430 Transactions Soutli African Philosopliical Society, [vol. xii. 



C. i^tcropus, and the female is differentiated from that of the last- 

 named species hy the very slightly punctate prothorax, and also the 

 absence of a fringe of long hairs on the sides of it. In the male the 

 two outer teeth of the anterior tibiae are not quite so much separated 

 as in C. ptcroims, and there is a faint trace of a third. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



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



COPTOCHIRUS BBACHYPTERUS, Har., 



Coleopt., Heft, iii., 1868, p. 85. 



Black, wuth a very narrow sub-flavescent marginal band on the 

 sides of the prothorax ; elytra and legs pale testaceous ; head very 

 finely punctured but more distinctly in the female than in the male, 

 moderately deeply incised in the male and deeply emarginate in the 

 female with the angles of the emargination rounded and not reflexed 

 in either sex, slightly gibbous in the centre, and with no impressed 

 transverse line ; prothorax very feebly punctulate in the male, but 

 distinctly and closely punctured in the female, deeply sinuate 

 laterally in the posterior part in this sex and with the posterior angle 

 strongly defined, sub-rotund laterally in the male and without any 

 posterior angle, base not marginate in the middle ; scutellum 

 impunctate, obsoletely impressed; elytra deeply punctato-striate 

 with the intervals convex, tectiform, carinate behind, impunctate and 

 almost glabrous, they reach to the apex, with the exception of the 

 fourth, sixth, and seventh, and the ninth is more carinate than the 

 others for the whole length ; basal joint of posterior tarsi simple, 

 slender very slightly curved, and as long as the outer apical spur 

 in both sexes. 



Length 31-41 mm. ; width 1|— 2 mm. 



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

 Paarl). 



CoPTOCHiRUs Excisus, Har., 

 Coleopt., Heft, iii., 1868, p. 85. 



This species is of the same size as C. vulgatus, nearly of the same 

 colour except that the prothorax has a much broader lateral 

 flavescent band ; the male is distinguished, however, by the much 

 more deeply incised clypeus the angles of which are distinctly 

 recurved and slightly tuberculate ; the prothorax is also much more 

 rounded laterally and sinuate towards the l)ase ; the anterior tilDioe 



