1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 309 



very little convex outwardly; clypeus semicircular, in a line laterally 

 with the gense, and having at apex two triangular vertical teeth; 

 prothorax more or less retuse in front ; no scutellum ; elytra elongate, 

 slightly ampliate at middle laterally, convex, and having on each 

 side eight punctate striae the outer of which is partly hidden by the 

 costate interval, epipleura distinct ; pygidium as broad at the base 

 as long, a little convex ; metasterniTm narrow between the coxae, 

 divided from the mesosternum by a distinct arcuate impressed line ; 

 anterior tibiae quadri-dentate outwardly, straight at apex with a long 

 inner spine in the male, but not in the female, apical spur mode- 

 rately slender, nearly straight ; intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 triangular at apex, and obsoletely grooved on the upper side, the 

 outer carina alone being crenulate, but not dentate above the apex 

 in either. 



The generic characters differentiating this genus from Copris are 

 very small ; the armature of the clypeus imparts to the only species 

 known a peculiar facies. The valves of the penis of the male 

 (plate xxxviii., fig. 27) are of a shape different from that of 

 Copris or Catharsius. 



Parapinotus dewitzi, Har., 



Plate XXXIII., figs. 3, 3a; Plate XXXIX., fig. 26. 



Loc. cit., p. 44. 



Copris curvifrons, Per., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, 1885, p. 89 



Black, shining, glabrous on the upper side ; head impunctate in 

 the male, apical teeth confluent at base and strongly developed, 

 between the eyes there is a transverse, not much raised carina 

 reaching from eye to eye ; in the female the head is rugosely plicate 

 in front and punctulate behind, the carina is shorter and very much 

 more raised ; prothorax retuse in front, quite vertical in the male 

 and deeply impressed, or almost excavate laterally, and with the 

 median lobe emarginate in the centre, a little sinuate on each side, 

 and with the outer angles moderately sharp ; in the female the anterior 

 part is less retuse, the median part is not lobate, the two lateral 

 impressions are feebly indicated, but the anterior part has a median 

 more or less distinct, sinuate carina ; the prothorax is covered with 

 closely set punctures which are smaller and shallower in the 

 anterior part in the male ; elytra deeply punctato-striate with the 

 intervals closely aciculate ; the striae are very fine, and the punctures 

 are wider, and impinge on each side on the intervals the seventh of 



