length 8f-10|- mm. ; width 4^-6 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Gazaland) ; Mozambique
(Beira, Rikatla).

The species was originally described from the Zanzibar mainland.

(/ have not been able to identify the following species.)

? Mausoleopsis albosignata, Bohem.,
Ofv. Vet. Ak. Porhandl., 1860, p. 118.

" Oblongo ovate, black, shiny, little convex above, sparsely
pubescent beneath ; prothorax moderately and little closely punctate,
having on each side a lateral, oblong, snow-white band ; elytra little
deeply but closely punctate striate, posterior part of the disk im-
pressed towards the suture and provided with a flexuose ridge
towards the apex, each one adorned with three lateral, snow-white,
sub-impressed macules, the first one sinuated before the middle,
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median part, is moderately large and sub-ovate, the third and apical
one is small, transverse, narrower inwardly; pygidium with two
snow-white macules ; pectus having on each side a sub-rotund,
whitish macule.

Length 10-11 mm. ; width 6-6^ mm.

Hah. Neighbourhood of Lake N'Gami.

Size and appearance almost like that of L. hamorhoidalis. Near
M. amabiUs in colouration, smaller, narrower, and easily distinguished
by the snowy-white macules of elytra, which are of a different shape
and differently distributed."

Tribe CKEMASTOCHILIDES.

In this Tribe the head is more retractable than in the other groups
of the Cetonince ; the clypeus is always deflexed, with the frontal
part very often convex, and the sides vertical, the apical margin,
when the head is drawn in, fits against a long ante-coxal prostemal
spine, or, when this spine is rudimentary, against the anterior coxae,
and as the apical part of the pronotum is quite vertical laterally, the
clypeus fitting against the margin obturates completely the lower
side ; this peculiarity is not, however, so marked in Maeroma or
Phymatopteryx, which are flower-haunting insects, as in the others
which are myrmecobious or termitobious. The shape of the
mentum is very variable and often extremely singular. The outer
face shows always a tendency to get thicker either in the centre or
towards the apical part of the ligula, which is often excavated or
cupuliform, while the centre is also often gibbose or very convex and
even tuberculate (Genuchus). In some genera the whole mentum
is plane, or in the shape of a shield, pointed at the base (Scaptobius,
Placodidus, Anatonocliilus), in which case the labial palpi are
styliform, fits closely against the sides, and do not project beyond
the apex, while they are sub-cylindrical and project beyond the apex
in the other genera ; the eyes are broad and large in some species,
depressed on the upper side in others, and divided by a hairy
canthus ; the antennae are short, and the club large, the basal joint
is strongly compressed and broadly triangular, often auriculiform,
and when the head is contracted this joint fills the broad incision
of the clypeus in front of the eye ; both the lobes of the maxillae are
sharply dentate, and the teeth are often falciform ; the thorax is
variable in shape, but seldom sub-trapezoidal {Maeroma, Hoplostomus) ;
the scutelhun is Bharpl) triangular; the elytra elongated, strongly
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spiracle of which is tuberculate or spiniform, seldom plane (Macroma,
Hoplostomus) ; the mesothoracic epimera are very conspicuous ; the
pygidium is large, often carinate or tuberculate, vertical or slanting,
convex in the centre or plane ; intermediate coxae seldom broadly
separated by a sternal process, oftener than not the mesosternal
process is reduced to a narrow fold acuminate in Nyassinius or even
disappearing in Scaptobius, or completely obliterated (Placodidus) ;
the tarsi are normally 5- jointed, but in two species of Scaptobius
they are 4-jointed, and in one genus (Trichophis) the number of
joints is only three. The antennae are 9-jointed, but in Phymatopteryx
they have ten joints.

The habits of the insects included in this Tribe are widely different
from most of the Cetonince. Macroma appears to be floricolous, and
so is probably Phymatopteryx. Cyviophorus is also said to be found
on flowers, but the glandular hairs or scales with which some species
are provided, imply myrmecobious habits. Spilophorus in the imago,
and also the larval stage is found in birds' nests, feeding on the
excrements. Hoplostomus devours the honey in bee-hives. The
South African species of Cc&nochilus and Anatochilus are termi-
tobious. Some species of the closely allied genus Plagiochilus are
known to be myrmecobious, and so are those of the genera
Trichoplas, Scaptobius, Placodidus, in which the mentum obturates
completely the under side of the head. It is among those
myrmecobious insects that the more degraded forms occur.
Genuchus, on the other hand, is found in the calyx of flowers of a
Protea exuding so large a quantity of nectar as to be known locally
under the name of " sugar bush." But however degraded some of
these forms may be, they are less further removed from the true
Getoninaz than the Trichini, Myodermini, or Valgini.

The number of genera represented in the South African Eegion
is 21, and that of species 55. A few of the latter (7) are found in
other parts of Africa, and Hoplostomus, probably on account of its
habits, occurs all over the African Eegion.

Key to the Genera.
A4. Intermediate coxae broadly divided by the sternal process.

B-. Mentum not obturating completely the buccal cavity,
labial palpi plainly visible.

C. Presternum with an ante-coxal vertical spine.

Spiracles of last abdominal segment plane . . . . Macroma.

<r. Antennae 10-jointod Phymatoptcryx.

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a'. Antennae 9-jointed.

Prothorax hexagonal Macromima.

Prothorax not hexagonal Cymophorus.

A . Mesosternum with a blunt process between the inter-
mediate coxse.

a. Frontal part depressed, carinate longitudinally, clypeus
reflexed.

Anterior margin of clypeus highly raised in the centre ;
anterior and posterior tibiae strongly bi-spinose on upper
side ; last abdominal spiracle acute SpilopJiorus.

Anterior margin slightly raised in the centre ; anterior
and posterior tibise uni-spinose on upper side ; last ab-
dominal spiracle plane Hoplostomus.

A2. Intermediate coxee separated by a narrow mesosternal
process.

B2. Men turn not obturating completely the buccal cavity,
leaving the labial palps exposed to view.

D3. Tarsal joints moderately slender, elongated ;
5-jointed

or. Last spiracle of abdomen not prominent.
b*. Clypeus very convex at the base.

c2. Posterior part of prothorax rounded
laterally.

Mentum not gibbose in the outer face . . Ccenochilus.

Menturn gibbose in the outer face . . . . Anatochilus.

a'. Last spiracle of abdomen spinose or tuber-
culate.

c\ Posterior part of the prothorax straight or

only slightly sinuate Plagiochiliis.

D2. Tarsal joints compressed, transverse, or nodose.

Prothorax quadrate ; elytra striate, covered

with oblong scales Proxcnus.

Prothorax hexagonal, humeral part of elytra

wry sloping Astoxenus.

b". Clypeus not convex.

Clypeus not derlexed, head simple; pro-
thorax bexagonal ; eacb elytron with a con-
spicuous costa ; anterior tarsal joints not
nodose Pilinitrgus.

Clypeus deflexed, bead highly carinate :
prothorax Bub-hexagonal ; elytra bi-costate,
anterior tarsal joints strongly nodose,. .. IAssogemu8r

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C2. Presternum with a vertical ante-coxal and a post-
spine.

Clypeus vertical ; basal part of rnentum produced

coxal into a long, more or less vertical process . . Gcnuchus.

D1. Tarsi short, 3-jointed ; legs inermous.

Legs quite glabrous, tarsal joints fused ; inter-
mediate and posterior tibiae without spine on
the upper side Trictioplus.

C1. Presternum with a rudimentary vertical ante-coxal
process.

a'. Intermediate and posterior tibia' not dentate on
the upper side.

ft2. Anterior tibiae uni-dentate.

Anterior part of clypeus reflexed in a conspicuous
lamina ; pygidium vertical, highly carinate in
the centre ; sternal process swollen at tip. . . . Nyassiniiis.

Anterior part of clypeus bifid ; pygidium with
a high round keel produced at apex in a thick
process rounded at the top Myrmecoehilus,

a'. Intermediate and posterior tibiae dentate on the
upper side.

b\ Anterior tibiae pluri-dentate.

Last joint of labial palpi large ; prothorax sub-
orbicular ; anterior tibise bi-dentate Trogodes.

A'. Intermediate coxae separated by a rudimentary mesosternal
process, or without process.

B1. Mentum obturating completely the buccal part, labial
palps not reaching the anterior margin.

a. Intermediate and posterior tibise dentate on the
upper side.

Basal part of clypeus convex ; prothorax not incised
laterally near the base ; anterior tibiae broadly dilated
at apex and strongly bi-dentate Anatonochilus.

Mesosternum vertical, process between coxae oblite-
rated ; prothorax sharply incised at the base ;
anterior tibiae tri-dentate ; body thick Scaptobitis.

Meta- and meso-sternum fused, the latter plane in
front of coxae ; prothorax incised at the base ;
anterior tibiae tri-dentate ; body very strongly com-
pressed Placodidus.

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Gen. MACROMA, Gor. and Perch.,
Monogr. d. Cet., 1833, p. 35.

Mentum parallel, ligular part ampliated with the outer face greatly
swollen in the centre and sloping thence to the anterior margin
which is deeply enmrginate, crescent-shaped (cognata), slightly
sinuate (cmarginicollis), or entire (lutcsccns), maxillae long, robust,
upper lobe armed with a strong, sharply arcuate tooth, inner lobe
with a similar but shorter tooth, last joint of labial and maxillary
palps long, cylindrical, the former curved ; head simple, eyes very
large, the canthus short ; basal joint of antennae well developed,
triangular, compressed laterally ; prothorax sub-trapezoidal ; scutel-
lum sharply triangular; elytra broader than the prothorax, strongly
emarginate laterally below the shoulder, and straight, or nearly so,
thence to the apex, plane, non-costulate, and sloping in the posterior
part ; spiracle of the propygidium sharp or not ; pygidium sloping
more or less, sub-acuminate, carinate in the centre, and bi-tuber-
culate, or simple ; intermediate coxae separated by a broad horizontal
process projecting beyond them and bluntly arcuate at apex ; pro-
sternum simple ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, intermediate
and posterior ones with a spine on the upper edge ; tarsal joints
somewhat compressed, sub-cylindrical on the upper side, claws long.

The genus is represented in Africa and Asia.

Key to the Species.

A-. Clypeus attenuate, anterior margin rcnexed in the centre.

B2. Tooth of inner maxillary lobe trifid.

0s. Prothorax deeply impressed longitudinally in the
posterior part ; scutellum deeply sunk ; elytra
concolorous cognata.

A1. Clypeus simple.

B1. Tooth of inner maxillary lobe simple.

C. Prothorax not impressed longitudinally in the
posterior part.

Clypeus slightly sinuate in front.

Prothorax black, not suleatc ; elytra with a broad
llavocent supra-marginal, arcuate patch ; pygidium
carinate and bi-tuberculate amarginicollis.

Clypeus oval, entire in front ; prothorax sulcate
longitudinally, luteous-fulvous with two chestnut
band-: elytra oi the same colour as the prothorax
and with one humeral spot and two sub-apical
transverse chestnut macules; pygidium simple .. lutescens.

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Macroma cognata, Sch.,

Germ. Zeitschr., iii., 1841, p. 278.

Westw., Thesaur Entomol., p. 9, pi. vi., fig. 3.

Eeddish brown, shiny, glabrous, clypeus covered by a yellow
patch triangularly produced to near the vertex, head alone sparingly
punctate, anterior margin raised triangularly in the centre ; pro-
thorax sub-trapezoidal, moderately rounded laterally behind, base
slightly bi-sinuate, not emarginate above the scutellum, deeply
impressed longitudinally in the posterior part in a line with the
equally depressed scutellum, the surface is very sparingly punctulate
and the outer margin has a broad yellow band including a small
round brown patch, the sulcate part is also yellow, and so is the
greatest part of the scutellum ; elytra somewhat sunk in the anterior
part along the suture which from the middle becomes moderately
raised, they are immaculate and have regular series of remote round
punctures which, along the suture, are cicatricose ; spiracle of pro-
pygidium round, not projecting ; pygidium sloping backwards,
somewhat elongated, carinate in the centre from base to apex and
with a small tubercle on each side of it, the median part is obsoletely
punctulate and the outer sides strigillate ; upper side of abdominal
segments with a broad yellow macule each, side-pieces, the greatest
part of the metasternum, and anterior part of fore coxae yellow,
sides of abdomen and pectus sparingly punctate ; legs strigillate.

Length 17-18 mm. ; width 9 mm.

Hob. Natal (Durban, Pine Town, Maritzburg, Malvern, Isipongo,
Unkomaas, Eshowe) ; Cape Colony (Transkei, St. John's Eiver,
East London) ; Southern Ehodesia (between Zambesi and Limpopo) ;
Mozambique (Rikatla).

In this species the inner lobe of the maxillae is laminate and the
lamina tri-dentate lengthways.

Mackoma emarginicollis, Bohem.,

Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 45.

Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 10, pi. vi., fig. 11.

Black, shiny, glabrous; clypeus very slightly arcuate in front,
margin simple, impressed longitudinally on each side near the
frontal part of the head, deeply punctate like the head and having a
flavescent median band ; prothorax hexagonal, broader than long,
deeply arcuately emarginate at the base above the scutellum, the
hind angles are moderately rounded, the surface is deeply but
somewhat sparsely punctate, and there is a broad lateral marginal

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flavescent band partly enclosing a black spot; scutellum impunctate,
flavous ; elytra very sparsely punctate, the punctures sub-cicatricose
and more numerous on the deflexed part than on the non-costate
discoidal part, aciculate and strigillate along the posterior margin,
and having slightly past the median part a flavescent marginal patch
somewhat broad at the upper part, incised inwardly, and resembling
a broad comma; spiracle of propygidium acuminate and conspicuous;
pygidium slanting, carinate longitudinally in tbe median part, and
having on each side and close to it a conspicuous, rounded tubercle
more or less flavescent ; the upper sides of the abdomen are im-
maculate, the side-pieces have a flavescent patch, and there is a
similar one on the sides of the metasternum.

Length 14-15 mm. ; width 1-lh mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Waterberg) ; Southern Rhodesia
(Sebakwe) ; Ovampoland (Okovango River).

Macroma lutescens, Westw..
Thesaur. Entomol., p. 10, pi. vii., fig. 2.

" Oblong, sub-depressed, luteous-fulvous, shiny ; head and pro-
thorax smooth ; elytra moderately smooth, marked between the eyes
with a V-shaped spot, sides behind the eyes chestnut ; prothorax
sulcate in the middle, luteous-fulvous and having two broad, longi-
tudinal bands narrowed in front and chestnut-brown, and two black
dots on the anterior part of the sides ; elytra depressed towards the
suture and having one humeral dot and two sub-apical, irregular
macules chestnut-brown, hind margin of the prothorax and the
suture narrowly black ; legs short, chestnut-red, femora fulvous on
the upper side ; abdomen and pectus variegated with fulvous and
yellow. The clypeus is oval and entire in front ; the prothorax is
sub-triangular, with the posterior angles rounded; the abdomen
above is chestnut-coloured, the terminal joint having a transverse
yellow facia with a conical apical spot of chestnut.

Length 24 mm.

Hab. Port Natal."

1 have not seen this gaily-coloured species.

Gen. MACRO MIX A, Westw..

Thesaur. Entomol. Oxon., 1674, p. lo.

"Body oblong-ovate, convex, suture of elytra sub-depres>. ,1

Upper lobe of maxillae strong, elongated, falciform, Btrongly uni-

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than the lower and acute, the lower small ; mentum oblong, the
outer median part setose, the anterior margin little sinuate. Pro-
thorax hexagonal with the sides angularly produced in the middle.
Anterior tibiae bi-dentate. Metasternum with a straight obtuse
mucro between the intermediate coxae. Elytra strongly emarginate
behind the shoulders, each one with a raised longitudinal, little
curved keel reaching from the sides of the scutellum to the apical
tubercle. Abdomen not depressed underneath towards the base ;
apical spiracles conical ; pygidium carinate in the middle and
tuberculate on each side.

This genus is proposed for an African species which agrees with
Macroma in its general details, but differs from the species of that
genus in its small size, hexagonal prothorax, and colouring."

Macbomina angulicollis, Westw.,
Loc. cit., p. 15, pi. vii., fig. 3.

Oblong, sub-depressed on the upper side, shiny, punctate ; clypeus
somewhat rounded, anterior margin raised ; sides of protborax
prominently angulate in the centre, posterior margin slightly broader
than the anterior one, nearly straight, median part of the disk with a
very fine keel ; shoulders of elytra raised, suture depressed towards
the base but raised towards the apex. Black, prothorax with a
median narrow dorsal bloody-red line, and the sides also narrowly
sanguineous, this lateral band enclosing a black ante-median dot ;
scutellum and two narrow lines in each elytron bloody-red, these
lines are united before the apex by a transverse striole ; elytra
punctate and having a very fine line close to the suture and running
parallel with it, sides with transverse strioles.

The only example of this interesting little species which I have
hitherto seen I obtained from a Collection received from Lake N'Gami ;
it is a male, having the basal segments of the abdomen longitudinally
impressed down the middle. The two terminal spiracles of the
abdomen are prominent, and the pygidium is raised so as to form
three obtuse tubercles.

Length 12 mm. ; width r>\ mm.

Gen. PHYMATOPTEEYX, Westw.,

Thesaur. Entomol., 1874, p. 7.

Mentum slightly gibbose transversely in the centre of the outer

face, sloping thence to the apex, which is slightly sinuate in the

centre with the outer angles slightly rounded, angular laterally

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below the palps cavity which are very broad ; maxilla? short, robust,
upper lobe with a bifid tooth and densely penicillate outwardly, apex
of inner lobe slightly nmcronate ; last joint of labial palps swollen
outwardly, that of the maxillary short ; head small, clypeus truncate,
angles moderately rounded , antennae 10-jointed ; eyes very large ;
prothorax very diagonally attenuated laterally in the anterior part,
much less so in the posterior; base straight laterally, strongly
arcuately emarginate above the scutellum ; the latter very long,
narrow, not sharply acuminate at apex; elytra plane, broader than
the prothorax at the base, slightly attenuate behind, with the suture
sharply acuminate [glaberrimus) ; propygidial spiracle small but
sharply conical; pygidium sloping backwards; mesosternum divided
from the metasternum by a very distinct suture, mesosternal process
very broad, transverse, almost straight at apex ; presternum with a
long, vertical spine-like ante-coxal process truncate at apex; anterior
tibia; sharply tri-dentate outwardly, intermediate and posterior ones
with a spine on the upper side ; tarsi somewhat slender and
moderately long.

Westwood originally founded this genus for a very singular species
from Guinea (to which he added another later on), and which, like
Uloptera p)lanata, Burm., an allied genus, from Cayenne, has
10-jointed antennae, instead of these being 9-jointed as in all the
other known Cetonina.

Phymatopteryx glaberrimus, Westw.,
Trans. Ent. Soc, 1879, p. 202, pi. 3, fig. 4.
Very shiny, brown, glabrous; prothorax and elytra variegated
with dull flavescent; head flavescent, sides including those of the
clypeus longitudinally impressed, and closely punctate ; prothorax
dull flavescent, but with the median part piceous brown, in the
central part of the disk which is impunctate is a short, punctate
impression, three deep strigillate ones on each side of it, and two
supra-lateral ones, the base is sloping towards the scutellum, but
with the angles distinct, and deeply arcuate above the scutellum,
the dorsal space between the discoidal impression is smooth, but the
sides are strigillate; scutellum impunctate, but slightly impressed
at the base, and sub strigillate there; elytra with a dorsal, wavy,
sub-tectiform costule and a less distinct one near the deflexed part ;
the space between tlie first dorsal costule and the suture is filled in
the anterior part by an elongated impression running beyond the
point of the scutellum, and with a single juxta-sutural striole, in
the posterior part there is a similar impression reaching the apex,

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but there the suture is raised, and on each side of it is a distinctly
geminate stria, the space between the first dorsal costa and the
second has four impressions arranged in a row and is striolate-
punctate, running from side to side, and past the median part is a
transverse band consisting of four interrupted flavescent macules in
relief on each side, the sides are transversely plicate ; the apical
callus is greatly developed and likewise flavescent longitudinally ;
pygidium transversely strigillate and having at apex an arcuate
impression with highly raised, round, sub-flavescent walls ; last
abdominal segment wholly, the others laterally only strigillate ;
pectus also strigillate laterally ; legs strigillate-punctate, sparsely
hairy.

Length 9-9+ mm. ; width 44/ mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Leydsdorp); Southern Transvaal (Mazoe,
Sebakwe, Salisbury, Mt. Chirinda).

Gen. CYMOPHOEUS, Kirb.,

Zoolog. Journ., hi., 1827, p. 271.

Ptychopliorus, Schaum., Germar's Zeitschr., hi., p. 271.
Clydonophorus, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1899, p. 61.

Mentum elongated, emarginate laterally at about the median part,
sub-parallel thence, truncate at apex, gibbose on the outer face of
the ligular part, last joint of labial palps long, cylindrical or nearly
so, inner lobe of maxillae with two superposed teeth, upper lobe with
a long, falcate tooth ; head simple, clypeus somewhat deflexed,
anterior margin reflexed ; eyes very large ; antennal club as long as
the whole pedicel and ferruginous ; prothorax attenuate in front,
slightly narrower at the base than across the median part, or equally
broad (hilaris), bi-impressed along the base, somewhat convex and
without impression in the discoidal part ; scutellum sharply triangular;
elytra very deeply sinuate laterally, not much narrowed thence to the
apex, on each side of the base there is a sharply triangular, long
depression the apex of which is continued as a dorsal moderately
raised costa ending in an apical callus on the outer part of which is
a long, very deep impression above the lateral, deflexed part; spiracles
of the propygidium sharply conical ; pygidium sloping backwards,
conically produced in the centre and having a longitudinal median
keel ; mesosternum with a somewhat broad, short process which is
truncated at apex ; prosternum with a vertical, ante-coxal spine-like
process ; anterior tibiae uni- or bi-dentate in both sexes ; tarsi long ;
intermediate and posterior tibiae with a spine on the upper edge.

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This genus seems restricted to Africa. The South African species
haunt flowers. In Southern Ehoclesia " they seem to confine them-
selves principally to Protect, and some of the large Compositae "
(G. A. K. Marshall). But the silky scales covering part of the body
of several species would seem to imply a myrmecobious stage during
a part of their existence.

Key to the Sjiccies.

A-. Anterior tibiae uni-dentate in both sexes.

B2. Upper tide black.

Body clothed with contiguous yellow silky scales. . . . undatus.

Body with scattered greyish scales, and with three
small white macules and one median spot on each
elytron intnisus.

Sides of prothorax densely scaly ; elytra almost glab-
rous, each with three large white patches and one
median spot vuirrjaritiferus.

B1. Elytra orange-coloured, glabrous ; elytra orange-
coloured with a broad irregular black sutural mark., hilaris.

A1. Anterior tibiae bi-dentate in both sexes.

B-. Clypeus plainly dentate in the anterior margin.

Prothorax with a lateral white margin ; elytra also
marginated with white and with several white macules
on each side leucostictus.

B'. Clypeus simple.

Prothorax and elytra with a fulvous margin ; the latter

with two orange-coloured patches on each side .. .. rubronotatits.

Cymophoeus undatus, Kirby,

Zool. Journ., hi., p. 153, pi. v., fig. G;

Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 19, pi. viii., fig. 3 ( J ).

Piceous black, completely covered on the upper and lower sides
with appressed somewhat golden scales ; head closely punctate ;
antennal club reddish ; prothorax not quite straight laterally in the
posterior part owing to a slight sinuation, but the base is nearly
straight, the surface is covered with sub-contiguous round punctures,
all setigerous, and has no traces of strigillation ; the scutellum and
elytra arc similarly punctured and clothed, the suture is sharply
raised in the posterior part and highly carinate at apex, the space
between it and the dorsal costa encloses two geminate strioles ;

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gibbose part of the pygidium very highly carinate longitudinally ;
median part of abdomen alone glabrous ; mesosternal process com-
paratively broad, truncate at apex ; in the male the apex of the
anterior tibias is very sharp, whereas in the female it is obtuse and
obliquely truncate.

Length 8-10 mm. ; width 4-5 mm.

Hah. Natal (Durban, Pine Town, Maritzburg) ; Transvaal
(Potchefstroom, Pretoria, Waterval, Lydenburg, Eustenburg) ;
Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury) ; Zanzibar mainland.

Cymophoeus (Clydonophoeus) inteusus, Blanch.,

Coll. Mus. Par., 1850, p. 43 ;

Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 18, pi. viii., fig. 7.

Black, moderately shiny, antennal club rufescent ; clypeus with
the median part of the anterior margin somewhat reflexed, but not
denticulate ; head and prothorax deeply and very closely punctate,
each puncture bearing a greyish or flavescent appressed scale which
is easily rubbed off; the prothorax is of the same shape as in
C. undatus, but the base is slightly arcuate above the scutellum,
which is sparingly scaly ; the elytra are much less closely punctate,
the punctures are wider and bear each only a minute greyish scale,
and they have on each side a minute white juxta-sutural dot at
about the median part, and three white patches, one small, dorsal,
transverse, set slightly past the middle, another and wider juxta-
sutural one at the apex, and a third on the outer margin of the
posterior part ; pygidium with one or two large macules on each
side ; sides of abdomen and pectus moderately, inner part of legs
densely squamulose hairy ; in the female the apical part of the
anterior tibiae is blunter than in the male.

Length 7^-11 mm. ; width 4-6 mm.

Hah. Natal (Maritzburg) ; Transvaal (Zoutpansberg) ; Southern
Ehodesia (Sebakwe, Gwelo, Enkeldoorn, Salisbury) ; Mozambique
(Eikatla) ; British and German East Africa ; Abyssinia.

Cymophoeus maegaeitifeeus, Bohem.,

Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 46 ;

Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 17, pi. viii., fig. 5.

Black, very shiny ; head closely punctate and covered with

silvery-white scales ; prothorax moderately closely punctate, and

having a broad lateral band of thick white scales, in shape it is like

that of the previous species ; the scutellum is without scales ; the

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elytra are very shiny and almost glabrous except for a few scaly
white hairs in the posterior and apical parts, they bear a few ovate,
not scale-bearing, punctures at the base and on the deflexed dorsal
part, and they have on each side a small juxta-sutural silvery-white
dot at about the median part and three somewhat large pearly
patches, the first, a transverse one, is about median and reaches
from the outer margin to the sharp dorsal keel, the second is apical,
and the third is situated in the posterior outer margin ; pygidium
hairy and with two white macules on each side ; under side sparsely
hairy ; metasternum with a lateral, cretaceous patch.

This species is distinguished from C. intrusus by its almost
glabrous and more glossy upper side, and by the broader and much
more conspicuous white patches on the elytra.

Length 7£-10 mm. ; width Sh-oh mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls, Salisbury, Sebakwe,
Enkeldoorn, Mazoe).

Cymophorus hilaris, Bohem.,

Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 48 ;

YYestw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 16, pi. viii., fig. 10.

" This pretty species is distinguished not only by its orange-
coloured elytra, with a broad irregular black sutural mark, but also
by the hind part of the prothorax not being narrowed at the
shoulders. The clypeus has the sides, and especially the front
margin, elevated ; the head and pronotum are finely punctured ; the
sides of the elytra strongly punctured ; the humeral and discoidal
impressions of the latter are striolate ; the disk glossy and finely but
distantly punctured. The body beneath is shining; the sides of the
metasternum strigosely punctured ; the abdomen blood-red and
glossy. The anterior tibia- in the female are very slightly notched
below the apex rather than bi-dentate.

Length 6-0 mm. ; width 3-4f mm.

Hah. The neighbourhood of the Limpopo River."

I have not met witli this species.

CYMOPHORUS BUBBONOTATU8, Peril
Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, hi., 1885, p. 99.
Black, moderately shiny, not squamose ; head and clypeus very
closely punctate, and covered with moderately closely set, appressed,
sub-flavescent hairs; prothorax quite straight from the ampliate
anterior part to the basal angle, base arcuately emarginate above the
scutellum, closely punctate, the punctures air ovately transverse,

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and the walls often form a transverse strigillation ; the sides have a
moderately broad, light fulvous band running from the ampliate part
to the base, and there is a spot of the same colour in the basal
impressions ; scutellum strigillate, punctate ; elytra with a light
fulvescent margin beginning below the lateral emargination, sending
two short spurs on the deflexed side, and reaching the suture, on the
dorsal part there is a short, transverse orange-coloured band situated
slightly before the median part, and a sub-quadrate patch of the
same colour above the apical callus, the suture, the base, the costate
part and also the space separating the two supra-lateral impressions
are distantly punctate, the impressions are longitudinally and the
deflexed part transversely strigillate, the punctures in the posterior
part are very briefly pubescent ; pygidium broadly maculated with
light fulvescent on each side and pubescent ; abdomen black ; legs
and sides of pectus hairy, the hairs squamulose ; anterior tibiae
sharply bi-dentate in the male, more bluntly so in the female.

Length 8-10 mm. ; width 4-5 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls, Salisbury, Sebakwe,
Enkeldoorn).

Cymophorus leucostictus, Schaum.,

Germ. Zeitschr., hi., p. 273.

Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 17, pi. viii., fig. 4.

undatus, Burm., Handb. d. Ent., hi., p. 648.

Black, shiny ; anterior margin of clypeus reflexed into a plain
median tooth ; head and clypeus closely punctate, almost glabrous ;
prothorax ampliate laterally near the median part, slightly attenuated
thence towards the basal angle, covered with round punctures sepa-
rated by a space equal to their own diameter, there is a moderately
broad, white marginal band which does not quite reach the humeral
angle, and a white spot on each supra-basal impression ; scutellum
strigillate and cicatricose punctate ; elytra each with a median,
juxta-sutural ovate white spot, and a similar but more irregular one
at the apex, a broader humeral one in the humeral impression, and
a more or less broad marginal band beginning below the lateral
sinuation and sending two transverse streaks or spurs, one below
the median part, the other above the posterior, and reaching only
the middle of the disk ; the space between the suture and the first
geminate stria is finely, the alternate one more broadly punctate, and
slightly remote like the others on the dorsal part ; pygidium deeply
punctate and with two white patches often coalescing on each side ;
sides of abdomen with a long white band ; metasternum white

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laterally and densely pubescent like the inner part of the femora
and legs, the pubescence being whitish.

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 4f-5f mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, East London) ; Transvaal
(Potchefstroom) ; Natal (Frere) ; Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury,
Umfuli Eiver) ; also Eastern Central Africa.

{Species not identified.)

Cymophorus semiluctuosus, Blanch.,
Cat. Coll. Ent. Mus., Paris, 1850, p. 3.
" Black, punctate ; head maculated with white ; prothorax convex,
outer margin dentate, shoulders and also two basal spots white ;
elytra bi-strigose, excavated, and having a maculate abbreviated
median band with the outer margin bi-dentate, and a humeral, as
well as an apical spot white.
Length 10 mm.
Hab. Caffraria."

Gen. SPILOPHOBUS, Lacord.,

Gener. d. Coleopt., hi., 1856, p. 545 ;

Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., 1874, p. 28.

Pseudospilophorus, Kraatz. Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1899,
p. 63.

Mentum strongly gibbose at about the median part of the outer
side, sloping at a somewhat sharp angle to the anterior margin
which is sinuate in the centre with the angles moderately rounded,
the central part of the outer face is deeply grooved as far as the apex
of the gibbose part, the palps cavity reaches from apex to base, the
sub-cylindrical, curved last palpal joint is long ; the maxillae are
somewhat robust and elongated, both the lobes have a long, falcate
tooth, the lower one somewhat sinuate inwardly at the tip, last joint
of maxillary palps fusiform, truncate at tip ; head simple, dypeus
slightly deflexed, anterior margin raised and sub-triangularly reflexed
in the centre, eyes large, canthus long ; antennal club small ; pro-
thorax sub-trapeziform, arcuately emarginate above the scutellum
which is long and very sharp ; elytra broader than the prothorax,
deeply sinuate laterally, almost parallel thence, non-costulate ; pro-
pygidium very broadly uncovered and with the spiracle sub-conical;
pygidium broader than long, arcuate at apex, indistinctly sub-cari-
nate in the centre; metasternum triangularly produced between the

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intermediate coxae, separated by a suture from the extremely small
vertical metasternal process; prosternal vertical process also rudi-
mentary ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly ; intermediate and
posterior with a carina " en chevron " and dentate at each end,
Cetonid fashion ; tarsi short, somewhat robust, glabrous.

The genus is represented in Guinea and Eastern India.

The facies is more that of a Cetonid than of a Cremastochilid.
The South African species breeds in the nests of small birds like
finches, robins, &c, and the larvae, as well as the adult insects, have
been found there together feeding on the faeces. Their habits are
thus similar to those of Diplognatha g agates.

Kraatz includes in the genus two Indian species, and for the re-
ception of the South African he founds the genus Pscudospilophorus.
The difference, being merely the shape of the prothorax, which in
Spilophorus proper is sub-hexagonal, instead of being transverse as
in Pseudosjnlojjhorus, does not seem to me sufficient to warrant the
change.

Spilophokus lugubris, Fabric,
Syst. Ent., i., App., p. 819;
Oliv., Entom., i., 6, p. 44, pi. 7, fig. 60.

plagosus, Boh., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 49.

Black, glabrous, very shiny, basal part of head with a transverse
white band ; sides of prothorax with a marginal very broad white band
which does not reach the basal part ; elytra with a very large, sinuate
sub-quadrate patch slightly past the median part, and extending
from the outer margin to a short distance from the suture, at the top
of the posterior declivity is a narrow, sinuate transverse band which
is often rudimentary and also often obliterated ; on each side of the
pygidium is a white patch or macule ; the under side is either quite
immaculate, or there is a lateral band on the abdomen and a broad
patch on the sides of the metasternum. Frontal part deeply bi-
impressed, the outer part of the impressions sub-carinate, and the
two impressions divided by a slightly raised keel, clypeus and frontal
part foveolate-punctate, the punctures not contiguous in the frontal
impression; prothorax one-third longer than broad, only moderately
attenuated laterally in the anterior part, nearly straight for two-
thirds of the length, impunctate in the central part of the disk, and
with only a few punctures on the sides ; scutellum with a few punc-
tures at apex ; elytra broader than the prothorax, very faintly costu-
late in the central part of the disk, with the suture keeled in the
apical part, they are very sparsely punctate, the punctures being
broad and shallow, the white patches are not punctate ; propygidium

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transversely strigillate ; pygidium with shallow, scattered punctures ;
under side similarly sculptured.

The white markings of this species are very variable. According
to Westwood, the typical specimen, still preserved in the Banskian
Collection of the British Museum, has the hind part of the head with
an irregular white mark ; the apex of the elytra is scarcely marked
with white ; the sides of the metasternum have an irregular white
mark, and the abdominal segments have on each side a row of
spiracle-like white dots.

Length 11-12 mm. ; width 6-6^ mm.

Hab. The whole of South Africa.

Gen. HOPLOSTOMUS, McLeay,
111. Zool. S. Afric., 1838, hi., p. 20.
Mentum convex, divided from the ligular part by a sharp trans-
verse keel, the outer face sloping thus equally towards the base and
towards the apex, the labial cavity is angularly produced at the
base, and the last joint of the labial palpi is broadly swollen out-
wardly and somewhat acuminate, the upper margin of the ligula is
broadly arcuate ; maxillae robust and very hairy, the upper lobe
armed with a long, falcate, very sharp tooth, and the inner one with
a shorter, simple one ; antenna? of the usual type ; clypeus narrowed
in front with the margin slightly reflexed, the head is separated
from the clypeus by a very plain keel extending from one canthus of
the eyes to the other ; prothorax strongly attenuated laterally from
past the median part to the apex, nearly straight in the posterior
part with the hind angle somewhat obtuse but not rounded, base
strongly arcuated above the scutellum which is not very much longer
than broad at the base; elytra elongate, narrower at the apex than
at the base, deeply sulcate on the disk and on each side of the
suture; pygidium sub-vertical; spiracle of the last abdominal seg-
ment not raised; prosternum with an anti-coxal vertical spine;
anterior tibiae bi-dentate ; legs moderately robust ; joints of tarsi
sub-cylindrical and set close to each other, claws weak.

Hoi'LOKTOMUS PULIGINEUS, Oliv.,

Ent., i., 6, p. 20, pi. 3, tig. 12 ;

Gory and Perch., Mon., p. 110, pi. 15, tig. 1.

Black, glossy; aatennes, especially the club, flavous; clypeus

marginate in front, the margin slightly reflexed, weakly carinate in

the centre, punctate-striolate ; head depressed in the frontal part,

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and also lightly carinate longitudinally in the centre, as well as on
each side in addition to the transverse keel, it is punctate in the
centre, and striolate above the eyes ; prothorax marginate laterally,
punctate, the punctures round, simple, separated by a smooth in-
terval about equal to their diameter ; scutellum impunctate, carinate
in the centre of the apical part ; elytra strongly impressed in the
scutellary region, having on each side one stria along the suture
which is raised in the hind part only, and a conspicuous dorsal
sulcus on each side of which the space is raised and sparingly punc-
tate, the sides, the hind part, and also the sulcate part are strigillate;
under side and legs glabrous, strigose.

Length 18-19 mm. ; width 11 mm.

Hab. The whole of Natal, the Transvaal, Southern Rhodesia,
Cape Colony, except the south-western part.

This species is met with in bee-hives devouring the honey, and it
ranges in Africa from the Cape to Senegal.

Gen. CCENOCHILUS, Schaum.,
Germ. Zeitschr., iii., 1811, p. 268.
Mentum sub-quadrate at the base, gradually but slightly ampliated
from about the median part to the anterior the angles of which are
broadly rounded, and the fore margin is narrowly incised or sinuate
in the centre, the outer face is hairy, deeply grooved longitudinally
in the centre and slopes very gently in the anterior part towards the
margin ; maxillae somewhat robust, but elongated, upper lobe armed
with a strong, long, bifid tooth, inner lobe provided with a similar
but shorter tooth ; clypeus moderately long, convex in the centre of
the junction with the head, slightly dilated laterally towards the
apex, the angles are rounded and the anterior margin is more or less
deeply sinuate, on the vertex is a transverse keel, wanting or oblite-
rated, however, in some species ; antennal club shorter than the
pedicel, of equal length in both sides and with a faint longitudinal
groove on the outer joint; prothorax plainly narrower than the
elytra, sub-orbicular or broadly rounded laterally at the base which
is straight above the scutellum, this latter part being very long and
very sharply acuminate ; elytra elongated, sub-parallel, but strongly
sinuate above the side-pieces, plane, more or less distinctly costulate ;
anterior tibiae moderately dilated at apex and strongly bi-dentate,
intermediate and posterior legs uni-dentate on the upper side, the
intermediate and hind tarsi longer than the tibiae, the anterior ones
shorter and more or less nodose at tip ; pygidium vertical or some-
what convex ; sternal process very small ; spurs of hind legs long

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and sharp in the 3 , blunt and with the outer one compressed and
rounded at tip in the $? ', presternum with a vertical spine-like
process before the coxa' ; tarsal claws moderately long.

I have restricted to this genus all the species in which the outer
face of the mentum is not greatly swollen, and is broadly and deeply
excavated.

The species of this genus are termitophilous in South Africa, and
some have a very wide range. The sexual differences are often great
in either sex. The genus is represented in Africa, also in India,
Assam, and Hongkong, where their habits are probably the same.

Key to the Species.

A2. Legs not simple in both sexes.

B-. Prothorax plainly grooved longitudinally.

Terminal part of hind tibiae produced inwardly in a

hamate process as long as the hind spur ( <? ) .. .. calcaratus.

Terminal part of intermediate and hind tibia? with an

inner arcuate process ( <? ) anniger.

Terminal part of hind tibia? produced into a short rect-
angular process supporting the hind spurs (?) vagus.

B\ Prothorax not plainly grooved longitudinally. Anterior
femora deeply notched at apex, inner basal part of
anterior tibia? emarginate ( s ) agynsibanus.

A1. Legs simple in both sexes.

B-. Vertex of head with a transverse keel.

C2. Prothorax not grooved longitudinally.

Body glabrous on the upper side ; prothorax with the
outer angles not completely rounded ; punctures of
the prothorax round, with smooth intervals, those of
the elytra plainly cicatricose Jtropi/nquus.

Body briefly but somewhat densely pubescent on the
upper side; prothorax nearly orbicular; punctures
scabrose, shagreened ; elytra punctulate, hardly cos-
tulate termiticohi.

Body glabrous; prothorax with the hind part broadly
rounded, laterally, the punctures rounded, with nearly
smooth intervals; elytra deeply punctate, each
plainly quadri-costate tin batus.

C Prothorax grooved longitudinally.

Body briefly yet plainly pubescent OH the upper side;
prothorax broadly rounded laterally behind, very
plainly shagreened; elytra with four costs on each
side, intervals not striolate ; pygidium of ? with a
very broad depression sulcatum.

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Body glabrous on the upper side ; prothorax as in the
preceding species, but roundly punctate ; elytra with
four costae on each side, the three first intervals strio-
late; pygidium of ? excavated underneath, the upper
edge of the excavation notched analis.

B1. Vertex of head without a transverse keel.
C2. Prothorax grooved.

Moderately shiny, glabrous ; prothorax ampliate,
rounded behind, closely punctate ; elytra much
broader than the thorax, the suture and three costse
on each side raised. Intervals aciculate procerus.

C1. Prothorax not grooved.

Very shiny ; prothorax depressed ; each elytron with
four juxta-sutural strioles running in pairs, discoidal
part convex emarginatus.

CCENOCHILUS CALCARATUS, Westw.,

Thesaur. Entomol., p. 39, pi. xii., fig. 3.
Male : Piceous black, sometimes piceous red, moderately shiny on
the upper side ; clypeus and head sub-foveolate punctate, the punc-
tures almost contiguous and each bearing a minute, greyish hair,
anterior margin of clypeus fairly deeply sinuate ; prothorax nearly
orbicular, covered with closely set, round, fairly deep punctures
separated by a smooth interval narrower than their own diameter in
the anterior part, but nearly equal in the posterior where there is a
short, median, very shallow longitudinal impressed line and two
narrow, transverse impressions alongside the basal margin ; scutellum
irregularly punctate, sub-tectiform in the posterior part ; elytra not
broader at the base than across the median part of the prothorax,
nearly parallel, very elongated, the suture is sub-carinate, and there
are on each side two somewhat wide, little raised, yet distinct costae
separated by a somewhat broad stria, and two more, one reaching
from near the humeral callus to about one-fourth of the length, and
the other, which is nearly equally long, is situated above the lateral,
the surface is covered with elongated, moderately closely set but
non-contiguous, and non-cicatricose punctures ; pygidium vertical,
finely aciculated and very briefly pubescent, except along the margin
where the hairs are long and fulvous ; abdomen freely punctate ;
pectus and inner part of femora densely pubescent ; inner part of
tibiye also pubescent, hind ones short, and with the terminal inner
part produced into a long, subarcuate tooth directed inwardly, broad
at base and sharp at apex, and longer and much more robust than
the inner spur which is also very long.

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Length 19 mm. ; -width 8 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

This species was described from specimens from Sierra Leone
and Old Calabar. The only example I have seen corresponds
exactly to Westwood's figure.

CCENOCHILUS ARMIGER, WeSt\V.,

Thesaur. Entom., p. 40, pi. xii., fig. 2.

Male : " Black, with a slight castaneous tinge on the elytra,
antennae and body ; beneath the head is rounded in front, and has a
raised ridge between the eyes ; the prothorax is nearly circular, the
two posterior lateral angles being scarcely produced ; the lateral
margins are slightly deflexed, it has a fine central impressed line
beyond the middle, and two impressions opposite the sides of the
scutellum, which are rather deep, wide, and obliquely striolated.
The scutellum is punctured at the base, and finely striolated behind.
Each of the elytra has three elevated costae, which are nearly
impunctate, as is also the portion of each adjoining the suture, the
apex of which is slightly acuminated. The intervening spaces of the
elytra have a coriaceous appearance from being covered with an
infinite number of minute aciculated lines close together. The
pygidium is vertical and not convex and covered with fine aciculated
transverse lines, the two posterior spiracles not being greatly
enlarged. The fore tibiae are dilated at the outer extremity, where
they are notched so as to form two obtuse teeth ; the four posterior
tibiae are furnished at the extremity on the under side with a long,
obtuse, slightly curved spine, which is directed backwards, the two
ordinary apical spurs being of the usual small size. The tarsi are
flat and rather broad, with short, straight claws."

Length 171 mm. ; width 71 mm.

llab. Zululand, teste Westwood.

CCENOCHILUS VAGUS, 11. Sp.

Female : Black, sub-opaque, antennae, legs, and under side
piceous brown ; clypeus narrowly, but somewhat deeply incised in
the centre, roughly plicate transversely, the head is also plicate, and
the occipital transverse keel strong ; prothorax ampliate, rounded
laterally, with the basal angles broadly rounded, the base itself being
narrowed, on the median part of the disk is a very distinct longi-
tudinal impressed line reaching from base to apex, but less deep in
the anterior than in the posterior part, and a shallow marginal depres-
sion on each side of the base, the surface is covered with deep.

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sub-contiguous punctures set closer to each other in front than
behind and somewhat strigillate on the sides ; scutellum strigillate
punctate ; elytra very little broader at the base than the prothorax
at its widest part and very elongated, the suture is conspicuously
raised, and at a short distance from it is a deep sulcate stria,
the interval being very slightly raised, the supra-humeral sulcate
stria is very shallow, and does not reach beyond the middle, on the
basal part the surface is covered with a network of elongate sub-
foveate punctures turning beyond that part into a fine sub-longi-
tudinal strigillation ; pygidium finely aciculate, somewhat convex
at the base, and with a short, apical, ill-defined median longitudinal
ridge ; abdomen deeply and numerously punctate ; pectus closely
punctured and briefly pubescent ; inner apical part of hind tibia?
developed in a short rectangular process at the apex of which are
inserted the thickened spurs, the inner of which is truncate ; the
anterior tibiae are plainly sinuate inwardly at the base ; this last
feature, coupled with the shape of the inner apical part of the hind
tibiae, leads me to believe that in the unknown male these parts are
not simple.

Length 22 mm. ; width 8 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). Found dead on a termite
mound. G. A. K. Marshall.

CffiNOCHILUS AGYNSIBANUS, Raffr.,

Rev. and Mag. Zool., 1877, p. 336.
Male : Dark chestnut-brown, moderately shiny ; clypeus some-
what more dilated at apex than the other species, anterior margin
very deeply sinuate in the centre ; head and clypeus foveate punc-
tate, the punctures elongated and separated by transverse walls ;
prothorax as broad as long, moderately ampliate rounded laterally in
the centre, the posterior angles not rounded, but not projecting
much, covered with round, even punctures, separated by a smooth
interval, on the base are two marginal moderately broad impres-
sions, but no median discoidal longitudinal line ; scutellum punctu-
late ; elytra elongated, broader than the prothorax at its widest
part, bi-costulate on each side next to the suture, and with only two
plain striae, and the usual interrupted supra-lateral costule, the
surface is covered with moderately closely set punctures round at
the base and along the sides, and cicatricose in the intervals between
the costules; pygidium vertical, but slightly convex at apex, closely
aciculate, and with a longitudinal moderately raised median line ;
abdomen and legs aciculate-striate ; pectus and femora densely

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pubescent ; anterior femora deeply, arcuately notched near the
apex ; anterior tibiae deeply emarginate inwardly at base ; anterior
tarsi short, the joints thick, those of the intermediate and posterior
legs as broad at apex as at base, set very close to each other, shiny,
and with only a few bristles at the joints.

Length 20 mm. ; width 8 mm.

Hab. Natal (Pine Town).

This species was originally described from the Zanzibar mainland.

CffiNOCHILUS PEOPINQUUS, 11. sp.

Male : Dark chestnut-brown, glabrous on the upper side and
somewhat shiny ; clypeus weakly, transversely plicate, vertex
punctate and with a somewhat obliterated occipital ridge ; prothorax
as broad as long, but only moderately ampliate rounded laterally,
and with the lateral basal part only moderately broadly rounded, the
outer margin has a fringe of long, light fulvous hairs, there are no
traces of a longitudinal median impressed line, but there is a fairly
broad sub-triangular, marginal impression on each side of the base,
and the surface is covered with round punctures separated by a
smooth interval about equal in size to their diameter; scutellum
closely aciculate at the base and numerously punctate in the lower
part ; elytra broader than the prothorax at its widest part and
having on each side two juxta-sutural somewhat wide costules not
much more raised than the posterior part of the suture, and a some-
what obliterated one at about the median part, the first two are
separated by shallow lines, but not so the third, and the surface is
covered with elongated cicatricose punctures almost coalescing ;
pygidium vertical and with a faint, median longitudinal raised line,
very closely aciculate ; abdomen strigillate ; pectus clothed with a
dense, fulvous pubescence ; joints of intermediate and hind tarsi long,
slightly nodose only at apex, and bristly ; hind tibiae of normal shape.

Length 17-18 mm. ; width 7^-8 mm.

Hal>. Cape Colony (Graham's Town); Orange River Colony
(Bothaville). Found in the latter locality with termites.

This species is doubtless allied to C. emarginatus, but it is twice as
long, and the shape of the maxillary teeth is not so slender.

CCBNOCHILUS TEBMITICOLA, W'asm.,

Plate XLY., fig. 8.
Illustr. Zeitschr. f. Entomol. v., 1900, p. 07, pi. v., lig. 1.
hospes, P6ring., Ann. Soc. Bnt. Fr., 1900, p. 71.
Male: Dark chestnut-brown ; clypeus closely granular, occipital

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part with scabrose punctures replaced at the base by deep, simple
ones, whole surface clothed with a flavescent, somewhat long and
dense pubescence, finer and sparser on the occipital part the trans-
verse keel of which is distinct, and in front of which are two faint
impressions, fore margin of clypeus slightly sinuate ; prothorax
almost orbicular, very plainly marginate all round, covered with
moderately deep punctures separated by transverse, narrow, raised
walls in the anterior and lateral parts, but not on the hind part of
the disk, and each bearing a moderately short appressed, flavescent
hair forming a plain pubescence, there is a very faint, longitudinal
median impressed line, visible only near the base, on each side of
which is a narrow, transverse, marginal depression, and above these
and equi-distant from the base and the centre are two plain,
discoidal impressions ; scutellum briefly yet conspicuously hairy at
the base and sides ; elytra shaped as in G. termiticola, and with the
dorsal costae similar, but the surface is covered with non-cicatricose
punctures, bearing each a small, appressed hair similar to those on
the prothorax, the suture is not raised in the posterior part ;
pygidium convex towards the apex, briefly pubescent ; abdomen
equally briefly yet densely pubescent; pectus, femora, and inner side
of tibiae pubescent, the pubescence of all these parts fulvous ; hind
tibiae of normal shape ; joints of intermediate and hind tarsi long,
briefly pubescent.

Allied to C. termiticola, from which it differs by the sculpture of
the head, the more orbicular prothorax, and the somewhat dense
pubescence.

This species has been met with termites by Dr. H. Brauns in the
Orange Eiver Colony, in the termitarium of Termes tubicola, Wasm.
There can be no doubt that C. termiticola, Wasm., and C. hospes,
Per., are the same species, and I am not sure that, as far as date
of publication goes, my name will not prevail. My example was
obtained from British Bechuanaland (Kenya).

Length 18-22 mm. ; width 8-9 mm.

CffiNOCHILUS TURBATUS, Westw.,

Thesaur. Entomol., p. 37, pi. xii., fig. 7.
C. braunsi, Wasm., Illustr. Zeitsch. f. Ent. v., 1900, p. 82, fig. 2.
Piceous, shiny, antennal club chestnut-brown at apex ; clypeus
plainly angular laterally, closely foveolate punctate with the walls of
the punctures transversely plicate in the centre, and somewhat longi-
tudinally so on the vertex, the transverse ridge is very plain, and
the anterior margin is broadly and deeply emarginate ; prothorax

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ampliate rounded laterally past the median part, marginate, broadly
rounded at the basal angles, the base has two very narrow, trans-
verse marginal impressions, the disk has no traces of a median
impressed line, and the surface is covered with round, deep
punctures separated by a smooth interval nearly equal to their
diameter, in front, however, the interval is nai'rower, and the sides of
the anterior part are reticulate in the female, but not distinctly so
in the male ; scutellum sparsely punctulate on the sides ; elytra
elongated, broader than the prothorax, and having each six fine
striae, the four inner of which are more conspicuous than the other
two, and the three first intervals are plainly raised and sub-tectiform
behind, these striae begin at some distance from the base which is
deeply but not closely punctate, each raised interval bears a series
of somewhat remote punctures, and the sides are also punctate :
pygidium finely aciculate, plicate transversely, convex at apex ;
abdomen very closely punctate, the punctures asperous, and each
bears a hair ; pectus with the same sculptui'e but more densely
pubescent; legs simple in both sexes.

Although I have not seen Westwood's type of C. turbatus, I am
satisfied from his figure and description that C. braunsi, Wasm., the
co-type of which was communicated to me by Dr. H. Brauns, is the
same species.

The shape of the genital armature of the male differs considerably
from that of the other species of Canochilus known to me.

Length 16 mm. ; width 6^—7 mm.

Hub. Orange River Colony (Bothaville) ; Natal (Durban, teste
Westw.).

Ccenochilus sulcatus, Schaum.,

Tlate XLVII. fig. 29.

Germ. Zeitschr., hi., p. 270;

Gory and Perch., Mon. Cet., p. 113, pi. xv., fig. 6 ;

Westw., Thesaur. Entom., p. 41, pi. xi., fig. 10.

Black, somewhat dull, head, prothorax, and elytra with a short,
sub-squamiform, greyish pubescence denser on the head and prothorax
ilian on the elytra; under side clothed with a greyish flavescent
pubescence very dense and very long on the pectus; antennal
club dark cbestnut-brown ; clypeus with a long, but not deep
emargi nation, the surface of both clypeus and head is scabrose, and
plicate transversely, the sides of the clypeus are sub-angular, and the
occipital keel is not very conspicuous ; prothorax ampliate rounded
laterally in the posterior part the angles of which are broadly
rounded, the disk is plainly sulcate longitudinally from the base to a

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short distance from the apex, and on each side of the base is a
deep, non-transverse, marginal impression, the surface is strongly
shagreened ; scutellum longitudinally plicate ; elytra broader than
the p rot borax, deeply sinuate laterally, plainly quadri-costate, the
two median dorsal costaa are sub-tectiform, and the intervals are not
very distinctly striate, the base is covered with sub-cicatricose
punctures coalescing along the scutellar part, and the rest of the
surface is coriaceous ; propygidium and pygidium finely plicate
transversely, pygidium convex in the male, the lower part deeply
and roundly impressed at apex in the female ; under side closely
scabrose punctate, legs simple in either sex.

Length 14-15 mm. ; width 6-64; mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Willowmore) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg) :
Natal (Frere).

CcENOCHILUS ANALIS, Westw.,

Thesaur. Entomol., p. 39, pi. xii., fig. 10.

Black, moderately shiny; clypeus slightly sinuate in front, very
closely and somewhat roughly foveolate punctate, the occipital keel
well denned ; prothorax marginate laterally and ampliate rounded
from the median part to the base the angles of which are broadly
rounded, plainly sulcate longitudinally on the disk from the base to
about the median part, and having a conspicuous marginal but not
transverse impression on each side of the base, the surface is covered
with round punctures divided by a smooth interval equal to their own
diameter ; scutellum longitudinally strigillate ; elytra not very much
broader than the prothorax at its widest part, each one plainly quadri-
costate with the costae tectiform and the intervals indistinctly striate,
the intervals, the costae, and the sides are deeply and moderately
closely punctate ; each puncture bears a minute hair ; pygidium
strigillate, convex in the male, but having in the female a deep, broad,
transverse depression the upper edge of which is deeply incised ;
abdomen and pectus very closely scabrose punctate, and both densely
pubescent ; legs normal in either sex.

Length 11-13 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

Hah. Natal (Pine Town) ; Transvaal (Waterberg).

Ccenochilus procerus, Schaum.,
Verz. Lam. Melit., p 62.
Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 36, pi. xi., fig. 8.
C. paulus, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., hi., p. 665 (nee. G. and P.).
" Black, moderately shiny, glabrous above, with a yellowish pubes-

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cence underneath ; vertex of head strongly convex, transverse
occipital keel wanting ; prothorax very closely punctate, and having
a median smooth groove in the posterior part, and two intra-angular
aciculate posterior impressions ; scutellum punctate, the margin
raised ; epimera rufo-hirtose ; elytra with the suture and three costae
on each side little raised, intervals aciculate ; pygidium rufo-hirtose.
Of nearly the same size as C. maurus, from Senegal, but bx*oader, the
elytra are shorter, the prothorax more orbicular, and widest across
the median part. The head is also not carinate between the eyes,
the prothorax has no frontal tubercle and no dorsal impressions."

Length 25 mm.

llab. South Africa.

I have not met with this species.

COSNOCHILUS EMARGINATUS, Westw.,

Thesaur. Entomol., p. 41, pi. xii., fig. 1.

" Black, very shiny, head and prothorax very closely punctate ;
clypeus moderately rounded ; prothorax rounded in front, depressed
above, broadest after the median part and with the posterior angles
rounded, and marked on each side with a minute, very shallow
impression placed between the emarginate part and the posterior
angles, sides and head with a yellow, setose pubescence ; scutellum
and elytra sparsely punctate, sides and apical part of the latter more
punctate, and each one with four very slender longitudinal strioles
running in pairs, next to the suture and parallel with it, disk convex
between the median part and the strioles, humeral part prominent,
behind the humeral part is a curved sulcus, and another much less
deep, oblong, sub-lateral and situated beyond the middle ; abdomen
convex ; pygidium convex, setose ; antennae piceous. The polished
surface of this insect, and the peculiar form of the prothorax, will
distinguish it from its congeners. It bears indeed a certain amount
of resemblance to some of the species of CymopJiorus, but the very
acutely bi-dentate galea of the maxillae, and the great length of
the bi-dentate terminal spine of the mando prevent its introduc-
tion into that genus. The elytra are twice the length of the widest
part of the prothorax ; the four posterior tibiae are longitudinally
sulcated, and there is a fine impressed line down the middle of the
metasternum."

Length 13 mm. ; width 5 mm.

ILib. Damaraland.

L have not met with this species.

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ANATONOCHILUS, n. gen.

Mentum parallel and plane as far as the palps cavity, greatly
thickened vertically on the outer face and with the thickened part,
which is in width half the length of the whole mentum, completely
excavated and transversely striolate, the two margins are plainly
sinuate, and below the excavation is a longitudinal keel on each
side ; teeth of upper lobe very long and slender, those of the inner
lobe also long and very sharply bifid ; the other characters are the
same as in Cosnochilus.

The difference in shape of the mentum justifies the removal of
this insect into a separate genus, to which belong also C. campbclli,
Westw., from Eastern India ; C. curtipes, Westw., from Assam ;
C. taprobanicus, Westw., from Ceylon and Eastern India, &c. In
Westwood's figure of A. glabratus the deep and broad excavation of
the mentum is not sufficiently indicated.

Anatochilus glabratus, Bohem.,

Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 50;

Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., 1873, p. 37, pi. xii., fig. 9.

Piceous black or chestnut-brown, very shiny, glabrous except for
a short fulvous pubescence on the anterior and intermediate femora,
and the ante-coxal fore process ; head with a transverse, not highly
raised carina on the vertex, clypeus highly convex in the centre,
arcuately but not deeply emarginate in the anterior part, transversely
plicate except behind the occipital keel, where it is punctate ;
antennas piceous red ; prothorax ampliate rounded laterally in the
median part, slightly sinuate below that, and with the outer angles
plainly but not broadly rounded, surface closely punctate, the
punctures round and separated by a smooth interval inferior in width
to their own diameter, but with a slightly raised sub-undulating wall
in the anterior part, especially in the female ; scutellum weakly
punctulate ; elytra deeply and narrowly sub-punctate striate in the
discoidal part, but with the intervals plane and impunctate ;
pygidium moderately convex and faintly keeled longitudinally in
the male, more convex and keel less in the female, impunctate or
non-striolate like the under side ; legs glabrous, tarsi almost glabrous,
and nodose at apex.

Length 12-17 mm. ; width 5-7 mm.

This species is termitobious. "Flies only at sunset" (G. A. K.
Marshall).

Hob. Transvaal (Johannesburg, Lydenburg) ; Southern Rhodesia
(Salisbury) ; Limpopo River and Senegambia, teste Westwood.

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Gen. PLAGIOCHILUS, Wasm.,
Illustr. Zeitsch. f. Entom., v., 1900, p. 5, p. 82.

The characters differentiating this genus from Ganochilus are
the shape of the prothorax, which is ampliate rounded at about the
median part and straight or only slightly sinuate thence to the
outer angles which are acute, and of the spiracle of the last abdominal
segment which is spiniform. The elytra have two geminate striae on
each side of the suture, and the pygidium is strongly swollen in the
centre. Wasman, who founded the genus on P. intrusus, ascribes to
it " small eyes nearly obsolete and not visible from above or in
front " ; this is not the case, however. Wasman included also in
the genus P. setosus (Burm.), which he took to be a new species and
named P. argenteus, and in which the eyes are very large, and the
shape of the clypeus, as well as that of the mentum, is very different
from that of P. intrusus.

This genus is thus not very homogeneous, unless it be divided into
two sections : —

I. CJ. Clypeus very convex in the centre, emarginate in front.
11. Clypeus not convex, niarginate in front.

The species seem to be all myrmecobious. C. angustatus,
Westw., from Guinea, will also have to be included in the genus.

Key to tin- Species.

A-. Ligular part plane on the outer part, incised or emarginate in
front.

B2. Clypeus very convex.

Ligula incised ; prothorax with round punctures ; elytra
quadri-striate and quadri-costulate on each side intrusus.

B1. Clypeus plane, marginate and reflexed in front.

Ligula sinuate in front: prothorax transversely plicate with
a white lateral margin; elytra not distinctly costulate,
cicatrico^e punctate and each with six rows of minute
Bquamose hairs diversus.

Ligula tlightly sinuate in front, body very hairy; prothorax

reticulate punctate; elytra non-costulate, scabrose punctate tomicoides.

A'. Ligula bulging strongly on the outer face.

Body briefly pubescent; head with a median tubercle; pro-
thorax with a broadly oval impression on the disk corniger.

Body pubescent, head simple, prothorax not impressed, strongly
reticulate; elytra roughly reticulate punctate and with one
dorsal costa. Miture raised setosus.

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Plagiochilus intrusus, Wasm.,
Illustr. Zeits. f. Entomol., v., 1900, p. 83.

P. intrusus, Pering., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1900, p. 71.

Black, moderately shiny, glabrous, antennal club chestnut-brown ;
head without any transverse keel, clypeus very convex in the centre,
impressed on each side of the anterior part, and deeply emarginate
in front, very closely punctate like the head ; prothorax with a
median, discoidal, longitudinal impression somewhat broad but
interrupted in front and behind, and a sub-quadrate marginal one
on each side of the straight base, the surface is covered with round
punctures nearly confluent in the anterior part, but the posterior
is reticulate plicate ; scutellum plicate ; elytra slightly broader than
the prothorax, nearly parallel, faintly costulate, numerously striolate
in the dorsal part ; the strides are geminate, and the sides deeply
punctate ; pygidium transversely striolate and conspicuously pro-
duced in the centre into a large, round swelling ; under side
glabrous, abdomen punctate, pectus strigillate ; legs strigillate
punctate, glabrous, but the inner part of the intermediate and
posterior tibiae have a series of remote ciliae ; claws moderately
short.

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 3^-3^ mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Upper Hanyani River).

This species is myrmecobious, and was found by Mr. G. A. K.
Marshall entering the formicarium of Plagiolepis custodiens, Sm.

Plagiochilus diversus, n. sp.

Black, only moderately shiny, antennae and palpi ferruginous ;
ligular part plane, not incised in front ; clypeus not convex in the
centre, parallel, rounded laterally in front and with the anterior
margin sub-triangularly reflexed, head simple, both head and clypeus
very closely and somewhat deeply punctate ; prothorax quite straight
laterally in the posterior part, strongly sloping in front, deeply and
very closely punctate in the anterior part and transversely plicate
in the posterior ; along the lateral margin and also part of the basal
there extends a cretaceous band ; scutellum strigillate ; elytra not
broader than the prothorax, parallel, depressed, not distinctly costate,
but having on each side of the suture, and at some distance from it,
two duplicate striae, another but less distinct one at about the median
discoidal part, and a fairly plain one above the sides, the surface
is covered with an irregular network of punctures, closely set and
confluent on the sides, each elytron has six series of very short,

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greyish -white squamiform hairs, and a cretaceous band of scales
along the lateral and posterior margins ; pygidium broadly and
bluntly conical in the centre and having on this projection two
cretaceous squamose patches ; abdominal segments, pectus and
hind legs fringed or clothed with greyish-white, sub-squamose
hairs ; anterior tibiae very bluntly bi-dentate in the male, bluntly
rounded and sub-truncate at apex in the female.

This species is myrmecobious, and was found by Mr. G. A. K.
Marshall entering the formicarium of Plagiolcpis custodiens, Sm.

Length 71-8 mm. ; width 3^-31 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe).

Plagiochilus setosus, Burm.,

Handb. d. Entomol., v., p. 564 ;

Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 43, pi. xii., fig. 8.

argenteus, Wasm., Illustr. Zeitschr. Ent., v., 1900, p. 103.

Black, moderately shiny ; clothed on the upper side with flavesuent
whitish silky hairs; antennal club and palpi testaceous; ligular part
bulging in the outer face, slightly sinuate in front ; head and clypeus
very deeply punctate, and clothed with a long appressed pubescence ;
the latter is very slightly sinuate in front, with the margin reflexed ;
prothorax ampliate rounded at about the median part, and slightly
sinuate beyond, strongly reticulate, and without any dorsal impres-
sion ; scutellum strigillate ; elytra with the suture and one dorsal
costa on each side plainly raised, the humeral costule is somewhat
distinct, between the suture and the dorsal costa are two geminate
striae, but the suture and the remainder of the surface are roughly
reticulate punctate, there are rows of shoi't, upright hairs which are
denser and appressed along the lateral margins ; pygidium some-
what slanting, very convex towards the apex and densely pubescent
there ; under side pubescent ; anterior claws somewhat long.

Length 8£- 9 mm. ; width 3^-3£ mm.

This species, according to Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, is myrmecobious,
and found with Plagiolcpis custodiens, Sm. It flies in sunshine, and
feeds on flowers of Protect at Salisbury ; my examples from Natal and
the Limpopo River were caught on flowers. Westwood states
that Herr Guienzius found it in ants' nests, the individuals being
covered with the ants, which seemed to suck from them a gummy
exudation.

Hab. Natal (Maritzburg) ; Transvaal (Upper Limpopo Eiver) ;
Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury).

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Plagiochilus corniger, Westw.,
Thesaur. Entomol., p. 42, pi. xii., fig. 4.
" Small, narrow ; head with a raised tubercle between the eyes ;
prothorax sub-oval, and having in the centre a large, oval impres-
sion : elytra elongated, sub-parallel ; antennae rufo-piceous. The
head is rather short, the clypeus broad with the fore margin slightly
emarginate in the middle ; the prothorax is broader than the head,
the sides rounded, the greatest width being about the middle of
its length, the anterior angles are not prominent, but the posterior
ones are acute ; the elytra are very narrow ; the head is punctured
rather strongly and closely, as is the front of the promotum, with
the punctures circular, but behind the middle the punctures are
more linear, and so arranged as to form two oval circles. The
elytra are punctured, the punctures emitting luteous setae, those
on the basal half of the elytra being sometimes more or less con-
fluent, forming two or three ill-defined abbreviated striae in addition
to the two decided striae on each side of the suture. The anterior
tibise are broad and bi-dentate, the tarsi flattened, with the joints
dilated ; the abdomen is convex beneath ; the under side is black
and glossy, punctured and setigerous, as are the top and under sides
of the prothorax."

Length 7i mm.

Hab. South Africa.

This species is allied to C. setosus, and the shape of the ligular
part is identical.

Plagiochilus tomicoides, Har.,
Monatsb. Berl. Akad. Wissensch., 1878, p. 214, fig. 4.

P. leoninus, Per., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vi., 1892, p. 39.

Black, covered on the upper and under sides with a very long,
sub-lanuginose, erect, flavescent pubescence; antennal club testa-
ceous ; ligular part flat outwardly, sinuate in front ; clypeus sinuate
in front but with the margin not reflexed, and foveate like the head,
the pubescence is eiect and very dense; prothorax covered with
confluent, oval, cicatricose punctures with a double ring, every one
of which is setigerous ; discoidal part without impression ; scutellum
with similar but more elongated punctures ; elytra elongated, very
deeply sinuated laterally, sub-obliquely impressed below the humeral
callus, but not costate, on each side of the suture which is raised
in the hind part only are two geminate striae, the remainder of the
surface is covered by sub-reticulate, elongated setigerous punctures ;
pygidium strongly strigillate longitudinally, convex, with the convex

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part densely setigerous ; legs impunctate, anterior tibiae sharply
uni-dentate at the tip in the 3 , bluntly so in the $ ; tarsal joints
somewhat compressed, of equal width at both ends, and set close to
each other.

Length 8-10 mm. ; width 2£-3 mm.

Hob. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury ; Ovampoland).

PROXENUS, n. gen.

Men! urn and ligula quadrate, the former produced behind into
a wide, slightly sloping, or nearly horizontal lamina scooped at apex,
crescent-like, from one end to the other, upper lobe of maxillae with
a long, very sharp tooth, the inner lobe with two superposed sharp
teeth, last joint of maxillary palps a little longer than usual ; frontal
part very convex, clypeus almost vertical ; eyes not large or bulging
much ; head strongly carinate on each side, and having in the centre
two strong longitudinal keels united near the vertex by another
transverse keel, and reaching the base of the clypeus the anterior
part of which is sinuate; antennae of Canochilus ; prothorax con-
stricted along the anterior margin which is carinate and sharply
angular in the lower part, quadrate, with the base narrowed, not
broader than the anterior margin and straight ; scutellum of the
normal shape ; elytra broader than the prothorax, strongly sinuate
laterally, depressed, distinctly striate with the intervals plane ;
spiracle of the last abdominal joint sharply tuberculiform ; pygidium
vertical, and horizontally produced underneath towards the last
ventral segment ; mesosternum with a narrow triangular process
reaching only the centre of the coxae ; prosternum with the vertical
ante-coxal process of the Ccenochilides ; legs massive, anterior tibffl
strongly dilated at apex, bluntly bi-dentate outwardly; joints of
all the tarsi strongly compressed laterally, impressed at the base on
either side, nodose on the upper part, of nearly equal width at either
end, set very close to each other, and glabrous but for one very
short apical seta; claws very short, hardly hooked.

Pi;o.\i:mn s<v»r vmiokh, n. sp.
Plate XLVIL, fig. 19.

Black, opaque, clypeus slightly strigillate on the sides of the
anterior part ; head roughly plicate in between the four keels but
reticulate punctate in the posterior part ; antennae black ; prothorax
roughly plicate reticulate longitudinally, the carinate sides are

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bluntly bi- or tri-incised, in tbe centre of the disk is a very broad
groove obliterated in front and behind, and a conspicuously broad,
sub-transverse impression on each side of the base, each elongate
reticulate puncture bears a very large, oblong ovate, dully
flavescent, sub-appressed scale, partly rubbed off, however, in the
only example I have seen ; scutellum strigillate reticulate at the
base, but obsoletely so at apex ; elytra very deeply sinuate laterally,
one-third broader than the prothorax, depressed, and having on each
side ten very plain, simple, impunctate striae the intervals of which
are plane, like the suture, and bear each a series of thick appressed
oblong ovate dull yellowish scales, slightly removed from each
other ; propygidium finely plicate transversely ; vertical part of
pygidium covered with scales similar to those of the elytra, and
issuing each from a broad, shallow puncture ; under side glabrous
except for a few scales on the pectus, the ante-coxal process of the
presternum being only slightly pubescent.

Length 14-i- mm. ; width 6i mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Hartley).

This species is remarkable for its shape and vestiture.

ASTOXENUS, n. gen.
Plate XLVIL, fig. 9.
Mentum plane but thickening on the outer face from about tbe
middle to the ligular part which is truncate at apex, widely
ampliate and deeply hollowed out, being half as wide across as the
whole length, deeply excavate, with the front edge notched in
the centre, the palps cavity is small, lateral ; upper maxillary lobe
armed with a single very long, very slender, and sharp tooth,
inner lobe provided with a less slender but also non-bifid tooth ;
clypeus convex in the centre, moderately carinate laterally and also
in the median part, anterior margin sub-diagonal laterally, nearly
straight but slightly sinuate in the centre ; antennas of Cremastochi-
licles ; eyes large but not bulging much ; prothorax narrowly con-
stricted along the anterior margin which is sharply carinate, sides
bluntly triangular, but the anterior part is a little more rounded than
the posterior which is oblique, the base being a little narrower than
the apex with the angles blunt but distinct ; scutellum sharply
triangular and as wide as the whole base owing to the very sloping
episterna and humeral part of the elytra which are sub-parallel from
the humeral part, deeply sinuate laterally, plane, slightly narrower
at apex than at base and bi-striate on each side of the suture ;
spiracle of the last abdominal segment strongly developed ; pygidium

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very convex in the centre (J), abdomen concave; legs robust,
anterior tibias bluntly bi-dentate, joints of all the tarsi compressed,
very short and broad, being, with the exception of the apical ones,
slightly broader than long, very closely set, and probably no longer
free ; claws very short, barely hooked.

Allied to Proxenus, but differing in many characters.

ASTOXENUS AMICUS, 11. Sp.

Dull black ; head and clypeus with small, shallow, irregular
punctures on the sides of the clypeus, and sub-cicatricose ones on
the centre and on the vertex, each puncture bearing a most minute
sub-flavescent hair ; prothorax ampliate rounded laterally from the
anterior part to about the middle, which is sub-angular, narrowed
obliquely thence to the base which is narrow but with the angles
quite distinct, it is marginate all round, the anterior margin being
highly carinate, there is no discoidal or basal impressions, and the
surface is covered with contiguous, ovate, somewhat deep punctures
separated by slender raised walls ; scutellum covered with horse-
shoe-like punctures; elytra depressed, with the suture slightly
raised and having on each side of it a single stria, and at a short
distance from it two more which are not, however, geminate, the
rest of the dorsal surface is sub-scabrose punctate, and punctate
only on the sides, each puncture bearing a minute, sub-squamiform
hair; propygidium transversely plicate, reticulate and sparingly
pubescent ; pygidium granulose and with similarly minute, sparse
hairs; abdomen covered with horseshoe-like punctures, which are
completely closed and form a conspicuous reticulation on the
pectus, each puncture bearing also a minute hair ; there is no
mesosternal process, and the vertical prosternal ante-coxal one is
pubescent.

Length 14 mm. ; width 0 nun.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Melsetter).

Gen. PILINURGUS, Burm.
Handb. d. Entom., hi., 1842, p. 658.
Mentwm with the outer face of ligula greatly thickened, the upper
part wider than half the length of the whole mentum, somewhat
slanting, deeply depressed in the centre, outer margin of the
enlarged part incised in the centre, inner margin sinuate with the
angles rounded, the depression is strigose and hairy like the whole
outer face, and obturates completely the mouth ; upper maxillary

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lobe with two parallel, strong, not hamate teeth, inner lobe with
one tooth only set almost between the two upper teeth ; clypeus
plane, marginate in front, the margin strongly reflexed, head simple;
eyes large ; antennae of the normal shape ; prothorax hexagonal
with the basal angles distinct ; scutellum broad at the base but only
moderately long ; elytra plane, much broader than the prothorax,
deeply sinuate laterally, and with the humeral part very much raised,
the suture is depressed for the greater part of the length, and there
is on each side a high costa which is continued from the humeral
part to the apex ; pygidium vertical ; the spiracle of the last abdominal
segment sharply tuberculate ; anterior tibiae strongly bi-dentate ;
tarsal joints, even the last, short, strongly nodose ; claws very weak;
prosternum with a vertical, ante-coxal process.
This genus includes only one species.

PlLINUKGUS SUBUNDATUS, Westw.,

Thesaur. Entomol., p. 32, pi. ix., fig. 1.

Black, moderately glossy, and covered with a muddy, somewhat
squamose coating ; head and clypeus deeply scrobiculate punctate
and sparingly hairy, anterior part of the clypeus strongly marginate
with the median part quite transverse and strongly reflexed ; pro-
thorax as ampliated laterally from the anterior part to the centre
which is somewhat sharp, as from the base to the centre, the
base itself is slightly sloping on each side of the median part,
the angles are very plain, it is moderately grooved longitudinally
in the posterior part of the disk, covered with round, rugose, con-
tiguous punctures, briefly setigerous ; scutellum indistinctly strigose
punctate ; elytra one-third broader at the base than the prothorax,
and having on each side a high costa reaching from near the base
and coalescing a little below it with the humeral ridge, to the
apex, and situated nearer to the deflexed side than to the not
raised suture, the discoidal part below the scutellum is strongly
impressed, and the surface is covered with oblong, strongly cica-
tricose, non-contiguous punctures ; propygidium and pygidium
aciculate, the latter sub-lanuginose ; under side roughly cicatiicose
punctate.

I know nothing of the habits of this species which is met also near
Lake Tanganyka.

Length 7-9^ mm. ; width 3i-5 mm.

Hah. Natal (Weenen, Tongaats Eiver); Transvaal (Lydenburg) ;
Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

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Gen. LISSOGENIUS, Schaum.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1844, p. 420.

Chtonobius, Burm., Handb. d. EntomoL, v., 1847, p. 567.

Mentum not obturating completely the buccal aperture, incised
laterally at the base and with the inner face projecting strongly at
the insertion of the palps which is very low, ampliate thence, but
with the palps cavity very long, slightly arcuate and not emarginate
in front, impressed longitudinally on the outer face ; maxillae robust,
upper lobe armed with a long and robust, strongly falcate tooth
densely villose outwardly, inner lobe with a strong tooth nearly
bent at right angles, and also villose outwardly ; last joint of labial
palpi very long, slightly curved outwardly, straight inwardly, pro-
jecting wTell beyond the mentum and slightly longer and stouter than
the maxillary one ; head with a sharp, transverse keel broadly inter-
rupted in the centre between the eyes ; clypeus deflexed, parallel for
half the length, strongly angular there, triangularly narrowed thence
to the anterior part which is strongly incised and transversely
carinate on each side on the upper part at a short distance from the
apex; eyes narrow on the upper side, large underneath ; prothorax
one-third broader than long, broadly ampliate in the median part
which is very obtusely angular, and much narrowed in the posterior
part the basal angles of which are very sharp ; scutellum long,
sharp ; elytra hardly broader at the base than the prothorax at its
widest part, well sinuated laterally, parallel thence to the apex,
bi-costate on each side ; propj'gidium with the last spiracle sharp ;
pygidium sub-vertical, simple; mesosternum, simple; presternum
with a long, vertical process ; joints of anterior tarsi very short and
strongly nodose, the apical one strongly constricted at half length,
the two basal ones acuminate underneath, those of the posterior
ones not longer, also thick, but not nodose ; claws very small and
weak ; anterior tibia) with the apex moderately sharp and having
two blunt teeth outwardly set close to each other, and a smaller one
above these.

This genus includes two species, one of which is recorded from
Guinea.

Lissogenius conspersus, Burm.,
Handb. d. EntomoL, v., p. 567.

liiteorarius, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 55.

Black, sub-opaque with the upper side, especially the elytra,
maculated with small terrenous patches ; head and clypeus roughly
foveolate, prothorax with abroad but somewhat indistinct impression

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on each side of the disk, and a broader sub-quadrate one in the
centre, and covered with round, cicatricose foveolate punctures ;
scutellum punctulate in the same manner ; elytra with two distinct
dorsal costae on each side, the inner one less conspicuous than the
other, the two broad spaces between the suture and the outer costa
are filled with greatly elongated, non-contiguous cicatricose punc-
tures, the walls of which form an irregular duplicate strigillation, the
deflexed part is roughly punctate ; pygidium transversely swollen in
the centre in the male, simple in the female, roughly punctate ;
under side and legs roughly punctate ; joints of anterior tarsi more
nodose than in any other of the congeneric forms.

Length 10-11 mm. ; width 4| mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

This species has been met by Guienzius in a formicarium, in
Natal.

Gen. GENUCHUS, Kirby,
Trans. Linn. Soc, xiv., 1825, p. 569.

Mentum parallel, straight in front with the outer angles moderately
rounded, strongly swollen on the outer face of what should be the
ligular part, with the lower portion of the inflated part projecting
behind as a broadly conical vertical process overhanging the base
of the mentum ; upper lobe of maxillae with a long, sharp tooth very
slightly bent at the tip, inner lobe thickly pubescent and armed with
a short, straight tooth bluntly acuminate inwardly ; last joint of
labial and maxillary palps cylindrical ; first antennal joint greatly
dilated and compressed ; head strongly deflexed, highly carinate at its
junction with the clypeus and with the median part of the keel
triangular, frontal part impressed and with a blunt occipital keel,
clypeus quite vertical and with the anterior part porrect and
emarginate ; prothorax ampliate rounded laterally or not, not
marginate and with the posterior angles broadly rounded; scutellum
long, very sharply acuminate ; elytra with the sides parallel, broader
or as broad as the prothorax, bi-costate on each side in the South
African species ; pygidium large, transversely convex in the middle ;
under side roughly punctate ; presternum with a very short ante-
coxal sub-conical tubercle penicillate at tip, and a post-coxal small
or large vertical tubercle ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly, the
upper tooth far removed from the other two ; joints of anterior tarsi
sub-nodose, the others increasing in width at apex, claws moderately
long and curved ; anterior and posterior tibiae bi-dentate on the
upper side.

The form of the mentum and also that of the clypeus is certainly

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one of the most singular, among the singular species of this group of
Cetonides.

They are found in the flowers of Protect mellifera, or other kindred
species, where they seemingly feed on the sugary liquid contained
in the cup-like inflorescences.

Two species are recorded with certainty from South Africa. A
third one is supposed to be also South African, but there seems to
be good reasons to believe that it inhabits Senegambia.

Key to the Species.

Mentum vertical ; protkorax ampliata rounded ; post-coxal process

of presternum small hottentotus.

Mentum vertical but curving inwards at apex ; protkorax straigkt
laterally ; post-coxal process conspicuously tuberculated, truncate
at tip nigriclaois.

Genuchus hottentotus, Fabric,

Syst. Ent., p. 52 ;

Gory and Perch., Monogr. d. Get., p. 14, pi. 16, tig. 8 ;

Oliv., Ent., i., 6, p. 56, pi. vii., fig. 35.

cruentus, Fabr., Mant. Ins., i., p. 32.
sanguinolentus, McLeay, 111. Zool. S. Afr., hi., p. 18.
dcalbatus, Dist., Ann. Nat. Hist., xix., 1897, p. 578.

Black, glabrous, shiny, with the base of the prothorax and the
greatest part of the disk of the elytra reddish (cruentus, sanguinolen-
tus) or Mack with only a longitudinal streak of red on the dorsal part
of the elytra (hottentotus), or the basal part of the prothorax reddish
and the elytra black (dcalbatus) ; at the apex of each elytron are two
small white, patches, the outer one of which is sometimes continued
on the sides for a short distance; head deeply impressed in the
centre and striolate, the basal keel is slightly bi-tuberculate in the
male, not in the female ; prothorax with the sides of the anterior
part striolate punctate, on the median and posterior part of the disk
the punctures are sparsely scattered, and there are a few only above
the base ; scutellum punctate at the base ; elytra slightly broader
than the prothorax and having on each side two deep striae next to
the suture, and two dorsal costae with two broad, deep intervals.
these intervals and the rest of the surface are deeply and broadly
punctate, but the costa1 bear only a few punctures ; pygidium
swollen, roundly keeled transversely, deeply punctate and hearing
occasionally two small macules ; under side punctate, central part

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of the basal margin of the presternum more or less distinctly
tubercuiated.

This species is subject to considerable variation in the colour of
the prothorax and elytra. In the neighbourhood of Cape Town, the
red and black ones are found together, and I have captured them
in coitil. G. dealbatus, Dist., is the northern representative of
G. hottentotus, and is found in the Northern Transvaal, but I cannot
consider it even as a variety. The shape of the genital clasps of
the male is absolutely the same in all three so-called species.

Length 9^—13 mm. ; width 4-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (wherever Protcea mellifera and other allies
are found) ; Transvaal (Pretoria, Zoutpansberg).

Gfnuchus nigriclavis, Bohem.,
Ins. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 51.

Black, shiny, antennas black, but occasionally flavescent ; elytra
with a small median white patch on the second dorsal costas, and a
white lunule under the apical callus ; head with the anterior keel
very sharp and strongly dentate in the centre, posterior keel bi-
tuberculate ; the frontal impression is reticulate plicate, the posterior
part reticulate only ; prothorax nearly straight laterally, being
attenuated towards the apical part only but the posterior part is
broadly rounded, broadly impressed longitudinally in the centre,
and also, but less deeply, on each side of the disk the anterior part
and the sides of which are striolate reticulate, while the central and
posterior parts are covered with fossulate punctures somewhat
remote in the longitudinal impression ; scutellum striolate ; elytra
not broader than the prothorax, bi-costate on each side, striolate
punctate near the suture and with the two costas separated by a
geminate punctate stria, the whole surface is regularly and deeply
punctate ; pygidium foveolate punctate ; under side glabrous, deeply
punctate, the punctures almost cicatricose on the pectus; presternum
with a long, vertical, tubercle-like process truncate at apex.

I have seen an example from Ovampoland which differs from the
type form in having the antennal club flavescent, an elongated white
patch on each of the two elytral costas, a much broader lunule at
apex ; and a small spot in the median part of the outer margin ;
the pygidium has a broad white patch on each side, and each
abdominal segment a minute one. This variety may be known as
G. nigriclavis, var. ovampoensis. I have, however, seen one example
only, and the white markings of the Cremastochilides are very
variable.

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Length 10-12 mm. ; width 4-4f mm.

Unit. Natal (Zululand) ; Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury) ; Ovam-
poland.

Gen. TRICHOPLUS, Burm.,

Handb. d. Entom., hi., 1842, p. 660.

Mentum plane, small, roundly dilated laterally, the ligular part
much narrowed at the palps cavities, last joints of labial palps short,
somewhat swollen, maxillary with the upper lobe long, not falciform,
somewhat bifid, lower lobe with a smaller tooth slightly bi- or trifid;
clypeus very convex at the base, head with a basal tubercle or ridge,
highly carinate longitudinally above the eyes which are very small
and depressed ; basal antennal joint large, club large, obovate ;
prothorax variable in shape, either as broad at base as at apex, or
cordate and strongly constricted at base ; scutellum long, sharply
acuminate ; elytra sub-parallel, either not sinuate laterally or with
a distinct sinus ; propygidium wide, slanting ; pygidium very wide,
vertical, or sloping forwards; mesosternum with a rounded carinate
process between the coxae, presternum with a long, vertical process
broadly compressed and truncate at the tip ; legs quite glabrous ;
tarsi tri-jointed, the joints fused, the claws very small ; anterior
tibiae dentate at apex only ; intermediate and posterior compressed,
and without spine on the upper side.

Two of the seven species included in this genus are known now to
be myrmecobious, and they most probably have all the same habits.
Unlike some of the myrmecobious species of this Tribe they have
not been met with as yet outside the South African area. They
have a very peculiar, not very homogeneous facies.

Key to llif Sjtrcics.

A1. Elytra with a single dorsal costa on each side and Btrigillate.

B3. Prothorax plane, not narrowed or constricted behind.

Elytra with the strides obliterated on the sides of the
suture lavis.

B2. Prothorax cordate, strongly constricted behind.

Discoidal part deeply excavated, sides nut incised.

Elytra plainly striate diagonally en each side of the dorsal
costa.

Prothoracic cavity roundly plicate ; pygidium with a trans-

se horizontal lamina emarginate in the centre schaumi.

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Prothoracic cavity plicate in the anterior part only ; pro-
pygidium carinate longitudinally in the centre ; pygidium
with a hasal, narrow, transverse lamina upcctabihs.

Prothoracic cavity moderately deep, foveolate punctate;
propygidium not carinate; hase of pygidium with the
upper margin transversely grooved, head not impressed . . conlicolhs.

A". Elytra without any dorsal costa, head impressed, strigillate . . vicinns.

Br. Prothorax obliquely incised laterally; each elytron with six

strice ; pygidium laminate at the base incisus.

A'. Elytra with a dorsal costa, and not strigillate.

Prothorax with a large cavity extending from apex to base,
margins highly reflexed, deeply notched laterally, upper part
impunctate ; pygidium broadly laminate at the base, and with
a spine-like median process in the centre paradoxus.

Trichoplus ljevis, Gory and Perch.,
Monogr. d. Get., p. 115, pi. xvi., fig. 2 ;
Burmeist., Gen. Ins., 1848, No. 36 ; figs. 1-8 ;
Westw., Thesaur. Entom., p. 33, pi. ix., fig. 10.
Black, very shiny ; antenuse piceous red ; clypeus convex in the
centre, slightly impressed laterally, nearly parallel with the anterior
angles rounded, deeply emarginate in front, obsoletely punctate, like
the head which bears on the vertex a not very sharp, triangular
tubercle ; prothorax sub-quadrate, strongly declivous laterally in
front, quite depressed in the posterior part of the disk, slightly so on
each side of the base which is straight, of nearly equal width as the
apex with the angles rounded, it is covered with remote, slight,
found punctures bearing each a most minute hair; scutellum smooth
and having on each side a series of four or five punctures ; elytra as
broad as the prothorax, sinuate laterally, not attenuate behind, plane,
having on each side a distinct, sharply tectiform dorsal costa, the
space between the costa and the very little raised suture has a few
very evanescent diagonal striae, whereas the area bordering on the
other side of the dorsal costa is conspicuously striate diagonally from
there to the deflexed lateral part which is deeply punctate, as is also
the apical marginal part ; under side and legs impunctate, the robust
femora and the tibiae are strongly compressed ; ante-coxal process of
the presternum dilated triangularly at apex and truncate; pro-
pygidium carinate longitudinally in the centre ; pygidium as broad
as long, vertical but slightly convex in the centre, carinate, and very
briefly pilose.

Length 13 mm. ; width 7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

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Tbichoplus schaumi, Westw.,

Thesaur. Entom., 33, pi. ix., fig. 10.

Black, sub-opaque, clypeus deeply depressed on the anterior part
on each side, and also deeply emarginate in front, strigillate longi-
tudinally, frontal part foveolate punctate, vertex with a very
distinct, slightly rounded transverse keel ; prothorax broadly
ampliate rounded from tbe anterior part to about the median
and produced thence to the base in the shape of a truncate cone,
the base being only one-third of the greatest width, the anterior part
of the disk is greatly raised, almost vertical and in the centre is a
very deep almost orbicular excavation the sharply emarginate walls
of which coalesce slightly past the median part with the sharply
carinate outer margins, the sides of the excavation are strigillate, the
anterior part of the excavation is also strigillate but the median and
posterior are deeply foveate punctate, each puncture bearing a short
greyish bristle; scutellum covered with broad, reticulate punctures ;
elytra with the epimera very sloping, and about as wide at the
base as the prothorax at its widest part, sub-parallel but a little
ampliated laterally behind, the suture is moderately raised and there
is on each side a sharp dorsal costa, set nearer to the raised suture
than to the deflexed lateral part, the whole surface is covered with
sub-longitudinal strioles which are, however, more diagonal on the
sides of the suture, and in the striae are seriate but somewhat remote,,
very short, sub-rlavescent hairs; propygidium foveate punctate,
slightly carinate longitudinally in the centre, and having a fringe of
glandular hairs ; pygidium vertical but with the upper margin pro-
duced into an horizontal lamina emarginate in the centre, and
greatly overhanging the vertical part the base of which is covered
with yellowish glandular hairs springing from elongated, strigillate
punctures; the sides of the abdominal segments are similarly but
more roughly punctured and the two last segments bear laterally the
same kinds of flavous hairs, the legs are aciculate, greatly com-
pressed, the pectus is punctulate, and the ante-coxal process is
i riangularly truncate.

Length !) mm. : width 3$ mm.

Cape Colony (Stellenbosch) in the formicarium of Plagiolcjiis
custodiens, Sm.

Tbichoplus spectabilis, Pering.,
Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr., 1900, p. 70.

Black, moderately shiny, hairless, antennas piceous red ; clypeus
of the Bame shape as T. schaumi, hut carinated in the centre on
each side of the anterior depression, and having on the vertex a

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very plain bluntly triangular tubercle ; the sides of the clypeus are
striolate, and the head closely punctate ; the prothorax is excavated
in the same manner, but only the anterior part of the excavation is
striolate, the rest of the surface is foveate punctate, but the centre
of the lowest part of the excavation is smooth longitudinally ;
scutellum very sharply carinate in the centre and strigillate ; elytra
slightly broader at the base than the prothorax at its widest part, on
each side is a sharp dorsal carina the area intervening between that
costa and the slightly raised suture is sub-diagonally striate, the
wider one between the costa and the deflexed sides is deeply striate
quite longitudinally and the interspaces have each a series of very
remote, shallow punctures ; propygidium with a distinct longitudinal
median carina reaching short of the apex, and with the spiracle
conspicuously knobby ( $ ) ; the upper margin of the pygidium is
glabrous, broadly grooved in the median part, the outer edge is
reflexed and slightly sloping, and the surface appears to be depressed
on that account ; the sides of the abdomen are broadly reticulate
plicate, the pectus is striolate ; the ante-coxal process is transversely
dilated at apex and truncate ; the femora are sparsely punctate and
the tibiae greatly dilated in the middle and compressed.

Length 11^ mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Natal ; no exact locality.

Tkichoplus cordicollis, Waterh.,
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, (5), viii., 1881, p. 319.
Black, with the antennae and palpi piceous red ; shape of
T. schaumi, but with the elytra more parallel, the clypeus is very
sharply bi-carinate in the centre in the anterior part, but the
sculpture is the same, the anterior part of the head is not impressed,
and there is a distinct tubercle at the base ; the prothorax is
excavate in the centre but not so deeply and in a more quadrate
form, and the anterior part is very deeply impressed vertically on
each side, the dilated part is more angular near the lateral con-
striction, the excavation and also the sides are filled with foveate
punctures bearing each a short, fulvescent hair; scutellum striolate;
elytra with one dorsal carina, striolate in the same manner as the
two species alluded to, and with series of moderately remote, short,
fulvescent hairs ; propygidium simple, spiracle moderately sharp ;
pygidium vertical with the upper margin narrowly grooved, but
simple ; abdominal segments strongly striate reticulate ; pectus
striolate ; ante-coxal process broadly dilated at apex, truncate and
excavate there.

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Length 10 mm. ; width 4 mm,

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Lydenburg) ; Natal (Zululand, teste
Waterhouse).

Tbichoplus vicinus, Periog.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1900, p. 70.

This species may easily be taken for T. cordicollis, and I am not
sure that it is not merely a varietal form of the same. The differences
consist in the anterior part of the head being distinctly impressed and
bordered by a transverse arcuate keel ; the anterior wall of the more
orbicular impression of the prothorax is much more raised and more
arcuate in front, the punctures are more distinctly foveate, but in
both there is a faint longitudinal central impressed line ; the shape
and sculpture of the elytra are identical ; the upper margin of the
pygidium, however, is more broadly grooved transversely, the outer
edge projects very slightly, and the pygidium itself is strongly
slanting forward.

Length 9^-10 mm. ; width 3|-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley, found with ants : Namaqualand >
Great Namaqualand; Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury).

Teichopll's incisus, Paring.,
Plate XLVIL, tig. 12.
Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc, iv., 1892, p. 104.
Black, moderately shiny ; antenna! club sub-rlavescent ; anterior
part of clypeus deeply impressed, almost excavate and strii^ilhite
there, aciculate on the basal part and on the head which bears on
the vertex a blunt small tubercle-like prominence and is foveolate
along the base ; prothorax with a very deep sloping excavation edged
by a transverse rounded wall in front and a lateral one uniting at
about two-thirds of the length with the rounded lateral margin, and
so deeply incised diagonally as to form there a long, triangular
process, the posterior part of outer margin, which is bluntly tuber-
oulate next to the incision, is straight, and the basal angles are sharp,
the sides of the prothorax limited by the two rounded margins of the
excavation and of the lateral border are longitudinally excavated ami
roughly striate, the excavation is impunctate, and towards the basal
part there is a faint, median impressed line; scutellum strigillate
punctate; elytra with the humeral part sloping, sub-parallel, having
on each side six deep dorsal striae which do not reach the apex
and the three outer alone reach the base, the defiexed part
is striolate punctate; propygidium simple; pygidium very slanting

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forward, grooved along the margin, the outer edge reflexed ;
abdominal segments roughly plicate longitudinally ; ante-coxal pro-
sternal process as in the four preceding species.

Length 7-8 mm. ; with 2J-2J mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Klerksdorp, Pretoria, Potchefstroom) ; Southern
Rhodesia (between Limpopo and Zambesi).

Trichoplus paradoxus, n. sp.
Plate XLV., fig. 55.

Piceous, very glossy; clypeus impressed on each side but without
any central longitudinal groove, vertex of the head plainly tuber-
culate, surface most finely punctulate, the punctures remote and
each bearing a most minute hair ; prothorax deeply excavate in the
centre, the excavation edged in front by a round, semicircular wall,
roundly carinate laterally, the carina incised at about the median
part and continued thence as a highly marginate ridge overhanging
the base, but emarginate in the centre, the excavation runs thus
from the anterior to the extreme posterior part, the lateral margin is
deeply incised at about the median part where it unites with the
incised part of the lateral wall of the excavation, and the basal
angles project to a considerable distance, the excavation and also
the sides are impunctate, and the lateral part between the outer
margin and the lateral wall of the excavation is slightly excavate,
but the edges of the incised part of both the dorsal excavation and
also of the lateral margin are fringed with a few thick, fulvous hairs ;
epimera very transverse ; elytra somewhat deeply sinuate laterally,
slightly ampliate past the middle and having the suture very highly
carinate, and on each side an equally sharp dorsal costa with a
somewhat depressed space on each side of it, on the surface are
scattered small, obsolete punctures bearing each a most minute hair:
propygidium simple sparsely punctulate, the punctures briefly seti-
gerous ; pygidium with the upper side strongly sloping backwards in
a very broad lamina, attenuate rounded laterally, and with the
median part produced into a long, triangular spine-like process
slightly blunted at tip, the part of the pygidium overhung by the
basal lamina is directed forward almost sub-horizontally, and is
slightly convex in the centre ; under side almost impunctate ; ante-
coxal process of the pronotum of equal thickness ; femora and tibia;
more slender and longer than in the other species of the genus.

Length 12 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria).

I have seen one example only of this most singular species.

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Gen. NYASSINIUS, Westw.,
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 199.

Mentum long, and somewhat narrow, parallel, swollen at the base
on the outer face and strongly sloping thence to the truncate anterior
part, palps cavity median, apical joint of palps fusiform outwardly,
slightly curved inwardly, upper lobe of maxillae almost porrect,
broadly hollowed inwardly, inner lobe with a small but also broad,
slightly curved tooth ; clypeus produced into a bluntly triangular,
laminate, highly reflexed process (<?), or reflexed only ( ? ), head
simple, eyes very large ; prothorax as long as broad, plainly hexa-
gonal, sharply incised laterally within the base, the sharply angular
incised part projecting slightly beyond the straight base ; scutellum
broadly and sharply triangular ; elytra very broad at the base,
conspicuously emarginate laterally at about one-fifth of the length
and parallel thence, very highly uni-costate in the dorsal part ;
spiracle of the propygidium very sharp ; pygidium vertical, very
highly carinate longitudinally in the centre from base to apex,
truncate at apex with an elongated tubercle on each side of the
truncate part (g), or distinctly carinate longitudinally ( 5 ) ; meso-
sternum with a triangular horizontal process projecting beyond the
coxae ; prosternum simple ; legs somewhat short, robust, anterior
tibiae dentate at apex only, very slightly sinuate above the apical
tooth in the ? , intermediate and hind ones without spines on the
upper side ; upper spur of intermediate tibiae hooked ; joints of
anterior tarsi somewhat short and massive. Sexes similar.

Westwood describes two species, both from the neighbourhood of
Lake Nyassa. Having received a long series of the two, I have
been able to ascertain that they are the two sexes of one kind.

Nyassinius lugubris, Westw.,
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 200, pi. 3, fig. 2, 1 .

N. maculipes, Westw., loc. cit., p. 199, pi. 3, fig. 1, ? .

Eufous brown, sub-opaque, with the elytra partly covered with
a luteous tomentum (<y), and having in the 2 a flavescent median
spot in the centre of each elytron ; clypeus glabrous, head variolosa
punctate, the punctures very briefly squamigerous ; the hexagonal
prothorax is covered with wavy folds without any punctures, and on
the sides are a few very short, squamulose luteous hairs, there is a
deep median longitudinal impression reaching from the apex to the
base, and a posterior one on each side ; the scutellum is strigillate ;
the elytra have one dorsal costa very highly raised and sharp,

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beginning at the same distance from the base as the apex of the
scutellum and reaching the apical part, ending there in a conical
tubercle, on the outside of which is another tubercle, there is also
a conspicuous depression at the base on the inner side of the humeral
callus, the dorsal part and the base are covered with cicatricose
ovate punctures which are rounder on the sides and partly hidden
by the luteous coating ; pygidium with squamigerous, ovate, cica-
tricose punctures ; truncate at apex, plainly carinate in the centre,
and having in the male a moderately distinct elongated tubercle on
each side of the truncate apical part ; in the female this tubercle
is elongated, keel-like, triangularly tuberculated at apex, and the
surface is more densely squamose ; abdomen squamose ; legs deeply
cicatricose punctate, each puncture bearing a squamose hair.

Length 10-11 mm ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe, Enkeldoorn).

Mr. G. A. K. Marshall informs me that, like Trogodcs rotuncUcollis ,
this species feeds on low plants which have been attacked by
Coccidce or Aphides.

Gen. MYEMECOCHILUS, Wasm.,
Illustr. Zeitschr. f. Entom., v., 1900, p. 83.

Mentum strongly gibbose, apical part of the ligula scooped into a
very broad, deep, slightly slanting depression, last joint of labial
palpi reaching the inner edge of the excavation ; outer maxillary lobe
thick, dentate as is also the apex of the inner lobe ; head carinate
longitudinally in the centre ; clypeus long, parallel, very deeply and
triangularly incised in the centre in front and with the outer angles
acuminate ; eyes very large ; prothorax sub-angularly ampliate
rounded laterally before the median part, nearly straight thence, the
base quite straight and the basal angles sharp ; scutellum sharply
triangular, as broad at the base as long ; elytra only slightly broader
at the base than the prothorax at its widest part, nearly parallel,
highly uni-costate in the dorsal part, the costa projecting above the
vertically declivous part ; propygidium with the spiracles sharply
acuminate ; pygidium carinate longitudinally in the middle, at the
base, and with the central part produced into a rounded horizontal
tubercle projecting considerably beyond the apical margin ; meso-
sternal process not projecting beyond the coxae ; anterior tibiae
dentate at apex only, posterior and intermediate ones without any
spine on the upper part ; tarsi short, almost transverse, compressed
laterally.

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This genus is very closely allied to Rhagopteryx, Burm., which
was thought at one time to inhabit Java, but is a native of the West
Coast of Africa (Cameroon s).

Mtbmecochilus marchalli, Wasm.,

Plate XLYIL, fig. 11, 11a.

Illustr. Zeitschr. f. Entom., p. 84, v., figs. 4, 4a.

Black, opaque, with the whole head, a very broad marginal band
on the prothorax, the whole of the deflexed part of the elytra as well
as the posterior declivity, the sides of the pygidium and of the
abdominal segments, and the pectus clothed with silvery-white
contiguous appressed scales ; clypeus and head covered with con-
tiguous round punctures ; prothorax plainly shagi'eened, slightly
impressed longitudinally in the centre of the posterior part ;
scutellum longitudinally strigillate ; elytra with the suture raised,
the space between the latter and the punctate, rounded dorsal costa,
which projects considerably beyond the apical part, has three
geminate fine striae with the intervals finely strigillate trans-
versely ; pygidium closely punctulate, the knobby part smooth ;
abdomen and pectus closely cicatricose punctate, legs quite smooth,
glabrous.

Length 13 mm. ; width 5 mm.

This species has been found by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall entering
the formicarium of Plagiolepis custodiens, Sm.

Hab. Southern Bhodesia (Salisbury, Mtokos, Bulawayo,
Sebakwe).

Gen. TROGODES, Westw.,
Thesaur. Entomol., p. 30.
Mentum sub-quadrate, plane, ligular part strongly swollen on the
outer face at about the centre, and sloping thence to the anterior
part which is rounded laterally, broader than across the base and
slightly sinuate, the swollen central part of the ligula is densely
hairy, the hairs very Long; last joint of labial and maxillary palpi
elongated, slightly curved outwardly : upper and inner lobe of
maxillae armed with a robust tooth slightly curved at the tip, and
of nearly equal length, the outer part of the former is slightly villose,
the inner margin somewhat pubescent ; head simple, clypeus
slightly narrowed laterally in front, plane, slightly impressed on
each side at the apex the margin of which is strongly reflexed
in the centre ; prothorax roundly ampliated laterally in the centre,
nearly equally attenuate in front and behind, and without any trace-

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of basal angles ; scutellum only moderately long, very sharp ; elytra
a little broader at the base than at the apex, not deeply sinuate
laterally, not costate ; propygidium with the spiracle sharp, but little
developed ; pygidium simple, sub-vertical, swollen in the male ;
intermediate coxae separated by a narrow, round mesosternal keel ;
presternum with a minute porrect process with a few setae ; anterior
tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, intermediate and posterior ones with a
tooth on the upper side ; tarsal joints ampliated at the apex, claws
moderately long and curved.

Trogodes rotundicollis, Bohem.,

Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 51 ;

Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 30, pi. xi., fig. 1.

Black, not glossy, generally covered with an earthy indumentum,
every puncture on the upper and under sides emits a minute,
luteous hair ; head and clypeus with round, contiguous punctures ;
the prothorax, which would be orbicular but for a tendency to be
slightly bluntly angular in the median part, is covered with similar
but slightly larger punctures, in the centre of the disk are two small,
spot-like smooth areas, and a shallow, very short, median longi-
tudinal line above the base which is arcuately rounded ; scutellum
punctate ; elytra broader than the prothorax, sinuate laterally and
having on each side two broad longitudinal impressions, so shallow,
however, that the intervening space is not raised enough to be con-
sidered as a costule, and a supra-lateral one which is deeper in the
posterior part, the dorsal part is covered with very elongated, cicatri-
cose punctures the sharp walls of which form an irregular, interrupted
strigillation ; pygidium, under side, and legs roughly punctate.

Feeds on low plants that have been attacked by Cocci da or Apliida
(G. A. K. Marshall).

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 4-lf mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg, Potchefstroom, Lydenburg) ;
Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

ANATONOCHILUS, n. gen.
Mentum proper short, deeply excavated on each side, ligular part
broadly arcuately dilated, separated from the mentum by a trans-
verse smooth keel overhanging the two basal cavities of the mentum
proper, and triangular and setulose in the centre, strongly sloping
thence to the anterior part the margin of which is plainly reflexed in
the centre, the palpal cavities are very much reduced, angular at the

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base, the last labial joint is very long, slightly curved inwardly and
very slender but does not reach the anterior margin, the surface is
obsoletely punctulate ; upper lobe of maxillae with a very long,
slender tooth curved inwardly at right angles, the inner lobe with
a somewhat robust tooth, and inwardly densely pubescent ; head
simple, clypeus very convex at the base, roundly dilated towards the
apical part which is marginate, the margin slightly reflexed ; eyes
moderately large, the canthus angular ; basal antennal joint very
compressed ; prothorax one-third broader than long, more distinctly
ampliate rounded laterally in the anterior than in the posterior part
the basal angles of which are small but distinct, and the base itself
broadly emarginate above the scutellum ; the latter moderately
elongated ; elytra broad, strongly sinuate laterally, and having on
each side one plain and one evanescent costule ; pygidium sub-
vertical, slightly convex ; spiracle of the last abdominal segment
almost invisible ; under side glabrous, prosternal process very short ;
anterior tibiye bluntly bi-dentate outwardly ; legs robust ; tarsal
joints of intermediate and hind legs sub-cylindrical, those of the
anterior somewhat short, the four basal ones sub-triangular, claws
weak, small.

Hoplostomus platycephalus, Boh., differs too much from H. fitli-
[I i urns to be retained in the same genus. The habits of the two are
also not the same, the latter being always found in bee-hives, while
A. platycephalus is met with crawling on the ground, and also
"under dry cowdung " (G. A. K. Marshall). Other observations
lead me to think that it is a myrmecobious species.

Anatonochilus platycephalus, Boh.,

Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 49 ;

Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 22, pi. ix., tig. 8.

Black, little glossy ; head deeply punctured with the sides of the

clypeus only punctulate ; antennae black ; prothorax covered with

deep punctures, sub-confluent on the sides, more scattered in the

posterior median part of the disk where the interspaces are smooth,

whereas on the sides they are somewhat raised ; the median longi-

budinal line of the disk is well-nigh obliterated, and there are no

basal transverse impressions; scutellum deeply punctate along the

base and on each side; elytra broader than the prothorax, slightly

narrower at the base than at the apex, the space on each side of the

suture is somewhat depressed, there is a moderately raised round

COSta with a plain, somewhat broad, but shallow sulcus reaching

from below the base to a certain distance from the apex, and next

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to it a short, longitudinal elevation which can hardly be called a
costule ; the whole surface is deeply and somewhat broadly
punctate, the punctures separated from each other by a space wider
than their own diameter ; pygidium aciculate punctate ; abdomen
impunctate ; pectus and legs conspicuously plicate.

Length 18-19 mm. ; width 10 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Eustenburg, Pretoria, Lydenburg, Potchef-
stroom, Upper Limpopo), Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Bulawayo,
Umcheki Kiv.).

Gen. SCAPTOBIUS, Schaum.,
Germar's Zeitschr., hi., 1841, p. 260.

Mentum transverse, very large, obturating completely the mouth,
parallel laterally, slightly sinuate on each side of the anterior margin,
the base is sharply angular laterally and prolonged in the centre in
a triangular spine-like process, fitting against the base of the coxaa,
the insertion of the palps is in the inner side, close to the base of
the mentum, the two basal joints seemed fused together, the apical
one is swollen at the base sharply acuminate, and fits against the
sides, the maxillas are somewhat robust, the inner lobe is strougly
and sharply carinate longitudinally on the outer face, sharp and
hamate at tip, the upper lobe is armed with a very long tooth curved
at the tip, and the inner part is very little pubescent ; head convex,
or tuberculate, clypeus quadrate, with the anterior angles moderately
rounded and the anterior margin only slightly reflexed ; prothorax
ampliate rounded laterally in the anterior part, more attenuate in the
posterior, deeply incised, and with the upper angle sharp above the
base which is straight with the angles moderately rounded ; elytra
oblong-quadrate, plane, more or less plainly costate ; spiracles of the
propygidium sharply tuberculate ; pygidium vertical ; intermediate
coxaB divided by a very narrow space, prosternum without an acute
coxal process ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly ; intermediate
and posterior with a spine on the upper side ; anterior tarsi 4- or
5-jointed, the joints of all the tarsi somewhat swollen at apex.

The insects included in this genus do not seem to have been met
with beyond the South African area ; they are found crawling on the
veld after rains, or under stones with ants ; they are then covered
with mud. One of them, .S'. capensis, has been met twice to my
knowledge in the formicarium of Plagiolepis custodiens, Sm. ; and
Guienzius states that he discovered S. aciculatus in a similar place,
but in company with Paussus cucullatus. This Paussus, however,
is not usually found with Plagiolepis custodiens, but with Pheidole
punctulata, a very different species of ant.

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Key to the Species.

A'-. Anterior tarsi 4-jointed.

Elytra with two rows of distinct tubercles on each side . . . . capensis.

Elytra with two non-tuherculated costre on each side .. . . parriantts.
A*. Anterior tibiae 5-jointed.

Elytra with two rows of distinct tubercles on each side. . . . pentarthrius.

B-. Head with a distinct frontal tubercle.

Prothorax sharply angular laterally; elytra bi-costulatc,
transversely plicate; pygidium with a median sub-
tectiform longitudinal carina caffer.

B'. Head without tubercle.

Elytra with two faint costse.

Pygidium with a short apical longitudinal carina .. .. adculatus.

Pygidium with a conspicuous basal keel natalem

S< .u'TOBius CAPENSIS, Gory and Perch.,

Monogr. d. Get., p. 117, pi. 16, fig. 6 ;

Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 52, pi. x., fig. 6.

Black, moderately shiny; head very convex in the frontal part,
not tuberculated, very briefly setulose and covered with irregularly
disposed granules; prothorax ampliate laterally in the anterior part,
the ampliate part being sub-angularly rounded, and sub-diagonal
thence to some distance from the base where it is deeply incised, the
upper part of the incision is very sharp, the much narrowed basal
part is straight, and the angles slightly rounded, the surface is con-
spicuously plicate longitudinally with granules interspersed, especially
in the anterior part, the margin is briefly bristly, and there are a
few luteous, very short setae on the disk; scutellum Btrigillate; elytra
with the suture tuberculate and having two rows of tubercles on each
side, the edge of the lateral deflexed pari is indistinctly tuberculate,
the vertical part and the two dorsal intervals strigillate ; pygidium
vertical, transversely strigillate; under side roughly punctate
strigillate ; anterior tarsi 4- jointed, the joints short, nodose at tip.

Length i'l 10 nun.: width -1-1;,' mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Hanover, Somerset East, Graham's Town).
Transvaal (Kustenburg, Pretoria).

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SCAPTOBIUS PARRIANUS, Westw.,

Trans. Entom. Soc, Lond., 1879, p. 201, pi. 3, fig. 3.

" Sub-elongate and narrow, chestnut piceous, clothed with very
short luteous hairs ; head with a short, little raised keel between the
eyes ; prothorax punctate, impressed and striolate longitudinally in
the centre, the sides not serrate, and the posterior angles produced
backwards ; elytra not tuberculate, each one provided with two
distinct, punctate striae ; epimera with luteous setose hairs ; anterior
tibiae broad, strongly 3-dentate, tarsi 4-articulate.

This species differs from S. capensis as well as from S. pentarthrius
and S. caffer, in wanting the tubercles on the elytra. S. pentarthrius,
moreover, has 5-jointed tarsi, and *S'. caffer a very different shaped
prothorax. From S. aciculatus and S. nataleusis it differs in its
more elongate and narrow form with the costae of the elytra more
strongly marked, the anterior tibiae much broader and more strongly
tri-dentate, the central impression of the middle of the pronotum
more distinct, the epimera luteo setose, and the head with a slight
elongate tubercle between the eyes. The mentum is wider than
long, with the front margin nearly straight, the sides rounded, the
base terminating in a central triangular flat tooth and the middle
of the disk with a deep longitudinal impression. The disk of the
pronotum is finely punctured, the hind part marked with fine
parallel strigas. The abdomen is convex, with a transverse deep
impression at the base of the penultimate segment.

Length 11^ mm.

Hab. Transvaal."

I have not met with this species. In Westwood's figure the
apical outer tooth of the anterior tibiae is very sharp.

SCAPTOBIUS PENTARTHRIUS, Westw.,

Thesaur. Entomol., p. 52, pi. x., fig. 7.

This species might be easily mistaken for S. capensis, but the
anterior tarsi are normally 5-jointed, and I have ascertained that
this character occurs in both the sexes. It reaches a slightly greater
size than S. capensis ; the head, clypeus, and prothorax have the
same shape, but they are not granulate, and the longitudinally
strigillate surface of the prothorax is covered, as also the sub-
granulose punctate frontal part of the head with a thick tomentum
and short luteous hairs ; the sculpture of the elytra is identical in
both species, and the pygidium also simple.

Length 10-12 mm. ; width 5| mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury).

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ScAPTOBILS CAFFER, Schaiini.,

Germar's Zeitschr., iii., p. 262;
Westw., Thesaur. Entomol, p. 52, pi. 10, fig. 8.

Black, sub-opaque, usually covered with a terrenous coating;
head with a conical frontal tubercle; clypeus short, parallel, sorne-
whiit acuminate in front, truncate and angular, surface strigillate
punctate; prothorax very broadly ampliated angulate laterally in the
anterior part, being thei'e one-third broader than long, attenuate
thence, but not as diagonally as in the anterior part, to a deep
incision with very sharp angle slightly above the much-narrowed
base, the median part has a broad and shallow longitudinal sulcus
and a moderately deep impression abutting on the margin on each
side of it, the surface is variolose-strigillate, each puncture bearing
a minute luteous hair; scutellum strigillate; elytra broad, sub-
parallel, the suture is raised, and there are on each side two dorsal
fairly plain costules with shallow transverse impressions, and a
third but less distinct one, the intervals and also the shallow
impressions of the costee are filled with a slanting strigillation ;
pygidium vertical, simple ; tarsi somewhat short ; joints of nearly
the same width at apex as at base.

Length 9^-11 mm. ; width 4f-5| mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Somerset East, Mossel Bay), Transvaal
(Pretoria).

SCAPTOBIUS NATALENSIS, Bohem.,

Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 53 ;
Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 53, pi. x., fig. 9.

Black, little shiny, head convex, clypeus somewhat broadly
rounded laterally at apex, and slightly sinuate in the centre, strongly
shagreened especially on the vertex ; prothorax of the same shape
as in S. capensis, shagreened and somewhat finely granular in front,
but with a slanting strigillation in the median longitudinal impres-
sion, the discoidal part above the lateral supra-basal incision is
not impressed ; scutellum strigillate ; elytra with two fairly plain
costules on each side, the suture is raised, the dorsal part is finely
strigillate Longitudinally and the deflexed part strongly coriaceous in
the male, Strigillate also in the female hut with intervening very long
variolate punctures breaking the strigillation of the dorsal pari ;
pygidium with a high longitudinal median carina beginning at the
base ami reaching the centre; joints of tarsi moderately elongated,
increased at the apex.

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Length 9-10 mm. ; width 4^-5 mm.

Hab. Natal (Maritzburg, Newcastle), Transvaal (Pretoria, Lyden-
burg), Orange Eiver Colony (Vredeford).

SCAPTOBIUS ACICULATUS, Sch.,

Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1844, p. 420 ;
Westw., Thesaur. Entomol., p. 53, pi. x., fig. 10.

" Black, prothorax transverse, sides rounded, deeply incised on
each side behind ; elytra aciculate, obsoletely bi-costate. Very
much like S. capensis in size and sculpture, and with the thorax
similarly shaped, but distinct, however, owing to the shorter,
aciculate and weakly bi-costate elytra. Body completely black,
sparingly and briefly punctate, clypeus disconnected from the
frontal part by a transverse keel. Thorax transverse, with the
sides strongly rounded, deeply emarginate in front with the anterior
angles produced, hind ones sharp, disjointed from the posterior
margin by a deep incision, very numerously punctate on the upper
part, and weakly impressed behind in the centre ; elytra sub-
quadrate, aciculate rugose longitudinally, plane, with the suture
and two costae weakly raised on each side. Pygidium with a short
keel at the apex. Under side of the body and legs black ; all the
tarsi 5-jointed in the specimens examined."

This species is evidently closely allied to S. natalensis, Westw.,
but I have not yet met with it. From the figure given by West-
wood, it would seem to be broader and shorter, and the prothorax
is plainly cicatricose punctate instead of granularly shagreened ; the
pygidium is made to appear quite as carinate longitudinally in the
centre as in S. natalensis, but the description explains that the carina
is at the apex, instead of at the base, and there is no transverse
clypeal ridge in <S'. natalensis.

Length 9 mm.

Hab. Cape of Good Hope and Port Natal.

Gen. PLACODIDUS, Paring.,

Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1890, p. 68.
Body extremely compressed ; mentum plane, closing completely
the buccal part, transverse, almost quadrate but with the basal
margin sharply triangular in the centre, labial palpi so small that
they are hardly discernible ; maxillae short and somewhat robust,
upper lobe with a strongly curved, very long and very sharp ooth,
inner lobe with a short but sharp, little incurved tooth and a very

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small one at about the median part of the margin, and having a few,
short setae between the two ; ultimate joint of maxillary palps
moderately long, sub-cylindrical, acuminate rounded at tip; clypeus
convex in the centre, marginate laterally and in front, parallel and
truncal c : head simple depressed, basal joint of antennas very large,
strongly auriculate ; eyes narrow at the top, very large underneath ;
prothorax ampliate rounded laterally from the anterior to near the
median part, narrowed and straight thence to a short distance from
the base where it is narrowed again, the base itself being straight
with the angles moderately sharp ; scutellum very long and sharp;
elytra parallel, very little sinuate laterally, and covering the pro-
pygidium ; last spiracle sharp ; pygidium vertical, horizontal under-
neath; meta- and mesosternum fused, the former very large, the
prosternum has an horizontal ante-coxal process which is, however,
covered by the triangular point of the mentum ; legs massive, com-
pressed, tarsal joints thick, connate, claws small, weak, anterior
tarsi four-, intermediate and posterior five-jointed.

The species for the reception of which this genus is founded was
found in the formicarium of a species which, from the description
given me, I take to be Plagiolepis custodiens, Sm.

Placodidus compkansoh, Pering.,
Plate XLV ; fig. 9.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1900, p. 69.
Black, opaque ; head and clypeus very finely plicate longitudinally,
and with minute lutescent hairs in the interstices ; prothorax
striolate longitudinally and with an impression on each side as well
as in the median part, all these impressions are very superficial, the
minute, scattered hairs are more visible than on the head ; scutellum
also longitudinally striate, broader than the prothorax, nearly
parallel, the suture is raised and there are on each side two sharply
tectiform dorsal costas and a carinate one above the defiexed part
which is vertical, the intervals are filled with numerous fine, slightly
wavy strides, but the sides arc irregularly punctulate, and here and
there are minute hairs; pygidium transverse, very broadly and
deeply impressed across in the centre, the upper part slants con-
siderably above the hollowed portion and is incised in the middle, the
hollowed, bud- horizontal part is more broadly foveate than the
upper, and the whole under side and legs are finely strigillate and
glabrous.

Length 9-11 mm. ; width 3^—1 mm.

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ADDITIONS AND COBKECTIONS.

Family LUCANID^.
Gen. NIGIDIUS, McLeay, Cat. i., p. 9.

NlGIDIUS RHODESIANUS, n. Sp.

Black, shiny ; mandibles with a highly raised, nearly vertical
laminate process truncate at apex, slightly inflexed there and also
somewhat hollowed inwardly at tip, the outer part is nearly smooth,
the inner deeply and somewhat roughly punctate ; head deeply
impressed in the frontal part and also on the vertex, and covered
with large, somewhat closely-set cicatricose punctures, the anterior
angles are sharply triangular, but the sides are nearly straight, the
genas not projecting outwardly ; prothorax nearly twice as broad as
long, with the anterior angles acute and the posterior rounded,
declivous in the centre of the anterior part and having there a
vertical carina, the surface of the discoidal part and the median
longitudinal cavity are impunctate, but the sides have moderately
closely-set, not deep punctures ; apical part of scutellum nearly
impunctate ; elytra cylindrical, very sharply costate with the inter-
vals very narrowly punctate, the punctures not impinging on the
walls of the costse ; sternum covered with shallow, cicatricose, not
very closely-set punctures ; abdominal segments sparingly punctate.

This species is distinguished from its other South African con-
gener, N. delegorguei, Thorns. (Cat. i., p. 10) by the smooth discoidal
part of the prothorax, the laminate process of the base of the
mandibles, and the non-prominent genas.

Length 13-17 mm. ; width 4-6J mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (neighbourhood of Salisbury) ; Sebakwe.

Judging from the description, this species is probably closely allied
to N. dentifcr, Alb. (Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., xxviii., 1884, p. 16),
from " Central Africa."

Nigidius divergens, Waterh.,
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 6th ser., vol. v., 1890, p. 38.
N. validus, Per., Cat. i., p. 11.

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548 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii.

Gen. FIGULUS, McLeay,
Hor. Entomol., i., 1819, p. 110.
This genus is very closely allied to Nigidius ; the body is narrower
and more depressed ; the mandibles are shorter, simple at apex,
without any vertical tooth at their base ; the head is shorter and
more transverse ; the elytra have no striae in the centre, and are
sometimes without any; the legs are as in Nigidius.

The distribution of the species is also very much like that of the
genus Nigidius.

FlGULUS AXTHRACINUS, Klug,

Ins. Madag., 1833, p. 173.

Shiny black, glabrous ; head deeply excavated with the super-
ciliary ridges very highly raised and sharp, and the genae bisecting
nearly the whole of the eyes, the surface of the head is covered with
variolose punctures somewhat closely set, but more so on the anterior
part than in the centre, on the vertex is an impunctate transverse
band ; prothorax parallel, plane on the dorsal part with the anterior
vertical, and having in the centre a weakly developed tubercle; in the
middle is a deep groove reaching neither apex nor base, and filled
w li somewhat shallow variolose punctures, the surface is smooth,
but on the sides are to be seen some aciculate punctures spread from
near the apex to about the median part of the length ; scutellum
impunctate ; elytra almost as broad at the base as the prothorax,
parallel to a very short distance of the apex where they are rounded,
moderately plane, deeply punctate striate, the juxta-sutural stria
extends from base to apex, and is divided by a broad, smooth
interval from the other three dorsal striae which only reach the
rounding of the posterior part, under the fourth stria is a series of
shallow punctures not much shorter than the stria itself, and the
outer margin is deeply punctured all round ; abdomen nearly smooth,
sides of pectus deeply variolate punctate ; anterior tibiae sharply 6-
dentate outwardly.

Length 12-13i mm. ; width 3f-4 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

I cannot find any difference between the Beira examples and those
from Madagascar or Nossi Be. F. anthradnus is not the same
species as F. sublccvis, which Kolbe records from Zanzibar Island.

Family PASSALID.E.

This family, which has been separated by some authors from the
Lucanidce, is really more closely allied to the Scarabceidce than the

1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcm of South Africa. 549

latter. It includes insects, strikingly depressed, or only slightly
convex on the upper side, long, parallel, usually black but occasionally
brown and very shiny, met with under the bark of decaying or rotten
trees that are lying on the ground. Lacordaire says when they
fear capture they emit from the mouth and from beneath the elytra
a colourless fluid which spreads all over them.

According to Sharp,, the larvae are very interesting, from the fact
that they appear to have only four legs ; this is not, however, the
case, because the posterior pair are reduced " to a paw-like structure
bearing in some cases several hard digits, the function of which is to
scrape striated areas on the preceding pair of legs and so to produce
sound." The anal opening of the larva is transverse with the upper
part slit longitudinally, somewhat in the manner of the Scarabaeidous
larvae. The perfect insect does not seem to possess sound-producing
organs.

Ligula sharply tri-dentate, even conical in front ; mentum very
deeply cut out rectangularly for the reception of the ligula ; maxillae
with the inner and upper lobe sharply dentate inwardly ; labial palpi
inserted laterally near the edge ; labrum large, free ; mandibles with
several inner teeth and a large molar one at the base preceded by
another movable, or seemingly so, immediately in front of it; antennae
with the terminal 3-6 joints lamellate, the lamellae of the antennae
brought together by the curling up of the antenna, instead of being
coadapted as in the Scarabceidcs ; mesothorax with a strong peduncle ;
scutellum situated on the peduncle ; elytra with ten furrows on each
side.

Three species of Passalid& are recorded from the South African
area. I know one only, Eumelosomus sansibaricus ; it is plainly a
straggler, and the most southern place from which I know it to be
recorded is Zululand.

Gen. EUMELOSOMUS, Kuw.,
Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1891, p. 190.
Mentum large, sub-concave ; ligula carinate in the middle and
sloping on each side, ending in a long, central spine, upper lobe of
maxillae ending in a falciform hook, inner lobe with an upper hook
and a smaller one in the centre, and having in the middle and above
the molar tooth two broad laminate, transverse, emarginate ones,
the one above the molar has faint traces of a suture at the base ;
mandibles robust, arcuate, obtusely bifid at tip ; head transverse,
labrum scooped in the centre, epistoma with five porrect teeth,
frontal part with a carinate triangle and two sharp tubercles near

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the vertex, canthus of the large globular eyes reaching the centre ;
antennas 10-jointed, the club is tri-jointed, but the three preceding
joints are angular and not much developed ; prothorax quadrate,
longitudinally grooved in the centre, smooth but foveolate on the
sides ; elytra slightly broader at the base than the prothorax, but
slightly ampliated laterally past the median part and covering the
pygidium ; abdomen much depressed ; legs not very robust ; anterior
tibiae 7-dentate outwardly ; intermediate and posterior grooved longi-
tudinally, the hind ones ending in two long spine-like processes
outwardly.

Greatly resembling the well-known West African genus Pcntalobns,
but distinguished by the 3- instead of 5-jointed antennal club ;
the prosternum is plane, graduate for two-thirds of the length, then
conically acuminate to the base of the coxae and continued thence
to the apex as a simple, not grooved, highly raised longitudinal
ridge.

The genus includes only African species.

EUMELOSOMUS SANSIBARICUS, Hai\,

Monatsb. Akad. Wissensch., 1880, p. 262.

Black, very shiny ; labrum clothed with a long fulvous pubescence ;
clypeus provided in front with five sharp, equi-distant porrect teeth
of equal length, in the centre of the frontal part is a raised triangle,
beginning at the base of two of the porrect teeth and culminating in
the centre of the head, the three angles of the triangle being dis-
tinctly toothed ; on each side of the apical tooth but set further'
towards the vertex is a more or less distinctly toothed tubercle, the
vertex is transversely depressed, and the whole surface is very
roughly pitted ; prothorax smooth on the greatest part of the disk
but with deep, round, sub-variolose, irregularly disposed punctures
forming also an irregular row along the anterior margin as far as a
third of the whole width, the lateral ovate impression is hardly dis-
tinct ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra depressed with the intervals
smooth, the four dorsal striae are narrow and finely punctate and the
intervals are broad, but they gradually deepen and broaden towards
the apex, the other striae become twice as broad as the very narrowed,
sub-carinate intervals, and are divided by regular walls into sym-
metrically transverse fovea; abdomen aciculate laterally, lower part
of sides of metasternum roughly punctate ; prosternum fimbriate;
femora impunctate or with a few punctures; anterior tibiae of $
with a long tooth at the inner part of the base.

Length 27-30 mm. ; width 9-10 mm.

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Hab. Zululand ; Southern Ehodesia (Gazaland, Chirinda
Forest).

Two other species of Passalidce have been described from South
Africa by Keuwert, Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1891. The descrip-
tion of both the genera and the species is so very brief that their
identification is scarcely possible, and not having seen them I cannot
give a more detailed description.

That these two species occur in the South African area requires
confirmation.

Gen. TIBEEIUS, Kuw. (Basilianus, part. Kaup.),
Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1891, p. 164.

"The left porrect process of the clypeus is scarcely broader or
larger than the right, and extends straight out. Antennal club 5- or
6-jointed."

Tiberius caffee, Kuw.,
Loc. cit., p. 164.

"Antennal club consisting of six short joints diminishing gradually
towards the pedicel. The side furrows and intervals similar to those
found in the genus Cancrus.

Length 36 mm."

Gen. NELEUS, Kaup,

Coleopt, Heft v., 1869, p. 30.

" Clypeus 4-toothed, the teeth set at about the same distance

from each other. Forehead declivous, broad but short, and strewn

with deep punctures, the border arcuate towards the clypeal horn.

Body not hairy. Cephalic horn a little free, or scarcely so."

Neleus transvaalensis, Kuw.,
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1891, p. 186.
" Under tooth of the jaws consisting of a small point, becoming
obliquely smaller towards the front and rounded off. Greatly
resembling M. punctiger, Serv.
Length 33 mm."

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Family SCARABiEID^.

Sub-Family COPRIN^.

Tribe COPKINI.

Gen. SCARAB^US.
Scarab j:us intricatus, Pabr. Cat. i., 33.

I erroneously placed in synonymy with the above-mentioned
species S. cicatricosus, Boh. (The name having been used pre-
viously, was changed into S. bohemani by Harold. Catal. Coleopt.,
iv., p. 1.)

On closer examination I find that the two species are distinct, that
their habitat is also different, and also that the genitalia of the J
are not alike.

But there is a third species which is very closely allied to these
two, and the three may be defined as follows : —

A. Hind femora simple underneath.

Head with the villose hairs in the frontal part black ; punctures on
prothorax round, deep, separated by a smooth interval equal to
their own diameter in the posterior part of the disk only, in the
centre is a more or less distinct longitudinal smooth space, and one
on each side at the base somewhat in the shape of a broad arrow ;
striae of elytra finely but distinctly punctate, punctures elongated,
opaque with quadrate or transverse shiny bosses nearly equal in
size on the first three dorsal intervals with the opaque part, but
narrower and more transverse on the other intervals ; intermediate
and hind legs with a non-interrupted upper carina and with no
transverse teeth outwardly or at apex intricatus.

Head with the villose hairs in the frontal part fiavescent ; punctures
of the prothorax broader, deeper, less numerous, and therefore
less closely set, in the central part ami on each side of it are
irregular smooth areas ; the striae of the elytra are not punctate, or
at least lmt distinctly so, the intervals are not opaque, the bosses
are separated by a round foveate puncture not reaching the two
sides of the interstices ; the intermediate and posterior tibiae have
the chevron outer teeth and also the outer apical part strongly
developed, and densely penicUlate with villose hairs bohemani.

B. Hind femora with two teeth underneath.

This species combines the sculpture of the head and prothorax of
,S'. bohemani and the elytra! one of \. intricatus. The villose hairs
of tlie In -ad are fiavescent, the punctures on the prothorax are
rounder, deeper, and being slightly more closely set the smooth
areas ore very little distinct ; in the elytra the strire have the long
punctures of ."»'. intricatus, the intervals are opaque, and the shiny

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bosses are equally long and parallel ; the pygidium and the sides of

themetasternumare much more roughly punctate than _ m e hei

of the two above-mentioned species; intermediate and hmd fabi*

very sharply dentate outwardly en chevron, especially the totter

and'sharply acuminate at apex; hind femora we 1 deve oped and

having underneath near the trochanter a vertical short but very

distinct tooth, and towards the middle a broadly triangular veij

conspicuous one; the anterior margin of the anterior femora is

plainly crenulate. In one of my examples the antenna! c ub

flavescent. Length 9-10* mm. ; width 5£-7 mm tnqumtus, n. spec.

The habitat is not the same. Thus S. intricate occurs in the
neighbourhood of Cape Town, and at no great distance from what is
termed here « strand veld," whereas S. bohemam is spread all over
South Africa, penetrating into the neighbourhood of Cape Town as
near as Worcester; S. inquisitus is recorded from the Transvaal
(Potchefstroom, Plat River), Cape Colony (Vryburg).

SCABAB^US PABULATOE, n. Spec.

Black, shiny; antenna, flavescent ; clypeus very sharply six-
dentate, the teeth of equal length and well reflexed, m the centre
of the frontal part is a fairly distinct longitudinal ridge, and the
pubescence of the head and clypeus is fulvous ; prothorax of the
normal shape, but not having the appearance of being very much
ampliated owing to the elytra being somewhat parallel, covered all
over with contiguous fossulate punctures or fossae separated from
each other by a narrow smooth interval, the whole forming a some-
what regular reticulation ; there is a slightly raised smooth hn
obliterated in the centre of the disk, and the outer margins are
strongly serrate ; the elytra are striate and the strue punctulate, the
intervals are tectiform but roundly impressed at equal distance, the
impressions being in the shape of an irregular fovea impinging more
on one side towards the stria than on the other, thus forming
irregular bosses sometimes connected in the dorsal part so as to form
wavy ridges, and more shiny than the impressions ; pygidium deep y
and somewhat irregularly punctate; metasterna process plainly
aculeate, sides closely punctate and moderately pubescent; anterior
tilt wl four sharp outer teeth, sharply serrulate inwardly, serrate
outwardly and fringed with long fulvescent villous hairs ; hmd
7Z without any chevron teeth outwardly and fringed with black

hairs.

Length 13i mm. ; width 8 mm.

This species, which should follow in the systematic arrangement
S intricate and its allies, seems to be an intermediate form between
them and the group to which S. parvulus, lucidulus, and andersem

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belong. It is more parallel than S. intricatus, and nearly as plane
as lucidulus, but it is easily distinguished from both by the deep
reticulation of the prothorax.

Hab. Cape Colony (Calvinia). ? .

Scarab.eus pkoboscideus, Guer.-Menev.,
Cuvier's Ioonogr., Regn. Anim. insects, 1827-44, p. 73.

S. rostratus, Per., Catal. i., p. 51.

S. modestus, P6r., nee. Bohem., Catal. i., p. 51.

The habitat of this species is given in the Munich Catalogue as
Senegal, while Guerin-Meneville stated that it came from the Cape
of Good Hope. Not having at the time Guerin's work at my
disposal, and also misled by the wrong locality assigned to it in
the Catalogue, I described this species anew under the name of
S. rostratus, but having received an example alleged to have
been compared with Boheman's type of 8. modestus, I assumed
that it was the same species as that of this author, which it plainly
is not.

The species, somewhat briefly described by Guerin-Meneville,
possess a character which is peculiar to S. modestus, i.e., " a straight
(? vertical) horn, bifid at the tip, and placed under the mentum."
The other South African species having a similar characteristic is
S. rixosus, Pering., but the tooth of the mentum is conical, not bifid,
and both species have a conspicuous elongated tubercle on the
frontal part of the head, which seems to have escaped the atten-
tion of Guerin-M6neville, for there is no reference to it in his
description.

Eeiche, in Dejean's Catalogue, 3rd edit., 1837, mentions also this
species as Ateuchus jwoboscideus, Reiche, and gives its habitat as
" Cap. Bon. Sp.," but as M6neville in his description mentions that
the insect was communicated to him by Reiche, it follows that if
Reiche had mistaken the locality, the same mistake would be
made by Meneville, and no corroboration of the habitat could be
arrived at. But I find that " Ateuchus proboscideus, Reiche," figures
in the printed price-list of the insects collected by Drege in South
Africa, dated 1S11 (Preiz-Verzeichniss den lnsecten von C. Fr. Drege
in Siid-Afrika gesammelt., &c, Sept., 1841), and is priced higher than
any other South African species. This, I think, corroborates the
original locality.

Mr. Alluaud described (Bull. Mas. d'llist. Natur. Paris, No. 4,
1902, p. 251) a new species from Madagascar (Scarabcms scvoistnt)
which has also a vertical tooth on the mentum.

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SCARAB^US SENNAARENSIS, Cast.,

Hist. Nat. d. Ins., ii., p. 66.

" This species resembles much S. puncticollis, Latr., but it is
easily distinguished by being more shiny black, by the fine and very
closely set punctuation of the prothorax, the very sharp angles
of the clypeus, the yellow antennal club ; the sides of the prothorax
and the legs are set with long rufous hairs ; the anterior tibiae
have four very strong and perpendicular teeth outwardly ; the
pedicel of the antennae are entirely brownish red.

Length 8 lin. ; width 4f lin.

Hob. Sennaar."

Mr. Marshall informs me that this species has been captured by
Burchell during his South African journey.

Sub-Gen. SEBASTEOS, Westw., Cat. i., p. 57.
Sebasteos westwoodi, Har. Coieopt., Heft v., 1869, p. 95.

This species is not synonymous with S. galenus, Westw., as I
thought. It most closely resembles the latter in general appearance,
but the prothorax, instead of bearing equally distant punctures,
bears equally distant granules covering the whole of the discoidal
part except a sub-arcuate space on each side of the base ; in the
median part there is a narrow, median, longitudinal line which
becomes impressed from the centre to the basal part, where it
culminates into a sharp carina.

I found one example of this species among a small number of
S. galenus, from the same locality.

Length (?) 32 mm. ; width 19 mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg).

Gen. PACHYSOMA, Cat. i., p. 76.
Pachysoma rotundigena, Felsch.,
Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1907, p. 273.

" Black; head from the front to the back equally arched, closely
plicate longitudinally, the anterior margin with four teeth, the two
central ones considerably longer than the other two, genae rounded,
prominent but distinguishable from the head in front only, the
border is finely crenated, the surface finely granulated; the pro-
thorax is widest behind the middle, rounded there with the sides
entire, the whole lateral margin is toothed, the hind angles sharp,

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the whole disk not over-thickly beset with small punctures, between
them stand numerous large cicatricose ones ; elytra transverse, with
scarcely any striation or puncture. Anterior tibiae somewhat curved
in tbe anterior third part of the length, which bears outwardly four
teeth and is crenated above these, the spur is very sharp and there
is a little tooth on the outer margin ; middle tibiae straight, small,
the spurs very long, spatulate, the tarsi ending in small claws and
moderately long, but with a tolerably thick coating of hairs ; hind
tibiae somewhat bent, and somewhat carinate outwardly before the
apex, tarsi almost as long as the tibiae, the first joint as long as
the three following taken together ; claws very slender, slightly bent,
as long as the two last tarsal joints taken together.

Remarkable in this species is the dark brown hairiness of the fore
tibiae, of the basal half of the prothoracic border, and especially of
the upper margin of the hind legs and their tarsi, where they reach
a length of 6 millimeters.

Length 26 mm.

Hab. Sinclair (German South-West Africa.)"

Pachysoma bennigseni, Felsch.,
Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1907, p. 274.

"Black. Head shaped and sculptured like in P. rotundigena, but
with detached little granules on the vertex. Prothorax strongly
transverse, its lateral margin strongly rounded, widest behind the
middle, anterior margins four times very slightly sinuate, the hind
ones slightly rounded, anterior angles sharp, posterior rounded, the
outer border sharply crenulated, the whole disc densely wrinkled
and granulated, intermixed are larger granules which become more
numerous on the back part, before the posterior margin is a row of
larger, longish punctures looking as if they were crumpled ; elytra
broadly cordiform, furrows marked with a median row of granules,
intervals somewhat convex, strongly wrinkled and having in the
middle a row of granules which are, however, indistinct in the juxta-
sutural interval. Pygidium broadly triangular, slightly convex, and
with isolated well-defined granules. Legs as in P. rotundigena, but
without the two teeth in the inner part of the fore tibiae, the spur is
less sharp, and without an external tooth; the claws of the hind
tarsi and also the villosity are less conspicuous.

Length 20 nun.

II, ih. Orange River."

1908] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 557

Gen. GYMNOPLEURUS, Cat. I, p. G4.
Gymnopleurus ^nescens, Wied.,
Germar's Magaz. Entom., iv., 1821, p. 128.
G. cupreus, Fahr., Cat. i., p. 74.

I am indebted for this rectification to Mr. G. A. K. Marshall. I
must, however, point out that all the South African species described
by Wiedeman were from the neighbourhood of Cape Town, or from
the adjoining districts, where G. cupreus, Fahr., does certainly not
occur.

Gymnopleurus humanus, McLeay,
Hor. Entomol., i., 2, p. 514.
G. sericatus, Erichs., Cat. i., p. 74.
. G. peringueyi, Shipp., Entom. Month. Mag.
G. modesties, Per., Cat. i., p. 74.

Gen. EPIRINUS, Reich., Cat. i., p. 89.

Epirinus scrobiculatus, Har.,

Mitth. Munch. Entomol., Vereins, 1880, p. 152.

" Black, opaque, head and prothorax very densely rugulose, the
latter with a longitudinal median smooth fine line ; elytra slightly
striate, intervals plane, irregularly granulate punctate, the alternate
ones being a little more densely granular than the others.

Strongly separated from E. ceneus by the plainly black colour, the
clypeus which is more broadly incised and more sharply toothed, as
well as by the fine but dense rugosity of the head and thorax. I
have this species also under the name of E. scrobiculatus, Gory, in
litt.

Length 7 mm.

Hab. Cap. Bon. Sp."

Gen. SISYPHUS, Gor., Cat. i., p. 98.
Sisyphus transvaalensis, n. sp.
Male : Shape and facies of S. atratus, Kl. (Cat. i., 104) and of
S. quadricollis (loc. cit., p. 103), but as thickly clothed with
squamose hairs as S. goryi, and belonging also to the same division
(loc. cit., p. 101). The clypeus, including the genae, is sharply
tri-dentate on each side, resembling in that respect that of *S\ atratus,
but the anterior tibiae are not mucronate underneath ; the inter-

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mediate femora and tibiae are simple ; the posterior trochanters do
not in the least project beyond the line of the femur ; the latter has
underneath and at about the median part a short, carinate, trans-
verse projection instead of a triangular tooth as in S viuricatus,
Oliv., and the hind tibiae are normally curved and very closely
serrate inwardly. The genital armature is not unlike the shape of
that of S. atratus, but is different nevertheless.

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg).

Tribe COPEINI.

Gen. CHEIKONITIS, Lansb.

Cheironitis stuhlmanni, Kolb.,

Die Kaf., D. 0. Afrikas, 1897, p. 147, pi. 1, fig. 9.

Male : Bronze-green, very little shiny on the upper side, but very
shiny underneath ; the tibiae are dark green ; clypeus semicircular,
strongly shagreen ed, clypeal carina very short, arcuate, vertex and
genae granular, frontal carina slightly interrupted on each side of a
small, little developed median tubercle, vertex carinate laterally and
behind ; prothorax depressed, one-fourth wider than long, faintly
bi-impressed longitudinally in the centre of the dorsal part and
covered with equi-distant, slightly asperous punctures turning to
scabrose in the anterior part of the sides ; elytra narrower than the
prothorax at its widest part, but not narrower at the base than the
base of the latter, strongly sinuate below the humeral part, slightly
narrower at apex than at base, depressed, but with the sutural part
raised and the fifth interval sub-tectiform, finely striate and with the
eighth or outer stria replaced by a very sharp carina reaching from
base to apex, intervals closely but not deeply punctulate ; pygidium
closely punctulate and having a slight, median longitudinal raised
line on the upper part ; anterior tibia long, straight from the base to
half the length, and somewhat slender, thence they curve inwards
and are dilated and strongly and sharply carinate underneath, this
carinate part is strongly bi-dentate at the base, and there are two
smaller teeth at the inward part of the bend of the tibia* which is
strongly tri-dentate outwardly and ends in a long mucro ; the
strongly developed femora have a long, incurved, truncate tooth in
the anterior face and a smaller one on the anterior margin near the
apex, the prosternal process is small, truncate and slightly scooped
at tip; intermediate cox-.e vei\ broadly laminate with the inner part
adjoining the trochanter scooped into a deep lobatc, almost aurj.

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culate process, the tibiae arcuate and broadly dilated inwardly at
apex ; hind femora greatly developed, compressed with the upper
margin laminate and almost truncate outwardly, and having under-
neath an elongate triangular, shark-like tooth followed by a moderately
deep apical notch, the trochanters are simple ; hind tibiae slender at
the base as far as the tooth of the femora and broadly dilated thence
into a sub-rectangular laminate process sharply angular in the inner
part of its base.

Length 21 mm. ; width 12 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Lebakwe).

This species was originally described from German East Africa.

Cheihonitis damarensis, Felsch.,
Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1907, p. 286.

" In shape and colouration very like G. osiridis, Eeich., but it is
broader and less attenuated behind. In both these species the head
is similarly shaped and similarly sculptured, but in C. damarensis the
clypeal ridge is stronger, almost three times as long, and erected
more forwards, the tubercle and the frontal ledge are stronger. The
prothorax is of the same shape in both species, but in Osiridis the
rasp-like punctuation is somewhat more pronounced, while in damar-
ensis the punctures of the base are more strongly stamped; the
elytra in damarensis are almost parallel, the surface is beset with
extremely fine, widely remote asperous punctures, and they are
opaque with a silky sheen, the suture, the callosity of the fourth and
fifth intervals, and the boss of the shoulders are shiny. Pygidium
of silky smoothness with a few fine punctures, somewhat convex up
to the apex, and with a somewhat fine keel in the centre.

Length 14-16 mm.

Male : Head somewhat broadly developed and with two broad,
blunt teeth. Anterior femora with a very conspicuous fork on the
fore margin of the under side which has several notches, and a tooth
at the base, the anterior has at the apex a small stumpy tooth ; fore
tibiae long, with four teeth, the curved part long, sharply bent
inwards, very hairy, the tibiae somewhat broadening inwards from the
1-3 tooth and slightly notched on the front part, the under side with
a strong tooth in the middle, between this and the base is a short
ridge which is raised in the middle and notched ; intermediate legs
simple ; in the hind legs the trochanter is conspicuous, the front half
being grooved so as to make its end look bluntly bifid ; femora
broadening markedly, slightly rounded in front of the basal half,
then broadening into a lamina with the whole margin crenulate, on

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the back of the third part of the length and parallel with the edge is
a wavy ridge, and on the posterior margin, in the apical half, a well-
developed, truncate tooth. Prosternal process broad, rounded at tip,
the corners bent outwards, the back border granulose and hairy.
Mctusternum not thickened but very coarsely granular.

Female : Clypeus blunt, not acuminate ; legs normal ; metasternum
tolerably symmetrical, not so coarsely granular."

Ilab. Kubub ; German South-West Africa.

Gen. ONTHOPHAGUS, Latr., Cat. i., p. 168.

Since the publication of my Catalogue of the Scarabseidie (April,
1901), M. H. d'Orbigny has published a considerable number of
African species, among which are included 5 South African species
of the genus Caccobius, 58 of the genus Onthophagus, 3 of the sub-
genus Proagodcrus, and 2 of the genus Phalops, exclusive of several
species which have been sunk in synonymy. With some additions
of mine the actual number of the genera and sub-genera above
mentioned, with the genus Diastellopalpus thrown in, is now 213
instead of 112, as given in my Catalogue. Many, if not most of the
additions, are from the confines of the South African limit, and I
believe that many more Central African species will eventually be
found to occur also in South Africa. It is somewhat puzzling to find
that certain specimens roam nearly all over Africa, south of the
Sahara, while others are limited, as far as is now known, to a com-
paratively small or very limited area. Several, if not many, Senegal
and Abyssinian forms have their counterparts further south ; these
differ mostly in the sculpture of the prothorax especially, but also
of the head and elytra ; and the differences can be ascertained only
by comparison. This difference between the greater and smaller
development is also very great in many kinds, exactly in the same
manner as in the genera Copris, Catharsius, itc., adding thus to the
great difficulties that beset the identification of species.

I have not, unfortunately, been able to procure or examine a
comparatively large number of d'Orbigny's new or lately de-
scribed South African species, and it is thus impossible for me to
even make an attempt at giving a key of the South African kinds,
but this gentleman has very courteously placed at my disposal a list
of the kinds known to him to occur in South Africa, and arranged
according to the affinities they bear to each other. He has also
revised my grouping of the species with the table of the six divisions
which he has proposed (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 19) for the
reception of the host of African species — a host, the number of which
seems to increase yearly.

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These divisions are as follows : —

Onthophagus, sensu stricto.
First Division.

1. (6) Prothorax with the punctuation simple, often umbilicate, but neither

raspy nor granulose even in front or on the sides : occasionally the
space between the punctures is more or less rugose. Basal part of
pygidium with a transverse ridge connecting with that of the abdominal
sides.

2. (3) Intervals between the elytral strife plainly granulose or having punctures

disposed in at least one or two series, or irregularly ; in some black
species the discoidal part of elytra has only some very sparse but very
distinct granules, and the sides are plainly granulate or punctured.
Prothorax seldom (jamais en majeure partie) smooth and with an
agglomeration of larger punctures on each side of the disk.

3. *Base of prothorax without a plain fold, at least laterally. . First Division.

4. Base of prothorax with a plain fold, along the whole length.

Second Division.

5. (2) Intervals between the elytral strias smooth, except for a few hardly distinct

punctures or granules, or an extremely fine aciculation. Prothorax
oftener than not with the greatest area smooth and with an agglomeration
of punctures on each side of the disk, sometimes with a moderately fine
and not closely-set punctuation, at least in the centre, and with a wider
agglomeration of punctures on each side of the disk ; seldom is the
punctuation almost uniform. Elytra testaceous with or without black
spots, or black with a testaceous patch. Size very small, or somewhat
small Third Division.

(j. (1) Prothorax granulate or with raspy punctures at least in front or on the
sides, the anterior edge of the punctures more raised than the posterior,
and more or less asperous.

7. (8) Pygidium without transverse ridge along the base, the whole surface

• covered with long hairs, or only the basal part which, then, bears a long
fringe of hairs where the transverse ridge should have been ; base of
prothorax with a fold ; elytra most often testaceous, with or without spots,
seldom black or brown Fourth Division.

8. (7) Pygidium having at the base a transverse carina which continues that of

the abdominal sides.

9. (10) Base of prothorax without a distinct fold, at least on the sides.

Fifth Division.

10. (9) Base of prothorax with a very plain fold all along the width.

Sixth Division.

In addition to the genus Onthophagiis, in the strict sense,
d'Orbigny retains Lansberge genus Proagoderus (Not. Leyd.
Mus., v., 1883, p. 14), but only as a sub-genus.

* This character has to be ignored for certain species.

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In Proagoderus, the prothorax is produced in the middle of the
base in a strongly pronounced, often laminate angle ; the clypeus is
never bi-dentate, the elytra never testaceous, and the basal joint
of the labial palps is not dilated ; this last character differentiates
Proagoderus from Diastellopalpus.

LIST OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES OF ONTHOPHAGUS, AND

ALLIED GENERA.

teste d'Okbigny.

Gen. CACCOBIUS, Thorns.

Gen. ONTHOPHAGUS, Latr.

Subg. CACCONEMUS, Jekel.
castaneus, Klug.

Subg. CACCOPHILUS, Jekel.

ferrugineus, F2.hr.
nigritulus, Klug.
inops, Perin

mixtus, d'Orb.
cliscrepans, Pering.
anomalus, Klug.
histerinus, Fahr.
cavatus, n. sp., d'Orb.
inconspicuus, Fa.hr.
fuliginosus, Roth,
obtusus, Fahr.

mastrucatus, Paring.
viridicollis, Fahr.
convexifrons, Raffr.

pudens, Pdring.
postlutatus, d'Orb.
seminuluni, Klug.
sehocdlei, d'Orb.

Subg. DIAGLYPTUS, d'Orb.
multifidus, n. sp., d'Orb.

(ijs. MILICHUS, IVrin-.

rhodesianus, Pering.
apicalis, Fahr.

Subg. ONTHOPHAGUS, s. str.

First Division.

importunus. Pering.
modestus, liar.
rufovirens, d'Orb.
simoni, d'Orb.
granulum, d'Orb.

ii run ii m |, d'Orb.
dedecor, Wall.

nigrescent, d'Orb.
aeruginosas, Both.
aequepubens, d'Orb.
biconifer, d'Orb.
amplicornis, n. sp., d'Orb.
qaadrimacolatus, Baffr.
rinctipennis, Qued.

audus, a. >j>.. d'Orb.
coptorhinodes, Perin-.
insul.sus, Paring,
marshalli, n. .<p., d'Orb.
binodis, Thunb.

columella, Fahr.
discretus, Paring.
lacustris, Har.
? serenus, Paring.
emeritus, Pering.
beiranas, Paring.
auriculatus, Klug.
bovinus, Paring.

lobigena, d'Orb.

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563

Second Division.
plebejus, Klug.
flavimargo, d'Orb.
limbibasis, d'Orb.
ambiguus, Pering.

vinctus, Er.
interstitialis, Fahr.
consobrinus, Pering.
carbonarius, Klug.

var. vicarius, Pering.
subplanus, d'Orb.
ventrosus, d'Orb.

minutulus, Har.
illotus, Pering.
? pusio, Fahr.
pauxillus, d'Orb.
pullus, Roth.

ineptus, Har.
fungicola, n. sp., d'Orb.
nffivuliger, n. sp., d'Orb.

monodon, Fahr.
setosus, Fahr.

cretus, Pering.
declivicollis, d'Orb.
cineraceus, d'Orb.
hysena, Fabr.
lugens, Fahr.
minutus, Hausm.

variolosus, d'Orb.
naso, Fahr.
deterrens, Pering.
apiciosus, d'Orb.
confertus, Per.

lffivatus, d'Orb.
placens, Pering.

Third Division.

virescens, Har.
suturalis, Pering.

var. peringueyi, Shipp.
pallidipennis, Fahr.
politissimus, n. sp., d'Orb.
rasipennis, n. sp., d'Orb.

pallipennis (+Fahr.), d'Orb.
semiflavus, Bohem.
albipennis, Pering.

flavolimbatus, Klug.

breviculus, d'Orb.
nanus, Har.

decipiens, Har.

Fourth Division.

verticalis, Fahr.
producticollis, n. sp., d'Orb.
decedens, Pering.
quadrinodosus, Fahr.
tricorniger, Bohem.
ursinus, d'Orb.

Fifth Division.
graphicus, Wall.

macrothorax, d'Orb.
teitanicus, d'Orb.
sansibaricus, Har.

perniciosus, Pering.
trinodosus, Fahr.
amoenus, n. sp., d'Orb.
parumnotatus, Fahr.
axillaris, Bohem.
criniger, d'Orb.

crinitus || d'Orb.
obtusicornis, Fahr.
mitativus, Pering.
lutulentus, Har.
pilosus, Fahr.

pellax, Pering.
indigus, Pering
senescens, nom. nov., Paring.

seniculus || Pering.
asimilis, Pering.
bituber, d'Orb.
herus, Pering.
emigraniger, d'Orb.

nigropubens, n. sp., d'Orb.
giraffa, Hausm.

vigens, Pering.
cribripennis, d'Orb.
obtutus, Pering.
ditus, Pering.

Sixth Division.
dispar, Pering.
asperrimus, d'Orb.

incertus \\ Pering.

dnbius, d'Orb.
prsetortus, Pering.

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cupricollis, Pering.
scapularis, d'Orb
impurus, Har.

discolor, Klug.
bicavifrons, d'Orb.
croesulus, Bates.

pinguis, Gerst.
laminidorsis, d'Orb.
ebenicolor, d'Orb.
binodosus, n. sp., d'Orb.
rhynchophorus, Pering.

probus, Pering.
aspericeps, n. sp., d'Orb.
convexus, n. sp., d'Orb.
sutiliceps, d'Orb.

coronatus, d'Orb.
fimetarius, Roth.

piceus, Fahr.
asperulus, d'Orb.
cyaneoniger, d'Orb.

insignis, Paring.
guiUemei, d'Orb.

albipodex, d'Orb.
leucopygus, Har.
quadratieeps, Har.
caffrarius, d'Orb.
impressicollis, Bohem.
stenocerus, Har.
praestans, Paring,
aquatus, Pering.
pugionatus, Fahr.
latefulvus, d'Orb.
ineniiicollis, n. sp., d'Orb.
ebenus, Pering.
quadricallosus, d'Orb.
grannliier, Har.
burchelli, n. sp., d'Orb.

gibber, d'Orb.

bubalus, Har.
gazella, Fabr.

cameloides, d'Orb.
junodi, d'Orb.
merus, Piling,
rubens, d'Orb.
exiguus || Paring.

signatus, Fahr.
stellio, Er.
variegatus, Fabr.

venu8tulu8, Er.
sugillatus, Klii},'.

mactatus, Klug.
talpa, Fahr.

? guttatut, Bohem
suffusus, Klug.

cruci/er, Klug.
fritschi, d'Orb.
temporalis, d'Orb.
lamnifer, d'Orb.
fugitivus, Pering.*
immundus, Bohem.
versutus, Pering.

ocellatus, d'Orb.

depressus, Har.
acutus, n. sp., d'Orb.

Subg. PHALOPS, Er.

boschas, Klug.
ardea, Klug.
prasinus, Er.
adspertipennis, Bohem.

euplynes, Bates.

rufosignatus, Lansb.
dregei, Har.

congenitus, Pering.
pyroides, n. up., d'Orb.
Wittei, Har.

bo8chimantu, Pering.
flavocinctus, Klug.
densegranosus, n. sp., d'Orb.
smaragdinus, Har.

tarsal its, Pering.

Subg. PROAGODERUS, Lansb.

rangifer, Klug.
gibbiramus, d'Orb
furcifer, Bohem.
plato, Bates.

pyramidalis, Klug.
panoplus, Bates,
nasidens, d'Orb.
rectefurcatus, Fairm.

subextensus, Kolbe.
quadrituber, n. sp., d'Orb.

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tersidorsis, d'Orb. dives, Har.

lanista, Casteln. optimis, Pering.

aciculatus, FS.hr.

loricatus, Klug.

gemmatus, Pering.

alcyon, Klug. iricolor, d'Orb.

marginidens, d'Orb.

bieallosus, Klug. brucei, Eeiche.

., „ ,_ Subg. DIASTELLOPALPUS, Lansb.
unidens, Qued.

susjpectus Pering., quinquedens, Bates.

sapphirinus, Fahr. ponderosus, Pering.

aureiceps, d'Orb. orbignyi, Pering.

Gen. CACCOBIUS, E. G. Thorns., Cat. i., p. 275.
Cacconemus ; Caccophilus ; Diaglyptus.

The main, if not only character, distinguishing Caccobius, sens,
lat., from Onthophagus, Phalops, and other very closely allied
genera, is that in the former the anterior tibiae are transversely
truncate at tip, whereas in the latter they are obliquely truncate
inwardly.

But even this is not the case in Caccobius anomalus, Kl., in which
the $ has laminate anterior tibiae transversely truncate, whereas in
the $ these limbs are shaped as in Onthophagus, &c.

Nor can it be said that the convex shape of the frontal part is a
character belonging exclusively to Caccobius, because in several
species the armature is that of certain species of Onthophagus
(C. obtusus, &c). On the other hand, certain forms have a facies of
their own (viridicollis , schadlei, postlutatus).

The restriction of the eighteen South African species into this
genus, or sub-genera, makes, however, the identification of the very
numerous kinds of South African Onthophagus (154 spp.) slightly
easier.

In Caccobius, Jek., the under part of the prothorax bears on each
side a supplementary carina. Sensu stricto only one species, a
palaearctic one, belongs to this section.

In Cacconemus, Jek., the supplementary carina is wanting as in
Onthophagus, and the upper part of the body is glabrous. One
South African species is included in this sub-genus.

In Caccophilus, Thorns., this carina is also wanting, but the upper
part of the body is more or less pubescent.

In Diaglyptus, d'Orbign., the metasternum has in front a trans-
versely arcuate line continued behind and rounding the intermediate

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coxae ; elytra with a broad lateral sulcus, upper part o the body
with scattered long setae. In this sub-genus is included one South
African species.

Sub-gen. CACCONEMUS, Jekel,
Rev. and Mag. d. Zool., 1872, p. 418.
C. castaneus, Klug, Catal. i., p. 262.

Sub-gen. CACCOPHILUS. Jekel,

Loc. cit., p. 410.

Caccobius feerugineus, Fahr., Catal. i., p. 247.

d'Orbigny records this species from Somaliland, German East
Africa, Central Africa, Congo, Gaboon, Dahomey. It is a very rare
species in South Africa.

Caccobius nigritulus, Klug, Catal. i., p. 261.
C. litigiosus, Per., loc. cit., p. 242.

Black, with a faint metallic tinge, sub-opaque or very little shiny,
antennae and legs rufescent brown ; facies sub-parallel ; clypeus
arcuate but bluntly sub-triangular in the anterior part, not emargi-
nate there, no incision at the base of the genae which do not project ;
head and clypeus simple but with a slightly tubercular prominence
in the anterior frontal part ; the surface is moderately closely acicu-
late punctate and glabrous ; prothorax longer than broad, very little
ampliate laterally, slightly attenuate but not sinuate towards the
base the angles of which are very obtuse but not rounded, base not
distinctly marginate ; prothorax simple, sloping behind, slightly
sulcate longitudinally for a short distance from the base, and
covered all over with closely-set, elongated, aciculate non-setigerous
punctures ; elytra not broader than the median part of the pro-
thorax, striate, the striae very narrow, not distinctly geminate nor
punctulate, intervals plane, the dorsal ones equal in width and all
with very fine, nearly obliterated aciculate punctures disposed in
two somewhat irregular series ; pygidium glabrous, aciculate punc-
tate ; under side glabrous, aciculate punctate; groove of the meta-
si.'iinun shallow, obliterated at both ends.

Length 4-4f mm. ; width 2f-3 mm.

Hub. Mozambique (Rikatla).

Caccobius inofs, Per., Cat. L, p. 240.
C. mixtus, d'Orb., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1905, p. 384.

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Caccobius discrepans, Per., Cat. i., p. 242.

Caccobius anomalus, Klug, Cat. i., p. 276.

Caccobius histerinus, Fahr., Cat. i., p. 276.
d'Orbigny records this species from Natal.

Caccobius cavatus, n. sp.:::

Very small, head and prothorax often with a slight bronze sheen,
upper side clothed with a moderately short pubescence. Epistoma
very narrowly scooped out ; frontal part with an arcuate carina,
vertex ( $ ) with two large acute teeth and a deep excavation
between these teeth ; $ with only two very weak calluses and a
slight depression. Prothorax with the punctuation simple and con-
sisting of moderately large and deep punctures and of smaller and
very superficial ones, the sides are not sinuate near the posterior
angles ; the punctuation of the intervals is simple, moderately large,
and little closely set.

Length 2J-2i mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury).

H. d'Orbigny.

Caccobius (Diaglyptus) multifidus, n. sp.

Very small, black, upper side with long, black, erect and very
remote setae. Epistoma divided into five small teeth which are
about equally distant from each other, the head is simple and
covered with an extremely closely-set punctuation ; prothorax
covered in a uniform manner with a simple, somewhat fine, deep
and very closely-set punctuation ; the sides are not sinuated near
the posterior angles, and the base has no fold. Intervals with a
simple, close and deep punctuation.

Length 2^-2| mm.

Hab. Cape Colony.

H. d'Orbigny.

Caccobius inconspicuus, Fahr., Cat. i., p. 234,
d'Orbign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 4.
My description of this species made partly from a mutilated
example (Fahraeus' type) and partly from his diagnosis can be

* d'Orbigny's descriptions of new species will be given in full in the Annates
de la Socie'te' Entomologique de France for 1908.

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completed as follows : Clypeus arcuately rounded and with the
anterior margin entire, head somewhat roughly punctured on
the clypeus, sides and vertex, but with the median frontal part
finely punctate and bulging without being tuberculate ; near the
vertex and above the eyes is a short, median, transverse ridge, and
the whole head is densely pubescent, the pubescence is short, erect,
and sub-flavescent ; prothorax simple, with the base weakly margi-
nate, covered with equi-distant, simple punctures all setigerous and
separated by an interval equal to their own diameter ; pygidium
covered with fine umbilicate punctures.

M. H. d'Orbigny separates C. inconspicuus, Fahr., from C. fuligi-
nosus, Roth., from Abyssinia, with which it was united by Harold.
As it is now included in the genus Caccobius, Fahreeus' specific name
is no longer in synonymy, and must be retained.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Zululand).

Caccobius fuliginosus, Roth.,
Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg., xvii., i., p. 127.

This species differs from C inconspicuus in bearing a slightly
more sparse pubescence ; the prothorax has deeper and broader
punctures, some of them somewhat umbilicate ; in the anterior part
there is a minute longitudinal carina wanting in C. inconspicuus ;
the head is more scrobiculate in the centre, the frontal carina is
similar, but there is no trace of a ridge on the vertex, and the
pygidium bears larger umbilicate punctures.

Length 3} mm. ; width 2i mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

Caccobius obtusus, Fahr., 2 , Catal. i., p. 221.

G. mastrucatus, P6r., J , Cat. i., p. 191.

M. H. d'Orbigny, to whom I sent, at his request, my examples
of the two sexes of this species, pronounce the $ to be that of
C. fuliginosus, although the two were taken together. The S is less
densely pubescent both on the prothorax and on the elytra, and the
punctures on the former part are broader, deeper, and umbilicate.
Moreover, the minor development of the $ has, like the 2 , a minute
longitudinal carina on the prothorax.

Caccobius viridicollis, Fahr., Cat. i., p. 193.
According to d'Orbigny (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 9), I have
mistaken two species under that name, i.e., 0. brcvicollis, Fahr., and

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G. viridicollis, Fahr., the former being an Onthophagus, the other a
Gaccobius. My description must therefore be amended.

Type. Bronze, with the head and prothorax bright green, the
elytra testaceous red, with the suture green ; the antennal club
black, and the legs reddish. Clypeus narrowed in front, deeply
scooped there, each angle of the incision triangularly produced, genae
projecting ; head simple, sparingly punctate, the punctures bearing a
rigid flavescent seta ; prothorax with a fulvescent macule near the
anterior angle, simple, moderately ampliate laterally with the basal
angles well rounded, base marginate, surface covered with deep,
simple, round punctures, each bearing a setulose hair and separated
by an interval equal to their own diameter in the dorsal part, and
broader on the sides ; elytra ampliate laterally, geminate striate and
punctate, with the intervals plane, of equal width in the dorsal part
and bearing each a series of briefly setigerous punctures ; pygidium
with closely set, deep, setigerous punctures.

Length 3 mm. ; width 2 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Pietersburg) ; Mozambique (Beira).

Caccobius convexifrons, Eaffr.,
Eev. and Mag. Zoolog., 1877, p. 10.
G. pudens, Pering., Catal. i., p. 243.
Var. picipennis, d'Orbign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 9.

According to d'Orbigny (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fi\, 1805, p. 386)
this species is identical with C. (Onthoph.) convexifrons, Raffr. I
doubt whether this synonymy is justified. Raffray, himself an excel-
lent and most trustworthy entomologist, gives to the $ a "vertex
tuberculatus." None of my examples of C. pudens have a tubercu-
late vertex. d'Orbigny considers as a variety examples which are
totally dark piceous brown, turning to light brown at the anterior
angles of the prothorax, at the apex, and on the sides of the elytra.

This species occurs also in German East Africa, British East
Africa, and the island of Zanzibar. In South Africa it is recorded
from Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury and Sebakwe); Transvaal
(Lydenburg).

Caccobius postlutatus, d'Orbign.,

Annal. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxiv., 1905, p. 388.

Black, with a metallic sheen, elytra fuscous testaceous on the

anterior dorsal part and testaceous on the sides and especially

towards the apex ; shiny, sub-orbicular ; antennae piceous ; clypeus

triangular from the genae, incised in the centre of the apex with the

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angles of the incision sharp and reflexed ; head simple, frontal part
a little convex, the clypeus and anterior frontal part are moderately
closely punctate, and the punctures are round, but in the vertex they
are somewhat remote ; prothorax simple, sparingly setulose, ampliate
rounded laterally, not sinuate towards the base and with the posterior
angle indistinct, base not marginate, the surface covered with small,
slightly elongated, equi-distant simple punctures separated by an
interval equal to their own size, no median supra-basal longitudinal
impression ; elytra ampliate, very narrowly punctulate striate,
intervals of equal width, and each with one series of briefly seti-
gerous punctures ; pygidium punctured ; abdomen and legs aciculate ;
metasternum covered with round, somewhat closely set punctures
median groove quite indistinct.

Length 2^— 2f mm. ; width lf-2 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). Originally recorded from
British East Africa.

Caccobius seminulum, Klug, Cat. i., p. 263.

According to d'Orbigny, this species, which I have not seen, is
closely allied to C. Schczdlei, but differs from it in the punctures of
the prothorax, which are more closely set and broader all over.

A new record of locality is that of Natal.

Caccobius sch^dlei, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. France, lxxii., 1902, p. 10.

Small, shiny black, with the head and prothorax either greenish
or slightly aeneous, elytra with the apex and sometimes the sides
reddish, occasionally also, but rarely, the anterior angles of the
prothorax are of the same colour ; the upper side is bi'iefly pubescent.
Head moderately densely and finely punctate, the punctures sparsely
intermixed with larger ones ; it is not carinate on the S , but has on
the J an arcuate carina set at a short distance from the clypeal
margin which is incised in the centre with the sides of the incision
dentate reflexed ; prothorax simple, closely and somewhat deeply
punctate, the punctures simple and separated by an interval not
equal to their diameter ; it is simple, the base cannot be said to be
marginate, the posterior angles are not distinct, and the sides not
sinuate behind ; elytra moderately deeply, but narrowly striate,
intervals with one series each of sub-scabrose briefly setigerous
punctures, on the sides the striae are distinctly punctate, but much
less so in the dorsal part ; pygidium strongly punctate.

Length 2i-3 mm. ; width 2] mm.

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Originally described from German and British East Africa, this
species, identified for me by M. d'Orbigny, reaches Southern
Ehodesia (Plumtree).

Sub-Gen. DIAGLYPTUS, d'Orb.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 15.

DlAGLYPTUS MULTIFIDUS, n. Sp.

Very small, black ; upper side entirely clothed with moderately
long erect and very scattered seta?. Epistoma divided into five
small teeth set about equally apart ; head completely smooth, covered
with an extremely closely set punctuation ; prothorax uniformly
covered with a simple, moderately fine, deep and very closely set
punctuation, the sides are sinuate close to the posterior angles, the
base is without fold ; elytral intervals with a simple, closely set and
deep punctuation.

Long. 2-2-2-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony.

H. d'Orbigny.

Gen. ONTHOPHAGUS.

Onthophagus bufovibens, d'Orb.,

Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov., xli., 1904, p. 266.

" Minute, somewhat shiny, entirely testaceous, head and prothorax
greenish; upper side flavous pubescent. Head strongly and densely
rugose punctate with a few minute punctures intermixed in the
frontal part ; clypeus slightly sinuate, frontal part with a somewhat
short ridge, vertex with a straight ridge situated between the anterior
margins of the eyes, angularly bent on each side, and obliquely
produced forward between the frontal part and the temples ; the
whole of the prothorax simply, strongly and densely punctate,
intervals of punctures slightly rugose, the posterior part is sub-
impressed longitudinally in the centre, sides very slightly sinuate
behind, base non-marginate ; elytra with slender striae, intervals
moderately strongly, moderately densely punctate, and moderately
raised longitudinally in the middle ; pygidium closely and strongly
punctate.

Length 3 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

This species cannot be mistaken for any one of those in which the
punctuation of the prothorax is simple, and the base non-folded ; it
is easily distinguished by its small size, its entirely testaceous colour
with, however, a green sheen on the bead and prothorax ; this latter

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part is covered with a uniform broad, closely set punctuation, and
the sides are very slightly sinuate near the posterior angles."

Onthophagus kimoni, d'Orbigny,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 23.

Shiny, black with a metallic sheen, noticeable on the elytra, but
turning to dark bronze-green on the prothorax and head ; club of
antenna? black, or deep fuscous ; head weakly pubescent, like the
prothorax the median discoidal part of which is, however, glabrous ;
elytra with a double row of short setae in each interval, pygidium
densely but briefly pubescent. Head finely punctate but also with
larger intermingling punctures on the frontal part and on the vertex ;
clypeus rounded, very slightly sinuate in front, rugose, genae as
deeply punctate as the frontal part which bears an arcuate ridge
reaching almost the suture of the genaa ; behind this ridge is another
one not quite reaching the eyes and equi-distant from the vertex and
the anterior ridge and not as arcuate as the latter ; on the vertex
itself is a third, not very well defined sub-triangular ridge; prothorax
simple, with the base not marginate except in the very centre above
the scutellum, hardly sinuate laterally behind, with the angle quite
obtuse, yet distinct, covered with equi-distant, simple punctures, not
much more closely set in the centre than on the sides, in the posterior
part of the disk is a short, shallow, longitudinal sulcus reaching the
base ; elytra narrowly striate punctate, intervals very finely aciculate,
almost plane and bearing each two rows of rough, somewhat unequal,
deep, setigerous punctures ; pygidium with deep, irregular, con-
tiguous punctures ; sternum moderately closely but not deeply
punctured ; femora remotely punctate ; inner spur of anterior tibiaa
long and slender, hooked inwardly at tip.

Closely allied, according to d'Orbigny, to 0. modestus, Har. Cat. (i.,
p. 234), which differs, however, in addition to minor characters, by
the uniform, closely set, large punctures of the prothorax, the
narrower striae of elytra, and the intervals which are longitudinally
raised in the centre.

Length 4f- 5 mm. ; width 3-3^ mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali).

Onthophagus gkanulum, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Mus. d. Genov., xli., p. 326.
0. granum, d Orb., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902. p. 35.
Black, with a slight metallic tinge especially on the head and
prothorax, legs piceous, antennal club piceous ; ( ? ) clypeus a little

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elongated in the centre, plainly incised with the angles of the
incision triangular, but little reflexed, at the junction of the clypeus
with the irons is a short, sub-arcuate ridge, and exactly between the
eyes a transverse, more highly raised carina not reaching quite to
the gense, and a very faint one on the margin of the vertex, the
clypeal part is roughly and closely punctate, the punctures are
simpler in front of the frontal carina, and rounder and sparser
at the back of it ; prothorax simple, glabrous, except for a few setae
on the sides, covered with simple, round, equi-distant punctures
separated by an interval equal to their diameter, base very obsoletely
marginate, posterior sides sinuate, disk not impressed longitudinally
behind ; elytra very narrowly striate with the intervals plane, except
the second one which is somewhat convex towards the base, and
bearing each two rows of simple, briefly setigerous punctures ;
pygidium with somewhat deep but also somewhat remote briefly
setigerous punctures.

Allied to 0. simoni, 0. importunus, and 0. cequcjMbcns, but differs
from each in the punctuation of the prothorax, which is simple,
equi-distant, and more broadly separated than in any of the three
species mentioned ; the punctuation of the elytra is also less rugose.

Length 3i-4 mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg District) ; Plat Kiver, April 5, 1905 ;
Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez).

Onthophagus ^ruginosus, Eoth,
Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg., xvii., 1851, p. 124.
0. chalcostomus, Fahr., Catal. i., p. 221.
0. tenuicomis, Klug, Cat. i., p. 221.

This species ranges eastward from Abyssinia to the Cape Colony.

Onthophagus dedecor, Wallengr., Cat. L, p. 264.

0. nigrcscens, d'Orbigny, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, lxxi., 1902, p. 21.

Somewhat shiny, sub-greenish black, head and anterior part of
prothorax greenish, briefly fulvous pubescent above, pygidium with
long, silvery, setose hairs. Head closely rugose, moderately thickly
punctate in the centre in the male ; clypeus sub-rotund or hardly
sinuate ; frontal part not carinate in the male and armed with two
slender horns on the vertex, in the female the frontal part is briefly
and sub-arcuately carinate, and the vertex provided with a laminiform
ridge set between the hind margins of the eyes and produced on each
side in a small horn. Prothorax simple, strongly and very densely
rugose punctate, sulcate longitudinally in the centre of the posterior

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part, impressed on each side near the posterior angles, broadly
depressed in front in the male, strongly tuberculate there and
depressed on each side in the female, the sides greatly sinuate
behind, base non-mai*ginate except for a narrow median part ; elytra
finely striate with the intervals plane, uniformly closely sub-rugose
punctate ; pygidium densely punctate.

This species is extremely closely allied to 0. aruginosus, Roth,
(chalcostomus, Fahr.), the only difference being that the former is
more bronze or bronze-gi'een, sometimes bluish, and slightly smaller.
In the female the vertex bears a simple carina ; the anterior part of
the prothorax is less retuse, often without impression, and in the
female the tubercle is less projecting.

Length 7-8^ mm. ; width 4^5 mm.

Hob. Cape Colony (Kimberley, Vryburg) ; Southern Rhodesia
(Zambesi River, teste d'Orbigny).

Onthophagus ^quepubens, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1905, p. 395.
Bronze-black, shiny or with the head and prothorax bronze-green ;
densely but briefly pubescent on the upper side ; antennal club
piceous ; <J clypeus somewhat elongated, deeply incised in the
centre with the angles of the incision sharply triangular and very
plainly refiexed, the anterior frontal part is simple, but near the
vertex and between the eyes rise two sharp, straight horns disunited
at the base, which stands in a line with nearly the posterior part of
the eyes ; both the clypeus and the frontal part are covered with
contiguous, deep fossule-like punctures which are growing shallower
towards the cephalic horns ; prothorax sub-gibbulose, briefly retuse
at the apex and having in the centre of this retuse part a very small
tubercle, covered with contiguous, deep setigerous punctures which
are slightly asperous in front and the sides, the posterior part of
which is plainly sinuate with the basal angle rounded, the base is
marginate, and there is a plain longitudinal, median sulcus in the
posterior part of the disk ; in the ? the clypeus is much less deeply
and sharply incised, at its junction with the frontal part is a short,
not much raised, strongly arcuate ridge, and in a line with the median
part of the eyes a high, vertical, laminate ridge in a line with the
eyes, and occupying one-half of the whole width ; the prothorax is
simple, more briefly pubescent than in the $ , and the base is
marginate in the median part only ; elytra narrowly striate and not
distinctly punctulate, intervals sub-tectiform and having two series
of deep, uneven, not very regular punctures bearing each a minute

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sub-flaveseent hair ; pygidium covered with contiguous, deep, mode-
rately broad, setigerous punctures divided by a narrow, slightly
raised interval ; inner spur of anterior tibiae straight.

Length 4-6 mm. ; width 2^-3i mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg District) ; Southern Ehodesia
(Salisbury, Sebakwe).

Onthophagus biconifer, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxiv., 1905, p. 527.

" Shiny, coppery black, glabrous on the upper side, sides of the
prothorax, elytra, and pygidium very briefly flavous pubescent.
Head sub-finely and sub-densely punctate and having a few large,
sparse punctures on the clypeus and on the genae, clypeus truncate,
frontal part arcuately carinate, vertex bi-tuberculate between the
eyes, and very slightly depressed between the tubercles ; prothorax
simply, moderately strongly and moderately thickly punctate with
the space between the punctures non-rugose, not sulcate lengthways,
not depressed behind the posterior angles, the sides slightly sinuate
behind, the base marginate in the centre only ; elytra narrowly but
distinctly striate, intervals nearly plane, uniformly, simply, moderately
strongly and little densely punctate ; pygidium very strongly and
little densely punctate.

Length 4 mm.

Hab. Transvaal."

Very closely allied to two species, i.e., 0. bituberans and 0. bidenti
from, d'Orb., which have not as yet been recorded from the South
African Sub-Eegion.

Onthophagus quadrimaculatus, Earn-.,
Eev. and Mag. d. Zool, 1877, p. 8.

"Ovate, moderately shiny, very briefly fulvous setose, bronzy;
elytra with two transverse external red macules, one basal, the other,
which is smaller, apical; head briefly rounded; clypeus hardly
sinuate, rugulose punctate, frontal part obsoletely carinate, vertex
vaguely punctate, bi-tuberculate; prothorax strongly punctate, with
the sides sub-angular, roundly dilated and from there slightly sinuated
towards the base ; elytra finely striate, intervals plane, hardly seriate
punctate and then not deeply ; pygidium strongly punctate ; anterior
tibiae tri-dentate.

Length 4i- mm."

Originally described from the Schimba Mountain, Zanzibar main-
land. d'Orbigny records it from Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury).

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Onthophagus cinctipenms, Qued. Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., xxviii., 1884,

p. 276.

0. patricius, Per., Cat. i.( p. 228.

d'Orbigny has established this synonymy (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1905,
p. 532). The species was first described from Angola.

Onthophagus marshalli, d'Orbign.

This species is so closely allied to 0. granulum, d'Orbigny, that I
verily believe the two are merely the different sexes of one species.
Moreover, my two examples of 0. granulum and 0. marshalli were
found the same day and in the same locality. The example identified
by d'Orbigny under the name of marshalli differs from granulum,
also identified by d'Orbigny, in having the clypeus more broadly and
more arcuately scooped in front with the angles of the incision
sharper, the anterior frontal carina is more arcuate and reaches from
one gena to the other, the posterior carina is somewhat more
laminate, the very short triangular carina on the vertex is slightly
more prominent than in 0. granulum, and the punctures in front and
behind the second frontal laminate carina are very much finer, being
aciculate only; the prothorax is simple but bears in the anterior part
of the apex a minute tubercle, the shape is the same as that of
0. granulum, but the punctures are slightly smaller, and all of them
extremely briefly setigerous, and so are the punctures on the
intervals of the elytra, those of the pygidium are alike.

Length 4 mm. ; width 2£ mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg District, Plat River), April 5, 1905.

Onthophagus binodis, Thunb.,
Mi'm. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 407.
0. columella, Fahr., Catal. i., p. 243.

Onthophagus lacustpjs, Har.,
M it tli. Munch. Ent. Ver., i., 1877, p. 99.
Black, very little if at all metallic, briefly pubescent, antenna1
fuscous black ; clypeus semi-circular, emarginate in the centre, the
margin slightly reflexed, head simple, clypeal and also the anterior
frontal parts transversely carinulate plicate, the plication somewhat
interrupted and sub-scabrose in the frontal part, and replaced on the
vertex by confluent, sub-rugulose punctures ; prothorax simple,
covered with round, uniform punctures very closely set and separated

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by an interval smaller than the punctures, glabrous in the dorsal
part, briefly pubescent laterally ; base narrowly marginate ; elytra
very briefly setulose, narrowly striate, the striae shallow, indistinctly
punctate, the intervals, which are of equal width, filled with a closely
set, elongated punctuation with raised intervals forming a sort of
longitudinal sinuous, shallow network ; pygidium covered with
shallow sub-contiguous punctures; inner spur of anterior tibiae
strongly incurved at tip.

Closely allied to 0. discretus, Per. (Cat. i., p. 239), but differing in
the colour of the antennae, and also in the sculpture of the elytra,
which in 0. discretus consists in the dorsal part of a double row of
somewhat uneven shallow punctures, but not of a longitudinal
network as in 0. lamtstris.

Length 13-13| mm. ; width 5-5^ mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira). This species was originally described
from Nyassaland.

Onthophagus serenus, Pering.,

Plate XLVIIL, fig. 18.

Ann. S. Afric. Mus., iii., 1904, p. 221.

Black, shiny, with extremely minute hairs in the punctures of the
head and prothorax, hardly pubescent underneath, club of antennae
black ; clypeus deeply incised in front, and with the angles very
sharp and reflexed, genae triangular, projecting, there is no distinct
clypeal suture or keel, but a slight carinulate elevation reaching the
two genae, the frontal part is simple, but there is a distinct, oblique
supra-ocular ridge ( $ ) ; the prothorax is broader than long, rounded
laterally, the outer margins are not highly carinate and the base has
no distinct fold, the surface is covered with sub-contiguous cicatricose
punctures, coarser on the sides than on the disk ; elytra longer than
the prothorax with the striae distinct and the plane intervals finely
granulose ; pygidium broader than long, very closely punctulate, and
glabrous, inner spur of anterior tibiae curved inwards at apex in both
sexes, but that of the male is thicker.

This species is allied to 0. lacustris, Har., and 0. discretus, Per.,
but it differs in the incised clypeus, and also in having the intervals
of the elytra normally granulose instead of being longitudinally
shagreened as in the former, or sub-scabrose punctate as in the last-
named species.

Length 7^ mm. ; width 4-4J mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe, Enkeldoorn)

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Onthophagus beibanub, n. sp.

Fuscous bronze, moderately shiny, almost glabrous above ; head
and prothorax more aeneous than the elytra, antennal club flavescent ;
clypeus «rounded but somewhat obtuse in the centre, the margin of
which is raised, and the genae well projecting, it is separated from
the frontal part by a distinctly raised, only moderately arcuate
carina ; in the great development of the 3 the anterior frontal part
is simple, and on the vertex are two long, erect horns as long as the
whole head, not united at the base, and each set close to the eye ; in
the $ there is in the anterior part and close to the clypeal ridge a
shorter, strongly arcuate one and the posterior part is produced into
an erect laminate process deeply emarginate in the centre, where
there is a very small tooth, the angles of the lamina being sharp and
like short horns ; the clypeus and the genae are closely punctate, the
punctures simple, the central frontal part is smooth in the,? , finely
punctulate in the ? ; prothorax declivous in front in the $ and with
two slight depressions there immediately behind the cephalic horns,
simple at apex, finely but not closely, and equally aciculate, slightly
sinuate laterally behind with the basal angle quite rounded, and
the base finely marginate on the sides of the base but not in the
centre, no impression or traces of a longitudinal line in the posterior
median part of the disk ; in the small development of the $ the pro-
thorax is a little more plane in front, almost vertical in the centre and
has a faint, smooth ridge at the apex ; elytra narrowly striate, the
striae closely punctulate ; intervals of equal size in the dorsal part,
and filled with two series of irregularly disposed punctures somewhat
rough in the dorsal intervals and asperous or subgranulose laterally,
each of them however extremely briefly setigerous ; pygidium deeply
and somewhat closely punctate, the punctures simple not setigei*ous,
basal margin slightly angular in the centre ; anterior tibiae not
mucronate inwardly and inner spur slightly incurved at tip in both
sexes.

Differing as the two sexes seem to be in the armature of the head
and shape of prothorax there can be no doubt as to their identity,
3 $ $ and 1 £ having been captured the same day and in the same
spot.

The armature of the head in both sexes resembles that of 0. bovinus
Per. (Catal. i., p. 209), but not so the shape of the clypeus and
prothorax, or the sculpture of the latter. It is also allied to 0.
birugatus, d'Orb.

Length 7-8 mm. ; width 3f--4i mm.

II, ih. Mozambique (Beira ; Lucitania).

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Onthophagus bovinus, Per., Cat. i., p. 211.
0. lobigena, d'Orb., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 53.

Onthophagus flavimakgo, d'Orbigny,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 59.

" Moderately shiny, testaceous, head and prothorax green-bronze,
sides of the prothorax and base broadly testaceous ; elytra tessellated
with black, the minute macules are round and situated between the
granules ; glabrous on the upper side ; head briefly but not con-
spicuously flavous pubescent in front, also the sides and apex of the
elytra, and the pygidium. Head bi-carinate, finely and densely
rugose granulate, but with simple punctures on the vertex ; clypeus
rounded, anterior carina set a little before the middle, and sub-
arcuate, hind carina set between the eyes but slightly past the
anterior margin of the eyes and strongly angulate backwards in the
centre ; prothorax with simple punctures moderately dense and
moderately deep, somewhat unequal and deeper towards the sides,
posterior sides sinuate, base marginate ; elytra somewhat finely
striate, intervals plane, sparingly and not regularly granulate ;
pygidium not densely punctate.

Length 7— 1\ mm.

Hob. Natal."

This species, which is not known to me, is compared by
d'Orbigny to 0. ambiguus, Pering., but the armature of the head
differs. I should not be surprised if it proved to be identical with
0. -plebejus, Kl.

Onthophagus limbibasis, d'Orb.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1905, p. 428.
? Female : " Slightly shiny, head and prothorax bronze-green, base of
prothorax broadly testaceous ; elytra testaceous, sprinkled with small
black rounded patches surrounding a granule ; pygidium testaceous,
glabrous on the prothorax but with the sides briefly flavous-pubescent,
on the elytra this pubescence is very short, but long towards the
apex and also on the pygidium ; head granulate in the anterior part,
simply punctate on the posterior, not carinate, having merely a
minute tubercle between the eyes, clypeus rounded ; prothorax
simply and sparsely punctate, the punctuation being moderately
fine and moderately equal in the centre, but intermixed with plainly
larger ones towards the sides, sides sinuate behind, base marginate ;
elytra finely striate, intervals plane, sparingly and irregularly granu-
late ; pygidium sparingly granulate punctate.

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Length lh mm.

11"/'. Lake N'Gami.

Resembles 0. flavimargo, Orb., differs by the non-testaceous sides
of the prothorax, the long, instead of short, pubescence of the apical
part of the elytra and of the pygidium, the head without ridge and
having only a small tubercle between the eyes, the remote punctua-
tion of the prothorax which consists of little unequal and moderately
fine punctures in the centre, and on the sides of fine punctures inter-
mixed with very large and very remote ones, instead of the punc-
tuation being uniformly moderately close, moderately large and
consisting of slightly unequal punctures."

Onthophagus consobrinus ( 2 ) Pering., Cat. i., p. 259.

Male : Black, very shiny, with hardly any metallic tinge, or a very
indistinct one. Clypeus deeply and broadly scooped in the anterior
part, the margin strongly reflexed and angular on each side of the
scooped part as in the 2 , on the vertex is a highly raised arcuate
lamina forming a semicircle the ends of which abut on the base of
the head behind the posterior edge of the eyes and which is continued
transversely for a short distance along the base to a little short of
the central part where there is a transverse smooth fold, this semi-
circular wall is a little blunt in front, and the space it encloses is
much more simply punctate than the same part in the 2 , the
punctuation of the clypeus is not so rugose, and not plicate ; in the
great development, the centre of the prothorax is strongly sloping
and there is on each side of the slope a subtransverse impression
surmounted by a smooth, round callus at the top of the declivity ;
the rest is as in my description of the 2 (loc. cit.) but in well-
preserved examples every granule in the intervals of the elytra
bears a minute sub-flavescent hair, and the deep, somewhat scat-
tered punctures of the metasternum carry a long, stiff hair of the
same colour.

Length 9-11 mm. ; width G-7 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe) ; Northern Rhodesia (Kafue
River; Feira). This species ranges from Lake Chad through British
and German East Africa and reaches Mozambique and Southern
Rhodesia.

Onthophagus carbonarius, Klug, Cat. i., p. 244.
0. glaber, Boh., Cat. i., p. 239.

I think that d'Orbigny is right in suggesting that 0. carbonarius
Is the $ of 0. glaber, hut not in suggesting that 0. vicarvus, Pering.,
is the same species.

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Onthophagus subplanus, d'Orbign.,
Ana. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 59.

" Hardly convex, moderately shiny, reddish testaceous, head
darker, glabrous on the upper side, pygidium very briefly and
sparsely setose ; head closely punctulate, with only one very
obsolete carina somewhat short, nearly straight and set slightly in
front of the eyes, the anterior part is finely transversely plicate, the
rest of the surface moderately finely and closely punctulate; pro-
thorax with simple fine punctures more sparse on the disk and
gradually denser towards the sides which are hardly sinuate behind,
the base is marginate ; elytra very finely striate, intervals convex at
the base, nearly plane beyond it, and bearing simple, moderately fine
punctures disposed irregularly ; pygidium covered with a fine but
remote punctuation.

Length 5^ mm."

Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg).

d'Orbigny says of this species, which I have not seen, that it.
resembles no other known to him.

Onthophagus ventkosus, d'Orbig.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxiv., 1905, p. 530.

" Shiny, head and pro thorax dark greenish bronze, elytra and
pygidium sub-viridous black, glabrous on the upper side, sides of
elytra and pygidium very briefly flavous pubescent. Head iner-
mous, simply, finely and thickly punctate, but more strongly so on
the genae, and having a few larger punctures on the temples;
clypeus narrowed at apex, recurved and rounded ; prothorax
entirely simply, moderately deeply, and also moderately densely
punctate, and having a few minute punctures intermixed in the
middle of the anterior declivity, broadly depressed on each side in
front, the median part broad, gibbose, and briefly sub-carinate
obliquely on each side near the depression, sides very slightly
sinuate behind, base marginate ; elytra moderately finely striate,
intervals plane, and moderately densely punctate granulate ;
pygidium moderately densely punctate.

Length 7-g- mm.

Hab. Transvaal."

d'Orbigny compares this species with 0. latigibber from the
Cameroons, Sierra Leone, &c.

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Onthophagus minutulus, Har., Cat. i., p. 263.
d'Orbigny, in Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 96, says of this species,
the type of which he has examined : "The head has only two very
fine carhne dividing it transversely in three parts, the median one
being the smaller, the other two being about equal, the anterior carina
is arcuate and reaches the suture of the genae, the hind one is
straight, much shorter, slightly interrupted in the middle, situate
between the anterior edge of the eyes and not occupying much
more than a third of the distance. The colour is shiny ebony
black, the prothorax has a broad remote punctuation with the ad-
mixture of a few fine punctures ; the intervals of the elytra are
filled with remote, irregularly disposed granules."

Onthophagus pauxillus, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 97.

" Minute, moderately shiny, black, elytra testaceous, with the
juxta-sutural interval, often the basal margin, and sometimes a
small macule situate in the third posterior part of the disk black ;
briefly rlavous pubescent on the upper side. Head wholly as strongly
and densely sub-rugosely punctate on the clypeus as on the genae,
clypeus sinuate, frontal part arcuately carinate, vertex with a short,
straight carina situated in the middle in a line with the eyes; pro-
thorax uniformly moderately strongly and densely punctate, the
punctures simple ; sides sinuate behind, base minutely marginate ;
elytra moderately striate, intervals plane, and irregularly granu-
late ; pj^gidium densely and moderately strongly punctate and with
intervening minute punctures.

Length 2£- 3^ mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria) ; Cape Colony (Vryburg)."

d'Orbigny states that this species is closely related to 0. pullus,
Both., which differs from it by the very sparse broad punctuation of
the $ , which has only a small horn situate in the centre, while the
$ has a singularly arcuate frontal carina situate in the anterior
third, and sometimes faint traces of an inverted arcuate carina or of
a tubercle situate towards the posterior third between the fore part
of the eyes, the prothorax is more broadly and less closely punctate ;
the punctures on the pygidium are very big, but also mixed with
fine punctures.

Onthophagus pulsus, Both.,
Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg., xvh., 1, 1851, p. 127.

0. brcvicornis, Fahr., ins. Caffr., ii., p. 314.

Head and prothorax fuscous coppery on the upper side, elytra

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rufo-testaceous, with the basal margin nigrescent or fuscous,
antennae rufescent, club fuscous. Head hardly broader than long,
with sub-angulate genua, piceous tinted with coppery, sparingly
pubescent, minutely punctate in the centre and more deeply and
closely in front and on the genas, anterior margin of clypeus
moderately raised, sub-truncate or hardly distinctly sinuate in the
anterior part, vertex with an erect, subulate tooth dilated at base
and slightly shorter than the head in the $ , while the ? bears
there a transverse granule or a little distinct carinule ; prothorax
deeply emarginate at apex, obtusely and moderately rounded at the
base, convex on the upper part, somewhat distinctly retuse in front,
deeply and moderately closely punctate and with a rufous macule in
the middle of the sides ; elytra very finely striate, with the intervals
sparsely and most minutely granulate punctate, and with the punc-
tures very briefly setulose ; pygidium black like the under side,
sparsely punctate.

Length 2§-3 mm. ; width 1|— If mm.

I mistook this species for Caccobius viridicollis, Fahr. (Cat. i.,
p. 173), which it greatly resembles, but from which it differs by the
armature of the head. d'Orbigny records it from Natal and the
Transvaal (Pietersburg). It was originally described from Abyssinia,
and has been found in British and German East Africa.

Onthophagus declivicollis, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 72.

" Somewhat shiny, black, head and prothorax blackish bronze,
elytra black piceous, briefly flavous pubescent on the upper side.
In the $ the head in front and on the vertex is nearly smooth, the
clypeus rugose, rounded at apex, the front has an arcuate carina,
and the vertex a narrow lamina briefly dentate on each side towards
the base, produced into a horn in the centre, and situated between
the eyes ; prothorax simply, strongly and moderately densely punc-
tate, the intervals between the punctures are nearly plane ; in
the $ the anterior part is raised and produced in the middle, emar-
ginate and bi-tuberculate at apex, slightly hollowed near by and
smooth there, sides hardly sinuate behind, base marginate ; elytra
not deeply striate, intervals sub-convex and with an uneven surface,
moderately densely and irregularly granular, but the sides are
strongly and nearly simply punctate. Pygidium moderately deeply,
and moderately densely punctate.

Length 6^- mm.

Hah, Natal."

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d'Orbigny says of this species, which I have not seen, that it is
closely allied to 0. hycena, the latter differing from it by having the
intervals of the elytra plane, with an equal surface, and with the
greatest part rilled with very fine granules very little closely set, and
disposed in two series ; the punctuation of the prothorax is less deep
and more spread. It is also closely allied to 0. crctus, Pering., which
dit't'crs by the prothorax being much more closely punctate with the
intervals between the punctures wrinkled, and the sides plainly
sinuate near the basal angle.

Onthophagus setosus, Fahr., ? ,
Insect. Caff'r., ii., 291 ; Catal. i., p. 198.
0. crctus, Pering., $ . Cat. i., p. 199.

I had most probably seen a wrongly named co-type of Fahraeus
when I placed this species on synonymy with 0. piceus and 0. lugens
of the same author. Harold, however, has united with this species
0. scahrosus and 0. pedcstris, Fahr. I have done the same for the
two latter (Catal. i., p. 199). According to d'Orbigny my 0. cretus
is the 3 of 0. setosus, the type of which is a ? •

Onthophagus cineraceus, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 71.

"Opaque, black, very briefly pubescent on the upper side, but
with the pubescence longer on the head. Head strongly punctate,
clypeus more or less rugose, hardly sinuate at apex, irons arcuately
carinate, vertex in the $ with a short conical tooth, or a tubercle
situated nearly in the middle of the space between the eyes, in
the $ with a straight, somewhat long carina situated between the
eyes near their posterior margin ; prothorax strongly but not densely
punctate and more minutely and sparingly so in the median part of
the base, briefly transversely callose or indistinctly bi-tuberculate
in the middle of the anterior part; sides hardly sinuate laterally,
base marginate ; elytra broadly striate, with the intervals plane, and
with simple, moderately deep, dense punctures set without order;
pygidium simply and moderately strongly punctate."

d'Orbigny compares this species, which 1 have not seen, to
0. minutus, Hausm., which differs by the prothorax being very
closely punctate, and having no projection in the anterior part,
while in the J the carina of the vertex is much shorter and occu-
pies only half the width of the area between the eyes."

1 am fain to think, however, that this species is merely a

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slight variation of 0. minutus, which is one of the four species
of Onthophagus found in the neighbourhood of Cape Town.

Length 5-6|- mm.

Hab. Cape Town, Cape Colony.

Onthophagus hy^na, Fabric,
Syst. Eleuth., 1801, p. 51.

0. impictus, Fahr., Cat. i., p. 203; Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 71,
teste d'Orbigny.

Onthophagus minutus, Hausm.,
Illig. Mag. f. Insekt., vi., 1807, p. 263.
O. opacfis, Fahr., Catal. i., p. 202.

This synonymy is due to d'Orbigny (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.,
1902, p. 70).

Onthophagus variolosus, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 76.

" Opaque, black, glabrous on the upper side; head very minutely
punctulate, slightly rugose in front, more distinctly punctate towards
the sides and behind, not carinate, strongly tuberculate between the
eyes, clypeus sub-angularly rounded ; prothorax with simple, strong,
closely-set punctures, intervals of the punctures sub-rugose, the
anterior part is briefly transversely callose, the sides sinuate behind,
the base marginate ; elytra little deeply striate, intervals plane, closely
punctate, the punctures large and slightly granulose inwardly, the
intervals between the punctures sub-rugose ; pygidium strongly and
closely punctate.

Length 7 mm.

Hab. Cape Town."

This species, which I have not seen, is, according to d'Orbigny,
unlike any other. It is easily recognised by its very closely set large
punctuation, and especially owing to the very peculiar formation of
the punctures of the intervals of the elytra.

Onthophagus apiciosus, d'Orb.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 92.

Dark bronze, almost bronze-black in some examples, glabrous on
the upper side. Clypeus sub-triangular, the anterior median part
which projects considerably is broadly bi-dentate, the margin is
reflexed all round; these anterior teeth are less conspicuous, been

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probably worn out in several examples of both sexes ; there is no
frontal suture or carina in either sex, but there is in both a highly
raised carina situated in a line with the median part of the eyes, but
not reaching tbe latter; this carina is straight in the $ , and slightly
arcuate and less raised in the $ , in which the anterior part of the
clypeus is also more plainly plicatulate ; the punctures of the frontal
part and the apex are simple, moderately deep, and separated by an
interval about equal to their own diameter; prothorax simple, but
slightly retuse in front in the large development (<? ), the retuse part
bounded at the top by a very faint tubercle ; it is strongly sinuate
laterally behind, and the base has a somewhat weak fold in the
centre, but that fold or margin becomes very indistinct towards the
sides; there is a faint median longitudinal impression above the base
which is not angular, and the whole surface is covered with simple,
equi-distant punctures separated by an interval equal to their own
diameter ; elytra moderately ampliate laterally, narrowly striate,
the intervals plane and having each two rows of small, very little
asperous, if asperous at all, punctures except towards the apical
part where they become more so ; pygidium glabrous and covered
with punctures similar in size and arrangement to those of the
prothorax ; under side and legs bronze-brown, glabrous.

Length 6-8 mm. ; width 3-5 mm.

Hab. Natal (Estcourt, Maritzburg, Durban) ; Southern Rhodesia
(Umtali); Mozambique (Feira). The species was originally described
from German East Africa.

Onthophagus confertus, Pering., n. sp.,

0. pusio, Per., nee Fahr., Cat. i., p. 203.

Black, shiny, glabrous, clypeus with the median anterior part pro-
duced into two triangular teeth coalescing at the base, no frontal
carina, in the centre of the vertex a small, conical tubercle, some-
what transverse at apex, set in a line with the anterior edge of the
eyes, clypeal and frontal parts covered with simple punctures set very
close to each other, those on the vertex slightly more broadly sepa-
rated ; prothorax simple, somewhat abruptly sloping in front but
rounded there, covered with deep, simple punctures separated by
an interval inferior to their own diameter, sides sinuate laterally in
the posterior part, basal fold indistinct in the centre which is some-
what angular, the base itself not impressed longitudinally there ;
elytra short, being only very little longer than the prothorax, some-
what ampliated laterally, the stria' with a double series of somewhat
minutely setigerous sub-scabrose punctures.

I am not satisfied that this species is not identical with 0. pusio J ;

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the alleged co-type, if not type, of which I have seen, hut Fahraeus
ascribes to it a thorax with " remote punctures," as well as elytral
" intervals sparingly punctate," which is not the case in 0. confertus.
This species, however, belongs to a group in which there are no
traces of frontal carina in either sex, only a small horn or a
tubercle on the vertex. Fahraeus' description of the $ possesses
this character, but to the ? he ascribes two frontal transverse
arcuate carina?, which could not be applied to 0. confertus. This
latter is allied to 0. apiciosus, but differs by the less closely punctate
prothorax, which has distinctly a basal fold, and by the more trans-
verse carina of the vertex, the said carina being also situated more
backwards than in 0. confertus.

Length 5 mm. ; width 3 J mm.

Hab. Natal (Maritzburg).

Onthophagus ljevatus, d'Orbigny,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 69.

"Black, shiny, glabrous; head minutely and densely punctate,
clypeus rugose, truncate at the apex ; frontal part with a long
carina produced as far as the outer margin of the head, and having
on the vertex a shorter carina situate between the eyes and in the
middle; prothorax minutely and not very densely punctate, the
punctures simple, nearly smooth in the posterior half, more deeply
and more densely sub-rugosely punctate towards the sides, gibbose
in the middle of the anterior part and with a tubercle or a callosity
on each side of the apex ; hind part of the sides sinuate, base very
finely marginate, the striae briefly sulciform at the base, intervals
plane, most minutely and sparingly punctate ; pygidium sub-finely
punctate. Club of antennae black or deep fuscous.

Length 7-9 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Delagoa)."

I have not met with this species, and the description here given
is that of d'Orbigny.

Onthophagus placens, Pering.,
Ann. S. Afric. Mus., hi., 1904, p. 219.
Male : Black, very shiny, glabrous on the upper side, but with the
epipleural fold punctulate, and with a few fulvous hairs, prosternum
hairy, legs sparingly hairy, clypeus semicircular but broadly although
not deeply emarginate in front, strongly plicate transversely, sepa-
rated from the frontal part by a transverse, not much raised keel
extending from one gena to the other, far in front of the eyes, frontal

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part produced into a long, sharp horn sloping backwards, triangularly
laminate for half the length, slender and acute thence; gense wide,
upper part of the eyes very narrow ; prothorax with a marginal fold
all round, quite rounded laterally behind, impunctate and with the
median part depressed from the anterior margin to two-thirds of the
length ; elytra shorter than the prothorax, punctate striate with
the intervals plane and impunctate ; pygidium much broader than
long, faintly punctulate, glabrous ; sides of the metasternum and
episterna with scattered piligerous punctures ; abdomen punctulate
laterally along the edge of the segments, femora with only a few
setigerous punctures ; anterior femora tri-dentate outwardly and not
distinctly serrate above the teeth, inner spur of anterior tibiae
strongly bent inwardly at tip.

Length 10 mm. ; width 6|- mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Umtali).

Onthophagus alhipexnis, n. sp.

Dark bronze, shiny, glabrous ; elytra very light straw-colour with
the suture dark bronze, antennae fuscous ; clypeus rounded with
the anterior part deeply, arcuately scooped but with the angles of
the projection not projecting although sharp, margin slightly
reflexed, genie projecting but not angular, in the anterior frontal
part is an arcuate carina, and between this one and the vertex
proper, and equi-distant from both, is another arcuate carina, the
centre of which is moderately highly dentate, and the ends set
behind the eyes, the clypeal part is deeply and somewhat coarsely
punctate on the sides, and so are the genae, the space between the
carinas and the vertex is weakly and somewhat remotely punctu-
late ; prothorax simple, with the sides not sinuate, the basal angle
absent, the whole base marginate, somewhat plane on the upper
side, and with no distinct longitudinal sulcus or depression in the
middle of the posterior part, the whole surface is covered with
moderately fine round punctures separated from each other by a
smooth space about equal to their own diameter ; elytra plainly
punctate striate with the dorsal intervals of equal width, smooth and
plane ; pygidium with the basal margin broadly sub-triangular,
glabrous and covered with punctures that are deeper than those
on the prothorax, but equally distant from each other ; inner angle
of anterior tibiae strongly inucronate, spur directed outwards.

Length 3f-4 mm. ; width 2^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage).

Closely allied to 0. flavipennis, Fahr. (Catal. i., p. 231), but in thai
species the prothorax is almost complete!) smooth,

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Onthophagus flavolimbatus, Klug, Cat. i., p. 211.

0. semiflavus, d'Orb. nee Bohem., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., Ixxii., 1902,
p. 104.

0. breviculus, d'Orb., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxiv., 1905, p. 440.

Bronze, very shiny, glabrous on the upper side, antennal club
fuscous, elytra testaceous red, with the suture and a broad, arcuate
aeneous band, reaching on each side from the humeral part to past
the middle, and probably often interrupted ; clypeus elongate
arcuate, broadly and somewhat deeply sinuate in the centre, the
angles of the sinuation plainly projecting, especially in the $ ; and
slightly reflexed, the genae follow the line of the clypeus ; the $ has
on the vertex a short, sub-laminate carina with sharp angles and set
in a line with the hind part of the eyes, the ? has a similar carina,
but at the junction with the clypeus is another and more arcuate
one ; the clypeus as well as the genae are very sparingly and some-
what remotely punctate in the $ , more so on the sides of the
clypeus and on the genae in the ? , but the frontal part is impunc-
tate in both ; prothorax simple, convex, sides very slightly sinuate
towards the basal part the outer angles of which are not quite
rounded, but nearly so, and with the base wholly marginate, the
whole surface is covered with simple punctures, moderately deep
and separated from each other in the anterior and lateral parts by a
space equal to their own diameter, while in the dorsal median and
posterior part the intervals are wider than the punctures ; no
depression in the posterior part of the prothorax ; elytra broad and
short, narrowly punctate striate, intervals tectiform and impunctate;
pygidium deeply punctate, interval between the punctures as broad
as the punctures themselves, glabrous, the basal margin very dis-
tinctly triangular ; anterior tibiae of $ mucronate inwardly and with
the spur straight, merely angular in the ? .

Length 3 mm. ; width 2 mm.

First recorded from the Transvaal (Pretoria District) by d'Orbigny.
My examples are from Southern Ehodesia (Plumtree).

Onthophagus nanus, Har.,
Monatsb. Berl. Akad., xliii., 1878, p. 211.
O. decipiens, Pering., Cat. i., p. 225 ; teste d'Orbigny, Ann. Soc.
Ent. Fr., 1905, p. 442.

First described from German East Africa. In addition to the
two localities I mentioned, viz., Natal (Malvern) and Mossamedes,
this species is recorded from Natal (Isipingo, Zululand), Mozambique
(Lourenco-Marquez), Nyassaland (Zomba, Blantyre).

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Onthophagus verticalis, Fiihr., Cat. i., p. 222.
0. comic ii lat its, Pering., nee Eeiche., loc. cit., p. 222.

I placed (loc. cit.) 0. verticalis, Fahr., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 308, in
synonymy with 0. corniculatus, Keiche, which is certainly extremely
closely allied to it. It differs, however, in the punctuation of the
prothorax heing simple and somewhat remote on the disk, with the
exception of a median smooth band, but asperous and more closely
set as it reaches the sides, where it is granulate, and that of the
intervals of the elytra consists of not very closely set granules. In
0. verticalis both the prothorax and the elytra are covered with
very fine and very closely set granules.

In addition to the localities given, 0. verticalis is recorded from
the Orange Eiver Colony (Bloemfontein) and Plumtree (Southern
Rhodesia).

Onthophagus decedens, Pering.,
Plate XLVIIL, figs. 5, 6.
Ann. S. Ai'ric. Museum, iii., 1904, p. 219.
Head and prothorax light bronze, moderately shiny, the Latter
with a flavescent lateral patch, broad in the anterior part, narrower
behind and not reaching the posterior angle, the elytra are light
testaceous with the stria? fuscous, pygidium and pectus bronze, the
legs sub-testaceous, the abdomen darker than the pectus ; it is
covered with a short, very dense greyish pubescence longer in the
posterior part of the elytra, and very long and silky on the pygidium ;
clypeus slightly elongated, rounded in front with the anterior margin
reflexed, covered with dee]), transverse, setigerous punctures separated
by raised, irregular folds ; in the male the scabrose punctate frontal part
is produced from the raised frontal suture into a triangular lamina
dividing at the tip into two divaricating sharp horns, and having a
short triangular tooth in the centre, the two teeth barely reach the
height of the anterior part of the prothorax, the median anterior part
of which is sub-vertical and impunctate along the base and also on
each side of the declivity, but otherwise covered all over with very
closely set granules denser and smaller on the centre of the disk than
on the sides, the upper part of the anterior declivity is simple, in
shape tlie prothorax is slightly broader than long, finely earinate
along the base and the posterior angles are rounded; in the female the
clypeus is less semicircular, the clypeal suture is arcuate and sharply
earinate, the frontal part closely granular, and there is a slightly
arcuate lamina-like ridge with sharp outer angles situated between
the eyes but stopping at some distance from them ; the anterior part

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of the prothorax is not as highly raised as in the male and is therefore
proportionately less declivous, but it is plainly bi-tuberculate ; the
intervals of the elytra are plane and very closely punctured ; the
closely punctate pygidium is nearly as broad as long in both sexes ;
in the male the inner spur of the anterior tibiae is nearly straight, but
it is slightly inflexed inwardly at tip in the female.

Closely allied to 0. pictipodex, d'Orb., but the armature of the
head is very different. 0. pictipodex was probably described from
female examples.

Length 8|— 9| mm. ; width 5-5J mm

Uab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe).

Onthophagus ubsinus, d'Orbigm,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 112.
Moderately shiny, black ; elytra brownish red, except for a broad
median triangular fuscous patch reaching from the base to about the
middle and acuminate there, occasionally there is only a narrow
reddish band along the sides and the apex, the upper part is clothed
with a somewhat erect and moderately thick flavescent pubescence ;
clypeus sub-orbicular, very slightly sinuate in the centre of the
anterior part, frontal part with an arcuate ridge between the genaa
which are not very greatly projecting, and a transverse, fairly highly
raised ridge broadly separated from the eyes, the surface is granulate
except at the back of the anterior arcuate ridge ; prothorax not much
ampliated laterally, and having thus the appearance of being some-
what elongated, the posterior lateral margin is plainly sinuate, but
the basal angle is not rounded ; it is covered with closely set, elon-
gated granules the intervals of which are setulose, the anterior part
is simple and the disk very little convex, on the posterior part is a
short supra-basal longitudinal impression, and the base is narrowly
marginate ; elytra hardly longer or broader than the prothorax, finely
striate, the intervals with two series of granules turning on the sides
to asperous punctures ; pygidium covered with round punctures
separated by an interval equal to their own diameter, and clothed
with the same pubescence as the elytra.
Length 3^-3f mm. ; width 2-2£ mm.
Bab. Natal (Durban) ; Mozambique (Rikatla).

Onthophagus graphicus, Wallengr., Catal. i., p. 264.
Black, with a very faint metallic tinge on the head and prothorax,
but more so on the under side and legs, glabrous ; elytra flavescent

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with the suture hlack, three black spots arranged transversely at
some distance from the base between the suture and the fourth
interval, and three larger macules partly connected occasionally in
the posterior part midway between the middle and the apex ;
antennae flavous ; clypeus sub-triangular, obtuse or very slightly
emarginate at the narrowed apex, and with the angles of the emargi-
nation not projecting, yet not blunt, the genae continue the line of
the clypeus and are angular in the median part, there is no clypeal
or frontal suture or carina, but the very margin of the vertex is
sharply marginate, the whole surface is covered with uniform, equi-
distant, simple punctures separated by an interval nearly equal to
their own diameter ; prothorax simple, somewhat convex, sloping
Eorward, plainly sinuate laterally behind, the basal angle rounded
and the base, which is somewhat angular in the centre, completely
marginate, there is a very slight elongated impression in the central
posterior part of the disk, the whole surface of which is covered by
greatly elongated granules set extremely closely to each other ;
elytra very shallowly geminate striate, the intervals plane, of equal
width in the dorsal part, and with two series each of shallow acicu-
lations ; pygidium glabrous, covered with deep, sub-fossulate but
small sub-contiguous somewhat rugose punctures, basal margin
plainly angular in the centre ; anterior tibiae hardly more than
angular inwardly ; spur thick and plainly hooked inwardly.

Length 4£-o mm. ; width 3 mm.

Originally recorded from the Transvaal (Christiana), is noted by
d'Orbigny from Lake N'Gami. My examples are from Southern
Rhodesia (Bulawayo).

This species is characterised by the head being without suture or
carina and the base of the prothorax being somewhat angular in the
centre.

Onthophagub macrothorax, d'Orb.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 119.
" Somewhat shiny, head and prothorax obscurely cyaneous green,
elytra black, maculated with testaceous at the base, pygidium greenish
black, upper side very briefly flavous pubescent. Head very short,
granulate, clypeus strongly bi-dentate, the genae strongly dilated and
sub-angular ; frontal part with a short, arcuate carina highly raised,
vertex with a fine ridge situated behind the posterior margin of the
eyes; prothorax ample, uniformly densely granulate, not depressed
above the posterior angles, transversely bi-tuberculate in front,
posterior part of the sides strongly sinuate, base sub-angularly pro-
duced and not distinctly marginate ; elytra not longer than the

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prothorax, deeply striate, intervals plane, densely granulate ;
pygidium closely granulate punctate.

Length 6 mm.

Hab. Lake N'Gami."

Onthophagus teitanicus, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 121.

Bronze, somewhat shiny, briefly pubescent on the upper side,
elytra black with a very broad, slanting, light testaceous basal band
impinging on the tbree first dorsal intervals more than towards the
humeral part, on the sides is a moderately narrow testaceous band
sometimes interrupted in the centre, and each interval past the
median part of the back is maculated with testaceous ; clypeus
arcuate but somewhat produced in the anterior part in the 3 , more
regularly arcuate in the ? , densely covered with somewhat asperous
punctures disposed in transverse rows, genae not incised in the $ ,
slightly but plainly so in the ? , frontal part with an arcuate carina
on the vertex and a small tubercle in each sex (?), frontal surface
covered with deep, closely set, somewhat rugose equi-distant punc-
tures ; prothorax simple, little convex, the sides not sinuate, without
basal angle and marginate, the margin continued to one-third of the
width of the base, no longitudinal median impression on the posterior
part of the disk, the whole of which is covered with very closely set,
equi-distant and somewhat elongated strongly asperous granules ;
elytra plainly broader than the prothorax, narrowly geminate striate,
intervals almost plane, the dorsal ones of equal width, and filled
with numerous, irregularly disposed, small granules ; pygidium not
as closely granulate as the prothorax, and the granules smaller ;
inner angle of anterior tibiae absent in the $ , the spur long, hooked
inwardly at tip, sub-mucronate in the ? , the spur straight.

Length 6|— 1\ mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

Originally described from Zanzibar and the Zanzibar mainland ;
is also recorded from British and German East Africa.

Onthophagus parumnotatus, Fahr., Cat. i., p. 200.
d'Orbigny records this species from British East Africa. He
proposes the name of var. conjunctus (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1905,
p. 454) to those examples in which the testaceous spots have
coalesced and cover thus as large or larger area than the black
background. I have received this variety from Sebakwe in Southern
Rhodesia.

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Onthophagus axillaris, Boh., Cat. i., p. 192.

0. crinitus, d'Orb., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fi\, lxxi., 1902, p. 131.

0. criniger, d'Orb., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov., xli., 1901, p. 326.

" But little shiny, black, head and prothorax blackish green,
elytra with a minute rufous testaceous macule at the shoulders, and
a smaller ante-apical one in the sixth interval ; it is clothed on the
whole upper side with a long, flavous pubescence. In the $ the
head is closely granulate, the sides simple, the clypeus bi-dentate,
the irons slightly arcuately carinate, the vertex with a very short,
hardly distinct carina interrupted in the centre, and situated cross-wise
in a line with the middle of the eyes. Prothorax closely and strongly
granulate, not impressed above the posterior angles, and simple ;
sides strongly sinuate behind, base non-marginate ; elytra broadly
striate, intervals plane, strongly and sparsely granulate; pygidium
sparsely granulate.

Length 7^ mm.

Hab. Lake N'Gami."

d'Orbigny considers 0. criniger as somewhat near 0. axillaris,
Boh., but I cannot differentiate it. 0. axillaris differs from
its very close ally, C. obtusicornis, by the more acuminate clypeus,
which is more deeply emarginate in front and more dentate there,
the genae are also projecting further.

Onthophagus pilosus, Fahr., Cat. i., p. 196.
pellax, Pering., loc. cit., p. 259.

Onthophagus senescens.
0. scniculus, Pering., Cat. i., p. 257.

The name scniculus having been already given by Fabricius to a
species of Onthophagus, I propose to alter the specific name scniculus
into senescens.

Onthophagus bituber, d'Orbign.,
Annal. Mus. Genov., xli., 1901, p. 37.
" Somewhat shiny, head and prothorax sub-obscurely bronze-
green, elytra fuscous with the suture bronze-green; pygidium
greenish black; antennal club lightly testaceous; briefly flavous
pubescent on the upper side. Head finely and simply punctate and
having a few large punctures intermixed on the gena3 and also on the
temples, clypeus rugose, truncate in front ; frontal part arcuately
carinate, vertex with a small, erect lamina truncate at apex and
situated between the hind margins of the eyes ; prothorax granulate

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and marked above the hind angles with a non-depressed smooth
area, strongly bi-tuberculate in front, sides strongly sinuate behind,
base non-marginate except in the middle ; elytra moderately striate,
intervals plane, sparsely and minutely granulate towards the sutural
part, but more densely and also more strongly towards the sides ;
pygidium moderately densely granulate punctate.

Length 9 mm.

Hab. Barotseland.

This species cannot be mistaken for any other, it is distinguished
by its truncate epistoma, its frontal part covered totally with a fine,
simple punctuation ; its green-bronze prothorax, which bears in front
two large tubercles, distinguish it from all the others having also the
prothorax entirely granulate and a base without fold or an interrupted
fold."

Strictly speaking, this species should not be included in the
South African limit, being atrans-Zambesian one. It is most probable,
however, that it occurs also on the South African side.

Onthophagus cribripennis, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 134.

" Sub-opaque, black, sometimes with the prothorax bronze-black
in front, or with the elytra minutely marked with fuscous towards
the shoulders, briefly pubescent on the upper side ; head closely
asperate punctate or rugose granulate ; clypeus rounded or hardly
sinuate, frontal part with an arcuate carina ; in the $ the vertex
bears a somewhat long, triangular horn situated between the eyes ;
in the ? there is a short carina, slightly inversely arcuate and
situated a little in front of the posterior margin of the eyes ; prothorax
strongly densely and sharply punctate, but more sparingly and almost
simply so in the third posterior part of the disk, and sub-impressed
in the centre in front in the J ; sides very slightly sinuate behind,
base marginate, but oftener than not the margin is interrupted on
each side ; elytra moderately striate, intervals plane and covered
with simple, strong, not very close, nor regularly disposed punctures;
pygidium punctate.

Length 6^-8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony; Zululand."

d'Orbigny says of this species, which is unknown to me, that it is
noticeable owing to the large, simple, little closely set punctuation
of the elytra. It is not unlike 0. giraffa, Hausm., which differs
from it by its larger size, the much more finely and less densely
punctured prothorax, and the intervals of the elytra which bear fine,
remote granules.

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ONTHOPHAGUS SEMIGRAMGER, d'Orbign.,

Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxiv., 1905, p. 463.

' ' Little shiny, black, glabrous on the upper side ; head closely, finely
asperous, clypeus emarginate, frontal part arcuately carinate, the
vertex with a lamina not wide, situated long after the eyes and
produced in the middle into a horn ; prothorax closely and finely
granulate, not depressed on each side above the posterior angles,
broadly depressed in the middle in the anterior part, and with the
sides strongly sinuate behind and only slightly sinuate near the
anterior angles, base not marginate ; elytra finely striate, intervals
plane and very minutely punctulate ; pygidium sub-densely and
finely punctate, the punctures intermixed towards the sides with
some larger punctures. Spurs of anterior tibia? provided with a long,
sharp incurved tooth, and set very close to the apex.

Length 7 mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Windhoek)."

d'Orbigny compares the species with O.dicella, Bat., from German
East Africa.

Onthophagus dispar, Per., Cat. i., p. 229.
0. Icevisutura, d'Orbign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 204.

The synonymy is mentioned by d'Orbigny (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.
1903, p. 297). His examples came from German East Africa.

Onthophagus asperrimus, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxii., 1902, p. 206.

incertus, Per., Cat. L, 1901, p. 230.

dubius, d'Orbign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 238.

The description of d'Orbigny is posterior to that of O. incertus,
Per., but the name had already been used for an Asiatic species in
1898. 0. asperrimus was originally described from German East

Africa.

Onthophagus pr^etortus, Per.,

Plate XLVIIL, figs. 10, 11, 12.

Ann. S. Afric. Museum, Hi., 1904, p. 220.

Dark coppery-bronze, very little shiny, antenna? dark bronze
with the club black; clypeus semicircular, but slightly obtuse in
front and with the margin very Blightly reflexed, deeply punctate
with the punctures coalescing along the margin, deeply depressed in

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the central part in front of a highly raised transverse clypeal lamina
which is slightly arcuate but produced on each side into a sharp,
projecting angular process, and situated between the median part of
the eyes, there is no frontal carinule ; prothorax deeply sinuate
laterally behind and with the posterior angles distinct, highly
convex, retuse in front, bi-impressed in the middle of the anterior
part, the two impressions surmounted by a small but very distinct
tubercle, and having in the centre a very deeply emarginate, almost
bi-tuberculate ridge, it is covered with very closely set scabrose
punctures in the median part of the disk, and with granules on the
other parts of the surface, and clothed with a very short, silky,
whitish pubescence, the base is plainly grooved, and the edge of the
margin has a series of punctures ; elytra not wider than the prothorax
at its broadest part, striaa narrow and shallow, intervals plane,
closely punctured and pubescent ; pygidium nearly as broad as long,
covered with broad, deep, nearly equi-distant punctures, and clothed
with a dense greyish-white silky pubescence ; under side moderately
pubescent ; inner spur of anterior tibias long, the basal part is
directed inwardly almost at right angles with the apex of the tibia,
and there curves strongly outwards.

Allied to 0. clispar, but different in colour and sculpture ; the
shape of the inner spur of the anterior tibiae of the male is very
singular, and unlike that of any other species of Onthophagus known
to me.

Length 7-9^ mm. ; width 4^—5^ mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

Onthophagus scapularis, d'Orbig.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 197.

" Little shiny, head and prothorax obscurely coppery-bronze,
elytra piceous black and marked on each side with a large, hutoieral
testaceous macule, pygidium black ; upper side very briefly flavous
pubescent. Head very densely punctate, clypeus narrowed and
truncate in the anterior part, frontal part not carinate, vertex very
briefly carinate between the eyes ; prothorax very densely and deeply
punctate, the punctures simple in the disk, very slightly asperous
towards the sides, the intervals between the punctures slightly rugose,
it is depressed on each side in the anterior part, broad in the middle,
and briefly subcarinate obliquely on each side next to the depression,
sides very slightly sinuate behind, minutely marginate in the middle
only, the margination except at that point being very indistinct ;
elytra thinly striate, intervals plane, extremely closely and strongly

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asperate punctate ; pygidium punctate, the punctures simple and
dense.

Length 1\ mm.

Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth)."

Very closely allied, according to d'Orbigny, to 0. cupricollis, Per.
Cat. i., p. 246), which differs from it merely by its light coppery,
sometimes greenish colour except the elytra, which are testaceous,
by the cariniform tubercle of the head wThich is set more back-
wards, and the genae which are a little more projecting and less
rounded.

Onthophagus bicavifrons, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.. lxxi., 1902, p. 192.

" Moderately shiny, black, sometimes fuscous, glabrous on the
upper side or very briefly flavous pubescent ; head moderately strongly
and moderately densely punctate, clypeus rugose, narrowed in front,
truncate or sub-sinuate and slightly recurved, frontal part either not
carinate or indistinctly so, vertex strongly tuberculate and deeply
impressed on each side between the eyes, the impressions nearly
smooth or sparsely punctate ; prothorax very densely or sub-densely
punctate the punctures on the disk being rounded and simple,
sinuate and hardly asperous in front and towards the sides, de-
pressed on either side in front with the median part broad, gibbose,
the declivous anterior part briefly carinate obliquely on each side of
the depression, sides strongly sinuate behind, base marginate and
having on each side near the angles a slight cariniform crease weakly
crenulate through having a series of large spots situated between
the margin and the crease ; elytra broadly striate, intervals plane,
not densely granulate, but asperously punctate on the sides ; pygidium
moderately densely asperate punctate.

Length 7-10 mm.

Hab. Natal (Zululand, Durban) ; also German East Africa."

d'Orbigny compares this species with 0. impurus, Har. = discolor
Klug, of which it is an extremely close ally.

Onthophagus pinguis, Gerst.,
Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg., xxxvii., I., p. 50.

Moderately shiny, bronze-green with the head and prothorax more
coppery-bronze; sides of prothorax and elytra, and the whole of the
pygidium clothed with fulvous hairs ; antennas flavous ; clypeus
broadly triangular, twice as broad at the genae as long, recurved in a
somewhat blunt vertical lamina, head without transverse suture or

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ridge, but the posterior part between the eyes is produced into a
short, erect laminate process vertical from base to middle and
triangular thence to the apex, where it curves slightly forward ;
in the smaller development the lamina is simply triangular from the
base, the head is plicate rugose at apex, densely punctate in the
centre, more remotely punctate in the posterior part and at the base
of the laminate process, and more broadly and more deeply punctate
on the genae ; prothorax closely granulate, but the median posterior
part is deeply and closely punctate, the sides of the posterior part
are sinuate, the base marginate ; in the great development the
median anterior part is strongly declivous and has an arcuate not
much raised ridge which is emarginate in the centre, the declivous
part being weakly punctate ; in the smaller development the prothorax
is simply and normally sloping, the median posterior part bears more
or less distinct traces of a longitudinal groove ; elytra with the suture
shiny, narrowly geminate striate with very shallow transverse punc-
tures, the intervals very closely granular except in the dorsal part
of the first two intervals where the granules are partly obliterated ;
pygidium covered with rough, sub-contiguous punctures ; sternum
punctate ; femora very closely punctate ; metasternum with a furrow
reaching nearly from base to apex.

Length 10-12A- mm. ; width 6-8 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Gazaland). Originally described from
Zanzibar.

Onthophagus laminidorsis, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 181.

" Moderately shiny, obscurely bronze-green with the elytra and
the pygidium more obscure, glabrous above, sides of prothorax and of
elytra, and also the pygidium briefly flavous pubescent. Head closely
punctate, not carinate, depressed transversely between the eyes and
provided past the line of the eyes with a short, erect small lamina ;
clypeus projecting, narrowed, reflexed and truncate in front;
prothorax granulate, strongly and densely asperate punctate in the
posterior half of the disk, and bearing nearly in the middle of the
disk a transverse,, erect, rounded or triangular transverse lamina,
sides strongly sinuate behind ; base marginate and finely carinate on
each side along the basal margin ; elytra broadly striate, intervals
plane, somewhat finely and sparsely granulate towards the suture,
and getting larger and denser towards the sides ; pygidium densely
granulate.

Length 11-13^ mm."

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This species, which was first discovered in German East Africa,
occurs, according to d'Orbigny, also in Southern Ehodesia (TJmtali).

Onthophagus ebenicoloe, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., Ixxi., 1902, p. 190.

" Shiny, black, nearly glabrous on the upper side ; sides of the
elytra, apex, and pygidium briefly greyish pubescent ; head simply
and finely punctate, that of the 2 rugose in front; clypeus produced,
reflexed and narrowed at apex, that of the $ truncate and hardly
sinuate, that of the $ deeply sinuate or bi-dentate, frontal part not
carinate, vertex depressed transversely between the eyes, but not on
each side, and bearing between the posterior part of the eyes a small
lamina, erect, truncate or sub-rounded at apex ; prothorax simply
and little densely punctate in the disk, but asperous in front and
towards the sides which are strongly sinuate behind, base mar-
ginate ; elytra broadly striate, intervals sub-convex, sparingly and
finely granulate towards the suture, more densely and also a little
more conspicuously so towards the sides ; pygidium moderately
densely and simply punctate.

Length 6^-7 mm.

Hab. Zambesi Eiver; also German East Africa."

Onthophagus rhynchophorus, Per.,

Plate XLVIIL, fig. 15.
Ann. S. Afric. Mus., in., 1904, p. 222.

Male: Black, moderately shiny, with extremely minute hairs in the
punctures of the head, prothorax and elytra; antennal club reddish
brown ; clypeus parabolic, but produced in the centre into a sub-
quadrate, strongly reflexed laminate process projecting far beyond
the margin, the genae are rounded, there are no traces of clypeal
suture, but in the frontal part there is a very slightly raised, short,
transverse fold interrupted in the centre, situated midway
between the eyes, and ending far from them, the greater part of the
clypeal area is transversely folded, and the rest of the surface, as
also of the frontal part, is deeply and closely punctate ; prothorax
broader than long, simple, without any basal fold, covered with
moderately deep punctures, slightly elongated and divided on the
median discoidal part by intervals about equal to their diameter, but
and more cicatrioose on the sides; elytra longer than the
prothorax, finely striate with the intervals plane, and having each
three or two series of fine punctures ; pygidium closely punctulate,
glabrous, broader than Long, and with a basal marginal fold ; inner

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spur of anterior tibiae nearly straight, with the point slightly slanting
inwards, but not hooked.

Length 8 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe).

Onthophagus sutiliceps, d'Orbign.,
Annal. Soc. Entom. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 207.

"Very small, convex; sub-opaque on the upper side; pygidium
shiny ; black, with the elytra totally testaceous, or fuscous with the
apex and oftener the sides broadly testaceous ; pygidium sometimes
sub-virescent. Head closely granulate ; clypeus sinuate with the
frontal part arcuately carinate ; vertex with a short carina situated
in the middle of the eyes, angularly bent on each side and obliquely
in the sides of the frontal part, and produced thence between the
clypeus and the genae as far as the external margin. Prothorax
completely, very densely and confluently asperate punctate, sides
very slightly sinuate behind, base very slightly marginate. Elytra
moderately striate, intervals plane and with two series of granules.
Pygidium closely punctate. Length 2f mm. Easily recognised by
its small size, its convex shape, the colour, the arrangement of the
carinae of the head, and the confluent punctuation of the prothorax.'"

Length 2-2^ mm.

Originally described from the Congo and British and German
East Africa, this species is noted by d'Orbigny from Southern
Ehodesia (Plumtree).

Onthophagus fimetarius, Both,
Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg., xvii., 1, 1851, p. 126.

0. ? lugens, Fahr., Per., nee Fahr., Cat. i., p. 198.
O. piceus, Fahr., Cat. i., p. 198.

This species has a very wide range of distribution. It is recorded
from Senegal, Abyssinia, Somaliland, British East Africa, Transvaal,
Natal, Bechuanaland, &c.

Onthophagus coeonatus, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 165.
" Little shiny, chestnut-brown, very briefly flavous pubescent on the
upper side, the pubescence longer on the prothorax. Head trans-
verse and transversely divided into three equal parts by means of
two carinae, strongly but little densely punctate, but more so on the
vertex, clypeus rugose, narrowly and not very visibly sinuate in

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front, the anterior carina is arcuate, the posterior inversely arcuate
and produced on each side as far as the anterior one ; prothorax
simple in front, strongly and densely punctate, the punctures nearly
simple in the posterior half, hut asperous in front and towards the
sides the posterior part of which is slightly sinuate, base marginate ;
elytra moderately finely striate, intervals plane, moderately densely
granulate ; pygidium moderately densely punctate.

Length 4J mm.

I lab. Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez)."

Onthophagus asperulus, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxiv., 1905, p. 488.

" Little convex, little shiny, black, head and prothorax sub-bronze-
black, briefly flavous pubescent, the pubescence, however, longer on
the head and on the declivity of the prothorax ; head smooth and
having only a few sparse punctures, clypeus and genus rugose, the
former hardly sinuate, frontal part arcuately carinate, vertex having
between the eyes in the 3 a short, erect lamina truncate at apex,
and in the 2 a somewhat long, straight carina ; prothorax entirely
but not closely asperate punctate, briefly and strongly carinate in the
middle, the said carina oftener excised in the centre ; sides hardly
sinuate behind, base marginate ; elytra broadly striate, intervals
plane, sparingly granulate ; pygidium moderately strongly punctate.

Length 4^-5 nun.

Hab. Natal (Malvern), Transvaal (Boksburg ; Johannesburg).
Resembles much 0. hyana, Fabric. = 0. impinctus, Fahr., differs
mainly by the whole punctuation of the prothorax being finely
asperous, instead of being simple; the frontal carina of the $ is less
developed in the centre, and moreover in none of the males seen is
the median projection of the prothorax as much developed as in the
$ of 0. hytena."

Onthophagus otaneonigbb, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1907, p. L63.
" Moderately shiny, cyaneous black, flavous pubescent on the
upper side. Head strongly punctate, rugose in front and on the
genae ; clypeus rounded, frontal part not carinate in the male,
arcuately carinate in the female, vertex with a transverse tubercle in
the $ situated between the eyes and at about the middle, and in the
y with a short carina straight but slightly arcuate inversely ;
prothorax moderately strongly and not very densely punctate but
more densely so on the sides, the punctures are asperous but simple

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in the posterior half of the disk, anterior part simple, sides sinuate
behind, base marginate. Elytra broadly striate, intervals sub-
convex, and with a double series of granules ; pygidium strongly
punctate.

Length 4^-5^ mm.

Hob. Transvaal (Pretoria Distr.), Cape Colony (Vryburg), Orange
Eiver Colony (Bloemfontein), Natal."

This species, which is unknown to me, is compared by d'Orbigny
with 0. laviceps, which is not recorded from the South African
region.

Onthophagus insignis, Pering., Cat. i., p. 185.
0. guillemei ? d'Orbign., loc. cit., p. 173.

d'Orbigny records this species (a 5 ) from the Congo State, I have
received it lately from Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe).

Onthophagus albipodex, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 170.

0. leucopygus, Pering., nee Har., Cat. i., p. 187.

I identified this species with 0. leucopygus, Har., in doing which I
made a mistake. The true 0. leucopygus differs from 0. albipodex in
having the intervals of the elytra convex and covered with finely
spaced asperous punctures disposed on two rows.

d'Orbigny records this species from the Lake N'Gami; the
examples I have seen are all from Southern Ehodesia (Bulawayo,
Victoria Falls, Salisbury, Sebakwe).

Onthophagus leucopygus., Har., Catal. i., p. 187.
0. opimus, Pering., loc. cit., p. 189.

Eecorded also from the Orange Eiver Colony (Bothaville), Trans-
vaal (? Lydenburg).

Onthophagus quadbaticeps, Har., Catal. i., p. 263.
Female : This species, which I received quite lately, is like
0. leucopygus, and to a certain extent 0. insignis, easily distinguish-
able owing to the shape of the clypeus in which the genae are nearly
straight or very little ampliated laterally ; this, in addition to the
broadly transverse anterior part, gives that part of the body a some-
what quadrate appearance. The description of Harold (loc. cit.) is
very clear, but he has undoubtedly mistaken tbe ? for the $ , the
latter of which I have also not seen. The head and prothorax are

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covered with a very short but dense light flavescent pubescence; the
clypeus is more closely scabrose than the frontal part, the clypeal
ridge reaches from one gena to the other, but curves slightly back-
wards there, and is connected partly but not completely not by a
raised fold but by a smooth line, having somewhat the appearance of
a ridge, with the carina on the vertex, which is much raised, and
occasionally sub-denticulate in the centre, slopes slightly towards
the sides, and reaches from side to side a long way behind the eyes ;
the asperous granules of the prothorax are almost contiguous on the
whole surface, thus differentiating this species from 0. insignia, the
granules of which are also larger, and from 0. leucopygus, which is
only distinctly granulose asperous in the central part ; the elytra are
pale straw colour with the suture, and occasionally two narrow strips
on each side of the disk, light bronze; the punctures are somewhat
closely set, the second, third, and fourth intervals have three series
reaching from the base to about one-quarter of the length, and
sometimes farther down ; the pygidium is as broadly punctate as
in 0. insignis, but the punctures are more asperous, and the
pubescence, which is much less dense than in 0. leucopygus, is
somewhat flavescent.

Length 7-8i mm., width 3^-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Vryburg).

Onthophagus caffrakius, d'Orbign.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 171.

" Sub-opaque, head and prothorax obscurely greenish bronze,
clothed with pale hairs ; elytra totally testaceous and very briefly
nigro setose; pygidium obscurely green-bronze, and with long but
sparse white flavescent hairs ; head granulate rugose, clypeus
rounded, frontal part arcuately carinate, vertex with a long carina
slightly arcuate, and situated between the posterior margins of the
eyes; prothorax very finely and very densely granulate, but less so
in the anterior part and towards the sides; it is abruptly declivous
and smooth on each side near the posterior angles and has in the
eentre of the anterior part a not very distinct transverse tubercle ; the
back is not longitudinally sulcate, and the sides are strongly sinuate
behind ; base marginate ; elytra minutely striate, intervals plane,
verj closely but finely punctate, the punctures simple; pygidium
with close asperous punctures.

I length 8 mm.

//,(/*. Caffraria."

Evidently closely allied to 0. albipodex and 0. leucopygus.

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d'Orbigny, who compares it with 0. quadraticeps, says of it that it
differs merely by the more shiny upper part, the intervals of the
elytra with granules not closely set, and mostly disposed on longi-
tudinal series ; the granules on the prothorax are slightly less
fine and slightly less closely set ; and the elytra bear a very fine
yellow pubescence.

Onthophagus impeessicollis, Bohem., Catal. i., p. 188.
0. fossicollis, Qued. Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., 1884, p. 275, pi. 8, fig 3.

This species occurs also in Angola, the French Congo, and German
East Africa.

Onthophagus latefulvus, Orb.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 173.

Coppery bronze, sometimes with a greenish coppery tinge on the
head and prothorax, underside and elytra bronzy, the latter with the
base, apex, and sides more or less broadly testaceous- antennal club
flavescent ; clypeus rounded with the genae not projecting, slightly
emarginate in the centre in front, clypeus closely regulose punctate
and granular, especially in the $ ; $ without any frontal carina,
vertex with an erect horn, long or moderately long, broad at the
base and situated between the eyes, cylindrical in the great develop-
ment, triangularly elongated in the smaller, frontal part very sparsely
punctulate ; in the $ there is a strongly arcuate, well-raised carina
that does not reach the anterior margin of the eyes, and on the vertex
an equally long but much more raised transverse one which is occa-
sionally produced in the centre, giving it thus the appearance of being
then briefly tri-denticulate ; prothorax retuse in front in the $ , the
apex of the declivity being sub-bi-tuberculate in the large development ;
the declivity is less high but more abrupt in the lesser development,
and the apex is more deeply canaliculated and plainly bi-tuberculate ;
in the ? the prothorax is only briefly retuse in the centre, which
bears two transverse tubercle-like ridges ; in both sexes the posterior
part is distinctly furrowed longitudinally behind, the sides moderately
sinuate in the posterior part, and carinate like the entire base, the
whole, briefly pubescent surface is covered with sharp equi-distant
granules separated by an interval equal to their own size ; elytra
ampliate, intervals filled with seriate, very closely set granules ;
pygidium closely punctulate, somewhat pubescent.

Length 7-9 mm. ; width 5-5J mm.

0. pugionatus, Fahr. (Cat. i., p. 192), of which d'Orbigny makes
the present species a new variety, is very closely allied to it,

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but differs in the sculpture of the head, and especially of the
prothorax, which is only asperous in the centre of the posterior
part instead of being granular.

It is also uncommonly like 0. bidcns, Oliv., from Senegal and
it seems to take its place in Central East Africa. Its extreme South
African limit would seem to be Beira (Mozambique).

Oxthophagus EBEXus, Per., Catal. i., p. 205.
0. natalicns, d'Orbign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 177.
d'Orbigny records this species from the Transvaal (Makapan).

Onthophagus quadricallosus, d'Orbign.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 239.

" Opaque, black, briefly pubescent on the upper side. In the 2
the head is rugose, the frontal part asperate punctate, the clypeus
truncate, the front has a strong arcuate carina and the vertex a
strong, but little arcuate one situated a little past the eyes ; pro-
thorax closely granulate, but little densely asperate punctate behind,
smooth along the basal margin and having in the middle of the disk
a longitudinal smooth, sub-cariniform line, transversely bi-callose in
the middle of the anterior part ( $ ) and sub-callose on each side,
sides sinuate near both the anterior and the posterior angles, base
marginate, regularly rounded ; elytra moderately finely striate,
intervals plane, moderately densely granulate, the granules not
disposed in order ; pygidium moderately densely punctate, basal
carina strongly angular in the centre ; antennal club black.

Length 8i mm.

Hab. Cape of Good Hope.

Greatly resemble 0. cameloides (urns, Har.), which differs, how-
ever, by the sinuate epistoma, the frontal part covered with
moderately closely set asperities, the prothorax more clearly and
less densely granulate, without cariniform line in the middle of the
disk, the base, which is not regularly rounded but is slightly
angular in the centre, the sides, which are not sinuate near the
anterior angles, and the intervals of the elytra, the granules of
which are much more remote, and lastly the size, which is
larger."

Onthophagus ghanulifek, liar.
Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., 1886, p. 143.

"Black, shiny, briefly flavous setulose on the upper side; clypeus
emarginate, rounded on each side; prothorax nearly equally, little

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densely granulate ; elytra slightly striate, intervals somewhat
regularly bi- or tri-seriately granulate, the granules somewhat
remote ; palpi and antennas rufous, antennal club flavous rufous.

Length 6 mm.

Hab. Orange River Colony.

Head rounded ; clypeus slightly hollowed, almost rounded ;
between the eyes is a raised transverse ridge in front of a second
slightly curved one, the surface is strongly but not thickly
granular ; prothorax also fairly large, with granulations which
are somewhat acute and closely set, but leaving a smooth
space opposite in the scutellary region ; the anterior angles are
sharp, the base distinctly rounded, produced into an obtuse angle
in the middle ; elytra finely striate, the intervals flat and with 2 or
3 series of granules ; pygidium fairly large, abundantly but not
deeply punctate ; under side and legs black ; tarsi red- brown ;
antennae brown-red with the club yellowish red."

Onthophagus gibber, d'Orbign.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1905, p. 493.

"Male : Somewhat shiny, head and prothorax bronzy, elytra black,
very minutely maculated with testaceous at the base, more broadly
at the apex ; pygidium sub-greenish black, very briefly flavo-
pubescent on the upper side. Head of the $ sparsely punctate,
the punctures large, intermixed with very minute ones, clypeus
rotundate truncate, frontal part not carinate, vertex armed with
two straight diverging horns; prothorax uniformly strongly and
densely asperate punctate, deeply depressed on each side in front
((?■), the median part broad, sub-tuberculate on each side, sides
hardly distinctly sinuate, base non-marginate ; elytra moderately
finely striate, intervals plane, moderately densely and finely granu-
late ; pygidium moderately finely and moderately densely punctate.

Length 6 J mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town)."

d'Orbigny compares, loc. cit., this species with 0. gibberosus from
Liberia.

Onthophagus cameloides, d'Orb., L'Abeille, 1900, p. 293.
O. urus, Har., Cat. i., p. 219.

Not aware that the name given by Harold had been used before
him by Menetries for a species from Lenkoran, I retained this name,
which, however, was changed in 1900 by d'Orbigny (L'Abeille, xxix.,
1900, p. 293) into O. cameloides. This name must therefore prevail.

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Onthophagus jxjnodi, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 223.

" Moderately shiny, black, with the shoulders of the elytra, the
apex and often the base and side with testaceous macules, briefly
flavo-pubescent on the upper side ; head sparingly granulose ; cly-
peus completely smooth in the male, but in the female smooth
in front only, excised at apex, frontal part arcuately carinate, vertex
with a long, nearly straight carina situated between the hind margin
of the eyes ; prothorax moderately strongly and sub-densely sub-
asperate punctate, more asperous or granulate in front and towards
the sides, deeply declivous in front in the male, simple in the female ;
sides sinuate behind, base marginate ; elytra tolerably striate, inter-
vals plane, not densely granulate, the granules partly bi- seriate ;
pygidium strongly punctate, the punctures intermixed with smaller
ones.

Length 4A— 5i mm.

Hab. Mozambique; Delagoa Bay."

d'Orbigny compares this species with 0. sugillatus, Klug (Catal. i.,
p. 214), which differs from it by the moderately projecting and less
rounded genas, the sides of the head not sinuate at the junction of
the gen® and of the epistoma, the vertex, which in the $ bears
usually two horns with their base dentate and a tubercle in the
centre in front of the horns, while in the $ the vertex bears a
slightly arcuate carina situated well behind the posterior edge of the
eyes, and the whole prothorax is entirely granulate.

Onthophagus rubens, d'Orb., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 238.
0. exiguus, Pering., Cat. i., p. 215.

This name having been used in 1877 by Eaffray for a species from
Eastern Africa, d'Orbigny has therefore changed the name of my
species.

Onthophagus stellio, Erichs,
Wiegm. Arch, fur Naturgesch. ix., 1843, p. 233.

"Black with a tinge of bronze, shiny, thorax punctate, greyish
hirtulose, elytra testaceous, and maculated with two black bands.
Length 2 lin. $ . Vertex tri-dentate, the medium tooth abbreviated.
Small, moderately shiny; antennae obscurely testaceous ; head with
the clypeus emarginate in front; thorax moderately closely punctate,
obsoletely canuliculate at the base, and covered with piliferous
punctures ; elytra briefly punctate striate, the intervals sub-biseriate
punctate and with small whitish sub-seriate hairs, variegated with

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black macules, 3 at the base, the outer being a humeral one,
3 macules in the middle disposed in the shape of a sub-arcuate
band, and a single one near the apex ; pygidium obscurely testaceous ;
legs piceous. $ . Frontal part plane, sparsely punctate, with three
horns on the vertex, lateral horns erect, median one short, truncate ;
prothorax sub-retuse in front."

Hab. Angola.

Damaraland (Okahandya, Gobabis) teste d'Orbigny.

Onthophagus variegatus, Fabric,
Suppl. Ent. System, 1798, p. 36.
0. venustulus, Erichs., Cat. i., p. 213.
0. variegatus was erroneously described originally from India.

Onthophagus suffusus, Klug, Catal. i., p. 262.
0. crncifer, Klug., Catal. i., p. 217.

d'Orbigny states that 0. suffusus is the $ of 0. crucifer (Ann.
Soc. Ent. Fr., 1905, p. 500).

Onthophagus feitschi, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 227.

" Not much shiny, black, sometimes with the head and prothorax
bronze-black, or with the elytra rufescent at apex, briefly flavous
pubescent on the upper side ; head asperate punctate, clypeus
deeply excised, frontal part either not carinate or not distinctly so,
arcuately carinate in the female, vertex minutely tuberculate, in the
middle but slightly past the anterior margin of the eyes, and beyond
that having in the $ a long, reclined lamina, corniculate at each end,
and oftener than not transversely sub-tuberculate between the small
horns, and having in addition a small tubercle situated in the centre
somewhat at the back of the anterior edge of the eyes ; in the $
the vertex is not carinate but tuberculate on each side a little past
the eyes ; prothorax not very densely granulate, more frequently
depressed and nearly smooth in the $ , briefly arcuately carin'ate
in the ? , sides often slightly or hardly distinctly sinuate behind,
but often sinuate near the anterior angles, base marginate ; elytra
sub-finely striate, intervals plane, sparingly granulate ; pygidium
sparingly asperate punctate.

Length 5-6 mm.

Hab. South Africa (collected by Fritsch)."

This species, according to d'Orbigny, is easily recognised by the

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small tubercle which occurs in both sexes between the anterior
edge of the eyes or slightly behind it ; other allied species have in
truth a median tubercle, but in the $ only, and situated slightly in
front of the horns, whereas in 0. fritschi $ it is far removed
from the apex of the lamina, and from the base of the horns ;
in the ? the absence of the carina on the vertex of the head is
also remarkable.

Onthophagus temporalis, d'Orbign.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 228.

" Little shiny, black, briefly flavous pubescent on the upper side.
In the 2 the head is but little densely granulate, the clypeus and
genae strongly but sparingly rugose-punctate, the punctures inter-
mixed with smaller ones, clypeus deeply excised, frontal part
arcuately carinate, vertex provided with a somewhat long, little
raised, strongly arcuate carina situated far beyond the hind edge
of the eyes ; prothorax sparingly granulate, arcuate in tbe centre of
the median part in the $ , sides hardly sinuate behind, base
marginate ; elytra broadly striate, intervals plane and with two
series of granules ; pygidium but little densely granulate.

Length 6 mm.

Hob. Southern Africa (collected by Fritsch).

Eesembles the ? of 0. fritschi, but differs by the frontal part of
the head without tubercle, the vertex with a moderately long
strongly arcuate carina situated very far back beyond the hind
edge of the eyes, the median projection of the prothorax, which is
a little wider, and the more closely set granules in the intervals of
the elytra."

Onthophagus lammit.k, d'Orbign.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 229.
Little shiny, black, sometimes with the head and prothorax bronze-
green, or with the apex of elytra rufescent, briefly flavous pubescent
on the upper side ; head asperate punctate, clypeus deeply excised ;
in the $ the frontal part is not carinate, and the vertex is pro-
duced into a long, broad, reclining lamina arcuately emarginate at
apex, and corniculate on each side and minutely tuberculate at middle
before the apex ; in the $ the frontal part is arcuately carinate, the
vertex with a strongly arcuate carina and dentate on each side a
little past the eyes; prothorax sparingly granulate, abruptly de-
clivous and almost smooth in the centre in the $ , briefly and
arcuately carinate in the $ , sides very slightly sinuate behind, and
indistinctly so near the anterior angles, base marginate; elytra

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broadly striate, intervals plane, sparingly granulate ; pygidium
sparingly granulate or sub-minutely granulate punctate.

Length 5-5|- mm.

Hab. Transvaal.

Allied to 0. fritschi, but very distinct owing to the lamina of the
vertex of the $ bearing a tubercle which is situated much further
behind, near the extremity of the lamina ; in the $ the vertex bears
a carina dentate at each end, without a tubercle in the centre, and
situated between the anterior edge of the eyes.

Onthophagus immundus, Boh., Catal. i., p. 220.
0. vitulus, Har. nee Fabric, I.e., p. 220.

I placed 0. immundus, Bohem. (loc. cit.), in synonymy with
0. vitulus Fabric. 0. vitulus, described by Fabricius in his Suppl.
Est. Syst., 1798, p. 32, however, is described from India, and the
name given by Boheman must be kept for the South African species.
The character given to it by d'Orbigny (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902,
p. 235), viz., vertex bearing " in both sexes " a lamina prolonged into
a horn at each end, is erroneous.

Onthophagus versutus, Py., Catal. i., p. 214.
0. ocellatus, d'Orbign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxiv., 1905, p. 504.

Onthophagus depressus, Har. Coleopt., Heft, viii., 1871, p. 116.
O. laceratus, Per. nee Gerst., Cat. i., p. 236.

NEW SPECIES OF ONTHOPHAGUS.
By D'Orbigny.*

Onthophagus amplicornis, n. spec.

Black-bronze or greenish ; the elytra sometimes reddish, upper
side with a very short pubescence all over. Epistoma rounded,
frontal part without carina or with a very fine one only, vertex with
two horns very broad at the base, reduced at times to two large
tubercles and having a small median tubercle situated a little more
forward ( $ ) ; the vertex entirely simple J ; prothorax with the
punctuation uniformly simple, moderately strong and close, the

* d'Orbigny's descriptions will be given in full in the Annales de la Societe Ento-
mologique de France for 1908.

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anterior part with a wide and deep depression in the $ ; the sides
sinuated near the posterior angles, base without any distinct fold
at least on its sides ; intervals with somewhat large slightly rasp-
like and moderately closely set punctures.

Length 3|-4 mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury).

H. d'Orbigny.

Onthophagus nudus, n. spec.

Black, shiny, upper side glabrous. Epistoma narrowly truncate
and hardly visibly sinuate in the centre, frontal part without carina,
vertex with only a slight trace of a short and straight carina situated
slightly behind the middle of the eyes bent at right angles at each
end and obliquely prolonged forward on each side between the
frontal part and the temples. Prothorax with the punctuation
simple uniformly fine and close, sides hardly sinuate near the
posterior angles, base without fold. Intervals of elytra with a
uniform, very fine, simple and moderately close punctuation.

Length 3 mm.

Hah. Natal (Malvern).

H. d'Orb.

Onthophagus marshalli, n. spec.

Shiny black, head and prothorax black with a slight bronze tinge,
upper side with a short erect pubescence, which is, however, some-
what reclining on the elytra. Epistoma broadly and somewhat
deeply scooped out, frontal part without carina or with a very short
trace of carina ( <? ), or with a strong arcuate carina ( $ ) ; vertex with
a somewhat strong, straight, or nearly straight carina situated in a
line with the anterior border of the eyes or slightly behind that line.
Prothorax with the punctuation simple, somewhat large, little closely
set, becoming closer and somewhat rugose on the anterior half of the
sides ; the anterior part bears a small conical tubercle or a very small
callus, the sides are not sinuate near the posterior angles or hardly
so, the base has no fold. Intervals of elytra with remote granules.

Length 3-3!^ mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Waterberg Distr.) ; Southern Ehodesia (Salis-
bury, Bulawayo) ; Damaraland (Otjosondu).

H. d'Orb.

Onthophagus fuxgicola, n. spec.
Head and prothorax bronze or bronze-green, the prothorax spotted
with testaceous on the sides or at least along the anterior angles ;

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elytra testaceous with the juxtasutural interval and the epipleurai
black, and having a black transverse band situated slightly past the
middle ; pygidium either entirely testaceous, or partially or entirely
black, upper side with a very short pubescence. Epistoma slightly
sinuate, frontal part without carina or with only a trace of it (<?), or
with an arcuate carina ( ? ) ; vertex with a small conical horn slightly
in front of a line drawn between the median part of the eyes [g ), or
a short, straight carina ( $ ) ; prothorax with the punctuation simple,
uniformly large and close, the anterior part ( $ ) sometimes slightly
depressed in the centre, the sides sinuate near the posterior angles,
the base with a fold. Intervals of elytra with fine, moderately close
granules.

Length 4-5 mm.

H. d'Orb.

This species was found living on fungi. Onthophagus panoplus
Bat. has the same habit. — L.P.

Onthophagus n^vuligeb, n. sp.

Head and prothorax obscure bronze ; elytra testaceous with the
juxtasutural interval and the epipleura black, and each elytron with
a small black spot situated towards the hind third part of the length
on the 2nd and 3rd intervals, a very small one on the humeral callus,
another very small one before the apex, and a narrow longitudinal
band situated on the two posterior thirds of the lateral interval ;
pygidium bronze-black. Upper side with a yellow pubescence
except the elytra, which bear very short black setae. Epistoma
rounded, frontal part without carina ; vertex with a large transverse
tubercle situated between the eyes. Prothorax uniformly covered
with a large simple punctuation very closely set and hardly rugose ;
sides sinuate near the posterior angles, base with a fold. Intervals
of elytra with fine but little closely set granules.

Length 7 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia.

H. d'Orb.

Onthophagus politissimus, n. sp.
Head and prothorax black ; elytra pale testaceous with the juxta-
sutural interval and the epipleura entirely black ; pygidium black.
Upper part nearly entirely glabrous. Epistoma but little deeply
scooped, frontal part with an arcuate carina, vertex with a straight
carina situated in a line with the hind border of the eyes. Prothorax
completely smooth except for a few fine very scattered punctures on
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and the base without having any posterior angle, or being sinuous ;
base slightly folded. Intervals of elytra quite smooth.

Length 4-J— 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury).

H. d'Orb.

Onthophagus rasipennis, n. spec.

Head and prothorax black ; elytra, epipleura included, entirely
light testaceous except the juxtasutural interval, which is for the
greatest part black ; pygidium black. Upper side nearly entirely
glabrous. Epistoma narrowly scooped, frontal part with an arcuate
carina, vertex with a nearly straight carina situated a little in front
of the anterior edge of the eyes. Prothorax smooth or very sparsely
punctulate, but with moderately large, more or less numerous
punctures scattered on the sides, and at times other punctures on
the disk ; the sides not sinuate near the posterior angles, or hardly
so ; base with a fold. Intervals of elytra entirely smooth or hardly
visibly punctulate.

Length 3 1 — 4 V mm.

Hab. Orange Eiver Colony ; Transvaal (Leysdorp, Waterberg,
Pretoria Distr.) ; Southern Rhodesia (Bulawayo, Matopos).

H. d'Orb.

I cannot distinguish this species, which I have received from nearly
all the localities here mentioned, from 0. pallidipcnnis, F&hr.

L. P.

Onthophagus producticollis, n. sp.

Very near 0. verticalis, Fahr., differs in the prothorax and the
juxtasutural interval being not green-bronze, but brown-bronze; the
head has a fine frontal carina situated a little in front of the centre,
and a strong carina placed far behind the centre (instead of having
only a strong carina situated towards the middle or only slightly
further back) ; the median projection of the prothorax goes further
forward and is very regularly arcuate in the anterior part (instead of
being strongly sinuate in the centre) ; the size is also a little larger.

Length 7^-9 mm.

Hab. Natal (Estcourt).

H. d'Orb.

I do certainly not think that this will prove a distinct species. It
is even doubtful to me if it should rank as a variety of 0. verticalis.
I have examined more than two hundred examples from Estcourt,
and they all merge into 0. verticalis. L. P.

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Onthophagus am(Enus, n. sp.

Head and prothorax metallic green, the posterior part of the pro-
thorax slightly bluish ; elytra light testaceous and having on each
side a group of three small black spots disposed in a triangle before
the middle, and a black, transverse, very irregular fascia situated
towards the posterior side ; pygidium green. Upper side with an
entirely pale yellow pubescence. Epistoma rounded ; frontal part
with traces of an arcuate carina ; vertex with a somewhat short
straight carina situated a little past the middle of the eyes. Pro-
thorax uniformly covered with fine, very closely set granules, the
anterior part with two small, distinctly separated tubercles ; sides
sinuated near the posterior angles, base without fold.

Length 5^—6 mm.

Hob. Southern Rhodesia (Bulawayo).

H. d'Orb.

Onthophagus nigropubens, n. sp.

Black, upper side completely clothed with a black pubescence.
Epistoma sub-truncate ; frontal part with an arcuate carina, vertex
with a strong straight carina strongly dentate in the ceiitre, angular
at each end, situated a little in front of the posterior edge of the
eyes. Prothorax densely granular on the anterior half, and having
on the posterior half a large, but little closely set punctuation
asperous towards the centre, simple towards the base, the anterior
part has a long, transverse ridge ; the sides are strongly sinuate
near the posterior angles, the base is without fold.

Length 11^ mm.

Hob. British Bechuanaland.

H. d'Orb.

Onthophagus binodosus, n. sp.

Black, nearly glabrous. Epistoma rounded ; frontal part without
any trace of carina, vertex with a strong and somewhat long arcuate
carina situated between the centre of the eyes. Prothorax with a
moderately large, moderately close and simple punctuation, except
that on the sides which is slightly asperous, the anterior part bears
two moderately large tubercles distant from each other ; the sides
are strongly sinuate towards the posterior angles, the base is indis-
tinctly folded. Intervals of elytra with uniform moderately closely
set granules.

Length 6i mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Bulawayo).

H. d'Orb.

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ONTHOPHAGUS ASPERICEPS, n. Sp.

Very small, black, with the elytra entirely testaceous; upper side
clothed with a short pubescence. Epistoma rounded, frontal part
with an arcuate carina situated in front of the central part of the
head, vertex entirely simple. Prothorax covered with a moderately
large punctuation very closely set and consisting of punctures about
equal in size, but some are very shallow and the others very deep ; this
punctuation is simple except that of the anterior half of the sides,
which is indistinctly asperous ; the sides are hardly sinuate near
the posterior angles, the base is folded. Intervals of elytra with
somewhat closely set granules.

Length 2i mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Okahandja).

H. d'Orb.

Onthophagus burchelli, n. sp.

Head and prothorax greenish blue, the remainder of the body
black greenish, upper side with a short yellow pubescence except
the pygidium, which is covered with long white setae. Epistoma
bluntly curved or hardly sinuate, frontal part with an arcuate
carina, vertex with a strong, straight carina situated between the
centre of the eyes ; prothorax granulated, the granules somewhat
remote on the posterior part of the disk, somewhat closely set in
front and on the sides, the anterior part with a strong median pro-
jection divided at the top by two small tubercles ; sides sinuate near
the posterior angles, base with a fine border; intervals of elytra with
remote granules.

Length 6-7^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Griqua Town), Damaraland (Windhoek,
Okahandja).

H. d'Orb.

Onthophagus convexus, n. sp.

Very small, black, with the elytra completely testaceous; upper
side with a short pubescence. Epistoma rounded, frontal part with
an arcuate carina situated in front of the central part of the head,
vertex simple. Prothorax covered with a moderately large, very
closely set punctuation consisting of punctures nearly equal in
width, but the ones very shallow, the others very deep; this
punctuation is simple, except on the anterior half of the sides
which is indistinctly asperous; the sides are hardly sinuate near

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the posterior angles, and the base is folded. Intervals of elytra
with moderately closely set granules.

Length 2± mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Okahandja).

H. d'Orb.

Onthophagus inermicollis, n. sp.

Brownish red, very dark on the head and prothorax, somewhat
light on the rest of the body ; upper side with a uniformly very
short pubescence. Epistoma rounded, frontal part with a strong,
arcuate carina, vertex with a strong and long carina of uniform
height shaped as a broad, reversed bow in its median part, straight
or a little curved backwards at the end, and situated a little in front
of the posterior edge of the eyes. Prothorax entirely covered with
close granules, except in the centre of the basilary part, which is but
little densely granular ; the anterior part without any traces of pro-
jection or of depression ; sides strongly sinuate near the posterior
angles, base with a fold.

Length 7^-8 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury).

H. d'Orb.

Onthophagus acutus, n. spec.

Extremely closely allied to 0. bituberculatus, Oliv. ; differs from it
merely through the punctuation of the prothorax which consists of
uniformly granulose, closely set punctures (instead of ocellated
punctures mixed with remote granulose ones), the pygidium set
with fine remote granules (instead of moderately large ocellated,
closely set, and very superficial punctures), and the still shorter
pubescence. It is also very closely allied to 0. depressus, Har. ; it
differs irom it by the partly testaceous elytra ; the punctuation of
the prothorax, which consists of equal punctures ; the pygidium,
which is granulated (instead of being covered with unequal ocellated
punctures) ; the prothorax of the $ has on the disk two gibbose
projections separated by a depression ; the size is also larger.

Length 7-9^- mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Salem, Okahandja), Lake N 'Garni ; Caffraria ;
Tanganyika; Nyassaland.

H. d'Orb.

It is this species which Boheman noticed from Damaraland (6fv.
Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 112) under Olivier's name. I took my Natal
examples to be identical with 0. laceratus, Gerst., whereas they are
pronounced to be 0. depressus, Har. I feel absolutely certain that
passages bridging over the extremely small differential characters of

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these so-called species will be found and that the three will be again
united at most as local races.

L. P.

Sub-gen. PEOAGODEEUS, Lamb.
Not. Leyd. Mus., v., 1883, p. 14.
Onthophagus (Proagoderus) gibbiramus, d'Orb.
0. rarus, Klug, Pering. nee Guer.-Menev., Cat. i., p. 250.

According to d'Orbigny, both Klug and I were mistaken in the
identity of this species. 0. rarus, Guer.-Menev., is confined to
Senegambia and the Guinea coast.

Onthophagus (Proagoderus) plato, Bat., Cat. i., p. 251.
d'Orbigny, Ann. Mus. Genov., xli., 1904, p. 327.

Judging from the description and also the habitat of this species,
I placed it in synonymy with 0. furcifer, Boh. d'Orbigny, however,
who has been able to compare the type, a single $ example, with
0. furcifer, as identified by me, says (Ann. Mus. Genov., xli., 1906,
p. 327) tbat plato differs from furcifer in having the upper part of
the body opaque instead of slightly shiny, the granules of the pro-
thorax are much finer, the base is more angular in the centre, the
apex being almost sharp instead of not plainly rounded. In the great
development of the 3 ^/rtio differs from furcifer by the shorter,
almost tuberculiform frontal ridge, the vertex bears a carina slightly
dentate in the centre, and on each side, below the eyes, the horns
emit a ramus in the inner side towards the anterior third part,
instead of having in the middle a non-dentate ridge emitting a long
ramus on each side below the eyes, and the horns being simple ; on
the prothorax the anterior depression is little pronounced and as
densely granular as the rest of the superficies instead of being deep
and little densely punctate ; the two discoidal tubercles are much
weaker and situated somewhat further back, and the longitudinal
median furrow extends over the whole length instead of the
posterior half.

11. ih. Damaraland.

Onthophagus (Proagod.) nasidens, d'Orbign.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxiv., 1905, p. 510.

" Little shiny, sub-seneous black, very briefly pubescent on the
upper side. In the female the head is sub-strongly, closely granulate,
the clypeus is produced in the middle into a tooth, the frontal part

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bears a short ridge, the vertex a transverse, tri-dentate lamina
situated a little behind the eyes ; prothorax closely, moderately finely
granulate, depressed in front ( ? ) and bearing a little past the third
anterior part a minute longitudinal tubercle ; the sides are slightly
sinuate behind, the base angularly produced in the middle but little
distinctly emarginate towards the sides, but more distinctly so
towards the median part ; elytra not longer than the prothorax, very
finely striate, intervals plane, closely and finely granulate ; pygidium
finely, but little densely granulate.

Length 13 mm.

Hab. Portuguese East Africa ( ? ).

Resembles in shape and in granulation the ? of 0. panoplies, Bat. ;
differs by the clypeus, which instead of being " ogival " is pro-
duced into a small tooth ; the disk of the prothorax bears a small
longitudinal tubercle instead of a strong transverse carina divided
into two tubercles, and the granules of the elytra are very closely set
instead of being remote."

I am not aware of this species having been, as yet, recorded within
the South African limit.

Onthophagus (Proag.) rectefurcatus, Fairm.

Plate XLVIIL, figs. 19, 20.

Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr., lx., 1891, p. 237.

0. porrectus, Fahr., nee Reich., Col. Caffr., ii., p. 263.

Dark blue or bluish green, moderately shiny, glabrous, antennae
fuscous.

Male : Clypeus obtuse and slightly sinuate in front, covered with
deep asperous, closely set punctures with the walls somewhat
transversely plicate, anterior frontal part with an arcuate carina
reaching from one gena to the other ; immediately behind it is an
upright lamina nearly equal in height to half the width, and each
angle of which is produced into a long, incurved horn bearing at about
one-third of the length an inner vertical spur or ramus, the length of
this horn reaches to about two-thirds of the length of the prothorax,
the central part of the lamina supporting the horns is arcuately but
not deeply emarginate, the whole frontal part of the same lamina is
very closely pitted ; the prothorax has a very deep, median anterior
excavation reaching closely to the lateral fossa, and surmounted in
the centre by a compressed laminate horn, somewhat ampliate
towards the tip, and rounded there, projecting forward, but neither
horizontally nor vertically, and of about the same length as the
posterior part of the prothorax, which is somewhat closely aciculate

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punctate, narrowly but slightly impressed longitudinally behind with
the centre of the base projecting.

Female' Clypeus arcuate but projecting in the centre of the curve,
not sinuate there, roughly and irregularly pitted with the intervals
or walls very plainly but not continuously carinate ; the anterior
frontal carina is quite straight, thicker and more raised than in the
S ; on the vertex or close to it is another sharp, short carina, and
between the two, two erect, slightly slanting backwards, sub-vertical
horns, slightly shorter than the whole head, thick at the base and
gradually tapering towards the apex, the vertex is quite smooth in
the centre ; the prothorax is covered with granules for about two-
thirds of the length, and with simple punctures in the remaining
posterior part, both granules and punctures being closely set ; the
anterior part is sloping, and on the top of the somewhat declivous
slope is a median smooth ridge the apex of which slants forward. In
both sexes the elytra, which are at their greatest width not broader
than the prothorax at its widest part, are very narrowly and shallowly
sub-geminate punctate ; the intervals, the two juxta-sutural ones of
which are narrower than the other three dorsal ones, bear several
irregular series of very shallow, simple punctures.

Length 13-14 mm. ; width 7^-8 mm.

This species was described on female examples from East Central
Africa. It is recorded from N'Gamiland by d'Orbigny. My examples
come from Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). There is, I think, little
doubt that Fahraeus (Insecta Caffr., ii., p. 263) mistook this species
for O.porrectus, Reich., to which it is certainly very closely allied.

Onthophagus (Proag.) tersidorsis, d'Orbign.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr„ Ixxi., 1902, p. 281.

" Totally shiny, head and thorax bluish green, elytra brick-red,
fuscous and greenish blue at the base, suture green, sides and apex
metallic green ; pygidium metallic green or greenish testaceous,
clothed with long pale setose hairs in the anterior part of the head,
glabrous on the prothorax except on the anterior part and on the
sides which are pubescent, very briefly fuscous setose on the elytra,
apex and pygidium with long, pale hairs. Head granulate, clypeus
rounded, in the <? the frontal part is not very indistinctly carinate,
and the vertex is armed with a long, erect and slightly arcuate horn,
occasionally short ; in the J the frontal part is carinate, and the
vertex bears an inversely arcuate carina angular on each side
and situated between the anterior margin of the eyes ; prothorax
smooth, sparsely asperate punctate in front, granulate laterally,

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not sulcate longitudinally, produced in the $ in a large tooth
on each side behind the anterior angles, minutely bi-tuberculate
on the disk before the median part, and depressed on each side
between the tooth and the tubercle, sometimes quadri-tuberculate in
front with the median tubercle separated from the external ones by a
depression ; in the ? it is tuberculate on each side in front but more
towards the sides, the median part being broadly angularly arcuate ;
in both sexes the sides are strongly sinuate behind, and the base,
which is finely marginate on each side, is expanding in the centre
and angularly produced there ; elytra minutely striate with the
intervals plane, simply and moderately densely punctate, the third
and the fifth are narrower than the others, sub-convex and sparsely
punctate : pygidium strongly punctate.

Length llf-13 mm.

Rob. Natal.

This species is allied to 0. sub-extensus, Kolb. ; 0. lugendce, Bat. ,
0. insignis, Per. ; and 0. lanista, Cast.

Onthophagus (Proag.) tuberculicollis, Casteln.
Hist. Nat. Coleopt., ii., 1840, p. 84.
It is very doubtful if the habitat " Cape of Good Hope " given
by Castelnau is a true one. d'Orbigny records the species from
Abyssinia.

Onthophagus (Proagod.) aureiceps, d'Orbign.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., lxxi., 1902, p. 294.
" Shiny, metallic green, head golden, median posterior part of the
prothorax dark blue with a violaceous tinge, suture of elytra and
apex of the same greenish ; upper side briefly flavous pubescent,
disk of prothorax glabrous, elytra very briefly nigro-setose. Head
granulate, rounded in front, with a nearly straight transverse ridge,
and having a moderately raised longitudinal smooth line extending
from the ridge to the posterior margin ; between the eyes there is, on
each side, a minute but sharp tubercle which is, however, sometimes
indistinct : prothorax granulate towards the sides, smooth in the
centre from the base to the anterior margin, this smooth part is
broad on the disk, much narrower and sub-depressed longitudinally
in front, the depression being punctate; sides sinuate behind, margin
not distinctly marginate, flattened and angularly produced; elytra
not broadly striate, intervals plane, strongly and moderately densely
asperate punctate, but sparsely so in the anterior part towards the
suture ; pygidium strongly and nearly simply and sparsely punctate.

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Length 8-10^ mm.

In the (? the spur of the anterior tibiae is slightly dilated and
truncate at tip, in the 2 it is produced into a tooth directed
inwards.

Hab. Mozambique (Delagoa Bay)."

Oxthophagus (Proagod.) dives, Har.
Mitth. Munch. Ent. Ver., i., p. 98.

0. deyrollei, Eaffr., Eev. and Mag. Zool., 1877, p. 315, pi. i., fig. 1.
0. optivus, Per., Cat. i., p. 255.

Eecorded originally from Nyassaland; occurs in German and
British Central Africa. I have received it from Mozambique
(Beira), and also from North- Western Ehodesia (Kafue Eiver, and
Feira).

Onthophagus (Proagod.) unidens, Quedenf.
Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., vi., 1892, p. 29.
0. suspcctus, Pering., Catal. i., p. 254.
This species was originally described from Angola.

Onthophagus (Proagod.) gemmatus, Per., Cat. i., p. 256.

0. tricolor, d'Orb., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 298.

This synonymy is indicated by d'Orbigny. His specimens came
from Tanganyika. I have recorded this species from North-Western
Ehodesia (Eafue Eiver).

Onthophagus (Proagod.) alcyon, Klug, Cat. i., p. 193.
Eecorded from German East Africa.

Onthophagus (Proagod.) bicallosus, Klug, Cat. i., p. 252.
Eecorded from British East Africa.

Onthophagus (Proagod.) marginidens, d'Orbign.
Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., xlviii., 1904, p. 220.
" Shiny, head and prothorax metallic green ; elytra red, testaceous
with a green sheen, pygidium green, antennal club testaceous; upper
side glabrous, anterior part and sides of prothorax, sides, and apex
of elytra and pygidium briefly pallid pubescent; head entirely
granulate ; clypeus produced in the centre into a tooth, and

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emarginate on each side, frontal part not carinate, vertex tuber-
culated between the eyes; prothorax closely asperate punctate,
granulate in the anterior declivity and towards the sides which are
strongly sinuate behind ; the base, which is angularly produced
behind, is entirely marginate ; elytra finely striate, intervals almost
plane, moderately densely and strongly rugose punctate ; pygidium
sub-densely asperate punctate.

Length 8A- mm.

Described from one example, probably a 3 .

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls)."

Onthophagus (Proagoderus) quadrituber, n. sp.

Head and prothorax metallic green, posterior part of the prothorax
usually tinted with obscure blue in the centre; elytra testaceous
with a brownish tinge and with the juxtasutural stria metallic
green ; pygidium light greenish bronze. Epistoma rounded, frontal
part without ridge or with a very short one (<?), with a very
angularly arcuate ridge ( ? ) ; vertex with a horn that is usually
very long, regularly arcuate, strongly gibbose beneath a little before
the middle ( $ ) ; vertex with a carina, straight or sometimes slightly
arcuate backwards in its median part ( ? ). Prothorax more or less
broadly smooth in the centre along the whole or nearly the whole of
the length ( $ ) ; on about two-thirds of the length behind ( ? ) ; the
punctuation of the remainder of the surface is large, asperous except
on the sides (<?), and moderately granular, the anterior part and a
broad space on the sides ( $ ) granular ; the anterior part in the $
bears two large teeth situated nearly behind the anterior angles ; the
discoidal part has two large dentiform tubercles situated at about
the anterior third part of the length and divided by a moderately
large depression turning behind into a longitudinal furrow reaching
the base ; in addition there is on each side a somewhat strong
depression between the tubercle and the tooth; in the ? the
anterior part has a strong median projection ogival at tip, and on
each side a moderately large tubercle ; the sides are strongly sinuate
near the posterior angles, the base has a very narrow fold on the
sides, and expands broadly into a lamina in the centre. Intervals
of elytra plane, the punctuation simple, close and moderately strong.
Length 10-13 mm.
Hab. Zambesi (Tschinde) ; Mozambique (Maputa).

H. d'Orb.

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Gen. MILICHUS, Catal. i., p. 274.

Milichus khodesianus, Pering.,

Plate XLVIIL, figs. 16, 17,

Ann. S. Afric. Mus., iii., 1904, p. 2'^2.

Male : Light bronze, briefly pubescent, not much shiny, macu-
lated irregularly with darker bronze on the prothorax, which has in
addition three bright shiny patches in the anterior part at the top of
the declivity ; the elytra are occasionally testaceous, irregularly
tesselated with bronze, antennal club flavescent ; clypeus produced
diagonally laterally, deeply and broadly emarginate in front with
the angles of the emargination distinct, but not sharply reflexed ; the
first clypeal carina is triangular, sharply raised, and the median
longitudinal keel is very short and does not connect the first clypeal
one with the higlily raised, sub-arcuate second clypeal carina which
overhangs slightly the clypeus, and reaches on each side the inner
angle of the genae, the anterior margin of which is also carinate, but
not as highly, and along the base of the frontal part there is an
interrupted, slightly raised line with occasionally a minute tubercle
in the centre above it ; prothorax declivous in front in the male, not
carinate above the declivity but having on each side of it a depres-
sion edged by a short transverse ridge set above the shiny space, it
is not much ampliated laterally, although it is broader than long, the
hind angles are rounded, the basal margin has no fold ; it is covered
in the median discoidal part by deep, round punctures, the slightly
raised intervals of which are very narrow, these punctures are
slightly wider on the sides than on the disk ; elytra longer than
the prothorax and about equally broad, plainly striate with the
intervals nearly plane and filled with closely-set granules ; pygidium
nearly as broad as long, deeply and closely punctate, the intervals
separating the punctures forming a sort of reticulation near the
basal part ; metasternum very closely punctate ; inner spur of
anterior tibia? nearly straight.

This species differs from 31. apicalis, Fahr. chiefly by the more
highly raised and retuse prothorax.

Length 6-7 mm. ; width 4-4^ mm.

llab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

Milichus apicalis, Fahr., Catal. i., p. 274.

This species has a very wide range in Africa. d'Orbigny records
it from the Galla country, British East Africa, Old Calabar, French
Congo, and Angola. I have it from Natal and Ovampoland.

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Gen. PHALOPS, Erichs., Catal. i., p. 266.
Phalops vanellus, Lansb., Catal. i., p. 267.

I placed this species in synonymy with P. ardea, Klug. d'Orbigny
(Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1902, p. 245) says that although closely resem-
bling each other these two species are very distinct. It is probable
that the habitat given by Lansberge is erroneous, because all the
examples recorded by d'Orbigny are from the West Coast of Africa,
from Senegambia to Ashanti. I have this species from the Upper
Senegal Eiver.

Phalops prasinus, Erichs.,
Wiegm., Arch. f. Naturg., i., 1843, p. 232.
P. adspersipennis, Boh., Catal. i., p. 268.

d'Orbigny places these two species in synonymy, and records the
species from the Lower Congo (Banana), Angola, Loango, and
Benguella. It occurs in Damaraland (Karibib).

Phalops dregei, Har., Catal. i., p. 268.
P. congenitus, Per., loc. cit., p. 270.

I have lately recorded a green variety of this species from the
Cape Colony (Humansdorp).

Phalops whittei, Har., Catal. i., p. 268.
P. dregei, P6r., nee Har., Catal. i., p. 268.
P. boschimanus, Per., loc. cit., p. 268.

Phalops euplynes, Bat., Catal. i., p. 247.
P. rufosignatus , Lansb., Catal. i., p. 273.

Phalops smabagdinus, Har., Catal. i., Heft xiv., 1875, p. 138.
P. tarsatus, Per., Catal. i., 270.

This species was originally described from Southern Abyssinia.
The only intervening locality recorded until now is Zanzibar.

NEW SPECIES OF PHALOPS.
By D'Orbigny.

Phalops densegranosus, n. sp.

Very near P. flavocinctus, Kl., differs by the nearly opaque upper
side, the elytra which are brown with a slight bronze tinge, a little

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lighter on the sides but without a distinct testaceous band, the much
shorter pubescence on the pygidium, the frontal carina, which is not
straight or nearly so, but plainly arcuate, the vertex with a short
but strong carina nearly straight and slightly sinuate on the top edge,
the prothorax and the intervals of the elytra completely and more
densely granulate, the granules of the prothorax regularly rounded
on the disk, and the metasternum very plainly punctured, instead of
being nearly smooth, especially on the posterior part.

Length 8-5 mm.

Hob. Great Namaqualand.

H. d'Orb.

Phalops pykoides, n. spec.

Coppery red, sometimes with a greenish tinge turning vaguely
into metallic testaceous on the sides of the elytra ; pygidium
greenish coppery. Very near P. dregei, Har. ; differs by the elytra
being metallic instead of brown or testaceous ; the pubescence of the
pygidium is much shorter ; the disk of the prothorax is densely
provided with a mixture of large, but little closely-set granules and
of numerous much smaller granules, instead of moderately large
and moderately remote granules ; the intervals of elytra bear
moderately fine and very densely-set granules with an admixture of
numerous extremely fine punctures or granules, instead of being
provided only with moderately fine and somewhat numerous
granules ; the lamina on the vertex ( $ ) is divided into two points
which are distinctly dented at their base.

Length 9^-10 mm.

Hah. Damaraland (Okahandja ; Windhoek).

H. d'Orb.

Gen. DIASTBLLOPALPUS, Lansb.

DlASTELLOPALPUS ORBIGNYI, n. Sp.

Plate XLVIIL, figs. 1, 2.
Ann. S. Afric. Mus., hi., 1904, p. 224.
Male: Black, shiny, almost glabrous on the upper side, pectus,
legs and under side of prothorax clothed with fulvous hairs, pygidium
and abdominal segments with shorter sub-flavescent ones ; antennae
yellow with the exception of the three basal joints which are piceous-
red ; clypeus broadly arcuate in front with the margin entire and
reflexeil. genae hardly prominent, in the centre, in a line with the
Buture al bhe junction of the genie there is a high, laminate, sharply
and broadly triangular keel the moderately rounded basal angles of
which are continued towards the frontal part as a sloping ridge set

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at right angles with the clypeal carina and partly enclosing two deep
impressions the separating wall of which is continued as a short
median ridge reaching almost a transverse high laminate ridge set
on the vertex, truncate at both ends, reaching the median part of the
eyes and longer therefore than the clypeal which is widely separated
from the genae ; the surface of the clypeus is strongly transversely
plicate, the frontal part and the genae roughly punctate ; the prothorax
is broader than long, almost vertical in front, and with the anterior
angles much produced ; it is deeply excavated on each side, Gopris-like,
while the central part of the apex projects as a broadly triangular
ridge the outer angles of which are continued vertically also as a sharp
ridge strongly dentate towards its median part, the lateral anterior
excavation has a sharp, short tooth on the outer part close to the
lateral smooth impression, the two lateral anterior excavations, and
also the median space edged by the two vertical ridges are sparingly
and not deeply punctate, on the upper part the anterior projection is
granular, the sides scabrose, the posterior median part is not closely
punctate, and the long hind depression along the sides and part
of the carinate base is faintly punctate, there is no median smooth
longitudinal line ; elytra shorter than the prothorax and equally
broad at their widest part, plainly striate, intervals deeply and
closely punctate, each puncture bearing a very minute black hair,
alternate intervals wider than the others ; pygidium longer than
broad, covered with punctures similar to those on the elytra, but
bearing a much longer and fulvous hair.

Length 23 mm. ; width 15 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Umtali).

Gen. COPTOEEHINA, Cat. i., p. 286.

COPTORRHINA FORCIPATA, Hal'.,

Mitth. Munich. Entomol. Ver., 1880, p. 149.

" Piceous black, head smooth, only sparsely granulate towards the
anterior margin, clypeus strongly and sharply bidentate ; prothorax
finely and not densely punctate in the disk but more strongly and
very densely towards the sides ; elytra moderately shiny, intervals
plane, punctulate, the external ones obsoletely tuberculated longi-
tudinally in the centre, the ninth is almost cristate in the middle,
and the eighth entirely so, but the crest is obliterated in the middle
of the latter.

Length 10i mm.

Hab. Cape of Good Hope.

Allied to C. armata, Bohem., but larger ; differs by all the internal

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intervals entirely non-tuberculate, while the external ones are
obsoletely tuberculate."

Gen. PEDARIA, Cat. i., 277.

Pedaria taylori, Waterh.,

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1890, p. 375.

Dark bronze, only moderately shiny, antennae and palps reddish
flavescent, clypeus broadly and somewhat deeply emarginate, the
genae sti'ongly projecting, the margins are setulose and the whole
head is covered wTith deep, closely set punctures separated from each
other by a narrow smooth line ; prothorax twice as broad as long,
nearly straight laterally, plainly convex in the dorsal part with the
median anterior part produced into a conspicuous rounded knob-like
tubercle, the surface is covered in front and in the anterior part of
the tubercle by very closely-set punctures which from there to the
base change into deep, sub-foveate ones separated by a very narrow,
somewhat shiny wall ; elytra not broader at the base than the base
of the prothorax itself, but slightly ampliate rounded beyond the
lateral sinuation, and rounded towards the apex, very convex, gemi-
nate striate, the striae being deeply and broadly punctate, and the
plane intervals bearing each a double row of juxtaposed, almost
fossulate punctures not quite as broad as those of the posterior part
of the prothorax.

Length 8-8i mm. ; width 4— 4jmm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (neighbourhood of Salisbury, Plum-
tree).

The species was originally described from Lake Nyassa and Mom-
bassa. It is easily distinguished from its South African congeners
by the knob on the prothorax.

PlNACOTARSUS, Hai\,

Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxxvi., 1875, p. 454.
IL Icroclitopus, Pering., Catal. i., p. 305.

Gen. HELIOCOPRIS, Catal. i., p. 316.
Heliocopris colossus, Bat.,
Coleopt., Heft, iv., 1868, p. 88.
//. anterior, Pit., nee Oliv., Catal. i., p. 316.

I was wrong in identifying this species as II. an tenor, Oliv. It is,
I think, undoubtedly Bates' species.

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Heliocopris antenor, Oliv.,
Entom., i., 3, p. 97, pi. vi., figs, a, b.
var. japetus, Klug, Catal. i., p. 317.

The difference between H. japetus, Klug, and H. anterior is really-
very small ; it consists in the clypeus ( $ ) being more deeply sinuate
on each side of the anterior truncate margin, in the base of the
same not being laterally in line with the genae and in the frontal
carina being plainly dentate in the centre and much more raised
there than at the angles ; on the prothorax there is on each side of
the base a smooth space which occurs also in H. japetus, but is less
punctate and therefore more shiny. But the shape of the genital
organs of the $ is absolutely identical in both the so-called species,
and H. japetus can thus be regarded as merely a slight varietal form
of H. antenor.

Gen. CATHAESIUS, Cat. i., p. 323.

Catharsius sesostris, Waterh.
Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1888, p. 86.
C. pyladcs, Per., Catal. i., p. 332.

C. sesostris was originally described from Egypt. It is now known
to occur in the Soudan, Senegal, Nyassaland, and Mozambique.

Catharsius vitulus, Boh., Catal. i., p. 334.

The range of this species is very great. I have seen examples
(minor development) from Senegambia (Upper Senegal Eiver).

Gen. COPEIS, Geoffr., Catal. i., p. 342.
Copris oelatus, Fabric.
C. victorini, Boh., Cat. i., p 354.

Copris orphanus, Guer., Cat. i., p. 350.

Mr. G. A. K. Marshall writes to me : " The type of Copris neptis,
Eeich., is in the British Museum, and they have also a specimen
of C. orphanus, which Eeiche had compared with Guerin's type ;
these are both clearly identical with your C. macer (Catal. i.,
p. 346), C. neptis being a small development of the male.

The synonymy of this species will thus be—

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Copris orphanus, Guer.
C. neptis, Reich. Catal. i., p. 350.
? C. trogloihjtarum, Roth. Catal. i., p. 350.
C. maccr, Per. Catal. i., p. 343-346.

Copris evanidus, King, Catal. L, p. 350.

C. puncticollis, Boh., Catal. i., p. 350.
C. gracilis, Waterh., Catal. L, p. 350.

I give the synonymy of C. puncticollis with C. evanidus on H.
Kolbe's authority.

Copris laticornis, var. minor, Waterh., Catal. i., p. 348.

C. integer, Per., nee Reich., Catal. i., p. 348.

The true Copris integer, Reich., has no relation whatever with
C. laticornis, var. minor of Waterhouse. 1 was misled by a wrongly
identified $ example.

Copris jacchus, Fabr., Catal. i., p. 358.

I have received several examples of this species from Senegambia
(Upper Senegal River).

Sub-Family APHODIIN^E.
Gen. APHODIUS, Illig. Cat, i., p. 371.

Al'lionirs THORACIGUS, Roll).,
Arch. f. Naturg., xvii., I'M.

A large species. Oblong, depressed especially on the elytra, head
and prothorax fuscous black, the latter with a somewhat broad
flavescent lateral margin, elytra and under side luteous, bead very
weakly punctate, the punctures obliterated on the vertex, clypeus

widely truncate in front and with a sharp triangular tubercle in the
centre of the frontal part in the J , the frontal part simple in the ? ;
prothorax as long as broad, and somewhat wide)- than the elytra and
slightly refuse in front in the J , not so in the ? , sub-parallel but
slightly wider at the base than at the apex, depressed in the upper

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side and covered with irregularly set punctures somewhat deep and
more crowded laterally in the anterior part ; scutellum extremely
long and sharp, concave and sub-coriaceous ; elytra somewhat
depressed near the scutellary region, very finely striate punctulate,
with the intervals plane and finely aciculate, the two outer striae
are of equal length, but are interrupted at a distance from the base
nearly opposite the lateral sinuation, and the two preceding ones
(sixth and seventh) reach only the humeral callus ; pygidium finely
punctulate, sparsely pilose ; pectus very closely punctate, but the
median part of the metasternum is quite smooth, the legs are almost
impunctate except for a few setigerous punctures ; anterior tibiae
strongly tri-dentate.

Length 13 mm. ; width 6 mm.

This species, which inhabits Senegal and Abyssinia, was recorded
by Boheman from the Orange Eiver. My example is from Southern
Ehodesia, Sebakwe. It is very closely allied to 0. senegalensis,
Klug., but the clypeus is more broadly truncate in front than in
examples of the latter from Senegambia ; in the $ the anterior part
of the prothorax is not sub-excavate, the punctuation is broader,
and the punctures are much more numerous on the prothorax.

Aphodius minatoPvIUS, n. sp.

Brick-red, somewhat shiny, glabrous, clypeus slightly infuscate,
broadly emarginate in the centre from side to side, very oblique
laterally towards the gense, the latter very sharply triangular, pro-
jecting much, and conspicuously impressed on the upper side, in
the centre of the head are three very plain tubercles disposed trans-
versely and with the median one more developed than the others,
the surface of both head and clypeus is very sparsely and weakly
punctate ; prothorax slightly narrower at the apex than at the base,
and having in the anterior part a very shallow impression with two
diverging very slightly raised and not very plain longitudinal areas,
it is covered with plain simple punctures somewhat irregularly dis-
posed and separated by an interval larger than their diameter, these
punctures are getting more remote towards the central part ; scutel-
lum sharply triangular, nearly impunctate ; elytra twice as long as
the prothorax, deeply striate but the striae not very distinctly punc-
tate and the intervals plane, the seventh stria reaches the apex only
of the humeral callus, and the eighth reaches short of the base by
about one-fourth of the length, the ninth unites with the marginal
below the humeral callus ; anterior tibiae toi-dentate and slightly
crenulate above the teeth.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe).

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Aphodius excultus, n. sp.

Head and prothorax piceous fuscous, the latter has a very broad,
lateral pale testaceous band ; the elytra are livid testaceous with
two longitudinal lighter patches on each side of tbe base, the first
one extending on the first and second intervals to about one-eigbth
of the length, the other, which is shorter, is at the humeral angle ;
long past the median part is a patch of similar colour extending on
the second to fifth intervals, and continued longitudinally on the
fourth and fifth ; on the edge of this patch are three black elongated
spots, two superposed on the fourth interval, and one situated on
the fifth ; clypeus only very slightly sinuate in front and with the
gense not projecting, simple, with the frontal sparsely punctulate
but having in addition deeper and broader punctures, each bearing
a long hair, and forming a regular transverse row along the vertex ;
prothorax nearly parallel laterally and covered with closely-set, sub-
contiguous sub-fossulate punctures bearing each a setose hair; scutel-
lum sharply ogival ; elytra nearly oblong but slightly broader from
about one-fifth of the length than at or near the base, very narrowly
punctulate striate, with the intervals convex, tectiform and having
each a series of fine briefly setulose punctures in the centre ; the
eighth stria stops a little short of the base; anterior tibiae tri-dentate,
anterior tarsi short, very slender.

Length 5 mm. ; width 2^ mm.

In general appearance this species somewhat resembles Lordito-
mceus deplanatus.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

MACRORETRUS, n. gen.

Mentum and general facies of Aphodius, but the genae do not
project beyond the line of the eyes ; it is distinguished by the
shape of the elytra which do not cover the pygidium, the latter is
not vertical, and is sharply triangular and often projects sub-
horizontally ; the sexual differences are also very great. In the $
the inner spur of the anterior tarsi is very long, straight and
laminate, the. four basal joints of the intermediate tibiae are ex-
tremely short and thickened, the fifth, which is as long as all the
other four taken together, and is also thicker, has instead of claws
two broad, laminate lobes the outer of which is spatuliform and
impressed in the centre of the outer part, the inner lobe is some-
what hooked ; the hind tarsi are normal, the basal joint being twice
as long as the spur ; in the female the inner spur of the anterior
tibiae and the intermediate tarsi are normal.

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Macroketrus singularis, n. sp.

Black, shiny, antennal club fuscous, the pedicel flavous ; pro-
thorax with a small flavescent spot at the anterior angle ; elytra
fuscous black with two flavescent basal patches on each side and
a transverse band of tbe same colour above the apex, but when the
elytra are fuscous there are traces of a longitudinal band ascending
laterally towards the outer basal patch ; in some cases, probably
immature examples, the flavescent colour has invaded nearly the
whole surface except the suture ; $ clypeus truncate in front with
the angles rounded and the margin slightly reflexed, very vaguely
punctulate, the frontal part simple ; prothorax a little broader than
long, ampliate rounded laterally, plainly sinuate towards the base,
somewhat depressed on the upper side, closely and somewhat deeply
punctulate except for a smooth longitudinal median space reaching
from the apex to about the median part ; scutellum very long, sharply
triangular and punctulate at the base ; elytra not quite twice the
length of the prothorax, narrowly striate punctulate, with the inter-
vals convex and impunctate, the seventh and eighth striae reach
nearly to the same distance under the humeral callus, the ninth is
shorter than the eighth ; the ? differs from the $ in the slightly less
blunted anterior part of the prothorax ; the punctures on the head,
and especially on the prothorax, are deeper and cover the whole
surface of the latter.

The livery is not unlike that of A. cruentus, Kl.

Length 3|-3f mm. ; width lf-2 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe).

Sub-Family TKOGIN.E.

Gen. TEOX., Cat. i., p. 452.
Trox massalis, Har.
Mitth. Munch. Entomol. Ver., 1880, p. 156.
" Lateral margin of prothorax denticulate ; elytra ampliated,
strongly convex, sinuate on each side at the base and with the
shoulders very acute, they have series of equal tubercles intermixed
with small tubercles.
Length 15 mm.
Hab. Hereroland.

Shape of T. varicosus, the elytra highly convex, short and broadly
ovate, the greatest width being in the centre ; vertex with two dis^

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tinct tufts ; prothorax almost as that of T. varicosus, the hind part is,
however, a little broadened, and higher, the hind angles are thence
more blunt and surmount a little the shoulders ; elytra at the base
always distinctly sinuate close to the shoulders, these very sharp,
almost tooth-like, the outer margin finely crenulate, with serrated
small tubercles equal in size, and mostly consisting of from two to
three adjacent little knobs having between them a single very small
one ; end of the presternum transverse, the fore tibiae with one tooth
in the middle, and toothed above the same ; first joint of antenna'
black and with black bristles, the club a hoary grey, the other joints
red- brown."

Trox pusillus, n. sp.

A close ally of T. rhyparlioides, Har., but smaller; the shape of
the clypeus and frontal part is the same but the ridges are blunter,
and this applies also to those of the prothorax which bear at their
disjuncted parts a small tuft of slightly flavescent squamose hairs,
the two median costules are quite parallel, and they enclose a plain
longitudinal raised line ; on the elytra all the costoe are inter-
rupted at short, equidistant spaces ending in a squamose sub-
flavescent tuft, whereas in T. rhyparhoides the first two costae
are almost entire from the apex to long past the middle, and the
two rows of foveae in each interval are very shallow.

Length 6 mm. ; lat. 3 mm.

Hab. Southern Khodesia (Salisbury).

FAMILY GEOTRUPINiE.

Key to tlic Genera.

Intermediate coxae broadly separated ; pygidium not covered by the

elytra; scutellum very narrow, elongated, sunken i thy reus.

Intermediate coxas contiguous ; pygidium covered by the elytra ;

scutellum broad, ogival, not sunken BolbuctTug.

Gen. ATHYKEUS, McLeay,
Horai Entomolog., i., 1819, p. 123.
The differences separating this genus from Bolboceras are those
given above. As a rule the prothorax is more dehiscent, and the

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elytra more deeply and roughly punctate with the intervals more
convex or even tectiform, but it is the shape and position of the
scutellum which characterises this genus, which, so far as I know,
is represented in Africa by one species occurring in Somaliland, and
by two in the South African Region.

Athyreus rhodesianus, n. sp
Pi. XL VIII., figs. 13, 14.
Black, shiny, antennae pale rlavous ; underside clothed with a
long, very dense, greyish flavescent pubescence ; mandibles with
two triangular lateral laminate processes on each side, apex of left
one single, hooked, that of right bifid; labrum curved at apex,
clypeus with a conical tooth at the very apex, straight there, the base
of the conical tooth connected with the centre of the anterior apical
carina, which is triangularly dentate on each side, and slants sub-
obliquely to the base of the genge, which are narrowly and sharply
triangular with the apex reflexed ; at the back of this ridge is a
median, broad, fairly deep depression, the surface is coarsely sub-
scabrose punctate, the punctures are not set close to each other, and
each bears a short hair ; prothorax strongly declivous and having a
deep, anterior excavation reaching from the apex to about the
median part, strongly sloping and edged on each side by a sharp
ridge, truncate in front, and bi-sinuate in the upper part ; on the
sides and equi-distant from the lateral ridge of the anterior excava-
tion and from the very vertical basal carinate part is a vertical
slightly sinuate ridge beginning at about one half of the height and
reaching the lateral margin ; the median part of the apex, is
distinctly triangularly tuberculated, and from there to the base runs
a narrow but deep sulcus, the posterior part is broadly depressed on
each side of that median groove ; the surface is covered with deep
punctures, bearing each a small hair, these punctures are more
closely set in the excavation and laterally, and on each side of the
base there is above the margin an agglomeration of longer hairs ;
elytra not longer than the prothorax, deeply but somewhat irregu-
larly striate punctate, with the intervals carinulate costate, each
puncture in the striae bears a minute greyish hair ; pygidium closely
and somewhat coarsely punctate and densely pubescent ; abdomen
aciculate ; outer face of femora punctate but with the median part
smooth ; pectus very closely and deeply punctate ; anterior tibiae
quadri-dentate.

Length 10 mm., width 5h mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (neighbourhood of Salisbury).

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Athyreus damara, Kolb.,
Annal. Soc. Ent. Belg., li., 1907, p. 31.

" Ferruginous brown, clothed with fulvous hairs, shiny ; head
plentifully granulate, labrum obtusely rounded in front, mandibles
produced forward like a dorsal lamina, ridge of the epistoma trans-
verse, high, bidentate, deeply sinuate before the teeth (of the man-
dibles), frontal part minutely callose in the middle, the anteocular
genae sending forth an acute reflex process ; prothorax constricted
laterally, everywhere closely granulate on the upper side, anterior
margin bisinuate, the median lobe emitting a tooth, broadly excavate
longitudinally in the median dorsal part, the outer margins of the
excavation sinuose carinate, the carina tridentate on each side,
interrupted behind beyond the second tooth, the bottom of the
excavation very narrowly canaliculate longitudinally, the canalicula-
tion edged on each side by a thin carinule ; elytra slightly substriate,
the stria? partly irregularly punctate, vanishing behind, the 1st
(sutural), 5, 9, 13, 16 slightly convex, anterior tibae 5-dentate
outwardly, the intermediate pair entire, the hind ones transversely
unicarinate.

Length 18-21 mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Lake Ngami)."

Gen. BOLBOCEEAS, Kirb., Catal. i., p. 477

Key to the Sjiecies.

As. Anterior tibiae, 5-dentate.

a-. Prothorax deeply excavate in front.

$ : Clypeus with an anterior transverse ridge with each
angle raised in a somewhat long, truncate tooth ; anterior
part of the prothoracic excavation surmounted by two very
long, closely set conical tubercles, another long tubercule in
the posterior part capicola.

<j : Clypeus with a frontal truncate tubercle ; prothorax with
three long teeth, two anterior, one median ; dorsal part with
a double excavation on each side between the three horns . . iphicles.

a'. Prothorax retuse and very deeply impressed in front.

Clypeus with a high median, transverse, short ridge ; exca-
vation of prothorax with two small tubercles and a lateral
one on each side ; punctures on the sides of the prothorax
round, closely set /outturn.

Clypeus with a median transverse tri-dentate ridge; anterior
impression of prothorax somewhat shallow, upper edge
smooth sinuate in the centre and limited by a very small
tubercle on each side ; punctures on the sides of the
prothorax reticulate scabrose hebes.

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Clypeus with a median and a lateral tooth on each side of
the anterior frontal part ; prothorax impressed rather than
excavate near the apical margin, a smooth arcuate space
above the impression ; punctures on the sides round, not set
very close to each other disparile.

A4. Anterior tibiae 6-dentate.

a. Prothorax depressed on the anterior part.

Clypeus with an anterior frontal median tubercle trian-
gularly raised on each side of the anterior part of the gens,
anterior impression of the prothorax, narrow, elongate, punc-
tures moderately remote laterally e.rasperans.

Clypeus with three high, sharp teeth ; anterior impression

of the prothorax semicircular indigum.

A3. Anterior tibiae 7-dentate.

ii-. Prothorax impressed in front.

Clypeus with a very minute tubercle on the edge of the
clypeus, margin rerlexed close to the genae ; impression of
prothorax impunctate, punctures on sides round and only
moderately closely set, a broad, smooth band along the
whole base matahele.

a1. Prothorax not impressed in front.

Labrum plainly carinate transversely in the centre, anterior
frontal part with an arcuate ridge reaching from side to side,
apex with a short, transverse ridge sebakuense.

A2. Anterior tibiae 8-dentate.

Prothorax not excavate ; median frontal part with a short,

transverse sub-bi-dentate ridge, angle of genae slightly recurved . . arribiguum.

A1. Anterior tibiae 9-dentate.

Totally black ; anterior frontal part with a triangular ridge
dentate in the centre and on each side close to the genae ; apex
with a long transverse ridge nigrum.

BOLBOCERAS CAPICOLA, n. Sp.,

PI. XLVIIL, figs. 7, 8, 9.
Male : Brick-red with the prothorax and tibiae somewhat infus-
cate ; antennae brick-red ; glabrous on the upper side, clothed with
long, flavescent hairs underneath ; labrum notched in the centre, at
the base of the labrum is a vertical wall-like ridge extending from
side to side, and the upper angle of which is produced into a vertical
tooth as high again as the carina itself, the frontal part at the back
of the ridge is almost parallel, only slightly wider than the ridge, and
depressed from there nearly to the apex where there is a small,
median tubercle, the surface is closely but somewhat obsoletely
punctate ; prothorax nearly retuse in front, and having there two

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small excavations from which rise two conical processes set close to
each other, in the posterior part of the prothorax and in a line with
the space separating these processes is a longitudinal ridge reaching
the base and having on each side a very deep depression, the surface
is closely punctulate, and has a coriaceous appearance ; elytra
longer than the prothorax, finely punctate striate, with the punctures
very shallow, the intervals are plane and vaguely aciculate ; the
underside and legs are aciculate punctate ; the anterior tibiae are
•5-dentate outwardly.

This is the first species of Bolboceras found at the extreme end of
South Africa. Its facies differs gi'eatly from that of the other known
South African species, and so does the shape of the genital clasps.

Length 17 mm , width 10 mm.

Hub. Cape Colony (Darling).

Bolboceras iphicles, K<
Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., li., 1907, p. 29.

Male : Brick red, shiny, antennal club llavous ; glabrous on the
upper side, clothed underneath with long, light, fulvous hairs ; labrum
straight in front ; clypeus sharply carinate, vertical and straight in
front with the sides diagonally produced as far as the apex of the
genao, in the central part of the head is a truncate, sub-laminate
tubercle equi-distant from apex and base, surface equally roughly
punctate ; prothorax with the median anterior part excavated at a
short distance from the apex into two large, deep holes separated by
a smooth ridge which is continued at the apex as a long acute tooth
slanting slightly forward, the outer wall of the excavation being also
produced on each side in a similar but more broadly triangular tooth,
at the back of each of the anterior excavations is a sub-transversely
arcuate narrower and shallower one separated from the former by a
very narrow, sharp ridge, and abutting almost on the marginal
groove; all the excavations are smooth, and the sides, outer part of
teeth included, are coarsely punctate rugose, there is, however, a
narrow, smooth band above the groove of the margin ; scutellum
impunctate ; elytra narrowly but distinctly striate punctate with the
intervals smooth, and the punctures somewhat fine and shallow;
anterior tibiae strongly 5-dentate outwardly.

Female : Head as in the 3 and with a short, weakly, tri-denticu-
late frontal carina, instead of a tubercle; prothorax sloping in the
anterior part, the upper part with a very weak transverse ridge
about as wide as the head, a very shallow depression lower down on
each side of it, limited outwardly by a distinct tuberculiform ridge,

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the median part of the disk is more minutely but as roughly punctate
as the sides, but there is a smooth band along the median part of
the base, and the median anterior part is shiny and a little punctate.

My female example is much smaller than the $ (11mm. x 7 mm.),
and lighter red. Both examples at my disposal ( $ ? ) seem to be of a
greater development than those on which Kolbe founded the species,
but they come from the same locality (Okahandja in Damaraland),
and I have no doubt that they are the same species.

Length 11-14^ mm., width 7-9f mm.

This species is, like B. capicola, easily distinguished from all its
South African congeners by the shape of the thorax. It should
precede B. damarinum, and it belongs to the same group.

Hab. Damaraland (Okahandja).

BOLBOCERAS FAUSTUM, n.Sp.

Male and Female : Fuscous brick-red with the anterior part of the
prothorax darker than the sides or the elytra, glabrous above, shiny,
clothed with a dense fulvous pubescence underneath ; antennae
flavescent ; labrum emarginate in the centre, above the labrum is a
sharp, transverse ridge reaching from side to side, not aculeate at the
ends, and on the centre of the frontal part rises a high, compressed,
sub-laminate tubercle truncate at the tip, the frontal part is
trapezoid, being about one-third wider at the base than across the
clypeal part the outer margin of which, close to the genae, is highly
reflexed, the surface is very deeply and very closely punctate, the
sub-foveate punctures are almost contiguous, especially in front, and
separated by a narrow wall ; prothorax with an anterior, sub-
quadrate, sloping depression, rather than an excavation, not wider
than the head and not reaching quite to half the length, this
depression has on each side a small tubercle, and in the upper part
two, somewhat short, sub-triangular ones nearly connected at their
base and set close to each other, the posterior part is very convex,
and has a shallow median longitudinal sulcus, the surface is covered
with sub-foveate punctures more closely set in the anterior de-
pression than on the sides where the intervals bear distinct aciculate
punctures, but these punctures disappear above the median part of
the base for about one quarter of the whole length, except in the
sulcus which is plainly punctate; scutellum closely but very weakly
aciculate ; elytra longer than the prothorax, punctate striate with
the punctures deep, intervals plane, smooth ; femora almost im-
punctate ; anterior tibiae 5-dentate outwardly.

Length 11-16 mm. ; width 7i-10 mm.

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Closely allied to B. damarinum ; the excavation of the prothorax
is nearly alike, hut the sides are scrobiculate in B. damarinum,
which species B. faustum should follow.

Hab. Cape Colony (Vryburg) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg), Southern
Khodesia (Plumtree).

In the smaller development, and in the female, the anterior depres-
sion is less marked, and the two lateral tubercles and the two above
them are not greatly developed.

BOLBOCEKAS HEBES, n. Sp.

Brick-red, shiny, glabrous on the upper side, very densely
pubescent underneath, the pubescence is long and light fulvescent;
antennae yellow ; labrum arcuate, long, followed by a highly raised
ridge reaching from side to side, slightly more raised in the centre
than at the sides which are angular, the sinus in front of the genae
triangular and highly reflexed, in the centre of the frontal part is a
sub-tridentate highly raised lamina, the whole surface is scrobiculate
punctate ; prothorax with a transverse impression set at a short
distance from the apex, extending across the median part, and
bounded behind by a rounded, smooth, little raised, arcuate wall
bearing two small tubercles somewhat distant from each other in
the middle, the part behind that smooth elevation is transversely
depressed and set slightly below the level of the basal part which
is smooth along the median part, while the middle of the disk,
including the anterior depression, is deeply and somewhat closely
punctate and the sides scrobiculate foveate ; scutellum smootb,
impunctate ; elytra a little longer than the prothorax, finely
punctulate striate, intervals smooth ; anterior tibiae sharply five-
dentate.

Length 11 mm. ; width 8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Colesberg).

BOLBOCERAS DISPAKILE, n. sp.

Female : Brick-red with the head and the greatest part of the
prothorax deep fuscous; antennae flavous, clothed underneath with
a long and very dense light fulvous pubescence ; labrum nearly
straight, carinulate, anterior margin of clypeus carinate, anterior
frontal part with a short, triangular median tubercle in a line with
the base of the ocular canthus, which said angles are dentate tuber-
culate, apex simple, head scrobiculate on the clypeus and the gena>,
I lie space behind the median tubercle is very roughly punctate, but
the punctures on the posterior part are round and remote; prothorax

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with a short, shallow, retuse, triangular impression in the anterior
part, limited behind by a smooth sub-arcuate space, covered with
round punctures, smaller and closely set in the anterior depres-
sion, fairly closely set on the sides, but becoming a little more
remote towards the median part of the disk ; over the base is an
impunctate, transverse area, slightly longer than broad, and in the
centre of the posterior part a faint sulcus with one series of punc-
tures ; scutellum punctured, the punctures round and more closely
set and deeper than those found on the prothorax, but slightly
smaller ; elytra finely punctate-striate, intervals smooth, plane ;
anterior tibiae six-dentate.

This species is not unlike the female of B. consocium and of B.
pannosum, but it is easily distinguished by its six-dentate anterior
tibiae ; in the two above-named species the tibiae are seven-dentate.

Length 12 mm. ; width 8 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Vryburg).

BoLBOCERAS EXASPERANS, n. Sp.

Male : Brick-red, shiny, glabrous on the upper side, villose
underneath, the villosity fulvous ; antennae flavous ; labrum simple,
anterior edge not arcuate, edge of clypeus carinate ; in the anterior
part, and in a line with the point of insertion of antennae is a small
median tubercle without transverse ridge, the frontal part is not
depressed, and the whole surface is covered with deep, closely-set,
irregular and somewhat confluent punctures ; prothorax with a
median, sub-ovate impression or shallow cavity in the centre
of the anterior part, moderately closely punctate in the sides,
less so in the immediate neighbourhood of the cavity which reaches
from the apex to slightly past the median part, and sparingly in the
central posterior part, along the basal margin is a series of short,
closely-set punctures ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra slightly lighter
in colour than the prothorax, closely and deeply punctate striate,
intervals smooth, not raised; under side closely aciculate ; femora
smooth except on the edges ; anterior tibiae six-dentate.

Length 7-9 mm. ; width 4|-5i- mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg) ; Damaraland.

This species closely approximates B. -pannosum and B. consocium
(Catal. L, pp. 488, 489), but the tibiae are seven-dentate in these two
species.

BoLBOCERAS INDIGUM, 11. sp.

Brick-red, very shiny ; labrum moderately arcuately emarginate,
frontal part in the shape of an inverted truncate pyramid, sharply

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carinate on the anterior and lateral margins, and having in front of
the anterior angle of the genas three highly raised, sharp triangular
teeth set transversely in a row, hind part of the head slightly
depressed in the centre and quite smooth ; prothorax with an
anterior semi-circular, moderately deep cavity not prolonged into
a groove on the dorsal part, faintly plicate at the base, but other-
wise quite smooth ; on each side of the cavity are a few shallow,
agglomerated punctures, but the sides except for a few semi-seriate,
fine punctures along the margin, and almost the whole dorsal part
from the top of the cavity to the base, are smooth ; in the centre of
the disk is a small, impressed line reaching the base, but not the
cavity ; scutellum with a few very indistinct punctures at about
the central part; elytra firmly punctate striate; the lateral strias
obliterated from the base to about one-third of the length, the first
seven dorsal striae only reaching the base, the others are obliterated
slantingly, that is to say, the eighth and ninth reach nearer the base
than the others, and so on, the supra-marginal ones and those next
to them being obliterated for about two-thirds of their length.

Length 12 mm. ; width 8 mm.

This species is very closely allied to B. vacicum (Cat. i., p. 485)
which it should follow. It is larger, but the shape of the head with
the tri-dentate frontal part is similar, and the excavation of the
prothorax is not angular on each side at the apex, nor is it pro-
longed into a deep triangular depression reaching nearly to the base ;
the punctuation, however, is nearly the same.

llab. Southern Ehodesia (Plumtree).

BOLBOCERAS SEBAKUENSE, n. sp.

Male : Brick-red, shiny, glabrous on the upper side, femora, sides
of pronotum and gula densely hairy, the hairs long and fulvous ;
antennae flavous ; labrum with the edge slightly sinuose in the
centre, and with a distinct transverse ridge equi-distant from
the edge and from the transverse impression separating it from
anterior part of the clypeus which is carinate ; between the point
of insertion of the antennas, and equi-distant from the apex and the
triangular genss, is a ridge curving backwards, the two angles of
which are plainly raised and the centre slightly elevated, but less
so than the angles ; the anterior frontal part behind the ridge is
depressed, and at a short distance from the apex is a short, trans-
verse, very distinct carina; the depressed frontal part and the sides
are very sparingly punctate; prothorax very narrowly edged with
fuscous, slightly retusc in the centre of the very anterior part, the

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short, retuse part is weakly furrowed, and smooth on each side of
the furrow, the surface is very sparingly punctured for two-thirds
of the length, the punctures being shallow and sub-equidistant, the
posterior third is impunctate, and in the centre there is a very
shallow groove, along the base is a series of fine, closely set punc-
tures ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra deeply and narrowly punctate
striate, the intervals plane and impunctate ; abdomen not distinctly
punctate ; femora smooth ; anterior tibiae seven-dentate.

Length 10 mm. ; width 6£ mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe).

This species is easily distinguished from the other South African
species of the seven-dentate anterior tibiae section by the armature
of the head and the weak and very remote punctures of the prothorax.

BOLBOCEEAS MATABELE, n. Sp.

This species might at first sight be taken for B. exasperans, but
the anterior tibiae are 7- instead of 6-dentate ; the head is trans-
versely striate punctate, and instead of the tubercle in the anterior
part being in a line with the point of insertion of the antennae it is
set more forward and is very small ; in the anterior part of the pro-
thorax there is a moderately deep, obtusely triangular impression
similar to that of B. exasperans, but the punctures on the sides are
much more remote than in that species ; elytra closely and deeply
punctate-striate.

Length 8-1- mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hob. Southern Ehodesia (Plumtree).

This species is closely allied to B. consocium, which it should
follow, and from which it differs mainly by the much more remote
punctures on the sides and centre of the prothorax.

BOLBOCERAS AMBIGUUM, n. Sp.

Male : Brick-red, shiny, clothed underneath with long fulvous
hairs ; head darker red, deeply and somewhat closely punctate
in the frontal part, but rugosely coriaceous on the clypeus which
is plainly carinate in front, in the centre of the frontal part and in a
line with the eyes is a very short transverse ridge ; prothorax not
excavated or impressed in the anterior part, but having a very faint
median longitudinal groove in the posterior, and covered with equi-
distant, or nearly equi-distant round punctures separated by an
interval wider than their diameter, in the centre of the base there
is a small, smooth area ; scutellum closely punctate ; elytra deeply
and closely punctate striate, intervals smooth, the three juxta-

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sutural ones somewhat convex ; under side aciculate punctate ;
anterior tibiae eight-dentate outwardly.

Length 8 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg).

This species is the only South African one known to me having
eight-dentate fore tibiae, and is thus easily identified. It is not
unlike in general appearance B. matabele, but in the latter the
scutellum is smooth.

BOLBOCEEAS NIGRUM, n. sp.

Male : Black, shiny, under side clothed with a flavescent pubes-
cence ; antennae chestnut-brown ; labium with a plain, transverse
ridge between the apex and the junction with the clypeus, edge
of the latter distinctly carinate, in a line with the apex of the genae
is a triangular ridge reaching from side to side with the median
parts and the angles plainly acuminate, beyond the middle of the
frontal part is a transverse ridge which does not reach from side
to side, and the space between the two ridges is depressed and
nearly smooth, the clypeus is coriaceous, the apex of the head
punctate ; prothorax declivous in the anterior part, deeply impressed
rather than excavate there, the depression being nearly as broad
as long ; from the median part to the base is a punctate sulcus
deepening towards the base, the impression is vaguely punctate ;
on each side of the median sulcus is an impunctate area, but the
punctures on the sides are deep and closely set ; scutellum as long
as broad, ogival, and closely and deeply punctate for four-fifths
of the length ; elytra deeply and closely punctate striate, intervals
smooth, the dorsal ones slightly convex ; under side aciculate
punctate ; anterior tibiae nine-dentate.

Length 7^ mm. ; width 5J mm.

Hab. Southern Bhodesia (Salisbury ).

BOLBOCERAS COPRIDOIDES, Kolbe,

Ann. Soc. Entom. Belg., li., 1907, p. 29.
" Large, ferruginous, rufous or ilavous pilose, head, prothorax, and
scutellum fuscous brown, antenna' bright yellow ferruginous; elytra
flavous brown with the suture and the external margin fuscous
black, pectus, abdomen and legs rufous ferruginous, the teeth and
ridges of the tibiae black at apex, the spurs fuscous, the tarsi red
with the joints black at tip ; head rugose punctate, labrum little
attenuate, obtuse in front, epistoma with a ridge attenuate on the
upper part, frontal part highly carinate, the carina tri-tuberculate,

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the median tooth retuse ; anterior part of prothorax deeply excavate
on each side, the cavities shiny in part, somewhat rugose punctate,
anterior margin bi-sinuate, the dorsal lobe porrect, perpendicular,
sinuate in the middle in front, bi-partite, sub-acuminate externally,
the upper part of the prothorax rugose punctate, opaque, punctulate
in the middle, shiny, sides carinate, inner carina situate close to the
excavation, sub-dentate ; elytra shiny, with twelve to thirteen striae,
the striae punctulate, but not much impressed, most of them obsolete
and abbreviated behind, the external ones geminate, the sutural stria
more deeply impressed, entire, the eighth and eleventh evanescent,
obliterated, sixth and seventh, ninth and tenth, twelfth and thirteenth
geminate ; anterior tibiae six-dentate outwardly.

Length 22 mm.

Hab. German South-west Africa."

■ BOLBOCERAS ERASTUS, Kolbe,

Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., li., 1907, p. 30.

" Male : A small species, remarkable, however, by the shape of the
head and prothorax in the male. Fuscous brown, shiny, antennae
ferruginous ; head shiny, loosely punctate, tri-carinate, the anterior
carina produced by the epistoma, bending angularly back in the
centre, connected with the anterior frontal carina which is angular
in front, posterior (third) carina nearly straight, slightly flexuose
and almost united with the eyes ; prothorax smooth, shiny, little
punctate, sulcate in the dorsal part, bi-excavate on each side in
front, inner excavation deeper than the other, briefly corniculate,
also on each side between the two excavations, this small horn
is porrect and compressed, sub-acuminate at apex, and angular on
the upper side, in the median part of the dorsal part is a plane,
constricted process vertical in front the anterior upper margin of
which is straight, sharply cut off, slightly reflexed and bi-angular
on each side ; hind margin of prothorax thickened, sinuate on each
side ; scutellum very sparingly punctulate ; elytra punctate striate,
dorsal striae sub-sulciform ; anterior tibiae 6-dentate outwardly,
spur curved.

Length 7 mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Windhoek)."

BOLBOCERAS PETULANS, Kolbe,

Loc. cit., p. 30.

" Ferruginous brown, head and elytra infuscate, upper side of
head closely, minutely granulose, moderately shiny, nearly opaque,

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epistoma with a short, little noticeable bi-tuberculate carina set before
the apex, vertex slightly convex, labrum sinuate ; prothorax semi-
circularly but not deeply foveate in the anterior median part, and
having the median longitudinal furrow broadening into a fovea, the
dorsal part including the fovea and the furrow minutely rugose as
far as the outer margins, then loosely and vaguely punctate with
most minute punctures intermixed, discoidal part glabrous on each
side towards the base, shiny, most minutely, loosely punctulate
anterior margin bi-sinuate, median lobe separated from the ante-
discoidal fovea by a not distinct semicircular sulcus, posterior
margin entire, reflexed ; elytra finely seriate punctate, the 14 striae
slightly impressed, the intervals nearly plane, striae 2, 5, 8, 11
obliterated behind, the eighth and eleventh also abbreviated in
front ; anterior tibiae 6-dentate.

Length 14 mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Windhoek, Gobabis, Nosob Eiver)."

Bolboceeas fanza, Pering., Cat. i., p. 156.
According to Felsche (Deutsch Ent. Zeitsch., 1901, p. 154), this
species is identical with B. atavus, Kolbe (Stett. Ent. Zeit., vol. lv.,
1894, p. 167), described from a 2 example. Kolbe's description
tallies with that of B. panza $ , but his name must prevail. The
original example came from northern Nyassaland.

Sub-Family HYBOSOEIN^.

Gen. PHiEOCEOUS, Cast. Catal. i., p. 496.

Phjsocrous effetus, Eolbe,

Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., li., 1907, p. 28.

" Small, weak, shiny, ferruginous, elytra fuscous, moderately shiny
above, but shiny underneath, impunctate or little punctate, sparingly
setulose ; head spaciously punctate, smooth in the centre on the
vertex; prothorax plainly spaciously punctate, impressed longi-
tudinally on each side and with two impressed foveas at the hind
part of the disk ; elytra distinctly, spaciously, and irregularly
punctate, indistinctly and non-regularly geminate striate, partly
regularly or irregularly seriate punctate in the striae ; anterior
tibiae tri-dentate, not crenulate, the upper tooth small ; tibiae of the
posterior legs, and also the tarsi slender.

Length 6i mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Windhoek)."

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PHiEOCEOIDES, n. gen.

Mentum and ligula fused together without any apparent suture,
slightly ampliate laterally at the base, sub-parallel from the median
part to the apex where it is truncate with the angles distinct,
anterior margin with a few setigerous punctures, labial palps inserted
behind the ligular part, last joint cylindrical, truncate ; maxillae
corneous like the mentum, upper lobe spatulate, and inner lobe
with a slender bifid tooth-like process, in the manner of Ochodceus ;
labrum narrow, transverse, truncate at apex, mandibles projecting
slightly beyond it, scooped inwardly, sharply carinate, obtusely
dentate on the upper margin near the base, slightly bifid at tip,
frontal suture obliterated, head simple, eyes not much exposed on
the upper part and not very large underneath ; first and second
joints of the antennal club fitting into the third which is very convex;
prothorax broader than long and gradually ampliated laterally from
the apex to the base which is about one-fourth broader, and very
slightly sinuate towards the outer angles ; the scutellum is some-
what sharply ogival ; the elytra gradually ampliated from the base to
the posterior part as in Phosocrous, not much convex, and distinctly
striate punctate ; underside as in Phosocrous, but the hind femora
are more developed ; abdomen 6-jointed ; the anterior tibiae are
sharply tri-dentate outwardly, the apical tooth being very long and
curved, above the upper tooth the tibia is strongly serrate if not
denticulate, and the inner apical spur is very short ; anterior tarsi
long, slender, longer than the tibia, intermediate and posterior of
the same length as the tibia, claws very slender, hind tibiae slightly
bi- or tri-denticulate on the upper edge, hind spurs very short.

Ph^eocroides damarinus, n. sp.
Brick-red, sub-opaque, glabrous ; head roughly rugose punctate,
prothorax covered with moderately deep sub-variolose punctures
separated from each other by an interval about equal to their
diameter, but not regularly disposed, being more crowded and
smaller in the anterior part, and leaving a smooth line in the
posterior central part of the disk ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra
with 9 plain striae on each side, the striae closely punctate, intervals
plane, each with some seriate, somewhat remote punctures ; under-
side glabrous except for a few setae on the margin of the abdominal
segments, the coxae and femora ; tibiae sparingly setulose, joints of
posterior tarsi with a long seta on each side.

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Length 6 mm. ; width 3i mm.
Hab. Damaraland.

The type — the only specimen I saw — is m the Stockholm
Museum.

Gen. AE7EOTANYPUS, Waterh., Cat. i., p. 899.
Aejeotanypus consors, n. sp.

Female : Testaceous red, antennae flavescent ; glabrous except
for a few short setae on the basal antennal joint, the coxae and
legs ; labrum very transverse, straight in front, clypeus distinctly
carinate in front and on the sides, no frontal suture, but a slight
depression on each side near the genae, whole surface of head
covered with sub-contiguous, sub-rugose punctures ; prothorax
slightly attenuate laterally from the apical to about the median
part, nearly straight thence, both anterior and posterior angles
sharp, base moderately sinuate on each side, discoidal part rather
depressed, and having a short, very faint longitudinal median
sulcus above the centre of the base, the surface is covered with
closely set, simple punctures separated from each other by an
interval nearly equal to their own diameter in the central part
only, and narrower towards and on the sides ; scutellum with
a few punctures at the base ; elytra sub-oblong, being slightly
ampliate laterally past the median part, not broader than the
prothorax at the base and three times as long, very little convex,
normally rounded at apex ; they have each a distinct stria along
the suture and four or five very indistinct ones on the remainder of
the surface, and they are covered with almost seriate, deep, closely-
set, sub-irregular punctures ; underside shiny, nearly impunctate ;
anterior tibiae with three very distinct outer teeth the apical one
of which is very long and curves strongly outwards, the space
between the teeth and also that above the basal tooth is serrated ;
each joint of the long slender tarsi bears on each side a long seta,
the claws are extremely slender.

The female of A. hoops, Waterh., is not known, and the present
3pecies might prove identical with it, but Mr. Arrow, who has
kindly compared my example with the type of the genus, opines that
it is a different species.

Length 8 mm. ; width 4^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Vryburg).

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Sub-Family OCHOD^IN^, Arr.,
Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1904, p. 747.
Arrow, loc. cit., separates Ocliodmts from the Orphnince, and
creates for it a sub-family basing itself on the difference in the
position of the stridulating organs, and also on it having a pectinate
spine to the middle tibia ; this character is, however, variable, because
Chcetocanthus, Per., and Synochodceus, Kolb., have all the spurs
crenulate, but as pointed out by Kolbe (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., li.,
1907, p. 27), in the Ochodceince the very globose eyes are not divided
in front by the canthus of the genae.

Gen. OCHODiEUS, Catal. i., 505.

Ochod^us adsequa, Kolbe,

Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. li., 1907, p. 28.

" Ferruginous brown, moderately shiny, briefly flavopilose, more
shiny underneath, the margins and legs with longer hairs ; head
very closely rugose granulate, epistoma slightly sinuate in the
middle of the anterior part, prothorax closely granulate, and having
in the centre a longitudinal furrow disappearing in front; elytra
short, moderately deeply striate, striae finely punctulate, intervals
convex, profusely granulate but less densely than on the prothorax ;
anterior tibiee tri-dentate, the two apical teeth large, elongated,
third minute ; tibiae of hind and intermediate legs compressed, large,
especially the hind ones.

Length 5f mm.

Hab. German South-West Africa: Damaraland (Gobabis and

Nosop Eiver)."

Gen. CH^TOCANTHUS, Pering., Cat. i., p. 495.*
Ch^tocanthus bechuanus, n. sp.
Pale testaceous, sometimes slightly redder on the head and
prothorax than on the elytra, covered all over the upper surface
with a very short, appressed flavescent pubescence, and the long
hairs edging the canthus of the eye, the sides of the thorax and
of the elytra, the under side and legs, are of the same tint ; head
covered with contiguous, sharp granules ; prothorax covered with
similar but more elongated granules ; in the centre is a quite plain,

* In my description of the genus I omitted to indicate that the longer spur of
all the tibiae is crenulate.

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entire longitudinal, median, impressed line ; scutellum scabrose
punctate, elytra oblong, elongate, faintly bi-costulate on each side,
and covered like the prothorax with contiguous elongated granules,
imparting to them a strongly shagreened appearance ; pygidium and
underside densely villose.

Differs from Chcetocanthus insuctus, Pering. (Catal. i., p. 496), by the
slightly more oblong shape, the plainly impressed prothoracic median
line and the very much finer granulation of the upper side.

Length 6-8f mm ; width 3-3^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Vryburg District).

Gen. SYNOCHODiEUS, Kolbe,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. li., 1907, p. 27.

" Body oblong, pilose ; labrum entire, rounded in front ; eyes semi-
globose, entire; elytra elongate, a little broader than the prothorax,
sub-striate ; tibia? of the first pair tri-dentate outwardly, the two
apical teeth strongly elongated ; posterior tibiae compressed, mode-
rately broad, least ampliate towards the apex, briefly carinulate and
bi-denticulate outwardly and with two somewhat elongated spurs at
apex, the lateral, longer spur crenulate outwardly and more or less
sparsely and briefly setose.

SynochodcBiis differs from Ochodceus in the labrum being rounded
in the anterior part (in Ochodceus it is deeply scooped out), in the
oroad, truncate apical joint of the maxillary palps, the more
elongated elytra, the more slender tarsi ; the tibiae of all the legs
have hairs at apex, and the longer spurs of all the tibiae are
crenulate."

Syxochod^us modestus, Kolbe,
Loc. cit., p. 27.

" Oblong, ferruginous, moderately shiny, plentifully flavopilose,
moderately softly hirtose ; frontal part rugose, vertex and epistoma
shiny, impunctate, labrum moderately shiny, glabrous; prothorax
rounded, attenuate in front with the anterior angles sharp, whole
disc thickly but not very closely punctate ; scutellum rugose punc-
tate, sub-acuminate behind ; elytra moderately narrow, slightly
elongate, plentifully and moderately deeply, irregularly punctate
but not punctate striate, partly, however, minutely, indistinctly
striate, the striae lightlj impressed; pygidium with a very long
pubescence, shining, minutely rugose punctate

Length 5i mm.

Hab. German South -West Africa."

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Sub-Family OEPHNIN^.

Gen. OKPHNUS, Catal. i., p. 499.
Okphnus zambesianus, Cat. i., p. 502.

I mistook for the female of this species another one which I
describe further on under the name of Orphnus parentalis.

Female : Dull brick-red, shiny, head simple, covered all over with
closely-set punctures ; prothorax simple but having in the anterior
part a short, very little raised yet distinct arcuate ridge at a short
distance from the apex, and a longitudinal but also very faint
impression in the middle of the posterior part, the surface is covered
with cicatricose punctures separated by an interval about equal to
their own diameter, but occasionally also wider in the centre of the
base; scutellum indistinctly punctate ; elytra of the normal shape,
but without any traces of striae and with the punctures very distinct
and very closely set from the base to the posterior rounded part.

Length 8f mm. ; width 5^ mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Plum tree, Sebakwe) ; Mozambique
(Feira).

Orphnus kafuenus, n. sp.

Black, shiny, with the hairs brownish, and the antennal club
rufescent. Closely allied undoubtedly to 0. incultus ( 2 ) (Cat. i.,
p. 504), which it should follow in the systematic arrangement ; it
differs from it in the punctuation of the prothorax which is deeper,
and leaves in the centre a much broader smooth space ; it is also
more massive ; the elytra have the dorsal striae more distinct, and
the punctuation which is deeper is less obliterated past the median
part than in 0. incultus.

Length 10-lOi mm. ; width 5i- 6 mm.

Hab. North- Western Ehodesia (Kafue Eiver).

Orphnus parentalis, n. sp.

0. zambesianus, $ , Catal. i., p. 503.

Female : This species, which I erroneously assumed to be the ?
of 0. zambesianus, differs from it in the more parallel elytra, but
especially in the punctuation of the head the clypeal part of which,
and only the fringe of the frontal are punctured ; on the prothorax
the central dorsal part is impunctate for about one-third of the
whole surface, and the sides bear some round punctures separated

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by a space about equal to their own diameter in the anterior and
posterior parts ; elytra having in addition to the entire sutural
stria two juxta-sutural ones distinct from the base to the posterior
rounded part, and also a third, ill-defined series of punctures;
beyond these the punctures, which are moderately closely set from
the base to the rounded posterior part, are more shallow than in
0. zambcsianus $ .

This species might prove to be the $ of 0. plebeius, but I doubt
it. Its nearest ally is 0. incultus (Cat. i., p. 504). but the punctua-
tion differs.

Length 9 mm. ; width 5h mm.

Hah. Southern Rhodesia ; no exact locality.

ORPHXUS MASHUNEXSIS, 11. Sp.

Brick-red, shiny, labrum genae and prothorax with a fringe of
fulvous setose hairs ; clypeus and anterior part of the head some-
what closely punctate, the remainder smooth ; prothorax more
ampliate laterally in the anterior part than towards the middle, and
nearly straight thence to the base, covered with smooth round punc-
tures separated from each other by a space equal to their own dia-
meter, but having in the centre a narrow longitudinal smooth space ;
scutellum impunctate ; elytra with the juxta-sutural stria distinct
and entire and having another faint punctate stria disappearing at
about the median part ; the other punctures are deep, round, equi-
distant and obliterated in the posterior rounded part.

This species is easily recognised by its more parallel prothorax
which is ampliate rounded in the anterior instead of in the median
part. It should follow 0. piugnax (Cat. i., p. 500).

Length 8 mm. ; width 4i mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

Sub-Family DYNAST1N.K.
Gen. HETERONYCHUS, Cat. i.. p. 511.

HetEKOXYCHUS MOSAMBIOUS, 11. sp.,

PI. XLVIIL, figs. 30, 31, 32.
Black, shiny, body sub-parallel, clypeal and frontal carina united,
somewhat obsolete in the centre, clypeus and anterior frontal part
transversely and somewhat irregularly punctulate plicate ; prothorax

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slightly attenuate rounded laterally in the anterior part, nearly
parallel thence to the slightly rounded lateral angle, impunctate ;
scutellum ogival, impunctate ; elytra with regular series of round
punctures but not striate, and with the interval between the first
stria and the first row of punctures without punctures ; propygi-
dium extremely finely aciculate, the two stridulating striae gradually
diverging towards the apex ; pygidium convex, very closely plicatu-
late punctulate along the base, the punctures stronger, more
elongated and somewhat asperous on the lateral part ; except for
that band of punctures the remaining surface is quite smooth ;
anterior tibiae tri-dentate and without intermediate teeth or upper
angular projection line. Not unlike a small example of H. arator in
general form, but smaller and with the prothorax and elytra more
parallel ; the species is easily differentiated by the shape of the
genital armature of the $ . It should follow H. beiranus. In the
2 the clypeal suture is interrupted in the centre, and there is an
upper angular projection above the basal tooth of the anterior tibiae.

Length 10^-11 mm. ; width 5-5f mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

Heteronychus beiranus, n. sp\,
PI. XLVIIL, figs. 35, 36.

Extremely like H. mosambicus, and might be easily mistaken for
a small example of this species, but it differs from it by the anterior
tibiae which are plainly angular, if not dentate, above the third out-
ward tooth ; the shape and punctuation of the elytra are almost
similar but only the four dorsal intervals are smooth, as far as the
declivity, the others are very distinctly sub-seriate punctate, and the
genital armature is quite distinct from that of H. mosambictis. This
species should follow H. dissidens.

I may remark that in my diagnosis of II. dissidens (Catal. i.,
p. 515) I stated that there is no serrate tooth between the basal
and second ones in the anterior tibiae ; I have ascertained since
that normally there is such a tooth.

Length 8 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

Heteronychus inops, n. sp.,
PI. XLVIIL, figs. 33, 34.
Male : Black, shiny ; size of H. mosambicus, and very closely
allied to it, but the clypeal carina is plainly produced triangularly

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in front in the middle, and does not entirely coalesce with the
frontal one as much as it does in H. mosambicus, the plication is,
however, the same in both species ; the shape of the prothorax and
elytra is also the same, but in H. inops the juxta-sutural stria is
deep, the other two following are moderately deeply striate in
the dorsal part only, and the punctures of the third one is obliterated
before reaching the posterior declivity which is deeply and some-
what closely punctate ; the fourth and fifth rows of punctures reach
slightly past the median part only, and the lateral ones are partly
obliterated ; the two stridulating striae of the propygidium are sub-
parallel, and the finely punctulate basal band on the pygidium is
somewhat broader than in H. mosambicus ; the anterior tibiae are
simply tri-dentate as in the last-mentioned species, but the genital
armature is distinctly different in shape.

Length 10 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (neighbourhood of Salisbury).

Gen. XENODOEUS, Brem.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1884, p. 296.

Xexodorus .taxus, Fabric,
Syst. Eleuth., i., p. 9.
Breme, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1884, p. 297, pi. 7, figs. 8, 9.
Vencdus paradoxus, Boh., Catal. i., p. 557.

I separated this species, of which I saw only one example lent to
me for the purpose of identification, from the genus Hctcronychus,
from which it greatly differs, and I proposed to include it in a new
genus. Felsche, however, after having examined Boheman's type,
has ascertained that it is the 2 of Xenodorus janus, Fabric. (Deutsch.
Entom. Zeits., 1906, p. 349). Venedus falls therefore into synonymy,
and so does the specific name 'paradoxus.

The 3 differs from the $? in hearing on the vertex of the head
a long, recurved, sub-compressed horn dilated towards the apex,
where it is bifid ; the prothorax is very broadly excavated longi-
tudinally, the walls of the excavation are produced into two broad
projections directed forwards and ending in a sharp or moderately
sharp point. The species is recorded from Senegal, Guinea, and
also IVi 'in i lie Congo.

1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 655

Sub-Family KUTELIN^.

Gen. ADOKETUS, Cast. Cat. L, p. 565.
Adoretus debilis, n. sp.

Female : Pale testaceous, moderately shiny, the head with the
exception of the clypeus is black, on the prothorax are two discoidal
fuscous patches situated past the middle, the anterior median part is
also occasionally infuscate, and so is the lateral fovea ; elytra with
the suture more or less broadly marginate with fuscous ; clypeus
and anterior frontal part moderately closely punctate, the punctures
are asperous and irregular, and more remote near the vertex, the
greater part of the clypeus is occasionally as darkly infuscate as the
head ; prothorax twice as broad as long, slightly sinuate laterally
above the posterior part, and covered with deep, somewhat large,
round, cicatricose punctures separated by an interval equal to their
own diameter, and bearing each a very short seta ; scutellum with a
few small punctures ; elytra with closely set rows of small but deep
seriate punctures, and also having several rows of moderately
remote greyish setae, which are, however, obliterated on the median
dorsal part ; underside sparsely punctate, pectus with fine, appressed
flavescent hairs.

Not unlike A. flaveolus, Fahr., but easily distinguished by the in-
fuscate head, median part of prothorax, and elytral suture.

Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hob. Zambesi (Feira).

Adoretus exitialis, n. sp.
Female : Fuscous above, and clothed with erect, short hairs,
flavescent underneath ; prothorax with a very broad lateral flave-
scent band, scutellum flavous ; elytra each with a broad, slightly
slanting, dorsal flavescent band reaching from the humeral part to
the apical callus ; palpi and antennae flavous ; clypeus arcuately
rounded, rufescent, covered with broad, asperous punctures, each
bearing a very short hair, these punctures are more cicatricose on
the frontal part of the head but not very closely set ; prothorax
ampliate rounded laterally and covered with round, slightly cicatri-
cose setigerous punctures separated by an interval equal to their
own diameter ; scutellum closely punctulate ; elytra of the normal
shape, and without any traces of costules, covered with very closely
set rows of deep punctures many of which bear an erect greyish hair,

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and forming seriate lines, the hairs, however, are not sufficiently
dense, or short enough to form a pile concealing the teguments.

Allied to A. inconditus, Per. (Catal. i., p. 575), but easily dis-
tinguished by its livery.

Length 10-&- mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Plumtree).

Adoretus belranus, n. sp.,
PI. XLVIII., figs. 37, 38, 39.

Totally piceous, or with the thorax and elytra testaceous red,
occasionally the whole upper side is dark chestnut ; antennae fuscous
with the exception of the two basal joints, which are rufescent ;
antennal club of the J very long ; upper side and legs covered with
very short, appressed, equi-distant white stiff hairs separated from
each other by a distance the width of which is equal to their own
length ; clypeus arcuate rounded, punctate, the prothorax on the
clypeus more closely set than those in the frontal part which are
simple, somewhat deep, and divided from each other by a span equal
to their own diameter, each puncture is setigerous ; prothorax nearly
twice as broad as long, slightly ampliate rounded laterally in the
anterior part ; scutellum villose ; elytra covered with closely-set
series of deep punctures also set close to each other ; in well-
preserved examples there is on each side one sutural, four dorsal,
and one marginal longitudinal rows of far remote, erect, short
white bristles; underside sparingly villose; inner claw of anterior
tibiae of $ very slightly cleft, that of the $ distinctly so.

The nearest South African ally of this species is .1. plumbicollis,
Arrow, in which, however, the clypeus is much move arcuate, the
pubescence on the upper side longer, as are also the seriate white
bristles on the elytra. The shape of the genital armature of the two
species is very different.

Length 6f-8 mm. ; width 3^— 3£ mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

Gen. ANOMALA, Sam., Cat. i., p. 586.

AXOMALA PERTINAX, n. Sp.

PI. XYLIII., figs. 21, 22, 23.

Brick yellowish red, shiny, legs redder ; antennae testaceous,

clypeus and frontal part redder than the prothorax and elytra, both

very closely aciculate ; the clypeus is nearly straight laterally and

only very slightly arcuate in front ; prothorax very finely aciculate

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in the anterior part and on the sides, the punctures, which are not
very closely set, are obliterated in the centre and the median basal
part of the disk ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra punctate and striate,
the dorsal costules moderately raised ; pygidium aciculate ; pectus
pubescent, abdominal segments each with a median line of bristly
hairs*; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly ; inner claw of all tarsi
simple in the 3 ■

This species resembles A. transvaalcnsis, Arr. but it is redder ;
the shape of the genital armature of the $ differs greatly from that
of the other South African species.

Length 14 mm. ; width 1\ mm.

Hob. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg).

Anomala latiuscula, n. sp.

Female : Pale flavescent with a slight metallic tinge on the upper
side ; head rufescent brown ; prothorax with two very faint sub-
infuscate patches on each side of the median part ; head covered
with contiguous rugose punctures from the apex of the slightly
blunted clypeus to a short distance from the vertex where they are
replaced by a fine, closely-set, simple punctuation ; prothorax nearly
twice as broad as long, slightly ampliate rounded laterally but only
slightly attenuate towards the base, the whole surface is covered
with fine punctures somewhat uneven but separated even on the
sides by a space equal, or very nearly so, to their own diameter ;
scutellum finely punctulate as in the prothorax ; elytra very little
longer than broad, slightly wider than the prothorax at the base, but
sub-obliquely ampliated from below the rounded shoulder, and with
the supra-marginal fold greatly raised and very conspicuous, the
striae are very well defined and deeply punctate; pygidium sub-
contiguously deeply punctate ; abdomen sparingly, metasternum
closely punctate; tarsi and apical part of tibiae redder, or
infuscate.

This species is distinguished by its short, broad facies and the
swollen fold of the supra-marginal space below the humeral callus ;
this character occurs also in A. dorsata, Fahr., and A. fusciceps, Fahr.,
but in a much lesser degree. This species should therefore follow or
precede them.

Length 11 mm. ; width 7 mm.

Hah. Damaraland (Okahandja).

Anomala exigua, n. sp.

Male : Piceous black, very shiny, elytra pale flavescent, almost
straw colour, with the outer margins and the suture narrowly black ;

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legs piceous with the coxae partly flavescent, tarsi light chestnut ;
antennae and palps straw colour ; clypeus strongly and regularly
arcuate, the whole head is covered with contiguous, simple, some-
what deep punctures, the suture is deep and extends from end to
end ; prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, attenuated laterally
for only about one-fourth of the length and nearly straight thence to
the base, the latter is normally sinuate, the discoidal part is some-
what convex, and there is a median longitudinal line fairly distinct
in the anterior part, but less so behind, the whole surface is covered
with aciculate punctures divided from each other by a space equal
to about twice their own diameter, the outer margin is moderately
broadly flavescent, the flavescent part being divided into an anterior
and a posterior patch ; scutellum punctate with the margins nar-
rowly smooth ; elytra not quite twice the length of the prothorax,
and broader than the latter at the base but more so at the apex,
each bears three fairly distinct geminate very shallow striae filled
with punctures, and the intervals, which are quite plane, are some-
what irregularly punctate ; the outer margins of both elytra and
prothorax are fringed with hairs which are longer in the prothorax ;
pectus and femora clothed with a very dense sub-fulvescent pube-
scence ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, inner claw of anterior
tarsi very slightly cleft on the top and twice the size of the outer,
claws of the intermediate and posterior ones long, somewhat slender
and of equal length or size.

Length 7^-8 mm. ; width 4-4$ mm.

Mr. C. N. Barker writes of this species: "I came across them
in great numbers flying low over the veldt or settled and moving
about over the ground."

This species will be easily identified through its small size.

Anomala separata, Brancs.,

Jahr. Ver. Trencs., xvi., 1897, p. 115.

" Testaceous, oblong, shiny, glabrous above ; head finely punctate,
clypeus divided from the frontal part by a transverse impressed line,
the angles are rounded, the margin slightly reflexed and finely infus-
cate : antennae testaceous ; prothorax extremely finely, densely and
not deeply punctate, broadly arcuate on the sides, obsoletely bi-sinuate
at the base, and with a small fuscous spot on the sides ; scutellum
sub-triangular, rounded laterally, sparsely, most finely punctate ;
elytra two and a half times as long as the prothorax, somewhat
broader and more shiny, little ampliate in the middle, singly rounded
at apex, the humeral part prominent, dorsal part sub-regularh and

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obsoletely punctate-striate, intervals sub-equal, not raised, and with
fine punctures interspersed, the three first striae more deeply im-
pressed at the apex behind the apical callus ; legs testaceous,
trochanters, knees, apical margin of the anterior tibiae, transverse
ridges of the tibiae, and of all the tarsi black ; pectus and legs sparsely
pilose ; abdomen rufescent, nearly glabrous ; pygidium triangular,
rounded at apex, convex, densely punctate, the punctures sub-
rugulose laterally.

Length 12-14 mm. ; width 6-^—7 mm.

Hab. Boroma, on the Zambesi River.

Near A. immatura, Boh., is, however, smaller, the punctuation is
finer, and the colour of the legs differs."

Anomala discedens, Brancs.,
Loc. cit., p. 116.
" Oblong, shiny, underside pale straw-colour, upper side rufescent,
sometimes darker ; head densely and finely sub-rugose punctate,
obscurely rufescent, almost metallic ; clypeus transverse, broadly
rounded with the margins slightly reflexed and infuscate, antennae
little infuscate with the club testaceous; prothorax twice as broad
as long, narrower in front than behind, anterior margin broadly
emarginate, posterior slightly bi-sinuate and with a strongly im-
pressed line towards the sinuation and with the carinulate margins
slightly infuscate, posterior angles obtuse, rounded, anterior sharp,
dorsal part densely and finely punctate, median furrow often evan-
escent, a fuscous macule in the middle of the sides, the latter and
the neighbourhood of the anterior angles more livid ; scutellum
triangular, acuminate and impressed at apex, closely and distinctly
punctate ; elytra sub-parallel, twice and a half the length of the
prothorax, convex, deeply and roughly punctate striate, the first
stria below the scutellum with irregularly dispersed punctures, the
first three striae deeper behind, those following disappearing in the
apical callosity, intervals with very minute seriate punctures, third,
sixth, and ninth more raised ; shoulders prominent, behind them
the lateral margin has an oblique fold ; the colour is rufescent,
sometimes rufous fuscous, and with a slight metallic sheen ;
anterior coxae with a long and dense pubescence, that of the legs
more sparse ; knees, apex of the anterior tibiae, and of the anterior
and intermediate tarsi infuscate ; posterior tibiae and tarsi black
piceous ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate ; abdomen nearly glabrous ;
pygidium broadly triangular with the angles rounded, densely and
more roughly punctate than the prothorax.

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Length 10-11 mm. ; width 5i— 6 mm.
Hab. Boroma, on the Zambesi River."

This species is probably identical with A. fusciccps or dorsalis,
Fahr.

Gen. POPILLIA, Serv., Cat. i.f p. 611.

POPILLIA CHIRLNDANA, n. sp.

Emerald green, extremely shiny, antennae and palps testaceous,
legs flavous testaceous with a greenish metallic tinge ; prothorax
with a narrow, lateral flavescent band, elytra with a broad arcuate
flavescent band reaching from the shoulder to the median part, but
not invading there the suture ; upper side glabrous ; clypeal part
very closely scabrose punctate, frontal part finely punctulate in the
anterior part of the disk where the punctures are somewhat remote,
but increase in depth and closeness towards the sides where they
are very distinct, the median posterior part is impunctate ; prothorax
plainly punctate except towards the apex ; elytra narrowly punctate
striate, but with the suture and the five dorsal intervals tectiform,
laterally there is a very deep, longitudinal depression abutting on
the margin which is there thickly folded, the three rows of punctures
on the sides are strongly marked from the top of the impression
below the humeral part to past the middle part, but obsolete or
obliterated thence ; propygidium covered with moderately shallow,
equi-distant punctures ; pygidium with a small patch of white hairs
on each side of the base, remotely punctate, and with a few villose
hairs along the margin which has a flavescent tinge ; abdominal
segments each with a band of white appressed hairs becoming
thicker and thus forming a kind of small patch near the junction
with the dorsal segment, these segments are closely punctate ;
sternum somewhat densely greyish pubescent, the sternal pro-
jection long, compressed, cuneiform ; hind tarsi fuscous.

Length 14 mm. ; width 8 mm.

This beautiful species seems to be very distinct from the other
African ones.

Hab. Mozambique (Gazaland).

POPILLIA (NAXNOrOriLLIA) DAMAR-E, OhaUS.,

Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1901, p. 257.

"Fuscous green, shiny, clothed with whitish grey hairs, elytra
black with a large, lunulate fulvous macule. Clypeus trapezoidal
with the margin highly raised, covered, like the frontal part and the
vertex, with dense confluent punctures, and transversely aciculate.

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Prothorax convex, densely arcuately aciculate and with erect hairs ;
scutellum aciculate like the prothorax, bare. Elytra impressed
behind the scutellum, regularly striate and transversely punctate
in the striae, sub-sutural interstice with one single series above the
one half. Pygidium densely transversely aciculate and hairy.
Underside and legs densely pilose, the hairs erect and disposed
in fascicles towards the sides of the segments ; antennae entirely
testaceous. $ : More sparsely pilose, legs fuscous bronze.
? : Entirely more densely pilose, all the legs and tarsi testaceous
bronze.

Length 9-9^ mm. ; width 3^ mm. ( $ ) to 5 mm. ( $ ).
Hab. Damaraland."

Gen. ANODONTOPOPILLIA, Ohaus.,
Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr., 1901 (1902), p. 271.
Pharaonus, Per., nee Blanch., Cat. i., p. 615.

I gave the description of Pharaonus, loc. cit., from Popilia sub-
vittata, Burm., but Ohaus has created for this species the genus
Anodontopopillia which differs from Pharaonus in having the
maxillae not dentate. In Gnatholabis the lower part of the maxilla
is tri-dentate, but the upper part laminate ; in Pharaonus proper
the maxillae, teste Ohaus, are 6-dentate.

Gen. GNATHOLABIS, Erichs., Cat. i., p. 616.

Gnatholabis hiesuta, Ohaus.,

Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1901, p. 258.

" Oblong, depressed, fuscous green-bronze, densely hairy, the hairs
whitish grey, elytra smooth, testaceous with the whole margin, the
humeral part and a double stria situated towards the apical calluses
black-bronze. Clypeus quadrate with the anterior margin especially
raised, fuscous, hairless, densely rugulose punctate, frontal part and
vertex densely and confluently punctate and densely flavo-hirsute.
Prothorax convex, indistinctly sulcate longitudinally in the middle,
moderately umbilicate punctate, but more closely so at the sides,
dilated before the middle, abruptly narrowed in front with the
anterior angles sharp, arcuate laterally behind, with the hind
angles sub-erect, sparingly hairy in the middle, more densely
towards the sides, the hairs greyish. Scutellum punctate and
hairy like the thorax. Elytra plane, hairless, shiny, impressed
behind the scutellum, regularly punctate striate with the sub-

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sutural interval irregularly punctate ; pygidium shiny, with scat-
tered aciculate punctures, and with sparse greyish hairs. Under
side and femora clothed with dense and long hairs, fasciculate
towards the sides of the segments. Antennae fuscous, with the
pedicel rufous.

Length 11 mm. ; width 5 mm. 3 $ .

Hab. Arlington, Fort Salisbury (Ehodesia)."

Gen. PH^ENOMEKIS, Cat. L, p. 619.
Ph^enomeris rufipennis, Brancs., Cat. i., p. 621.
? P. magnifica, Hope, loc. cit., p. 621.

I placed, with some doubt, however, P. rufipennis, Brancs., in
synonymy with P. magnifica, Hope. I am not sure now of the
identity of the latter, whereas I am certain of that of the former,
and the name must thus be transposed in the aforesaid manner :

Ph^nomeris ditissima, n. sp.

Head and prothorax golden green, elytra coppery red, pygidium,
underside and legs emerald green, tibiae and tarsi cyaneous, last
joint of palps and first joint of antennae cyaneous ; head roughly
coriaceous all over ; prothorax impunctate except for a few aciculate
punctures above the lateral margin and also along the sinuate part
of the base ; scutellum with a few scattered punctures ; elytra with
sharply tectiform costae which are not punctate but are slightly
irregularly plicate laterally, and the intervals are more deeply and
more roughly punctate than in the other two South African species ;
the punctures on the propygidium are very coarse, foveolate and
numerous ; abdomen and legs very coarsely punctate ; metasternum
closely punctate, the punctures deep and nearly contiguous, mesos-
ternal process cuneiform but hardly projecting beyond the coxae.

Length 17 mm. ; width 6| mm.

Hab. Natal. Eastern Zululand.

More slender than its two South African congeners ; it is also
distinguished by the shape of the mesosternal process. The three
species may be separated as follows : —

Mesosternal process very long ; prothorux impunctate besckei.

Mesosternal process long ; prothorax closely aciculate punctate .. .. rufipennis.
Mesosternal process very short; prothorax with only a few punctures

above the outer margins and part of the suture ditisrimai

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Sub Family HOPLIIN^.

Gen. ANISONYX, Catal. i., p. 633.
Anisonyx sesuto, n. sp.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, clothed on the head with
long, erect black setae interspersed with light fulvous and not very-
dense ones ; on the elytra these setae are seriate ; the whole under-
side of the pygidium and the legs have a long, dense yellowish
pubescence ; the long, acuminate clypeus is bare and closely
punctate, the frontal part is covered with golden green, ovate
scales ; on the prothorax these scales are disposed in three central
longitudinal bands and the sides are thickly covered with them ;
on the elytra they form three elongate agglomerations along the
suture, and they are somewhat crowded on the sides ; on the
pygidial parts and underneath these scales are quite contiguous,
and they are very numerous on the outer part of the intermediate
and posterior legs ; the elytra have a blunt costa on each side from
the shoulder to the apex, and the fore tibiae are sharply bi-dentate.

The vestiture of this beautiful species, which is also smaller
than its congeners, makes its identification easy. It is so far as is
now known the most Eastern species of a purely endemic genus.

Length 7-7i mm., width 3i-4 mm.

Hab. Basutoland ('? Morija).

Gen. HOPLOCNEMIS, Har., Cat. L, p. 690.

HOPLOCNEMIS KARROOANA, n. Sp.

Black with the elytra chestnut-red or dark red ; propygidmm and
abdomen clothed with dense yellow scales ; head with a triangular
juxta-clypeal ridge produced in a distinct tooth in the centre, the
clypeal lateral teeth are very sharp ; prothorax not grooved longi-
tudinally, covered with equi-distant, deep punctures which are
somewhat crowded, hairs of the margins black ; elytra and
scutellum of the usual shape ; the former are numerously punctate,
each puncture bearing a short black hair ; pygidium punctulate,
very briefly hairy ; pectus villose, the hairs more or less flavescent ;
hind femora of male strongly swollen and provided underneath close
to the apex, on the outer side, with a vertical, long, compressed tooth
slightly hamate at the tip, and the inner angle of the femora is
produced in a long process acuminate at the tip and bearing the

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spur at about half its length ; the hind claws are not denticulate
inwardly ; the female is of the usual shape.

This species should follow H. armata and H. viutica (loc. cit.,
pp. 694, 695), from which it is distinguished by the long, vertical
spine of the hind femora and the sharply acuminate inner angle
of the hind tibiae ; the elytra are also less triangularly dilated.

Length 10-12^ mm. ; width 6-8 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Willowmore).

HOPLOCNEMIS LIGHTFOOTI, n. Sp.

Male : Upper side brownish black, very shiny, legs and under
side brick-red, also very shiny and clothed with a dense fulvous
pubescence ; clypeus very sharply acuminate, the pointed part has
two small teeth on each side, this clypeus is not separated from
the head and both are closely foveolate punctate, each puncture
bearing an appressed fulvous hair ; prothorax longer than broad,
sub-parallel, obliquely attenuated in the anterior part, covered with
foveate setigerous punctures similar to those covering the head but
wider, in the anterior part, and at a short distance from the apex
is a median elongated, shallow impression with smooth sides ;
scutellum with two rows of closely set punctures on each side ;
elytra somewhat depressed along the suture, irregularly punctate,
the punctures more regular on the sides and setigerous ; anterior
tibiae strongly tri-dentate outwardly ; hind femora very thick, nearly
as wide as long, simple, tibiae shorter than the femora, broadly
dilated triangularly, the apex is deeply excavated on the upper side,
the tarsi being inserted in the centi'e of the excavation the outer end
of which is produced into an incurved process, and the inner in
a straight mucro, slightly hooked at the tip, and twice as long as
the outer one.

Length 9 mm. ; width 6 mm.

This interesting species is easily distinguished from all its
congeners by the very sharply acuminate clypeus and the shape
of the hind tibiae.

Hah. Cape Colony (Saldanba Bay).

Gen. HETEKOCHELUS, Cat. L, p. 709.

HETEROCHELUS DEFECTOR, II. Sp.

Bronze-green with a rufescent tinge on the legs, elytra chestnut-
red ; head and prothorax clothed with a very thick, upright, squamose
yellow pubescence having no admixture of scales ; scutellum densely

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squamose ; elytra plainly tri-sulcate on each side with the sulci filled
with a band of contiguous scales, the raised intervals are deeply
punctate ; propygidium with a narrow band of sub-orange yellow
scales ; pygidium vertical, dark brown and without scales from the
base to the middle, closely scaly thence to the apex, sides of the
abdomen covered with sub-lanuginose scales ; pectus clothed with
hairs and scales ; hind femora greatly developed, clothed with sub-
appressed, moderately dense hairs ; the trochanters are produced
into a long and robust tooth, strongly sinuate in the inner part, the
apical outer part of the knee is simple, but the inner is provided with
a tooth as long as but more robust than the trochanterine spine, the
hind tibiae are not grooved, but they are deeply incised inwardly near
the knee with the lower part of the incision plainly dentate, the lower
edge is distinctly serrate, and the apical part is strongly mucronate
on each side, but the lower mucro is longer than the upper ; inner
hind claw half the size of the outer.

This species is allied to H. vulpinus in the general appearance,
but the spines of the trochanters and the inner part of the knee of the
hind femora are much more developed ; the lower part of the inner
incision of the tibiae near the knee is very plainly dentate, and the
upper apical part much more strongly mucronate ; the vestiture of
the pygidium is different, and the pygidium itself is vertical instead
of being conspicuously swollen in the centre as in H. vulpinus ; it is
thus similar to that of H. multidentatus, from which species it differs
in several characters. Female unknown.

Length 7 mm. ; width 4^ mm.

Hab. Natal (Howick).

This species is to follow H. vulpinus and H. lineatus, Cat. i.,
p. 723.

Heterochelus multidentatus, Burm., Catal. i., p. 724.

Having obtained lately more examples of H. multidentatus, I find
that especially in the smaller development the pygidium has on each
side of the base a small, velvety, transverse, plainly discernible
patch.

Female : Like the male in colour and vestiture, but the two black
patches on the pygidium are wider, and the four clypeal teeth very
obtuse.

Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore, Oudtshoorn).

Heterochelus pavidus, n. spec.

Dark greenish bronze with the elytra and legs chestnut-brown or
reddish ; clypeus with the two median teeth of the anterior margin

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somewhat indistinct ; prothorax strongly scabrose and clothed with
a long, fine, greyish or sub-flavescent upright pubescence without
an admixture of scales ; scutellum closely scaly ; elytra deeply
sulcate, the sulci filled with greyish-flavescent or flavescent closely
set scales, the costae are smooth ; propygidium with a narrow
band of flavous scales ; pygidiuin somewhat convex in the centre,
covered with a velvety black-brown tomentum reaching from the
base to two-thirds of the length, and thence to the apex with closely
set, small yellow scales ; occasionally there is a faint median longi-
tudinal line of scales reaching the base ; pectus and legs densely
hairy ; hind femora well developed and without any trochanterine
spine, but with the inner apical part of the knee toothed ; hind tibia?
grooved underneath and with the upper inner margin notched twice
between the knee and the median part, the two notches being sepa-
rated by a plain, somewhat truncate tooth, the lower edge from the
excavated part right down to the apex, and also the upper edge are
plainly serrate, and there is a mucronate tooth on each side of
the apex, the lower one being longer than the upper, no apical
spur; inner claw nearly half the length of the outer.

The female differs from the male in the less dense rows of more
hair-like scales on the elytra, and the pygidium bears two basal
brown velvety patches.

The nearest ally of this species is the small development of
H. armipes, which I erroneously described as H. mimus (Catal. i.,
p. 726), and which differs by the vestiture of the pygidium and
the absence of trochanterine spine.

Length 4^-6 mm. ; width 3-4 mm.

The species should follow H. armipes, Cat. i., p. 725.

I Lib. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

Heterochelus jucundulus, n. spec.

Male : Black with a faint metallic tinge, but also occasionally
rufescent ; elytra and legs red ; anterior margin of clypeus quadri-
denticulate; prothorax covered with deep scabrose punctures, clothed
with a very long erect pubescence, but having also a few appressed
squamose hairs ; scutellum covered with dense whitish flavescent
scales ; elytra moderately deeply bi-sulcate longitudinally on each
side, the sulci filled with lanciform, not closely set whitish scales
which are l'eplaced on the sides by more hair-like appressed ones;
propygidium with a narrow band of yellowish scales ; pygidiuin
densely scaly ; pectus and legs pubescent ; hind femora strongly
developed, trochanters produced into a moderately long, basal spine,

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inner apical part developed into a long spine curving inwards, outer
part simple ; tibiae comparatively short, strongly curved, grooved
underneath in the anterior part only, dilated in the apical into a
conspicuous sub-quadrate lamina continued as a long, curved mucro
at the lower apical part, the upper being only angular, the inner
edge of the groove is moderately dented near the knee ; inner claw
cleft and only slightly shorter than the outer.

Female : Colour and vestiture of the male, but the scales on the
elytra are more hair-like.

In general build this species is not unlike H. natalensis, but the
shape of both the hind femora and tibiae is different, and the pygidium
is completely covered with yellow scales instead of being velvety
black as in H. natalensis.

Length 5-6^ mm. ; width 2f-3 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg).

Heterochelus shilouvanus, n. spec.

Male : Black with a greenish metallic sheen which is very distinct
on the sides of the prothorax, and still more so on the two discoidal
costae of the elytra and the suture ; hind legs red ; head with the
anterior corners sub-dentate ; prothorax not scaly, but clothed with
long, greyish, partly appressed hairs ; scutellum scaly, the scales
long ; elytra of the usual shape, sharply costate and with the suture
conspicuously raised and denuded, the intervals filled with short,
lanceolate greyish flavescent scales forming three distinct bands ;
propygidium and pygidium covered with contiguous yellow scales ;
pectus and legs densely hairy ; hind femora greatly developed, armed
underneath with a long, horizontal, nearly cylindrical trochanterine
spine projecting at one-third of the length and with an hamate, robust
tooth in the inner part of the apex; tibiae not deeply grooved under-
neath near the base, provided inwardly with a sub-basal quadrate
tooth, and three sub-serrate ones at a short distance from it, the
apical inner angle is produced into a long, falcate mucro ; the inner
tooth is about one-half of the length of the other, broad and cleft
at the tip.

In shape the hind legs are similar to those of H. armipes, from
which it is easily distinguished by the strongly costate elytra and
the concolorous pygidium ; H. natalensis is its nearest ally in the
form of the body and the colour of the hairs and scales, but not so in
the shape of the legs nor of the vestiture of the pygidium, which
is wholly velvety black.

Female unknown.

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Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Zoutpansherg, Shilouvaue).

To follow 77. sulphur eus, Cat. i., p. 726.

Heterochelus molestus, n. sp.

Male : Colour, shape, and vestiture of H. shilouvanus, from which
it differs in the absence of the trochanterine spine of the hind femora
and the vestiture of the pygidium, which is velvety black with a
triangular apical patch of yellow scales, the shape of the tibiae
is, however, similar to that of H. shilouvanus ; the elytra are
equally highly costate, but they, and also all the legs, are reddish ;
outer claw of hind tarsi simple, inner one half the size of the outer
and cleft.

Female unknown.

Length oh mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Pietersburg).

Heterochelus karrooanus, n. spec.

Male : Black, almost opaque, and very briefly pubescent on the
upper side, clypeus sharply tri-dentate, the short pubescence black ;
prothorax very closely punctate, grooved longitudinally in the centre
and having a narrow margin of yellow, small, ovate scales ; scutellum
scaly ; elytra almost without any pubescence, broad at the base,
short, non-costate and bearing on each side a juxta-sutural broad
band of small ovate yellow scales reaching from base to apex, and
a parallel dorsal one reaching from the base to the median part
only ; propygidium with an apical transverse band of yellow scales ;
pygidium velvety black suffused at apex with a few yellowish scales ;
hind femora very robust, scabrose, armed underneath with a sharp,
horizontal trochanterine spine and not dentate inwardly at apex ;
tibiae deeply grooved underneath at the base on each side of the
knee, broadened and parallel there for all the length, pluri-denticu-
late and with the apical inner angle produced into a long hamate
mucro ; hind tarsi compressed, glabrous, bristly underneath at the
joints, inner claw long, simple, outer one half the length of the inner
and cleft ; sides of abdomen clothed with yellow scales, the whole
sternum with whitish ones.

Female : Black like the male, but densely pubescent on the head
and prothorax, under side and legs ; on the elytra are two bands of
yellow scales disposed as on the male, and the apical part of the
pygidium is also suffused with flavescent scales.

This species is closely allied in build and vestiture to H. chiraij-

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ricus, but in the latter there is only one broader dorsal band and an
outer marginal one, the hind femora have a very strong mucronate
tooth underneath at some distance from the knee, which is com-
pletely absent in H. karrooanus, the inner part of the tibiaB of which
is almost parallel and denticulate, and the mucronate inner apical
part less developed and bearing no spur underneath.

Length 6^-7 mm. ; width 4-4f mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore).

This species is to follow H. chiragricus, Catal., Scarab., i., p. 736.

Heterochelus cristaticeps, n. spec.

Male : Black with the elytra triangularly flavescent from the base
to past the median part ; clypeus very little narrowed in the anterior
part, straight and simple in front with the angles plain, but not
denticulate ; from the apex of the head to the median part of the
clypeus are three transverse, parallel rows of upright, closely set and
long, spine-like black bristles ; prothorax shagreened, clothed with
a brief, black pubescence, moderately deeply grooved in the centre,
and having no vestiges of scales ; scutellum of the normal shape ;
elytra strongly attenuate behind, non-costulate, very briefly pubes-
cent ; propygidium and upper sides of abdomen clothed with long
light fulvescent hairs ; pygidium deeply punctate, glabrous in the
male ; hind thighs short, moderately robust, hind tibiae also short,
gradually dilated towards the apex, nearly as broad there as the
thighs, slightly concave inwardly, simple, and with an apical spur ;
the upper margin bears a bristle-like spine above the supra-apical
sinuation ; anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate, hind tarsi with a
single simple claw.

Female : Like the male, but the transverse row of bristles on
the clypeus is very minute and the elytra are completely flavescent
the pubescence on the sides of the abdomen and the pygidium, which
is also red instead of black, is greyish and only moderately dense.

Length 4^—6 mm. ; width 2^-3 mm.

This species might at first sight be mistaken for an Omocrates on
account of the strong attenuation of the posterior part of the elytra ;
transverse rows of the singular spines on the head are also met witli
in some species of Omocrates (0. mendax).

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage).

This species is to follow H. minutus, Cat. i., p. 753.

Heterochelus griseus, n. spec.
Black with legs red, and clothed on the prothorax and elytra with
nearly contiguous, narrowly lanceolate, somewhat greyish scales, the

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sides of abdomen and pygidial part are clothed with wider and con-
tiguous yellowish white scales ; clypeus denticulate laterally with
the angle of the truncate anterior margin sharp, deeply punctate,
each puncture bearing a very short appressed greyish hair ; pro-
thorax scabrose and having a very short greyish pubescence ; elytra
non-costulate ; hind legs and tibiae simple, the latter with a long,
slender terminal spur ; claw of hind tarsi long, cleft inwardly near
the tip.

The livery of this species is not unlike that of a very small example
of H. murinus (Cat. i., p. 733) or H. adspersus (loc. cit., p. 734), but
the shape of the simple hind legs approximates it more to II. minutus,
Cat. i., p. 753.

Length Sh mm. ; width 2 mm.

Hob. Cape Colony (Willowmore).

Heterochelus simulator, n. spec.

Female : Head, prothorax and pectus black ; elytra, abdomen
and legs rufescent ; clypeus slightly narrowed towards the apex
where it is transversely truncate with the outer angles sharp, the
lateral part is slightly denticulate ; prothorax distinctly scabrose all
over, clothed with a short, greyish pubescence, very slightly cana-
liculate behind, and having in the groove some squamose greyish
hairs ; scutellum squamose ; elytra very faintly costulate, covered
with elongate squamulose whitish hairs not dense enough to hide
the background ; propygidium and sides of abdomen squamose
white ; pygidium closely squamose ; hind legs simple ; claws of
hind tibiae simple, not cleft.

Male unknown.

This species ( ? ) resembles somewhat the $ of H. longipes, but
is different.

Length 5 mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage).

Heterochelus suspectus, Boh.,

Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forhdl., 1860, p. 115.

Black with the elytra testaceous, antennae and legs brownish red.
Clypeus sub-parallel, angular laterally at the junction with the
frontal part, truncate at apex with the lateral angles produced into
a sharp tooth, the surface of the whole head is plainly asperous,
and only slightly clothed with greyish hairs ; prothorax elongated,
attenuate laterally in front, grooved longitudinally in the centre
of the disk which is deeply scabrose punctate, and clothed with an

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erect greyish flavescent simple pubescence, which, although thick,
does not hide the black background, but along the basal margin the
hairs are slightly squamose ; scutellum not much elongated, clothed
with squamulose greyish white hairs hiding the background ; elytra
strongly narrowed towards the apex, seemingly without costules and
clothed with very dense, squamulose, elongated, flavescent whitish
hairs which, although set close to each other, do not completely hide
the colour of the background ; the pygidium is clothed with appressed
hairs and also scales, the abdomen with lanceolate, thick, squamose
hairs ; apical tooth of anterior tibiae long ; anterior claws double,
both cleft, the inner and smaller one very slightly only, the single
intermediate one also slightly incised at tip, hind ones double, and
cleft ; hind femora somewhat robust, simple like the tibise.

Length 5| mm. ; width 3 mm.

The facies of this species resembles that of Omocrates ; the shape
of the clypeus and also of the attenuated elytra being the same, but
the scutellum is not elongated as in Omocrates. The only example
seen by me is Boheman's type or co-type, described from the neigh-
bourhood of Svakop Eiver, in Damaraland.

Gen. DICRANOCNEMUS, Catal. i., p. 787.
Dicranocnemus spiniceps, n. spec.

Male : Black, elytra slightly rufescent laterally, claws and hind
tibiae reddish ; clypeus very plainly dentate laterally, and with the
outer angle of the truncate anterior margin produced into a con-
spicuous spine-like tooth ; prothorax moderately deeply grooved
longitudinally in the hind part, covered with strongly asperous
punctures turning to granules on the sides and clothed with a fairly
long sub-flavescent pubescence and a few yellow scales along the
base ; scutellum scaly ; elytra much narrower behind than in front,
sub-bicostulate on each side, very deeply punctate, not pubescent,
but sprinkled with small ovate yellowish or yellowish white scales
more numerous across the median part where they form two patches,
and along the apical margin where they form a broad border ; pro-
pygidium clothed with thick elongate yellow scales ; underside and
legs densely hairy, the hairs greyish ; upper outer tooth of anterior
tibiae far removed from the other two ; hind femora somewhat
robust and having a small trochanterine spine ; claws of intermediate
tarsi simple underneath, and cleft inwardly at the base, hind ones
single, not cleft.

Female unknown.

Length 4 J mm. ; width 21 mm.

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Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore).

A very distinct species, which should follow D. pulcher, Catal. i.,
p. 790.

DlCBANOCNEMUS AHDUUS, n. spec.

Head and prothorax black ; elytra, underside and legs rufescent ;
clypeus truncate in front, slightly angular laterally, head and clypeus
deeply and closely punctate, the punctures scabrose on the sides
only, clothed with a very short, greyish not scaly pubescence, and
moderately deeply grooved longitudinally ; scutellum pubescent ;
elytra short, narrowed behind, sub-costulate, clothed with elongated
flavescent scales not set closely and not hiding the red background ;
propygidiurn and sides of abdomen covered with flavescent scales ;
pygidium closely covered with thick scales which are somewhat
fulvous on each side of the basal part, and looking, on that account,
not unlike two faint fulvescent patches.

This species has more the facies of an Hcterochelus than any of its
congeners, on account of its being slightly more elongated in pro-
portion to its width ; the median claw is simple underneath, and the
hind ones cleft laterally inwardly.

Length 4 mm. ; width 2 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage).

Closely allied to D. pulverulentus, but without any scales on the
prothorax ; those of the elytra are also more scattered and of a
different colour.

Gen. MONOCHELUS, Cat. i., p. 828.
Moxochelus sag^:, n. sp.

Male : Black, opaque on the upper side, under side shiny ;
clypeus truncate in front with the anterior margin reflexed, parallel,
briefly bristly along the edges, head and clypeus sub-scabrose
punctate ; antennae black ; prothorax as broad as long, strongly
sinuate laterally in the posterior part above the sharp basal angle,
deeply grooved in the centre from near the median part to the base,
closely aciculate, and having in the median longitudinal groove,
and also on the outer margin, a few white scales; scutellum
clothed with white, sub-oblong small scales; elytra attenuated
behind, non-costulate, vaguely aciculated ; pygidium vertical ; scale-
less ; upper side of abdomen with a lateral band of white scales, a
similar but narrower band of scales edges the metasternum all round ;
anterior tibia) tri-dentate outwardly, the teeth are distant, the claw
of the intermediate tarsi is simple ; the hind femora are greatly
developed and dentate inwardly at the knee, the trochanter projects

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as a sharp, moderately long, slightly curved spine ; the outer margin
of the tibiae has a very distinct internal tooth at some distance from
the knee and ends in a recurved apical mucro, the inner margin
is serrulate but simple, and ends as a sharp angle at the apex.

Length 8 mm. ; width 4 mm.

This species should precede Monochelus formosus (Catal. L, p. 835).

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

Monochelus pr^stans, n. sp.

Male : Black with the legs brownish red, and the long antennal
club black ; head covered with small, elongate ovate white scales set
close to each other ; prothorax covered with contiguous ovate white
scales, with four longitudinal bands of brownish rufescent ones the
two median ones of which only reach from apex to base ; scutellum
beset with white scales ; elytra with a sutural and a median dorsal
line of brownish scales on each side, the sides are covered with
scales of the same colour, but the scales of the dorsal part which
is divided into two by the brown line are white ; pygidial part and
underside covered with contiguous white scales ; legs sparingly
scaly; clypeus parallel, truncate in front with the margin slightly
reflexed and with the angles sharp ; prothorax with the sides nearly
straight, very slightly grooved longitudinally in the centre and with
only a few short lateral bristles in the anterior part ; elytra seem-
ingly not costulate but with the supra-humeral impressions quite
distinct ; legs very long, anterior tibige bi-dentate, hind femora
simple, not much thickened, trochanters not spinose, hind tibise not
carinate, nor mucronate ; claw of the intermediate legs with a con-
spicuous tooth underneath, that of the posterior simple.

Length 5 mm. ; width 1h mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Peninsula).

This species should follow M. pulvinatus (Catal. i., p. 832).

Monochelus hilaris, n. sp.
Male : Black with all the femora red, clothed with closely set
orange-yellow scales ; clypeus narrowing and slightly rounded
laterally, head covered with sub-erect squamose bristles ; prothorax
strongly attenuate laterally in front, rounded and ampliated in the
median part, clothed with contiguous ovate yellow scales leaving two
narrow longitudinal denuded bands in the centre of the disk, on
the anterior part only of these two bands spring long, erect, sub-
rufescent hairs forming a long crest, and there is a fringe of similar
hairs along the outer margin ; scutellum closely squamose ; elytra

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narrowed behind, and having on each side two very distinct costa?
which, even in very well preserved specimens, show through the
yellow, closely set, ovate scales clothing the surface, the suture,
however, is narrowly denuded ; pygidium vertical, sprinkled with
fine, numerous yellowish scales not hiding the background altogether,
propygidium with a broad apical band of closely set scales ; under
side closely scaly ; hind femora very strong, broadly dilated, with
the trochanters forming a sub-horizontal, not very sharp, spine at
about the median part of the thigh, very much as in 31. Uetulus ; the
hind tibias are also shaped as in 31. Icetulus, but the supra-apical
mucronate tooth of the inner edge is very much longer, and there is
a very distinct outer apical spur.

Female : Clothed, like the male, with appressed orange-yellow
scales which are, however, more elongated and more hair-like on the
upper side ; the elytra are red instead of being black, and the two
costae are less apparent.

As already stated the shape of the hind legs of the male is almost
similar to that of 31. Icetulus (Cat. i., p. 846), but in the latter the
prothorax has no denuded bands, and the elytra which are not as
highly bi-carinate are so evenly covered with scales that the two
discoidal keels are partially hidden.

Length 6J-7f mm. ; width 3h—i mm.

Hah. Natal (Stanger, Durban).

Gen. MICROPLIDUS, Per. (Catal. i., p. 876).

Microplidus fulvovittis, Brancs.
Jahr., Ver. Trencs., xvi., 1897, p. Ill, pi. iv., fig. 3.

" Elongate, convex, red, weakly ochraceous on the upper side and
densely clothed with sub-erect setulose hairs, under side densely
white squamose ; head elongated, clothed with ochraceous scales,
clypeus broadly rounded, antennas red ; prothorax convex, broader
than long, obtusely ampliate in the middle of the sides, much
narrower in front than behind and with the posterior margin obtusely
produced, ochraceous squamose with two dorsal distinct fulvescent
bands, and two less distinct on the sides ; elytra plainly narrower
towards the apex than the width of the prothorax, and half as long,
ochraceous and adorned with a short, oblique dorsal fulvescent band,
they are rounded singly at apex ; abdominal segments glabrous on
the upper side ; legs red, and more opaquely squamose than the rest
of the body.

Length 5-6 mm. ; width 2^-3 ram.

Hah. Boroma, on the Zambesi River."

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This species is, judging from the figure, very much like M. stabilis,
Per., Cat. i., p. 878, but in the latter species the prothorax has no
longitudinal bands.

Sub-Family SEEICIN.E.

Tkibe ABLABEEINI.

Gen. TULBAGHIA, Per., Catal. ii., p. 89.

TULBAGHIA PATRUELIS, n. sp.

Male : Piceous red with the legs sub-rufescent, and also the palps
and the pedicels of the antennae the club of which is fuscous ; the
inner joint of the latter is very short, and the second slightly
shorter than the others which are greatly elongated ; this character
distinguishes at once this species from its congener T. cereris (loc. cit.,
p. 90) ; clypeus rufescent, head fuscous, very closely aciculate
punctate ; prothorax plainly punctulate, the punctures divided by
an interval slightly smaller than their own diameter; scutellum
weakly punctate ; elytra weakly bi-costulate, the outer dorsal costa
less distinct than the inner, surface sub-coriaceous ; sides of elytra
and prothorax with a fringe of long bristle-like hairs ; anterior tibiae
bi-dentate outwardly, tarsi very long and slender.

Length 6^ mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hob. Cape Colony (Tulbagh).

Gen. GAMKA, Cat. i., p. 159.

This genus which I included in the Pacliypodini must revert to
the Ablaberini.

MAKALAKA, n. gen.

Buccal organs of Gamka ; clypeus sub-quadrate, truncate in
front, level with the anterior part of the head, separated from it by a
very slightly impressed line, labrum vertical, eyes large ; antennal
club much longer than the head in the $ , third and fourth joints
elongated, club 6-jointed, joints curving; prothorax transverse,
ampliate rounded laterally ; the base straight ; scutellum cordate ;
elytra moderately elongated, sub-cylindrical, projecting beyond the
pygidium which is drawn in ; hind femora thickened ; anterior tibiae
sharply bi-dentate, hind tibia? broadly dilated at apex, the two spurs,
one on each side of the tarsal basal joint, long, all tarsi very long,
once and a half the length of the tibiae, claw very slender, the two

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branches fused together except at the very apex, where there is a
slight cleft.

This genus is diffei'entiated from Gamka by the very slender, hardly
curved claws, the two branches of which are fused for the greatest
part of the length.

Makalaka khodesiaxa, n. sp.

Male : Piceous black with the elytra pale straw colour, and the
prothorax with a narrow, lateral marginal band of the same hue ;
antennae and palps fuscous black ; head and clypeus closely and
somewhat deeply punctate, glabrous except the anterior border of
the clypeus which has a fringe of erect, sub-flavescent hairs ;
prothorax covered with deep punctures separated by a smooth
interval not quite as broad as their own diameter, outer margin with
a fringe of bristly hairs ; scutellum glabrous, punctulate ; elytra
glabrous, not costulate, deeply and somewhat closely punctate,
outer margin with a fringe of pale hairs ; hind legs and pectus
moderately hairy.

Length 5^ mm. ; width 2J mm.

I Lib. Southern Rhodesia (Plumtree).

Sub-Family MELOLON TH1 \M.
Tribe PACHYP0D1M.

KAMOUTSA, n. gen.

Mentum moderately elongated, rounded at apex ; labial palps
inserted laterally, apical joint swollen, broadly fusiform, not much
attenuated towards the tip, maxillae straight, truncated at apex,
hollowed inwardly, labial palps wanting in my two examples;
labium vertical, clypeus hollow with the margin reflexed, regularly
but broadly arcuate, frontal suture slightly raised, head marginate
laterally as far as the base ; antennae somewhat short, 10-jointed ;
club tri-jointed, anipliate ovate, as long as the six preceding joints
which are closely set, the seventh and sixth are very short and
angular inwardly, the second is rounded ; prothorax nearly twice as
broad as long, very hairy laterally; scutellum very large; elytra
nearly twice and a ball' the length of the prothorax, slightly sinuate
laterally and barely reaching the pygidium which is vertical, very
slightly convex and obtusely triangular ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate
outwardly; posterior tarsi long, all the claws long, somewhat slender,

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moderately curved, and with a slight hook at base ; spurs of hind
tibiae long, somewhat slender.

This genus is readily distinguished from Clitopa by the shape of
the antennal club, and the much less truncated anterior part of the
clypeus.

Eamoutsa feevida, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 78.

Chestnut or chestnut-brown, with the prothorax almost black ;
the whole head is covered with deep, broad, contiguous, asperous
foveolate punctures and clothed with long flavous hairs ; antennae
chestnut-brown ; prothorax plainly attenuated laterally from the
sharp angular apex of the anterior part to the middle, slightly
ampliated there, and nearly straight thence to the angle of the base,
the latter being sinuate on each side, the surface is covered with
somewhat deep punctures self-contiguous and somewhat asperous
in front and on the sides, and separated on the disc by a smooth
space about equal in width to their own diameter, the sides, the
base, and the anterior part have a fringe of very long and dense
flavous hairs, some such hairs being also scattered on the discoidal
part ; at an equal distance from the apex and from the centre of the
disk is a short median impression ; scutellum long, wide, ogival,
impunctate ; elytra shaped as in Sckizonycha, slightly sinuate
laterally below the humeral part, and very slightly ampliate past the
middle ; there are no costules, and the surface is covered with deep
punctures slightly umbilicate, separated by an interval equal to their
own diameter, and bearing each a most minute greyish hair; pro-
pygidium covered with fine punctures bearing only an appressed
sub-squamose hair; on the pygidium, which bears a lateral fringe of
yellow hairs, the larger punctures are rilled by yellow, conspicuous
scales, or thick squamose hairs. The genital armature of the $
greatly differs from that of Clitopa.

Length 9 mm. ; width -i mm.

Hab. Bechuanaland (Eamoutsa).

DAMAEA, n. gen.

Body cylindrical ; clypeus nearly porrect, straight laterally, slightly
arcuate in front with the anterior margin moderately reflexed, head
highly carinate laterally above the very large eyes, the carina
continued as an arcuate ridge on the vertex, clypeal suture in-
distinctly carinulate, mentum densely hairy, last joint of maxillary
palps cylindrical and slightly acuminate at apex ; antennae 10-jointed,

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the six joints forming the club are very long, almost as long as
the head, the fourth joint of the pedicel is less than half the length
of the third ; prothorax somewhat attenuate laterally in the anterior
part, posterior angles obtuse, elytra quite parallel ; pygidium vertical ;
anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly ; anterior tarsi as long as the
tibia, claws wide, each one plainly toothed underneath in the centre ;
spurs of hind legs sharp.

The general appearance of the species for which I propose this
genus, which should follow Paraclitopa (Cat. ii., p. 119), is much like
that of the species of Microplus or Microplidus of the group Hoplides.
I have not been able to dissect the buccal organs of the only
example I have seen.

Damara villosula, n. sp.

Light chestnut-brown, clothed on the upper side with an appressed
greyish-white pubescence with an admixture of erect flavescent setae
which are denser and longer on the prothorax ; this pubescence is
much denser and more silvery on the underside and pygidium, and
the legs are very villose. Clypeus coarsely punctate and frontal part
deeply, and roughly foveolate punctate, the punctures bearing a
short bristle ; prothorax convex in the centre at a short distance
from the apex, and having a longitudinal smooth line running from
apex to base, the rest of the surface is covered with sub-contiguous,
somewhat broad but moderately shallow punctures, many of which
bear a long setulose bristle, the base is plainly sinuate on each side,
and the angles are obtuse, yet distinct ; scutellum long, sub-ogival ;
elytra parallel, very little, if at all, broader than the prothorax,
roughly and irregularly punctate, the punctures hidden, however, by
the appressed pubescence, they have in addition regular series of
erect setae, and each one is obsoletely bi-costulate.

Length 7i mm. ; width 3 nun.

Hub. Damaraland.

The type is in the Stockholm Museum.

Tmbe MELOLONTHINL

Gen. SCHIZONYCHA, Erichs., Cat. ii., p. 190.

SOHIZONYCHA DAMABINA, n. sp.

Female : Head and prothorax brick-red ; elytra pale straw colour ;
pygidium and abdomen fuscous; clypeus arcuate in front, but

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plainly sinuate laterally, clypeal carina not much arcuate, the carina
on the vertex very distinct and sub-crenulate ; clypeus and frontal
part deeply and unevenly foveolate punctate ; prothorax of the
normal shape laterally, but very plainly sinuate on each side in the
base the centre of which is itself also sinuate, the central part is
covered with nearly contiguous variolose punctures, and the sides and
anterior part with equally closely asperous ones, from the centre of
the disk to the base runs a longitudinal smooth line, and the supra
basal fold is not quite smooth ; scutellum closely punctate laterally ;
elytra of the usual shape and covered with simple punctures separated
by an interval equal to their own diameter ; pygidium finely but not
closely punctate ; pectus very villose ; all claws with the lower tooth
as large and as strongly hooked as the upper.

This species should follow S. valida, Boh. (Cat. ii., 196), and is
not unlike in general facies small and slender examples of that
species, but it is at once distinguished by the much closer
punctuation of the prothorax, the strong sinuation of the base, and
especially by the emai'ginate lateral part of the clypeus.

Length 16^ mm. ; width 8|- mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Okahandja).

SCHIZONYCHA MATABELENA, n. Sp.

Plate XLVIIL, figs. 26, 27.
Pale testaceous, elytra sub-stramineous ; clypeus arcuate, blunt
and slightly emarginate in the centre, clypeal carina much raised,
quite arcuate, not interrupted, vertex with a plainly transverse entire
carina, the surface of the clypeus is covered with somewhat asperous
punctures, that of the head with plain granules separated by an
interval broader than their own size ; prothorax of the normal shape,
plainly and closely serrulate laterally, covered for two-thirds of the
length with slightly asperous or umbilicate punctures separated by
an interval equal to their own diameter, and bearing each a minute
greyish white hair, in the median posterior part these punctures are
not so closely set, and the border over the marginal part of the base
is smooth ; scutellum sparingly punctate, the punctures setigerous ;
elytra parallel, covered with umbilicate setigerous punctures
separated by an interval equal to their own diameter; pygidium
more closely punctate than the elytra ; penultimate abdominal
segment twice as broad as the one preceding; anterior tibiae bi-
dentate outwardly, but with a slight upper tooth ; upper tooth of all
the claws more slender and shorter than the lower, base of claws with
a small bifid tooth.

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Length 9 nun. ; width 5 mm.
Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Plunitree).

This species, which should come near or after ,S'. puerilis (Cat. ii.,
p. 209), is easily distinguished by the genital armature of the 3 ■

SCHIZONTCHA HOWICKIANA.

Plate XLVIIL, figs. 24, 25.

Very closely allied to S. nninixta (Cat. ii., p. 230) but the umbilicate
punctures of the head and clypeus are a little more closely set, the
median sinuation of the anterior margin is not so strong ; the
sculpture of the prothorax is similar but there is a superbasal fold,
although a non-conspicuous one; the elytra and the abdominal
segments are alike, and so are the claws of the tarsi ; but the
antennal club, although well developed, is shorter than that of
S. immixta, and the shape of the genital armature greatly differs.

Length llf mm. ; width G mm.

Hab. Natal (Howick).

SCHIZONYCHA LITIGIOSA, 11. sp.

Plate XLVIIL, figs. 28, 29.

Testaceous red with the elytra paler, antennal club flavous,
moderately long in the male; clypeus very blunt, nearly straight in
front in both sexes, clypeal carina very little arcuate, and frontal
suture not very deep, vertex without ridge; both clypeus and frontal
part with transverse, asperous punctures ; prothorax of normal
shape, the anterior part covered with small, contiguous cicatricose
punctures becoming almost granular towards the sides, these
punctures are more remote in the posterior part, and there is a
distinct supra-basal smooth fold; elytra sub-parallel in the^ , slightly
less so in the ? , somewhat coriaceous but covered with small, very
briefly setigerous punctures separated from each other by an interval
broader than the puncture itself ; penultimate abdominal segment
not broader than the antepenultimate in both sexes; anterior tibisB
plainly tri-dentate on each side, tarsi moderately long, upper claw
longer and stronger than the lower one. The shape of the genital
armature resembles somewhat that of S. ovarrvpoana, which, however,
belongs to another section of the genus. It should follow S. ncglccta
(Cat. ii., p. 222).

Length 13-14 mm. ; width 6^-7 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Nylstroom).

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SCHIZONYCHA AMBIGUA, n. Sp.

Plate XLVIIL, fig. 46.

Belongs to the group of S. infantilis and S. puerilis ; it is
distinguished from the former by the more arcuate fore margin of
the clypeus, and from the latter, the clypeal margin of which is
identical, by having a very sharp, transverse carina on the vertex of
the head; the shape of the body is similar to that of the two above-
named species, but the punctures on the prothorax are not asperous,
even close to the sides, and the scutellum is more numerously pitted
than in S. puerilis ; the sculpture of the elytra is very nearly the
same, but the propygidium is finely punctate in the lower half, and
the pygidium is more deeply punctate than in S. pueriUs, resembling
thus that of S. infantilis. The genital armature is much more
like that of S. puerilis, the forceps are symmetrical, but of equal
length and width, and the shape of each branch is that of the left
one of S. puerilis, but twice as wide.

Length 10 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Plumtree).

Sub-family CETONIN^.
Teibe TEICHIINI.

Gen. STEGOPTERUS, Sch., Cat. ii., p. 296.
Stegopteeus obesus, Burrn., 2 .
Handb. d. Entom., vol. hi., 1842, p. 746.
" Black, fuscous hairy ; pronotum punctulate, sub-sulcate ; elytra
striate punctate, red, suture and a diagonal band black. Eemarkably
short, broad and thick. Clypeus thick, finely punctate, hairless.
Eye canthus and basal joint of antennae thickly set with brown
hairs, peduncle red, the small oval club black. Prothorax highly
convex, the punctures fine ; anterior margin well raised, punctures
fine and scattered, a shallow longitudinal line in the middle, and
scattered brown hairs, colour black, shiny. Scutellum black,
wrinkled. Elytra shiny, costate, and with very weak furrows on
which stand scattered shallow punctures; the suture, the outer
margin, and a diagonal stripe running from the shoulder to the
apical callus are black. Pygidium black-green, with scattered punc-
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sculptured, and hairy ; the sides of the sternum are more aciculate.
The legs are similar in shape to that of the females of the genus,
dark black-green externally with the feet red-brown and spiny, in-
ternally they have long hairs ; fore tibiae very broad, and with three
outer teeth.

Length 6 lines.

Hab. Port Natal."

I am not aware that this species has been met again. Burmeister
adds that it is easily distinguished from its congeners not only by
its thicker build but also by the decidedly finer punctuation of the
prothorax. He instances also the difference of habitat, but I am
somewhat doubtful as to the authenticity of the latter as given by
Drege.

Gen. STEIPSIPHEE, Catal. ii., p. 304.

Stripsipher jansoni, n. sp.

Black with a few white splashes on the margins of the prothorax ;
elytra flavescent and having an U-shaped black band reaching from
the humeral ridge to past the median part, and a narrow marginal
band becoming very broad in the posterior margin ; pygidium with
a conspicuous sub-triangular lateral white patch, abdominal segments
each with a longitudinal interrupted white band, pro-, meso-, and
metathorax, and also the coxae with a white patch ; antennae and
palps brick-red, legs reddish with the hind tibiae and tarsi infuscate
( $ ), or completely black with only the antennae reddish brown ( $ ).
Head with the clypeus deeply incised in the centre, the whole sur-
face is deeply and closely punctate ; prothorax obliquely ampliated
laterally from the apex to about the median part, nearly parallel
thence to the basal angle which is sharp, base deeply bi-sinuate and
with the median part somewhat prolonged, the surface is depressed
and somewhat irregularly and not closely punctulate, there is above
the base a slight longitudinal elongated impression continued in the
J in a very faint line, and the outer margin is sparingly fimbriate ;
scutellum moderately punctulate ; elytra once and a half the length
of the prothorax, broader than the latter but with the humeral callus
greatly developed and the humeral part greatly sloping, very nearly
straight laterally for some distance from the shoulders, singly
rounded behind, the suture and two alternating costae on each side
are raised and so is the second interval but in the anterior part only,
the humeral costa is very strong, ami the intervals and sides have
deep seriate sub-foveolate punctures ; pectus and femora clothed
with a long greyish pubescence, legs sparingly punctate ; pectus and
side pieces variolose punctate.

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Length 11-11| mm. ; width 5^-6 mm.

Hab. Natal (no exact locality).

This species is more nearly related to S. zebra than to S. longipes,
if the name of that species is what I believe it to be, but it differs
from S. zebra, in which the clypeus is also deeply incised, in having
the angles of the prothorax very sharp, and even dentate underneath
in the ? ; the elytra are shorter and the humeral callus very much
longer.

I have seen two examples (<? $ ) sent to me by Mr. 0. E. Janson
as being possibly S. longipes, Swed. I have not seen the original
description, nor have I found that of S. sivcdcri in Schonherr's Syn.
Insect., quoted wrongly in the Munich Catalogue as being on p. 106
of vol. i., pt. 3, but Burmeister's description of this insect agrees
very well with S. flavipennis and horsfieldi, which I place in
synonymy with S. longipes. Another reason for Mr. Janson's
specimens not being what he thinks they are is that they are labelled
" Natal," which was a terra incognita at the time of Swederus,
whereas S. longipes is found not far from the first Cape settlement.

Tribe VALGINL

Gen. COMYTHOVALGUS, Kolb., Cat. ii., p. 310.

Line 7. After "anterior tibiae five-dentate," add "outwardly in
the $ , three-dentate only in the ? ."

Comythovalgus fasciculatus, Gyth., Cat. ii., p. 311.
G. plumatus, Pahr., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 57, is the 2 of G. fasci-
culatus.

Valgus smithii, McLeay,
Illust. Zoolog. S. Afric, 1849, p. 16.
"Valgus thoraci postice utrinque macula nigra, abdominisque
fascia alba.

Long. Corp. 4 lines.

This species is scarcely distinct from the Valgus hemiptertis of
Europe. It has the same rugae of the thorax, the same size and
general form, and only differs slightly in the disposition of the scales.
In V. Jiemipterus, for instance, the abdomen is quite white, with
thickly set scales. In V. smithi there is merely a white band. V.

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smitJii has also a white mark in the black lateral spot of the thorax.
But in truth these species come very near to each other.

Hab. Cape."

I am not aware that this species has been met with again in South
Africa.

Teibe MYODERMINI.

Diploa proles, Kolb., Cat. ii., p. 316.

It appears that D. rufivcntris, Air., which I placed in synonymy
with D. proles, Kolb., is a different species. My description applies
to D. rufivcntris.

Teibe CETONINI.

Gen. ATEICHELAPHINIS, Kraatz, Cat. ii., p. 346.

There has been a transposition, loc. cit., of Elaphinis for Atri-
chelaphinis. Eead instead of Atrichelaphinis cincreobulosa, Elaphinis
cinereobulosa, and loc. cit., p. 447 ct seq., Atrichelaphinis tigrina, &c.

Elaphinis carinicollis, Kraatz, Cat. ii., p. 449.

According to Moser (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 11, 1907) Elaphinis
carinicollis, Kr.=Micr elaphinis irrorata, Fabr., Cat. ii., p. 340.

Gen. PHANEEESTHES, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1894, p. 269.
= Dulcinca, Per., Catal. ii., p. 345.

Trichostetha sigxata, Cat. ii., p. 363.
In synonymy with T. signata is to be added T. tibialis, Burm.
(Handb. d. Entomol., v., p. 556), which is distinguished from the
former merely by having a few white spots along the sides of the
base, but as often as not these spots are reduced to one.

Heteroclita ? scitula, Jans.,

Cistul. Entomol., ii., p. 300.

" Elongate, villose, black above, opaque, thorax with the sides and

some minute punctures in the anterior part white; elytra rufo-testa-

ceous, punctate with white, suture black ; pygidium with a white

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macule on each side ; under side black, shiny : anterior fcibise acutely
bi-dentate outwardly. $ .

Length 9^ mm. ; width 5 mm.

Head rather coarsely but shallowly punctured, the base with long
ashy-white pubescence ; clypeus large, dilated at the sides, strongly
rounded in front, the margins acutely elevated, the apex shallowly
emarginate, slightly convex in the centre, the sides strigose, shining
black with a white spot on each side at the base of the clypeus ;
antennae pitchy black, the club long and reddish. Thorax rather
broader than long, the sides straight from the base to the
middle, anterior margin with a small elevated ridge in the middle,
posterior angles strongly rounded ; basal margin nearly straight ;
dull black, rather coarsely punctured and covered with a dense
ashy-white pubescence, a marginal band on each side branched
in the middle, and several small spots on the anterior half white.
Scutellum obtuse at the apex, dull black with several small white
spots, the base punctured and pubescent. Elytra with promi-
nent humeral angles, faintly punctured at the sides and apex, the
disc with two slightly elevated indistinct longitudinal ridges ;
pale yellowish red, opaque, sparsely pubescent, suture black, a
sutural and two discal rows of small spots and irregular confluent
marks and spots at the sides and apex white ; epimera black, densely
pubescent, and with a white spot above. Pygidium large, the margin
acute, black, slightly shiny, strigose, and pubescent, with a large
mark on each side united at the base, and several small spots in the
centre white. Beneath shining black, strigose and with dense long
ashy pubescence at the sides ; mesosternal process very short,
dilated and truncate at the apex ; abdomen deeply longitudinally
impressed in the centre, the sides with broad white stripes ; legs
shining black, punctured and pubescent, tarsi reddish, anterior tibiae
broad with two large acute lateral teeth."

This species does certainly not belong to the genus Heteroclita. I
have made only a cursory examination of the type, which very greatly
resembles Micrelcvpkinis nigritula, Boh. J .

Gen. EUDICELLA, White, Cat. ii., p. 390.

EUDICELLA FEONTALIS, WestW.,

Ann. Nat. Hist., 1841, p. 204; Arcan. Entom., i., p. 176, pi. 43,

figs. 1, 2.

Bright very shiny golden green. The prothorax and elytra in
both sexes are most delicately punctured ; the suture and a broad
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parts of the elytra being stained with fulvous. The front of the
head of the $ is bright fulvous, the extreme tip of the lateral horns
black. On the under side the <? is of a splendid golden green, the
femora with a dorsal stripe of bright red ; the tibia3 green above,
black beneath, as well as the tarsi ; under side of the V concolorous.

Male : Head with three horns, the median one, which is fulvous
in the middle, is little longer than the head, and emits before the
median part two sub-parallel rami serrulate laterally and i*ecurved
at tip.

Female : Clypeus simple, nearly straight in front and fulvous.

Length (horn excl.) 32-36 mm.

This species, which inhabits the West Coast, is said by Boheman
to have been captured in Damaraland (River Nolagi).

Gen. SCYTHROPESTHES, Kraatz, Cat. ii., p. 401.

SCYTHKOPESTHES TRICOLOR, Jans.,

Cistul. Entomol, hi., 1884, p. 106.

" Black, shining, elytra pitchy red, darker at the sides, the apex
black, sides of the thorax, a broad transverse band on the elytra
behind the middle narrowed and interrupted at the suture, a central
spot on the pygidium, and the exposed portions of the meta-coxie,
yellow. Head rather sparsely punctured ; clypeus slightly rounded
at the sides, the margins elevated and slightly emarginate at the
apex. Thorax convex, obtusely angulated at the sides, posterior
angles rounded, the base slightly emarginate before the scutellum,
sides sparsely punctured, with a large shallow fovea close to the
margin, and a deep transverse impression on each side in front.
Scutellum elongate, impunctate, the sides impressed. Elytra
depressed, rounded at the apex and slightly produced at the sutural
angles, sparsely and irregularly punctured, the apex finely strigose.
Pygidium irregularly strigose at the base and sides, the centre
almost smooth. Beneath with the thoracic segments ami coxa;
coarsely strigose and sparsely pubescent, the outer margin of the
meta-coxaa swollen and glabrous ; mesosternal process short, nar-
rowed but obtuse at its apex ; abdomen with coarse confluent punc-
tures at the sides, and a slight longitudinal central impression ; legs
coarsely punctured and sparsely pubescent, anterior tibiaa with one
distinct lateral tooth and the apex acute, intermediate and posterior
tibiae with one acute tooth in the middle, and a fringe of long black
hairs on the inner side.

Length 20 mm.

Hab. ? South Africa.

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Janson believes that, although indicated as coming from Bengal,
his example is a native of South Africa, owing to its close affinity to
S. bicolor, Westw.

Gen. SMARAGDESTHES, Kraatz,
Entomol. Monatsbl., ii., 1880, p. 28.
= Isandula, Thorns., Cat. ii., p. 410.

The former genus was published some six months before the
second, but in the same year.

Gen. PACHNODA, Burm., Cat. ii., p. 434.

Pachnoda albonotata, Mos.,
Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., Ii., 1907, p. 314.

" Black, shiny, marked with white. Head strongly punctate, cly-
peus sub-quadrate, anterior edge emarginate ; prothorax, with the
exception of a narrow median line, coarsely punctate, anterior margin
slightly produced in the middle, and having a narrow lateral white
line abbreviated behind ; scutellum sparsely punctate, obtuse at
apex ; elytra sub-serrately punctate, and having on each side twelve
small, white macules ; pygidium sparsely aciculate punctate, and
bi-maculated with white. Underside fulvo-pilose laterally ; the
mesosternal process is small, semi-orbicular, and not directed down-
wards ; abdomen of the $ sulcate. Anterior tibia? bi-dentate.

Length 19 mm.

Hab. German South- West Africa."

In size, shape, and coloration this species resembles much
Bhabdotis albinigra, Burm., but owing to the shape of the meta-
sternal process it cannot be included in this genus.

Pachnoda rufovirens, Qued., Cat. ii., p. 440.
It would seem that this species is the true P. discolor, Kolb.,
Cat. ii., p. 440.

Pachnoda marginella, Fabric, Cat. ii., p. 439.

Read var. cuparypha, Gerst. Arch. f. natur., xxxvii., 1871, i., p. 46,
line 34, instead of cuneata, &c.

Kraatz himself has admitted P. cuparypha to be a variety of
P. marginella. The outer characteristics are not sufficiently distinct
to differentiate between the two with any degree of precision. But
there is a slight difference on the genitalia of cuparypha. I regret,
however, that I have been able to examine one $ only, and this
difference may prove not to be constant.

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There are two species figuring in the Catalogue of Munich, i.e.,
Pachnoda carbonaria, Gory, and Pachnoda fimbriata, Thunb., which
I have not seen. The former is in the Museum of the University at
Oxford, and Professor Poulton assures me that it is from the Cape,
and was captured by the well-known traveller Burchell.

Mr. 0. E. Janson informs me that he has cleared up the identity
of these two species, which he declares to be South African, but his
paper has not yet been published.

Cetonia (Pachnoda) cakbonaria, Gor. and Perch.,
Monogr. Cet., 1833, p. 240.

"Body in the shape of an elongated square, rounded; clypeus
quadrate, marginate, slightly sinuate along the anterior margin,
gibbose on the upper side ; prothorax semicircular, scooped opposite
the scutellum, this last part large ; sternum lenticular ; elytra
rounded externally at the end ; upper part of the body deep brown,
clypeus and underside brownish red; the lateral and abdominal
segments seem to be marked with white. The bad state of pre-
servation of the example we have before us prevents us from
describing exactly their number and position.

Hab. Africa.

From the collection of Mr. Hope, of London.

Length 11 lin."

From the figure of Goiy and Percheron I would not be surprised
if this example was a very dark example of P. rufa, if not a melanic
aberration of the same. I received an example having on the
discoidal part of the elytra and reaching the outer margin a very
large black macule or band. Schauni (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1849),
who inter alia states that the insect is no longer in the Hope
collection, questions also whether it is not a specimen of 0. rufa
(carmelita, olim) that has turned black or is badly preserved.

Cetonia (Pachnoda) fimbriata, Thunb.,

Mem. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 417.

1 have not been able to obtain the description of this species.
Schaum says (Ann. Sue. Ent. Fr., isii, p. 384): "Pachnoda
fimbriata, Thunb., which Burmeister unites doubtfully to P. cincta,
does not seem to be the same. Thunberg says nothing of the white
spots on the under side; he says expressly that the pectus and the
are green, and as he states that the scutellum is very short, his
description cannot apply to /'. marginella, Pabr."

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ACROTHYKEA, Kraatz,
Deutsch. Ent. Zeit., xxvi., 1882, p. 76.

rufofemorata, Burm., Handb. d. Entomol., iii., p. 422.
= Lipothyrea barheri, P6r., Catal. ii., p. 472.

MAUSOLEOPSIS, Lansb.

Mausoleopsis albomaculata, Moser, Catal. ii., p. 488.
(Ann. Soc. Ent., Belg., 1907, p. 322.)
Herr Moser considers that albomaculata, should not remain in the
genus Oxythyrea on account of it having no spinose spiracle on the
last abdominal segment, and also because the hind legs of the $ are
not broadened and the claws of the fore tarsi are equal. I saw three
examples only of this species, which I took to be females, in which
the fore claws are equal, but in one the spiracle is certainly distinct,
although not as prominent as in the other species of the genus.
Then again the livery is the same as that of Mausoleopsis amabilis,
and differs thus considerably from that of the species of the genus
Leucocelis.

Mausoleopsis rubeiceps, Eaffr., Cat. ii., p. 489.
Herr Moser concludes also that this species should not be included
in Mausoleopsis nor be left in Leucocelis, and that a special genus
should be created for its reception. Truly in rubriceps the last
abdominal segment bears no spinose spiracle, but the inner claw of
the anterior tarsi of the $ is considerably longer and thicker than
the outer, in the manner of Mausoleopsis, and the pygidium is equally
broadly truncate at apex and equally parallel laterally. I do not
therefore feel justified in proposing a new genus for a species which,
•as is the case for albomaculata, links fairly well Leucocelis with
Mausoleopsis.

Mausoleopsis zambesina, Brancs.,
Jahr. Ver. Trencs., xvi., 1897, p. 117, pi. iv., fig. 7.
"Very black, oblong, shiny; head roughly punctate, clypeus
sinuate, with the margins neither carinate nor reflexed ; dorsal pint
of the prothorax silky, lateral margins with an oblong white macule
on each side, and a smaller one of the same colour before the
scutellum ; scutellum elongate triangular, whitish ; elytra silky at
the base, lateral margin having on each side some small white
macules behind the shoulders and before the apex, and a larger

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macule in the middle ; pygidium fuscous and having on each side a
white macule at the base ; pectus with a broad white lateral macule
on each side ; the femora, especially the anterior ones and also the
intermediate, with long, fulvescent hairs ; legs concolorous.

Length 11 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hah. Boroma, on the Zambesi River.

Resembles greatly M. amabilis, Sch., but smaller and more
elongated on that account."

The species described below has been omitted from the following
"Additions and Corrections " and is inserted here for lack of other
space.

Sub-Gen. SEBASTEOS, Westw., Cat. i., p. 57.

Sebasteos procles, Kolb.,
Denksc. Med. Naturw. Ges. Jena, xiii., 1908, p. 131.

Black, shiny, head moderate in size, striate and punctate, vertex
simple sparsely punctate, anterior margin nearly briefly sexdentate,
not prolonged in the centre, the two median teeth parallel, briefly
denticulate inwardly, the outer ones diverging, median sinuation hardly
dentate in the inner part of the median teeth ; prothorax broader than
the elytra, discoidal part with disseminate punctures on each side,
crenulate laterally with the anterior angles sharply dentate, and bear-'
ing in the basal part a straight linear series of thickly set punctures ;
elytra opaque, shiny towards the suture, striate with the intervals plane
and sparsely punctate ; tibia of the anterior pair (juadridentate and
serrulate externally, serrulate and mucronate at apex ; intermediate
and posterior tibia nigropilose ; hind coxa simple, not spinose,
mesostemum tuberose, metasternum sulfate longitudinally, not fovcate
al base; pygidium glabrous.

Length 20 mm.

llab. Little Namaqualand.

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THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS WEEE
MADE OR HAVE APPEARED WHILE THIS PRESENT
PART WAS IN THE PRESS.

Sub-Family COPBINiE.

Group CANTHONIDES.

Gen. ELASSOCANTHON, Kolb.,
Denksc. Med. Naturw. Ges. Jena, xiii., 1908, p. 130.
Body ovate, highly convex. Head of moderate size, clypeus
briefly, not sharply five-dentate in front, the two sub-median teeth
distinct, moderately sharp, but the intermediate small tooth as well
as the external, also small outer tooth short, lopped off. Prothorax
transverse, deeply emarginate in front, slightly ampliate laterally
before the median part, angular, the juxta-lateral fold is curved and
approaches the sides in front and behind. Elytra contiguous with
the prothorax with the shoulders straight, eight costate, the eigbth
stria situated close to the seventh and connected with it at apex,
but abbreviated near the shoulders ; epipleura moderately dilated,
the superior costa broadly sinuate near the middle. Anterior tibiae
somewhat broad, widely obtuse at apex, attenuated towards the base,
slightly serrate externally and bi-dentate there towards the apex
which is briefly spurred ; fore tarsi slender, very short, almost
shorter than the apical width, five-articulated, bi-ungulate. Hind
tibiae a little longer, shorter than the hind femora, slightly arcuate,
slender, slightly ampliate towards the apex ; the tarsi moderately
short, first joint shorter than the second. Metasternum ample,
level with the mesosternum and broadly divided between the median
coxae, which are longitudinal and slightly oblique. Abdomen short,
contracted ; pygidium drawn forward and marginated with a circular
impressed line set close to the basal margin.

Elassocanthox beevipes, Kolb.,
Loc. cit., p. 130.
Black, somewhat opaque, palpi and tarsi brownish, anterior femora
provided with a rufo-villose, inner, sub -basal area; anterior coxa?
and under side of the head rufous setose ; head and prothorax
closely punctate, the suture between the gence and the clypeus is
distinct, the vertex has a minute, smooth median area ; prothorax

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slightly narrower than the pro thorax, the punctures are denser
towards the sides, the anterior and posterior angles are obtuse, and
it is slightly depressed in the inner part of the fold ; elytra striate,
the striae indistinctly punctate, the striae plane, somewhat glabrous,
numerously covered with seriate punctures, the external ones being
in addition slightly obliquely rugose; epipleura plane, a little con-
tracted behind the shoulders, and ending before the very apex.

Length 11^ mm.

Hah. Namaqualand (Kammagas).

Gen. ONTHOPHAGUS, Latr.

Onthophagus kalaharicus, Kolb.,

Loc. cit., p. 129.

" Very small ; resembles 0. exiguus, Pering., shiny, elytra splashed
with black and red, pygidium steely-black ; head shiny, two-horned,
the horns grown from the vertex are straight, parallel, obtuse at
apex, sub-dentate inwardly at the middle, and are not united at the
base by a carina; frontal part and vertex very sparingly punctate,
not carinate, clypeus bi-dentate, the teeth sub-reflex, divided by a
sinuation ; prothorax strongly convex, bi -impressed for the reception
of the two horns in the anterior part which is profusely but not
thickly granulate and punctate, it is indistinctly impressed longi-
tudinally in front of the scutellum, the base is entirely marginate,
the lateral margins briefly sinuate before the sharp anterior angles,
and nearly straight before the posterior angles which are obtusely
rounded ; elytra impressed-striate, the striae punctate, the intexwals
convex and bearing a series of large punctures ; pygidium sparsely
impressed punctate ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, with the margin
numerously crenulate between the teeth and behind them, the inner
part of the apex is sharply dentiform, and the spur strongly curved.

Length 4 mm.

Hah. Kalahari."

Gen. MACEODERES, ^SYestw..

Macroderes mutilatus, Kolb.,

Loc. cit., p. 130.

Highly convex, black, moderately shiny, head not particularly

punctate, anterior margin sub-sinuate, nearly obtuse, not dentate,

sub-sinuate towards the genae ; frontal carina entire, slightly arcuate

angularly and with the median part higher; prothorax moderately

densely punctate, the anterior part simple, not impressed, depressed

longitudinally in the middle of the posterior part, lateral margins

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slender, slightly reflexed, not crenulate, nearly completely rounded,
sub-sinuate before the apex, the posterior angles obtusely rounded ;
elytra finely striate, the striae indistinctly punctate, the intervals
convex, sub-costate and minutely punctulate ; the reflexed edge
(false epipleura) moderately smooth, partly punctulate, and the
series of punctures abbreviated soon after the extreme apex.

Length 10 mm.

Hab. Namaqualand (Steinkopf).

Tribe COPEINI.

Gen. ONITICELLUS, Serv.

0. nasicomis, Per. nee. Reiche ; Boheman nee. Reiche, is pro-
nounced, and rightly so, by Arrow (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., i., 1908,
p. 180) to be 0. intermedins, Reich. Voy. Galin. Abyss. Insects, 3850,
p. 337, pi. 20, fig. 5 $ , b ? .

Oniticellus pictus, Hausm., Catal. i., p. 164.

I gave O. formosus, Chevr., as synonymous with O. pictus, Chevr.
(Cat. i., p. 164). Arrow, however, states (loc. cit.) that O. formosus
" is a West African insect, larger than O. pictus, and differing in the
form of the clypeus and other respects.

Gen. TINIOCELLUS, Per., Cat. i., p. 116.
A wrongly transposed line in the Key to the Genera of the tribe
Coprini (Cat. i.. p. 108, line 26) makes me say that in Drcpanocerus
and Tinioccllus the antennae are 8-jointed. In the description of the
generic character I mention, however, that they are 9-jointed.
Arrow retains in the genus Oniticellus, T. spinipes, for which
my genus was proposed (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., i., 1908, p. 183).
But it is the fact of it having 9-jointed instead of 8-jointed antennae
as is obtaining in the genera Drepanochirus, Scaptocnemis, Oniti-
cellus, &c, which induced me to remove it from Oniticellus.

Sub-Family APHODIIN^.

Gen. OXYOMUS, Muls.,
Oxyomus rusio, Kolb.,
Denksc. Medic.-Naturw. Ges. Jena, vol. xiii., 1908, p. 125.
" Small, testaceous ferruginous, moderately shiny ; prothorax
more shiny, posterior part of head fuscous brown, palpi, antennae

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and legs completely testaceous, anterior edge of the prothorax nar-
rowly infuscate or blackish, suture of elytra fuscous ; head con-
spicuously but not densely punctate ; edge of clypeus sub-refiexed,
marginate, plane, anterior margin slightly reflex ; prothorax plainly
punctate, the posterior angles obtusely rounded ; elytra moderately
highly carinate, the carinae glabrous, the intermediate striae deep
and punctulate.

Length 2-|—2f mm.

Hab. Kalahari."

Gen. APHODIUS, Illig.,

Aphodius (Esimus) effetus, Kolb.,
Loc. cit., p. 126.

" Oblong, testaceous, shiny, head and prothorax brownish feri-u-
ginous, the former lighter coloured in front, the latter behind, suture
of elytra brown ; head shiny, finely and closely but not densely
punctate, clypeus sub-obtuse in the centre, very little emarginate,
rounded on each side ; prothorax moderately thickly punctate but
more densely so laterally, the posterior margin finely costulate,
posterior angles rounded ; scutellum elongate, parallel in front ;
elytra finely striate, the stria? finely punctate, the intervals smooth,
moderately plane, very finely and widely punctulate ; anterior tibiae
tri-dentate externally, simple above the teeth, the intermediate and
posterior clothed with short seta) alternating with longer ones.

Length 3 mm.

Hab. Great Namaqualand (Keetmanshoop)."

Aphodius (Bodilus) kukubanus, Kolb.,
Loc. cit., p. 127.
"Sub-elongate, moderately convex, fuscous, pronotum chestnut-
fuscous with the sides flavescent brown ; elytra testaceous, black
fuscous towards the suture ; pectus fuscous, abdomen ferruginous,
pygidium testaceous ; femora flavescent testaceous with the tibiae
chestnut-brown and the tarsi ferruginous ; head tri-tuberculate ;
clypeus roughly rugulose and punctate, anterior margin sub-obtuse
in the centre, very slightly sinuate, obtusely rounded and reflexed
on each side, the margin continued as a straight line on each side as
far as the gense ; frontal part transversely sub-carinate, and having
in the centre a tuberculate carina sub-tuberculate on each side,
numerously punctulate behind the carina and thence smooth ; pro-
thorax slightly attenuate in front, somewhat conspicuously narrower
than tlic elytra, the posterior margin entirely costulate as a pro-

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longation of the lateral ones ; the whole surface unequally and
closely punctate, the punctures large and intermixed with minute
ones, smooth longitudinally in the centre ; scutellum moderately
minute, triangular ; elytra a little broader than the prothorax, finely
striate, the striae punctulate and reaching the apex, the intervals
plane from the base to the apex, distinctly punctulate ; tibiae of the
first pair tri-dentate outwardly, and having two or four small teeth
above the upper tooth, intermediate and posterior with the apical
margin briefly setose.

Length 5f mm.

Hab. Great Namaqualand (Kubub)."

Aphodius (Bodilus) damarinus, Kolb.,
Loc. cit., p. 127.

Very closely allied to the preceding species, smaller, coloured in
the same manner, legs testaceous with the tibiae more or less
obscure ; frontal part tri-tuberculate, the two tubercles smaller than
the median one ; clypeus little reflexed, sub-levigate, finely closely
punctulate, the margin sub-sinuate in the centre, lateral margin
forming on each side a sinuation with the genae ; prothorax less
copiously punctate, the posterior margin is more fully costulate ;
elytra striate in the same manner, but the intervals are more finely,
almost indistinctly punctulate.

Length 4-4J mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Otjimbingwe).

Aphodius (Oeodalus) xama, Kolb.,
Loc. cit., p. 126.
" Small, black, somewhat robust, moderately elongated and some-
what convex, black on the upper side with the palpi black fuscous ;
antennas ferruginous, the club opaque black ; prothorax with an
obscurely red-chestnut macule, posterior margin of elytra of the
same colour, femora sub-ornate with chestnut, tarsi ferruginous ;
clypeus rugulose, opaque behind, slightly sinuate on the centre in
front, rounded on each side ; frontal part transversely sub-carinate,
the carina slightly raised on each side, tuberculate in the middle, the
posterior frontal part punctulate and smooth in turn ; scutellum
little impressed, not punctate, parallel in front ; prothorax as broad
as the elytra, sparingly and dispersedly deeply punctate, but with
the punctures sparingly interspersed with minute punctures, pos-
terior margin entirely costulate, the costule being continued from
the lateral margins, posterior angles rounded ; elytra finely striate,

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the stria} slightly punctate, the 4th and 6th are connected behind
with the 5th, the 8th with the 7th, the 9th is abbreviated, the
intervals from the base to the apex are completely plane, and
impunctate, but the sutural interval is slightly convex towards the
apex ; anterior tibia3 crenulate above the upper tooth, those of the
intermediate and posterior pairs have a circle of setae short but
alternating with longer ones on the apical margin.

Length 4-5i mm.

Hah. Namaqualand (Steinkopf)."

Sub-Family OCHOD^IX^.

Gen. CILETOCANTHUS, Per.

Ch.etocanthus suspectus, Kolb.,

Denksc. Med. Naturw. Ges. Jena, vol. xiii., 1908, p. 124.

Similar to C, insuetus, Per.; rufous ferruginous, abundantly pilose,
very closely finely granulose on the whole upper side, the granules
of the prothorax less minute than those of the head, those on the
elytra slightly larger than those on the prothorax ; mentum convex
(not concave), rounded in front, closely setose, labrum briefly
emarginate ; prothorax nearly twice as broad as long ; elytra sub-
striate ; anterior tibiae plainly bi-dentate outwardly (without any
traces of a third tooth) ; posterior tibiae thickened, i-obust, narrowed
towards the base, spurs of the intermediate and posterior ones very
greatly elongated, narrow, plane, slightly ampliated towards the
apex, and rounded there.

Length 7h-Vh nun.

Hab. Damaraland (interior of Walfish Bay territory).

Sub-Family TKOGIN2E.

Gen. TKOX., Pabr.

Trox nama, Kolb.,

Denksc. Med. Naturw. Ges. Jena, vol. xiii., 1908, p. 125.

" Near T. luridus, but differs on the less slender body and also by
the briefly ciliate prothorax and elytra, the former is moreover hardly
tuberculate, not costate, unequal, binodose in front of the base where
it is very closely punctate, and set here and there with discoidal
granules and with a few wrinkles, the sides, which are straight and

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almost angular are longitudinally depressed, with the edge completely
plane, the lateral margins are arcuate, crenate, converge in the anterior
part, the posterior angles are acute ; elytra having on each side nine
series of alternate chain-like links, four primary and five secondary,
the first ones a little thicker than the others, the tubercles of the
chains are narrow, sub-elongate, every chain having on each side a
sharp, slender costule interrupted by numerous seriate foveolae ; the
tubercles of the chains bear brief fulvous fascicles of hairs, before
the apex is a juxta-marginal abbreviated series of weaker fasciculated
granules little discernible long past the middle ; anterior tibiae little
dentate externally, the two apical teeth are approximate, divided by
a sinus and are large, the five lateral small teeth are smaller, the
last one extremely small.

Length 10-5-12 mm.

Hab. Great Namaqualand (Kubub)."

Gen. GLARESIS, Erichs.,
Nat. Insect., iii., 1848, p. 925.

Kolbe records (loc. cit.,p. 125) the capture of G. frivaldskyi in the
Kalahari. This species is recorded from Hungary, Turkestan,
Northern Africa, aiad North America.

Sub-Family HOPLIIN^.

Gen. HOPLOCNEMIS, Gemm.
Hoplocnemis lightfooti, Pering., Catal., ii., p. 664.

Female : Slightly less shiny than the <? , and with the pubescence
paler ; the clypeus is as sharply acuminate ; the foveolate punctures
of the prothorax are similar in size and proximity, but the median
part of the disk is only slightly depressed, not grooved longitudinally
and is impunctate as in the $ ; the sculpture of the elytra consists
of sparse foveate punctures bearing each a minute greyish hair and
irregularly seriate except the two juxta-sutural ones; in the posterior
part these punctures are obliterated except along the outer margin;
the propygidium is clothed with greyish flavescent hairs, and the
surface of the not densely pubescent pygidium is very bluntly raspy ;
hind femora very robust, hind tibiae very short, robust, dilated at the
apex and without any traces of apical spurs.

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space in the centre of the dorsal part of the prothorax, and is easily
distinguished on that account.

Length 9£ mm. ; width 5-J- mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

Gen. HETEEOCHELUS, Cat. i., p. 709.
Mr. Arrow informs me that H. longipcs, Burm., is the same species
as H. gonager, Fabric.

Sub-Family SERICIN^.

Gen. ABLABEEA, Cat. ii., p. 75.
Ablabera delicatula, n. sp.

Pale straw-colour, covered on the whole upper side with a pallid
erect, dense pubescence, the pubescence on the under side and on
the legs is also dense, but it is appressed ; clypeus transverse at
apex, very slightly denticulate in the centre and with the angles
sharp, projecting a little and somewhat reflexed, surface finely
aciculate, clypeal suture very slender ; head closely and somewhat
coarsely punctate ; antennae stramineous, antennal club 5-jointed
in the 3 , but with the fifth joint of the pedicel very briefly laminate ;
prothorax slightly wider than long, slightly ampliate rounded later-
ally past the median part, covered like the head with deep, closely
set punctures ; scutellum closely punctulate ; elytra parallel, not
broader in the posterior part than the prothorax, sculpture and
vestiture similar to those of the latter; propygidium aciculate,
pygidium sub-remotely punctate, the punctures setigerous ; tarsi
very long, claws slender, widely divaricating.

This species is more parallel (<? ) than any of its congeners. The
$ will probably prove to be slightly less parallel. The shape of the
clypeus is almost similar to that of A. amoena, Per. (Cat. ii., p. 83).

Length 5^-6 mm. ; width 2-2i mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore).

Sub-Family MELOLONTHIN^.

Gen. CLITOPA, Erichs., Cat, ii., p. 147.
Clitopa debilis, n. sp.

Male : This species might be taken at first sight for a small
example of C. fusciventris, Boh., but it differs by the shape of the
clypeus which is slightly more sinuate in the centre, with the sides

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broadly rounded, the anterior part does not bear any erect bristles,
being merely less densely villose than the frontal part and vertex ;
the villosity of the prothorax and scutellum are alike in both species,
but the white hairs on the elytra are shorter and much more
squamose in C. debilis than in G. fusciventris ; this difference in the
shape of these white hairs is plainly noticeable on the propygidium,
pygidium, and under side of C. debilis, which are very distinctly
squamose white.

Length 11 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg).

Gen. SCHIZONYCHA, Erichs., Cat. ii., p. 190.

SCHIZONYCHA FEIRANA, n. Sp.

Eusty-red or reddish chestnut, shiny, palps and antennae
flavescent ; head slightly darker except the neck than the pro-
thorax or elytra, the reflexed anterior margin of the clypeus is very
conspicuously emarginate in the centre in the g , but not even
sinuate in the ? , the frontal carina is merely slightly arcuate in
the $ , barely distinct at some distance from the canthus of the
eye, and the basal carina is very sharp, whereas in the ? it is very
broadly triangular with the median part undoubtedly sharp, the
basal carina is much less sharp, and the surface of both the clypeus
and the head with the exception of the neck is rugosely asperate
foveolate ; prothorax one-fourth wider than the median length,
strongly attenuated obliquely laterally from the anterior angle to
the median part, thence ampliate and moderately rounded as far as
the base, covered with punctures separated by an interval about
equal to their diameter, slightly rugose in the $ , plainly variolose
in the ? which has also an abbreviated median smooth elongated
area, absent in the $ , the smooth supra-basal lateral fold is also
more conspicuous in the S ; elytra of the usual shape and sculpture,
the punctures hairless in both sexes, slightly rougher on the 2 ;
penultimate abdominal segment wider than the antepenultimate ;
pectus very sparingly hairy ; anterior tibiie tri-dentate outwardly,
upper claw more slender than the lower and of about equal size.
The clasps of the $ resemble those of S. vicaria, but the two
branches are more slender — the longer one distinctly sinuate out-
wardly, and the apical part is more spatuliform.

Length 14-14-J- mm. ; width 6-7 mm.

Hah. Zambesi Eiver (Peira).

The male of this species is easily recognised by the more than
usual narrowed anterior half of the prothorax.

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SCHIZONYCHA CONSUETA, n. Sp.

Male : Head and prothorax dark chestnut, elytra chestnut-red,
antennae rusty-red with the club slightly flavescent ; clypeus arcuate
very slightly blunted in the centre of the anterior part, clypeal carina
not much arcuate, frontal suture very shallow and narrow, vertex
with a somewhat sharp, transverse raised line, clypeus and frontal
part scabrose tuberculate, behind the centre of the frontal line is a
somewhat broad smooth space, the neck is smooth ; prothorax some-
what short, twice as broad as long, of the usual shape, covered with
closely set cicatricose punctures, broadly asperous laterally and in
front, the median discoidal part has a smooth, median longitudinal
smooth line, and a small median basal smooth patch, the supra-
basal marginal fold is smooth for a short space only ; scutellum
with a few median punctures ; elytra moderately elongated, and
moderately broad, covered with somewhat simple, extremely briefly
setigerous punctures separated by a smooth interval about equal to
their own diameter ; pygidium with closely set, somewhat deeper
punctures than those on the elytra ; penultimate abdominal segment
not wider than the ante-penultimate ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate but
with the upper tooth very blunt, fore tarsi longer than the tibiae ;
upper claw of all the feet longer than the lower, strongly curved,
and of equal size of a somewhat heavier build than S. qucesita (Cat.
ii., p. 216), and also differing in colour ; the shape of the genital
clasps of the J is perhaps nearer to that of S. qucesita than to that
of any South African species known to me, but the branches of the
forceps are broader, not strangulate above the apical dilated part,
which is angular in the middle of the dilatation instead of the outer
part of the base.

Length 15 mm. ; width 9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Transkei).

SCHIZONYCHA EFFETA, n. sp.

Head and prothorax testaceous-red, elytra paler testaceous ;
clypeus plainly transverse in the anterior part, normally rounded
on the sides, clypeal ridge very little raised, quite transverse and
merged with the clypeal suture, vertex with a slightly raised trans-
verse line, surface of both clypeus and frontal part covered with
large, round, nearly coalescing punctures separated by a very
narrow, slightly raised wall ; prothorax of the normal shape, but
very convex on the posterior median part, the sides being on that
account highly declivous there, the surface covered with cicatricose
punctures divided by a smooth space equal to their own diameter,
and slightly larger and less cicatricose in the centre, where there is

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a very small impunctate area, supra-basal fold somewhat punctate ;
scutellum sharply triangular, and with one lateral row of punctures ;
elytra elongated, covered with sub-cicatricose punctures separated
by an interval equal to their diameter and almost imperceptibly
setigerous ; pygidium as long as broad, and with a few punctures
only on the sides of the anterior part ; under side very sparsely
punctate and pilose ; penultimate segment of abdomen broader than
the antepenultimate ; anterior tibiae distinctly tri-dentate outwardly;
all the tarsi very long, the upper claw very much longer than the
lower, which on that account seems to be median, and is somewhat
short.

In general appearance not unlike S. transvaalica, Cat., but differ-
ing in many points. The genital armature of the $ is not unlike
that of S.furva (Cat. i., pi. 41, fig. 60, but narrower, especially at the
base.

Length 10 j mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg).

SCHIZONYCHA PAUPERATA, n. Sp.

Male : Dark chestnut-brown, shiny ; antennas ferruginous ; clypeus
arcuate but blunt on the anterior part the margin of which is very
slightly sinuate in the anterior part, clypeal carina strongly arcuate,
the frontal suture plain, straight, vertex raised; prothorax short,
more than twice broader than long, normally crenulate ciliate
laterally and covered with simple but deep elongate punctures
separated by a slightly raised interval about equal to their
diameter, and bearing each a squamiform white hair, there are
no traces of smoothness in the supra-basal fold nor of a median
longitudinal smooth line ; the punctures on the head and neck are
similar to those of the prothorax, except those of the neck which
are not squamigerous ; scutellum with two lateral series of scaly
punctures ; elytra short, somewhat massive, deeply punctate but
with the intervals smooth, each puncture with a sub-squamose short
hair, apex of propygidium, and pygidium sparsely punctate ; penul-
timate abdominal segment not wider than the antepenultimate;
anterior tibiae stoutly tri-dentate, tarsi short, not longer than the
tibiae, upper claw curved, longer than the lower, which is not much
stouter. This species greatly resemble S. constrata and also S.
rurigena, but the two examples I have seen are a little shorter
and stouter, the punctuation of the head and prothorax is deeper,
more closely set and more squamosely setigerous. The genital
organs of the 3 are of quite a different shape from that of either
of them, and approximates those of S. fraudulenta (Cat. ii., p. 226,

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pi. xli., fig. 57 (read fraudulcnta instead of dubiosa in explanation of
plate), but the branches are a little broader, quite symmetrical and
with the apical angles neither sharp nor quite rounded.

Length 13 mm. ; width 7 mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

Schizonycha citima, Pering., Catal. ii., p. 225.
This species shows a great variation in the punctuation of the
prothorax, according to their habitat. In the type form, from
Northern Ehodesia (Manica), the punctures are somewhat sparse
and shallow. But in examples from Salisbury and Plumtree, also
in Southern Rhodesia, Nyslstroom in the Transvaal, Vrybui'g in
Bechuanaland, and Bothaville in the Orange River Colony, the
punctuation is closely set, and almost similar to that of S. valida
(Cat. ii., p. 224), whereas the shape of the genital organs of the male
remain the same.

Sub-Family CETONIN^.
Gen. GNATHOCERA, Knby.

GxATHOCERA IMPRESSA, Oliv.

Ent., i., 6, p. 39, pi. 8, fig. 71.
Black opaque on the upper side, which is adorned with numerous
sulphureous yellow bands and macules ; antennae, legs and under
side ferruginous red. On the upper side the opaque or little shiny
coating hides nearly the sculpture ; projections of the anterior part
of the clypeus long, sharp, anterior part strigillate, posterior not
very numerously punctate, in the frontal part are two lateral yellow
macules on each side, and a larger one above the eye ; prothorax of
the normal shape of the genus, indistinctly punctulate, the punc-
tures being partly hidden by the coating, in the centre is a longi-
tudinal yellow hand reaching from apex to base and an outer
marginal one entire and slightly broader than the median ; scutellum
very sharply triangular and with a median yellow hand that seems
to be a continuation of the prothoracic one ; elytra attenuate behind,
more deeply punctate than on the prothorax and with two high
rounded costye on each side, in each of these first two intervals is a
series of spots or macules set very near each other, and probably
occasionally partly coalescing, on the outer margin is a moderately
broad band of the same colour the inner edge of which is produced on
a short spur approaching very much one of the macules of the second
interval, and also slightly enlarged at the apical part of the suture;
pygidium with two transverse yellow patches; each of the abdominal

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segments is laminate with yellow, leaving only a narrow median
longitudinal band ; the pectus, side pieces, and the greatest surface
of the femora inwardly and outwardly are covered with yellow.

Length 14-14^ mm.

This species is a native of the West Coast of Africa, but O. E.
Janson states that he has received or seen it from Damaraland.

Gen. LEUCOCELIS, Burm.

Leucocelis damarina, Kolb.,
Annal. Soc. Ent. Belg., li., 1908, p. 372.

" Black, prothorax red with a moderately broad median longi-
tudinal band beginning at some distance from the apex and abbre-
viated close to past the median part ; elytra grass-green ; pygidiuni
and the two or three ultimate abdominal laminae reddish, sometimes
the whole abdomen is reddish ; head numerously roughly punctate
in the hind part, finely punctulate towards the apex ; prothorax not
numerously but finely punctulate, the punctures thicker towards the
sides, ampliate behind sinuate before the posterior angles, which are
moderately prominent and obtuse ; elytra attenuate towards the
apex, a little elongated, having each three rows of punctures with
the intervals broad, the intervening space more or less narrow, the
first and second row punctate in the anterior part only, thence long,
lineiform, the third series is linear, punctate in the anterior part
only, fourth row drawing near the anterior part of the third, then
disappearing ; sides of elytra with four series of punctures ; pygi-
dium widely annulate punctate as usual ; ventral laminae of abdomen
having each two (or one) series of punctures of a horse-shoe shape,
median part of the laminae with a series of transverse punctures,
which is sometimes wanting ; mesosternum sparingly thickly punc-
tate ; mesosternal process moderately large.

Length 8-11 mm.

Hab. South- West Africa, Hereroland, Windhoek.

Var. albopunctata : elytra with some white spots behind.

Var. pygidialis : pygidium with oblong annulate punctures, and
less sinuate at apex."

Gen. HOMALOTHYEEA, Kolb.

HoMALOTHYREA KYBELE, Kolb.

Denksc. Med. Naturw. Ges. Jena, vol. xiii., 1908, p. 123.
" Similar in shape to H. franki, Lansb. ; entirely nigro-cyaneous
above with the head only black and the antennae brownish and
partly nigrescent, elytra sparingly maculated with white, the pro-

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thorax however is immaculate ; the whole f the under side and
also the pygidium are very shiny black, the pectus and the abdomen
clothed with scanty, brief whitish hairs ; clypeus little sinuate ;
prothorax broadly but not closely conspicuously yet equally punc-
tate, slightly sinuate laterally before the obtusely rounded obtuse
angles ; elytra punctate almost like in H. franki ; legs, especially the
tarsi of the hind pairs, not very slender ; pygidium ocellate punctate.

Length 10 mm.

This species is perhaps only a chromatic variety of II. franki.

Hah. Great Namaqualand (Kubub), Hereroland."

Gen. TEICHOPLUS, Burm.

TlUCHOrLUS 2BPTTUS, Kolb.,
Loc. cit., p. 123.

" Closely allied to T. schaumi ; elongated, black, moderately shiny,
very briefly and sparsely and hardly conspicuously flavopilose ; head
moderately convex, squamiform, clypeus simple, depressed on each
side, emarginate in front, prothorax five times angular (not rounded),
closely punctate, ampliated, ampliate part more rounded, angulate
laterally, strongly attenuate behind, median part of tbe disk with a
large, broad, sub orbicular excavation, marginate in front, simple
behind, and also with the anterior half strigillate in a half circle, the
posterior half flat and punctate; scutellum striolate with curved
lines and indistinctly carinate in the centre ; elytra parallel with the
shoulders rather oblique, sinuate past the humeral part, obliquely
strigillate in the dorsal part, punctate towards the margin and the
apex, unicostate longitudinally, the costa reaching from the base to
nearly the apex and situated nearer to the suture than to the outer
margin; legs simple, outer apical part of the tibiae ending in an
acuminate spine; intersegmental abdominal transverse interval
between the propygidium and the pygidium clothed with a very
dense, golden and fuscous spongy pilosity ; mesosternum slightly
carinate between the coxa? ; metasternum with a median cordiform
area very finely obliquely striolate and punctate, and also not
carinate laterally.

Length 8f-9 mm.

Hali. Namaqualand (Steinkopf)."

Kolbe adds that this species was found in the interior of the clay-
nest (Termite mound) of the white ant, Hodotermes viator, Latr.
The species of Hodotermes, however, are sub-terranean and build no
mound. But they do occasionally take possession of the whole or

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part of those of Tcrmes trinervius, and possibly others, perhaps for
foraging purposes. It was in a mound originally built by T. trinervius,
but jointly occupied by Hodotermes and the true ant Plagiolepis
custodicns, Sm., that I found among the latter, which harbours
probably more mess-mates than any other African ant, the rare
Cremastochilid Trichoplus schaumi. This does in all probability
account for the habitat as recorded by Dr. L. Schultze. I may add
that the first time I met with the Cremastoschilid, I was not sure
whether it was a " commensal " of Hodotermes, or of Plagiolcjris
(cf. Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr., lxix., 1900, p. 67), but I am sure now
that it is of the latter. — L. P.

Trichoplus agis, Kolb.,
Loc. cit., p. 124.

"Like the preceding species, a little larger, moderately shiny;
clypeus bi-carinate longitudinally, the carinas set close to each other
diverging behind ; prothorax five times angular, broadly punctate,
ampliate in front, the ampliated part more broadly rounded laterally,
sinuate behind and bearing a large, broad, ovate dorsal fovea closely
punctate, deeply excavated in front, simple behind, scutellum strio-
late, longitudinally carinate in the middle ; elytra with the shoulders
most distinctly prominent, obliquely and longitudinally striolate,
slightly sub-seriately punctulate, longitudinally unicostate as in the
preceding species ; legs also similar but with the tibiae shorter ;
mesosternum highly carinate ; metasternum with a median
octangular area attenuate in front, costulate line-like obliquely
and longitudinally, and carinate laterally ; penultimate dorsal
abdominal segment (propygidium) carinulate longitudinally in the
middle, interval between the propygidium and the pygidium simple
(not spongy-pilose), pygidium obliquely slanting on the upper side,
invisible beneath, moderately large, glabrous.

Length 10^ mm.

Hab. Found in Namaqualand (Steinkopf) with T. cepytus, also in
the mound of Hodotermes viator."

My previous remarks on the occurrence of these degenerated
Cetonids apply also to this species. — L. P.

( 706 )

TABLE OF DISTRIBUTION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN
LUCANIDJE, PASSALIDJE, AND SCARABJEID.E.

Coprinse

Endemic Genera.

Colophon (1)*
Oonotus (1)
Xiphodontus (1)

Circellium (1)
Sceliages (-2)
Odontoloma (3)
Byrrhidium (1)
Aphengecus (1)

LUCANID.E.
Doubtfully Endemic.

PASSALID.E.

Eumelosomus (1)

SCARAB.EID/E.

Sebasteos (4)
Pachysoma (7)
Elassocanthon

Xinidium (1)

Parapinotus (1)
Macroderes (6)

Tapeinopterus (1)
Scaptocnemis (1)
Tragiscus (1)
Neonitis (1)
Delopleurus (1)
Saproecius (2)

Aphodiince Harmodactylus (1) Aphodobius (1)

Harmo^aster (2)
Drepanocanthus (5)

Aianihocerodes (1)

Coptochirus (7)
Liparochirus (1)

Macroretrus (1)

Non-Endemic.
Nigidiua (3)

Cladognathus ^1)
Figulus (1)

Scarabscus (40)

Gymnopleurus (17)

Anachalcos (2)

Gyronotus (2)

Epirinus (10)

Epilissus (1)

Sisj^phus (10)

Drepanocerus (5)

Tiuiocellus (1)

Drepanochirus (1)

Onitis (31)

Cheironitis (4)

Oniticellus (7)
Onthophagus (156)

Caccobius (10)
Phalops (10)
Diastellopalpus (2)

Milichua (2)

Pedaria (11)
Coptorrhina (10)
Pinacotarsus (1)
Heliocopris (11)
Catharsius (18)
Copria (26)
Aphodius (63)
Teuchestes (1)
Lorditomasus (1)
Bybaz (2)
Rhyssemus (5)
Psammobius (3)
Notocaulus (1)
Pleurophorus (2)
Corythoderus (1)
Trox (22)

* The figures in brackets are those of the species. Their distribution in South
Africa is not sufficiently known to divide them into endemic or non-endemic kinds.

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Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa.

707

Endemic Genera.

Chironinaa
Geotrupinae

Hybosorinaa Araaotanypus (2)

Orphninse
Ochodaeinffi

Dynastinae

Rutelinae

Hopliinaa

Chaetocanthus (2)

Doubtfully Endemic.

Phaeocroides (1)
Synochodseus (1)

Pentodontosehema (6)
Hyboschema (2)
Orsilochus (1)
Callistemonus (1)
Homteomorphus (1)
Syrichthus (1)
Syrichthodontus (1)
Syrichthomorphus (1)
Pseudocyphonistes (1)

Anodontopopillia (1) Nongoma (1)

Isoplia (1)
Chasme (3)
Anisonyx (15)
Peritrichia (24)
Lepitrix (10)
Khoina (2)
Eriesthis* (10)
Korisaba (1)
Stenocnema (1)
Pachycnema (19)
Paehycnemida (1)
Hoplocnemis (10)
Dichelus f (13)
Heterochelus (93)
Omocrates (17
Goniaspidius (2)
Dicranocnemus (10)
Nanniseus (1)
Diaplochelus (3)
Bizanus (1)
Kubousa (4)
Platychelus (27)
Coega (1)
Idutywa (2)
Mitrophorus (4)
Monoehelus J (25)

* One species is recorded from Central Africa.

f One species is recorded from East Central Africa.

J One species is recorded from East Central Africa.

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Non-Endemic.
Chiron (3)
Bolboceras (33)

Athyreus (2)
Hybosorus (3)
Phseocrous (2)
Orphnus (10)
Ochodseus (2)
Drepanocanthus (1)
Heteronychus (17)
Temnorhynchus (4)
Pycbnoschema (11)
Cyphonistes (1)
Oryctes (2)
Archon (1)
Pseudosyrichthus (1)
Xenodorus (1)
Rhizoplatys (2)
llhizoplatodes (1)
Adoretus (36)
Anomala (32)
Peripopillia (1)
Popillia (6)
Gnatholabis (2)
Tabora (1)
Phaanomeris (3)

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SericinfB

Endemic Genera.
Thabina (1)
Gymnoloma (12)
Knysna (2)
Outeniqua (1)
Gouna (2)
Scelophysa (3)
Lepisia (3)
Anisochelus (3)
Inanda (3)
Blikana (1)
Harpina (1)
Nanaga (1)
Cylichnus (3)
llabula (1)
Karei^a (1)
Microdoris (1)
Pleophylla (3)

Hyboserica (2)
Giyphonica (1)

Dolerotarsa (1)

Doubtfully Endemic.

Xon-Endi'inic.

Melolonthina;

Tulbaghia (3)

Paracamenta (6)
Leribe (1)
Gamka (1)
Damara (1)
Onoerneta (1)
iEgostetha (4)
Macrophylla (5)
Pleiophylla (1)
Eucylophylla (1)
Tlaocera (1)
Kiaseophylla (1)
Pasaphvlla (1)
Ramoutsa (1)
Achelyna (2)

Microplus (1)
Microplidus (9)

Congella (4)

Nedymoserica (1)
Neoserica (4)
Etiserica (1)
Stenoseiica (3)
Diaphoroserica (1)
Philoserica (1)
Euvonycha (4)
Idffiserica (1)

Mesoserica (1)
AUokotarsa (2)
Arraphytarsa (1)

Alogitotarsa (2)
Doleroserica (5)
Microtrachelus (1)

Ablabera * (16)
Microcamenta (3)

Oocamenta (2)
Diplotropis (2)
Idascamenta (1)

Cyclomera (8)
Periclitopa (4)
Paraclitopa (1)

Hoplia (1)

Autoserica (14)
Lepisenca ( )

Camentoserica (1)

Trochalus (18)
Ablaberoides (20)
Camenta (26)

Clitopa (5)

One species is recorded from British East Africa.

1908.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcva of South Africa. 709

Doubtfully Endemic. Non-Endemic.

Endemic Genera.
Melolonthinae Pleistophylla (1)
Trichiodera (1)
Pseustophylla (1)

Pseudachloa (1)
Trichinopus (2)
Achloa (5)
Oedanomerus (1)
Sebaris (1)
Beriqua (1)

Holisonycha (1)

Cetoninae
Trichiini

Valsnni

Myodermini

Cetonini

Sebakwe (1)
Psilonychus (8)
Ehabdopholis (3)

Stegopterus (5)

Agenius (5)
Brachagenius (2)
Eriopeltastes (1)

Elpidus (1)
Xiphoscelidus (1)
Xiphoscelis (1)
Rhinocaeta (2)

Lipoclita

Elaphinis (1)

Goraqua (1)
Trichostetha (5)
Odontonhina (2)
Ischnostoma (4)
Gariep (1)

Aipeiopsis (2)

Sparrmahnia (13)

Syngeneschiza (1)
Suntemnonycha (1)
Spathoschiza (1)

Glyptoglossa (4)
Schizonycha (82)
Atys (10)
Entyposis (1)

Pegylidius (1)

Diploeida (1)

Heteroclita (2)

Coniopholis (2)
Hypopholis (1)

Pegylis (1)
Eulepida (4)
Asthenopholis (2)
Brachylepis (1)
Apogonia (5)

Stripsipher (3)

Calometopus (1)
Comythovalgus (1)
Stenovalgus (2)
Myoderma (1)
Diploa (1)

Hypselogenia (2)
Goliath us (1)
Haamatonotus (1)
Phoxomela (1)
Micrelaphinis (6)
Dulcinea (1)
Tetragononhina (1)
Psaeadoptera (2)
Anoplochilus (8)

Dicranorrhina (3)

710 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii.

Endemic Genera.

Cetonini

Doubtfully Endemic.

Scythropestb.es (2) Inhambane (1)

Mazoe (1)
Gnathocerida (1)

Atrichia (1)
Atrichelaphinis (3)

Leptothyrea (1)

Amazula (1)

Chirinda (1)

Apocnosis (1)

Pseudoprotaetia (2)
Acrothyrea (1)
Glaucocelis (1)
Lonchothyrea (1)
Homalothyrea 1 1 1
Macromiaa (1)

Proxenus (1)
Astoxenus (1)

Trichoplus (7)

Trogodes (1)
Anatonochilua (1)
Scaptobius (6)
Placodidus (1)

Myrmecochilus (1 1

Non-Endemic.
Eanzania (1)
Cheirolasia (1)
Amaurodes (1)
Eudicella (4)
Xeptunides (1)
Ccelorrhina (1)
Stephanorrhina (1)
Eccoptocncmis (2)
Melinestb.es (4)
Smara^'desthes (1)
Ptychodestbes (1)
Kaeeloma (2)
Treniesthes (1)
Plee.siorrhina (2)
Gnathocera (2) •
Gametis (2)
Cosrniophrena (1)
Discopeltis (2)
Stethodesma (1)
Pseudoclinteria (1)
Pachnoda (11)
Phabdotis (4)
Niphetophora (1)
Porphyronota (3)
Diplo^natha (1)
Clinteroides (1)
Tephraja (2)
Trymodera (1)
Polystalactica (3)

Leucocelis (12)
Mausoleopsis (4)
Macroma (3)
Phymatopteryx (1)
CymophoruB (G)
Spilophorus (1)
Hoplostomus (1)
Caaiochilus (11)
Anatochilus (1)
Plagiochilus (5)

Pilinurgus (1)
Lissogenius (1)
Genuchus (2)
Nyassinius (1)

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COEEECTIONS IN TEXT.

Vol. I. (Vol. XII.).

Page 17 line 23 instead of Pontodontoschema read Pentodontoschema.

,, 24 ,, 26, after strong insert a comma, and delete the comma after female.

,, 25 ,, 25, instead of hottentotum read hottentorum.

,, 33 ,, 36 ,, Coleopt. Heft, read Catal. Coleopt. iv.

,, 108 ,, 26, transfer whole line above line 32.

,, 108 ,, 30, instead of B2 read B3.

,, 109 ,,15 ,, Melichus read Milichus.

,, 162 ,, 12 ,, pallipes read africanus.

,, 179 ,, 2 ,, moestus read discretus.

,, 302 ,, 12 ,, Mith. read Mitth.

,, 312 ,, 31 ,, anterior read anterior.

,, 375 ,, 36 ,, brevitarsus read brevitarsis.

446 ,, 6
446 „ 32 j

Psammodius read Psammobius.

Psammodius read Psammobius.

447 ,, 19 ,, Psammodius read Psammobius.

447 ,, 19 ,, Psammodius read Psammobius.

448 ,, 5)
448 ,, 6/

456 ,, 6 ,, ponderosus read dentieulatus.

478 ,,31 ,, pi. xxxvi. read pi. xxxix.

493 ,, 23 ,, stria read stria.

493 ,,36 ,, grossus read crassus.

500 ,, 5 ,, ovampoianus read ovampoanus.

507, last line, delete it is.

509 ,, 40, instead of tarsi read tibia.

513 ,,40 ,, fold of pygidium read propygidium.

514 line 20 ,, corvinus read licas.
558 ,,22 ,, antennae read palpi.

564 ,,21 ,, Heterochilus read Heterochelus.

578 ,, 39 ,, fig.li9maAjig.35.

579 ,, 44 ,, fig. 30 read. Jig. 34.

580 ,, 40 ,, Jig. 31 read Jig. 33.

585 ,, 34 ,, a- read a3, and instead of maxilla sharply toothed,

maxilla not toothed.
585, after line 37 insert a2 and maxilla sharply toothed.
625 line 12 instead of fertilisation read cross-fertilisation.

625 ,, 42 after intended add only.

626 ,, 27 instead of fertilisation read cross-fertilisation.
626, last line ,, Cedearbergen read Cedarbergen.
633 line 25 ,, gemmatus read gemmeus.

665 ,, 24 ,, Eristhis read Eriesthis.

719 ,,36 ,, miserabilis read lugens.

782, delete lines 11 and 12.

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Page 740 line 37 instead of inops read iobrinus.
,, 862 ,, 8 ,, lincoln read lineolata.

,, 884 ,, 15 ,, illotus read neglectus.

,, 889, after line 32 insert : Hah. Transvaal (Lydenburg).
,, 896 line 33 instead of Branes. read Brancs.

908

, 8

,, dubiosa read fraudulenta.

911

, 62

275 read 295.

912

, 31

239 read 242.

912

, 31

Ill read 110.

916

, 51

,, OniHcellus read Onthophagus.

920, after line 54 insert XnnDlUM, p. 296.

Vol. II. (Vol. XIII.).

42

42

42

46

47

50

56,

57

60

78

78

78

93

115

119,

120

182

183,

188

210

225

226

234

235

239

240

240

244

245

250

276

287

290

294

Page 7 line 22 instead of maculipennis read fasciatipennis.
18 ,, pi. xlvi., fig. 32, read fig. 24.

22 ,, Sclia u: read Schauf.

34 ,, chloris read lucidulus.

35 ,, pedes read species.
37, read having no frontal keel, it is . . .

after line 29 add pi. xlvi., fig. 27.
,, 25 add pi. xlvi., fig. 31.
„ 7 add^Z. xlvi., fig. 28.

lines 17 and 31, instead of Microtracheltis read Microtrochalus.
line 28 instead of Microtracheltis read Microtrochalus.

,, 4, delete striae of.

,, 9, instead of delalandei read lalandei.

,, 26 ,, namaqua vesAfuscipennis.

,,37 ,, 1815 read 1818.

,, 3 ,, pusiUa read pallidula.

,, 6 ,, 7 -jointed read 6-7-jointed.

delete lines 19 and 20.
line 22 instead of 1847 read 1848; also pp. 147, 153, 166, 271, 277. 281.

,,20 ,, o read of.

last line instead of Beitz. read Beitr.
line 7 ,, 9 read fig. 49.

,,20 ,, fig. 40 read //'<;. ID

,, 7, add after citima, n. spec.

,, 36, instead of acuminate read truncate.
12

y>/. Z(. read pi. xli.

fig. 24 read.//;/. 39a.
jiii. 13 read /w. 51.
algoa read algoensis.
xliii. read /'/. xli.
, after line 27 insert^/, xliii., fig. 46.
line IS instead of Jig. 67 read fig. 47.
,,24 ,, 60 read 69.

,, 5 ,, fig. 27 re&d fig. 22.

,, 1 ,, siili-fasciii/a read siilj,i<ciatu.<.

, last line, read mashona.
line 10 insert first before dorsal.

1908.] Catalogue of the Golcoptera of South Africa. 713

Page 294 line 25 ,, horizontally before underneath.

>> 295 ,, 14, instead of Cetononi read Cetonini.

ii 295 ,, 18 ,, macromima read macromina.

,, 313 „ 21, after differs add nevertheless.

,, 313 ,, 27, instead of scut client read seutellum.

,, 323 ,, 16, insert a comma after intrusion.

,, 323 ,,17 ,, ,, cqxcb,

,, 324 ,, 26, instead of elytra, stria read elytral striae.

,, 324 ,, 32, after Clinteroides delete ; and add , but although.

,, 339 ,, 33 instead of Mith. read Mitth.

,, 340 ,, 36 ,, numisnatica read numismatica.

,, 343 after line 5 insert pi. xlvii.,figs. 3, 3a.

,, 355 ,, 7 insert pi. xlviii., fig. 29.

,, 357 ,, 26 insert pi. xlviii., Jig. 30.

,, 371 line 4, instead of Stethosdesma read Stethodesma.

,, 375 ,, 21 ,, albomarginata read albomaculata.

,, 379 ,, 7, after Gariep delete comma.

,, 379 ,, 30 instead of C. lorigera read C. loricata.

„ 397 ,, 43

,, 398 ,, 4 ,,

,, 403 ,, 11 ,, Inhambana read Inhambane.

,, 404 ,, 2, instead of xii. read ii.

,, 429 ,,12 ,, Stethosdema read Stethodesma.

,, 439 ,, 37 after margins add of the elytra.

,, 441 ,, 21 instead of Protaetia read Pachnoda.

,, 457 ,,39 ,, gugate read gagates.

,, 466, after line 13 insert pi. xlviii., fig. 31.

,, 490 line 29, instead oifits rend fit.

,, 491 ,, 1 ,, spiracle of ivhich is read spiracles of which are.

,, 492 ,, 2 ,, macromima read macromina.

,, 517 ,, 1 ,, Anatochilus read Anatonochilus.

,, 552 ,,34 ,, fig. 19 rend fig. 10.

,, 535 ,, 8 ,, pi. xlv. read pi. xlvi.

,, 576, after line 6. The description of Onihophagus marshalli goes to complete

d'Orbigny's original description, which will be found

on p. 612.

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EXPLANATION OF PLATES XLIIL; XLVI.-XLVIII. OF
THE CATALOGUE (Plates I ; IV -VI. of Vol. Kill.).

Plate XLIIL (i. of vol. xiii.).

1. Genitalia of Rhabdotis albinigra 3 .

2. ,, of Rhabdotis seinipunctata 3 .

3. ,, of Rhadbotis sobrina 3,
4,5. ,, of Porphyronota carnif ex 3.

6. ,, of Porphyronota maculatissima 3 .

7. ,, of Porphyronota hebraea 3 .

8. 9. ,, of Diplognatha gagates 3 .

10. ,, of Pachnoda cincta 3 .

11. ,, of Pachnoda rufa 3 .

12. ,, of Trichostetha albopicta 3 .

13. ,, of Trichostetha signata 3.

14. ,, of Atrichia placida 3 ■

15. ,, of Trichostetha capensis 3.

1(5, 17. ,, of Genyodonta flavomaculata 3 .

18. ,, of Pleophylla tongaatsana 3.

19,20. ,, of Pleophylla fasciatipennis 3 .

21. ,, of Pleophylla navk-ularis 3.

22. ,, of Rhabdopholis albostriata 3 .

23. ,, of Rhabdopholis costipennis 3 .

24. 25. ,, of Coniopholis lepidiota 3 .

26. ,, of Coniopholis proxima 3 .

27. ,, of Psiionychus gracilis 3 . ■

28. ,, of Psiionychus deridens 3 .

29. ,, of Psiionychus eckloni 3 .

30. ,, of Eulepida anatina 3 .

31. ,, of Eulepida mashona 3 .

32. ,, of Adoretus simulaDS 3 .

33. ,, of Adoretus disparilis 3 .

34. ,, of Adoretus simplex 3 ■

35. ,, of Adoretus uniformis 3 .

36. ,, of Hypopholis sommeri 3.

37. ,, of Pegylidius mashunus 3.

38. ,, of Schizonycha salisburiana 3 .

39. ,, of Schizonycha spectabilis 3 .
39a. ,, of Schizonycha egens 3.

40. ,, of Schizonycha confinis 3 .

41. ,, of Schizonycha exacerbans 3.

42. ,, of Schizonycha paupercula 3 .

43. ,, of Schizonycha uoscitata 3 .

44. ,, of Schizonycha scabiosa 3 .

45. ,, of Schizonycha fatidica 3.
16. ,, of Schizonycha rngosa 3 .
47. ,, of Schizonycha indotata 3.

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48. Genitalia of Schizonycha nigricornis 3 .

49. ,, of Schizonycha inedita 3 .

50. ,, of Schizonycha vaalensis 3 .

51. ,, of Schizonycha russula 3 .

52. ,, of Schizonycha comosa 3 .

53. ,, of Schizonycha dissensa g.

54. ,, of Schizonycha vicaria cf .

55. ,, of Schizonycha ovampoana 3 .

56. ,, of Schizonycha ignava 3 .

57. ,, of Schizonycha idonea 3 .

58. ,, of Schizonycha ciliata 3.

59. ,, of Schizonycha inops 3 .

60. ,, of Schizonycha quaesita 3 .

61. ,, of Schizonycha citima 3 .

62. ,, of Schizonycha valida & .

Plate XLVI. (iv. of vol. xiii.).

la. Fore tarsi of Euronicha s .
lb. Under side of same.

,, of Gryphonica puberula <? .

, , of Diaphoroserica 3 .

,, of Allokotarsa <? .

5 ,, of Anomalotarsa s ■

6. Fore claw of Camenta.

7. ,, of Pseudocamenta.

8. „ of Tulbaghia.

9. ,, of Ceratogonia 3 .

10. „ of Ablabera.

11. Fore tarsi of Arraphytarsa 3 •

12. Genitalia of Eulepida tschindeana 3 .

13. Head and clypeus of Tulbaghia lightfooti.

14. ,, ,, of Camentoserica livida.

15. 15a. Head of Allokatarsa clypeata.

16. Head of Ceratogonia marshalli 3 .

17. ,, of Apogonia ovata 3 .

18. Genitalia of Lepiserica tessellata 3 ■

19. ,, of Lepiserica proteana 3 ■

20. ,, of Lepiserica lucidula 3.

21. ,, of Lepiserica australis 3.

22. ,, of Lepiserica zoutpaniana 3.

23. ,, of Neoserica transvaalensis 3.

24. ,, of Pleophylla fasciatipennis 3 (?).

25. ,, of Neoserica natalensis 3 .

26. ,, of Neoserica carneola 3.

27. ,, of Trochalus exasperans 3 .

28. ,, of Trochalus bohemani 3.

29. 30. ,, of Trochalus mashunus 3 ■

31. ,, of Trochalus byrrhinus 3 .

32. Fore claw of Sebaris palpalis.

33. Left fore claw of Hypopholis sommeri.

728 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii.

34. Fore claw of Pegylidius mashunus.

35. ,, of Pegylis conspurcata.

36. Fore claw of Sparrmannia fiavofasciata £ .

37. „ of ,, „ ? .
3.S. ,, of Sparrmannia vertumnus £ .

39. ,, of „ „ ?.

40. Genitalia of Sparrmannia vertumnus / .

41. ,, of Sparrmannia namaqua £ .

42. ,, of Sparrmannia boschimana £.

43. ,, of Sparrmannia gonaqua £ .

44. ,, of Sebaris palpalis £ .

45. ,, of Sparrmannia flavofasciata s .

46. ,, of Sparrmannia prieska £ .

47. ,, of Sparrmannia distincta £ .

48. ,, of Sparrmannia capicola £ .

49. ,, of Glyptoglossa dispart.

50. ,, of Glyptoglossa lorida £.

51. ,, of Glyptoglossa burmeisteri £ .

52. ,, of Glyptoglossa namaquensis £ .

53. ,, of Beriqua modesta £ .

54. ,, of Schizonycha increta £ .

55. Tricboplus paradoxus.

Plate XLVII. (v. of vol. xiii ).

1. la. Stephanorrhina simplex.

2. 2a. Melinesthes hannila.

3. 3a. Micrelaphinis nigritula.

4. 4«, -ib. Xiphoscelidus lugubris.

5. 5«, 5b. Elpidus hopei.

6. Apocnosis striata.

7. Ste^'opteru^ natalensis.

8. Calometopus nyassse.

9. Astoxenus amicus.

10. Proxenus squamiger.

11. Ho Myrmecochilus marshalli.

12. Tricboplus incisus.

13. Comythovalgus fasciculatus.

14. Stenovalgus bimaculatus.

15. 15d. Genitalia of Ccelorrhina 4-maculata s .

16. Genitalia of Eccoptocnemis barthi £ .

17. ,, of Eccoptocnemis relucens £ .

18. ,, of Leucocelis rubra £ .

19. ,, of Leucocelis hsamorhoidalis £ .

20. ,, of Leucocelis amethystina £ .

21. ,, of Leucocelis adspersa £ .

22. ,, of Leucocelis natalica £ .

23. ,, of Leucocelis testaceoguttata £.

24. ,, of Mausoleopsis rubriceps £ .

* Figs. 50. 51. 52 not being quite correct, reliable ones are given in Plate XLVIII.

Trans S.Afr Phil Soc.Vol.XIII PL. VI

DESCR.CAT.S. AFR.COLEOPTERA PL. XLVIII

Hehog Dujardin Paris

1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 729

25. ,, of Mausoleopsis amabilis $ .

2(5. ,, of Mausoleopsis luctifera <T .

27. ,, of Leptothyrea perroudi <? .

28. ,, of Chirinda sylvatica s .

29. Genitalia of Anoplochilus odiosus.

30. ,, of Anoplochilus tomentosus.

31. ,, of Pseudoprotaetia aspersa.

32. ,, of Pseudoprotaetia amakosa S .

33. ,, of Polystalactica sansibarica & .

34. ,, of Polystalactica furfurosa $ .

Plate XLVIII. (vi. of vol. xiii.).

1,2. Diastellopalpus orbignyi $ .

3, 4. Onthophagus placens.

5, 6. Onthophagus decedens.

7, 8, 9. Bolboceras capicola <? .

10, 11, 12. Onthophagus prsetortus i .

13, 14. Athyreus rhodesianus.

15. Onthophagus rhynchophorus.

16, 17. Miliehus rhodesianus.

18. Onthophagus serenus.

19, 20. Onthophagus rectefurcatus s .
21, 22, 23. Anomala pertinax ^ .

24, 25. Genitalia of Schizonycha howickiana $ .

26, 27. ,, of Schizonycha matabelena & .

28, 29. ,, of Schizonycha disputabilis s .

30, 31, 32. Heteronychus mosambicus, and genitalia $

33, 34. Genitalia of Heteronychus inops s .

35,36. ,, of Heteronychus beiranus <? .

37, 38, 39. Adoretus beiranus, and genitalia <r .

40, 41. Genitalia of Glyptoglossa namaquensis <f .

42,43. ,, of Glyptoglossa dispar 5.

44, 45. ,, of Glyptoglossa burmeisteri i .

46. ,, of Schizonycha ambigua 3 .

( 730)

INDEX.

abbreviata (Khoi'na) i., 666

abdominalis (Pachycnema) i., 674, 688
abdominalis (Peritrichia) ... i., 641, 644

Ablabera ii., 75, 698

Ablakeiuni ii., 74, 675

Ablaberoides ii., 58

dbrupta (Phoxomela) ii., 326,339

abundans (Neptunides) ii. , 394

abyssinicus (Onitis) i., 122, 148

Acanthocerodes i., 452, 471

acanthopus (Dichelus) i., 699, 701

acanthotarsis (Drepanocanthus)

i., 431, 432

achates (Copris) i., 346, 365

Achelyna ii., 119, 153

Achloa ii., 120, 166

aciculatus (Onthophagus) ... i., 180, 254

aciculatus (Scaptobius) ii., 542, 545

Acrothyrea ii., 689

Actinophonts i., 23

aculeatus (Trox) i., 455, 461

acutus (Onthophagus) ii., 617

adamastor (Sceliages) L, 63

Adoretini ii., 564. 51 ■">

Adoretus i., 565,655

adsequa (Ochodseus) ii., 649

adspersipennis(Phalops)i., 267, 268, ii. ,625

adspersus (Asthenopholis) ii., 287

adspersus (Heterochelus) ... i., 713, 734

adspersus (Oonotus) i., 6

adustus (Aphodius) i., 379, 407

advena (Ablabera) ii., 86

-ffigosthetha ii., 118, 122

reneieollis (Leucocelis) ii., 477, 481

senescens (Gymnopleurus) ii., .V>7

seneus (Epirinus) i., 90. !»:;

teneus (Trochalus) ii.. t',."i

seneus (Ablaberoides) ii., 59, 61

sepytus (Trichoplus) ii., 704

sequatus (Onthophagus) i., 175, 205

eequepubens (Onthophagus) ii., 574

rorarius (Onitis) i., 120, 127

<rrea (Anoniala) i., 591

cerifera (Micrelaphinis) ii., 340

aeruginosus (Onitis) i., 121, 136

aeruginosas (Onthophagus) ii,

eeruginosus (Scarabasus) i

aasculapius (Pachysoiua) i., 77, 78

affinis (Schizonycha) ii., 198, 233

africana (Isandula) ii., 411

africana (Schizonycha) ii., 231

africanus (Oniticellus) i., 162, 165

agis (Trichoplus) ii., 705

Agenius ii., 296, 300

agynsibanus (Ccenochilus) ii., 508, 511

Aipeiopsis ii., 120, 160

albiger (Microplidus) i., 877

albinigra (Rhabdotis) ii., 443

albipennis (Onthophagus) ii., 588

albipodex (Onthophagus) ii., 603

albolepidus (Adoretus) ii., 896

albomaculata (Mausoleopsis) ii., 487, 488
albomaculata (Tetragonorhina)... ii., 348
albomaculata (Ischnostoma) ... ii., 374
albomarginata (Ischnostoma) ... ii., 374

albonotata (Mazoe) ii., 420

albonotata (Pachnoda) ii., 687

albopicta (Rhabdotis) ii., 443

albopicta (Trichostetha) ... ii., 360, 362

albopunciata (Hypselogenia) ii., 334

albopunctata (Trichostetha) ii., 361

albosignata (Mausoleopsis) ii., 389

albosignatus (Goliathus) ii., 336

albosparsa (Leucocelis) i ii., 480

albostriata (Haplobrachium) ii., 274,276
alcyon (Onthophagus) i., 173, 193 ; ii., 622

alessandrini (Phoxomela) ii., 339

algoensis (Atrichia) ii., 433

algoensia (Mrlinesthes) ii., 404, 406

algoensis (Microplidus) ii., 877, 880

algoea (Schizonycha) ii., 199, 240

aliena (Gouna) i., s62

alienus (Scarabsus) i., 28, 39

Allogistotsarsa ii., 5, 59

Allokotarsa ii., 5, 36

alternans (Pachycnema) ... i., 674, 682

alternans (Pedaria) L, 279, 283

alternans (Platychelus) i., 821

alternate (Ptychodeethes) ii., 413

amabilis (Aphodius) i., 378, 404

amabilis (Korisaba) i.. 670

amdbilit (Onthophagus) i., 188

573
131

* Vol. i. stands for Vol. xii. of the Transactions, and Vol. ii. for Vol. xiii.

Index.

731

amabilis (Mausoleopsis) ... ii., 486, 487
amakosa (Pseudoprotaetia) ii., 466, 467

Amaurodes ii, 367, 388

Amazula ii., 370, 428

ambigua (Schizonycha) ii., 681

ambiguum (Bolboceras) ii., 637,643

ambiguus (Aphodius) i., 409

ambiguus (Drepanochirus) i., 117

ambiguus (Onthophagus) ... i., 177, 227

ambiguus (Rhizoplatys) i., 562

ambiguus (Scarabseus) ... i., 29, 43 ; ii.
amethystina (Leucocelis)... ii., 477, 479

Ammoecius i., 371, 379

amoena (Ablabera) ii., 78, 83

amcena (Leucocelis) ii., 477, 478

amoenulus (Heterochelus) ... i., 715, 740

amcenus (Aphodius) i., 375, 384

amcenus (Onthophagus) ii., 615

amyntor (Copris) i., 344, 353

Amphistoros ii., 420

amplicornis (Onthophagus) ii., 611

Anachalcos i., 22, 81

analis (Ablabera) ii , 86

analis (Ccenochilus) ii., 509, 515

analis (Heterochelus) i , 718, 752

Anaplasta ii-, 463

anatina (Eulepida) ii., 282, 284

Anatochilus ii., 492, 517

Anatonochilus ii., 493, 539

anceps (Tephrsea) ii., 464

anceus (Copris) i., 345, 356

anderseni (Catharsius) i., 326, 339

anderseni (Scarabaeus) i., 35

andersoni (Heliocopris) i., 313

angulatus (Trox) i., 463

angulicollis (Macromina) ii , 497

Anisochelus i., 869, 870

Anisonyx i., 629, 632; ii., 663

annectens (Autoserica) ii., 10, 12

Anodontopopillia ii , 661

Anomala i., 585, 586, ii., 656

Anomalini i-, 585

anomalipus (Aphodius) i.. 376, 393

anomalus (Caceobius) i., 276, ii., 567

anomalus (Heterochelus) ... i., 719, 757

anomalus (Platychelus) i., 804, 807

Anoplochilus ii., 327, 351

antenor (Heliocopris)

i., 312, 316; ii., 628,629

anthracinus (Figulus) ii., 548

antilope (Xiphodontus) i-. 8

apelles (Cheironitis) i-. 156

Aphengcecus i ■- 22, 91

Aphodiix.e i., 369; ii., 630, 694

Aphodius ... i., 369, 371, 374 ; ii., 694

Aphodobius i-, 369, 420

apicalis (Ablabera) n. 86

apicalis (Milichus) i., 274; ii., 624

apicalis (Popillia) i-, 613

apiciosus (Onthophagus) ii.. 585

A\ilasta ii-, 463

Apocnosis ii., 372, 4 37

Apogonia ii-- 289

appendiculatus (Sisyphus) L, 103

aquila (Microdoris) i., 894

Araeotanypus i.,899; ii.,648

arator (Heteronychus) L, 514, 521

arborescens (Pachnoda) ii.. 437

anas (Rhinocreta) ii., 330

Archon i., 510, 550

ardea (Phalops) i., 267

ardens (Aphodius) i., 416

arduus (Dicranocnemus) ii., 672

areola tux (Catharsius) i., 333

argenteus (Plagiochilus) ii., 520

aries (Pentodontoschema) i.. 526

armata (Coptorhina) i., 288, 294

armata (Hoplocnemis) i., 691, '''94

armata (Rhinocceta) ii-, 331

armaticeps (Ammcecius) ... i., 379, 410

armatus (Aphodius) i-, 402

armatus (Heterochelus) i., 714. 736

armiger (Cocnochilus) ii.. 510

armipes (Heterochelus) i., 711, 725

arthriticus (Heterochelus)... i., 720, 759

Arraphytarsa ii., 5, 39

asimilis (Onthophagus) i., 178, 236

asper (Epirinus) i.. 90, 92

aspera (Trox) i.. 278, 282

aspericeps (Onthophagus) ii., 616

asperrimus (Onthophagus) ii., 596

aspersa (Pseudoprotaetia) ii-. 466

asperulatus (Trox) i-, 468

asperulus (Onthophagus) ii., 602

Asthenopholis ii., 277, 284

Astoxenus ii., 492, 523

atavus (Bolboceras) ii., 646

aterrima (Trymodera) ii., 460, 467

ateuchoides (Mitrophorus) i . s-6

Ateuchus i-- 26

Athyreus •• ii-, 634

atomaria (Gymnoloma) i., 850, 853

atramentarius (Rhyssemus) i., 442, 443

atratus (Heteronychus) L., 524

atratus (Sisyphus) i., 101. 104

atratus (Trochalus) ii.. 47

atricapillus (Adoretus) L, 383

Atrichelaphinis ii., 326, 346, 684

Atrichia ii , 371, 432

atricollis (Melinesthes) ii., 104

atropos (Heliocopris) i., 313, 321

attalica (Leucocelis) ii., 180

Atys • »•. 183, 253

audens (Onitis) L, 120, 123

Augosoma l., 550

aulica (Rhabdotis) ii., it:;. Ill

aulicus (Onthophagus) '•• ls*

Aulonocnemis i-. 109,284

aurantiacus (Heterochelus) i., 714, 736
aurantiacus (Monochelus)... i-- 830, 836

auri iceps (Onthophagus) ii., 620

auricollis (Heterochelus) [., 770

auriculatus (Notocaulus) i., 441

auriculatus (Onthophagus)... i., IT-".. 212
auriventris (Hoplocnemis)... L, 691, 694

auspicata (Coptorhina) L, 287, 289

auspicata (Doleroscrica) _ ii.. 53. 55

auspicatum (Bolboceras) ... i., 480, 487

732

Index.

australis (Autoserica) Li. , 11, 13

Autoserica ii., 4, 9

axillaris (Kubousa) i., 800

axillaris (Onthophagus) L, 174,197 ; Li.,594

axillaris (Omocrates) i., 777, 781

aygulus (Onitis) i., 120, 130

B

bacchus (Circellium) i-, 62

badius (Oxyomus) i., 379, 342

badius (Trochalus) i., 43, 48

balteata (Gametis) ii , 423, 424

barbara (Neoserica) ii., 21

barbarossa (Sisyphus) i., 101

barbata (Autoserica) ii., 15

barbatula (Triehostetha) ii., 361

barbatum (Pachysomia) i., 78

barbertonensis (Elaphinis) ii., 447, 448

barda (Schizonycha) ii., 195,218

barkeri (Lipothyrea) ii., 472, 689

barkeri (Psilonyohua) ii., 266, 268

barratti ^Coptorhina) i., 288, 293

barthi (Eccoptocnemis) ii., 400

basalis (Platychelus) i., 804, 807

basalis (Peripopillia) i., 610

batesi (Bolboceras) i., 484

bechuana (Sparrmannia) ... ii., 174, 178

bechuauus (Adoretus) i., 568, 580

bechuanus (Chcetocanthus) ii., 649

berlingi (Tephrsea) ii., 464

beiranua (Adoretus) ii., 656

beiranus (Heteronychus) ii., 653

beiranus (Onthophagus) ii., 578

bella (Micrelaphinis) ii., 340

bella (Pachnoda) ii., 435, 438

bellula (Glaucoeelis) ii., 473

benigna (Autoserica) ii., 17

bennigseni (Pachysoma) ii., 556

Beriqua ii., 184, 185

besckei (Phsenomeris) ... i., 620 ; ii , 662

bias (Macroderes) i., 299

bioallosus (Onthophagus)

i., 180, 252; Li., 622

bicarinata (Trichiodera) ii , 157

bidarinulatus (Heliocopris) i., 317

bicavifrons (Onthophagus) ii., 598

bicolor (Scythropesthes) ii-, 102

bicolor (Triehostetha) ii.. 360, 362

biconifer (Onthophagus) ii-. 575

bidentatas (Heteroehelus) i., 770

bilateraUa (Khoina) i., * » * » 1

biUbergi (Hypselogenia) ii., 334

bilobus (Orphnus) i., 500, 501

bimaoulata (Genyodonta) ii., 409

bimaoulatus (Heterochilus) i., 714, 737

bimaculatus (Stenovalgua) ii.. 312

binodis (Onthophagus) ii., 576

binodoaus (Onthophagus) ii., 615

binodulosus (Aphodius) i.. 416

biuotatus (Heteroehelus) ... i., 716. 74">

binotatus (Macroplidus) L, 877, *;s

bipartitus (Ischnochelus) ... i , 722, 769
biplagiatus (Onthophagus)... i.. 177. 231

bipunctata (Popillia) i., 613

bipunctata (Psadacoptera) ii., 350

hip Hurt at ii s (Microtrachelus) ii.. 56

bixignata (Genyodonta) ii., 409

bisignatus (Heteroehelus) ... i., 718, 753

bituber (Onthophagus) ii., 594

bitubereulatus (Onthophagus) ... i., 236
bituberculatus (Rhizoplatys) i , 560. 561
hivittatus (Heteroehelus) ... i., 716, 744

Bizanus i., 698, 797

Blikana L, 869, 880

blandula (Achloa) ii., 167, 168

boas (Oryctes) i., 548, 549

Bodilut ii., 694

bohemani (Anomala) i., 588, ")'.)_'

bohemani (Aphodius) i.. 377, 396

bohemani (Clitopa) ii., 149, 150

bohemani (Onitis) i., 120, 124

bohemani (l'aracamenta) ... ii., 109, 110
bohemani i Scarabsus) ... i.,33; ii.,552

bohemani (Trochalus) ii., 43, 50

Bolboceras i., 477 ; ii., 636

bonellii (Scarabaaus) i., 30, 53

boops (Arasotanypus) i., 900

bootes (Copris) i., 345, 363

borni (Clinteroides) ii.. 481

boromensis (Gamenta) ii-, 103

boromensis (Triodonta) ii., 72

boschas (Phalops) i., 267, 272

boschimana (Schizonycha) ii., 193, 202
boschimana (Sparrmannia) ii., 174, 177

boschimanut (Phalops) i., 268, 625

bovinus (Onthophagus)

i., 175, 211; ii., 579

Brachagenius ii., 296, 307

brachiata (.Egostetha) ii., 122, 124

Brachylepis ii.. 277, 288

brachypina (Paohnoda) ii.. 441

brachypterus (Coptochirus) i., 427, 430

bradshawi (Catharsius) L, 325, 327

bradshawi (Onthophagus) i., 248

bradshawi (TsBniesthes) ii., 300

braunsi (Goenochilus) ii., 513

brenskei (Periclitopa) ii., L45

brevicornis (Onthophagus)

i,173,193;ii., 582

breviculus (Onthophagus) ii., 589

brevipes (Elassocanthon) ii., 693

brevis (Gnatholabis) i., 617

brevia (Goniaspidius) i.. 786

brevis (Leucocelis) ii., 4s4

brevis (Platychelus) i., 804,808

liicvitarsis (Aphodius) i.. 375,

breviusculus (Ablaberoides)... ii., 61, 71

brucei (Onthophagus) i., 180. 255

brunnea (Anomala) i., 606

brunneonigra (Apocnoais) ii., 458

bubalus fOnthophagus) i , 178, 218

bubalus (Temuorhynchus)... i., 535, 537

bugnioni (Atrichia) ii.. 1 3 ">

burchelli (Onthophagus) ii , 616

burchelli (Paohnoda) ii , 441

burkei (Cheirolaaia) ii., -'^l

burmeisteri (Glyptoglossa) ii., 188, 190

Index.

7:33

buxeipennis (Aphodius) i., 418

byrrhinus (Trochalus) ii., 4:-}, 47

Byrrhidium i., 84

Caccobius ... i., 109, 168, 275 ; ii., 565

Cacconemus i., 168 ; ii., 565, 566

Caccophiius i,108; ii., 566, 567

ccelatus (Copris) i.,301; ii., 628

ceelatus (Rhyssemus) L, 443, 445

caelatus (Gymnopleurus) i., 66, 72

caffer (Gymnopleurus) i., 66, 69

caffer (Onitis) i., 121, 139

eaffer (Platychelus) i., 805, 817

caffer (Scaptobius) ii., 542, 544

caffer (Scarabseus) i., 40

caffer (Sebasteos) i., 57, 60

caffer (Sisyphus) i., 106

caffer (Teuchsetes) i., 425

caffer (Tiberius) ii., 551

caffer (Trox) i., 462

caffra (Achloa) ii., 167, 169

caffra (Anomala) i., 590, 602

caffra (Hoplia) i., 893

caffra (Hyboserica) ii., 27, 28

caffra (Rhabdoids) ii. , 444

caffra (Schizonycha) ii., 201, 247

caffrarius (Onthophagus) ii., 604

caffrina (Camenta) ii., 93, 100

caffrum (Bolboceras) i., 479, 484

calaharicus (Catharsius) i., 341

calcarata (Nongoma) i., 609

calcarata (Pachycnema) L, 673, 678

calcaratus (Aphodius) i., 377, 399

calcaratus (Ccenochilus) ... ii., 508, 509
calcaratus (Monochelus) ... i., 830, 841

calcaratus (Sisyphus) i., 103

calliginosus (Bizanus) i., 797

Callistemonus i., 510, 543

Calometopus ii., 309

calva (Paracamenta) ii., 109, 112

calvipes (Melinesthes) ii., 407

Camenta ii., 75, 90

cameloides (Onthophagus) ii., 607

Camentoserica ii., 5, 33

Camillas (Catharsius) i., 334

canaliculatus (Omocrates)... L, 777, 780

canaliculatus (Scarabasus) i., 56, 897

capense (Bolboceras) i., 479, 484

capensis (Aphodius) i,416

capensis (Copris) i., 345, 357

capensis (Scaptobius) ii , 542

capensis (Trichostetha) ii , 360, 361

capensis (Xiphodontus) i.. 8

capicola (Ablabera) ii., 78, 81

capicola (Adoretus) i., 566, 568

capicola (Bolboceras) ii., 636,637

capicola (Camenta) ii., 92, 95

capicola (Heterochelus) i., 718, 751

capicola (Macrophylla) ii., 127, 128

capicola (Ochodauis) i., 505

capicola (Pentodontoschema) i., 527, 528
capicola (Peritrichia) L, G42, 651

capicola (Pleuropterus) i., 448

capicola (Sparrmannia) ... ii., 171, 176

carbonaria (Doleroserica) ii., 50

carbonaria (Pachnoda) Li., 688

carbonaria (Schizonycha)... ii , 195, 215

carbonaria (Serica) ii., 73

carbonarius (Onthophagus)

i., 179, 244; ii.,580
carinatipennis (Rhyssemus) i., 44l!. 1 13

carinicollis (Elaphinis) ii., 44'.t

carinulatus (Ammcecius) ... i., 379, 411

cariosa (Clinteroides) ii., 461, 462

carmelita (Eudicella) ii., 390, 392

carmelita (Pachnoda) ii , 435

carneola (Neoserica) ii., 21

carneola (Niphetophora) ii., 150

carnifex (Porphyronota) ii., 452

cassius (Copris) i., 344, 351

castanea (Anomala) L, 590, 602

castanea (Camenta) ii , 92, 94

castanea (Cyclomera) ii., 141

castanea (Diplotropis) ii., 107, 108

castaneipennis (Heterochelus) ... i., 733
castaneipennis (Rhizoplatys) i., 560, 562
castaneus (Cacconemus) L, 262; ii., 566

castelnaui (Onitis) i., 119, 122

Catatonia ii., 289

Catharsius i., 110, 323 ; ii., 629

catta (Onthophagus) i., 181

cavatus (Caccobius) ii., 567

centaurus (Archon) i., 551

centralis (Aphodius) i., 417

cephalotes (Catharsius) i., 338

Cephnlotrichia ii., 172

Ceratogoiiia ii., 289

Ceratorrhini ii., 367. 381

cereris (Tulbaghia) ii., 89, DO

Cetonin.e i., 18 ; ii., 294, 691, 702

Cetonim ii., 295, 322

Cetoxites ii-, 366

Chaetocanthus i., 492, 495 ; ii., 648, 696

chalcea (Rhabdotis) ii., 445

chalcostomus (Onthophagus)

i., 521 ; ii., 573

Charadria ii., 467

Chasme i-, 621), 630

Cheirolasia ii-, 367, 386

Cheironitis i-, L08, 154; ii.,558

chiragricus (Heterochelus)... i., 719, 756

chirindana (Popillia) ii., 660

Chirinda ii-, 371, 454

Chiron '•, WS

Chironin.e i-, 473

chloris (Gymnopleurus) i., 66, 72

chloris (Trochalus) ii., 45

chloe (Eudicella) ii-. 392

Chtonobius ii., 526

cicatricosa (Pedaria) L., 278, 280

cicatricosa (Odontorrhina) ii.. 365

cicatricosus (Scarab»us) i., 33

cicatrix (Platychelus) L., 804, 808

ciliata (.Egostetha) ii., 122, 123

cincta (Pachnoda) ii., 435, 141

cincticollis (Pseudoclinteria) ii., 431, 432

734

Index.

eincticollis (Stethodesrna) ii., 429

cinctipennis (Onthophagus) ii., 576

cinerascens (Aphodius) i., 375, 386

cinerascem (Atrichelaphinis) ... ii., 346

cineniceus (Onthophagus) ii., 584

cinerea (Peritrichia) i., 648

cinereobulosa (Atrichelaphinisi... ii., 34(1

cinereus (Platychelus) i., 815

dnnamoneut (Anoplochilus) ii., 356

Circellium i., 22, 01

circumscripta (Pachnoda) ii., 438

cireumdatus (Aphodius) i., 415

citima (Schizonycha) ... ii., 196, 225, 702

citrinus (Heterochelus) i., 713, 731

Cladognathus i., 2, 3

clathratus (Pseudosyrichthus) ... i., 556
Claudius (Heteronychus) ... i., 513, 515

clavus (Agenius) ii., 301, 302

clericus (ScarabsBus) i., 30, 54

Clinteroides ii., 459, 461

Clitopa ii., 119, 167,698

Clydonophorufi ii., 499

clypeata (Ablabera) ii.. 7s

clypeata (Achelyna) ii., 154

clypeata (Allokotarsa) ii., 37

clypeata (Anomala) i., 589, 596

clypeatus (Aphengcecus) L, 98

clypeatus (Temnorhynchus) L, 535, 536
coccineus (Heterochelus) ... i., 715, 741

Coega L, 798, 823

Coelorrhina ii., 368, 395

Ccenochilus ii., 492, 507

cognata (Macroma) Li., 494, 495

cognata (Peritrichia) i., 642, 649

cognatus (Ablaberoides) ii., 60, 66

latus (Coptochirus) i., 427, 128

cognatus (ScarabsBus) i., 28, 38

collaris (Idutywa) i.. 824

<-()l[<irix (Onthophagus) i., 186

collaris (Micrelaphinis) ii., 344

collaris (Tephrsea) ii.. L64

collusor (Suntemnoschiza) ii., 262

colluta (Anomala) L, 589, 597

Colobopterus i., 371. 374

Colophon i., 2

colorata (Pachnoda) ii., i 12

colossus iHeliocopris) ii., 628

columella (Onthophagus)

i . IT'.i. 213 ; ii , 57ii

comosa (Schizonycha) ii., 193, 206

comosus (Blikana) i., 881

comosus (Epirinus) i.. 90, 94

comosus (Heterochelus) 1., 717, 750

compransor (Placodidus) ii., 5m;

Comythovalgus ii., 309, 310, 683

concava (Hypselogenia) ii., 334

concinnus (Heterochelus) ... L, 711, 726

concolor (Aphodius) i., 419

'■"ii ■ irdans | Lutoserica) ii., 11, 14

confertus (Onthophagus) ii., 586

confinia (Sei Lea) ii.. 19

confinia (Schizonycha) ii.. 201, 21'.t

conformis Pedarial i. 279, 283

conformis (PlatydheluB) i , 805, sl 1

confimus (Copris) i., 353

corifusus (Onitis) i., 121, 138

Congella i., 870, 887

congenitus (l'halops) i., 267, 270 ; ii.,625

Coniopholis ii., 185, 271

connatus (Heterochelusi i., 720, 762

connexus (Aphodius) i., 374, 3*4

connexus (Drepanocanthus) i., 432, 434

connexus (Gymnopleurus) i., 66

Conostethus ii., 436, 442

consanguineus (Heterochelus) i. ,712, 727

consanguineus (Trox) i., 455, 4tiij

consimilis (Aphodius) i., 376, 391

consobrinus (Onthophagus)

i.. 259; ii., 580

consocium (Bolboceras) i., 480, 488

consocius (Gymnopleurus) i., 66, 68

consors (Araaotanypus) ii., 648

consors (Heterochelus) i., 712, 728

conspersus (Lissogenius) ii., 526

conspicua (Paracamenta)... ii., 109, 110

eonspurcata (Pegylis) ii., 281

constrata (Schizonycha) ... ii , 196, 221

consueta (Sehizorrhina) ii., 700

continens (Schizonycha) ... ii., 195, 214
contractu (Hyboschema) ... i., 531, 532

contractus (Copris) i. , 344, 352

contractus (Heterochelus)... i., 712, 728

controversa (Gametis) ii., 424

controversus (Heterochelus) i., 721, 765

convalescent i Scai-ab»2us) i., 42

convexifrons (Caccobius) ii . 569

convexus (Anachalcos) L, 82

convexus (Onthophagus) ii., 616

convexus (Scarabseus) i.. 30, 45

copridoides (Bolboceras) ii., 644

Cor-uix.*: i., 21; ii., 552

Copkini i., 108; ii.,552, 693

Copris L, 110, 346; ii., 629

Coptochirus i., 370, 426

Coptorrhina L., 109,286; Li., 627

coptorrhinodes (Onthophagus) i., 17*, 237

coracinus (Gymnopleurus i i.. 71

cordata (Ischnostoma) ii., 374

oordata (Pachnoda) ii.. 435, 13S

cordicollis (Trichoplusi ii., 531, 533

coriacea (Camenta) ii.. 93, 97

coriacea (Sebakwe) ii.. 264

COrniculatUS (Onthophagus)

i.. L76, 222; ii.,590
corniculatus (Pseudocyphonistes) i., 558

cornifidns (Copris) i., 345, 360

oorniger (Plagiochilus) ii., 518, 521

ctirnitn rn (HhinocsBta) ii., 331

cornuta ( Khinocteta) ii., 330, 331

cornutus (Orsilochus) i.. '>'■>'■'•

coronatua (Onthophagus) ii.. 601

corpulenta (PychnoBChema) i., 540

corrosa (Schizonycha) ii., 252

corvinus (Heteronychus) i., 518

oorydon (Pyohnoschema) ... i., 540, 54]

Corythoderus i .. 370. 449

Cosmiophsena ii., 370, 425

costata (Pedaria) i., 278, 280

Index.

735

costicollis (Psilonychus) ii., '270

costipennis (Haplobrachium) ii., 274, 27")

costipennis (Onthophagus) i., 196

costipennis (Oxyomus) i., 380, 414

crassipes (Diaplochelus) i., 79-")

crassipes (Hoplocnemis) ... i., 692, 696

crassipes (Paehycnema) i., 683

crassus (Ablaberoides) ii., 59, 63

crassus (Hybosorus) i., 493, 494

crenatus (Onitis) i., 120, 132

Chremastochilides ii., 490

cretus (Onthophagus) L, 174, 199; ii.,584

cribratus (Onitis) L, 121, 135

cribratus (Syrichthpdontus) i., 554

cribripennis (Onthophagus) ii., 595

cribrosus (Adoretus) i., 568, 579

cricetus (Heteronychus) i., 521

criniger (Onthophagus) ii., 594

crinita (Schizonycha) ii., 193, 204

erinitus (Anisonyx) i., 635

crin it us (Onthophagus) ii., 594

crispatus (Sisyphus) i., 897

cristaticeps (Heterochelus) ii., 669

cristatum (Pachysoma) i., 78

crcesulus (Onthophagus) ... i., 179, 245
crucifer (Onthophagus) i., 176, 216 ; ii., 609

cruentatus (Onthophagus) i., 260

cruentus (Aphodius) i., 415

cruentus (Genuchus) ii., 528

cuneata (Pachnoda) ii., 439, 687

cuprascens (Pedaria) i., 282

cupreus (Adoretus) i., 583

eupreus (Gymnopleurus) i., 67, 74 ; ii., 557

cupreus (Onitis) i., 128, 136

cupreus (Scarabseus) i., 28, 31

cupricollis (Leucocelis) ii., 477, 481

cupricollis (Onthophagus) ... i., 179, 246

curtisi (Gametis) ii., 424

curtipennis (Heteronychus) i., 518

curtula (Apogonia) ii., 290, 291

curtula (Doleroserica) ii., 53

curtulus (Adoretus) i., 582

curvicornis (Copris) i., 360

curvifrons (Parapinotus) i., 309

curvipes (Onitis) i., 121, 143

cuspidata (Ischnostoma) ii., 374

cyanea (Phsenomeris) i. , 620

cyanea (Bhabdotis) ii., 444

cyaneoniger (Onthophagus) ii., 602

Cyclomera ii., 119, 137

cylindrica (Pedaria) i., 278, 281

cylindricus (Omocrates) i., 777, 779

Cylichnus i., 870, 883

Cymophorus ii., 492, 499

Cyphonistes i., 510, 546

Cyrtothyrea ii., 476

D

Damara ii., 677

damara (Anomala) i. , 588, 593

damara (Athyreus) ii., 636

damarse (Anodontopillia) ii., 660

damarensis (Cheironitis) ii., 559

damarina (Arraphytarsa) ii , 39

damarina (Leucolis) ii., 703

damarina (Schizonycha) ii.. 703

damarinuin (Bblboceras) ... i., 4 7 '. > , isi

damarinus (Aphodius) ii., 695

daniarinus (Phaeocroides) ii., 647

damarus (Trochalus) ii., 42, 44

damarinus (Trox) L, 456, 469

dasypus (Asthenopholis) ii., 287

dealbatus (Genuchus) ii., 528

debilis (Adoretus) ii., 655

debilis (Clitopa) ii., 698

debilis (Schizonycha) ii., 200, 248

debilis (Spathoschiza) ii.. 263

decedens (Ablaberoides) ii., 60, 70

decedens (Onthophagus) ii , 590

deceptor (Onitis) i., 122, 145

deceptor (Pentodontoschema) i., 527. 530

deceptor (Stenoserica) ii., 24, 25

decipiens (Aphodius) i., 370, 380

decipiens (Onthophagus)

i., 177, 225; ii., 589

declivicollis (Onthophagus) ii., 583

decora (Chasnie) i., 630

decora (Eriesthis) L, 664, 669

decorus (Psilonychus) ii., 268

decoratus (Adoretus) i., 574

dedecor (Onthophagus)... i., 264; ii., 573

defector (Heterochelus) ii., 664

dejeani (Aphodius) i., 419

dejeani (Stethodesma) ii., 429

delagoa (Anomala) i., 590, 605

delagoana (Autoserica) ii., 18

delagoana (Stenoserica) ii., 24, 25

delagoensis (Cyclomera) ... ii., 139, 140

delagoensis (Micrelaphinis) ii., 342

delagorguei (Gymnopleurus) i., 71

delegorguei (Nigidius) i., 10

delicatula (Ablabera) ii., 698

delicatula (Achloa) ii., 167, 168

Delopleurus i., 109, 295

densegranosus (Phalops) ii., 625

denticeps (Dichelus) i , 700, 705

denticolle (Pachysoma) i., 77, 80

denticulatus (Trox) i., 456, 468

dentifrons (Heterochelus) i., 746

dentilabris (Xinidium) i., 297

dentinus (Ammcecius) i., 379, 410

dentinum (Odontoloma) i., 87,88

dentipes (Dichelus) L, 699, 700

deplanatus (Epiriuus) i., 93

deplanatus (Lorditomseus) i., 437

depressus (Omocrates) i., 778, 782

depressus (Onthophagus) ii., 611

derbyana (Dicranorrhina) Li., 382

deridens (Psilonychus) ii., 266, 267

deterrens (Onthophagus) ... i., 175, 206

detritus (Heterochelus) i., 718, 754

deussi (Plresiorrhina) ii., 417

deyrollei (Onthophagus) ii., 622

dewitzi (Parapinotus) L, 309

Diaclaspus ii., 137

Diaglyptus ii., 565, 571

Diaphoroserica ii., 4, 26

736

Index.

Diaplochelus L, 698, 794

Diastellopalpus .. i., 109, 2(35 ; Li., 626
Dicranocnemus ... i., 697, 787 ; ii., 671

Dicranorrhyna ii.. 367, 382

Dichelus L, 697, 698

dichroa (Tephrsea) Li., 464

dichropus (.Lepitrix) i., 656, 660

dilloni (Heliocopiis) i., 312, 315

dimidiata (Peritrichia) i., 642, 650

dimidiatus (Platychelus) ... i., 804. 806

dimidiatus (Tragiscus) i. , 159

Diploa ii., 314, 316,687

Diplceida ii., 314, 317

Diplognatha ii., 371, 456

DlPLOGNATHH ii., 371, 450

Diplotaxtdes ii., 289

Diplotropis ii., 75, 107

discedens (Anomala) ii., G59

Dischista ii., 434

discoidea (Gametis) ii., 423

discoidalus (Aphodius) i., 378, 400

discolor (Lcucncclisj ii., 482, 484

olor (Onthophagus) ii . 598

discolor (Pachnoda) ii., 441

discolor (Platychelus) i., 805, 81 1

Discopeltis ii., 370, 426

discrepans [Onthophagus)

i., 179, 242; ii., 567
discrepans (Sparrmanniai... ii., 174, 178
discretus (Onthophagus)... i., 179, 239

dispar (Cyclomera) ii., 138, 139

dispar (Drepanocerus) i., 113

dispar (Glyptoglossa) ii., 1*7

dispar (Onitis) i., 121, 141

dispar (Onthophagus) i., 177, '229 ; ii.. 596

dispar (Platychelus) i., 805. 819

disparile (Bolboceras) ii., 637, 640

disparilis (Adoretus) L, 580

disputabilis (Schizonycha) Li, 194, 209
dissensa (Schizonycha) ... ii-. 197, 227

disseptus (Catharsius) i., 325. 330

dissidi ii- (Adoretus) i.. 568, 578

disBidens (Heterochelus) ... L, 721, 766
dissidens (Heterooychus) ... i.. 515, 523
dissimLiis (Schizonycha) ... ii., 196, 220

anti (Anomala) i.. 608

distincta (Kraseopbylla) ii.. 135

distincta (Peritrichia) i.. 651

distincta (Sparrmannia) ... ii.. 174, 17s
distinguenda (Autoserica) ... ii.. 11, 15

dita (Anomala) i., 589, 601

dita (Peritrichia) i-, 642, 647

ditissima (Peritrichia) L., 642, 646

ditissima (Ph8Bnomeri6) ii., 662

ditissimus (Ablaberoides) ... ii.. 59, 62

ditus (Onisonyx) i-, 633, 635

.litus i Aphodius) i-, 375. 388

ditus (Heterochelus) i-, 720, 760

ditus (Onthi phajius) i., 175. 207

divergens (Nigidius) Li., 547

diverse (Pentodontoschema) i.. 527,529
diversa i Pychnoschema) ... L., 540, 542

diversus (Plagiochilus) Li., 519

dives (Onthophagus) ii., 622

divulsa (Schizonycha) ii., 201, 249

Doleroser.ca ii.. 633

Dolerotarsa ii.. 5, 38

dolosus (Aphodius) i., 377, 3'.I9

dorsata (Anomala) i., 590, 603

dorsalis (Aphodius) i., 378. 406

dorsuale (Bolboceias) i., 490

dregei (Phalops) i.,268; ii., 625

Drepanocanthus i., 370, 431

Drepanocerus i., 108, 110

Drepanochirus i., 108, 117

Drepanognathus i, 506

dubiosa (Eriesthis) i., 664, 667

dubiosula (Periclitopa) ii., 142, 144

dubiosus (Aphodius) i., 377, 398

dubius (Catharsius) i., 325, 334

dubius (Macroderes) i., 299, 301

dubius (Onthophagus) ii.. 596

Dulcinea ii., 326, 345, 684

dulcinea (Gametis) ii., 121

duponti (Psilonychus) ii.. 266, 269

durbana (Schizonycha) ... ii., 106, 219

duvirien (Trymodera) ii., 467

Dyathermua ii., 351

DvxAsnx.i: i., 507 ; ii. . 652

dysentericu (Leucocelis) ii., 479

dyspilophoru ii.,416

E

ebenicolor (Onthophagus i ii., 600

ebenus (Onthophagus) i., 174, 205, ii.. 606

eberras (Scarabffius)- i., 31, 47

Eccoptocnemis ii.. 368, 307

echinaticeps (Achloa) ii.. 1 « ■ T . 168

eckloni (Psilonychus) Ii.. 266, 267

effeta (Schizorrhina) ii , 700

effetus (Aphodius) Li., 694

effetus (Phseocrous) ii.. 646

egens (Heterochelus) i., 714, 740

egens (Schizonycha) ii.. 108, 235

egenus (Heterochelus) L, 715. 741

egregia (Amazula) ii.. 428

gia (Genyodonta) ii.. 109

egregius (Oniticellus) i., 161

Elaphinis ii., 371, 336, 684

Elassocanthon ii.. 691

elegans (Agenius) ii.. 302

elegans (Kubousa) i.. 800, 802

elegans (Nanaga) i.. ^s.'(

elegans (Schizonycha) ii., 200. 242

elegans (Heterochelus) i., 717, 747

elegantulus (Monochelus) ... i , 830. 840

eUzabethaa (Anisonyx) i., 633, 636

elongatus (Omocrates) i.. 777. 780

elphenor (Copris) L., 345, 357

Elpidus ii.. 314, 318

emarginaticeps (Ablabera) ii . 7s

emarginatuB (Coenochilus) ii., 516

emarginatus (Coptochirus)... i. 127, 128

emarginicollis (Macroma) ii., 405

emendatrix (Dolerotarsa) ii., 88

emeritus (Ablaberoides) Li., 60, 64

emeritus (Aphodius) L, 374. 382

Index.

737

emeritus (Ischnoehelus) ... i., 722, 769
emeritus (Onthophagus) ... i., 176, 216

Encyophanes L, 802

Ent'yposis ii., 184, 259

Epilissus i., 22, 95

Epirinus i., 22, 39 ; ii., 557

erastus (Bolboceras) ii., 645

erichsoni (Periclitopa) ii., 145

Eriesthis i., 629, 662

Eriopeltastes ii., 307

Erythroderma ii., 461, 476

eryihropus (Ischnostoma) ii., 374

eryx (Heliocopris) i., 313, 322

estcourtianus (Heterochelus) i., 719, 758

Etiserica ii., 4, 23

exacerbans (Schizonycha)... ii., 195, 213

exarata (Harmogaster) i., 422

exasperans (Adoretus) i., 567, 577

exasperans (Bolboceras) ... ii., 637, 641
exasperans (Schizonycha)... ii., 194, 211

exasperans (Trochalus) ii., 43, 46

excavatus (Copris) L, 345, 364

excentrus (Platychelus) i., 805, 818

excisus (Coptochirus) L, 427, 430

excultus (Aphodius) ii., 632

exigua (Anomala) ii.,657

exiguus (Catharsius) i., 326, 340

exiguus (Onthophagus) i., 175, 215, ii., 60S

exilis (Melinesthes) ii., 404, 405

eximius (Drepanocanthus)... i., 432, 433

exitialis (Adoretus) ii. , 655

exitialis (Anomala) i., 588, 594

exoleta (Anomala) i., 588, 593

expansus (Dichelus) L, 699, 701

expansus (Platychelus) i., 804, 809

Eucylophylla ii., 118, 131

Eudicella ii., 367, 390, 685

Eulepida ii., 277, 282

Eumelosomus ii., 549

eupavypha (Pachnoda) ii., 687

Eupyga i., 619

eupyga (Popillia) i., 896

euplynes (Phalops) i., 268, ii., 625

Euronycha ii., 4, 30

euthalia ii., 390

evanidus (Copris) i., 350; ii., 630

evanidus (Psammobius) i, 446

fabricii (Onitis) i., 121, 140

fahrcei (Ablaberoides) ii., 60, 65

fallaciosus (Adoretus) i., 566, 569

fallax (Aphodius) i., 417

fallax(Atys) ii., 253, 257

fallax (Eriesthis) i., 664, 6,66

farinosa (Pachycnemida) i., 689

fartula (Autoserica) ii., 10, 12

fartula (Schizonycha) ii., 193, 206

fasciatipennis (Pleophylla) ii., 8

fasciatus (Anisonyx) i., 640

fascicularis (Trichostetha) ii., 360

fascicularis (Trox) i., 454, 457

fasciculatus (Comythovalgus) ... ii., 311

fascieulatus (SisyphuB) i., 101, 106

fasciicollis (Nepiunides) ii., 394

fasta (Autoserica) ii., 1!)

fastiditua (Drepanocerus) ... i , 111, 113
fastiditus (Gymnopleurus) ... i., 66, 70

fatidica (Schizonycha) ii., 200, 246

faunus (Heliocopris) i., 313, 319

faunus (Temnorhynchus) ... i., 535, 538

faustum (Bolboceras) ii., 636, 639

feirana (Schizonycha) ii., 699

femoralis (Heterochelus) ... i., 712. 730

femoralis (Pachylomera) i., 26

femorata (Gymnoloma) i., 849, 850

ferruginea (Pleophylla) ii., 8

ferrugineus (Aphodius) i., 396

ferrugineus (Onthophagus)

i., 179, 247; ii., 566

ferrugineus (Psilonychus) ii., 267

ferrugineus (Trochalus) ii., 50

fervida (Ramoutsa) ii., 677

festa (Doleroserica) ii., 53,55

f estiva (Outeniqua) i., 860

fidius (Copris) i., 361

Figulus ii., 548

figuratus (Anoplochilus) ... ii., 352, 356

fimetarius (Onthophagus) ii., 601

fimbriata (Pachnoda) ii., 688

fisheri (Periclitopa) ii. , 142

flagellatus (Epirinus) i., 96

flamrnea (Gametis) ii., 423

rlaveolus (Adoretus) i., 568, 579

flavicornis (Pleophylla) ii., 8

flavicornis (Scarabreus) i., 28, 37

fiavida (Nedymoserica) ii., 20

tlavimanus (Dichelus) i., 707

fiavimargo (Onthophagus) ii., 579

flavipennis (Ablaberoides) ... ii., 60. 69

fiavipennis (Melinesthes) ii., 407

flavipennis (Omocrates) i., 779

flavipennis (Stripsipher) ii., 305

flavipennis (Trichinopus) ii., 164

flaviventris (Pachnoda) ii. , 436

flavocinctus (Phalops) i., 267, 271

flavofasciata(Sparrmannia) ii., 174, 178
flavolimbatus (Onthophagus)

i., 175, 211, ii., 589
flavolineata (Pachycnema) i., 673, 679

flavolimbata (Genyodonta) ii., 409

fodiens (Onitis) i., 145

forcipata (Coptorrhina) ii., 627

forcipatus (Heterochelus) ... i., 716, 746

formosus (Monochelus) i., 830, 835

formosus (Oniticellus)... i., 164; ii., 693

fornicatus (Macroderes) i., 303

fortuitus (Sisyphus) i., 101, 103

fortuitum (Bolboceras) i., 479, 482

fossicollis (Onthophagus) ii.. 605

foveolatus (Trox) i., 456, 170

franki (Homalothyrea) ii., 485

fraternus (Heterochelus) ... i., 718, 752

fraudator (Adoretus) i , 567, 577

fraudigera (Schizonycha) ... ii., 197, 231
fraudulenta (Pentodontoschema)

i., 527, 529

738

Index.

fraudulent!! (Schizonycha) ii., 197, '226

fraudulentus (Adoretus) i., 567, 575

fraudulentus (Heterochelus) i., 721, 764

fremiti! il'achnoda) ii., 435

fritsehi iHaematonotusI ii., 337

fritschi (Onthophagus) ii., 609

fritschi (Scarabreus) i., 28, 38

frivaldszkyi (Glaresis) ii., 697

frontalis (Eudicella) ii., 685

fugitivus (Aphodius) i., 378, 405

fugitivus (Onthophagus) ... i., 177, 235

fuligineus (Hoplosternus) ii., 506

fuliginosa (Hoplocnemis) ... i., 692, 695

fuliginosus (Caccobius) ii., 568

fulgidus (Onitis) i., 120, 128

fulgidus (Trochalus) ii., 43, 49

fulvovittis (Microplidus) ii., 674

funebris (Monochelus) i., 832, 847

funebris (Scarabaeus) i , 28, 41

fungicola (Onthophagus) ii., 612

furcata (Ccelorrhina) ii., 396

furcifer (Drepanocerus) i.,112

furcifer (Onthophagus) i., 180, 251

furfurosa (Polystalactica) ... ii., 469, 470
furoninua (Heterochelus) ... I., 712, 727

furva (Schizonycha) ii., 200, 242

furvata (Elaphinis) ii., 447

fuscipennis (Ablabera) ii., 84

fuscipes (Anomala) i., 590, 604

fuscipes (Lepitrix) i., 657

fusciventris (Sparrmannia) ii., 174, 178

fuscorubra (Trichostetha) ii., 361

fusculus (Adoretus) i., 567, 578

G

gagatea (Diplognatha) ii., 437

galenses (Scarabaaus) i., 57, 58

Gametis ii., 370, 423

Gamka ii., 119, 159, 675

Gariep ii.,360, 378

gariepina (Peritrichia) ii., 142,143

gariepina (Ehinocceta) ii., 331

gariepina (Xiphoscelis) ii.. 328

gaznlla (Onthophagus) i., 172, 181

gemmatus (Onthophagus)

i., 180,256, ii.. 629

gemmeus (Anisonyx) i., 633, 638

gemmeus (Onthophagus) i., 188

genialia (Aphodius) i., 376, 390

gentilis (Doleroserica) ii., 5:>. •"> 1

gentilis (Kubousa) i., 800, 801

gentilis (Lepitrix) i., 655, 659

gentilia (Platychelus) i., 804, so;

Genuchus ii.. 493, 527

Genyodonta ii., 368, 409

upina 1 1 1> pselogenia) ii., 33 l

iuiin i i., 477 ; ii., 634

germanus (Bhyssemus) L, 442, 444

germari (Anoplochilus) ii., 352,353

gibber (Onthophagus) ii., 607

gibbiramus (Onthophagus) ii., 618

[HeliocoprisJ i.. 312, 313

gigas Onitis i. 120, L25

giraffa (Onthophagus) i., 173, 194 ; ii., 595
glaber (Onthophagus) i., 178, 239 ; ii. 580
glaberrimuB (Monochelus) ... i., 829, 832
glaberrimus (Phymatopteryx) ... ii., 198

glabrata (Coelorrhina) ii., 396

glabratus (Anatonohilus) ii.. 517

glabripennis (Platychelus)... i., 805, sl6

Glaresis ii., 697

Glaucocelis ii., 460, 472

globator (Schizonycha) ii., 193, 204

globosus (Anoplochilus) ... ii., 352, 357

globulipennis (Copris) i., 345, 359

globulifornii- Hyboserica) ii., 27

Glyptoglossa...' ii.. 184, 186

Gnathocera ii., 370, 421

Gnathocerida ii., 370, 128

Gnatholabis i., 585. 616, ii., 661

(Joi.iatiiitks ii., 325

Goliathus ii., 326, 335

gonager (Heterochelus) i.. 713. 731

gonager (Heterochelus) i., 733; ii., 698

gonaqua (Schizonycha) ii., 195, 212

gonaqua (Sparrmannia) ... ii., 174, 178

Goniaspidius L, 697, 776, 785

Goraqua ii., 327, 358

goryi (Hypselogenia) ii. , 334

goryi (Sisyphus) i., 101, 106

Gouna i., 799, 861

gracilicornis (Onthophagus) i., 187

gracilis (Aphodiiis) i., 375. 387

gracilis (Copris) i, 350; ii., 630

gracilis (Inanda) i., 873. 874

gracilis (Micrelaphinis) ii-. 342

gracilis (Monochelus) i., 832, 843

gracilis (Psilonychus) ii., 266, 268

grandis (Agenius) ii., 302

grandyi (Ccelorrhina) ii-, 396

granulatus (Aphodius) i., 370. 391

granulatus [Epirinus] i-. 91

granulifera (Coptorrhina) i., 294

granulifer (Onthophagus) ii . 606

granulum (Onthophagus) ii., 572

granum (Onthophagus) ii.. 572

graphicus (Onthophagus) i., 264, ii., 591

gratula (Ablabera) ii-. 78, 82

gratula (Peritrichia) i., 641, 643

grains (Epirinus) i., 90, 93

gratus (Monochelus] L, 829, 833

gravidula (Ablabera] ii., 78, 82

gravidus (Platychelus) i., 804, nil

gravidus (Trox) i., 456, 470

gravis (Chiron) i., 474, 475

griseus (Heterochelus) ii., 669

grohndali (Psilonychus) ... ii., 267, 270

Gryphonica ii., 4, 29

guillemi (Onthophagus) ii-, 602

guttata (Eriesthis) i-, 644, 607

guttata (Leucocelis) ii. , 480

guttata (Peritrichia) L, 641, 645

guttatus (Onthophagus) i.. 226

(iVMMTIl ii.. 370

Gynmoloma i.. 799, 848

Gymnopleurus i.,22,64; ii., 557

Gyronotus i., 22, 84

Index.

739

H

Haematonotus ii., 326, 327

hamadryas (Heliocopris) ... i., 313, 318

hamifer (Heliocopris) i., 313, 322

Haplobrachium ii., 273

Harmodactylus i., 369,370

hamula (Melinesthes) ii., 404, 407

Harraogaster i., 370, 421

haroldi (Onthophagus) i., 222

fun-pay us (Catharsius) i., 335

Harpina i., 869, 881

hausseri (Brachylepis) ii., 288

haworthi (Heteroclita) ii., 380

hebes (Bolboceras) ii., 636, 640

hebraea (Porphyronota) ii. , 453

Heliocopris i., 110, 310; ii. , 628

helophoroides (Sybax) i. , 440

helvola (Achloa) ii., 167

hemisphcericus (Circellium) i., 62

hereroensis (Eudicella) ii., 390

heros (Catharsius) i., 325, 329

herscheli (Pleesiorrhina) ii., 417

herus (Onthophagus) i., 172, 181; ii., 563

hessi (Sisyphus) i., 103

Heterochelides i., 697

Heterochelus i., 697, 709 ; ii., 664

Heterorhhinii ii., 368, 399

Heteroclita ii., 366, 379

heteroclita (Ischnostoma) ii., 374

Heteroclitopus ... i., 110, 305 ; ii., 628
Heteronychus ... i., 509, 511 ; ii., 052

Heteroplia i., 587

hilaris (Anisochelus) i., 871, 872

hilaris (Anisonyx) i., 633, 637

hilaris (Cyrnophorus) ii., 502

hilaris (Epirinus) i., 90, 94

hilaris (Lepitrix) L, 655, 657

hilaris (Monochelus) ii. , 673

hildebrandti (Niphetophora) ... ii., 450

hirsuta (Ablabera) ii., 77, 79

hirsuta (zEipeiopsis) ii., 161

hirsuta (Gnatholabis) ii., 661

hirsuta (Odontorrhina) ii., 364

hirsuta (Trichostetha) ii., 361

hirsutus ((Edanomerus) ii., 170

hirta (Clinteroides) ii., 462

hirta (Gnathocerida) ii., 422

hirtu (Peritrichia) i., 651

hirticeps (Aphodius) L, 379, 408

hirticollis (Ablabera) ii., 77, 80

hirticollis (iEipeopsis) ii., 161, 162

hirtipes (Peritrichia) i., 641, 646

hirtus (Sisyphus) i., 106

hispida (Odontorrhina) ii., 364

hisjiido-lugubris (Rhinocceta) ... ii., 331
histerinus (Caccobius) ... i., 276; ii., 567

histrio (Cheirolasia) ii., 387

hippias (Sceliages) i., 63, 64

hippocrates (Pachysoma) i., 77, 78

hoernatiticus (Aphodius) i., 375, 389

hoemorrhoidalis (Leucocelis) ii., 477, 479

hopci (Cheirolasia) ii., 387

hopei (Elpidus) ii., 319

Holisonycha ii., 184, 260

holosericeus (Dichelus) i., 699, 704

holubi (Aphodius) i., 374, 381

holubi (Discopeltis) ii., 427

Homaeomorphus i., 510, 544

Homalothyrea ii., 461, 485, 703

hopeiana (Ablabera) ii., 78, 84

Hoplia i., 870, 891

Hor-LiriES i., 869

Hopliin/e i.,624; ii., 66:5

Hopliini i., 697

hoplioides (Adoretus) i., 566, 571

hoplioides (Platychelus) i., 805, 817

Hoplocnemis i., 629, 690 ; ii., 663

Hoplopus i., 587

Hoploscelis i.,690

Hoplostomus ii., 492, 506

hoplostomus (Cheironitis) i., 155

horsfieldi (Stripsipher) ii., 305

horridus (Trox) i., 455, 460

hornimani (Coelorrhina) ii., 396

hospes (Coenochilus) ii., 512

hospes (Heterochelus) i., 714, 739

hottentota (Ablabera) ii., 77, 79

hottentota (Trichostetha) ii., 361

hottentorum (Scarabasus) i., 31, 44

hottentotus (Genuchus) ii., 528

hottentotus (Platychelus) ... i., 805,813

hottentotus (Scarabseus) i., 40

howickiana (Schizonycha) ii., 680

humanus (Gymnopleurus) ii., 557

humeralis (Gymnopleurus) i., 66, 73

humeralis (Knysna) i., 858

hmnilis (Atys) ii., 253, 258

humilis (Omocrates) i., 778, 784

humilis (Tiniocellus) i., 116

hyrena (Onthophagus) ii., 585

Hyboschema i., 510, 531

Hyboserica ii., 4, 27

Hybosorin.e
Hybosorus

492 :

646
492

hybrida (Atys) ii., 253

hybrida (Peritrichia) i., 643, 653

hybridus (Heterochelus) i., 735

hybridus (Onthophagus) i., 214

hylax (Hoplocnemis) i., 691, 692

hypocrita (Atys) ii., 253, 257

hypocrita (Dicranocnemus) i., 788, 790

hypocrita (Eriesthis) i., 664, 668

hypocrita (Kareiga) i., 891

Hypopholis ii., 277

Hypoplatys i •■ 438

Hypselogenia ii. , 326, 333

ictericus (Adoretus) i., 567, 572

ictericus (Heterochelusi i.. 712, 729

Idaecamenta ii., 75, 112

Idaeserica ii-, '• '■''-

idonea ii-, 193, 205

Idutywa L, 798, 824

ignava (Schizonycha) Li., 198, 234

ignitus (Anisonyx) i., 633, 634

ignitus (Gymnopleurus) i., 67, 75

48

740

Index.

illigeri (Hybosorus) i., 493

illitus (Adoretus) i., 566, 570

illota (Coega) i., 823

illotus (Onthophagaa) i., 179, 240

immature (Anomala) i., 589, 594

imitativa (Coptorrhina) i., 288, 295

imitativus (Onthophagus) i., 258

imitatrix (Coelorrhina) ii., 396

immundus (Onthophagus) i., 220; ii.. 611

immizta (Schizonycha) ii., 197,230

impictus (Onthophagus) i., 174, 203 ; ii., 585
importunus (Onthophagus) i., 258; ii.,562

impressa (Gnathocera) ii., 702

impressa (Pachnoda) ii., 442

impressicollis (Drepanocerus) i., Ill, 114
impressicollis (Onthophagus)

i., 173, 188; ii. , 605

impressicollis (Sybax) i., 439, 440

impressus (Drepanochirus) i., 117

improba (Apogonia) ii., 290, 291

impurus (Aphodius) i., 377,397

impurus (Adoretus) ii., 567, 576

impurus (Onthophagus) i., 260; ii., 564, 598

Inanda L, 869, 872

incertus (Onthophagus) L, 177,230; ii.,596

inchoatum (Bolboceras) i., 479, 485

ineisus (Trichoplus) ii., 534

inconditus (Adoretus) i,, 567, 575

incongruens (Adoretus) i., 566, 569

incongruens (Heterochelus) i., 720, 763
inconspicuus (Caccobius)

L, 178, 234 ; ii., 567

increta (Schizonycha) ii., 201, 248

incultus (Orphnus) i., 500, 504

incultus (Trox) i., 455, 464

indigena (Heterochelus) i., 720, 762

indigum (Bolboceras] ii., 637, 641

indigos (Heteronychus) i., 514, 519

indigus (Onthophagus) i., 178, 235

indotata (Schizonycha) ii., 200, 245

indotatua (Heteronychus) ... i., 514, 520

indubium (Bolboceras) i., 479, 483

induta (ltacelorna) ii., 414

induta (Tetragonorhina) ii., 348

Lnedita (Schizonycha) ii., 194, 210

inermicollis (Onthophagus) ii., 617

infans (Atys) ii., 253, 256

infantilis (Schizonycha) ii., 194,207

infarsa (Schizonycha) ii., 197, 228

infernalia (Scarabseus) i., 30, 51

infrictus (Heteronychus) ... i., 514, 517

infuscata (Ablabera) ii., 84

infuscata (Pseudoclinteria) ii., 431

ingloriua (Adoretus) i., 568, 581

inglorioaa iGymnoloma) i., 850, 854

Inhambane ii., 368, 403

innocua (Camenta) ii., 92, 94

inops (Camenta) ii., 93, 98

inops (Heteronychus) ii., 653

inops (Monochelusi i., 831, 842

inops (Caccobius)

i., 179, 240; ii., 562,566

inops [Sohizonycha] ii., 201, 250

inops (Trochalus) ii., 43, 46

inornatus (Heterochelus) ... i., 717, 749

inornatus (Anisochelus) i., 871

inquisitus (Scarabasus) ii., 553

intercalaris (Aphodius) i., 376, 392

integer (Copris) i., 343, 348

intermedia (Camenta) ii., 96

intermedia (Bhabdotis) ii., 444

intermedius (Oniticellus) ii., 693

intermedius (Onthophagus) i., 214

intermedius (Platychelus) i., 822

inscita (Atys) ii., 253, 254

insidiosus (Copris) i., 346,366

insidiosus (Gymnopleurus) i., 66, 69

insignis (Catharsius) i., 327

insignis (Heterochelus) i., 720, 760

insignis (Onthophagus) i., 172, 185; ii., 603

insuesa (Schizonycha) ii., 195, 212

insuetus (Chcetocanthus) i., 496

insulsus (Onthophagus) i., 224

integer (Copris) i., 348 ; ii., 630

interpunctata (Serica) ii., 63

interstitialis (Onthophagus) i., 176, 217

interstitialis (Scarabreusi i., 29, 43

intricatus (Scarabscus) i., 28, 33 ; ii., 552

intrusa (Anomala) i., 589, 599

intrusus (Callistemonus) i., 543

intrusus (Cymophorus) ii., 500, 501

intrusus (Drepanocanthus)... i., 432, 434

intrusus (Plagiochilus) ii., 518, 519

inuus (Onitis) i., 130

inversidens (Onitis) i., 122, 147

inverta (Atys) ii., 253, 254

iphicles (Bolboceras) ii., 636, 638

iricolor (Onthophagus) ii., 565, 622

iridescens (Aphodius) i., 374, 383

irregularis (Atrichelaphinis) ... ii., 346

irrorata (Rhabdopholis) ii., 275

irrorata (Micrelaphinis) ii. , 340

Isandula ii., 369, 410, 687

Ischnochelus i., 709

Ischnostoma ii., 366, 372

Ischnostomii ii., 366, 372

Uidis (Heliocopris) i., 313

Isoplia i., 622

Isoi'liini i., 564

J
jacchus (Copris) ... i., 345, 358; ii., 630

jansoni (Raceloma) ii., 414

jansoni (Stripsipher) ii., 682

janus (Xenodorus) ii., 654

japetus (Heliocopris) i., 312, 317; ii., 629

jojxis (Sceliages) i., 63

jucunda (Chasme) i., 630, 631

jucunda (Idascanienta) ii., 112

jucunda (Mazoe) ii., 420

jucundulus (Heterochelus) ii., 666

jucundulus (Oxyomus) i., 379. 412

jucundus (Anisonyx) i., 635

jucundus (Monochelus) i., 830, 839

jucundus (Platychelus) i., 805, 818

jugalis (Oxyomus) i., 379, 413

junodi (Onthophagus) ii., 608

Jupiter (Heliocopris) i., 322

Index.

741

K

kafuenus (Orphnus) ii., 651

kahlei (Adoretus) i., 584

Kalaharicua (Onthophagus) ii., 692

Khoina i., 629, 661

Kareiga i., 870, 890

karroensis (Platychelus) ... i. ,804, 809

karrooana (Hoplocnemis) ii., 663

karrooanus (Heterochelus) ii., 668

kirbyi (Drepanoeerus) i., Ill, 112

kirki (Goliathus) ii., 336

klugi (Coptorrhina) i., 287, 288

klugi (Onitis) i., 128

Knysna i., 799, 857

koikoina (Hoplocnemis) i., 691, 693

kolbei (Apogonia) ii., 292

Korisaba i., 629, 669

Kraseophylla ii., 118, 134

Kubousa i., 798, 799

Kukubanus (Aphodius) ii., 694

Kybele (Homalothyrea) ii., 703

L

laceratus (Onthophagus) ... i., 178, 236

lacustris (Onthophagus) ii., 576

laeta (Neptunides) ii., 394

laetans (Popillia) i., 613, 614

laetula (Doleroserica) ii., 53, 54

laetulus (Ablaberoides) ii., 60, 64

laetulus (Monochelus) i., 832, 845

laetus (Monochelus) i., 832, 844

laevatus (Onthophagus) ii., 587

laevilineatus (Heteronychusi L, 524

laevis (Scarabaaus) i., 45

laevis (Trichoplus) ii., 530, 531

lacvisvtura (Onthophagus) ii., 590

lalandei (Ablabera) ii., 78, 82

laminidorsis (Onthophagus) ii., 599

laninifer (Onthophagus) ii., 610

lanata (Lepitrix) i., 658

languens (Schizonycha) ... ii., 198, 234

laiiius (Porphyronota) ii. , 452

lanista (Onthophagus) i., 172, 184

lanuginosa (Paraclitopa) ii., 146

lanuginosus (Aphodius) i., 375, 385

lasciva (Gametis) ii., 424

lasiosoma (Isoplia) i., 622

lata (Eucylophylla) ii., 132

latecostata (Elaphinis) ii., 344

latefulvus (Onthophagus) ii., 605

lateralis (Ablabera) ii., 78

laticeps (Adoretus) i., 567, 575

laticeps (Catharsius) i., 325, 335

laticeps (Scarabseus) i., 57, 59

laticincta (Pachnoda) ii., 437

laticollis (Dichelus) i., 699, 705

laticollis (Drepanoeerus) i., Ill, 114

laticornis (Copris)... i., 343, 347 ; ii., 630

latifrons (Catharsius) i., 326, 339

latipes (Dichelus) i., 776

latiuscula (Anomala) ii., 657

latiusculus (Adoretus) i., 567, 577

layardi (Dicranorrhina) ii. , 383

lco (Sparrmannia) ii., 173, 175

leonina (Pachnoda) ii., 442

leonina (Pseudachloa) ii., 163

leoninus (Heterochelusi i., 717, 748

leoninus (Plagiochilus) ii., 521

Leontoclueta ii., 172

lepidiota (Coniopholis) ii., 272

lepidota (Eulepida) ii., 282,285

lepidotus (Anisonyx) i., 633, 637

lepidus (Trochalus) ii., 43, 51

Lepiserica ii., 9

Lepisia i., 799, 866

Lepitrix i., 629, 654

leprosa (Pseudoprota;tia) ii., 466

Leptothyrea ii., 460, 475

Leribe ii., 75, 113

Leucocelis ii., 461, 476,703

Leucocelites ii., 458

leucomelana (Psadacoptera) ii., 349

leucoplicea (Mitrophorus) i., 826

Leucopholites ii., 277

leucoprymnus (Eriopeltastes) ii., 294,308
leucopygus (Onthophagus)

i., 172, 187; ii., 603
leucostictus (Cymophorus)... ii., 500, 503

levis (Dulcinea) ii., 345

leydenburgiana (Antoserica)... ii., 15, 16

libens (Pasaphylla) ii., 136

licas (Heteronychus) L, 514, 518

licitus (Onitis) i., 121, 131

lightfooti (Hoplocnemis) ii., 664

lightfooti (Tulbaghia) ii., 89

liliputana (Schizonycha) ii., 216

limbata (Popillia) i., 613

limbatus (Agenius) ii., 301

limbatus (Aphodius) i., 398

limbaticollis (Lipoclita) ii., 332

limbibasis (Onthophagus) ii., 579

lineata (Anisonyx) i., 654, 655

lineaticollis (Neptunides) ii. ,394

lineatipennis (Brachagenius) ... ii., 307

lineatosulcatus (Aphodius; i., 418

lineola (Gonna) i-. S'J-J

lineola (Pachycnema) i., 675, 687

lineolata (Triodonta) ii., 71

Liparochirus; i-, 370, 435

Lipoclita h-, 326, 332

Lipothyrea ii., IT--'. 689

Lissogenius ii., 192, 526

litigiosa (Schizonycha) ii.. 680

litigiosus (Monochelus) i., 832, 845

litigiosus (Onthophagus) i., 17'.), 242

litigiosus (Platychelus) L, 805, 815

lituratus (Heterochelus) i., 771

livida (Camentoserica) ii., 34

lividus (Aphodius) L, 377, 398

lobigena (Onthophagus) ii.. 579

lobipes (Omocrates) L, 777. ?82

Loncothyrea ii.. 460, 474

longicornis (.Egostetha) ii., 122, 125

longipes (Anisonyx) i., 633, 635

longipes (Diaplochelus) i., 795, 796

longipes (Heterochelus)

i., 713, 733; ii., 698

742

Index.

longipes (Stripsipher) ii., 305

longulus (Heterochelus) i., 745

Lorditomaeus i , 370, 430

loricata (Coelorrhina) ii., 396

loricatus (Onthophiigus) i., 172, 186

LiTANiiu; i., 1; ii., 547

lucens (Leucocelis) ii., 477, 482

lucida (Anomala) i., 607

lucidula (Autoserica) ii. , 10, 11

Lucidulus (Aphodius) i., 375, 387

lucidulus (Scarabseus) i., 28, 35

lucidulus (Trochiilus) ii., 42, 45

lucidus (Dichelus) L, 699, 704

luctifera (Mausoleopsis) ii., 468

luctuosus (Dichelus) i., 699, 702

luctuosus (Microplidus) i., 877, 878

ludificans (Tabora) L, 618

lug ens (Hsematonotus) ii., 337

lugens (Heterochelus) i., 719, 758

lugens (Onthophagus) i., 174, 198 ; ii.,601

lugubris (Ammoecius) i., 379, 409

lugubris (Nyassinius) ii., 536

lugubris (Onthophagus) i., 195

lugubris (Spilophorus) ii., 505

lunarurides (Gopris) i., 346

lupinus (Platychelus) i., 804, 810

lurida (Glyptoglossa) ii., 187, 189

luridipennis (Ablabera) ii., 86

luridipennis (Ablabera) ii., 78

luridipennis (Ischnostonia) ii., 374, 377
luridipennis (Omocrates) ... i., 777, 779

luridus (Trox) i., 4.r>">, 462

lugubris (Xiphoscelidus) ii.. 321

lundi (Ischnostonia) ii., 374

lutaria (Ablabera) ii., 86

lutea (Anomala) i., 607

lutescens (Macroma) ii., 496

lutulentus (Onthophagus) ... i., 173,195

lutulenta (Tephrsa) ii., 464

lyceus (Circellium) i., 62

lycophron (Onitis) i., 148

lydenburgiana (Camenta) ii., 92, 94

lydenburgiana (Paracamenta i

ii., 109, 111

Lygyromorphus ii., 316

lynx (Anisonj x) i., 633, 638

M

maecr (Copris) i.,

Macroderes i., 109, 297

Macroma ii..

Macromina ii.,

Macrophylla ii.,

Macroretrus

macrothoraz (Onthophagus)

mactatus (Onthophagus)

urn, -iih it, i (Pachycnema)

maculatisshna (Porphyronota)

maculatus (AdoretUB)

maculicolle i Bolboceras) ...
maculicollis (Pseudoclinteria)

343,346

; ii.. 692

491, 494

492, 496
118, 126

ii.. 632

ii., 692

. i., 262

. i., 683

452, 454

. i.. 580

lsu, 490

ii., 430

maeuUpennis (Pleophylla) ii., 8

mdculipes (Niphetophora) ii., 450

maeulipes (Nyassinius) ii., 536

madagascariensis (Phroocrous) ... i., 497
magnifica (Phamomeris)

i., 620, 621; ii., 662

major (Popillia) i., 613, 614

Makalaka ii. , 675

mandibulars (Drepanocanthus) i., 506
manicana (Schizonycha) ... ii., 198, 232

marcellus (Catharsius) i., 326, 337

marchalli (Myrmecochilus) ii., 538

murgurita (Leucocelis) ii., 478

margaritiferus (Cymophorus) ii., 500,501

marginalis (Leucocelisi ii., 480

marginatum (Pachysomia) i., 77, 79

marginatus (Gyronotus) i., 85, 86

marginella (Pachycnema) ... i., 674, 684

marginella (Pachnoda) ii., 439,687

marginicollU (Anomala) i., 603

marginicollis (Colobopterus)... i., 374,380

marginicollU (Xeptunides) ii., 394

marginidens (Onthophagus) ii.,622

maritima (Macrophylla) ... ii., 127, 129

marqueza (Rabula) i., 886

marshalli (Apogonia) ii., 291, 293

marshalli (Corythoderus) i., 450

marshalli (Heliocopris) i., 313, 318

marshalli (Onthophagus) ... ii, 576,612

mashona (Apogonia) ii., 290, 292

mashona (Camenta) ii., 93, 103

mashona (Diaphoroserica) ii., 26

mashona (Eulepida) ii., 282, 284

mashona (Polystalactica) ii., 470

mashuna (Pychnoschema ... i., 540, 543
mashunensis (Aphodius) ... i., 379, 406

mashunensis (Congella) i., 888

mashunensis (Orphnus) ii., 652

mashunus (Adoretus) i., 567, 573

mashunus (Anoplochilus) ... ii., 352, 355
mashunus (Heteronychus).., i., 514, 519

mashunus (Onthophagus) i., 209

mashunus (Orphnus) i., 501

mashunus (Pegylidius) ii., 280

mashunus (Scaraboeus) i., 28, 32

mashunus (Trochalus) ii., 43, 45

massalis (Trox) ii., 633

mastrucatus (Onthophagus)

i., 173, 191; ii., 568

matabele (Bolboceras) ii., 637,643

matabelena (Ablabera) ii., 78, 84

matabelena (Camenta) ii., 93, 102

matabelena (Schizonycha) ii., 677

Mausoleopsis ii., 461, 486, 689

maurus (Anoplochilus) ii., 355

Mazoe ii., 369, 419

mediastina (Schizonycha)... ii., 194, 209

medioximus (Oxyomus) i., 380, 413

mrlancholicus (Catharsius)... i.. 3*26, 336

melancholicus (Trox) i., 455, 465

melanoleucus (Adoretus) i., 574

in. lanospila (Pachycnema)... i., 673, 676

melanurus (Platychelus) i., 820

mellila (Holisonycha) ii., 260

Index.

743

Melinesthes ii. , 368, 404

Melolonthin;e ii., 114, 670, 698

Melolonthini ii., 115, 182, 678

mendax (Entyposis) ii., 259

mendax (Omocrates) i., 777, 778

mendicus (Dicranocnemus) i., 788, 791
meracula (Schizonycha) ... ii., 194, 211

merus (Onthophagus) i., 175, 210

mesacanthus (Copris) i., 345, 362

Mesoscrica ii., 5, 34

metallicus (Onthophagus) i., 352

metallicus (Scarakeus) i., 28, 31

Micrelaphinis ii., 326, 339

Microcamenta ii., 75, 86

mkrocephalus (Sceliages) i., 63

Microdoris i., 893

Microplidua i., 869, 876 ; ii., 674

Microplus i., 869, 875

Microtrachelua ii., 6, 56

Milichus i., 109, 274 ; ii., 624

militaris (Scelophysa) i., 864

militaris (Oniticellus) i., 162, 167

mimus (Ammeecius) i., 379, 409

mimus (Heterochelus) i., 711, 726

minator (Copris) i., 356

minatorius (Aphodius) ii., 631

minima (Schizonycha) ii., 195, 218

minor (Asthenopholis) ii., 287

minor (Copris) i., 348 ; ii., 630

minor (Haematonotus) ii., 337

minor (Rhinocoeta) ii., 331

niinuta (Gamka) ii., 160

minutulus (Onthophagus) i., 263, ii., 582

minutus (Heterochelus) i., 718, 753

minutus (Onitis) i., 121, 135

minutus (Onthophagus) ii., 585

miserabilis (Heterochelus) i., 719

misellus (Aphodobius) i., 420

misellus (Copris) i., 344, 348

misellus (Omocrates) L, 778, 785

Mitrophorus i., 798, 835

mixtus (Caccobius) ii., 566

mniszechi (Onitis) i., 121, 142

modesta (Ablabera) ii., 78, 83

modesta (Anisonyx) i., 655, 656

modesta (Beriqua) ii., 186

modesta (Camenta) ii., 92, 96

modesta (Diploeida) ii., 318

modesta (Euronycha) ii., 31, 32

modestus (Copris) i., 353

modestus (Gymnopleurus)i., 67, 74; ii.,557

modestus (Omocrates) i., 777, 781

modestus (Onthophagus) ... i., 178, 234
modestus (Psammobius) ... i., 445, 446
modestus (Scarabasus) i., 30, 51 ; ii., 554

modestus (Synochodaeus) ii., 650

modestus (Trochalus) ii., 43, 48

moerens (Pachycnema) i., 674, 685

moerens (Trochalus) ii., 63

moesta (Micrelaphinis) ii-, 340

moestus (Aphodius) i., 377, 395

moestus (Onthophagus) ii., 63

moestus (Trochalus) ii., 276

molestus (Heterochelus) ii., 668

monoceros (Oryctes) i., 549

Monochelus L, 799, 828; ii., 672

monodon (Onthophagus) ... i., IT".. I'm
morbillosa (Pachycnema) ... i., t "» T : ". , '',7s

morio (Camenta) ii., '.»:;, ion

morio (Mitrophorus) i., 828

morosa (llabula) i., 886

morosa (Tephisoa) ii., 164

mosambicus (Heteronychus) ii., 652

mozambica (Loncothyrea) ii., 471

mucronatus (Heterochelus)... i., 717, 749
multidentatus (Heterochelus)

i., 711, 724; ii.. 665

multifidus (Caccobius) ii., 567, "'71

mundus (Gymnopleurus) i. , 70

muricatus (Sisyphus) i., 101, 105

murina (Pachycnema) i., 674,681

murinus (Adoretus) i., 583

murinus (Heterochelus) i., 713, 733

musculus (Platychelus) L, 821

mutica (Hoplocnemis) i., 691, 695

muticus (Copris) i., 346, 367

mutilatus (Macroderes) ii., 692

Myoderma ii., 314

Myodermini ii., 294, 295, 313,684

Myrmecochilus ii., 493, 537

N

naevuliger (Onthophagus) ii., 613

nama (Aphodius) ii , 695

nama (Trox) ii., 696

namaqua (Ablabera) ii., 78

namaqua (Lepitrix) i., 655, 656

namaqua (Pachycnema) i., 674, 686

namaqua (Sparrmannia) ... ii., 174, 177
namaquanus (Ablaberoides)... ii., 60, 68

namaquensis (Agenius) ii., 303

namaquensis (Glyptoglossa) ii , 187

nana (Ablabera) ii . sl I

nana (Coptorrhina) i., 2Ss, 293

Nanarcta ii-, 166

Nanaga L, 870, 882

Nanniscus \-, 697, 793

nanniscus (Sisyphus) i., 101, 107

nanniscus (Trox) i., 455, 458

Nanos i-. 95

nanus (Onthophagus) ii.. 589

napcea (Tephrsea) ii., 464

nasicornis (Oniticellus) i., L62, 166; Li., 693

nasidens (Onthophagus) ii ,618

naso (Onthophagus) i., 174, 204

nasuta 1 1 ter) i.. 12 i

nasuta (Ischnostoma) Li., 375

nasutus (Adoretus) i-i 582

nasutus (Trox) i., 155, 159

nasuus (Anisonyx) i , 633, 639

natalensis (Dicranocnemus) L, 78

natalensis (Cladognathus) ._ i-. 5

natalensis (Cyclomera) ii , 139

natalensis (Drepanocerus) L., 115

natalensis (Gametis) ii., 424

natalensis (Heterochelus) ... i , 711, 723

744

Index.

natalensis (Macrophylla) ii., 127

natalensis (Mitropho'rus) ... i., 826, 827
aatalensis (Monochelus) ... i., 830, 837

oatalensis (Neoserica) ii., 21, 22

natalensis (Pleurophorus) ... i.. 448, 449

oatalensis (Scaptobius) ii., 544

n;italensis (Schizonycha) ... ii., 179, 238

imiiili new ( Etaceloma) ii., 414

natalensis (Stegopterus) ... ii., 297, 299

natalica (Leucocelis) ii., 477, 483

nataZicus (Onthophagus) ii., GOO

natalis (Trichostetha) ii., 360

neglecta (Schizonycha) ii , 190, 222

neglectus (Anisochelus) L, 871, 872

neglectus (Cylichnus) i., 884

Nedyraoserica ii., 4, 20

Neleus ii., 551

nemoralis (Microplus) i., 875

Neonitis i., 108, 152

Neoserica ii., 4, 21

neptis i, 350; ii., 630

Neptunides ii., 368, 393

aeptunus (Heliocopris) i., 322

neutra (Schizonycha) ii., 197. 229

nickerli (Leucocelis) ii., 484

niger (Heterochelus) i., 514, 517

niger (Stripsipher) ii., 306

Nigidius L, 2,9; ii., 547

nigra (Camenta) ii., 93, 101

nigrescent (Onthophagus) ii., 573

nigricans (Dyspilophora) ii., 418

nigriclavis (Genuchus) ii., 529

nigriceps (Adoretus) i., 572

nigricollis (Macrophylla) ii., 128

nigricornis (Schizonycha)... ii., 201, 250

nigrina (Diplotropis) ii., 107, 108

nigripes (Lepitrix) i., 657

nigrita (Camenta) ii., 92, 96

nigrita (Congella) i., 888

nigrita (Peritrichia) i., 642, 648

nigritula (Micrelaphinis) ... ii., 340, 343

nigritulus (Onthophagus) i., 261

nigritulus (Caccobius) ii., 566

nigrolimbata (Pachycnema) i , 688

nigrosneus (Scarabseus) i., 30. 54

nigropubens (Onthophagus) ii., 615

nigropunctata (Elaphinis)... ii.. 1 17, 148

nigrosignatus (Aphodius) i . 38]

nigrovestita (Anomala) i., 588, 590

nigrovillosa (Peritrichia) ... i., 642, 649

nigrum (Holboceras) ii.. 637, 644

Niphetophora ii., 371, 449

nirea (Pentodontosohema) ... i., 527, 530

tlitent (Anomala) i.,591

nitons (Platychelus) i., 83

nitidicoUis | 1 Vripopillia) i.,610

nitidipennis (Coptorrbina) . . , i., 288, 291
nitidipennis (Cyclomera) ... ii.. 1 19, 152
nitidipennis (Peritrichia) ... i., 642, 649

nitidissimas (Dichelus) i , 7ns

nitidnliu (Onthi [., 228

nitidulus (Platychelus) i., 805, 815

nitidns (Macroderes) L, 302

nigromaoulata (Peritriohia) i., 641, 645

nobUis (Ischnostoma) i., 374

nobilitata (Chasrae) i., 630,631

Nongoma i., 585, 609

noscitata (Schizonycha) ii., 200. 2 Ci

notata (Ablabera) ii., 78

Notocaulus i., 370, 441

nubiensis (Onitis) i., 121, 112

nubilus (Heterochelus) i., 721, 763

nudus (Onthophagus) ii.,612

numismatica (Micrelaphinis ( ii., 340

nyassa; (Calometopus) ii., 310

nyassica (Ccelorrhina) ii., 396

Nyassinius L, 493, 530

nympha (Rhabdotis) ii., 444

O

obscurepurpurea (Pachycnema)

i., 674. 683

obesa (Neoserica) ii., 21, 23

obesus (Copris) i., 352

obesus (Stegopterus) ii.. 681

oblonga (Schizonycha) ii. 233

oberthurt (Ccelorrhina) ii., 390

oberthuri (Dicranorrhina) ii., 383

oberthurt (Peripopillia) i., 610

obesus (Onthophagus) i., 224

obtusicollis (Onthophagus) i., 245

obtusicornis (Catharsius) i., 326

obtusicornis (Coptorrbina)... i., 288, 292
obtusicornis (Onthophagus)... i., 173, 197

obtusus (Kpirinus) i., 90, 93

obtusus (Onthophagus) i., 176.221; ii.,568

obtutus (Ablaberoides) ii., 60, 67

obtutus (Onthophagusl i., 177, 230

ocellatus (Onthophagus) ii., 611

Ochod.eix.e ii., 019, 696

Ochodaeus i., 498, 505 ; ii., 649

ochraceus (Heterochelus) i., 772

oculata (Trichostetha) ii., 361

odiosus (Anoplochilus) ii., 355

Odontoloma i.. 22, 86

Odontothyrea ii., 351

Odontorrhina ii.. 327, 363

(Edanomerus ii.. 120, 169

oBrogineos (Trochalus) ii., 43, 50

okovanga (Gbirinda) ii., 155

olivacea (Pachnoda) ii., 138

ominosos (Ablaberoides) ii., 60, 70

Omocrates ii., 097, 776

Omorgus i , 152, 155

omramba (Syngeneschiza) ii., 261

Oniticellus " L, 109, 160; ii., 693

Onitis i.. L08, L18

Onochaeta ii., 118,120

Onthophagides i.. Ills

Onthophagus i., 109, 168; ii., 560, 571,692

Ontchotabsos ii.. 351

Oocamenta ii., 75, 105

Oonotus i., 2,6

opaoa (Paohylomera) i., 27

opacicollis (Anomala) i., 607

opacula (Harmogaster) i., 424

Index.

745

opacus (Catharsius) i., 326, 338

opacus (Onthophagus) i., 174, 202

opalina (Pleopnylla) ii., 8

oj)erosus (Heliocopris) i., 319

opimus (Onthophagus)

i., 173, 189; ii., 603

optata (Coptorrhina) i., 288, 290

optatus (Saproecius) i.,307, 308

optivus (Heterochelus) i., 719, 757

optivus (Onthophagus) i., 180, 255 ; ii.,622

orbiculatus (Trochalus) ii., 43, 48

orbignyi (Diastellopalpus) ii., 626

oreopygus (Heterochelus) ... i., 714, 737

orion (Copris) i., 344, 348

ornata (Gymnoloma) i., 850, 852

ornatella (Lepitrix) i., 655, 659

omatellum (Bolboceras) i., 480, 490

ornatissima (Lepisia) i., 867, 868

ornatus (Monochelus) i., 831, 842

orphanus (Copris)... i.,344, 350; ii., 629

Oephnin^; i., 498 ; ii., 651

Orphnus i., 498

Orsilochus L, 510, 533

orthopus (Onitis) L, 122, 149

Oryctes i., 510, 548

oscitans (Harmodactylus) i., 370

Outeniqua i., 799, 859

ovale (Byrrhidium) i., 84

ovampoa (Anomala) i., 590, 601

ovampoana (Allogistotarsa) ii. , 40

ovampoana (Schizonycha)... ii., 198, 236

ovarapoanus (Orphnus) i., 500, 502

ovampoensis (Adoretus) i., 567, 573

ovampoensis (Microcamenta)... ii., 87,88

ovata (Apogonia) ii., 291, 292

ovatula (Atys) ii., 253, 255

ovatus (Adoretus) i., 895

Oxyomus L, 371, 379 ; ii., 693

Oxyrrhaphia ii-, 449

P

pabulator (Scarabffius) ii., 553

pacatus (Scarabrous) i , 29, 49

Pachnoda ii., 371, 434, 687

Pachnodii ii., 371, 432

Pachycnema L. 629, 671

Pachycnemida i-, 629, 689

Pachycnemini i., 628

pachyglutus (Heterochelus) i., 713, 735

Pachylomera i., 26

pachymerus (Heterochelus) i., 773

Pachypodini ii., 115,676

Pachysoma i, 22, 76; ii., 555

pallens (Oniticellus) i., 166

pallidipennis (Coptochirus)... i., 427, 429

pallidipennis (Dichelus) i., 700, 706

pallidipennis (Onthophagus) i., 178, 231

pallidipennis (Trochalus) ii., 69

pallidula (Camenta) ii., 97

palpalis (Sebarisj ii-, 182

pandion (Catharsius) i , 336, 899

pannosum (Bolboceras) i., 480, 489

panoplus (Onthophagus) i., 176, 209

panza (Bolboceras) i., 479, 480 ; ii., 646

Paracamenta ii., 75, 108

Paraclitopa ii., 119, 146

paradoxus (Onitis) L, 120, 126

Paradoxus (Scarabseus) i ,57, 58

paradoxus (Trichoplus, Li., 535

paradoxus (Venedus) ... i., 557 ; ii., 654

Parapinotus i., 109, 308

parca (Anomala) i., 590, 605

parentalis (Ischnochelus) ... i., 722, 768

parentalis (Orphnus) ii., 651

parilis (Heterochelus) i , 713, 731

parilis (Schizonycha) ii., 194, 208

parrianus (Scaptobius) ii., 543

parumnotatus (Onthophagus) i., 174, 200

parvula (Gymnoloma) i., 850, 856

parvulus (Ischnochelus) i., 771

parvulus (Scarabajus) L, 28, 34

Pasaphylla ii., 119, 135

Passalidae ii., 548

passerinii (Amaurodes) ii., 389

patera (Gariep) ii., 379

patricius (Onthophagus) ... i., 177, 228

patruelis (Tulbaghia) ii., 675

paulus (Coenochilus) ii., 515

pauper (Ablaberoides) ii., 60, 66

pauper (Philoserica) ii., 29

pauperata (Schizonycha) ii., 701

pauperatus (Anisonyx) i., 633, 636

pauperatus (Heteronychus) i., 515, 523
pauperatus (Ischnochelus)... i., 722, 775

paupercula (Pericamenta) ii., 105

pauperula (Schizonycha)... ii., 198, 235

pauxillum (Odontoloma) i.,87

pauxillus (Omocrates) i., 777, 782

pauxillus (Onthophagus) ii., 582

pavidus (Heterochelus) ii., 665

pavoninus (Ablaberoides) ii., 59, 62

pecuarius (Onitis) i., 133

Pedaria i-, 109, 277; ii., 628

pedestris (Onthophagus) i., 199

Pegylidius ii-, 277, 279

Pegylis ii., 277, 281

pellax (Onthophagus) ... i., 259; ii., 594

pellucida (Ablabera) ii-, 86

penicillatus (Trox) i., 455, 461

pentarthrius (Scaptobius) ii., 543

Pentodontoschema i., 510, 525

peregrinus (Aphodius) ii., 378, 401

perforata (Schizonycha) ii., 252

Pericamenta Li-, 75, 105

Periclitopa ii-, 119, 142

peringueyi (Gymnopleurus) ii., 557

Peripopillia >-, 585, 610

Peritrichia i., 629, 640

permutans (Clinteroides) ii-, 463

perniciosus (Onthophagus)... i., 174, 197

perplexa (Gymnoloma) i., 849, 852

perplexabilis (Schizonycha) ii., 196, 220

perplexus (Onitis) i-, 140

perroudi (Leptothyrea) ii., 475

persimilis (Heterochelus) ... i., 716, 744
persimilis (Microplidus) L, s77, 879

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Il/diX.

pertinax (Anomala) ii., 656

perturbator (Copris) i , 344, 352

perturbator (Onitis) i., 120, 134

perturbator (Psilomchus)... ii., 267, 269

petersiana (Eanzania) ii., 385

petulans (Bolboceras) ii., 645

564
i.
ii.

619

619

647

ii., 646

; ii., 624

ii., 684

; ii., 661

640, 64]

ii., 428

i., 340

L, 452

ru.T.NOMi.niNi i

Phaenomeris

Pheeocroides

Phaeocrous i ., 192, 496

Phalops i., 109, 266

Phaneresthes

Pharaonus i., 585, 615

Pherocomn i.,

Philoserica ii.,

philus (Catharsius) i.,

Phoberut i.,

Phonotcenia ii., 423

Phoxomela ii ., 326, 338

Phoxomeloid.es ii., 434

phthysica (Anomala) i., 589, 600

Physocnema i., 671

Phymapteryx ii., 491, 497

pica (Ischnostoma) ii., 374

picea (Pedaria) i., 278, 282

piccus (Onthophagus) ... i., 198 ; ii., 601

piceus (Trochalus) ii., 52

picinus (Adoretus) i., 568, 582

picipennis (Caccobius) ii., 569

picipes (Aphodius) i., 397

picipet (Trochalus) ii., 43, 50

piceus (Trochalus) ii., 52

picta (Pachnoda) ii., 438

picticollis (Adoretus} i,, 568, 581

picticollis (Adoretus) i., 568, 581

picticollis (Onitis) i., 120, 131

pictipennis (Brachagenius) ii., 307

picturata (Pachnoda) ii., 441

picturata (Taeniesthes) ii., 415

pictus (Hsematonotus) ii., 337

pictus (Oniticellus) i., 162, 164 ; ii.. 693

Pilinurgus ii., 492, 524

pilosa (Camenta) ii., 94, 104

pilosa (Lepitrix) i., 655, 65s

pilosa (Peritrichia) i.. 651

piZosafPleophylla) ii., 8

pilosella (Camenta) ii., 93, 100

pilosicollis (Psilonychus) ... ii., 267, 270

pilosula (Ablabera) ii., 77. 80

piloBula (CoamiophsBna) ii., 125

pilosulus (Cylichnus) i.,vSi

pilosus (Onthophagus) i., 173, 196; ii., 594

pimeloides (Heteroclita) ii.. 380

Pinacotarsw ii.. 628

pinguis (Anomala) i ,589, 596

pingais (Onthophagus) ii., 598

pirmal (Heliocopris) i. ,312, 315

pistrinaria (Peritrichia) i., 643, 653

placatus (Heterochelus] i . 71'_'. 7:'><>

jilacons (Oinocratrs) i., 778, 783

placens (Onthophagns) ii., 587

placcns ((Trochalus) ii., 13, 19

placida (Atrichia) ii.. 133

placidns (Omoorates) L, 777, 779

Placodidus ii.,

Plaesiorrhina ii.,

plagiata (Anomala)

;</";//</ /«.-•! Trochalus)

plagiger (Microtrachelus)

Plagiochilus ii.,

plagosns (Agenius)

plagosus (Spilophoms)

plana (Plaesiorrhina)

planatus (Oniticellus) i.,

plato (Onthophagus) ... i ., 251
platycephalus (Anatonochilus)...

platycerus (Catharsius) i.,

platycerus (Onthophagus)

Platychelus i.,

platynotus (Dichelns)

plausibile (Bolboceras) i.,

plausibilis (OmocratesJ i ,

plansibilis (Scarabsaus)

plausibilis (Schizonyclia) ... ii.,

plebeia (Peritrichia) i.,

plebeius (Orphnus) i.,

plebejus (Onthophagus) ....

PleiophyBa

Pleistophylla ii. ,

Pleophylla

Pleurophorus i ,

plumatus (Comythovalgus)

plumbicollis (Adoretus)

plumipes (Khoina) i.,

plutus (Copris) i.,

podagricus (Heterochelus) ... i.,

Pacih >ji!i iln

poggei (Ccelorrhina)

politissimus (Onthophagus)

politulus (Microderes) i.,

polychrous (Neptunides)

Polystalactica ii..

ponderosw (Diastellopalpus)

ponderosus (Trox) i.,

Popillia i., 585, 611

porcata (Onoehaita)

porculus (Neonitis)

Porphyronata ii.,

Pobphtbonotti ii.,

porrectUB (Onthophagus)

posticatum 1 1 lolboci ras) i.,

posticus (Aphodius)

postlutatus (Caccobius)

preecalva (Cyclomera) ii.,

preestabilis (ischnochelus)... ii.,

pnostans (Monochchis)

praestans i< tnthophagus) i.,

pratortus (Onthophagus)

pTaeustus (Phalops)

prasinus (Phalops)

pretoriana (Pseustophylla)

prieska (Spamnannia) ii..

princeps (Monochelus) i.,

principalis (Aphodius)

pri stin us (Macroderes)

Proagoderus

probativa (Anomala) i.,

probes (Aphodius) i.,

493, 545

369, U6

i., 607

. ii., 63

. ii., 56

492, 518

ii.,304

ii., 505

ii., 117

162, 163

n.

f.ls
540

325, 326
. i ., Pit

798, 802
. i., 70s

179, 186

77s, 7S1
i., 57, 59

196, -ir-',
, 642, 647
, 500, 501

179, 247
. 118, 130

119, 155
ii , 3, 6

370, ns
ii.. 683

i.. 895

661, 662

345, 361

Tl'J. 755

ii., I--)1

ii.. 366

ii., 613

299. 301

ii.. 394

460, 469

i.. 256

456, 467

ii., 660

ii.. 121

L, 153

371, 151
371, 149

ii . 619

180, 189
L, 394

ii . 569
1 19, L51
721, 767

ii., 673

175, 206

ii.. 596

i . 271
ii., i ;•_».")

ii.. 158
17::. 177
831, 84]

i . lis

i., 304

ii . 618
589, 599
378, mi

Index.

747

proboscideus (Scarabaeus) ii., 554

proboscidea (Peritrichia) i., 651

probus (Onthophagus) i., 179, '241

procerus (Aphodius) i., 378, 403

procerus (Coenochilus) ii., 515

procles (Sebasteos) ii., 690

prodigiosus (Scarabaeus) i., 30, 52

producticollis (Onthophagus) ... ii., 614

productus (Aphodius) i., 378, 404

profanus (Gymnopleurus) i., 67

profanus (Scarabaeus) i., 29, 48

profuga (Schizonycha) ii., 195, 213

proles (Diploa) ii., 316, 684

proletarius (Anisonyx) i., 633, 639

promontorii (Heterochelus)... i., 716, 742
promontorii (Ehyssemus) ... i., 443, 444
propinquns (Ooenochilus) ... ii., 508, 512

proteana (Autoserica) ii., 10, 13

Proxenus ii., 492, 522

proxima (Coniopholis) ii , 272, 273

proximus (Scarabaeus) i., 28, 37

prunipennis (Trichostetha) ii., 360

pruinosa (Scelophysa) i., 864, 866

pruinosus (Heterochelus) i., 728

pruinosus (Monochelus) i., 830, 837

pruinosus (Psilonvchus) ii., 270

Pseudachloa ii., 327, 348

Psadacoptera ii., 327, 348

Psammobius i., 370, 445

Pseudoclinteria ii., 371, 430

Pseudocyphonistes i., 511, 557

Pseudoprotsetia ii., 459, 465

Pseudospiliphorus ii., 504

Pseudosyrichthus i., 511, 554

Pseudotephrsea ii., 469

Pseustophylla ii, 119, 157

PsiLONYCHIDES ii., 184

Psilonychus ii., 185, 265

pteropus (Coptochirus) i., 426

Ptychodesthes ii., 369, 412

Ptychophorus ii., 499

pubens (Macrophylla) ii., 129

pubera (Odontorrhina) ii., 365

puberula (Gryphonica) ii., 30

puberula (Peritrichia) i., 642, 652

puberulus (Oxyomus) i., 380, 413

pubescens (Odontorrhina)... ii , 364, 365

pubescent (Odontorrhina) ii., 365

pubiventris (Scarabaeus) i., 55

pudens (Onthophagus) L, 179, 243 ; ii., 569

pudibunda (Stenocnema) i., 671

puerilis (Platychelus) i., 822

puerilis (Schizonycha) ii., 194, 209

pugionatus (Onthophagus)... i. , 173, 192
pugionatus (Platychelus) ... i., 803, 806

pugnax (Orphnus) i., 499, 500

pulchella (Peritrichia) i . , 642, 050

pulcher (Dicranocnemus) ... i., 788, 789

pulcher (Monochelus) i., 830, 838

pulicaria (Ablabera) ii., 81

pulicarius (Nanniscus) i., 793

pullus (Delopleurus) i., 296

pullus (Onthophagus) ii., 582

pulvinatus (Monochelus) ... i., 832, 846

pulverosus (Heterochelus) ... i., 720, 761
pulverulcnta (Pachycnema) i., 674, 684
pulverulentus (Dicranocnemus) i., 7**, T'.il

puma (Micrelaphinis) ii., 340

punhla (Micrelaphinis) ii., ::il

pumilionis (Copris) i., 368

pumilus (Gyronotus) i., 85

pumilus (Microplidus) i., 877, 879

punctatomarginata (Pachnoda)... ii., 436

puncticollis (Chiron) i.,474; ii., 63

puncticolli8 (Copris) ... i.,350; ii., 630

puncticollis (Schizonycha) ii., 222

punctipennis (Adoretus) i., 566, 570

purpurascens (Neptunides) ii., 394

pusilla (Gymnoloma) i., 850, 856

pusilla (Camenta) ii., 93

pusilla (Eriesthis) i., 663, 664

pusillus (Onthophagus) i., 234

pusillus (Platychelus) i., 820

pusillus (Trox) ii., 634

pusio (Oxyomus) ii., 693

pusio (Onthophagus) i., 174, 203; ii., 586

Pychnoschema i., 510, 539

pygidialis (Odontoloma) i., 87, 88

pygidialis (Heterochelus) ... i., 714, 738

pygidialis (Peritrichia) i., 643, 652

pygmaeus (Oxyomus) i.. 379, 412

pylades (Catharsius) i., 325, 332; ii., 629
pyramidalis (Onthophagus) i., 176, 208

pyroides (Phalops) ii., 626

pyropygus (Platychelus) i., 804, 810

Q

qusBsita (Schizonycha) ii., 195, 216

quaesita (Ablaberoides) ii., 60, 69

quadrata (Lepitrix) i., 685

quadraticeps (Onthophagus)

L, 263; ii., 603
quadricallosus (Onthophagus) ... ii., 606

quadricollis (Sisyphus) i., 101, 103

quadricornis (Genyodonta) ii., 409

quadrimaculata (Coelorrhina) ... ii., 396
quadrimaculatus (Onthophagus) ii., 575
quadrinodosus (Onthophagus) i., 174, 201

quadrituber (Onthophagus) ii. , 623

quinquedens (Diastellopalpus) ... i., 265

R

Rabula i., 870,886

Raceloma ii., 369, 413

radei (Coelorrhina) ii., 396

radula(Trox) L, 456, 469

radula (Trox) i., 468

raeuperi (Heteroclita) ii., 380

rangifer (Onthophagus) i., 180, 248

Ramoutsa i., 119; ii., 676

Ranzania ii., 367, 385

rarus (Onthophagus) i., 180, 250; ii.,618

rasipennis (Onthophagus) ii., 614

rauca (Porphyronota) ii., 452

rectefurcatus (Onthophagus) ii., 619

reichei (Scarabaeus) i.,57

reicliei (Xiphodontus) i-, 8

748

Index.

relucens (Eccoptocnemis) ii., 401

remipes (Heteroclitopus) i., 305

repensn (Anomala) i., 589, 595

resplendens (Anomala) i., 590, 603

retensus (l'latychelus) i., 805, 815

retusus (Temnorhvnchus) i.. 535

Rhabdotis ii., 371, 443

Rhabdopholis ii., 185,273

Rhinocceta ii.. 326, 329

rhinoceros (Aphodius) L, 378, 402

rhinoceros (Catharsius) i., 325, 328

Rhinoplia i., 587

Rhizoplatodes i., 511, 5(!0

Rhizoplatys i., 511, 559

rhodesiana (Autoserica) ii., 10, 14

rhodesiana (Camenta) ii., 93, 101

rhodesiana (Euronycha) ii., 31, 32

rhodesiana (Makalaka) ii., 676

rhodesiana (Niphetophora) ii., 451

rhodesianus (Athyreus) ii., 634

rhodesianus (Milichus) ii., 6*2 1

rhodesianus (Nigidius) ii., 547

rhynchophorus (Onthophagus)... ii., 600

Rhyparoides (Trox) i., 454, 456

Rhyssemus i., 370,442

rikatlensis (Cyclornera) ii. , 139, 140

ritsemm (Copris) i., 368

rixosus (Scaraba3us) i., 30, 50

robusta (Serica) ii., 73

robustus (Onitis) i., 122, 140

rostrata (Ablabera) ii., 86

rostrata (Ischnostoma) ii., 375

rostrata (Pachycnema) i., 074, 086

rottratus (Scarabffius) ... i., 51 ; ii., •">•"> I

rothi (Onitis) i., 150

rotundicollis (Allokotarsa) ii., 37

rotundicollis (Trogodes) 539

rotundigena (Pachysonia) ii., 555

rubens (Onthophagus) ii., 608

rubra (Leucocelis) ii., 478

rubra (Leucocelis) ii., 479

rubricatus (Trochalus) iii., 43, 47

rubricosus (Aphodius) i., 377,396

rubriceps (Mausoleopsis) 489, 689

rubripennis (Scarabrous) i., 28, 36

rubripes (Sisyphus) i., 100

rubronotatus (Cymophorus) ii., 500, 502

rufa (Ablabera) ii., 78, 85

rufa (Myoderma) ii., 315

rufa (Pachnoda) ii., 435

ruficept (Gsalorrhina) ii-, 396

ruficornis (Hybosorus) i., 493, 494

ruliinanus (Heterochelus) ... i., 716, 745

rufina (Camenta) ii., 9:». 98

rufina (Diplotropis) ii.. 108

rufina (Schizonycha) ii., 196, 223

rufipennis (Agenius) ii., 303, 662

rafipennis (Phenomena) i., 62]

rufipes (Ablabera) ii.. 85

rufipes (Homneomorphus) i., 545

rufipet (Ischnostoma) ii., 374

rufiventris (Clitopa) ii., 149, 151

rufiventrit (Diploa) ii-. 316,684

rufiventris (Oooamenta) ii., 106

rufornata (Tephraea) ii., 464

rufosignatus (Phalops)... i., 273; ii., 625
rufotestaceum(Bolboceras)... i., 480, 491

rufovirens (Onthophagus) ii., 571

rufovirens (Pachnoda) ii , 435, 440

ruf ovittatus (Ablaberoides) ... ii., 59, 64

rufulus (Orphnus) i., 500, 503

rugosa (Schizonycha) ii., 200, 244

rugosus (Scarabffius) i., 29, 42

rugosus (Sisyphus) i., s'i7

rupicola (Lepisia) i., 807, 868

ruricola (Anoplochilus] ii., 353

rurigena (Schizonycha) ii., 196, 221

russaticeps (Anomala) i., 608

russatus (Aphodius) i., 376, 394

rusticus (Anoplochilus) ii., 352, 353

rusticus (Scarabffius) i., 30, 46

rusticus (Trox) i., 466

Piutelin.e i., 563, 895; ii., 655

S

saga (Pachycnema) i., 674, 687

saga (Peritricbia) i., 641, 644

saga (Schizonycha) ii., 195, 219

saga (Tlaocera) ii, 133

saga (Monochelus) ii., 672

saginata (Schizonycha) ii., 193, 201

salisburiana (Camenta) ii., 92, 96

salisburiana (Schizonycha) ii., 199, 241
salisburiensis (Adoretus) i., 566, 571, 895

sanguinipes (Rhinocceta) ii., 330

sanguinolentus (Genuchus) ii., 528

Saprcecius i., HO, 306, 899

Sarophorus i., 277

sansibarica (Polystalactica) ii., 471

sansibaricus (Eumelosomus) ii., 550

sapphyrinus (Onthophagns) i., 180, 253

satyrus (Heliocopris) i., 319

Batyrus (Scarabffius) i., 29, 47

savignyi (Scarabffius) i., 30, 15

scabiosa [Schizonycha) ii., 200, 246

scabratus (Epirinus) i., 90, 91

scabrosus (Cheironitisl i., 155, 156

scabrosus (Onthophagusi ... i., 174, 199

Scaptobius ii., 493, 541

Scaptocnemis i-, 108, 158

scapularis (Onthophagus) ii., 597

Scarabaeus i.,22,23; ii., 552

ScARABJBiDiB i., 13 ; ii. , 552

SCAKAn.T.INI i-. -1

Sceliages i-, 22, 63

Scelophysa L, 799, 863

SOEIiOPffYBIDES i., 798

Bohasdlei (Caccobius) ii., 570

schaumi (Trichoplus) ii., 532

i!/.i (Pachysoma) i-. 77. 80

Schizonides ii., 183, L84

Schizorrhina ii-, 370

Sriii/.oKi-.iiixn ii., 370, 426

Schizonycha ii., 184, 190,699

schuckardi (Xiphoscelis) ii-. 329

Bcitula Heteroclita?) ii.. 684

Index.

749

scrobiculatus (Epirinus) ii., 557

sculpturatus (Epirinus) i., 87

scutellaris (Monochelus) i., 830, 834

Scythropesthes ii., 308, 401, 686

sebakuana (Anomala) i., 606

sebakuana (Euronycha) ii., 31, 32

sebakuensis (Microcamenta) ii., 87

sebakuanus (Stenovalgus) ii., 312

sebakuanus (Trochalus) ii., 43, 51

sebakuense (Bolboceras) ... ii., 637, 642

sebakuensis (Adoretus) i., 578, 895

Sebakwe ii., 185, 264

Sebaris ii., 171, 181

Sebasteos i., 26 ; ii., 555, 690

segregis (Pedaria) i., 279, 283

segrepis iScaptocnemis) i., 158

selousi (Heliocopris) i., 322

semiflavus (Ontbophagus)

i., 178, 232; ii., 589

semihirta (Eriesthis) i., 664, 668

seminulum (Caccobius)... i.,263; ii., 570

semigraniger (Onthophagus) ii., 596

semigraniger (Platychelus) i., 820

semiluctuosus (Cymophorus) ii., 504

semipunetata (Rhabdotis) ... ii., 443, 445
semivirgatus (Platychelus)... i., 805, 811

senescens (Onthophagus) ii., 594

senex (Heterochelus) i., 771

senilis (Anisonyx) i., 633, 639

senilis (Heterochelus) L, 718, 750

seniculus (Onthophagus)

i., 180, 257; ii., 594

sennaarensis (Scarabams) ii., 555

separata (Anomala) ii., 658

septus (Stegopterus) ii., 297, 299

serenus (Aphodius) i., 376, 393

serenus (Onthophagus) ii., 577

sericatus (Gymnopleurus) i., 67, 74; ii., 557

sericans (Euronycha) ii., 31

SekicinvE ii., 1,675

Sericini ii., 2

serripes (Heterochelus) L, 731, 764

serripes (Inhambane) ii., 403

serva (Micrelaphinis) ii., 340

servillei (Stethodesma) ii., 429

sesostris (Catharsius) ii., 629

sesuto (Anisonyx) ii., 663

setosa (Lepitrix) i., 655, 658

setosus (Anoplochilus) ii., 355

setosus (Onthophagus)... i., 198; ii. 584

setosus (Plagiochilus) ii., 518, 520

sexlineatus (Heterochelus)... L, 711, 723

shilouvanus (Heterochelus) ii., 667

shoensis (Onitis) i., 150

sheppardi (Micrelaphinis) ii., 340, 343
signata (Trichostetha) ii., 360, 363,684
sigillatus (Onthophagus) ... i., 175, 21 t
signatipennis (Pachycnemides) ... i., 689

signatus (Onthophagus) i., 178, 233

silicea (Diplognatha) ii-, 457

similata (Ablabera) ii-, 86

Silphodes i-, 496

silphoides (Trox) i., 460

simillima (Camenta) ii., 93, 98

simillima (Melinesthes) ii., 405

simoni (Onthophagus) ii., 572

simoni (Psadacoptera) ii., 349, 350

simplex (Adoretus) i., 579

simplex (Atys) ii., 253, 258

simplex (Copris) i., 367

simplex (iEgostetha) ii., 122

simplex (Etiserica) ii., 24

simplex (Goniaspidius) i., 786, 787

simplex (Liparochirus) L, 135

simplex (Stephanorrhina) ii., 398

simplex (Thabina) i., 848

simplicipes (Monochelus) ... i., 830, 839

simplicipes (Dichelus) i., 699, 703

simulans (Adoretus) L, 581

simulans (Heterochelus) i., 747

simulator (Heterochelus) ii., 670

siviulatrix (Psadacoptera) ii., 350

singularis (Acanthocerodes) i., 472

singularis (Macroretrus) ii., 633

singularis (Pachycnema) ... i., 674, 680

singularis (Pleistophylla) ii., 156

singularis (Saproecius) i., 307

sinuata (Pachnoda) ii., 435, 436

sinuosa (Pachnoda) ii., 436

Sisyphus i., 22, 98

Sisyrapha ii., 351

Sisyraphora ii-, 327

Smaragdesthes ii., 6s7

smaragdinus (Anisonyx) i., 633, 636

smaragdinus (Gymnopleurus) i., 75

smaragdinus (Phalops) ii., 625

smithi (Eudicella) ii., 390

smithi (Valgus) ii., 683

smithsana (Goraqua) ii., 358

sobrina (Hyboschema) i., 531, 532

sobrina (Rhabdotis) ii., 443, 446

sobrina (Pedaria) i., 279, 284

sobrinus (Heterochelus) i., 715, 740

solida (Anomala) i-, 594

sommeri (Hypopholis) ii., 278

sordida (Hoplia) i., 892

sordidus (Sisyphus) i., 106

sorex (Teuchestes) L, 425

soror (Melinesthes) ii., 406

spuria (Schizonyehai ii., 19*, 237

Sparrmannia ii-, 171, 172

Spabbmannini ii-. 115, 170

Spathoschyza ii., 184, 263

spatulipennis (Omocrates)... i., 778, 783

spatulipes (Ischnostoma) ii., 374

spectabilis (Ammcecius) i.,379, HO

spectabilis (Anachalcos) i . 82, 83

speetabilis (Hoplocnemis) ... i., 691, 693

spectabilis (Macroderes) i., 299, 300

spectabilis (Schizonyeha) ... ii., 199, 239

spectabilis (Trichoplus) ii., 353

spheeropterus (Copris) i., 367

Sphcerotrachelus ii-, 58

sphinx (Onitis) i., 120, 131

Spilophorus ii, 492, 504

spiniceps (Dicranocnemus) ii-, 671

spinipennis (Niphitophora) ii.. 450

spinipes (Monochelus) i., 830, 834

750

Index.

spinipes (Sisyphus) i., 101, 104, 897

spinipes (Tiniocellus) i., 116

spinitarsis (Anoplochilus) ii., 354

spinitarsis iDrepanocanthus) i., 432, 133

splendens (Dicranorrhina) ii-. ">sS

splendens (Gymnopleurus) i., 66, 67

splendens (Onthophagus) i., 193

splendida (Ablabera) ii., 77, 78

splendid u.< ( Gymnopleurus) i., 67

spuria (Gymnoloma) i., 850, 857

spuria (Peritrichia) i., 642, 651

spurium (Bolboceras) i., 479, 482

spurius (Heterochelus) i., 747

spurius (Orsilochus) i., 533

spurius (Syrichthodontus) i., 554

Bquamifera (Schizonycha) ii., 195, 216

squamiger (Proxenus) ii., 522

squamosa (Pachycnema) ... i., 673, 677
squamosus (Dicranocnemusi i., 789, 792

squamosus (Platychelus) i., 819

Bquamulatus (Dicranocnemus) i., 789, 792

squamulatus (Diaplochelus) i, 795

stabilis (Microplidus) i., 877, 878

Stegopterus ii., 295, 296,681

stellio (Onthophagus) ii., 608

stenocerus (Onthophagus) ... L, 173, 187

Stenocnema i., 629, 670

Stenoserica ii., 4, 24

Stenovalgus ii., 309, 311

stercorarius (Onthophagus) i., 247

stercorosum (Bolboceras) ... i., 480, 188

stigma (Lepitrix) i., 655, 657

stigmatica (Eriesthis) i., 664, 666

Stephanorrhina ii., 368, 398

Stethodesma ii., 371, 429

straminea lAlogistotarsa) ii., 40

straminea (Atys) ii., 253,256

striata (Apocnosis) ii., 458

striata (Pachycnema) i , 673. 675

striatum (l'achysoma) i., 81

striatus (Heterochelus) L, 773

strigosa (Gymnoloma) i., 850, 855

Stringophorus ii, 304

Stripsipher ii., 296, 304,682

stuhlmanni (Cheironitis) ii.. 558

euavia (Amazula) ii., 128

subcitiatus (Psammobius) ... i., 440, 447

subcostatus (Gymnopleurus) i., 584

subcupratus (Gymnopleurus) i., 71

subdeceptor (Scarabaeus) i., 41

subextensus (Onthophagus) i., 172. L82

Bubfasciata (Gametis) ii., 423

subfasciatus (Asthenopholis) ... ii., 287

subsuturalis (Isandula) ii., 41]

subplanus (Onthophagus) ii., 581

Bubsidens (Copris) i., 344, 355

Bubspilosus (Heterochelus) i..77l

subsulcata (Gymnoloma) ... i., 850, 854

Bubtilis (Epilissus) i.. 96

Bubundatua (Pilinurgus) ii., 525

Bubvittatus (Heterochelus)... i., 714, 7:'.'.i

eubvittatus (Monochelus) i., 834

Bubvittatus (Pharaonus) i.. tili*>

sulTusus (Onthophagus) i., 262 ; ii.. 609

sugillatus (Onthophagus) i.,214; ii., 618

sulcatus (Ccenochilus) ii., 508, 514

sulcatus (Ischnochelus) i., 721, 766

sulcatus (Trox) i., 455, 463

Bulcicollis (Dicranocnemus) i., 788, 7*9
sulcicollis (Drepanocerus) ... i., Ill, 113

sulcicollis (Hypopholis) ii., 278

sulcicollis (Inanda) i., 873

sulcicollis (Knysna) i., 858, 859

sulcicollis (Sybax) i., 439

sulcipennis (Epirinus) i., '.hi

sulcipennis (Oxyomus) i , 379, 412

sulcipennis (Haplobrachium) ii., 276

sulphureus (Hetei-ochelus)... i., 712, 726

Sumtenoschyza ii., 1*4, 262

Surinamensis (Stegopterus) ii.. 297

suri (Scarabeeus) i., 28, 40

>u -pectus (Chretocanthus) ii., 696

suspectus (Heterochelus) ii., 670

suspectus (Onthophagus)

i., 180, 254; ii., 622

sutiliceps (Onthophagus) ii. 601

suturalis (Agenius) ii., 301, 303

suturaha (Gymnoloma) i., 850, 855

suturalis (Onthophagus) i., 231

suturalis [Paracamenta] ... ii., 109, 111

suturalis (Stegopterus) ii., 297, 298

Sybax i., 370,438

sylvatica (Ghirinda) ii., 455

Syngeneschyza ii., 184, 261

Synochodaeus ii., 650

Syrichthodontus i., 511, 553

Syrichthomorphus i., 511, 554

Syrichthus i., 511, 552

swedcri (Stripsipher) ii., 305

T

Tabora i., 585, 618

taenia (PlsBsiorrhina) ii., 417

fcalpa (Onthophagus) i., 177,226; ii., 564

talpa (Trox) i., 454, 457

Tapeinopterus i., 108, 151

tardus (Ablaberoides) ii., 60, 66

tarsatua (Adoretus) i., 584

tarsatus (Phalops)... i, 267, 270; ii.,625

taylori (Pedaria) ii., 628

uicua (Onthophagus) ii., 593

Temnorhynchus i., 510, 534

temporalis (Onthophagus) ii., 610

tenebrosa (Ablabera) ii.. 86

tenella (Triodonta) ii., 69

tenellua (Ablaberoidi - ii., 60, 69

kenuicornis (Onthophagus)

i., 176,221; ii., 573

Tephrsea ii., 459, 463

terminatas (Ammcecius) i., 419

termiticola (Coenochilus) ii.. 512

termitophilus (Syrichthomorphus) i., 555

tersidorsis (Onthophagus) ii., 620

B ) ii., 10, 11

Llatula (Gongella) i., 888

ilatus (Adoretus) i., •")•;•<. 580

testacea Achelyna) ii., 154

Index.

751

testaceipennis (Heterochelus) i., 733

testaceoguttata (Leucocelis) ii., 483

testaceus (Ablaberoides) ii., 60, 68

testaceus (Adoretus) i., 568

Tetragonorrhina ii., 327, 347

Teuchestes i., 370, 424

Thabina i., 799, 847

thalassinus (Gymnopleurus) ... i., 66, 71

thoracica (Glaucocelis) ii., 473

thoracica (Lepitrix) i., 655

thoracicus (Aphodius) ii., 630

thunbergi (Colophon) L, 3

Tiberius ii., 551

tibialis (Gymnoloma) L, 849, 850

tibialis (Pachycnema) i., 674, 685

tibialis (Trichostetha) ii., 684

tigrina (Elaphinis) ii., 446

timidus (Aphodius) i., 377, 400

timidus (Ischnochelus) i., 768

Tiniocellus i., 108, 116; ii., 693

titania (Trichinopus) ii., 165

Tlaocera ii., 118, 133

Tceniesthes ii., 369, 415

tolerata (Anomala) i., 589, 599

tomentosus (Anoplochilus) ii., 357

tomentosus (Stegopterus) ii., 297

tomicoides (Plagiochilus) ... ii., 518, 521

tongaatsana (Camenta) ii., 93, 99

tongaatsana (Pleophylla) ii., 7, 9

torquata (Aulonocneniis) i., 285

totta (Ablabera) ii., 78

Tragiscus i., 109, 159

transitoria (Harmogaster) ... i., 422, 423
transvaalensis (Anomala) ... i., 589, 597

transvaalensis (Camenta) ii., 92, 94

transvaalensis (Diaplochelus) L, 795, 796
transvaalensis (Heteronychus) i., 514, 520

transvaalensis (Mesoserica) ii., 35

transvaalensis (Microcamenta) ... ii., 86
transvaalensis (Mitrophorus) i., 826, 827

transvaalensis (Neleus) ii., 551

transvaalensis (Neoserica) ... ii., 21, 22

transvaalensis (Sisyphus) ii., 557

transvaalia (Oocamenta) ... ii., 106, 107

transvaalica (Ablabera) ii., 77, 80

transvaalica (Schizonycha) ii., 194, 208
transvaalica (Sparrmannia) ii., 173, 175
transvaalicus (Heteronychus) ... i., 525

transversus (Searabteus) i., 45

triangulatus (Oniticellus) ... i., 162, 166

Trichiixi ii., 294, 295, 681

Trichinopus ii., 120, 164

Trichiodera ii., 119, 156

Trichoplus ii., 493, 530,704

Trichostetha ii., 327, 359,684

tricolor (Discopeltis) ii., 426, 428

tricolor (Stegopterus) ii., 297

tricolor (Scythropesthes) ii., 686

tricolor ata (Amazula) ii., 428

tricorniger (Onthophagus) ... i., 172, 184

tricornutus (Catharsius) i., 325, 333

tridens (Oniticellus) i., 167

trimeni (Eudicella) ii., 390, 392

trimeni (Scelophysa) i., 864, 865

trinodosus (Onthophagus) ... i., 174, 201

Trionychut i., 559

tristis (Heterochelus) i., 716, 743

tristis (Heteronychus) i., 514, 521

tristis (Ischnostoma) ii., 374

tristis (Peritrichla) i., 641, 643

trituberculatus (Rhizoplatys) ... i., 560

trivialis (Inanda) i., 873, 874

frivittata (Dyspilophora) ii., 418

Trochaloserica ii., 58

Trochalus ii., 541

trogiformis (Drepanochirus) i., 117

Trogin/e i., 451; ii.,633

troglodytarum (Copris)... i., 350; ii., 630

troglodytes (Catharsius) i., 326, 340

Trogodes ii., 493, 538

Trox i., 452; ii.,633

truncaticornis (Onthophagus)

i., 174, 201

trunculus (Ischnochelus) i., 775

tschindeana (Eulepida) ii., 283, 285

Tulbaghia ii., 75, 88, 675

tulbaghina (Peritrichia) i., 642, 649

tuberculata (Pedaria) i. , 278, 279

tuberculicollis (Onthophagus) ... ii., 621

tuberosus (Trox) i., 456, 466

tumida (Camenta) ii., 93, 101

tumida (Schizonycha) ii. , 196, 225

turbatus (Coenochilus) ii., 508

turbidus (Haematonotus) ii., 337

Trymodera ii., 460, 467

U

umbonata (Melinesthes) ii., 404

ulysses (Catharsius) i., 325, 331

umbrosa (Phoxomela) ii., 339

umtalina (Leucocelis) ii., 477, 482

uncinatus (Heterochelus) i., 746

uncinatus (Onitis) i., 121, 145

undatus (Cymophorus) ii., 500, 503

undulatus (Macroderes) i., 303

unguiculatus (Heterochelus) i., 719, 755
unguiculatus (Platychelus) i., 805, 813

unicolor (Camenta) ii., 93, 98

unicolor (Gymnopleurus) i., 66, 71

unicolor (Schizonycha) ii., 206

unidens (Onthophagus) ii., 622

uniformis (Adoretus) i., 895

urbanus (Trochalus) ii., 43, 51

urus (Copris) i., 346, 365

urus (Onthophagus) i., 176, 219; ii., 607

ursinus (Onthophagus) ii., 591

ursus (Anisonyx) 633, 634

ursus (Peritrichia) L, 642, 646

ustulata (Anomala) i.. 5*9. 59s

usurpator (Scarabajus) i., 28, 33

V

vaalensis (Schizonycha) ... ii., 198, 231

vacivum (Bolboceras) i., 479, 485

vagans (Trochalus) ii., 63

vagus (Ccenochilus) ii., 508, 510

752

Index.

vagus (Trochalus) ii., 42, 44

Valgini ii., 294, 308, 683

valens (Aphodius) i., 374, 382

valida (Congella) i., 888

valida (Gnathocera) ii., 421

valida (Schizonycha) ii., 196, 224

validum (Pachysoma) i., 78

validus (Epirinus) i., 90, 91

validus (Nigidius) ... i., 10, 11 ; ii., 547

vallatus (Cyphonistes).. i., 547

valvata (Schizonycha) ii., 200, 244

vanellus (Phalops) L, 267 ; ii., 625

vanus (Cylichnus) i., 885

variabilis (Anoplochilus) ii., 354

variabilis (Camenta) ii., 93, 99

variabilis (Omocrates) i., 778, 784

varicornis (Periclitopa) ii., 142, 144

variegata (Porphyronota) , ii., 452

variegatus (Adoretus) i., 567, 574

variegatus (Onthophagus) ii., 609

variegatus (Tiniocellus) i., 116

variolosus (Onthophagus) ii., 585

variolosus (Trox) i., 469

velutina (Gametis) ii., 423

velutina (Psadacoptera) ii., 350

Yenedus i., 511, 556

ventricosa (Camenta) ii., 104

ventrosus (Onthophagus) ii., 581

venusta (Kabousa) i., 800, 801

venustulus (Onthophagus)

i., 175, 213; ii., 609
venustus (Heterochelus) ... i., 713, 734

vei'reauxi (Leucocelis) ii., 480

versutus (Onthophagus)

i., 175, 214; ii., 611
verticalis (Onthophagus) i., 222 ; ii., 590

verticalis (Paracamenta) ii., 109

vertuninus (Sparrmannia) ii., 173

verus (Syrichthus) i., 553

vesca (Leribe) ii., 113

vestita (Eriesthis) i., 664, 665

vestita (Pleophylla* ii., 130

vestitus (Aphodius) i., 384

vetula (Anoniala) i., 588, 591

viator (Heteronychus) L, 514, 522

viator (Scarabrcus) i.. 28, 11

vicaria (Schizonycha) ii., 201, 251

vicarius (Onthophagus) L, 178, 238; ii. , 580

vicinus (Onitis) i., 150

vioina (Coptorrhina) i., 2S7, -jsy

vicinus (Trichoplus) ii., 534

victorini (Copris) i.. .".11, :;•">(

vidua (Ablabera) ii., 86

vidua (Discopeltis) ii., 126

vigens (Onthophagus) i., 173, L95

villosa (Schizonycha) ii., 197, 227

villosula (Damara) ii., 678

villosulus (Aphodobius) i., 120, 121

villosus (Dichelus) i., 699, 701

vinctus (Onthophagus) i., 177, 224

virens (Gymnopleurus) i., 67. 7<>

virescens (Lrpisiai L, 867

virescens (Onthophagus) ... i., 177, 228

virgatus (Platychelus) i., 804, 812

virginea (Rhabdotis) ii., 446

viridicollis (Heterochelus) ... i., 715, 742

viridicollis (Caccobius) ii., 568

viridulus (Onitis) i., 120, 133

vittuta (Hypopholis) ii., 278

vittata (Philoserica) ii.. 29

vittatus (Dichelus) i., 699, 702

vittatus (Stegopterus) ii., 297

vitticollis (Leucocelis) ii., 479

vitticollis (Melinesthes) ii., 404

vittiferus (Heterochelus) ... i., 721, 765

vittiger (Heterochelus) i., 753

vittigera (Blikana) i., 882

vittigera (Gouna) i., B63

vittipennis (Anomala) i., 603

vitulus (Catharsius) i., 325, 334; ii., 629
vitulus (Onthophagus) i., 176, 220; ii.,611

volvulus (Chiron) i., 476

vulgatus (Coptochirus) i., 427, 429

vulgus (Microplidus) i.. 877, 880

vulpecula (Heterochelus) ... i., 713, 734

vulpina (Eriesthis) i., 663, 665

vulpinus (Heterochelus) ... i., 712, 722

W

wahlbergi (Aphodius) i., :;7l. 38]

wahlbergi (Gymnopleurus) ... i., 66, lis

westermanni (Onitis) i., 120, 129

westwoodi (Colophon) i.. ■">

westwoodi (Macroderes) i., 302, sits

westwoodi (Scaralneus)... i.. 5S ; ii., 555

wilmsi (Heteronychus) i., 514, 516

wittei (Phalops) L, 268; it, 625

X

xanthocerus (Microtrachelus) ii.. ">7

xanthoptera (Lepitrix) i., 655, 660

Xeloma ii., 351

Xenodorus ii., 654

Xinidium i-, 296

Xiphoscelidus ii., ■">' 1. 320

Xiphoscelis ii., 325, 327

Z

zambesiana (Gametis) ii., 121

zambesiana (Schizonycha) ii.. 199, 240
zambesianus (Orphnus)

i.. 500, 502; ii., 651
zambesianus (Adoretu | i . ~><'7. 576, B95

zambesianus (Onitis) i., 1 li;

zambesianus (Scarabeas) i., 28, 19

zambesicola (Anoniala) i.. 589, 595

zambesicola (Stenoserica) ii., 24, 25

zambesina (Camenta) ii., 93, 102

zambesina (Clitopa) ii.. 1 19, 150

zambesina (Mausoleopsis) ii. , 689

zambesina (Serica) ii. 72

taneibariea (Gametis) ii., 121

tebra (Stegopterus) ii., 297

zebra (Stripsipher) ii., 305, 306

zuluanus (Dichelus) i., 700, 706

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