1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoj^tera of South. Africa. 367 



CoPEis (LiTOCOPEis) MUTicus, Bohein., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p, 238. 



C. simplex, Har., Coleopt., Heft, iv., 1868, p. 81. 



Black or very dark brown, shining ; clypeus broadly but not 

 deeply emarginate in front, genae in a line laterally with the clypeus ; 

 the whole head is finely and closely punctured, the suture of the 

 genae is sometimes ill-defined, and the vertex, although slightly 

 convex in the centre in the male, has no trace of horn or of trans- 

 verse raised line in either sex ; prothorax convex, slightly hi- sinuate 

 in the anterior margin, covered with equally distant, moderately 

 deep punctures, and having no trace of ridge or impression, in the 

 posterior part there is a median longitudinal line, somewhat punctu- 

 late and reaching from the middle of the disk to the base which has 

 a series of deep punctures broader than those occurring on the disk ; 

 elytra moderately convex and somewhat elongate, deeply punctato- 

 striate with the intervals slightly convex in the lateral and posterior 

 part, the eighth stria is very well defined right to the rounding of 

 the apical part, and distinctly punctured all along, although the 

 punctures are finer; under side glabrous, with the sides of the 

 metathorax and the segments of the abdomen very deeply foveolato- 

 punctate ; anterior tibiae quadri-dentate externally, basal tooth 

 small. 



Length 12-14 mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Graham's Town, Stockenstrom), 

 Natal (Durban), Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls). 



Boheman in his description says that the head is " postice obsolete 

 trituberculato." The typical example I have seen has no trace 

 whatever of three obsolete tubercles, nor have I been able to detect 

 them in the nine examples which I have examined. 



(Species which I have not seen or been able to identify.) 



ICOPEIS SPH^ROPTEEUS, Har., 



Mitth. d. Miinch. Ent. Ver., 1877, p. 98. 



"Black, shining; head with an elongate erect horn, recurved at 

 apex ; prothorax not very deeply punctate, and with the greater part 

 of the surface obliquely declivous, upper margin obtusely bi-lobate in 

 the centre, the declivous part is roughly punctate in the middle and 

 sub-gibbose longitudinally in front; elytra globose, very finely striate^ 



