1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 627 



at right angles with the clypeal carina and partly enclosing two deep 

 impressions the separating wall of which is continued as a short 

 median ridge reaching almost a transverse high laminate ridge set 

 on the vertex, truncate at both ends, reaching the median part of the 

 eyes and longer therefore than the clypeal which is widely separated 

 from the genae ; the surface of the clypeus is strongly transversely 

 plicate, the frontal part and the genae roughly punctate ; the prothorax 

 is broader than long, almost vertical in front, and with the anterior 

 angles much produced ; it is deeply excavated on each side, Copris-like, 

 while the central part of the apex projects as a broadly triangular 

 ridge the outer angles of which are continued vertically also as a sharp 

 ridge strongly dentate towards its median part, the lateral anterior 

 excavation has a sharp, short tooth on the outer part close to the 

 lateral smooth impression, the two lateral anterior excavations, and 

 also the median space edged by the two vertical ridges are sparingly 

 and not deeply punctate, on the upper part the anterior projection is 

 granular, the sides scabrose, the posterior median part is not closely 

 punctate, and the long hind depression along the sides and part 

 of the carinate base is faintly punctate, there is no median smooth 

 longitudinal line ; elytra shorter than the prothorax and equally 

 broad at their widest part, plainly striate, intervals deeply and 

 closely punctate, each puncture bearing a very minute black hair, 

 alternate intervals wider than the others ; pygidium longer than 

 broad, covered with punctures similar to those on the elytra, but 

 bearing a much longer and fulvous hair. 



Length 23 mm. ; width 15 mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). 



Gen. COPTORRHINA, Cat. i., p. 286. 



CoPTORKHINA FORCIPATA, Har., 



Mitth. Munich. Entomol. Ver., 1880, p. 149. 



" Piceous black, head smooth, only sparsely granulate towards the 

 anterior margin, clypeus strongly and sharply bidentate ; prothorax 

 finely and not densely punctate in the disk but more strongly and 

 very densely towards the sides ; elytra moderately shiny, intervals 

 plane, punctulate, the external ones obsoletely tuberculated longi- 

 tudinally in the centre, the ninth is almost cristate in the middle, 

 and the eighth entirely so, but the crest is obliterated in the middle 

 of the latter. 



Length 10 \ mm. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope. 



Allied to G. armata, Bohem., but larger ; differs by all the internal 



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