On some neio Species of Coleoptera. 517 



b\ Bufty suffusiou on flanks and thiofhs 

 absent, that on shoulders reddish 



brown. (Katanga Dist., Congo State.) P. c. quotus, subsp. n. 

 b. Hands and feet greyish white P. c. soccatus, subsp. n. 



B. Size smaller : hind foot 39 mm. (Zambesi 



Basin.) P- c. sindi, T. & W. 



LXVIII. — On some new Species of Coleopf era from Rhodesli 

 and adjacent Territories. By GiLBEKT J. ARROW. 



(Published with the permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



The following notes and descriptions are incidental to the 

 systematic study of two important collections recently added 

 \o the Briti.sh Museum, that of Mr. S. A. Neave from North- 

 East Rhodesia and the Katanga District of the Congo Free 

 State, and another presented by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall 

 and made by him or on his behalf in Mashonaland and the 

 ])art of Portuguese East Africa immediately adjoining. 



CopridsB. 



Sisyphus callosipesy sp. n. 



Niger, opacus, undique minute sat dense griseo-setosus ; capita 

 grosse punctato, clypei margiue antico profunde semicirculariter 

 exciso, dentibus 2 internis prominentibus, externis subobsoletis ; 

 prothorace leviter varioloso-rugoso, postice medio lineato-sul- 

 catulo, lateribus ante medium fortiter convergentibus, angulis 

 anticis acutis, deinde paulo sinuatis, dorso convexo ; elytris sat 

 "egulariter striatis, ad apices valde attenuatis ; pedibus gracili- 

 bus, baud spinosis, trochanteribus baud productis ; metasterno 

 nitido, profunde impresso : 



cJ , tibiis anticis sat robustis, subtus baud dentatis, pedibus inter- 

 mediis simplicibus, pedum posticorum femoribus clavatis, postice 

 medio callo lato, nitido, instructis, tibiis longis, curvatis, intus 

 serratis, extremitate intus abrupte dilatato. 



Long. 10-11 mm. ; lat. max. 6-7 mm. 



Hub. German East Africa : Massailand ; British Central 

 Africa : Nyasaland ; Katanga, 150-200 miles west of 

 Kambove; Mashonaland : Chirinda. 



The female of this is like the common Sisyphus crispatus^ 

 Gory, but it is a larger species, the upper surface is less 

 rugose and clothed with a finer and closer pubescence. In 

 the male the hind trochanters are not produced and the front 



