1900.] Catalog tie of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 427 



Prothorax very slightly punctate laterally ; basal joint of hind 



tarsi laminate and strongly arcuate cognatns. 



A'. Basal joint of posterior tarsi normal in both sexes. 

 B-. Anterior tibiaa bi-dentatc outwardly. 



Prothorax with a faint median fuscous patch ; elytra with 



numerous fuscous macula) emarginatits. 



Head and prothorax black, the latter with a very narrow 

 sub-flavescent lateral margin ; elytra light straw-colour and 

 with a sub-lacteous tinge' pallldipennis. 



B". Anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly. 

 C-. Clypeus not tuberculate on each side of the emargination. 



Prothorax of male closely punctured ; elytra punctato- 



striate ; anterior tibiiE not sinuate hawardly vulgahis. 



Prothorax of male hardly punctulate in the centre ; elytra 

 crenato-striate, with the intervals convex ; anterior tibiffi 

 sinuate inwardly brachypterus. 



C. Clypeus tuberculate on each side of the emargination. 



Prothorax of male deeply and closely punctate; elytra 

 deeply punctato-striate, with the intervals not much 

 raised; inner angle of anterior tibiae distinctly triangular excisus. 



COPTOCHIBUS PTEROPUS, Hav., 

 Berl. Entom. Zeitsch., 1859, p. 202, pi. v., fig. 1. 

 Black, with the lateral part of the clypeus, a narrow lateral band 

 on the prothorax, the elytra and legs flavescent, the latter with the 

 discoidal part more or less infuscate ; head and prothorax glabrous, 

 but the latter is fringed laterally with long hairs ; elytra briefly but 

 densely pubescent ; head closely punctate, with the punctures rarer 

 in the anterior part of the clypeus which is broadly incised in both 

 sexes, but more so in the male, and in which also the angles of the 

 incision are more recurved ; the genae project at right angle above 

 the eye, and are in a line with the lateral part of the clypeus; 

 prothorax deeply arid very closely punctured, the punctures a little 

 deeper in the female, in which also the sides are distinctly more 

 emarginate past the median part, not very convex, and with the 

 base distinctly marginate and not very sinuate ; scutellum short, 

 deeply impressed in the centre, and impunctate ; elytra sub-parallel, 

 with the humeral angles rounded, moderately deeply punctato-striate 

 with the internals convex, and minutely aciculate, the first three 

 dorsal striae and the marginal one alone reach to the apex, the seventh 

 and eighth are of the same length and reach to the apex of the humeral 



