1900.] Catalogtie of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 515 



Clypeal carina not very distinct ; frontal one well defined 

 and triangular at middle ; pygidium with the whole basal 

 part deeply punctured paii/peratus. 



B^ Anterior tibiae without serrate teeth. 



Clypeal carina interrupted in the centre, frontal one 

 broadly triangular at middle ; pygidium closely punctured 

 for half the width ; elytra very deeply striate dissidens. 



HeTEEONYCHUS CLAUDIUS, Klug, 



Plate XL., fig. 1. 

 Erman. Eeis. Atl., 1835, p. 35. 



Dark brown, almost piceous red on the head and pro thorax, dark 

 chestnut on the elytra, and with the under side and legs lighter 

 chestnut-brown ; antennae almost brown ; head roughly punctured 

 except for a narrow, basal margin, the clypeus is not dentate in 

 front, the frontal carinate line is obliterated, and instead of a clypeal 

 carina there is on each side of the median part of the head a sharp, 

 triangular tubercle ; prothorax covered with moderately closely set 

 punctures, a little denser and slightly more rugose and also a little 

 broader in the anterior part which is slightly retuse and bears at a 

 short distance from the anterior margin two small, coalescing 

 tubercles ; scutellum with an indistinct arcuate transverse series 

 of punctures ; elytra not broader than the prothorax at the base, 

 nearly parallel for one-third of the length, and a little ampliated from 

 there to the rounded posterior part, convex at a short distance from 

 the base and having one juxta-sutural, entire, impunctate stria, and 

 three dorsal geminate ones hardly impressed but filled with not 

 ■closely set, round, scar-like punctures, the intervals are filled with 

 similar punctures a little more closely set than those in the dorsal 

 •striae, and there is a distinct callus on the posterior part at the 

 junction of the first and third dorsal striae and under the second ; 

 propygidium covered with closely set asperous granules, changing 

 into fine transverse undivided folds in the median part ; pygidium 

 smooth in the convex part, rugulose on the sides and along the 

 ibase, fold of pygidium very narrow in the male and carinate, 

 :anterior tibiae strongly and sharply quadri-dentate ; abdominal seg- 

 ments with a lateral row of crenulate setigerous pits ; metathorax 

 with a deep, median impression and a longitudinal impressed line, 

 pectus hairy, prosternum with a conspicuous, sub-ogiva], projecting 

 process. 



