1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 313 



clypeus acuminate, angular laterally at middle, slightly emar- 

 ginate at tip, a curved, hamate tooth in the anterior part of the 

 clypeus ; prothorax excavate on each side, and produced in the 

 middle in a triangular sub-horizontal lobe with two sharp sub- 

 horizontal horns at tip marshalli. 



A^ Elytra of male with small basal tubercles. 



Clypeus sub-acuminate not sinuate laterally, blunt at tip in 

 the male, rounded in the female, head with a median trans- 

 verse laminate carina, in both sexes ; median part of prothorax 

 produced in a long, broad, triangular process sharply dentate 

 at base ; ? prothorax transverse and carinate in front (pi. 

 xxxii., figs. 1, la) hamadryas. 



Clypeus bi-sinuate laterally, very deeply emarginate at tip and 

 with the angles of the emargination dentate in both sexes, head 

 with two vertical horns in the male, and a transverse carina in 

 the female ; prothorax of c? and ? as in hamadryas . . . . faunus. 



Clypeus slightly bi-sinuate laterally and semicircular at tip in 

 the male, acuminate in the female and slightly obtuse at tip ; 

 prothorax of cT deeply excavate laterally, and having in front 

 a m.edian strongly quadri-dentate lobe atropos. 



Gense sinuate, sharply angular at base ; c? with a long cephalic 

 horn, prothorax with three horizontal horns in the median 

 part ; ? with a transverse carina on the head, prothorax with 

 a sharp, bi-sinuate carina (pi. xxxii., fig. 5) eryx. 



Clypeus slightly bi-sinuate on each side, and a little emar- 

 ginate at tip with the angles of the emargination a little sharp ; 

 c? anterior part of the head with a short, slightly emarginate 

 horn, prothorax produced into the middle into a very long hori- 

 zontal process with a vertical tooth underneath at about the 

 median part (pi. xxxii., fig. 4) haniifer. 



Heliocopeis gigas, Linn., 



Plate XXXII., figs. 7-7a. 



Mus. Lud Ulr., p. 16 $ . 



H. isidis, Latr., M^m. Mus., v., 1819, p. 249. 



H. Andersoni, Bates, Coleopt., Heft, iv., 1868, p. 88. 



Piceous or piceous red, not much shining, glabrous on the upper 

 side except in the anterior part of the prothorax which is clothed 

 with long, dense, fulvous hairs ; head plicate transversely, and 

 closely scrobiculate on the vertex and gense ; prothorax very convex, 

 beset with closely set, large granules in the anterior part, scrobicu- 



