On some neio Species of Coleoptera. 517 b\ Bufty suffusiou on flanks and thiofhs absent, that on shoulders reddish brown. (Katanga Dist., Congo State.) P. c. quotus, subsp. n. b. Hands and feet greyish white P. c. soccatus, subsp. n. B. Size smaller : hind foot 39 mm. (Zambesi Basin.) P-c. sindi, T. & W. LXVIII. — On some new Species of Coleopf era from Rhodesli and adjacent Territories. By GiLBEKT J. ARROW. (Published with the permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) The following notes and descriptions are incidental to the systematic study of two important collections recently added \o the Briti.sh Museum, that of Mr. S. A. Neave from North-East Rhodesia and the Katanga District of the Congo Free State, and another presented by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall and made by him or on his behalf in Mashonaland and the ])art of Portuguese East Africa immediately adjoining. CopridsB. Sisyphus callosipesy sp. n. Niger, opacus, undique minute sat dense griseo-setosus ; capita grosse punctato, clypei margiue antico profunde semicirculariter exciso, dentibus 2 internis prominentibus, externis subobsoletis ; prothorace leviter varioloso-rugoso, postice medio lineato-sul-catulo, lateribus ante medium fortiter convergentibus, angulis anticis acutis, deinde paulo sinuatis, dorso convexo ; elytris sat "egulariter striatis, ad apices valde attenuatis ; pedibus gracili-bus, baud spinosis, trochanteribus baud productis ; metasterno nitido, profunde impresso : cJ , tibiis anticis sat robustis, subtus baud dentatis, pedibus inter-mediis simplicibus, pedum posticorum femoribus clavatis, postice medio callo lato, nitido, instructis, tibiis longis, curvatis, intus serratis, extremitate intus abrupte dilatato. Long. 10-11 mm. ; lat. max. 6-7 mm. Hub. German East Africa : Massailand ; British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Katanga, 150-200 miles west of Kambove; Mashonaland : Chirinda. The female of this is like the common Sisyphus crispatus^ Gory, but it is a larger species, the upper surface is less rugose and clothed with a finer and closer pubescence. In the male the hind trochanters are not produced and the front
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