1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 381 



tip, the antennal club is ovate and shorter than the pedicel, and the 

 third upper tooth of the fore tibiae is very well denned. 



Length 14-15 mm. ; width 8-9 mm. 



I am indebted to O. E. Janson, Esq., for the loan of the two 

 sexes of this interesting species, but I have not been able to examine 

 the maxillae. In all probability the female has occasionally quite 

 black elytra, as figured by Gory and Percheron. This figure, how- 

 ever, is very unsatisfactory, but that of the male is fairly accurate. 

 Nothing is known of the habits of this species. 



Schaum has described another species, which I have not yet 

 met with. 



Heteroclita raeuperi, Schaum, 



Anal. Entom., p. 48; 



Burm., Hand. d. Entom., hi., p. 605. 



" Black, head and prothorax densely punctate and clothed with 

 greyish flavescent hairs ; the scutellum and epimera are similarly 

 hairy ; antennae and palpi reddish yellow ; elytra less purely reddish 

 yellow, tolerably opaque, and having the suture, a spot on the 

 shoulders and a stripe up to the end of the terminal callus black, 

 upper surface with regularly scattered punctures, and bi-costate on 

 each side ; pygidium yellowish red, opaque, covered with curved 

 striae, lower margin with yellowish ciliae ; abdomen black, the 

 depressed middle part yellowish ; pectus black, striate-rugose and 

 bearing yellow-grey hairs, likewise the posterior coxae and all the 

 femora, tibiae and tarsi, which are reddish yellow but with the spinose 

 part of the latter blackish. 



Length 6 lines. $ ." 



Hab. Port Natal — teste Drege. 



Burmeister adds that he saw in Drege's collection 50 examples of 

 males, from which it concludes that the female leads a life other than 

 that of the male, and has a different appearance. 



Group CEEATOEEHINII. 



In this Group are included large and richly-clad species, in 

 which the sexual differences are strongly marked ; in the male the 

 outer angles of the clypeus are sharply dentate, and the centre of 

 the anterior margin is produced into a bi- or trifid horn, varying in 

 size and shape ; but in the female the clypeus is sub-parallel and 

 simple ; the sternal process is usually very long ; the tarsi are long 

 or moderately long, and the basal joint of the hind tarsi is shorter 

 than the second, 



