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Clitopa bohemani, Blanch., 

 Catal. Coll. Entom., 1850, p. 164. 



Head, prothorax, scutellum, and pygidium fuscous-brown, elytra 

 bright testaceous with the suture and the outer margins fuscous, 

 under side and legs reddish -brown ; antennae and palpi light ferru- 

 ginous red ; head and clypeus coarsely punctate, the latter a little 

 ampliated laterally at the anterior part, straight in front with the 

 angles rounded, a little shorter than the head, not separated from 

 the frontal part by a suture but having instead a smooth, narrow, 

 impunctate, transverse band, difficult to distinguish owing to the 

 dense covering of upright fulvous hairs, which, however, are replaced 

 on the anterior part of the clypeus, especially on the margin, by stiff 

 ciliate ones ; prothorax hardly convex and very sloping, covered with 

 almost contiguous punctures, emitting each a very long decumbent 

 or appressed flavescent hair, forming thus a very dense pubescence ; 

 clypeus as pubescent as the prothorax ; elytra a little broader at the 

 base than the prothorax, covered with irregular punctures each 

 bearing a very short appressed greyish hair, the juxta-sutural stria 

 is distinct, and there are on each side two fairly well marked dis- 

 coidal costules and a plainer supra-marginal one, the humeral callus 

 is impunctate, and the elytra are broader at the base than across the 

 posterior declivity, not distinctly ampliated laterally in the middle, 

 and the outer margins have a fringe of not closely set setae ; pygidial 

 part closely aciculate and with appressed greyish hairs ; abdomen, 

 pectus, and femora clothed with a long, very dense greyish pubescence 

 with a slightly flavescent tinge. 



Length 15-16 mm. ; width 8-8J mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Upper Limpopo Eiver). 



Clitopa zambesina, n. spec. 



Eesembles C. bohemani, but is larger and has a more depressed 

 appearance on the upper side ; the clypeus and head are clothed 

 with similar hairs, but the clypeus is very plainly sinuate in 

 front, the prothorax is also sloping but the pubescence is more 

 fulvous ; the chestnut- brown elytra are much more closely punctate, 

 and are therefore more coriaceous and the appressed hairs more 

 numerous, they are plainly broader at the base than across the pos 

 terior declivous part, the discoidal depression is very distinct, and 

 they are not costulate on both sides, the juxta-sutural stria is 

 obliterated past the median part ; the pygidial part and under side 

 are as in C. bohemani, but even more densely hairy. 



Length 18 mm. ; width 10 mm. 



