536 Transactions South African Pliilosopliical Society, [vol. xii. 



in the male, slightly emarginate in the female ; prothorax little 

 ampliate laterally towards the median part, but a little more 

 attenuate towards the anterior angle than towards the basal, it 

 is obliquely retuse in front in the male but not excavated, and the 

 retuse part is smooth, and extends from the anterior margin to 

 the median part, the rest of the surface is covered with round, non- 

 confluent foveate punctures, but in the middle of the posterior part 

 there is a somewhat narrow, longitudinal, smooth space reaching 

 from the margin of the retuse part to the base, in the female there 

 is no retuse impression, but the sculpture is identical ; scutellum 

 impunctate ; elytra with hardly any trace of stria, except along the 

 suture, but showing traces of obsolete punctures along the sides, in 

 the female traces of these obsolete striae and punctures are a little 

 more visible, but cannot be said to be distinct ; pygidium covered 

 with very rugose punctures and granular intervals, and clothed with 

 a dense fulvous pubescence ; anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate out- 

 wardly, apical tooth broad but not very sharp, inner spur not 

 reaching the apical part of the tibiae. 



Length 14-20|^ mm. ; width 8-10|- mm. 



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

 Malmesbury, Caledon, Prince Albert, Alexandria, Uitenhage). 



TeMNOEHYNCHUS CLYPEATUS, Klug, p.ifl C^-'i*^ 



Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 657; Peters' Eeis., p. 251, pi. xiv., 



fig 13. 

 Piceous black on the head and prothorax and with the elytra and 

 under side chestnut-brown ; median part of clypeus sharply dentate 

 on each side, the teeth a little longer and more horizontal in the 

 female than in the male, frontal carina transversely plicate, steeply 

 sloping, ampliate, rounded laterally, and deeply emarginate at tip in 

 the shape of a not very arcuate crescent in both sexes, the apex of 

 this carina is not higher than the apical margin of the prothorax in 

 the female, and is a little higher in the male owing to the anterior 

 part of the prothorax being excavated from the anterior margin to 

 the median part of the disk, the posterior margin of this smooth 

 excavation is slightly bi-sinuate, and has in the centre a small sharp 

 tubercle, the sides are covered above the lateral round impression 

 with coarse, somewhat confluent, foveolate punctures, the lateral 

 margin is broadly impunctate and in the middle of the posterior dis- 

 coidal part there is a broad, smooth, slightly depressed space reaching 

 from the cavity to the base ; elytra with a very faint trace of a 

 double series of punctures at about the median part of each elytron 



