1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 271 



somewhat coriaceous laterally, and have two series of short seti- 

 gerous tubercles, and the second interval, which has a faint extra 

 longitudinal line is slightly plicate ; pygidium closely aciculate and 

 covered with dense silky-white hairs ; metasternum with the whole 

 median part finely aciculate, no basal depression ; posterior tarsi 

 compressed, third and fourth joints as broad and nearly as long as 

 the second, fifth oblong, as broad as the penultimate one and as 

 long as the tw^o preceding put together. 



Male : Clypeus elongate, genae diagonal from the basal outer 

 .angle towards the clypeus which is there produced into a triangle, 

 the apex of which is sharply recurved ; it is blunt at tip and has a 

 ■deep impression on the upper side; the frontal carina is very distinct, 

 and the vertex is produced into a moderately long, laminate process, 

 rounded laterally , cleft in the middle at apex, and produced there into 

 two divaricating sharp spines; in the smaller development the vertex 

 is merely incised with the sides of the incision sharp, or is reduced 

 to a sharp, transverse high carina deeply sinuate at middle. 



Female : Clypeus shaped as in the male, but the apical part, 

 which is also recurved, but in a lesser degree, is emarginate, and 

 the vertex is briefly laminate and deeply emarginate in the centre, 

 very much in the manner prevailing among males of small develop- 

 ment, from which they can be distinguished by the absence of inner 

 spur in the anterior tibiae. 



Length 9-14 mm. ; width 5^-7^ mm. 



Closely allied to P. flavocinctus, from which it is at once dis- 

 tinguished by having the genge diagonal instead of being very 

 •distinctly produced laterally beyond the line of the clypeus, as well 

 .as by the shape of the joints of the hind tarsi. 



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

 land (Palapye). 



Phalops flavocinctus, Klug, 



Plate XXXV., fig. 2. 



Monatsb. Berl. Ac, 1855, p. 653; Peters' Reis., 1862, p. 230. 



0. i^rcBUstus, 2 ,Fahr., Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 272. 



Brassy green, sometimes coppery red, sometimes bronze on the 

 upper part, and with the elytra having a broad, lateral flavescent 

 band, disappearing near the shoulder and occasionally seen along 

 the base, disk of elytra sometimes with flavescent patches in bronze- 

 green examples, under side dark blue ; clypeus elongate, gense 

 produced in an auriculate rounded process projecting much beyond 



