1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 305 



Gen. HETEEOCLITOPUS, n. gen., 

 Plate XXXIX., fig. 31. 



Mentum longer than broad, rounded and attenuate laterally 

 towards the tip, not deeply emarginate there, and deeply grooved 

 longitudinally in the centre from apex to base ; ligula long but very 

 slender ; labial palpi bi-jointed, basal joint turbinate, apical one sub- 

 ovoid, briefly acuminate at tip, and not quite as broad as the basal 

 one ; maxillae strong, apical lobe also long, but moderately narrow ; 

 maxillary palpi as in Copy is ; antennae nine-jointed, basal joint 

 longer than the five following, apical joint of the club scooped out 

 longitudinally ; eyes showing very little in a longitudinal slit on 

 the upper side of the head ; clypeus with two short, horizontal 

 spines in the middle, suture of genge highly carinate ; prothorax 

 convex, simple ; elytra sub-parallel, longer than the prothorax, not 

 much convex, and having on each side seven geminate striae, outer 

 margin punctulate, epipleura distinct ; pygidium large and broad ; 

 metasternum moderately broad between the coxae, and fused with 

 the mesosternum without any trace of suture or raised line ; anterior 

 tibiae truncate at apex, strongly quadri-dentate outwardly, the basal 

 tooth being close to the base ; apical spur normal, slender ; inter- 

 mediate tibiae gradually dilated towards the apex where they are very 

 broad, and strongly bi-sinuate inwardly, compressed and uni-carinate, 

 basal joint of tarsi as long as the four following, produced obliquely 

 at the base and parallel from there ; posterior tibiae short, also uni- 

 carinate, but very broadly dilated at the apex, obtusely denticulate 

 outwardly, and having the inner apical spur much thickened, 

 hollowed inwardly and twisted ; all the joints of the hind tarsi are 

 fused together in a sub-ovate very broad patelliform process fringed 

 with dense and long ciliae, and showing no trace of apical claws 

 (fig. 31) ; the hind tibiae are also densely ciliate for half the length. 



Heteroclitopus eemipes, n. spec. 



Black, shining, briefly but densely pubescent ; head covered with 

 very broad and deep, almost scrobiculate foveae, gense very sharply 

 triangular laterally, clypeus rounded laterally but widely incised in 

 the centre and having on each side of the rounded incision two very 

 distinct teeth rounded at tip, the suture of the genae is much raised 

 and coalesces with a frontal carina arcuate towards the base ; pro- 

 thorax moderately convex, rounded and ampliate laterally, and 

 deeply sinuate there towards the base, marginate in front and on 



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