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PERICLITOPA ERICHSONI, Klug. 
Clitopa erichsont, Peter's Reis. n. Mossamb., 1862, p. 254, pl. xv., 
fig. 1, 
““Resembles a Rhizotrogus of medium size, but is peculiar in 
colour. The upper side is dark brown, and with the exception 
of the clypeus densely punctured, the frontal part is excavated, 
sharply edged in front by a straight, prominent transverse keel, 
and divided from the vertex by a lower keel, the clypeus is smooth, 
projecting in an inclined direction, with the margin reflexed, the 
antenne are reddish; the head and prothorax wrinkled, densely 
grey-haired, more lightly rugose and hairy on the elytra, which 
are of a redder colour; sternum and legs dark brown like the head 
and prothorax and similarly hairy; abdomen brownish-yellow, lightly 
rugose and hairy. 
A single male, probably from Inhambane. 
Length 7 lin.” 
I have not met with this species, which, however, is figured by 
Klug. The description of this author is unfortunately not complete 
enough to enable one to decide whether it belongs to Clitopa, Peri- 
clitopa, or Cyclomera. In the shape of the head with its clypeal 
and frontal transverse keels and the sloping clypeus it resembles 
some species of Periclitopa or Cyclomera. Judging from the figure, 
it differs from Cyclomera in the longer antennal club, and owing 
to the tibize being bi-dentate outwardly it should be included in the 
genus Clitopa. 
PERICLITOPA BRENSKEI, Brancs., 
Jahr. Ver. Trencs., xvi., 1897, p. 114, pl. iv., fig. 6. 
‘«Piceous, pectus and thorax clothed with long greyish hairs, 
which are fulvous, shorter and dense on the vertex and mouth parts, 
clypeus divided from the vertex, ovate-transverse, roughly punctate 
and sprinkled with hairs, anterior margin broadly reflexed; antennze 
piceous, club darker than the pedicel; thorax black, transverse, 
twice broader than long, rounded laterally, more attenuated in front 
than behind, posterior angles oblique, anterior more obliquely 
rounded, emarginate in front, bi-sinuate behind, roundly produced 
laterally in the median part, disk very closely punctate, the punc- 
tures sub-rugulose ; elytra as broad as the thorax, prominent at the 
shoulders with the sides sub-parallel, singly rounded at apex, pale 
yellowish, with the lateral, apical, and sutural margins darker, 
densely punctate, with the punctures now and then sub-rugulose, 
and bearing short, greyish hairs, the dorsal part bears three very 
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