1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 141 



briefly pubescent, the pubescence longer and erect on the vertex, 

 prothorax and scutellum clothed with a long appressed flavescent 

 pubescence, not dense enough to hide the sculpture ; elytra also 

 clothed with very minute appressed fine hairs, pectus densely 

 pubescent ; abdomen and pygidium with fine appressed hairs ; head 

 and clypeus covered with very closely set sub-scabrose punctures ; 

 prothorax ampliated and rounded laterally in the middle, a little less 

 attenuated thence towards the distinct basal angle than in the 

 anterior part, but not sinuate, outer margin plainly serrulate in the 

 posterior part, base bi-sinuate and having a dense fringe of short 

 flavescent pubescence, finely shagreened and with the appressed 

 hairs somewhat silky ; scutellum closely punctate ; elytra almost 

 cylindrical but somewhat depressed in the median dorsal part, very 

 finely and closely shagreened, having faint traces of four costules on 

 each side, the juxta-sutural stria is very often completely obliterated; 

 the humeral callus is denuded and slightly punctate ; propygidium 

 and pygidium very closely aciculate, each aciculate puncture bearing 

 a moderately long, fine appressed hair similar in length and texture 

 to those clothing the finely aciculate upper side of the abdominal 

 segments, the median part of the latter is deeply and closely punc- 

 tured ; femora deeply punctured, hind ones swollen, joints of hind 

 tarsi, especially the broadened basal one very deeply punctate, upper 

 hind spur lanceolate ; penultimate abdominal segment broader than 

 the antepenultimate, membranaceous hinge of the last joint con- 

 spicuous. 



Length 19J-23 mm. ; width 9i~10J mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez, Maputa Eiver). 



Cyclomeea castanea, Klug, 



Peter's Eeis. n. Mossamb., 1862, p. 256, pi. 15, fig. 4. 



" One single male example from Inhambane, resembling Clitopa 

 in structure as well as in colour. Brownish-black, not without 

 metallic lustre, and covered with long, reddish-yellow hairs as far 

 as this colour extends, the elytra only are differently coloured, being 

 brown, but instead of being densely hairy they have a few scattered 

 hairs ; the head is truncate in front, free of hairs up to the vertex, 

 the clypeus is reflexed at the margin and coarsely punctate, sepa- 

 rated from the frontal part by an impressed line, the posterior edge 

 of the latter is swollen and raised, and the vertex is covered with 

 longer, reddish-yellow hairs ; the greatly projecting palpi and the 

 antennae are brown, excepting the club, which is black ; prothorax 

 densely and finely scaly ; scutellum punctate ; elytra punctate, 



