1907. j Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Soutli Africa. 499 



but there the suture is raised, and on each side of it is a distinctly 

 geminate stria, the space between the first dorsal costa and the 

 second has four impressions arranged in a row and is striolate- 

 punctate, running from side to side, and past the median part is a 

 transverse band consisting of four interrupted flavescent macules in 

 relief on each side, the sides are transversely plicate ; the apical 

 callus is greatly developed and likewise flavescent longitudinally ; 

 pygidium transversely strigillate and having at apex an arcuate 

 impression with highly raised, round, sub-flavescent walls ; last 

 abdominal segment wholly, the others laterally only strigillate ; 

 pectus also strigillate laterally ; legs strigillate-punctate, sparsely 

 hairy. 



Length 9-9+ mm. ; width 44/ mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Leydsdorp); Southern Transvaal (Mazoe, 

 Sebakwe, Salisbury, Mt. Chirinda). 



Gen. CYMOPHOEUS, Kirb., 



Zoolog. Journ., hi., 1827, p. 271. 



Ptychopliorus, Schaum., Germar's Zeitschr., hi., p. 271. 

 Clydonophorus, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1899, p. 61. 



Mentum elongated, emarginate laterally at about the median part, 

 sub-parallel thence, truncate at apex, gibbose on the outer face of 

 the ligular part, last joint of labial palps long, cylindrical or nearly 

 so, inner lobe of maxillae with two superposed teeth, upper lobe with 

 a long, falcate tooth ; head simple, clypeus somewhat deflexed, 

 anterior margin reflexed ; eyes very large ; antennal club as long as 

 the whole pedicel and ferruginous ; prothorax attenuate in front, 

 slightly narrower at the base than across the median part, or equally 

 broad (hilaris), bi-impressed along the base, somewhat convex and 

 without impression in the discoidal part ; scutellum sharply triangular; 

 elytra very deeply sinuate laterally, not much narrowed thence to the 

 apex, on each side of the base there is a sharply triangular, long 

 depression the apex of which is continued as a dorsal moderately 

 raised costa ending in an apical callus on the outer part of which is 

 a long, very deep impression above the lateral, deflexed part; spiracles 

 of the propygidium sharply conical ; pygidium sloping backwards, 

 conically produced in the centre and having a longitudinal median 

 keel ; mesosternum with a somewhat broad, short process which is 

 truncated at apex ; prosternum with a vertical, ante-coxal spine-like 

 process ; anterior tibiae uni- or bi-dentate in both sexes ; tarsi long ; 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae with a spine on the upper edge. 



