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1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptem of South Africa. 



nnd near the base, but in some examples two or three dupUcate 

 series of punctures are somewhat apparent, and extend as tar and 

 even sUghtly further than the median part, especially m small 

 examples, in the female the anterior part of the prothorax is slightly 

 retuse, and the posterior median part is also slightly depressed; the 

 sculpture is a little less scrobiculate laterally, in the median part 

 there is a narrow, longitudinal smooth band extending almost from 

 apex to base, and the stri... and punctures are a little more apparent 

 than in the male, but are nevertheless not conspicuous; outer teeth 

 of anterior tibiae moderately sharp in both sexes, inner spur either as 

 long as the inner rounded part of the outer apical tooth, or slightly 

 shorter • pygidium impunctate in the lower part, but fringed at apex 

 ^vith long, fulvous hairs, upper part roughly punctate and granular, 

 and densely hairy. 



Length 20-24 mm. ; width 10-12* mm. 



Klu- has evidently mistaken the female of T. faunus for that o 

 T dypeatus; the former is easily recognisable by the fairly wel 

 defined stria, and punctures on the elytra. Although I have no 

 seen King's type of T. dypeatus, I have little doubt of the identity oi 

 my examples, not only owing to the good figure given m 1 eters 

 Eeise, but also because I have some specimens from almost the same 

 locality. But whereas King's type is fuscous black, all but one ot 

 my examples are chestnut brown and only fuscous, or piceous black 

 on the head and prothorax. wt^ i \ 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port St. John, Kowie Eiver), Natal (Durban), 

 Southern Ehodesia (Manica), Mozambique (Tette, teste Klug). 



Temnorhynchus bubalus, n. spec, 

 Plate XL., fig..^.!''- 

 Head and prothorax piceous, but often dark ferruginous ; elytra 

 chestnut-brown ; apical margin of clypeus produced at each angle into 

 a long, sub-horizontal tooth slightly reflexed at apex, and very con- 

 spicuous in both- sexes, clypeal carina very roughly shagreened, 

 shghtly slanting backwards in the large development, and more so m 

 the smaller where it is not rounded or ampUate laterally and is 

 broadly and deeply incised triangularly, while in the large develop- 

 ment the incised part is much longer than the non-mcised one, and 

 forms two slightly diverging horns, in the female the mcision is less 

 broadly triangular, and the height of the carina is nearly the same as 

 that of the smaller development; prothorax excavate m the median 

 part in the male, the excavate part varying in size and depth, but 

 not reaching further than the median part of the disk, shghtly 



