NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF COLEOPTEROUS INSECTS. 97 
2. Coproruina Kuve. 
Copt. nigra ; clypei dentibus subreflexis ; thoracis prominentid medid indistincté foveolatd. 
Long. corporis 6 lin. ; lat. 4. 
Hab. ad Caput Bonz Spei. 
Mus. Hope. 
Dedicated to the distinguished Klug, the first of German entomologists. 
Except in the particulars noticed in the specific character, Copt. Klugii agrees 
generally with the preceding species. It is, however, considerably smaller, 
A third species of Coptorhina has also come under my notice, the locality of which I 
believe to be the Soudan. 
Fam. Meroronruwwz, MacLeay. 
Genus. Pyznomeris!. 
Antenne 9-articulate, articulo septimo duobus sequentibus majore. 
Elytra abdomen haud tegentia. 
Cove postice maxime, pone abdominis margines protense. 
Ungues quatuor anteriores bifidi, postici duo simplices. ‘ 
Antenne 9-articulate, articulo basali elongato ad apicem dilatato, secundo globoso, 
duobus proximis zqualibus, quinto breviore, sexto brevissimo, tribus ultimis mag- 
nitudine decrescentibus capitulumque rotundum formantibus. Labrum trans- 
versum, a capite sutura transversa divisum. Palpi macillares 4-articulati, articulo 
primo minimo, proximis feré zqualibus, extimo ovato-elongato ad apicem conico : 
labiales 2-articulati, articulo primo brevi, secundo subreniformi. Mazille 5-den- 
tate. Mentwm subquadratum, ad basin dilatatum. 
Caput oblongiusculum, angulis anticis rotundatis. Corpus ovato-elongatum. Thorax 
longitudine latitudini inaequalis, angulis anticis rotundatis. Scutellum isoscele. 
Elytra abdomine breviora, segmentis duobus abdominalibus denudatis trigonis. 
Coxe femoribus xquales. Pedes anteriores quatuor femoribus simplicibus, anti- 
corum tibiis brevibus in spinam productis, tarsorum articulis equalibus, unguibus 
bifidis dentibus acutis ; postici duo robusti, femoribus incrassatis externé paullo 
rotundatis, tibiis 2-spinosis, obliqué truncatis, fovearumque impressarum serie 
instructis, tarsorum articulis inzequalibus, articulo primo majore trigono, secundo 
minore, proximis duobus inter se zqualibus, ultimo longissimo, unguibus sim- 
plicibus. 
1 baivw, ostendo; pnpos, femur. 
