Descriptive Catalogue Of The Coleoptera Of South Africa Volume PDF Download

Excerpt from Descriptive Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa (Lucanidæ and Scarabæidæ) Body elongate or very strongly ovate and convex; lateral margin of clypeus either nearly straight or very strongly constricted, anterior one always reflexed and either simple or tri-dentate eyes divided in front by the genal canthus, and having or not a posterior keel either connected with or disconnected from the genal canthus prothorax always sloping forward Ielytra elongated and then moderately con vex, or strongly ampliato-ovate and very convex, covering the propy gidium; pygidium wide, vertical in most cases, but sub-horizontal in Pleophylla anterior coxae almost sub-vertical, intermediate ones narrow and somewhat broadly separated, posterior always very broad, and wider along the sides than the metasternum; femora and tibiae very compressed, the hind tibiae often broadly ampliated inwardly, and with two more or less obliterated, slanting, spinose, seldom entire ridges outwardly; hind spurs of the female not ampliated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.