\/. D 1902.] CatalorjuQ of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 561 / 



o/v? shallow cicatricose punctures nearly coalescing ; propygidium 

 covered with very closely set, fine, very short, somewhat irregular 

 folds on the w^iole of the median part ; pygidium finely plicate 

 transversely and finely scabrose at apex in the female ; under side 

 almost glabrous except for a short pubescence on the sides of the 

 metasternum ; abdominal segments deeply and closely punctate, 

 process of prosternum strongly carinate and with the apical part 

 \ sloping, deeply impressed, and glabrous ; anterior tibiae very sharply 

 tri-dentate ; joints of anterior tarsi a little thickened, inner claw 

 contorted, broad, bifid at tip in the male ; in the female these joints 

 are not very slender, and the two claws are equal. 



Length 31-38 mm. ; width 15-18 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Knysna, Port St. John), Natal 

 (Durban). 



Ehizoplatys bitubeeculatus, Klug, 

 Plate XL., fig. 32. 



Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 657; Peters' Eeis., 1862, p. 253. 



General appearance of the preceding species, but a little narrower, 

 and with the elytra more finely punctured and the striae nearly 

 invisible ; head as in B. trituherculatus ; the mandibles are sharply 

 aculeate in the outer angle of the anterior margin and very sharply /'^ 



dentate in the inner, the spine-like tooth being recurved ; the V?.-* 



cephalic horn is sharper and longer ; in the male the prothorax 

 is similarly sculptured, but is a little more ampliate laterally at 

 middle, and it is deeply and broadly excavated from the anterior 

 margin to two-thirds of the length, with the anterior part of the 

 walls of the excavation produced into two conical, very conspicuous 

 tubercles ; the posterior part of the disk is slightly impressed in the 

 middle ; the female much resembles that of B. trituherculatus, but 

 the prothorax is much more deeply and broadly punctured and is 

 even scrobiculate laterally, and there is a distinct impression, callose 

 on each side, in the anterior part of the prothorax ; under side as in 

 B. tritubcrculatus, but the four outer spines on the intermediate 

 and posteiior tibiae are not connate at base. 



Length 33-35 mm. ; wadth 15-16 mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls), Mozambique (Louren^o- 

 Marquez). 



EHIZOPLATODES, n. gen. 



Closely allied to Bhizoplatys, but with the shape of the mentum 

 and maxillae different. Mentum diagonally ampliate laterally from 



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