On Cuhoptera from South Africa. 401 



all the le^s are unmetallic green and the front tibiae slightly 

 toothed on the distal half only. 



'I'hc discoloration regarded by Burmeister as a sexual pecu- 

 liarity may possibly be due to immaturity or to the action of 

 preservatives. I have seen it in all stai^es, and it ap|)ear3 to 

 be one of these imperfect specimens which has been honoured 

 with specific rank by Herr Nonfried, under the name of 

 Sulci'pdljjus suhciohtceus. 



Dr. Ohaus has kindly pointed out to me that a name — 

 Auovuila solida — used by me in a previous paper (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. 1899, p. 2o7) dealing with sexual dimorphism in 

 the Rutelidaj is occnj»ied by a species of Erichson's placed as 

 synonymous with A. a>nea by Gemminger and Harold, but 

 regarded as distinct by Dr. Ganglbauer. I therefore rename 

 my species Anomala miitafa. 



LI I. — Descriptions of Genera and Species of Coleoptera from 

 South Africa. By II. S. GORHAM, F.Z.S. &c. 



[Concluded from p. 3G6.] 



Fam. Endomychidae. 

 Ancylopus hisignatus^ Gerst. Mon. Endom. p. 192. 



Ilah. Mashonaland, Salisbury, in marsh-rubbish {Marshall) . 

 Three males. 



These seem to differ a little from Senegal specimens by 

 their darker red colour and by the base of the elytra being 

 narrowly and indeterminately black. The legs are also very 

 <laik. Gerstaecker, by an error, says the middle tibiie in the 

 male are toothed; it is, of course, the front tibia^, and the 

 middle pair only, as he afterwards says, bent near their 

 apices. 



Ancylopus unicolor, Gerst. Mon. Eudom. p. 194. 



A single male specimen without the locality, but I believe 

 from Salisbury witli the preceding. The Iront and middle 

 tibiae are botli toothed, as they are in A. melanocephalus J. 



(Ediarthrus natulensis, Geist. Mon. Endom. p. 346, t. iii. 

 fig. o. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury, " in a swam))" [Marshall). 



