1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 611 



callus and reaching to the median part ; pygidium deeply and closely 

 punctured, glabrous except for three or four setulose hairs set in an 

 oblique depression on each side ; the propygidium and the exposed 

 area of the dorsal part of the abdominal segments are closely and 

 deeply punctured, and the ventral segments have shallow, somewhat 

 indistinct cicatricose imprints ; legs short, robust, and distinctly 

 punctate except the upper side of the anterior tibiae. 



Length 9:^-10 mm. ; width 5^-6 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo, Sahsbury). Occurs also in 

 German East Africa and in Zanzibar. 



The clasps of the genital armature of the male are very different in 

 shape from those of PopilUa bipunctata and P. major, and very closely 

 resemble those oi Aiioiiuda dorsata, Fiihr. 



P. nitidicollis, Klug, is perhaps a varietal form in which the whole 

 of the elytra is suffused with testaceous yellow. 



Gen. POPILLIA, Serv., 

 Encyclop. Method, x., 1825, p. 367. 



Mentum ovoid laterally from the base to three-quarters of the 

 length, incised there and narrower and sub-parallel thence to the 

 apex the angles of which are rounded, the anterior part is 

 broadly and deeply scooped in the middle, in the outer face it is 

 somewhat convex from the base to the median part, and deeply 

 impressed thence to the apex, labial palpi short, somewhat massive, 

 intermediate one nodose, the apical one nearly as long as the other 

 two taken together, and deeply impressed laterally ; mandibles very 

 robust, and provided with three strong arcuate teeth, the two lower 

 ones of which are double and connate at the base ; maxillary palpi 

 moderately long, apical joint sub-cylindrical and tapering a little 

 towards the apex where it is truncate ; labrum very short, emarginate 

 in the centre, mandibles laminiform, projecting a little beyond the 

 labrum with the inner edge incised, aad the upper outer one emargi- 

 nate ; clypeus broader than long, being about half the length of 

 the head, truncate at apex with the angles slightly rounded ; 

 eyes somewhat prominent, divided into equal parts in the anterior 

 part by the canthus of the gense ; prothorax very little convex, 

 very attenuate obliquely laterally from the median part to the 

 apex, sub-parallel from the median part to the basal angle which is 

 sharp, obliquely sinuate thence along the base to a short distance from 

 the scutellum where the median basal part is completely emarginate- 

 and arcuate ; scutellum elongate, sharply ogival ; elytra as broad as 



