110 Transactions Sotilli African rJnlusopJiical Society, [vol. xii. 



Bodj' depressed, clypeus bi-dentato, posteiior tibi^ 



very short and very much dilated ; hind tarsi foLUi-'Td)? ^^ o'" ^,. 



jointed and without chxws Saproecius. ^ £^ 



Body moderately depressed, clypeus bi-dentate ; pos- 

 terior femora short, triangular, all the joints of the 

 hind tarsi fused in a patelliform process ; no claws. . Hcteroclitopus. 



B". Upper side of f)osterior tibite with a transverse ridge 

 above the apex. 

 a. Anterior tibia? obliquely truncate. 



Elytra with seven striae on each side, the oixter one 

 edged by a carina reaching from the shoulder to the 

 ai^ical part, and another beginning at some distance 

 from the base and reaching the apex Heliocopris.''- 



Elytra with eight stria? on each side, the outer one 

 being carinate from the base to past a third of the 

 length Catharsim. "^^ '\ 



Elytra with eight strite on each side, the outer one 



not carinate, and often obliterated towards the apex Copris. 



Gen. DEEPANOCEEUS, Kirl)y, 

 Zoologic. Journ., iii., 1828, p. 521. 



Mentum parallel for three-fourths of the length and with the 

 lateral apical part diagonal, broadly emarginate from side to side, 

 labial palpi bi-jointed, basal joint short, dilated triangularly at tip, 

 second joint very long, sub-oblong, ligula divided in two, very 

 slender, lobes very diverging and as long as the labial palpi ; 

 maxillae moderately slender, a little attenuate at tip from the 

 insertion of the maxillary palpi the first joint of which is slender, 

 ■curved, second thicker, somewhat in tlie sluipe of a sub-elongate 

 club, third sub-cylindrical, last fusiform but blunt at tip and a 

 little thicker at middle than the penultimate one ; upper maxillary 

 lobes very long and moderately broad ; antennte nine-jointed, the 

 three apical joints forming a somewhat compressed club the three 

 foliate joints of which are nearly three times as long as broad ; 

 head with a more or less elongate clypeus, geme parallel, eyes 

 showing very little on the upper side through a narrow longitudinal 

 ■slit ; prothorax elongate, sub-parallel or very slightly rounded 

 laterally and depressed on the upper side ; elytra plane, not covering 

 the sides of the abdomen and without distinct epipleura ; no 

 scutellum ; pygidium vertical ; metasternum very large, inter- 

 mediate coxae straight, posterior ones very contiguous ; anterior 

 tibi£e quadri-dentate outwardly, and having a long spur at about the 



