1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 151 



The shape of the genital armature of the male closely resembles 

 that of C. bohemani, differing only in the angle of the curvature. It 

 is quite possible that this species might prove to be only a local 

 variety of C. bohemani. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (between the Limpopo and the Zambesi 

 Eivers) . 



Clitopa rufiventris, Bohem. 



Onochceta rufiventris, Boh., Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 82. 



C. capra, Arrow, Ann. and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1892, vol. iv., p. 99. 



Piceous, with the palpi and often the antennal club piceous-red at 

 apex ; the head and prothorax have the same shape and the same 

 vestiture as C. bohemani, the colour of the pubescence is as a rule 

 greyish, but occasionally it is light fulvous ; the elytra are not so 

 depressed in the dorsal part nor are they distinctly narrower across 

 the posterior declivous part as in C. bohemani and C. zambesina, they 

 are also much more shagreened than in these two species, and the 

 greyish appressed hairs springing from the interstices form a denser 

 covering ; some examples have four plain costules on each side, 

 others not so many, but the supra-marginal one is never wanting ; 

 the under side is very densely villose, the villosity greyish- white. 



Length 15-16^- mm. ; width 7-J-9 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo, Limpopo Eiver, Salisbury). 



Clitopa pr^calva, n. spec. 



Male : Chestnut-brown, with the median part of the prothorax 

 fuscous-brown, palpi and pedicel of antennae light chestnut, club 

 darker than the pedicel, the posterior part of the head, the prothorax, 

 and scutellum, the pygidium and under side are clothed with a very 

 long pubescence, greyish-white underneath, but having a slight 

 flavescent tinge on the upper side, the elytra have each five longi- 

 tudinal stripes of appressed greyish -white hairs ; clypeus deeply 

 excavated, separated from the frontal part by a slightly bi-sinuate 

 plain keel, and having a fringe of erect, bristle-like hairs along the 

 semicircular margin, but in the inner part the frontal part is densely 

 hairy, the hairs long and not bristle-like, the clypeus is impunctate 

 except along the margin, and the frontal part is deeply and coarsely 

 pitted ; prothorax shaped as in the other species and also closely 

 punctate, the punctures along the base being very closely set ; elytra 

 coriaceous, not very plane, and slightly wider across the apex than 

 across the base, the hairs forming the bands are long and appressed. 



