1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 429 



uud the nuirgiual stv'uv iilonc rciicli to the apex, while towards the 

 base the six inner striae reach it, the seventh, which is only slightly 

 shorter than the eighth, reaches nearly to the base of the humeral 

 calhis, and the ninth is not very distinct, the intervals are convex, 

 and tectiform ; liasal joint of posterior tibiye straight and as long as 

 the apical spur in the male ; under side very briefly pubescent. 



Length 4^-5 mm. ; width 2-2^ mm. 



H((b. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Worcester, StelicMibosch, Paarl). 



CoPTOCHiRrs PALLiDiPENNis, Har., 

 Coleopt., Heft, iv., 1868, p. 84. 



Black, shining, glabrous, with a narrow lateral pallid band on the 

 prothorax ; elytra pale straw-colour, nearly transparent, and with the 

 lacteous wings underneath giving them a slightly whitish appearance ; 

 head closely but not deeply punctulate, clypeus slightly marginate in 

 the centre and with the margin recurved very distinctly on each side 

 of the emargination, oblique laterally, genae projecting at a right 

 angle above the eye and in a line from there with the lateral part of 

 the clypeus, head deeply impressed in the anterior part of the 

 clypeus, and with a faint median elevation ; intra-ocular transverse 

 ridge indistinct ; prothorax not much convex, ampliate laterally from 

 the anterior angle to past the median part where it is deeply incised 

 and produced straight from there to the basal angle which is distinct, 

 the base is not sinuate on each side, and is slightly marginate ; 

 scutellum short, impunctate ; elytra punctato-striate, with the in- 

 tervals convex and the first four striae as well as the outer marginal 

 one reaching to the apex, while towards the base the seventh and 

 eighth striae are of equal size, and reach to near the humeral callus, 

 the ninth is not distinctly punctulate. 



Length 3^ mm. ; width If mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester). 



CoPTOCHiEus vuLGATUs, Har., 

 Coleopt., Heft, iii., 1868, p. 84. 



Black, shining ; prothorax with a very narrow su])-flavescent 

 lateral margin ; elytra pale testaceous but slightly infuscate in the 

 dorsal part ; upper side nearly glabrous ; similar in all respects to 

 C. pteropus, except that it is not pubescent, the prothorax is not 

 fringed with long hairs, and the basal joint of the hind tarsi is 

 cylindrical, and as slender as the others; it is also half the size of 



