1902.] Catalogue of tlic Colcoptcra of South Africa. 591 



head very small, deeply and roughly punctured like the clypeus 

 which is somewhat depressed with the margins much reflexed, 

 broadly rounded laterally and somewhat arcuate in front ; prothorax 

 somewhat sinuate laterally between the median part and the basal 

 angle, deeply and moderately closely punctured and having in the 

 centre from the median part to the base a narrow, elongate, im- 

 punctate space, along the outer margin there is a series of not 

 closely set, reddish bristles ; scutellum with a median impression, 

 deeply punctured ; elytra nearly parallel in the male, slightly ampliate 

 at about one-third of the length in the female, punctato-striate, the 

 punctures seriate but somewhat transverse, shallow, very irregular, 

 and giving to the elytra a very coriaceous appearance, they are not 

 obliterated on the apical callus which is not very conspicuous, and 

 the intervals are costulate, the outer margin has a fringe of reddish, 

 bristle-like hairs ; pygidium deeply and coarsely punctured and 

 fringed at the apex with long, reddish-brown hairs ; pectus and legs 

 villose, the former very densely ; the hind tibiae are darker than the 

 others, the inner claw of the anterior tarsi only is cleft, in both sexes. 



Length 13-15 mm. ; width 7-7;^ mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg). 



Anomala vetula, Wiedem., • 

 Plate XLI., fig. 27. 

 Germ. Mag. Entom., iv., p. 133. 



A. nitens, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., i., p. 238. 



A. area, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 186. 



Piceous black, very shining and with a faint metallic tinge, head 

 and anterior legs reddish, palpi and antennae rufescent ; prothorax 

 with a very narrow rufescent mai'gin, but occasionally reddish brown 

 with two black patches on the prothorax ; head somewhat narrow 

 with the clypeus distinctly hollowed and the margins strongly 

 reflexed, is broadly rounded laterally, but nearly straight in front 

 and roughly punctured, the head is also roughly punctured in the 

 anterior part and more regularly and somewhat closely in the 

 posterior ; prothorax plainly attenuate diagonally laterally from the 

 median to the anterior part, very slightly ampliate in the middle, 

 nearly sti^aight thence to the basal angle, bi-sinuate along the base 

 and having a narrow marginal fold, moderately convex, faintly 

 aciculate in the discoidal part and a little more distinctly so on the 

 sides ; scutellum impressed at the apex, plainly punctate and having 

 also a faint trace of a longitudinal impressed median line ; elytra not 

 broader than the prothorax at the base but slightly ampliated from 



