1904.] Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 147 



Hab. Lake N'Gami." 



This species is unknown to me. I am, however, informed by Mr. 

 Waterhouse that it is " very near Pcriclitopa varicoruis. but that it 

 has yellow antennae and abdomen, and the elytra are not quite so 

 finely sculptured." 



Gen. CLITOPA, Erichs., 

 Nat. Ins., iii., 1847, p. 653. 



Male : Mentum sub -orbicular or rounded laterally, incised and 

 projecting along the base of the ligular part and separated from it by 

 a plain suture, the ligular part is angular at the base, rounded 

 laterally and attenuated towards the apex which is semicircular, 

 the labial palpi are only bi -jointed owing to the basal one being fused 

 with and sunk into the outer face of the ligula, set very obliquely, 

 contiguous at the base, and with the upper part assuming the shape 

 of a broad oblique condyle, on which the second joint is articulated, 

 the apical joint is very strongly swollen outwardly and somewhat 

 acuminate at the tip, but straight inwardly ; the maxillae are straight, 

 somewhat dilated and truncated at the apex, hollowed inwardly, the 

 basal joint of the maxillary palpi is inserted in the apical part in a 

 line with the upper lobe which is slightly hollow, bluntly marginate 

 and bearing three stiff setae on the outer margin of the concave part, 

 the inner lobe is hardly distinct, yet corneous, and not fasciculate ; 

 maxillary palpi long, second and apical joints elongated, the latter 

 ampliated outwardly, straight inwardly ; paraglossae of the ligula in 

 the shape of two contiguous, nearly oblong, hairless lobes, not pro- 

 jecting beyond the constricted part of the ligula ; clypeus somewhat 

 shorter than the head, and either divided from it by a distinct carina 

 or a groove, concave, straight or little curved in front, broad in the 

 anterior part and with the upper margin much reflexed ; labrum 

 broad, transverse, not emarginate ; eyes large, frontal part not cari- 

 nate laterally, nor transversely on the vertex ; antennae 10-jointed, 

 the club as long as the pedicel and tri-jointed, third joint somewhat 

 elongated, equal in length to the two following, sixth and seventh 

 compressed, inner angle of the latter projecting greatly, sub-laminate ; 

 thorax regularly and moderately rounded laterally, and with the 

 basal angle sharp, very strongly bi-sinuate at the base, clothed like 

 the head with a very deep, more or less erect pubescence ; elytra 

 slightly but regularly ampliated along the outer margin from the 

 humeral part to past the middle, and plainly narrowed thence to past 

 the middle, depressed on the upper side, and covering the basal part 

 of the propygidium, briefly but densely hairy, the hairs appressed ; 



