1900.] Catalog ua of the ColeoiJtera of South Africa. 179 



Clypeus semicircular, slightly emarginate ; body black, 



very shining ; intervals of elytra coriaceous moestus. 



Clypeus semicircular, hardly emarginate ; body bronze ; 

 intervals of elytra raised, sub-coriaceous illotus. 



Clypeus semicircular, slightly emarginate, gense sub- 

 auriculate ; body black ; intervals of elytra with two 

 series of granules inops. 



Clypeus very deeply incised in front with the angles 

 sharp, slightly refiexed, gense strongly auriculate ; body 

 black, with the elytra red probits. 



Clypeus sharply acuminate and not emarginate at tip, 

 gense diagonal ; body fuscous green ; intervals of elytra 

 plane and finely aciculate litigiosus. 



Clypeus semicircular, not emarginate at tip, gense 

 diagonal ; body black ; intervals of elytra convex and 

 having each two series of setigerous granules discrepans. 



Clypeus dentate laterally in the middle, deeply incised 

 at tip with the angles dentate, gense also dentate ; body 

 seneous ; elytra with a lateral and an apical testaceous 

 bands pudens. 



■C% No cephalic horn, but occasionally a very faint basal 

 tubercle ; prothorax with a more or less cuboidal 

 thoracic elevation anteriorly. 

 <2'. A frontal transverse carina. 



Prothoracic elevation vertical, projecting and carinate 

 at tip; clypeus recurved in the male (pi, xxxvi., 

 fig. 10) columella. 



Prothoracic elevation merely indicated by a small 



impression surmounted by a lateral tubercle . . . . carbonariiis. 



a^. No frontal transverse carina. 



Prothoracic elevation not carinate, but sharply 



angular on each side (pi. xxxvi., figs. 8, 9) .. .. croesidus. 



Prothoracic elevation compressed anteriorly in a 



vertical carina aculeate at tip cupricollis. 



Prothoracic elevation broadly diagonal and sloping on 



each side, the two tubercles lateral (pi. xxxvi., fig. 6) plebejus. 



a^ A basal transverse carina. 



Clypeus rounded ; carina very high, as high as the 

 median rounded lobe of the anterior part of the 

 prothorax ferrugineits. 



B^ Metasternum strongly aculeate at tip. Sexes similar, 

 apical spur of female curved inwardly at tip. 

 a^. Two long decumbent cephalic horns. 



