270 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



Phalops congenitus, n. spec. 



Bronze on the head and prothorax, or sometimes coppery red, 

 'elytra metalHc but with the intervals having a more or less pro- 

 nounced testaceous tinge ; the general description of P. clregei suits 

 this species, but the granulation of the prothorax is a little finer 

 and slightly denser ; the elytra are shorter, less parallel, and the 

 striae are more deeply punctured, the setigerous punctures on the 

 elytra are also deeper, although fine and more distinct, lastly the 

 ultimate joint of the posterior tarsi is oblong, but not quite as wide 

 as the penultimate one ; the smooth space in the centre of the meta- 

 sternum is broad. 



Male : In the great development the clypeus and the laminate 

 cephalic horn are, in proportion to the size, similar to that of 

 P. clregei, but the apical fissured part is not so strongly divided, while 

 in the smaller development it assumes exactly the shape of that of 

 the female of P. clregei. 



Female : Clypeus more rounded and very slightly emarginate at tip, 

 cephalic horn in the great development similar to that of P. dregei, 

 but a little shorter ; in the small development the two little horns 

 on each side of the vertex are only slightly prominent. 



Length 9-10|- mm. ; width 5-6J mm. 



The difference between this species and P. tarsattts, to which it is 

 closely allied, and which has also the ultimate joint of the posterior 

 tarsi dilated, is that this joint is neither so broad nor so long, and 

 that the tip of the cephalic horn in the male, although apparently 

 fissured in the centre, is not separated. 



Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg), British Bechuana- 

 land (Palapye), Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo). 



Phalops taksatus. Per., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. iv., 1888, p. 96. 



Emerald green, moderately shining, covered with a very brief, 

 silky white pubescence, the green colour turns sometimes to bluish- 

 green, dark blue underneath, elytra often with a moderately broad 

 fiavescent lateral band ; head covered with moderately closely set 

 granules, larger on the vertex, anterior part of the clypeus cyaneous 

 or black ; prothorax convex, covered with very closely set, distinct 

 granules, marginate all round, and with a very distinct median 

 longitudinal groove ; elytra attenuate laterally from base to apex, 

 convex towards the posterior part, finely striate, with the striae 

 punctured and seemingly not geminate ; the intervals are plane, 



