1900.] Catalogue of tJie Colcoptera of South Africa. 177 



Clypcus deeply and narrowly incised ; prothorax 

 punctulate ; elytra bronze with a flavescent humeral 

 patch, and a marginal band of same colour . . . . rincfus. 



Clypeus semicircular, not emarginate ; prothoi-ax 

 punctulate ; elytra black, shining insiilsiis. 



Clypeus emarginate and with the angles sharp ; pro- 

 thorax granulose ; colour bronze black fiigitivus. 



Clypeus sinuate in front ; prothorax bronze, sparsely 

 punctulate ; elytra flavous, with part of the suture 

 and two dorsal patches on each side fuscous . . . . dccipieiis.. 



Clypeus emarginate and with the angles sharp ; pro- 

 tJiorax coppery bronze and closely punctate ; elytra 

 deeply punctured, bronze black and having often a 

 humeral and an apical reddish patch on each side . . talpa. 



a^. Cephalic horns tuberculiform ; prothorax impressed 

 in front. 



Clypeus slightly emarginate; prothorax with a median 

 impression and a tubercle in the anterior edge 

 (pi. xxxvi., fig. 2) aiiibigitiis.. 



Clypeus slightly emarginate ; prothorax without a 

 naedian impression, without any tubercle in the 

 anterior edge viroscens.^ 



Cs. Head without horns, but having instead a transverse 

 laminate carina in the centre of the vertex, in both 

 sexes. 



Clypeus deeply emarginate ; prothorax not tuberculate 

 in front ; elytra shining bronze, with a broad flavescent 

 outer band patriciiis.. 



Clypeus sub-truncate and slightly emarginate at tip ; 

 prothorax with a transverse carina in front ; elytra 

 black dispar. 



Clypeus sub-truncate and slightly emarginate at tip ; 

 prothorax with a transverse carina in front ; elytra 

 with six elongate flavous patches on each side . . . . incertiis. 



Clypeus elongate, not emarginate at tip ; prothorax 

 with two excavations in front separated by a vertical 

 blunt lobe-like tubercle, and having a sharp conical 

 tubercle on the outer part of the excavation (pi. xxxvi., 

 fig. 5) obtutus. 



G*. Head without horns or tubercles, but having instead 

 two transverse carinse. 

 a'*. Prothorax excavate ; body black ; elytra flavous. 



Elytra flavous or black, with a sub-basal flavous patch 

 on each side (pi. xxxvi., fig. 3) ; prothorax with lateral 



round punctures in front biplagia/us, 



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