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1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of SoiitJi Africa. 267 



Key to the Speeies. 



k-. Vertex of head produced in a long, bifid, laminate process. 

 B-'. Prothorax not tuberculate on the disk. 



C''. Lamina slender at tip, the two parts set close to one 



another. 



(P. Ch'peus transversely truncate in fi-ont in the male, 



and strongly recurved, second and third intervals of 



elytra with a few transverse folds, last joint of 



posterior tarsi narrower than the preceding one. 



Prothorax strongly tuberculate on each side of the 

 anterior part ardca. 



C3. Lamina divided at tip, the two parts apart. 



d-. Clypeus very elongate, aculeate, slightly recurved at 

 tip ; lamina very long ending in two or four sharp 

 spines. 



Last joint of posterior tarsi narrower than the pre- 

 ceding one ads2Krsi2>c)inis. 



Last joint of posterior tarsi oblong, as broad as the 



preceding one congenitiis. 



C-. Lamina short, cleft at tip, gence diagonal. 



fZ'. Clypeus not much aculeate, very elongate, recurved at 

 tip. 



All joints of posterior tarsi equally broad, ultimate 



one as long as the two penultimate ones put together tarsutus. 



C Lamina short, aculeate at tip, and not cleft; gense pro- 

 jecting. 



Joints of posterior tarsi, normally decreasing in width, 



genre sub-auriculate flavocinctus. 



A'. Vertex of head not produced in a laminate process. 

 •B'. Prothorax bi-tuberculat'e on the disk. 



Lateral part of the head produced in an auriculate process, 

 clypeus having at apex a laminate, quadrate vertical 

 tooth boscJias. 



Phalops aedea, Klug, 

 Plate XXXV., fig. 1. 

 Monatsb. Berl. Ac, 1885, p. 652; Peters' Eeis., 1862, p. 229. 

 P. vanelhis, Lansb., Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1883, p. 166. 



Coppery red on the upper side and occasionally green, under side 

 and legs dark blue with occasionally a coppery tinge, glabrous above ; 

 head covered with very closely set granules, frontal carina con- 

 spicuous ; prothorax marginate all round, covered with very closely 



