1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of SoiUh Africa. 103 



Sisyphus foktuitus, u. spec, 

 Plate XXXVIII., tig. 13. 



Differs from S. ri(bri2)e.'>, merely in the colom-, which is darker 

 brown ; the size is also somewhat larger, and the elytra are a little 

 more ampliate, but the facias and also the disposition of the hairs are 

 identical. In the male, however, the three spines beneath the an- 

 tei-ior tibitr are stronger and more closely set, and the very long 

 trochantei- is not light testaceous, is less incurved at tip, and the 

 extremity is compressed. In the female the trochanters do not 

 project. But the valvular sheaths of the penis are of very different 

 shape ; they are less curved, only slightly emarginate at about the 

 middle, and the apical part is less abruptly curved. In the figure 

 the emargination is too near the base. 



Length 11 mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



Sisyphus quadricollis, Gory, 

 Plate XXXYIIL, fig. 15. 

 Monogr., p. 9, pi. i., fig. 7. 



S. hessi, Gor., loc. cit., p. 11, pi. i., fig. 3. 



? S. calcaratus, Klug, Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 651 ; Peter's 



Eeis., 1862, p. 218, pi. xii., tig. 12. 

 S. api)cndiculatus, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 190. 



Shape, size, colour and sculpture of S. fortuitus, but occasionally 

 paler ; the difference consists in the shape of the intermediate and 

 posterior legs and that of the sheaths of the penis ; the anterior 

 tibial have the three teeth beneath very much developed, and the 

 intermediate tibiae are similar, but the trochanter of the posterior 

 leg is not quite as long as in the two preceding species, and is very 

 sharp, and in the male the femora have beneath an acute projection 

 at middle very much resembling a blunt spine ; this projection is 

 absent in the female. The shape of the valvular sheaths of the 

 penis do not resemble that of any South African species ; they are 

 short, not emarginate at middle, but have a very shght constriction 

 which has not been indicated in the figure. 



Length 8|-10 mm. ; width 5-7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Transkei, Port EHzabeth, Stockenstroom, 

 Graham's Tow^n, Somerset East) Natal (Durban), Mozambique 

 (Louren^o-Marquez and Beira, Sena, teste Klug). 



Boheman's co-type of S. appendiculatus is a little lighter than 

 the species from the Cape Colony and from Mozambique, but does. 



