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callus and the ninth is often nearly ol)literatecT ; in the male the l)asal 

 joint of the posterior tibiae is inflated into a patelliform process 

 which is not quite symmetrical, the inner part being a little narrower 

 and less rounded than the outer, and the apical spurs are longer than 

 in the female. 



Hai'old figures this patellifoi*m process as symmeti'ical ; such is not 

 the case with my examples, which, however, may prove to belong to 

 another species. 



Length 4J-5^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury, 

 Worcester, Caledon, Riversdale). 



CoPTOCHiRus COGNATUS, n. spec. 



Very similar to C. ptcroims, but nearly glalirous. In the male, the 

 only sex I know, the clypeus is not more deeply incised than in the 

 female of C. pteropus, and the angles of the incision are similar, the 

 head is only slightly punctate, and there is a distinct frontal, trans- 

 verse impressed line ; the prothorax is very slightly punctate and a 

 little more ampliate laterally in front ; the elytra are similar but 

 nearly glabrous, except in the posterior part where they are extremely 

 briefly pubescent, and the basal joint of the posterior tarsi is 

 moderately dilated and strongly arcuate inwardly. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



CoPToCHiRus EMARGiNATUS, Germ., 

 Ins. Spec. Nov., 1823, p. 112. 



Pale testaceous, shining but briefly pubescent ; prothorax with a 

 broad lateral lighter band ; elytra with small fuscous maculae ; clypeus 

 deeply incised in the centre and with the margins strongly reflexed, 

 very little oblique laterally, genae projecting at right angle above the 

 eye but in a line with the lateral part of clypeus, the head is closely 

 and fairly deeply punctate, somewhat deeply impressed in the 

 anterior part of the clypeus, and has a frontal transverse carina 

 very broadly interrupted in the middle ; prothorax slightly rounded 

 laterally from the anterior to the posterior angle which is somewhat 

 rounded and not emarginate, base hardly sinuate and very slightly 

 emarginate, it is very little convex, somewhat closely punctulate, 

 and is fringed laterally with long hairs ; scutellum short, impunctate ; 

 elytra punctato-striate, striae deep, punctate, the first three dorsal 



