150 Mr. B. P. Uvarov's Notes on 



S. Africa. As for C. pinguis, instead of five specimens of 

 Smith's collection, quoted by Walker, there is only one 

 female from Gueinzius' collection, labelled by Kirby, as 

 Walker's type of this species. It is not improbable that 

 some of the actual Walker's types of C. pinguis belonged 

 to C. crassus, but his descriptions of illepidus and pingnis 

 leaves no dovibt that they are quite different from a'assus ; 

 tubercles on the pronotum supply us with sufficient evidence 

 in support of this view. I have chosen as the holotype of 

 C. illepidus the female specimen from Natal, of M. Gueinzius 

 collection, and have no doubt in my mind that illepidus 

 and pinguis are conspecific, the difference in the shape of 

 prosternal tubercles being imaginary, as it is very often 

 the case with the characters indicated by Walker, and I 

 include this species provisionally in the genus Platyphymus, 

 though the discovery of the male may only help to establish 

 its relationship definitely. 



There is nothing important to be added to Walker's 

 original description of the species, which is easily separated 

 from the two above described species by the soniewhat 

 larger size, thicker pronotum, with distinctly convex 

 lateral keels and with only a pair of callous tubercles on 

 the disc, which is finely punctured in the rest, as well as 

 by the coloration of the hind-legs. The dimensions of the 

 female holotype are as follows : — 



Length of body 28 mm. ; of pronotum about 7 mm. (the 

 hind angle is broken) ; of elytra 17 mm. ; of hind femora 

 10 mm. 



Calliptamicus, gen. nov. 



Resembling somewhat in the general appearance the genus 

 Calliptamus, but differing strongly in the structure of genitalia 

 and other important characters. Frontal ridge in profile feebly 

 convex, moderately prominent between the antennae, dis- 

 tinctly reclinate ; its surface flat or scarcely convex, indistinctly 

 impressed below the ocellum in the male; the margins straight, 

 gradually and feebly divergent downwards. Fastigium of the 

 vertex sloping, elongato-oval, its surface scarcely impressed 

 and very indistinctly separated from the frontal ridge. Eyes 

 strongly prominent sideways, oval, distinctly higher than long 

 and as long as the subocular sulcus is high. Cheeks smooth, 

 with the oblique sulcus shallow, but distinct. Pronotum 

 compressed laterally, distinctly narrowed anteriorly; the disc 



