1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 299 



punctured, but those of the female are alike in both species ; the 

 genital armature differs, the clasps enclosing a broader open space 

 and being less diagonally truncate outwardly at apex in S. suturalis ; 

 the intermediate tibiae of the male are also more strongly curved 

 inwardly than in S. vittatus. 



In examples from Worcester and Beaufort West, the punctures 

 on the prothorax are not quite as asperous as in the examples from 

 the neighbourhood of Cape Town; this character is variable. 



Length 14^-15 mm. ; width 7^-8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town ; Worcester, 

 Hex River Valley. 



Stegopterus septus, Sch., 

 Germar's Zeitschr., ii., 1840, p. 404. 



Male : Bronze black ; elytra pale testaceous, with the suture and 

 the outer margins infuscate ; head, prothorax, under side and legs 

 clothed with a very long and very dense greyish or sub-flavescent 

 pubescence ; clypeus as long as the head, not narrowed at the base 

 but rounded laterally in the anterior part, and not emarginate in 

 front ; antennal club very long, half as long again as the whole 

 pedicel ; the sculpture of the head and prothorax and the shape of 

 elytra and pygidium similar to those of the two preceding species 

 from which it is easily distinguished by the shape of the clypeus 

 and the much greater length of the antennal club ; the intermediate 

 tibiae are not curved inwardly. 



Female unknown. 



I have seen only two male examples of this species. 



Length 10-10i mm. ; width 4i-5 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (? Knysna ; Clanwilliam). 



Stegopterus natalensis, n. sp. 

 Plate XLV1L, fig. 6. 

 Male : Bronze-black, with the antennae and the elytra testaceous 

 yellow, the latter have the recurved outer margin black ; clypeus 

 somewhat concave, rounded in front, owing to the margin being 

 raised all round, very slightly emarginate in the centre, densely 

 hairy like the head ; antennal club extremely long ; prothorax of 

 the usual shape, clothed with a very dense and long flavescent 

 pubescence, and covered with somewhat broad, sub-contiguous 

 punctures ; along the outer margin there is occasionally a whitish 

 band ; scutellum closely punctate ; elytra somewhat short, being 

 only twice the length of the prothorax, more deeply striate than in 



