1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 145 



Peeiclitopa erichsoni, Klug. 

 Clitopa erichsoni, Peter's Eeis. n. Mossamb., 1862, p. 254, pi. xv., 

 fig- 1. 



" Eesembles a Bhizotrogus of medium size, but is peculiar in 

 colour. The upper side is dark brown, and with the exception 

 of the clypeus densely punctured, the frontal part is excavated, 

 sharply edged in front by a straight, prominent transverse keel, 

 and divided from the vertex by a lower keel, the clypeus is smooth, 

 projecting in an inclined direction, with the margin reflexed, the 

 antennae are reddish ; the head and prothorax wrinkled, densely 

 grey-haired, more lightly rugose and hairy on the elytra, which 

 are of a redder colour ; sternum and legs dark brown like the head 

 and prothorax and similarly hairy; abdomen brownish-yellow, lightly 

 rugose and hairy. 



A single male, probably from Inhambane. 



Length 7 lin." 



I have not met with this species, which, however, is figured by 

 Klug. The description of this author is unfortunately not complete 

 enough to enable one to decide whether it belongs to Clitopa, Peri- 

 clitopa, or Cyclomera. In the shape of the head with its clypeal 

 and frontal transverse keels and the sloping clypeus it resembles 

 some species of Periclitopa or Cyclomera. Judging from the figure, 

 it differs from Cyclomera in the longer antennal club, and owing 

 to the tibiae being bi-dentate outwardly it should be included in the 

 genus Clitopa. 



Peeiclitopa brenskei, Brancs., 



Jahr. Ver. Trencs., xvi., 1897, p. 114, pi. iv., fig. 6. 



" Piceous, pectus and thorax clothed with long greyish hairs, 

 which are fulvous, shorter and dense on the vertex and mouth parts, 

 clypeus divided from the vertex, ovate-transverse, roughly punctate 

 and sprinkled with hairs, anterior margin broadly reflexed; antennae 

 piceous, club darker than the pedicel ; thorax black, transverse, 

 twice broader than long, rounded laterally, more attenuated in front 

 than behind, posterior angles oblique, anterior more obliquely 

 rounded, emarginate in front, bi-sinuate behind, roundly produced 

 laterally in the median part, disk very closely punctate, the punc- 

 tures sub-rugulose ; elytra as broad as the thorax, prominent at the 

 shoulders with the sides sub-parallel, singly rounded at apex, pal 

 yellowish, with the lateral, apical, and sutural margins darker, 

 densely punctate, with the punctures now and then sub-rugulose, 

 and bearing short, greyish hairs, the dorsal part bears three very 



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