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set granules, ampliated laterally, convex ; elytra convex, narrowly 

 striate, intervals nearly plane, very closely granulose, second and 

 fourth intervals with a few transverse folds, eighth stria distinct only 

 from the median part to the apex ; pygidium very deeply and closely 

 punctured, the punctures somewhat scabrose ; metasternum and legs 

 punctured, the former has a deep, round, basal impression, and a 

 slightly impressed longitudinal line ; prosternum distinctly carinate, 

 and slightly aculeate. 



Male : Clypeus moderately long, apical part truncate and strongly 

 recurved but sinuate laterally, gense projecting conspicuously at 

 right angles to the lateral line of the clypeus, vertex of the head 

 produced as a long, laminate process tapering to a point which is 

 deeply grooved but not divided, and curves outwards ; prothorax 

 deeply excavated in the centre for the reception of the laminate 

 cephalic horn, and having on each side of the anterior part a distinct, 

 round, tubercular prominence ; the transverse frontal carina is quite 

 straight. 



Female : Clypeus sub-circular, slightly emarginate at tip, gense 

 rounded, projecting beyond the line of the clypeus, frontal carina 

 arcuate, margin of vertex distinctly carinate in the middle ; prothorax 

 not as much ampliated as in the male, provided with a small 

 tubercle sometimes slightly bifid, sometimes hardly noticeable in the 

 centre at apex, and impressed longitudinally in the middle. 



Length 10-13 mm. ; wadth 6-8 mm. 



Hab. British Bechuanaland (Palapye), Southern Ehodesia 

 (Victoria Palls). 



I have seen the type of P. vanellus, Lansb., in the Oberthiir's 

 collection; it is the same species as P. ardca, Klug, the type of which 

 has also no lateral tubercle on the prothorax. 



Phalops adspeesipennis, Bohem., 



Plate XXXV., figs. 5, 5a, and 6. 

 Ofvers. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 112. 



P. drcgei, Har. Coleopt., Heft, ii., 1867, p. 54. 



P. tcittei, id. ibid., p. 56. 



P. boscJiimanus, Pering., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. iv., 1888, 



p. 195. 

 P. eiqdynes, Bates, Ent. Monthly Magaz., 1888, p. 241. 



Very dark green, turning almost to black occasionally, elytra dark 

 testaceous green, or quite testaceous ; head covered with equi-distant 

 granules, not too closely set, and briefly but densely pubescent; 



