1904,] Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 275' 



Head with one median, raised, longitudinal line 

 and a smooth elongated patch on each side of it ; 

 prothorax with three raised denuded longitudinal 

 median lines irrorata. 



Ehabdopholis costipennis, Bohem., 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 23. 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 84. 



Chestnut-brown, covered with contiguous elongato-ovate scales r 

 the pectus bears only a few scales but is thickly clothed with an 

 appressed, slightly flavescent pubescence, only the median and 

 supra-marginal keels on the prothorax and the sharp edge of the 

 costules on the elytra are bare ; head deeply and irregularly 

 punctured, separated from the clypeus by a broadly arcuate keel, 

 and having a conspicuous, raised longitudinal, median line, reaching 

 from the clypeal suture to a very short distance from the base, in 

 the male the clypeus is short, parallel, 5 but slightly dilated obliquely 

 towards the anterior part which is straight but plainly sinuate in 

 the centre, and with the outer angles bluntly rounded, it is concave 

 along the anterior margin which is very reflexed, especially in the 

 centre, in the female the clypeus is shorter, slightly narrowed 

 laterally towards the anterior part which is deeply and broadly 

 emarginate ; prothorax only slightly narrowed laterally in the 

 anterior part, nearly sub-parallel thence to the base, but slightly 

 rounded before the median part, posterior angles sharp, the discoidal 

 part is not much convex and is covered with irregular punctures, in 

 the centre there is a longitudinal, denuded, slightly raised line and a. 

 conspicuous, also denuded keel running close to and parallel with 

 the outer margin ; scutellum cordate, sharp at the tip ; elytra 

 elongate, somewhat sinuate laterally before the median part, and 

 somewhat ampliated thence, more so, however, in the female than 

 in the male, and a little less convex in the middle in this sex than in 

 the female, they have each nine sharp costae, including the juxta- 

 sutural one, and the space between the outer costa and the margin 

 is broader than the other intervals ; propygidium clothed with scales 

 in the uncovered part only ; pygidium strongly slanting backwards 

 and elongated in both sexes and broadly triangular ; penultimate 

 abdominal segment broader than the one preceding ; intermediate- 

 and posterior tibiae plainly grooved on the outer part, and having a 

 very rudimentary trace of an oblique ciliate keel in the female only ; 

 anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, or the teeth sharper in the 

 female than in the male. 



