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mediate femora and tibiae are simple ; the posterior trochanters do 

 not in the least project beyond the line of the femur ; the latter has 

 underneath and at about the median part a short, carinate, trans- 

 verse projection instead of a triangular tooth as in S viuricatus, 

 Oliv., and the hind tibiae are normally curved and very closely 

 serrate inwardly. The genital armature is not unlike the shape of 

 that of S. atratus, but is different nevertheless. 



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



Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). 



Tribe COPEINI. 



Gen. CHEIKONITIS, Lansb. 



Cheironitis stuhlmanni, Kolb., 



Die Kaf., D. 0. Afrikas, 1897, p. 147, pi. 1, fig. 9. 



Male : Bronze-green, very little shiny on the upper side, but very 

 shiny underneath ; the tibiae are dark green ; clypeus semicircular, 

 strongly shagreen ed, clypeal carina very short, arcuate, vertex and 

 genae granular, frontal carina slightly interrupted on each side of a 

 small, little developed median tubercle, vertex carinate laterally and 

 behind ; prothorax depressed, one-fourth wider than long, faintly 

 bi-impressed longitudinally in the centre of the dorsal part and 

 covered with equi-distant, slightly asperous punctures turning to 

 scabrose in the anterior part of the sides ; elytra narrower than the 

 prothorax at its widest part, but not narrower at the base than the 

 base of the latter, strongly sinuate below the humeral part, slightly 

 narrower at apex than at base, depressed, but with the sutural part 

 raised and the fifth interval sub-tectiform, finely striate and with the 

 eighth or outer stria replaced by a very sharp carina reaching from 

 base to apex, intervals closely but not deeply punctulate ; pygidium 

 closely punctulate and having a slight, median longitudinal raised 

 line on the upper part ; anterior tibia long, straight from the base to 

 half the length, and somewhat slender, thence they curve inwards 

 and are dilated and strongly and sharply carinate underneath, this 

 carinate part is strongly bi-dentate at the base, and there are two 

 smaller teeth at the inward part of the bend of the tibia* which is 

 strongly tri-dentate outwardly and ends in a long mucro ; the 

 strongly developed femora have a long, incurved, truncate tooth in 

 the anterior face and a smaller one on the anterior margin near the 

 apex, the prosternal process is small, truncate and slightly scooped 

 at tip; intermediate cox-.e vei\ broadly laminate with the inner part 

 adjoining the trochanter scooped into a deep lobatc, almost aurj. 



