1900.] Catalogue of tJie Coleoptera of South Africa. 267' 



Key to the Sijecies. 



A-. Vertex of head produced in a long, bifid, laminate process. 

 B-. Prothorax not tuberculate on the disk. 



C^. Lamina slender at tip, the two parts set close to one 



another. 



d^. Clypeus transversely truncate in front in the male, 



and strongly recurved, second and third intervals of 



elytra with a few transverse folds, last joint of 



posterior tarsi narrower than the preceding one. 



Prothorax strongly tuberculate on each side of the 

 anterior part arclea. 



C3. Lamina divided at tip, the two parts apart. 



cP. Clypeus very elongate, aculeate, slightly recurved at 

 tip ; lamina very long ending in two or four sharp 

 spines. 



Last joint of posterior tarsi narrower than the pre- 

 ceding one * adspersi]jennis . 



Last joint of posterior tarsi oblong, as broad as the 



preceding one congenitus. 



C-. Lamina short, cleft at tip, gense diagonal. 



d^. Ch^peus not much aculeate, very elongate, recurved at 

 tip. 



All joints of posterior tarsi equally broad, ultimate 



one as long as the two penultimate ones put together tarsatus. 



C\ Lamina short, aculeate at tip, and not cleft ; gense pro- 

 jecting. 



Joints of posterior tarsi, normally decreasing in width, 



gense sub-auriculate flavocinctus. 



A^ Vertex of head not produced in a laminate process. 

 B^ Prothorax bi-tuberculate on the disk. 



Lateral part of the head produced in an auriculate process, 

 clypeus having at apex a laminate, quadrate vertical 

 tooth hosclias. 



Phalops aedea, Klug, 

 Plate XXXV., fig. 1. 

 Monatsb. Berl. Ac, 1885, p. 652 ; Peters' Eeis., 1862, p. 229. 

 P. vanellus, Lansb., Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1883, p. 166. 



Coppery red on the upper side and occasionally green, under side 

 and legs dark blue with, occasionally a coppery tinge, glabrous above ; 

 head covered with very closely set granules, frontal carina con- 

 spicuous ; prothorax marginate all round, covered with very closely 



