1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 433 



iuid are a little longer than the apical spur, and the anterior tihiic are 

 not anipliated inwardly at tip. 



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



Hab. Cape Colonj^ (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester, Hope 

 Town), ? Southern Rhodesia (between tlie Zambesi and the 

 Limpopo Rivers). 



DliKPANOCANTHUS EXIMIUS, n. SpeC. 



Black, briefly pubescent, with the elytra and the legs chocolate- 

 brown ; head as in the preceding species, but the clypeus is more 

 deeply incised at apex, and the angles of the incision are sharp and 

 reflexed; the shape of the prothorax is the same, and it is covered 

 with deep, closely set punctures, but there is no marginal paler band 

 and the outer margins have a fringe of moderately dense, long hairs ; 

 the median longitudinal groove is a little more shallow, but of equal 

 length ; the scutellum has a longitudinal median carina, and the 

 elytra have on each side nine sharp carina^, the first three of which, 

 as well as the fifth and the seventh, reach to the apex ; the intervals 

 are filled with transverse punctures the walls of which reach from 

 one carina to the other ; under side hardly pubescent ; anterior 

 tibiae of the male triangularly dilated inwardly under the second 

 outer tooth, basal joint of intermediate tarsi, nearly straight, and a 

 little shorter than the apical spur, that of the posterior tarsi strongly 

 curved inwardly, and produced in a long, sub-diagonal spine 

 directed towards the apex of the apical spur. 



Length 4 mm.; wddth 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). 



Drepanocanthus spinitaksis, n. spec. 



Livid brown, sub-opaque, glabrous, median part of the prothorax 

 broadly infuscate ; clypeus very deeply incised, depressed in front, and 

 with the angles of the incision sharp and reflexed in the male, broadly 

 and deeply emarginate in the female, genae projecting at right angles 

 above the eye, and with the angle a little sharper in the male 

 than in the female, head finely punctulate in front, more deeply 

 behind, slightly raised in the middle and having a faint, transverse 

 impressed frontal line in the centre, this frontal line is absent in the 

 female the head of which is also more deeply and equally punctured ; 

 prothorax hardly ampliate laterally in the middle, little convex, very 



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