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OF THE

SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
Vore, XEhh*

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE COLEOPTERA OF
SOUTH AFRICA (LucanIDZ AND SCARABHIDZ).

By bl. Perweuny, FE-S:, FZs., &.,

Assistant Director South African Musewm.

Sus-Famiry SERICINA.

Bopy without scales or truly scale-like hairs; labrum obliterated,
ligula emarginate in front, fused with the mentum ; maxille robust,
always pluri-dentate inwardly; antenne 9 or 10-jointed, number of
antennal clubs varying from 3 to 7; abdominal segments always
with deep sutures, and seemingly partly free in some cases ; hind
tibiz with two spurs, one on each side of the basal joint ; anterior
coxee sub-vertical.

This Sub-Family is far from being homogeneous in general
appearance, and must be divided into two Tribes.

Hind coxe broader laterally than the metasternum .. .. .. .. S©RICINI.

Hind coxe much narrower than the metasternum Bete ce ie) CA BUABERING-

The insects included in the first Tribe have a very peculiar
_ silky or opaline sheen; they have occasionally sub-squamose hairs
in the punctures (Sub-Gen. Lepiserica), but never scales or
squamose hairs as in the Hoprnimnx or some MELOLONTHIN# ;
their general appearance is unlike that of any of the other
Scarabzidous insects; the Ablaberini, on the other hand, have the

* This volume is a continuation of Vol. XII.

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2 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. ‘vou. Xt.

general appearance of Melolonthidous insects, and their vestiture
is that of many of the Pachypodini or true Schizonychides. Doubt-
less allied to the Hopnimn on one side, and to the MELOLONTHINE
on the other, the distinctive character of this Sub-Family is
to be found in the mode of insertion of the two spurs of the hind
tarsi, which are situated one on each side of the basal tarsal joint,
sometimes near the outer angle of the dilated apical part, sometimes
close to the tarsal joint, but never are the two found on one side of
the tarsal joint as in the MrnonontaHin®; we have seen that in
the Srmricin/ there is only one spur, and as often none at all.
Certain genera of the Ablaberini are so closely allied to the Pachy-
podimt, which I retain in the MrnonontHina, that but for that
character they would have to be included among them, in spite of
their having strongly dentate maxille. Another character of im-
portance is the complete obliteration of the labrum, which part is.
always strongly developed in the MELOLONTHIN”.

Tre SERICINI.

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 ; elytra 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 cox almost sub-vertical, intermediate ones
narrow and somewhat broadly separated, posterior always very
broad, and wider along the sides than the metasternum ; femora and
tibia very compressed, the hind tibiz often broadly ampliated
inwardly, and with two more or less obliterated, slanting, spinose,
seldom entire ridges outwardly; hind spurs of the female not
ampliated.

Herr Brenske has divided this Tribe into Sericine and Trochaline,
and has endeavoured to find for them characters which are not
common to both. I regret to say that as far as the South African
genera and species are concerned, I have been unable to find lines
of demarcation between them. Brenske’s Sericine are doubtless, as
a whole, of a more elongated form than his Trochaline,* which are
as a rule, but not always, more spherical and shorter; but if we take

* Cf. some species of Ablaberoides.

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such important characters as the shape of the clypeus and the pre-
sence or absence of a posterior eye-keel, we find elongated species
with a very strongly constricted clypeus and no posterior eye-keel
(Arraphytarsa, Allokotarsa, &c.), and very short and convex species
without constricted clypeus and with a posterior eye-keel (Dolero-
serica). Some species of this genus have even the silky sheen of
Serica, which is replaced by an opaline sheen in Trochalus.

The number of antennal joints is either 9 or 10; that of the club
is from 3 to 5 in the male (South African species) and of 3 in the
female, except in Microtrachelus, where it is 4; this club is as long
or longer than the pedicel in the male; the claws are cleft, the
superior tooth being usually longer and more slender than the
lower, which is often stouter in the male than in the female, often
membranous or lobe-like, and in some genera, such as Hwronycha,
Allokotarsa, Allogistotarsa, these claws and also the tarsal joints are
most abnormal. I have not met with this peculiarity in the short,
spherical, or very convex species.

Some of the genera are very closely allied, others offer good dis-
tinctive characters in the male only, in which case the females are
very much alike. An examination of the genital armature of the
male is as necessary for the division of species as in the RUTELINE
or MELOLONTHIN#.

The species known to me are generally met with in somewhat
sandy spots, either at dusk or if the sky is overcast. Only a few
species occur in the south-western part of the Cape Colony; they
seem also to be rare in the eastern provinces of that part of South
Africa, becoming more numerous, however, as Natal is reached, and
are very abundant in the North-Eastern Transvaal, Rhodesia, and
Ovampoland. Many of the species range from Natal to Mossamedes.

Key to the Genera.

A’, Eyes divided in front by the genal canthus, and having no
posterior keel.

B?. Clypeus not constricted laterally, nor tri-dentate in front.

C3. Body elongated or slightly elongato-ovate, moderately
convex.

D?. Prosternum with an aculeate process.

Autenne 10-jointed ; club of male 6-jointed .. Pleophylla,
D‘. Prosternum without an aculeate process.

E?. Head with a frontal suture only.

F?, Antenne 10-jointed (normally).

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Claws cleft in both sexes, lower tooth
wider than the upper.

Anterior tibize bi-dentate.
a?, Antennal club of male 3-jointed.

Mentum broadly deplanated in front,
femora broadly dilated .. .. .. <Autoserica.

Mentum not deplanated in front,
femora not broadly dilated .. .. Nedymoserica.

at, Antennal club of male 4-jointed.

Anterior tibiz bi-dentate, the four
joints of the club equal in length.. Neoserica.

Anterior tibiz tri-dentate, inner joint
of the club shorter than the others.. Ltiserica.
F'. Antenne 9-jointed.

a?. Anterior tibie bi- or tri-dentate.

b?. Anterior tarsi normal, claws normally
cleftin bothsexes .. .. .. .. Stenoserica.

The three ultimate joints of anterior
tarsi short, triquetrous, last one
swollen, lower tooth of inner claw
very broadly dilated... .. .. .. Diaphoroserica.

a, Anterior tibie tri-dentate.

Claws normally cleft, lower tooth
wider than the upper.

Body glabrous on the upper side,
inner margin of hind tibie straight Hyboserica.

Body with erect bristles on the upper
side, inner margin of hind tibia
slightly ampliate.. .. .. .. .. Phtloserica.

bt. Claws abnormal in the male.

Anterior tarsi very short, ultimate
joint enormously dilated, claws dis-
torted, lower tooth broadly ampliated Huwronycha.

Anterior claws of male very long
and curving under the last joint of
the tarsi, penultimate joints short .. Gryphonycha.

EK’, Head with a clypeal and a frontal suture.
Anterior tibie tri-dentate.
Antenne 9-jointed.

Antennal club twice the length of the pedicel,
and curved Ce Mor: aco ean Ideserica.

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Bt. Clypeus strongly constricted laterally, tri-dentate in front.

C?. Body elongated, sub-parallel, very little convex.

Antenne 10-jointed.

E?. Head with a clypeal keel and a frontal suture.

Et.

OF

a.

. Anterior tibix tri-dentate.

. Clypeal keel triangular.

Clypeus with the outer angles rounded, basal
joint of hind tarsi very short ..

Clypeal keel straight, set close to the frontal
suture.

Anterior part of clypeus divided into two by
a longitudinal keel.

. Anterior tibiz without inner spur in the male.

Joints of anterior tarsi of male broadly dilated
transversely, and gradually tapering towards
the apex, claws very long and slender ..

. Anterior tibiz with an inner spur in the male.

Anterior tarsi and claws of male normal
Anterior tibiz bi-dentate outwardly.

Joints of anterior tarsi of male fused, sub-
parallel, sub-aculeate inwardly, last joint
slightly wider, sub-parallel

Joints of anterior tarsi of male elongated,
slender, cylindrical, and fused together ..

Head with only a frontal suture.

Anterior tibie uni-dentate, without inner spur in
the male.

Anterior tarsi of male long, partly fused, straight

in

wardly, slightly rounded at tip outwardly

Ct. Body ampliato-ovate or sub-spherical, convex or very
convex.

Clypeus with only a sharp frontalkeel .. .. ..

At, Eyes divided in front by the genal canthus and having also
a posterior keel.

B?. Clypeus not constricted laterally nor sharply tri-dentate
in front.

C?. Posterior eye-keel broadly separated from the genal
canthus.

Camentoserica.

Allokotarsa.

? Mesoserica.

Arraphytarsa.

Alogistotarsa.

Dolerotarsa.

Trochalus.

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D?. Clypeus with only a frontal suture .. .. .. Doleroserica.

B*. Clypeus strongly constricted laterally, usually sharply tri-
dentate in front.

C*. Posterior eye-keel connected with the genal canthus
or only very narrowly separated from it.

D?. Clypeus with only a frontal suture.
Antennal club of male 5-jointed ~.. .. .. .. Méicrotrochalus.

Dt. Clypeus with a clypeal carina and a frontal
suture.*

Antennal club tri-jointed in both sexes .. .. Ablaberoides.

Gren. PLEOPHYULLA, Erichs.
Nat. Ins., iii., 1847, p. 695.

Mentum long, gradually ampliated from the base to the anterior part
where it is one-third broader, the angles are much rounded and the
edge of the ligular part deeply and arcuately emarginate, the outer face
of the ligular part, which is entirely fused with the mentum, is very
convex in the centre and impressed on each side; labial palpi long,
apical joint slightly rounded towards the apex outwardly, straight in-
wardly, slightly acuminate in front, apical joint of labial palpi similar
in shape but a little longer, maxillze short, very robust, provided with
four strong teeth almost transversely disposed; head as broad as
long, with the eyes large, the gene form only a short canthus and
project very little, the clypeus is divided from the frontal part by a
transverse impression, and is moderately narrowed laterally, almost
straight in front, with the margin not angular in the centre, and the
outer angles distinct but not sharp; antennz 10-jointed and longer
than the pedicel in both sexes, third joint of pedicel one-third as
long as the club, which is 6-jointed in the male, that of the female is
flabellate like that of the male, but 5-jointed, the inner joint, how-
ever, is shorter than the one following; prothorax sloping in the
anterior part, somewhat attenuated laterally in front, very little
sinuate behind, wider across the strongly sinuate base than across
the apex, the outer margin has a fringe of long, seriate bristly hairs ;
scutellum long, ogival, not very sharp at the apex ; elytra elongated,
slightly sinuate laterally at a short distance from the shoulders, and
covering behind the greatest part of the propygidium ; anterior coxe
sharply conical and not very slanting; metasternum produced into a
conspicuous aculeate process between the intermediate coxe, hind

* This suture is carinate in 7’. @neus and in T’. tardus,

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cox covering the greatest part of the fifth abdominal segment, and
with the hind margin running nearly parallel with the lower margin
of the latter; anterior tibiz bi-dentate, anterior tarsi moderately
long, intermediate and posterior much longer, claws cleft under-
neath, the lower tooth slightly wider than the upper; hind coxe
dilated, hind tibiz slightly ampliated inwardly at a short distance
from the base, and with their inner margin provided with numerous
long, bristle-like spines, the upper with two tri-spinose keels en
chevron.

The genus is, so far as is now known, restricted to the South
African region. The number of species has been unduly increased
owing to one kind having a very wide distribution in South Africa
(from the Caledon District in the Cape Colony to the Zoutpansberg
District in the Transvaal). In this species (P. fasciatipennis, the
colouration of which is very variable) the shape of the clasps vary
slightly (vide pl. xlii., figs. 19, 20; pl. xlvi., fig. 32).

Key to the Species.
A?, Elytra with a more or less distinct, fuscous tessellation.

Antennal club fuscous, the first joint half the length of the
Oilaverey Ma Ge se Bo aol ool ad io oan oc | aa. WOmeulichie

Antennal club fiavous, the first joint only one-quarter of the
length of the other in thefemale .. .. .. .. «. .- .. ‘maculipennis.

At. Elytra without any traces of fuscous tessellation.

Straw-colour, prothorax iridescent... .. .. .. «.. «+. «. tongaatsana.

PLEOPHYLLA NAVICULARIS, Burm.,
Plate XLIILI., fig. 21.
Handb. d. Entom., vol. iv., 2, p. 181.

Testaceous-red with a dark greenish-bronze sheen, head and pro-
thorax clothed with appressed greyish-white hairs, and also with
long upright ones on the latter part, intervals between the costules
of the elytra filled with long greyish sete, under side densely villose ;
clypeus deeply and somewhat coarsely punctate, frontal part also
punctate but not roughly ; antenne, including the club, reddish and
with the latter often slightly infuscate ; prothorax aciculate and with
scattered punctures bearing each an upright hair, the pubescence is
often less dense in the central part of the disk; scutellum raised
longitudinally in the centre; elytra elongated, slightly narrower at
the shoulders than across the median part, and not narrowed thence

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to the rounded apical part, not convex, but gradually sloping towards
the apex, strongly costate, the cost tectiform, with the carinate
part smooth and the sides impunctate, the deep but narrow striz are
filled with setigerous punctures impinging on the base of the cost
the smooth part of which is more distinctly metallic and shiny, and
there are some darker transverse bands, not defined enough, how-
ever, to form a tessellation; pygidium strongly slanting backwards,
as hairy as the elytra, scabroso-punctate; under side hairy and
bristly as on the upper side; metasternum deeply and very closely
punctured and emitting two long spine-like processes between the
hind cox, abdominal segments with two transverse rows of deep
setigerous punctures.

Length 94-11 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Natal (Karkloof, Upper Tongaat, Durban, Maritzburg),
Transvaal (Johannesburg, Potchefstroom, Lydenburg, Waterberg,
Zoutpansberg).

PLEOPHYLLA FASCIATIPENNIS, Blanch.,
Plate XLIII., figs. 19, 20; Plate XLVI, fig. 32.

P. ferruginea, Burm., Handl. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 181.
P. maculipennis, Boh., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 124.

P. pilosa, Boh., loc. cit., p. 125.

P, flavicorms, Schauz., Nunq. Otios., 1870, p. 232.

P. opalina, Schauf., loc. cit., p. 232.

Smaller than the preceding species, but similarly shaped ; ferrugi-
nous or light brownish-red, clothed on the upper and under sides
with an appressed greyish pubescence, and having also erect setz
on the prothorax ; antennz flavous, the inner joint of the club less
than one-third the length of the others in the female; clypeus
roughly punctate, frontal part deeply punctate except on the vertex ;
prothorax very little attenuated laterally near the anterior part,
more so in the female, closely punctured, the punctures deep and
setigerous ; scutellum pubescent laterally, not in the middle; elytra
elongated, almost parallel from a short distance from the shoulders.
to the posterior rounded part, costate, the coste broadly tectiform
and separated by narrow striz, smooth along the upper edge which
s moderately sharp, closely punctate all over, and having on each
side five rows of smooth, darker patches, four or five in number,
disposed diagonally from near the outer margin towards the suture,
these patches, however, are as often as not entirely obliterated or
hardly visible; pygidium scabroso-punctate ; under side and legs as
in P. navicularis. I have seen Blanchard’s and Boheman’s types of

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this very variable species, and have ascertained that they are both one
kind; Schaufus’ description agrees also very well with P. fasciati-
pennis.

Length 7-9 mm. ; width 3+-42 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Knysna, Port Elizabeth, Albany) ;
Natal (Durban, Frere, Eshowe, Upper Tongaats, Van Renen’s Pass,
Maritzburg) ; Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Johannesburg, Lydenburg,
Waterberg, Zoutpansberg).

PLEOPHYLLA TONGAATSANA, N. spec.,
Plate XLIIL., fig. 18.

Very light testaceous, almost straw-colour, the vertex of the head
is slightly infuscate, and there are three longitudinal fuscous patches
in the discoidal part of the prothorax which is faintly iridescent ; in
general appearance this species resembles P. fasciatipennis, but the
elytra are not quite so parallel, the prothorax is wider at the base,
and is proportionately narrower in the anterior part ; the hairs form-
ing the pubescence are slightly finer, the sculpture is the same, and
the punctures on the pygidium also scabrose; the genital armature
of the male is, however, of quite a different type from that of the
two preceding species ; female unknown.

Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Natal (Upper Tongaats).

Gren. AUTOSERICA, Brenske,
Berl. Ent. Zeits., vol. xlvii., 1902, p. 2; pl. i., fig. 5.

Lepiserica, Brsk., loc. cit., p. 222.

Mentum long, parallel, but slightly broader at the apex than at
the base, inciso-emarginate and with the anterior part of the outer
face plainly sloping towards the anterior margin; teeth of maxille
long and sharp; clypeus simple, separated from the head by an
arcuate, slightly impressed line; eyes divided by the gene as far as
the median part ; antennz 10-jointed, club tri-jointed in both sexes,
either as long or much longer than the pedicel in the male, the two
penultimate joints of the pedicel look occasionally as if they were
fused, but the suture is always visible under a high power; body
elongato-convex, more or less densely sprinkled on the elytra with
minute scale-like hairs, but not always; elytra striate, the intervals
bearing often sub-erect, very remote, short, bristle-like hairs, which

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are, however, very easily rubbed off; anterior tibie bi-dentate,
anterior tarsi long, slender in both sexes; hind femora wide, com-
pressed; posterior tibize ampliated and curved inwardly, the two
apical spurs long, but slightly shorter than the basal tarsal joint,
apical margin of coxee moderately slanting, and leaving the angle of
the fifth abdominal segment uncovered; claws cleft underneath, the
lower tooth wider than the upper, and both equally curved in both
Sexes.

I consider that the characters of Lepiserica are not of sufficient
distinctive value to separate the genus from Awtoserica. The pre-
sence of scales in the punctures is after all its main distinctive cha-
racter, and this varies so much, not only in the species but in the
individuals, that it is impossible to say often of two specimens caught
in the same locality, and at the same time, if they belong to Awtoserica
or to Lepiserica. These species are also so closely allied that only
an examination of the genitalia of the male can lead to the identi-
fication of most of them. Brenske has described five species, which
I have not been able to identify, three of which have 9-jointed
antenne. All the examples which I have examined, often with a
high power, have 10-jointed antenne. In only one female example
of L. lucidula, Péring., have I found that two joints were so fused
that the antennze appeared to be 9-jointed.

Key to the Species.
A*, Elytra not deeply striate.

B?. Club of male not longer than the pedicel.

a*, Posterior tibie slightly sinuate inwardly, moderately
dilated.

)?. Third and fifth intervals raised, rounded.

Elytra with a plain brown tessellation (genit.,
pl. xl Vis, fe.) US) phy Wek beer mirigy eretieeto) cee.iip tore) enCee rerun

Elytra with the tessellation much less distinct
(genit., pl. xlvi., fig. 20) .. «2 «. .. «=» «. tucidula,

bt. Third and fifth intervals tectiform.
Elytra plainly tessellate AGL othe id, eco oot Go Ai Aetaen

at. Posterior tibia very broadly dilated (genit., pl. xlvi.,
ne) i ee SOE SA oo kom oto, “oo . suo

Bt. Club of male longer than the pedicel.

Elytra with the intervals plane.

b?, Clypeus with the median part of the anterior margin (proteana.
plainly angular (genit. of proteana, pl. xlvi., fig. 19) .. | rhodesiana.

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bt. Clypeus with the median part of the anterior margin not
angular (gen., pls xlvi., tie. 20h. ie id ee es | | QUSENALIS.

A‘, Elytra with the intervals costate, tectiform.
Antenne of male longer than the head, the latter concolorous.. concordans.

Antenne of male much longer than the head, the latter black.. distinguenda.

AUTOSERICA TESSELLATA, N. spec.
Plate XLVI, fig. 18.

Light chestnut, slightly metallic, either lightly infuscate on the
head and the central part of the prothorax and with equi-distant
fuscous patches forming a tessellation on the plainly convex coste of
the elytra, or so much suffused with a fuscous tinge that the tessella-
tion is quite obliterated ; surface with a very short, squamiform hair
on each puncture; antenne rufescent; club slightly flavescent ;
elypeus slightly narrowed laterally towards the apex, which is
nearly straight, and the margins moderately reflexed, separated from
the head by an arcuate impressed line, deeply and somewhat
roughly punctate, head with very shallow punctures; club of
antenne not much longer in the male than in the female;
prothorax also with shallow punctures; scutellum elongate,
sharply triangular ; elytra gradually ampliated laterally towards the
posterior part, convex, but more so in the female than in the male,
plainly costate with the costz rounded, margin of epipleural fold
with a fringe of short hairs; pygidium and abdomen with minute
scales, metasternum with a long, median, longitudinal impressed
line; anterior tibize bi-dentate; in the male the two valves are
almost symmetrical and enclose an ovate open space.

Length 74-9 mm.; width 44-51 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe), Transvaal
(Lydenburg).

Closely allied to L. wkanuna, Brsk., but the naked spots on the
elytra occur on the alternate costa. Herr Brenske informs me that
the two species are not identical.

AUTOSERICA (LEPISERICA) LUCIDULA, Péring.,
Plate XLVL., fig. 20.
Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892, p. 35.

Shape and colouring of LZ. mashona, the description of which suits
entirely the present species; the tessellate denuded patches on the
elytra are, however, not so dark in the light-coloured specimens,

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and therefore not so conspicuous ; the genital armature of the male
is very different, the left lobe is very much longer than the right,
strongly sinuate outwardly, broadly laminate, strongly arcuate
inwardly near the apex the vertical edge of which is incised, the
right lobe is short, narrow, and directed inwards.

Length 6-9 mm.; width 4-5 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba); Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe,
Salisbury).

AUTOSERICA ANNECTENS, Nn. spec.

Fuscous or dark chestnut-brown, with a faint greenish-bronze
tinge on the frontal part of the head, and on the discoidal part of the
prothorax, it has no sericeous sheen, the under side is lighter
chestnut-brown than the upper, and so are the legs, the antennal
club is flavous in the male, and not longer than the pedicel, the
sixth joint is almost rudimentary, but still visible under a high
power, in the female the club is reddish-brown, and the joints of
the pedicel normal; this species looks at first sight like a very small
example of A. lucidula, but the frontal part is broadly and very
deeply punctate all over, and has a median slightly raised longi-
tudinal line; the prothorax is similarly shaped, and there is a
minute hair in each puncture; the scutellum and elytra are also
alike, and each puncture bears a minute greyish hair, the dark
tessellation is also not very plain in some examples and more so in
others, but the first interval is broader than the others, plainly
convex and tectiform, and so are the other dorsal ones.

This species resembles so much the female of A. concordans that,
in spite of the subdued tessellation of the elytra and the presence of
the minute scale-like hairs on the upper side, I took it to be the
same, owing to the shape of the raised intervals of the elytra, until

I got the male. The tessellation is completely obliterated in some
examples.

Length 64-64 mm. ; width 4-42 mm.
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe, Salisbury).

AUTOSERICA (LEPISERICA) FARTULA, 0. spec.

Fuscous with a metallic tinge, and occasionally with the elytra
chestnut-brown and the costules darker, not tessellate ; the shape
and sculpture of the head is the same as in the two preceding
species, but the clypeus is very deeply punctured; the prothorax
is covered with moderately closely set punctures bearing each a
minute flavescent hair; the punctures on the scutellum are deep

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and the hairs longer, but appressed; the wide, convex elytra have
along the base, on each side of the scutellum, squamose appressed
hairs longer and denser than those springing from the somewhat
scattered, shallow punctures of the surface, and in addition five
partly gemminate rows on each side of remote sub-erect, white,
bristle-like hairs, but often partly rubbed off; under side with an
opaline hue; coxe and metasternum occasionally with appressed
hairs; basal inner part of hind femora strongly laminate; valves
of genital armature slender, vertical, bi-sinuate, and symmetrical.

Length 94-114 mm.; width 64-74 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe); Mozambique
(Rikatla).

In my example from Rikatla, the punctures on the clypeus are
much less rugose ; and the seriate white hairs on the elytra are not
partly rubbed off, this is probably due to the example having been
preserved in spirits of wine.

AUTOSERICA (LEPISERICA) PROTEANA, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLVI, fig. 19.

Reddish-brown, faintly opaline on the upper side, more so on the
under side, and with the head and prothorax slightly darker, or
gradually turning to dark chestnut on the upper part; antennie
reddish in the female, with the club longer than the pedicel in
the male, and flavescent; clypeus bi-sinuate in front, owing to the
median part being slightly, yet plainly aculeate, the anterior margin
is strongly reflexed, the surface roughly punctate, and the head
faintly punctured ; the body is somewhat elongated, nearly parallel;
the punctures on the prothorax very fine, each with a most minute
hair; elytra plainly costulate, each puncture bearing as minute a
hair as on the prothorax, and each alternate costule having a series
of small, equi-distant, sub-appressed whitish bristles; hind femora
only slightly sinuate in the inferior margin and as broad at the base
as it is at the apex; the genital armature of the male is very
complicated.

Length 8-94 mm. ; width 44-54 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban), Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

AUTOSERICA (LEPISERICA) AUSTRALIS, Nn, spec.,
Plate XLVI., fig. 21.

This species is hardly distinguishable from L. proteana in shape,
sculpture, and colouring, but the anterior margin of the clypeus is

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not aculeate ; the genital armature of the male is much simpler than
in L. proteana.

Length 74-84 mm. ; width 4-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Bathurst) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg).

AUTOSERICA RHODESIANA, Ni. Spec.

Brownish-red with a fleshy tinge, a sericeous appearance, and a
sub-opaline sheen in fresh specimens; clypeus slightly attenuate
laterally, slightly emarginate on the anterior part, but not aculeate
in the centre, very roughly punctured, clypeal suture arcuate and
plain, frontal part vaguely punctulate, club of antenne of male
long, but shorter than the head, and flavous; prothorax very faintly
punctate, slightly attenuate laterally in the anterior part; scutellum
closely punctate; elytra elongate but slightly ampliate laterally
before the median part, costulate with the costules somewhat raised,
or moderately plane, the punctures very shallow and somewhat
indistinct, but each bearing a most minute greyish hair, the series
of longer and very remote hairs on the alternate costules are usually
obliterated on the disk, but can still be traced on the sides;
pygidium, abdomen, cox, and pectus with the usual sculpture
and vestiture.

Closely allied in general appearance to flesh-coloured examples of
Neoserica carneola and N. natalensis, and distinguished merely by
the three-jointed club of the male. The shape of the genitalia of
the male differs much from that of the other South African species
of Autoserica and Neoserica.

Length 8-93 mm. ; width 43-54 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo, Enkeldoorn, Salisbury) ;
Transvaal (Rustenburg).

AUTOSERICA CONCORDANS, N. spec.

Smaller than A. rhodesiana, and more parallel, the head, prothorax,
and under side are fleshy-red, the elytra flavescent, it has a faint,
silky, not iridescent sheen ; the clypeus, the fore margin of which is
slightly sinuate and plainly angular in the centre, is foveolato-
punctate, and so is the anterior part of the head, the antennal club of
the male is very long, but a little shorter than the head, and the 5-7
joints of the pedicel are almost fused together, the suture being hardly
distinct even under a high magnifying power, but they are of normal
shape in the female, the fifth and seventh are aculeate inwardly,
the club is also normally elongato-ovate, but is longer than usual in

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this sex; the prothorax is very finely and closely punctulate, more
parallel and more sinuate laterally in the posterior part in the male
than in the female; scutellum closely punctate; elytra elongated,
sub-parallel in the male, less so in the female, deeply striate, the
striz filled with conspicuous punctures broader in the male than in
the female, but the punctures are hairless, the intervals being plainly
tectiform in both sexes with the exception of the second which is
more plane than the others, and also wider; pygidium convex in the
male, hardly so in the female, deeply punctate, the punctures not
closely set ; transverse seriate row of bristles on the abdominal seg-
ments strong; hind tibize not quite so broadly dilated inwardly as in
the other species of the genus, spurs reaching only to half the length
of the basal tarsal joint in the male, and proportionately longer in the
female; the lower tooth of the anterior claws of the male is sub-
quadrato-lobate in the male, and therefore wider than in the
preceding species of Awtoserica, but this character can only be
looked upon as specific.

Length 64-7 mm.; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn, Salisbury).

AUTOSERICA DISTINGUENDA, 0. spec.

Very closely allied to A. concordans, the colour is redder all over,
and the frontal part black, the iridescent sheen is also more
pronounced ; in the male the yellow antennal club is very much
longer than the head and the joints of the pedicel quite free, thus
distinguishing it easily from A. distinguenda; the female is of a
slightly heavier build than 4d. distinguenda, which it, however,
closely resembles, and the punctures on the intervals impinge
more on the sides of the cost than they do in the other species.

Length 7-74 mm. ; width 34-43 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

(Species which I have not seen or identified.)

Herr Brenske has described the six following species :—

A?, Antenne nine-jointed .. .. .. barbata; lydenburgiana; zoutpaniana.
At. Antenne ten-jointed .. .. .. benigna; delagoana; fasta.

LEPISERICA BARBATA, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 232.

‘Opaque, opaline, very dark-brown, legs, antennz, mouth parts
reddish-brown, prothorax also reddish-brown, shining; antenne

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9-jointed; clypeus scarcely marginate, very slightly sinuate in
front, the corners rounded, and having a fine transverse line
close behind the anterior margin, very densely and coarsely
punctulate, the frontal suture very indistinct, scarcely noticeable ;
prothorax not produced in front, the sides almost straight, the hind
angles rounded, marginal sete very weak, not densely. punctate ;
scutellum large; elytra with distinctly raised costules, the costules
densely, coarsely, almost rugosely punctate, interspaces narrow,
without punctures, darkened by some scattered, very fine bristle-
bearing punctures, the marginal set fine and short; pygidium
strongly convex, almost opaquely punctate, acuminate; the bristle-
bearing punctures of the abdominal segments very weak ; posterior
cox very sparingly and finely bristly at the sides only, hind femora
not compressed, flat, narrow, acuminate towards the apex and
distinctly sinuate before the tip, and with a weakly projecting
angle, the hind margin with tolerably crowded punctures, the
setigerous punctures but little prominent; hind tibie slender,
coarsely punctate, and with two groups of bristles externally, the
terminal spur as long as the first tarsal joint, these tarsal joints not
very strong, those of the anterior tarsi short ; middle cox approxi-
mated, median part of sternum brown, very briefly pubescent ;
mentum with a dense, long pubescence.
Length @-5 mm. ; width 5 mm.
Hab. Port Natal.”

LEPISERICA LYDENBURGIANA, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1902, p. 432.

‘« Hlongato-oval, not thick, opaque, uniformly brown, with a short,
hairless clypeus; antennz 9-jointed; facies of Awtoserzca, clypeus
broad, but little narrowed and very short, densely and deeply
punctate, base of ocular keels strong, frons flat in the middle, with
a distinct, finely raised longitudinal line; prothorax somewhat less
broad, straight at the sides, hind angles lightly rounded off, anterior
margin slightly produced in the middle, finely and densely punctate,
without hairs or scales; elytra finely but distinctly striate, the
deepened striz, in which the punctures are scattered and not seriate,
are as broad as the raised interspaces and have solitary bristly hairs,
base without hairs, epipleural striz broad only at the base, equally
narrow behind; scutellum small, the margins hairless; pygidium
convex, somewhat acuminated; abdomen flat, punctate, with
distinct rows of sete; hind femora little broadened, somewhat
narrower before the apex which is distinctly angular, sparingly

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punctate, with scattered bristles; hind tibiz evenly widened at the
apex and with two separate groups of sete on the outer side,
terminal spur almost as long as the first, very long tarsal joint, tarsi
of intermediate legs very slender; claws more deeply cleft at the
apex; third and fourth joint of the antennz cylindrical, narrow,
fifth and sixth short, the latter very minute; the three-jointed club
is longer than the pedicel, narrow, the last foliated joint has a
distinct longitudinal groove; mentum plainly deplanate in front,
~ somewhat like in ZL. confinis.

Length 8 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Transvaal, Lydenburg.”

LEPISERICA ZOUTPANIANA, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 225.

“Oval, opaque, brown above, somewhat spotted and opaline, the
‘antenne 9-jointed; very like LZ. wkamina, Brsk., but the scale-like
hairs are finer, the hind femora and tibiz less strong; clypeus short,
broad, broadly rounded at the anterior angles, lightly emarginate in
front, with a broad ocular keel; metallic, shiny, densely, finely
aciculate, with indistinct setiferous punctures at the anterior margin,
the frontal suture is less angularly curved ; frons and prothorax as
in L. lucidula, Péring., the densely tomentose elytra are distinctly
punctato-striate, the imterspaces somewhat narrower than in
LL. wkanuna, the tessellated spots are faint, the punctures themselves
only recognisable by the fine hairs, the larger setose-like hairs are
very little distinct; the broader epipleural fold is somewhat narrower
in the middle, less sharply punctate at the apex, the outer angles
rounded ; the hind femora are a little narrower, very weakly curved
at the hind margin; hind tibiz smooth.

I cannot separate a female example from Lydenburg in the
Transvaal belonging to the Berlin Museum, in spite of the fact
that it has 10-jointed antenne.

Length 9 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Transvaal, Zoutpansberg.

I have already stated my belief that this species is identical with
L. lucidula, Péring.

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LEPISERICA BENIGNA, Brsk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 233.

“ Just as dark brown as ZL. barbata, and very like this species also

in the elongate form, but more reddish-brown on the under side,
ey

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opaque, opaline; clypeus broad, but short, distinctly marginate, less
densely and coarsely punctate and having a row of sete behind the
anterior margin, the suture very fine and covered with tomentum,
prothorax slightly produced in front, the sides almost straight,
lightly sinuous behind, the corners not rounded ; scutellum smooth
in the middle; elytra irregularly and less densely punctate in the
strie, the interspaces lightly raised, with tiny bristles in the
punctures, and more distinct white bristles in rows; pygidium
convex, acuminate; the setigerous punctures of the abdominal
segments are distinct; the posterior femora are flat, broadened,
somewhat sinuate before the apex, not narrowed at the apex,
opaquely punctate, with distinct setigerous punctures ; the posterior
tibiee are broadened, and have two groups of bristles externally, and
an indistinct process above it; terminal spurs somewhat shorter
than the first tarsal joint which is robust; posterior coxe densely
bristly at the sides; mentum broadly deplanate ; sides of the sterna,
finely hairy; antenne 10-jointed, club 3-jointed (@). The male is
in my collection; it is less darkly coloured, the angles of the
posterior femora are somewhat more distinctly projecting; the tri-
jointed club is distinctly longer than the stalk. Very dark examples,
black on the upper side with greenish tinge and vivid opaline sheen
are labelled pwrpwrata in the Dohrn Collection.
Length 8 mm.; width 5 mm.
Hab. Port Natal.”

LEPISERICA DELAGOANA, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 228.

“Robust and thick, very opaque, dark with green sheen above,
brown below, only the tibize and tarsi shining; antennz 10-jointed,
club 3-jointed. Clypeus broad, lightly marginate, only a little
attenuated, very weakly sinuate in front, densely and strongly
punctate in the anterior half, very finely punctate from the middle
of the suture, and there also tomentose, with small, solitary, weak,
setigerous punctures posterior to the suture ; elytra lightly produced
in front in the middle, the lateral margin rounded in front, nearly
straight posteriorly, and very lightly sinuous, marginal sets weak ;
scutellum densely punctate; strize of elytra with a row of fine
punctures, the interspaces broad, quite flat, very sparsely punctate,
with a few darker hairs and darker lines which, however, are not.
broken up into spots, and here the white, stronger, seriate bristles
are distinctly seen, at the base the hairs are densely crowded, but.
very weak and indistinct; the epipleural stria is equally broad

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behind the shoulder; the under side is hairless; the pygidium
acuminate ; the rows of bristle-bearing punctures of the abdominal
segments are only to be found on the sides; the posterior femora
are very strongly broadened, opaquely punctured, somewhat shiny,
and with bristle-bearing punctures at the apex only; posterior tibiz
strongly widened, with four groups of bristles, punctate at the base,
the terminal spur long, the tarsi strong; metasternum without
punctures or hairs; mesosternum wide, the sete at the apex very
weak ; mentum deeply deplanate; club 3-jointed, strong and longer
than the pedicel in the male, short and small in the female.

Length 9:10 mm.; width 5°5 mm.

Hab. Delagoa Bay.”’

LEPISERICA FASTA, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 225.

“ Reddish-brown, strongly opaline, resembling Z. benzgna, thicker ;
head and prothorax very similarly formed, but the minute hairs in
the punctures there and on the elytra are somewhat more distinct,
and the white setae somewhat weaker; the species is more easily
distinguished by the scutellum being evenly and finely punctured,
whereas in L. benigna the punctures are coarser, and the middle is
impunctate ; the elytra are evenly punctured, and have fine punctate
stria, the punctures are less coarse than in L. benigna and more
evenly distributed, the interspaces are indicated by narrower, some-
what dark stripes at the base, the hairs are crowded; the hind
femora are weakly widened, evenly broad, with dense rows of
bristles; the deplanation of the mentum is distinct; antennze
10-jointed, the last seven joints of the stalk are somewhat drawn
out inwardly, club shortly ovate (9).

Length 8 mm.; width 4:7 mm.

Hab. Delagoa Bay (Monteiro).”’

SERICA CONFINIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 174.

Form elongato-ovate, or almost cylindrical, the elytra as a rule
more distinctly and deeply striated; antenne 9-, club 3-jointed.

“‘Oblongo-ovate, fuscous purplish, opaque, lighter underneath ;
elytra striate, intervals blackish.

Length 4 lin. g.

From Kaffirland, collected by Ecklon. Elongato-ovate, shaped
like the male of Serica variabilis, dark purple, red-brown above,

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paler underneath, opaque with very slight silky sheen, clypeus
punctate, shiny, vertex, prothorax, and elytra with scattered
punctures, in each puncture a little bristle; elytra striate, their
interspaces blackened along the summit; legs with brighter silky
sheen. My examples have no antenne left, and I can only assume
that they are 9-jointed.”

Gen. NEDYMOSERICA, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvi., 1902, p. 461.

“The principal, but not remarkable characters of this genus are
as follows: Mentum not deplanated in front, being evenly flattened,
with long hairs; prothorax distinctly transverse ; elytra not striped ;
hind coxee one and a half times as long across the outer margin as
the episterna of the metasternum; sternum broad between the
middle coxz ; hind femora thick, less broad, narrowed towards the
apex; hind tibiae narrow, truncated at right angles at the apex;
tarsi slender, finely cleft, the anterior ones somewhat shortened.

The genus approaches Awtoserica, from which it differs by the flat
mentum and the less widened femora; the body is thick but
narrow, and the antennal club of the male is presumably 3-jointed.”’

NEDYMOSERICA FLAVIDA, Brensk.,

Loe. cit., p. 462.

“Hab, Delagoa Bay.

Length 65 mm. ; width 3°6 mm. ?.

Opaque, pale golden-yellow, brightly opaline; antennz 9-jointed,
slender, club small; clypeus broad, little narrowed, lightly sinuous
in front, with a transverse depressed line and setigerous punctures
behind the anterior margin, densely, almost finely wrinkly punctate ;
prothorax produced in front in the middle, not widened laterally
behind, lateral margins turning somewhat inwards from the middle,
hind angles broadly rounded, marginal setze plain, hind margin finely
rounded near the sides, surface finely punctate; scutellum narrow,
acute, finely rounded off, finely punctate; elytra finely serially
punctate in the deepened striz and irregularly punctate alongside of
them, the narrow intervals weakly punctate, the setigerous punctures
are very distinct, the sides have densely set, upright marginal sete ;
pygidium somewhat narrow, convex, almost keel-like; abdomen
densely and distinctly serially bristly on the segments, the bristles
denser on the sides; the whole under side is most strikingly hairy
and bristly; hind femora widened at the base, rapidly narrowed

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from the middle, enclosed with dense, fine setz on both margins;
hind tibiz paddle-shape, both groups of bristles on outer margin
remote from each other ; the apical spur is as long as the first tarsal
joint, joints robust, claws somewhat elongated, the anterior ones are
somewhat abbreviated, but not more strikingly so than in the other
Serica species; anterior tibiz very strongly bi-dentate.”’

Gren. NEOSERICA, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, pt. iv. (1902), p. 437.
The only difference beween Neoserica and Autoserica is the
number of joints in the club of the male, which is four instead

of three, and longer than the pedicel; the punctures on the upper
side are not squamigerous.

Key to the Species.
A?. Upper side with a silky sheen.
B’. Elytra faintly punctulate.
a*, Club of the male longer than the head.
Club flavous.
Prothorax hardly sinuate laterally... .. .. .. .. carneola.
Prothorax moderately sinuate laterally.. .. .. .. transvaalensis.
at, Club of the male shorter than the head.
Clubsuscousmen- ease tee eed] sa Latalenses:
At. Upper side without a silky sheen.
Be Blyiraplainlypunctatees a -. 45 6. = =. =. Obesa.

NEOSERICA CARNEOLA, Péring.,
Plate XLVL., fig. 26.
Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892, p. 34.

N. barbara, Brensk., Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1902, p. 444.

Light reddish-chestnut, with a fleshy tinge and a slight silky
sheen on the upper side, club of the antenne reddish-yellow, that
of the male flavous—and nearly, but not quite, as long as the
head and clypeus taken together; the clypeus is slightly nar-
rowed laterally towards the anterior margin, which is very slightly
bi-sinuate, owing to the centre being slightly aculeate, and the suture
bears a row of very short, rigid sete, it is covered with deep, con-

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tiguous, rough punctures, whereas on the frontal part the punctures
are very shallow and scattered; prothorax with an anterior and a
lateral fringe of flavescent hairs and with also a few scattered
similar ones near the outer margins, it is Somewhat deeply but not
closely punctate, and hardly sinuate laterally in the posterior part ;
-scutellum punctate; elytra elongated, sub-parallel, moderately con-
vex, striato-punctate with the intervals not raised, and punctate,
the punctures scattered; in well-preserved examples the silky sheen
hides these punctures; under side punctate, abdominal segments
with the usual transverse row of setigerous punctures ; upper spur
of hind tibiz as long as the basal tarsal joint.

Herr Brenske has very kindly communicated me his type of
N. barbara. I have not examined its genital armature, but my
co-type, which is absolutely similar, has the same genital armature
as N. carneola.

Length 8-94 mm.; width 5-53 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg, Lydenburg); Cape Colony (Barkly
West), Ovampoland (Omrramba).

NEOSERICA TRANSVAALENSIS, 0. spec.,
Plate XLVI, fig. 23.

This species is so very much like N. carneola that but for the
different shape of the genital armature it might easily be mistaken
for it; the frontal part is, however, more deeply and more closely
punctured, and the prothorax is more deeply sinuated laterally above
the basal angle. The female is unknown to me.

Length 74-8 mm. ; width 41-42 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg).

NEOSERICA NATALENSIS, Brensk.,
Plate XLVL., fig. 25.
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1902, p. 444.

Slightly less elongated than the two preceding species and slightly
wider in proportion to its length, this species is also closely allied to
N. carneola, its colour is, however, still more flesh-like, and the
sheen more pronounced; the anterior margin of the clypeus is very
plainly aculeate in the centre, but all my examples lack the row of
short bristles on the clypeal suture; the antennal club of the male is
more or less fuscous, and about shorter than the head by one-third.

Length 7-8 mm.; width 44-5 mm. |

Hab. Cape Colony (George) ; Natal (Durban).

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NEOSERICA OBESA, Péring.,
Trans. S. Afr. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892, p. 35.

Female : Chestnut-red, with only a slight fleshy tinge and a very
faint metallic sheen; clypeus very roughly, although not deeply
punctured, anterior margin very slightly sinuate but not angular
in the centre, the clypeal arcuate suture is almost obliterated, and
the punctures on the frontal part are shallow but somewhat closely
set ; prothorax of the usual shape and sculpture but with the sides
fringed with somewhat long hairs; scutellum very closely punctu-
late; elytra elongated, but somewhat ampliated laterally in the
posterior part, and plainly convex there, sub-costulate in the
anterior part only, punctato-striate, the interstices are plainly and
somewhat closely punctured, and there are on each side six rows
of somewhat remote, very small whitish hairs; coxze and meta-
sternum deeply punctured, and with a plain metallic sheen, the
hind margin of the former is straight; the club of the antenne
is flavescent.

This species is much more deeply punctured than the same sex
of both N. carneola and N. natalensis, and the prothorax is more
strongly attenuated laterally in the anterior part.

Length 10 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland.

ETISERICA, n. gen.

Mentum of Awto- and Neo-serica; clypeus more obliquely narrowed
towards the anterior, truncate, and not much reflexed part ; antenne
of male 10-jointed, the seventh antennal joint laminate, but very
short; elytra elongated, deeply striate; anterior tibiz plainly tri-
dentate; claws normally cleft, but the inner one is very slightly
wider than the outer; anterior tarsi somewhat short, the inter-
mediate and posterior long, the basal joint of hind tarsi is as long
as the second, upper hind spur as long as the basal joint; lower
margin of hind coxe straight; hind femora and tibiz moderately
broadened inwardly.

This genus differs from Stenoserica by the more acuminate clypeus
which is not unlike that of a Trochalid but is not aculeate in the
centre of the anterior margin, the much more oblique gen, and the
absence of hairs along the outer margin of prothorax and elytra, and
also on the pectus.

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ETISERICA SIMPLEX, n. spec.

Testaceous, with the elytra testaceous-yellow, and without any
sheen, glabrous; antenne flavous; clypeus truncate in front,
obliquely attenuated laterally, deeply punctate, frontal part
punctulate in the anterior part only, impunctate behind; _pro-
thorax much broader across the base than across the apex, very
slightly sinuate laterally, closely punctate, and, in the only example
which I have seen, without any lateral sete; scutellum long,
punctulate; elytra elongate, not much convex, somewhat deeply
striate, the striae punctulate, and the rounded intervals deeply
and closely punctate; pygidium moderately convex, punctulate ;
abdominal segments also punctulate; pectus glabrous, deeply
punctate; in the male, the only sex known to me, the antennz
are 10-jointed, the seventh joint is quite laminate but much shorter
than the other three of which the club consists; the anterior tibize
are plainly tri-dentate outwardly.

Length 7 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

Gen. STENOSERICA, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 218.

Buccal organs of the usual type; clypeus plainly sub-acuminate
in the centre of the anterior margin; clypeal suture plain; antenne
9-jointed in both sexes, antennal club of male ovate, much shorter
than the pedicel; prothorax short, not sinuate, and ‘sub-angular
behind; elytra elongated and somewhat convex; posterior margin
of hind coxz nearly straight and angular and not covering the
fourth abdominal segment; anterior tibizw bi- or tri-dentate out-
wardly ; claws of all the tarsi normally cleft and strongly divergent
in both sexes.

The main character differentiating this genus from Stenoserica is
the bi-dentate instead of tri-dentate anterior tibia; the cox do not
also cover the fourth abdominal segment.

Key to the Species.

A. Anterior tibize bi-dentate outwardly.
Pale light testaceous; prothorax almost impunctate .. .. .. delagoana.
Rufescent; prothorax plainly punctulate .. .. .. .. .. deceptor.
Ach Anterior tibis tri-dentate mj. 3. 3. =. sa) == se) ee en eaQmuestcolae

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STENOSERICA DELAGOANA, N. spec.

Very pale testaceous and slightly iridescent ; head of the normal
shape, anterior margin of clypeus plainly sub-aculeate in the centre,
antenn 9-jointed, club 3-jointed, ovate in both sexes, and not much
longer in the male than in the female, slightly flavescent in the
male, reddish in the female; prothorax not distinctly punctulate ;
scutellum faintly punctulate; elytra elongate, somewhat convex,
finely but not deeply punctato-striate with the intervals nearly
plane and faintly punctulate, and having along the suture and
each alternate interval a series of very remote but quite con-
spicuous bristle-like hairs.

Length 7-73 mm.; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez).

STENOSERICA DECEPTOR, Péring.,
Trans. 8. Afric. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892, p. 39.

This species differs from S. delagoana mostly in the colour, which
is either reddish or chestnut-red ; the club of the antennz is longer
in the male with the joints elongated, but not quite as long as the
pedicel ; the sculpture on the clypeus, head, prothorax, and antenne
is much deeper; the costules on the elytra are also much more
pronounced, and the intervals much more deeply punctured.

Length 64-7 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Middle Limpopo); Ovampoland
(Omrramba).

STENOSERICA ZAMBESICOLA, Nn. spec.

Chestnut-brown, with the frontal part of the head and the pro-
thorax fuscous, glabrous, elytra opaque but with a slight opaline
sheen; club of antenne flavescent, as long as the pedicel in the male ;
clypeus as long as the frontal part, slightly emarginate laterally,
slightly bi-sinuate in front owing to the anterior margin being
plainly acuminate in the centre, deeply and somewhat coarsely punc-
tured, frontal suture fine, very plain, and with the edges slightly
raised, frontal part sparsely punctate, the punctures round and
moderately deep ; prothorax moderately closely punctate and with-
out any lateral hairs, convex and with the posterior angles sharply
defined ; scutellum punctulate; elytra one-third longer than broad,
sinuate laterally in the anterior part, and plainly ampliate in the
posterior, punctato-striate with the intervals somewhat raised in
the anterior part; under side iridescent, almost glabrous except

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for one row of short hairs along the outer margin of the coxe and
a few appressed ones on the sides of the metasternum and on the
somewhat broad episterna; hind femora broad, hind tarsi short, also
broad, and with only three long, stiff, single bristles underneath.

Length 7 mm. ; width 44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls).

This species very closely resembles examples of <Awtoserica
annectens, but it is easily distinguished owing to the tri-dentate
tibiz and other specific characters.

DIAPHOROSERICA, n. gen.
Plate XLVI., fig. 3.

Very closely allied to Gryphonycha, the chief distinctive characters
being the shape of the fore tarsi and claws of the male; the former
are short, the second, third, and fourth joints are triangularly dilated,
the fifth is much broader and longer, the claws are conspicuously
diverging, each one is deeply cleft, the upper tooth of the left one
being very slender, and the lower very broadly lobate, this lobe is
conspicuously wider in the outer than in the inner claw; in the
female the claws are deeply cleft, the lower tooth is, however, wider
than the upper; antenne 9-jointed in both sexes, the 3-jointed club
is nearly as long as the pedicel in the male. The prothorax curves
very strongly forwards, and the mentum is not as densely hairy
as in Gryphonycha. This genus differs from Newroserica, Brensk.,
in both the anterior claws of the male being toothed and not
widened, lobe-like, and in the club not being strongly elongated.

DIAPHOROSERICA MASHONA, Nl. Spec.

Rufescent, with a fleshy tinge and a more or less strong opaline
sheen; antennz testaceous; clypeus with a plain frontal suture,
arcuately emarginate in front but with the margin reflexed and
slightly aculeate in the centre, the outer angles are distinct, but
not prominent, the surface is deeply punctured, the head less
so; prothorax slightly narrowed laterally in front, sinuate behind
and also along the base, sloping forwards, vaguely punctulate only
along the base and sides; scutellum long, aciculate; elytra elongated,
plainly striato-punctate with the intervals sub-tectiform, the punc-
tures of the strive impinge on each side of the sub-tectiform intervals;
anterior tibiz bi-dentate.

Length 6-7 mm.; width 31-4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

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HYBOSERICA, n. gen.

Clypeus obliquely attenuated laterally towards the anterior part
which is slightly angular in the centre, the outer angles are rounded,
and the lateral and apical margins are reflexed, the gene are short ;
mentum of Auwtoserica ; antenne 9-jointed, club tri-joimted in both
sexes, not much longer in the male than in the female, elongato-
ovate, not as long as the pedicel, and with a deep impression on
the outer part of the ultimate joint; prothorax short, triangular ;
elytra strongly convex in the median dorsal part; anterior tibie
tri-dentate outwardly ; claws normally cleft, lower tooth wider than
the upper, posterior tibiz with the inner margin straight and thus
gradually ampliated from base to apex; body glabrous on the upper
side.

Key to the Species.

Basal joint of hind tarsi slightly longer than the second, hind spur

longer than the first joint .. .. .. .. globuliformis.
Basal joint of hind tarsi much fonpes cia thet socdnd’ hand spur
Bhorerthan Ge MrSi JOINGe ys ae bem ee es es tas ks ote | COST

HYBOSERICA GLOBULIFORMIS, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvi., 1902, p. 451.

Brownish-red, with a fleshy tinge, or occasionally sub-fuscous,
plainly iridescent, and with only a slight sericeous sheen, antenne
slightly flavescent in the male, rufescent in the female, 9-jointed in
both sexes, the club much shorter than the pedicel in the male;
clypeus with the anterior angles much rounded, the anterior margin
very slightly emarginate and aculeate in the centre, and both lateral
and apical margins reflexed, it is covered with round, closely set,
equi-distant punctures, the sub-arcuate impressed suture is very
plain, and the frontal part punctulate ; prothorax one-third longer
than the head, slightly narrowed laterally in the anterior part, but
not sinuate thence to the rounded, basal one, convex, closely punctu-
late, and with a lateral fringe of somewhat long, light fulvous hairs ;
scutellum short, much rounded at the apex; elytra conspicuously
convex, slightly costulate, very indistinctly striate and with the
intervals as well as the costules closely punctate; pygidium broadly
cordate, closely punctate; coxz very broad, and covering the greatest
part of the third abdominal segment; hind femora not very much
broadened, gradually enlarged from base to apex, @e., the inner
margin is not sinuate near the base and curved towards the apex ;
anterior tibie plainly tri-dentate outwardly; fore tarsi somewhat
short, claws normally cleft, the lower tooth slightly more robust

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than the upper, and shorter; pro- and meso-sternum densely hairy,
intermediate femora also hairy; scutellum somewhat short; first
joint of hind tarsi longer than the second, upper apical spur as
long as or longer than the basal joint. The shape of the genital
armature of the male is of quite a different type from that of all
the other South African species.

Length 9-10 mm.; width 53-6 mm.

€
a

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

HYBOSERICA CAFFRA, Fahr.,
Triodonta caffra, Insect. Caffr., i., p. 139.

Female: <A little shorter and more ampliated behind than
C. globuliformis, and with a still more opalescent sheen, the
clypeus is quite semicircular owing to the gen not projecting ;
prothorax straight laterally from apex to base, much broader there
than at the apex, deeply punctate but with the intervals wider than
in C. globuliformis, and with only a few remote set laterally ;
scutellum elongate, but broad at the base; elytra broadly ampliated
laterally at a short distance from the base to near the apical part
where it is one-fourth wider than at the base and rounded laterally
above, obsoletely striate and very faintly costulate, deeply punctate ;
mentum and anterior cox bristly; pectus and abdomen glabrous,
deeply and closely punctate ; inner margin of posterior tibize with
a lesser number of setze than in C. globuliformis ; basal joint of hind
tarsi much longer than the second, upper apical spur shorter than
the basal joint.

Length 8 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Natal.

Very closely allied to C. globuliformis, from which it differs by
the non-projecting genx, the hairless intermediate cox, the less
convex elytra, the longer basal joint of hind tarsi, and the less
numerously bristly inner side of hind femora.

Gen. PHILOSERICA, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvi., 1902, p. 458.

The main distinctive character of this genus is the vestiture which
consists of stiff bristle-like upright hairs scattered on the elytra and
prothorax; the metasternum does not in the least project between
the intermediate coxe, and the mesosternum is deeply concave ;
antenne 9-jointed; club of male shorter than the pedicel; anterior
tibie tri-dentate.

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PHILOSERICA vITTATA, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Mus., 1850, p. 76.
P. pauper, Wall., Entom. Tidsk., 1881, p. 19.

Black, with the head and prothorax sub-opaque, and yet very
faintly iridescent; scutellum black; elytra strongly iridescent, pale
testaceous, with the suture, the outer margin, and three stripes on
each side black; pedicel of antenneze reddish, club black; the
colour of the elytra varies much, the black stripes and outer
margins disappear occasionally, or the black tinge has invaded the
whole surface which is then very iridescent; clypeus_ slightly
bi-sinuate in front, and with the median part sub-aculeate, deeply
and closely punctate, the punctures bearing an upright hair, suture
arcuate, very plain, genx projecting, strongly developed, head
moderately deeply punctulate in the anterior part only, hairless;
prothorax not much convex, faintly punctulate but with each punc-
ture bearing an upright sub-fulvous hair, and with the anterior
margin as densely hairy as the lateral ones, the hairs on the disk are,
however, often abraded; scutellum punctulate ; elytra moderately
elongated, deeply punctato-striate with the intervals somewhat
convex and punctulate, each alternate stria has a row of stiff,
upright bristles, and the suture is also bristly; the hairs on the
abdominal segments are long, the mesosternum is more hairy than
usual, and the coxe do not cover the fourth abdominal segment.

The melanic, or concolorous varieties are all from the Transvaal,
but I have seen also similar examples from Sebakwe.

Length 64-74 mm.; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Rustenburg, Johannesburg, Pre-
toria) ; Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe, Umtali, Enkeldoorn, Salisbury,
Buluwayo).

GRYPHONYCHA, n. gen.

Mentum somewhat short, nearly as broad as long, deeply
emarginate in front in the usual manner, but having the depressed
anterior part of the inner face divided in two by a median, longi-
tudinal ridge; the other features as in Neoserica, but the antenne
are 9- instead of 10-jointed, and the long club of the male is
nearly but not quite as long as the pedicel; the anterior tibiae are
tri-dentate outwardly, but the basal tooth is only angular and projects
very little ; the anterior tarsi are somewhat short in both sexes, and
in the male the claws are doubled under the apical joint of the
anterior tarsi and of nearly the same length, the upper tooth is

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slender and sinuate, the lower one flattened, narrow, truncate at
the tip; in the female the claws are long, but of the normal shape.
The mentum is covered with an extremely long, dense pubescence.

GRYPHONYCHA PUBERULA, Fhr.,
Plate XLVLI., fig. 2.
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 136.

Rufescent, with a fleshy tinge and slightly iridescent ; clypeus with
a plain frontal suture, anterior margin slightly angular in the centre,
the whole surface is roughly punctured, and the frontal part of the
head punctulate; antennz 9-jointed, club tri-jointed, that of the
male shorter than the pedicel; prothorax twice as broad as long,
and plainly sinuate laterally in the posterior part, the angles of
which are not rounded, very faintly punctulate; scutellum long,
punctulate ; elytra punctato-striate, with the intervals raised and
slightly tectiform, especially in the female, and moderately deeply
punctate ; anterior tibize with two outer teeth, but having also above
the second one a sinuation ending in a faint angle.

Length 8-9 mm.; width 43-5 mm.

Hab. Transyaal (Johannesburg, Rustenburg).

EURONYCHA, n. gen.,
Plate XLVL,, figs. 1, la.

Buccal parts of Autoserica; clypeus diagonal laterally, one-half
narrower at the apex than at the base, emarginate there, and having
one frontal, arcuate shallow suture; eyes only slightly incised by
the canthus of the gene; antennee 9-jointed, club tri-jointed, one-
third shorter than the pedicel in the male; prothorax nearly straight
laterally, but wider at the base than at the apex; elytra costulate ;
whole body clothed with a very dense, and very short silky
pubescence ; anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly; anterior tarsi of
male very short, densely hairy outwardly, the four basal joints are
compressed, broadly dilated triangularly outwardly, the fifth joint is
produced into a very broad lamina somewhat tectiform on the upper
side, the claws are set at right angles to each other and are fused
with the apical joint, the lower tooth of the inner claw is much
broader than the upper one which ends sharply, and the two teeth of
the outer claws are considerably reduced; in the female the claws
are normally cleft ; posterior margin of coxe straight, angular out-
wardly and covering the greatest part of the abdominal segments in

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the male, but not in the female; basal joint of hind tarsi much
longer than the second ; the double row of bristles lining the inner
part of the hind tibiz very long and closely set.

Evidently allied to Trzodonta, but distinguished by the extra-
ordinary shape of the anterior tarsi of the male.

The four South African species included in this genus are so
closely allied that their identification is very difficult.

Key to the Species.

A3. The longer spur of the hind tibie half the length of the basal
tarsal joint. :

Whole body light testaceous 50 (OG =00 100 |G | ber wom Foe RORIHODS.

Head and abdominal segments fuscous .. .. .. .. .. «. Yrhodesiana.
A?. Spur of the hind tibiz one-third of the length of the basal tarsal joint.

Body somewhat elongato-ovate .. .. .. .. .. .. «. «. modesta.
A‘. Spurs of hind tibizw very short, especially in the male.

Wholly pale testaceous or fusco-testaceous .. .. .. .. .. sebakuana.

EURONYCHA SERICANS, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 140.

Very pale testaceous, but the clypeus testaceous, the whole body
is covered with a whitish silky appressed pubescence; clypeus with
a faint suture at the junction with the head, diagonally narrowed
laterally from the base to the anterior part where it is only half
the width of the base, arcuately emarginate in front with the outer
angles moderately sharp, eyes large, canthus not deep; prothorax
moderately convex, deeply punctured, the punctures equi-distant and
bearing each a silky appressed hair; scutellum sharply ogival,
deeply punctate; elytra very little ampliated laterally, slightly
convex in the posterior part and rounded at apex, plainly striate
although the striz are not deep, intervals plane, closely punctured ;
anterior tarsi of the male short, joints triangular dilated outwardly,
and increasing in width from the basal to the ante-penultimate one
and wider than long, last one as long as the three preceding taken
together, claws moderately divaricating, laminato-lobate underneath
for half the length, and produced thence into a fine hook; inter-
mediate and posterior ones deeply cleft, the upper tooth longer and
more slender than the lower; anterior tibizw tri-dentate; abdomen
very compressed laterally ; pygidium triangular, slightly convex; the

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longer spur of hind tibiee half the length of the basal tarsal joint in
both sexes.

Length 5-7 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba), Damaraland.

EURONYCHA RHODESIANA, 0. spec.

Slightly smaller than 7’. sericans, the shape is the same, but the
appressed pubescence is still more silky, the head and abdomen are
infuscate, and the shape of the claws is the same.

Length 4-42 mm. ; width 24-24 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

EuRONYCHA MODESTA, Péring.,
Trans. §. Afric. Philos. Soc., vol vi., 1892, p. 36.

Female : Testaceous, with the head and prothorax redder, covered
like the two preceding species with short appressed hairs, not suffi-
ciently dense, however, to impart to it a sericeous appearance ; the
whole shape is more elongato-ovate, the head is scrobiculate all
over ; the punctures on the prothorax and elytra are deep and very
plain, the latter deeply striate ; the under side is clothed with very
dense, short, appressed hairs, and the abdominal segments have
a long lateral pubescence ; anterior tibize strongly tri-dentate out-
wardly, the two spurs of the hind tibie are of equal length and only
one-third shorter than the basal tarsal joint.

Length 9 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba).

EURONYCHA SEBAKUANA, Nn. Spec.

Fuscous brown or light chestnut-red ; shape of the larger examples
of H. sericea, and with a similar vestiture; it is easily separated,
however, owing to the great length of the basal joint of the hind
tarsi, which in the male is plainly twice as long as the second,
and the very short spurs of the hind tibie; in the female this
basal joint is only one-third as long as the second, but the spurs are
as short as in the male.

Length 6-65 mm. ; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

IDASSERICA, n. gen.
Buccal organs of the normal shape; head very broad, with the
eyes very large, the canthus reaching nearly to the median part;
clypeus strongly narrowed laterally, nearly straight in front with

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the angles distinct, and having in addition to the frontal arcuate
suture a transverse median one; antenne 10-jointed in the male,
third joint of pedicel not longer than the fourth, antennal club four-
jointed, the joints equal in length, laminate, curving outwards,
nearly one-third longer than the head; prothorax sloping forwards,
twice as broad as long, somewhat attenuate laterally in front, base
bi-sinuate ; scutellum and elytra of the normal shape; pygidium
somewhat convex; cox slanting laterally; anterior tibie tri-den-
tate, anterior tarsi not elongate, claws normally cleft, but with the
lower tooth of the inner one broadly lobate, as in the genus
Camenta, and that of the outer claw normally curved but broader
than the upper; upper hind spur of the hind tibiz as long as the
basal joint of the hind tarsi which is of the same length as the
second.

IDHSERICA GRATULA, N. spec.

Pale testaceous, with the elytra lighter than the rest of the body ;
club of antenne flavous; clypeus narrowed laterally, very slightly
sinuate there at about one-third of the length, anterior margin nearly
straight, reflexed, but not distinctly aculeate in the centre, the two
sutures are shallow, and the whole clypeus is deeply punctate, the
punctures on the head are finer; the four-jointed antennal club of
the male—the female is not known—is curved and nearly one-third
longer than the whole head; prothorax glabrous, but having a few
sete only along the outer margin, covered with fine, round punctures
separated from each other by a smooth interval of the same diameter ;
scutellum long, sharp at apex, deeply punctate; elytra slightly
broader laterally than the prothorax, striate and with the intervals
convex, sub-tectiform in the anterior part, and deeply, somewhat
coarsely punctured; pygidium moderately convex, punctulate,
abdominal segments with the normal, briefly setulose transverse
row of punctures, coxe and metasternum deeply and regularly
punctured.

Length 63-7 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

Gren. CAMENTOSERICA, Brensk.,
Plate XLVL., fig. 4.
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1901, p. 220.

Mentum of Serica, but somewhat elongated, maxille of the
normal shape, last joint of maxillary palps fusiform, truncate at
the tip; clypeus separated from the frontal part by a shghtly arcuate

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suture, and having in the middle a triangular ridge, anterior edge
very strongly reflexed, tri-dentate, the anterior margin is so much
reflexed that there is a deep depression on each side of the anterior
part, gene strongly developed, slanting; antenne 10-jointed, joints
3-5 short, of nearly equal length, 6-7 compressed, the latter some-
what aculeate, club tri-jointed, as long as the pedicel in the male;
prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, slightly narrowed laterally
in anterior part, slightly bi-sinuate in front and behind, moderately
sloping forwards; scutellum acuminate at tip; elytra elongated, sub-
cylindrical ; pygidium convex ; cox less broad than in most Sericine ;
covering only the basal abdominal segment; anterior tibiz tri-
dentate, tarsi long, claws normally cleft in both sexes, but with
the teeth more developed in the male than in the female; upper
hind spur longer than the basal joint which is only half the length
of the second in both sexes.

CAMENTOSERICA LIVIDA, Bohem.,
Ofv. Vet. Akad. Forh., 1860, p. 115.

Testaceous, or testaceous-red, glabrous, club of antenne flavescent ;
clypeus tri-dentate in front owing to the median part of the
anterior, strongly reflexed margin being sharply aculeate, plainly
concave on each side of the anterior part, straight laterally in the
basal, slightly rounded in the anterior, median keel widely triangular
and almost connected with the gene, deeply punctate in the interval
between the keel and the frontal suture, frontal part less deeply
punctate; prothorax a little attenuate laterally in front, slightly
rounded in the posterior, a little more so in the female than in
the male, moderately sloping, deeply punctate, the punctures being
separated by a smooth interval about equal to their diameter ;
scutellum closely punctate; elytra elongated, slightly ampliated
behind in the female, not plainly striate except along the suture,
but with three or four faintly raised costules on each side, intervals

irregularly and somewhat coarsely punctate; pygidium deeply
punctate.

Length 7-74 mm.; width 44-5 mm.
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo, Middle Limpopo); Trans-
vaal (Lydenburg) ; Orange River Colony (Bothaville) ; Damaraland.

Gren. MESOSERICA, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvi., 1902, p. 452.
‘“‘ Offers very characteristic peculiarities which render its recog-
nition easier. It belongs to the group with bi-dentate anterior tibiz,

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but as it has a very weak, almost obsolete denticle, it may also be
mentioned in the group with tri-dentate anterior tibia where it will
find its place next to Stenoserica. The sternum is narrowed between
the middle cox, without independent process, it borders on the
hairy mesosternum, with a small curved line; the surface is hairless,
shiny; the antenne are 10-jointed, the club 3-jointed in both sexes ;
the clypeus is small, tri-toothed with a transverse keel before the
frontal suture; mentum with a brush of dense hairs in the male,
deplanate in front and without sharp border in the female; pro-
thorax little traverse, without sinus in front; hind cox abbreviated,
little longer externally than the episterna, fore segments of abdomen
remaining free; hind femora or tibizw widened, but not flat, all the
tarsi slender, the anterior ones not shortened, the basal joint of
hind tarsi very short, scarcely half as long as the second, claws
deeply cleft, the sharp upper teeth slender. Only one species
known.”

I have not met as yet with this genus, which seems to be most
closely allied to Camentoserica, if it differs from it.

MESOSERICA TRANSVAALENSIS, Brensk.,
Loe. cit., p. 453.

‘Both sexes: Brown, shining, head and prothorax somewhat
more reddish, narrowly ovate, finely punctate, clypeus broad, the
ocular keel bends before the eye suddenly with a curve into the
lateral margin, the anterior margin is distinctly sinuate with the
centre projecting, the angles are distinctly rounded, concave, smooth,
the short space as far as the curved, transverse keel is almost
smooth, and very densely punctate and finely wrinkled thence
to the frontal suture; prothorax little broader than long, the
anterior angles not prominent, the middle a little prominent, the
sides weakly ampliated in the middle, little rounded posteriorly
with blunt, rounded hind angles and weak marginal hairs, the
surface densely and finely punctate; the elytra are similarly
punctate, the suture and three or four narrow ribs are smoother,
the intervals seeming broad, because the odd ribs between them
are obsolete; pygidium convex, densely punctate, acuminate; the
abdominal segments are finely punctate and strongly setose, the
penultimate segment longer in the middle than any of the pre-
ceding ones; hind femora ovately convex in the middle, smooth
with a few weak setigerous punctures, hind tibiz a little widened,
elongated, densely punctate, and having externally two weak bristle-

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groups of which the one is remote from the apex, the other is very
near the base, the distance between the two being larger than the
distance from the apex, apical spurs very small, both somewhat
longer than the strongly abbreviated first tarsal joint; hind coxe
with distinct punctures, the bristles near the outer margin here
rudimentary, the sternum, especially in the middle anteriorly convex
and with a weak impression on the smooth part; anterior tibiz
narrow in both sexes, the first two teeth remote, the third rudi-
mentary; joints 3-7 of antenna moniliform, small but distinct,
club testaceous yellow, fairly strong, somewhat curved and some-
what shorter than the pedicel ; the brush-like clothing of the mentum
consists of pale-yellow laminz between which some hairs are pro-
jecting. This not very striking but very peculiar species reminds
one of the smaller Camenta species, which differ, however, by their
short hind coxe.”’

ALLOKOTARSA, n. gen.,
Plate XLVI., fig. 4; figs. 15, 15a.

Buccal organs of Serica; clypeus suddenly narrowed laterally,
with the anterior margin tri-dentate, only half as wide as the head
in the frontal part, and having a median transverse keel running
parallel to the arcuate, very shallow frontal suture, gene long;
antenne 10-jointed, third shorter than fourth and fifth, these
three joints seemingly partially fused together, sixth and seventh
very short, compressed, club 3-jointed, very little shorter than the
whole pedicel in the male; prothorax short, sparingly setulose
laterally ; scutellum acuminate; elytra nearly cylindrical, pygidium
convex, triangular; abdomen plainly compressed somewhat in the
manner of some Heterochelus of the Sub-family Hopliine; hind
margin of coxe arcuate, covering the greatest part of the third
segment; anterior tibiz tri-dentate outwardly, the basal tooth, how-
ever, is very small, the anterior tarsi are short, the intermediate and
posterior long, in the male they are abnormally developed into sub-
triangular lobes decreasing in width from the basal to the apical joints,
and with the three basal wider or as wide as the tibia, the claws
are almost filiform, cleft, however, at the apex, the outer one is twice
as long as the inner; the intermediate and posterior tarsi and claws
are normally shaped as in the female; the spurs of the hind tibie
are slightly longer than the basal joint which is one-third shorter
than the second; in the male the inner spur of the anterior tibiz
has disappeared, but it is strongly developed in the female.

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Key to the Species.

Anterior part of clypeus declivous; prothorax regularly ampliated
laterally in the centre so 60 06 06 00 60) 600) Go 60 ag, RONAN

Anterior part of clypeus strongly declivous; prothorax plainly at-
tenuated laterally in the anterior part, not in the posterior .. .. clypeata.

ALLOKOTARSA ROTUNDICOLLIS, Nn. Spec.

Pale testaceous, sometimes light brick-red, the head is usually
darker than the body and very often black; club of antenne
flavous; clypeus strongly narrowed laterally in the anterior part
for about one-third of the length, anterior margin strongly reflexed,
tri-dentate, but with the median tooth sharper than the outer angles,
the nearly median keel is slightly arcuate and runs parallel to the
frontal suture which is somewhat shallow and moderately arcuate,
the genz are long and are formed by a prolongation of the lateral
margins, both head and clypeus are moderately deeply punctate ;
prothorax plainly rounded laterally in the centre and equally nar-
rowed in the anterior and posterior parts, slightly convex, finely and
somewhat closely punctate and having a lateral fringe of long sete ;
scutellum acuminate, punctulate; elytra sub-parallel, or very slightly
ampliated behind in the female, punctulato-striate, with the intervals
very little raised, and with deep, irregular punctures, the outer
margins have a fringe of moderately short bristles; pygidium and
under side punctulate.

Length 5-6 mm.; width 3-34 mm,

Hab. Damaraland (Walfish Bay); Southern Rhodesia (Hnkel-
doorn, Sebakwe) ; Cape Colony (Carnarvon).

ALLOKOTARSA CLYPEATA, ND. spec.

Very closely allied to the preceding species; the colour is the
same, but the head is not infuscate; the clypeus is more declivous
in the anterior part, the lateral angles of the anterior margin are as
sharp as the median aculeate part, which is not the case in
A. rotundicollis, and the prothorax, which is also more closely
punctured, is slightly yet plainly attenuate laterally in the anterior,
but not at all in the posterior part the basal angles of which are
quite distinct, although not sharp, while in A. rotwndicollis the basal
angles are conspicuously broadly rounded; the shape and sculpture
of the elytra are similar in both species.

Length 51-64 mm.; width 3-3} mm.

Hab. Damaraland; Ovampoland.

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DOLEROTARSA, n. gen.

This genus is allied to Alogistotarsa, the buccal organs are the
same, and also the general appearance; the clypeus, however, is
deeply incised laterally and more constricted there at a short
distance from the apex, the anterior margin being quite narrow,
reflexed, arcuately emarginate, not angular in the centre and with
the angles acute instead of a keel, there is a frontal suture; the
anterior tibia are uni-dentate, the non-apical tooth being hardly
distinct and represented by a slight sinuation only, and there is no
inner apical spur, the tarsal joints are long, straight inwardly,
rounded outwardly towards the apex, except the apical one, and
with one or two slender bristles set past the median part on the
outer side only, not near the apex; in the male the outer claw of the
anterior tibize is normal, and the lower tooth wider and stronger than
the upper, the inner is broadly dilated at the base and bent at right
angles somewhat in the manner of Camenta, and slightly bifid at the
tip, the other claws are strongly divergent, and equally cleft under-
neath ; abdomen compressed laterally; antennz 10-jointed, club of
male as long as the head.

This genus is a form of transition between Id@serica, which has a
moderately constricted clypeus, and those in which the clypeus is
strongly constricted, and tri-dentate in front. In Jd@serica the
anterior tarsal joints are not unlike those of Dolerotarsa, but they
are not fused, and the shape of the anterior claws of the male is
different.

DoOLEROTARSA EMENDATRIX, Nl. Spec.

Testaceous-red, with the elytra testaceous yellow, antenne flavous;
head deeply and slightly roughly punctate from the apex of the
clypeus to the basal part; clypeus not tri-dentate in front, strongly
constricted laterally at a short distance from the apex the margin of
which is slightly arcuate with the outer angles sharp, the frontal
suture is only moderately deep and the genz strong and oblique;
antennal club of male nearly as long as the head; prothorax broader
at the base than at the apex, hardly sinuate laterally behind, closely
punctate ; scutellum elongate, ogival; elytra elongated, sub-parallel,
barely covering the anterior part of the propygidium, plainly striate
with the intervals raised and tectiform in the dorsal part, very
numerously punctate, glabrous; abdominal segments with a double
row of punctures ; cox as deeply punctate as the metasternum, and
plainly concave; pectus glabrous; anterior tibize with only the
apical tooth well defined, the second one being reduced to a mere

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sinuation, no inner spur; tarsi, including the anterior ones which
are seemingly fused, long.

Length 5-54 mm.; width 24-3 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg District).

ARRAPHYTARSA, n. gen.

Clypeus nearly similar to that of Allokotarsa; antenne also
10-jointed with the third joint shorter than the fourth and fifth,
sixth and seventh short, compressed, club of male tri-jointed, slightly
shorter than the pedicel; body of Allokotarsa, abdomen also com-
. pressed laterally; the male, however, differs from Allokotarsa in the
shape of the anterior tarsi which are fused together and compressed
into a lamina straight outwardly, but dentate inwardly at the suture
of the joints which is not quite obliterated, the ultimate joint is
longer than the two preceding taken together, the outer claw
is deeply cleft, the inner tooth being broader than the outer, the
inner claw is long, slender, and cleft at the tip; anterior tibie

bi-dentate outwardly, but with a slight angular projection above the
basal tooth.

ARRAPHYTARSA DAMARINA, Nl. Spec.

Piceous or testaceous-red, with a silky sheen, antennz flavous ;
clypeus hollowed in front, constricted laterally in the anterior part,
anterior margin slightly sinuate with the median part strongly
acuminate, the outer angles are distinct, but not projecting, the post-
median keel runs parallel with the frontal suture, and the gene are
strongly developed, the head is covered with closely set punctures
larger than those covering the clypeal part; prothorax moderately
convex, and much rounded laterally, nearly straight there in the
posterior part, covered with somewhat deep, equi-distant punctures,
and with a lateral fringe of short, stiff ciliz; scutellum deeply
punctate ; elytra sub-cylindrical, punctulato-striate with the intervals
slightly convex and deeply punctured; pygidium and under side
punctulate ; anterior tibiw bi-dentate outwardly, but with a slight
projection above the basal tooth; intermediate and posterior tarsi
long, filiform.

Length 54 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Damaraland.

ALOGISTOTARSA, n. gen.

All the characters are those of Arraphytarsa, including the very
strongly compressed abdomen, but the shape of the anterior tarsi of

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the male differs greatly from that of Arraphytarsa or Allokotarsa ;
the joints are cylindrical, fused without traces of suture, the place
of the latter is, however, indicated by one or two inner and outer
bristles, the last joint is slightly dilated at the tip, the inner claw is
short, double, the inner tooth much thicker than the outer, the outer
claw is much longer, not deeply cleft at the tip, and the inner lobe
is wider than the outer; intermediate and posterior claws very deeply
cleft, the two teeth strongly hooked, the upper one only half the
thickness of the lower.

Key to the Species.
Light straw-colour, with an iridescent sheen ; prothorax and elytra
Weay slices jue G5 So. Go 50 05 on 06 do co oo Sinan

Testaceous, without any iridescent sheen; prothorax and elytra
[OENbalhy [WN GS oo 6a do Go oo 60 oo 466 4o oo oo C@OlmnpORIe.

ALOGISTOTARSA STRAMINEA, N. Spec.

Light straw-colour, with an iridescent sheen, head more or less.
deeply infuseate ; clypeus constricted laterally close to the apex and
with the anterior margin plainly tridentate, excavate in front of the
supra-median transverse keel which runs parallel to the frontal
suture, apical part of the clypeus smooth, posterior finely punctate,
frontal part also closely punctate ; prothorax rounded laterally in the
anterior part, but not towards the base the angles of which are
distinct, somewhat convex, fringed laterally with equi-distant
bristles, and covered with fine, shallow punctures; scutellum faintly
punctate ; elytra sub-cylindrical, striate, with the punctures on the
non-convex intervals slightly rugose, and not deep; abdomen and
metasternum very strongly compressed laterally, iridescent ;
pygidium convex, punctulate, each abdominal segment with a row
of deep setigerous punctures.

Length 54 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Orange River Colony (Bothaville).

ALOGITOTARSA OVAMPOANA, 0. Spec.

The description of A. stramuinea applies entirely to this species,
which, however, differs in being much more deeply punctured all over,
in the absence of iridescence, and in being testaceous instead of
straw-coloured; the frontal part of the head is redder than the
prothorax, but is not infuscate, and the striation on the elytra is
deeper than in A. straminea.

Length 6 mm.; width 34+ mm.

Hab. Ovampoland.

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Gren. TROCHALUS, Cast.,
Mag. Zool., Col. ix., 1832, pl. 44.

Mentum elongate, cordiform from the constricted lateral part to:
the very narrow base, convex, and hairy, fused with the depressed
ligular part the outer angles of which are rounded and the anterior
part emarginate, labial palpi short; maxillze robust, straight, provided
inwardly with three or four sharp teeth, last joint of labial palpi
sub-cylindrical ; clypeus longer than the frontal part, mostly always
very strongly narrowed laterally in the anterior, the constriction
being edged by the strongly reflexed lateral margin which is strongly
sinuate and often aculeate below the gene. This margin is either
normal, 7.¢., it is continued as the edge of the outer anterior angles
(LT. ferrugineus) or disappears before reaching the very strongly
reflexed anterior part (Z’. modestus), or again is produced diagonally
across the anterior part and reaches there the anterior margin either
in the centre (7. damarus) or at a short distance from it (7. badius) ;
whenever this upper lateral margin is diagonal, the lower margin of
the clypeus becomes more visible, the anterior margin is always
strongly reflexed, and either sharply or bluntly tri-dentate, or not
even aculeate in the centre, and the median tooth is never prolonged
into a longitudinal keel dividing the not very hollowed anterior part
into two as in the genus Ablaberoides, but many species have a
longitudinal median keel, sometimes even very conspicuous, which,
however, does not reach either the base of the median anterior tooth,
or the sharp transverse carina which divides the clypeus from the
frontal part; the latter bears in some species (Z’. chloris, T. vagus,
&c.) a transverse groove sometimes more shallow in the female than
in the male, equi-distant from the frontal keel and the base and
running parallel to it; antennz 11-jointed, club 3-jointed, as long as
or longer in the male than the pedicel; prothorax short, convex,
ampliated laterally from the anterior to the basal angle; scutellum
long, sharply acuminate; elytra sub-spherical, ovate or elongato-
ovate, mostly striate in the dorsal part only; anterior tibia bi- or
tri-dentate outwardly, the trochanters of the anterior pair broadly
triangularly dilated, hind femora broad, posterior tibie broadly
dilated, shorter than the femur, having one distinct and another
partly obliterated transverse chevron-like ridges, inner margin stiftly
bristly ; anterior tarsi somewhat short, posterior ones longer, hind
spurs of the latter longer than the basal joint; claws symmetrically
cleft underneath ; pygidium slightly convex, hind coxe very slanting.
and narrow at the base.

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The type of the genus, as restricted by Brenske, is 7. rotundatus,
Casteln., from Senegambia. Until all the numerous species included
hitherto into this genus have been revised, it is impossible to say
which belong to Trochalus, Ablaberoides, or other kindred genera,*
or to obtain an idea of their distribution in Africa, to which
continent they are restricted. In South Africa they are widely
distributed, several of the species described by Fahreus as from
Natal, or what is now the Transvaal, have been recorded by me from
Damaraland and from Ovampoland in the neighbourhood of the
Cunene River, but only one species is recorded from the south-
western part of the Cape Colony, 7. @rugineus, and it ranges from
? Cape Town and Mossel Bay to Natal and the Transvaal.

Burmeister described six species from South Africa. Although I
have not been able to compare, or to have my examples compared
with the types, I have identified with tolerable certainty three
of these species described again under another name by Fahreus,
and which have therefore priority ; another species is probably the
very type of the genus Ablaberoides of Blanchard; the fifth, having
a 4-jointed antennal club, may prove to belong to the genus Micro-
trochalus, in which case it would be a female and not a male as
suggested by Burmeister; I have not been able to identify the
sixth, which I suspect, however, to be identical with another species.

Key to the Species.

A?, Vertex with a transverse groove running parallel with the base of
the head.

B?. Clypeus strongly constricted laterally.
a*, Anterior tibiee bi-dentate.

Clypeus tri-dentate in front, and with the lateral margin
reaching the outer angle of the reflexed anterior margin.. vagus.

Clypeus not tri-dentate in front, lateral margin reaching
the centre of the anterior'‘oné .. .. .. .. «.. -«-. damarus.

at, Anterior tibiw tri-dentate.

Clypeus angular in the centre of the anterior margin,
lateral margin reaching the outer angle... .. .. .. chloris.

* Gerstaeker has described (Gliederthier-Fauna d. Sansibar Gebietes) 3 pecies
of Vrochalus ; from his descriptions and also from his comparisons, 7’. chryso-
melinus, which he compares to 7’. picipes, Klug., it having no frontal keel, is not
a Trochalus ; T'. corinthia, which he compares to 7. bohemani is most likely
a species of Ablaberoides, but he is wrong in ascribing to 7’. bohemani a transverse
impression behind the eyes; I have now before me the type of this species, and
there are no traces whatever of the said impression. J’. swlcipennis is plainly
a species of Ablaberoides, as proved by the shape of the clypeus.

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At. Vertex simple.

B’. Clypeus strongly constricted laterally.

C3. Clypeus very sharply tri-dentate, sides sharply aculeate.

Anterior tibie tri-dentate ; elytra deeply striate ..

Anterior tibie bi-dentate ; elytra not deeply striate

C?, Clypeus moderately sharply tri-dentate and with a
longitudinal keel.

(

br.
d?.

ad‘,

Elytra ampliated laterally in the middle.
Elytra finely yet distinctly striate, punctures deep ..

Elytra very indistinctly striate, intervals aciculate ..

. Body very broadly ampliated, much rounded behind.

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mashunus.

inops.

exvaspevans.

rubricatus.

Clypeus very narrow, upper side opaque, lateral strie ( byrrhinus.

of elytra obliterated. .

. Clypeus not tri-dentate in front.

*, Clypeus with a longitudinal keel.

Elytra ampliated laterally in the middle.

. Clypeal outer margin not reaching the anterior one.

Clypeus very narrow at apex, angles rounded, elytra
striolate

. Clypeal outer margin connected with the anterior

one.
Clypeus quadrate, outer angles not rounded

Clypeus sub-aculeate in the centre, outer angles
broadly rounded

Clypeus without a longitudinal keel.
Clypeal outer margin connected with the anterior
margin.

Clypeus broadly rounded laterally

Clypeal outer margin connected with the anterior
angle.

Chestnut-red, shiny, iridescent, anterior tibixw bi-
dentate

Red or bronze-green, shiny, not iridescent, anterior
tibie tri-dentate

Bronze-green, quite opaque; anterior tibie tri-
dentate, basal tooth weak

Bt. Clypeus very little constricted laterally.

Clypeus without a longitudinal keel.

Testaceous-red, clypeus tri-dentate in front

Testaceous-red, clypeus truncate in front. .

.. (orbiculatus.

modestus.

badius.

placens.

fulgidus.

picipes.

@rugineus.

lepidus.

sebakuanus.

urbanus,

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TROCHALUS VAGUS, 0. spec.,
Plate XLVLI., fig. 31.

Reddish, metallic, shining, or clothed with a _ sub-opaque
moderately iridescent indumentum; antenne flavous; body
ampliato-ovate, convex; clypeus narrowed in the anterior part
where it is straight laterally, thence broadly ampliated, with the
upper margin strongly sinuate next to the terminal part of
the frontal keel, and barely reaching the depression of the anterior
part which is strongly reflexed, with the outer angles moderately
sharp and the median part plainly dentate, the clypeal median
iongitudinal keel is long, the frontal keel high, and at a short
distance from the base there is a transverse groove reaching the
hind part of the eyes, and deeper in the male than in the female;
the clypeus is sparsely punctate, the punctures on the frontal part
more numerous and therefore much more closely set; prothorax
eradually ampliated from the anterior to the posterior angles the
latter of which is sharp, it is twice as broad as long, deeply punctate
with the punctures separated by an interval nearly equal to that of
their own diameter ; scutellum very long, sharply triangular, closely
punctate ; elytra somewhat ampliated laterally in the middle, convex
in the anterior part, weakly striate in the dorsal, the stria numbering
five or six on each side, the intervals have the same punctuation as
the prothorax, and very few and very short sete near the humeral
part only of the outer margin; the convex pygidium is very deeply
punctate, and briefly setulose along the margin; the under side is
almost glabrous, except for the villose femora, the abdominal
segments are very deeply and numerously punctate, and the
trochanters of the anterior tibie are very broadly dilated, and
the anterior tibie bi-dentate. The shape of the genital armature
of the male is almost identical with that of 7. byrrhanus (pl. xlvi.,
fig. 31) when seen sideways, but the forceps-like clasps enclose a
wider space if seen from above.

Length 7-8 mm.; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

TROCHALUS DAMARUS, 0. spec.

Elongato-ovate, convex, chestnut-brown, shiny, faintly iridescent,
antenne flavous; very closely allied in general appearance to
T. badius, but easily distinguished by the transverse impression
along the base of the head; it is plainly allied to T. vagus, but
whereas in that species the lateral margins of the clypeus reach

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very close to the basal part of the strongly reflexed outer angle, in
T. damarus they are connected with the central part of the reflexed
anterior margin; the longitudinal keel is almost obliterated, and the
frontal part is scrobiculate instead of being punctate as in 7. vagus,
the punctures on the elytra are also deeper; in the female the basal
groove on the vertex is not so deep as in the male; anterior tibie
bi-dentate outwardly.

Length 7-74 mm. ; width 5-5} mm.

Hab. Northern Damaraland, Ovampoland (Humbe).

TROCHALUS LUCIDULUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 161.
T. chloris, Fahr., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 182.

Ovate, greenish-bronze, shiny, antennze flavous ; clypeus normally
constricted laterally, with the lateral margin continued as the edge
of the reflexed but not projecting outer angle, anterior margin
angular, but not sharply dentate in the centre, there is a very
faint, longitudinal raised part which, however, is not keeled, and
running parallel to the base and equi-distant from the base and the
transverse frontal keel there is a transverse, moderately shallow
groove which does not reach the sides, the surface of the clypeal
and of the anterior frontal parts is deeply and roughly punctate; the
punctures on the prothorax are fine and closely set; the elytra have
four dorsal striz, somewhat ill-defined with the exception of the
juxta-sutural one, and the intervals are plainly punctate ; anterior
tibize bi-dentate outwardly.

Length 54 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

Very like green examples of the short form of 7. ferrugineus. I
have not seen Burmeistev’s type, but his description, especially that
of the vertex of 7. lucidulus, 7.e., ‘‘ vertex with a double transverse
impression,” agrees very well with my co-type of 7’. chloris, Fahy.
Burmeister’s example was probably also a female.

TROCHALUS MASHUNUS, N. Spec.,
Plate XLVL, figs. 29, 30.

Reddish-brown or chestnut-brown, moderately shiny, more or less
strongly iridescent; antenne flavescent; body massive, not
spherical, clypeus strongly narrowed laterally, very sharply tri-
dentate in front, and with the strongly sinuated lateral margin
almost dentate above the narrowed anterior part, and meeting the

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base of the strongly reflexed outer angle, the median longitudinal
clypeal keel is short, but conspicuous, the frontal transverse keel is
very highly raised, the punctures are deeper on the clypeal than in
the frontal part, and more numerous along the base; prothorax
of the same shape and with the same sculpture as TZ’. vagus ;
scutellum similar; elytra very slightly ampliated laterally past the
median part, and with the intervals deeply, moderately closely and
somewhat roughly punctate, epipleural fold with a series of extremely
short hairs; under side as in 7’. vagus, but the punctures of the
abdominal segments, apart from the setigerous row, are much
shallower; the anterior tibiz are tri-dentate, but the upper tooth is
blunt. The shape of the clasps of the genital armature of the male
is rightly delineated in fig. 29; these same clasps as figured under
the number 30 have been somewhat distorted in the mounting.

Length 9-10 mm.; width 6-7 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

TROCHALUS INOPS, n. spec.

Chestnut-brown, shining, iridescent; antenne flavescent, except
the two basal joints of the pedicel, which are sub-ferruginous; it is
much smaller than 7’. mashunus and plainly ovate; the clypeus is as
sharply tri-dentate in front, and the lateral margin as sharply aculeate,
but the median, longitudinal tubercle is hardly distinct; the anterior
tibize are bi-dentate outwardly; the punctures on the prothorax and
scutellum are equally deep; the elytra are also as deeply punctate,
but apart from the juxta-sutural one the strie are nearly
obliterated.

Length 5-6 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Mazoé), Ovampoland.

TROCHALUS EXASPERANS, Nn. spec.

Bronze, with an iridescent sheen turning to reddish-bronze,
antenne flavescent; intermediate in shape between 7. mashunus
and 7’. rubricatus, the elytra are a little more ampliated laterally,
the clypeus is not so sharply tri-dentate, the punctuation is the same
as in 7. mashunus and different from that of 7. rubricatus, in which
the aciculate punctures, especially of the elytra, are hardly distinct,
and in which also the antennal club of the male is much longer ;
the shape of the clasps of the genital armature resembles more that
of 7. mashunus, from which it mainly differs in the more ampliato-
ovate elytra, the more bluntly tri-dentate clypeus, a longer antennal

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club in the male, and also in having the anterior tibie plainly
bi-dentate.

Length 7-94 mm. ; width 64 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe, Salisbury).

TROCHALUS RUBRICATUS, Bohem.,
Plate XLVL., fig. 27.
Ofv. Vet. Ak. Férh., 1860, p. 116.

Reddish, opaque, faintly metallic, more sericeous on the upper
part than iridescent, antenne flavescent, the club very long in the
male; more ampliate laterally in the posterior part than any of
the preceding species, it is also distinguished by the very long club
of the antennz in the male, the more bluntly tri-dentate clypeus,
the very finely punctulate prothorax as well as the aciculate elytra, the
aciculation being almost hidden by the sub-opaque indumentum, the
strize are also hardly distinct ; the tibiz are bi-dentate, and the hind
tibia more broadly dilated inwardly; the figure of the genital
armature is not quite correct, owing to the right forceps being more
twisted than in the original. There is, however, a great similarity in
these organs in 7. mashunus, exasperans, and rubricatus, showing
that these three species are closely allied; it is more closely allied to
T. exasperans, but the punctuation is different.

Length 74-84 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Zululand); Boheman records it from the
Lake N’Gami region.

TROCHALUS BYRRHINUS, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 129.
? T. atratus, Burm., Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, 1885, p. 161.

Sub-spherical, short, plainly convex in the anterior part of the
elytra, dark bronze, opaque; antenne flavescent; clypeus with
the median anterior margin plainly dentate or not and the outer
angles sharp but not reflexed in the male, it has a long longitudinal
keel reaching nearly from the frontal transverse one to the anterior
depression, and the punctuation is deep and moderately closely set ;
prothorax short, more than twice broader than long, and very closely
and finely punctate; prothorax triangular, as broad at the base as
long ; elytra plainly ampliated, faintly striate in the dorsal part, and
with the punctures hardly visible in well-preserved specimens, not
deep, and somewhat scattered in rubbed examples; under side with
the normal sculpture and vestiture, posterior tibiz strongly ampliated

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inwardly; in the male the clasps of the genital organs are symmetrical,
somewhat narrow, and forceps-lke.

Length 7-74 mm.; width 5-53 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe, Victoria Falls, Salisbury) ;
‘Transvaal (Zoutpansberg, Lydenburg) ; Mozambique (Beira); Natal
(Frere, Durban).

This species will probably prove to be identical with 7. atratus,
Burm.

TROCHALUS ORBICULATUS, Nn. Spec.

Very broadly ampliated, almost orbiculate, but not very much
convex, chestnut-brown or somewhat dark bronze, opaque, antennz
flavous; closely allied in general appearance to T. byrrhinus, but not
so convex ; the clypeus is nearly truncate in front, with the angles
~ sharp but not reflexed in one of my two examples (3), tri-dentate in
the other (? ), the median longitudinal keel is quite plain; the sculp-
ture is the same as that of 7. byrrhinus ; the shape of the genital
organs is, however, very different: instead of two symmetrical
forceps-like clasps, there is on the right side an horizontal, laminate,
deeply emarginate, elongate process the upper margin of which is
deeply notched near the base, and the apical part recurved and
rounded. J have seen two examples only.

Length 64-62 mm.; width 6+ mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Zoutpansberg).

TROCHALUS MODESTUS, Péring.,
Trans. §. Afric. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892, p. 32.

Elongato-ovate, testaceous-red, shiny, not iridescent; antennx
flavescent, with the club very long in the male; the facies is that of
T. placens, but it is less convex, and the shape of the clypeus differs,
the anterior part projects also in the middle without being toothed,
very much as in 7’. placens, the outer angles are equally rounded,
but the lateral margin does not reach the anterior one, and is very
much raised above the constricted part; the punctuation is similar,
but the elytra, which are also more parallel, are plainly striolate on
the dorsal and lateral parts.

Length 64 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba).

TROCHALUS BADIUS, Boh.,
Ofy. Vet.-Akad. Forh., 1860, p. 115.

Elongato-ovaté, convex, dark chestnut with a sub-metallic and
opaline sheen ; antenne flavescent; clypeus quadrate and truncate

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in front, that is to say not dentate in the median part of the
anterior margin, and having a median somewhat short, longitudinal
keel, the lateral margins are moderately sinuate and are continued
inwardly to a short distance from the anterior angle, and abut nearly
on the reflexed anterior margin ; prothorax of the usual shape, and
deeply punctate; scutellum normal and closely punctate ; elytra
elongato-ovate, faintly striate except in the posterior part where the
striz, especially the lateral ones, are a little more distinct, but
the two supra-marginal ones are distinct from base to apex, the
intervals are coarsely punctured. I have not seen the male of
this species.

Length 84-10 mm.; width 6-64 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland.

TROCHALUS PLACENS, n. spec.

Reddish-brown, ampliato-ovate, convex and very shiny, antennz
rufescent ; shorter and more amphate than 7’. badius, and resembling
greatly T. fulgidus ; the clypeus is strongly keeled longitudinally,
very narrowed in front, and the outer angles are as much rounded
as in that species, but the anterior median part projects a little, and
the lateral margin which is very strongly raised above the lateral
constricted part, slants thence towards the anterior one which it
reaches at a short distance from the rounded outer angle in the
manner of 7’. badius, but in the latter the lateral margin is not
strongly sinuate, nor is it as much raised as in 7’. placens, and the
punctures, although deep, are not so coarse. The shape of the lateral
margin of the clypeus greatly resembles that of J. modestus, but in
this species, which is much less ampliato-ovate, it does not reach the
anterior edge.

Length 7 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. ? Transvaal.

TROCHALUS FULGIDUS, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 130.
? T. splendidulus, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 129.

Strongly ovate, chestnut-red, or dark bronze, shiny, moderately
iridescent; antennze rufescent; clypeus very narrow, straight in
front but with the outer angles rounded, the lateral margin is only
moderately raised above the lateral constriction and produced thence
towards the anterior margin, which it reaches at a short distance
from the rounded outer angle, much in the same manner as in

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T. placens and T. badius, but there is no longitudinal keel; the
sculpture of the head, prothorax, and elytra is the same as in
T. placens, from which it is distinguished by the truncate median part
of the anterior clypeal margin and the much less raised lateral one.
Length 6-7 mm.
Hab. Natal, teste Fahreus; Mozambique (Delagoa Bay).

TROCHALUS BOHEMANI, Gerst.,
Arch. f. Naturg. xxxiil. 1., 1866, p. 44.

T. picipes, Fahr., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 126.

Dark bronze, turning sometimes to chestnut-red, strongly irides-
cent, legs reddish, antennee flavescent ; more ampliato-ovate than
T. badius, and also shorter, but whereas in 7. badius the outer
margin of the clypeus is plainly connected with the anterior one at
a distance equi-distant from the centre and the sharp outer angle, in
T. picipes the outer margin is continued to the edge of the outer
angle, and the longitudinal keel is moderately conspicuous ; the striz
on the elytra are hardly distinct except the juxta-sutural one, and
the punctures on the head, prothorax, and elytra are not so deep as
in T. badius, but similar to those of T. splendidulus which it
resembles more than even 7’. badius, except in the shape of the
clypeus.

Length 7-8 mm. ; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Zoutpansberg, Lydenburg).

TROCHALUS H#RUGINEUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 160.

T. ferrugineus, Fahr., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 137.

Ovate and very convex, elongato-ovate or elongate, either com-
pletely ferruginous-red or dark bronze, with the head green and the
elytra reddish, or completely bronze-green, shining, not iridescent,
antenne flavous; clypeus truncate in front and with the angles
sharp but not reflexed, the lateral margin is continued as the edge
of the outer angle, there are no traces of longitudinal keel; the
punctures in the anterior part are deeper and more rugose than on
the frontal; the prothorax and elytra are very closely punctate, the
latter have occasionally one, somewhat faint, stria in addition to the
juxta-sutural one; the anterior tibie are tri-dentate, but the upper
tooth is very often merely angular, and disappears also completely.
The valves of the genital armature are very short, and somewhat
resemble those of 7. mashunus.

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Length 6-8 mm.; width 4-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (? Cape Town, Mossel Bay, Port St. John) ;
Natal (Durban) ; Transvaal (Zoutpansberg, Lydenburg).

The variation in the size and convexity of the body is such that
had it not been for the shape of the genital armature I would have
considered these variations as good specific characters; the colour is
also very variable.

TROCHALUS LEPIDUS, n. spec.

Bronze-green, with the elytra brownish-red or partly rufescent,
opaque on the upper side, and occasionally sub-iridescent; antenne
flavous ; as elongato-ovate as 7’. ferrugineus, but easily distinguished
by the opaque indument on the upper side; the sculpture and the
shape of the clypeus are as in 7’. ferrugineus ; in the male the right
valve of the genital armature is a little longer than in the last-named
species, but the shape is almost the same in both.

Length 6-64 mm.; width 33-4 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

TROCHALUS URBANUS, n. spec.

Hlongato-ovate, testaceous-red, shining ; antenne with the pedicel
testaceous and the club flavous; clypeus truncate in front and with-
out any angular part in the centre of the anterior margin, the outer
angles are plain but not reflexed, the anterior part is only very
slightly constricted laterally, and the lateral margin is not strongly
sinuate ; the punctures on the clypeal part are deeper than on the
frontal; the prothorax and the elytra are deeply and somewhat
closely punctate, the elytra are plainly striate on the sides as well as
on the dorsal part ; the clypeus has no traces whatever of a longi-
tudinal keel; anterior tibiz bi-dentate.

This species is easily distinguished by the clypeus, which is very
little constricted laterally.

Length 64 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

The valves of the genital armature are symmetrical, acuminate,
bent at the base, and sub-horizontal thence.

TROCHALUS SEBAKUANUS, 0. spec.

Shape, colour, and sculpture of the preceding species, from which
it differs by the shape of the elypeus, which is constricted laterally,

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although much less strongly than in the other species of T'rochalus,
the median part of the anterior margin is also plainly angular, which
is not the case in 7’. wrbanus, and as the outer angles are reflexed
this anterior margin is therefore tri-dentate, there are no traces of a
longitudinal keel; the anterior tibie are bi-dentate.

Length 5 mm. ; width 3$ mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

(Species unknown to me or which I have not been able to vdentify.)

TROCHALUS PICEUS, F'abric.,

Syst. Eleuth., i., p. 46; Olivier, Entomol., i., 5, p. 47, pl. v., fig. 43 ;
Burm., Handb. d. Entomol., iv. 2, p. 161.

‘“‘ Sub-globose, ferruginous, sub-fuscous, and with a coppery sheen ;

densely punctate ; elytra very obsoletely striate, the sutural stria not
much impressed.

Length 23-3 lin. ;

More spherical than the preceding form (7. @rugineus), but not
quite spherical; vivid brown, sometimes paler, sometimes darker,
and with a strong bronze sheen, densely and finely punctate ; elytra
very weakly striate, the sutural stria is more marked than the others;
head with a high transverse ridge between the frontal part and the
clypeus, the latter shghtly convex, more coarsely punctate; pygidium
and under side with more scattered and coarse punctures.”’

I am inclined to consider this species as identical with the short,
and therefore more convex, form of 7. @rugineus, which, as I have
already mentioned, occurs also in Cape Colony. Burmeister’s
example was collected by Ecklon. This collector did not, to my
knowledge, collect Insects in Natal or the Transkei, until long after
the publication of Burmeister’s book.

TROCHALUS PICIPES, Klug.,
Monatsb. Berl. Ac., 1855, p. 659; Peter’s Reis., 1862, p. 258.

‘‘Globose, fuscous-black, pectus and legs piceous. Length 4 lin.
Only one example from Tette. Shape and size of Byrrhus pilula.
Belongs to the first section proposed by Burmeister for species with
bi-dentate anterior tibie. The upper side is deep dark brown,
almost black, and without sheen. Head and prothorax tolerably

densely and elytra scarcely visibly punctured, the latter indistinctly
striate. Under side and legs dark piceous-brown.”

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Gren. DOLEROSERICA, n. gen.

Mentum and buccal organs of the usual shape; antenne 10-
jointed, antennal club 3-jointed, very long in the male; clypeus not
constricted laterally, but gradually narrowed from the base in the
manner of Awtoserica, Neoserica, &c., separated from the head by a
frontal suture, and having no clypeal keel or suture, nor is the
anterior part depressed or excavated along the anterior margin; eyes
strongly divided in the anterior part by the genal canthus which
projects very much, and having also a posterior keel situated higher
than the genal canthus and not connected with it ; body more or less
iridescent, often with a silky sheen, either short and convex, or sub-
elongated and only moderately convex, glabrous except for a few
setz near the anterior angle of the prothorax and along the marginal
fold of the elytra; anterior tibie bidentate outwardly; hind cox
short, very broadly dilated inwardly, and with two sets of diverging
bristles on the upper margin; hind tibize either broadly ampliated
inwardly or not; anterior tarsi somewhat short, posterior fairly long,
hind spurs longer than the basal joint which is not longer than the
second, claws slender, very little divaricating, cleft underneath, but
with the upper tooth not abruptly curved; coxz very broad, their
apical margin quite straight; trochanters of anterior legs not broadly
dilated.

Key to the Species.
A’. Body ampliato-ovate, hind tibiz broadly dilated inwardly.
Clypeus emarginate in front, upper side of body opaque, very silky — curtula.
Clypeus emarginate in front, upper side of body shiny .. .. .. gentilis.
Clypeus straight in front, upper side of body opaque, very silky .. Jlaetula.
At. Body elongated, hind tibiz not broadly dilated inwardly.

Anterior margin of clypeus sinuate, sub-angular in the centre .. .. festa.

Anterior margin of clypeus quite straight... .. .. .. «. «+. duspicata.

DOLEROSERICA CURTULA, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 137.

Bronze-black, opaque on the upper side, sericeous and with a
strong iridescent sheen, antennz piceous-red ; clypeus deeply emar-
ginate in front with the outer angles slightly rounded, the margins
are slightly reflexed, the anterior one is not aculeate in the centre,
the strongly diagonal lateral one is not sinuate, the genx are strongly
slanting and project much beyond the eye, the posterior keel is on a

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higher level than the genal canthus, broadly separated from it, and
very distinct, there is a frontal arcuate suture, the clypeal part which
is very faintly depressed close to the anterior margin is scrobiculato-
punctate, the frontal moderately closely punctate; prothorax much
broader at the base than at the apex, convex, faintly bi-impressed near
the basal margin, closely punctate, but the punctures are hidden by
the silky opaque indumentum; scutellum sharp, punctate; elytra
very plainly ampliated towards the posterior part, short, very convex
and having on each side seven very plain striae with the intervals
slightly convex in the posterior part; anterior tibiew bi-dentate,
posterior ones broadly dilated inwardly, basal joint of hind tarsi
slightly shorter than the second, and also shorter than the hind
spurs.

Length 4-5 mm. ; width 23-34 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

DOLEROSERICA GENTILIS, n. spec.

Chiefly allied to D. curtula, from which it differs by the more
deeply notched anterior margin of the clypeus and the non-opaque
upper part of the body which is bronze, moderately shining and
faintly iridescent in the posterior part of the elytra, the latter part is
striate in the dorsal part only, and not as ampliated behind as in
D. curtula,

Length 5 mm. ; width 3$ mm.

Hab. Natal (Newcastle).

DOLEROSERICA LAETULA, 0. spec.

Bronze-red, quite opaque and sericeous on the upper surface,
shiny and iridescent underneath ; antenne ferruginous-red ; clypeus
not at all constricted or sinuate laterally, straight at apex with the
outer angles slightly rounded, the margin is moderately reflexed and
not angular in the centre, genal keel strongly projecting, anterior
part scrobiculate, frontal deeply punctate, but not along the base,
frontal suture slightly bi-sinuate; prothorax sub-arcuate laterally,
much broader at the base than at the apex, somewhat closely punc-
tate, and having above the median part of the base a long, transverse
impressed line; scutellum punctulate; elytra ovate, convex in the
anterior part, striate on the dorsal and sides but not near the humeral
lateral part, intervals moderately closely punctate; basal joint of
hind tarsi nearly as long as the following one.

The shape of the head is almost similar to that of the species of
Autoserica.

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I have seen only one male example of this species, which is easily
recognised by the transverse impressed line running parallel with
the base of the prothorax.

Length 64 mm. ; width 44 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

DOLEROSERICA FESTA, 1. spec.

Moderately shining, bronze-green on the head and _prothorax,
redder bronze on the elytra, almost black on the under side, antennze
flavous; clypeus attenuated laterally from the gene to the anterior
angle, anterior part arcuately emarginate but slightly angular in the
centre, clypeal part deeply and closely punctate, frontal deeply punc-
tate in the anterior but not in the basal; prothorax slightly
arcuate from the apex to near the median part, and nearly straight
thence to the base which is, however, wider than across the apex,
deeply and very closely punctured ; scutellum also closely punctate ;
elytra sub-parallel, not very convex in the anterior part, very deeply
striate in the dorsal, and plainly so on the sides, the intervals, which
are somewhat convex in the posterior part, are very deeply and
somewhat roughly punctate; the basal joint of the hind tarsi is
somewhat shorter than the second, and the hind tibize are not
broadly dilated inwardly as in the three preceding species.

Length 5-6 mm.; width 3-32 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

DOLEROSERICA AUSPICATA, N. spec.

Bronze-black underneath, with the head, the prothorax with the
exception of a very broad median patch, and the scutellum bronze-
green; elytra flavescent; legs testaceous-red, antenne flavous,
moderately shiny on the upper side and slightly iridescent in the
posterior part of the elytra; the antennal club of the male is as long
as the prothorax ; clypeus attenuate laterally, quite straight in front,
deeply punctured, frontal part less deeply punctured; prothorax
slightly arcuate from the apex to about the median part, nearly
straight thence to the base which is, however, wider than the apex,
somewhat closely and moderately deeply punctate ; scutellum ogival,
punctate ; elytra sub-parallel, deeply striate in the dorsal part, and
less distinctly so on the sides, intervals roughly punctate, shghtly
convex in the posterior part ; basal joint of hind tarsi much shorter
than the second, hind tibie not broadly dilated inwardly.

Length 44 mm.; width 24 mm.

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but differs of course in the shape of the clypeus and the utter absence
of the clypeal keel.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

I think that Burmeister’s following species belongs to this genus,
and I should not be at all surprised if it were identical with D.
curtula, Fahy.

SERICA CARBONARIA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 167.

Antenne 10-jointed, body in general short, spherical ; mesosternum
broader, middle coxze considerably remote.

“ Very deep black, with an iridescent sheen (margaritaceo-micans) ;
elytra completely opaque, striate, clypeus shining.

Length 23 lin.

From South Africa. Short and compact, uniformly black; under
side and prothorax with a bright pearly sheen, finely punctured ;
clypeus shiny, densely punctured; elytra completely opaque, dis-
tinetly striate, finely punctate, in each puncture a grey, smaller
puncture ; antenne and legs shiny black.”

Gren. MICROTRACHELUS, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1900, p. 81.

Buccal organs of Trochalus and Ablaberoides ; clypeus very strongly
constricted and very sharply tri-dentate, lateral margin also sharply
dentate, genee very oblique and not meeting quite the hind ocular
keel, anterior part of the clypeus strongly reflexed with the median
tooth continued as a short, longitudinal keel, the depressed part is
edged by a slight transverse impression, and there is a frontal, faint
suture ; antennz 9-jointed, club 5-jointed in the male, 4-jointed in
the female, longer than or as long as the pedicel, according to the
sex ; body short, convex; anterior tibizw tri-dentate ; the rest as in
Ablaberordes.

MIcROTRACHELUS PLAGIGER, Pér.,
Trans. 8. Afric. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892, p. 33.

M. bipunctatus, Brensk., Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1902, p. 17.

Dark bronze-green, sub-opaque, but occasionally slightly irides-
cent on the prothorax only, elytra pale testaceous-yellow with an
outer marginal, a basal and a sutural bronze-green band not im-
pinging on the six discoidal intervals, and having also an elongated
or oftener sub-quadrate discoidal patch situated at about the median

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part and extending across the 3-5 intervals, the legs are redder than
the under side, yet distinctly aneous, the palpi and the antenne
are somewhat flavescent but with the club of the latter infuscated
from the median part to the apex; the antennz are 9-jointed, the
club is long and 5-jointed in the male, all the joints of the club
being equal in length, it is nearly equally long but only 4-jointed in
the female, but the inner joint is a little shorter than the following
three ; head deeply punctured, the punctures nearly coalescing on
the clypeal part, but less closely set in the frontal, the clypeal and
frontal suture are not well defined, the clypeus is very strongly and
sharply bi-dentate laterally, these teeth consist of the sharply
aculeate lateral margin and of the very sharp and somewhat divari-
cating outer angle, and has also a median tooth in the centre of the
apical margin as sharp and as recurved as the lateral ones, continued
as a longitudinal keel in the extreme anterior part; prothorax punc-
tulate, the punctures separated by a space equal to the diameter of
each puncture ; scutellum closely punctulate ; elytra short, as broad
as long, somewhat depressed, deeply striate, intervals plane and
deeply punctured; pygidium with deep, somewhat broad punctures
separated by an interval equal to their diameter ; abdominal seg-
ments and pectus deeply and somewhat broadly punctured, especially
the later; anterior and posterior keels of the eyes coming very
close to each other ; anterior tibiz plainly tri-dentate outwardly.

Length 44-54 mm. ; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Rikatla); Southern Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn,
Sebakwe, Salisbury, Manica); Ovampoland (Evari River, Omrramba) ;
Natal (Durban).

? MICROTRACHELUS XANTHOCERUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 162.

““Ovate, black, not very sericeous, bronze, strongly punctate ;
antenne testaceous, 4-jomted. ¢.

Length 24 lin.

Ovate, moderately convex, black; head very broad behind, much
narrowed in front, without raised keel between frons and clypeus,
anterior part only one-third as broad as the head between the eyes,
sharply angular with a concavity on each side ; elytra more remotely
punctured (than in Ablaberoides atratus), distinctly striated, and
with a coppery sheen ; under side and legs more shiny and with
bronze-green iridescence ; tarsi brown; antenne testaceous-yellow
with a tolerably long 4-jointed club (anterior tibiz tri-dentate).

Hab. Port Natal, collected by Drége.”

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Owing to the antennal club being 4-jointed, Burmeister considered
his example to be amale. But in the type of Microtrachelus the
antennal club is 5-jomted and longer than the pedicel in the male,
and 4-jointed and as long as the pedicel in the female. It is there-
fore not improbable that this species belongs to Microtrachelus.

GEN. ABLABEROIDES, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom., 1850, p. 102.

Spherotrachelus, Brensk., Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1900, p. 82.
Trochaloserica, Brensk., loc. cit., p. 82.

Mentum nearly similar to that of Trochalus, but usually wider at
the base ; palpi identical, maxillaee with three superposed teeth, the
two lower ones bifid ; clypeus always more or less narrowly constricted
laterally in front, as well as sinuate between the genal projection and
the constricted part, the anterior margin is strongly reflexed, and in
the majority of species its median part is very strongly dentate, in
which case the tooth is continued as a longitudinal keel dividing the
strongly depressed anterior.part into two, or it is merely angular, in
that case the anterior part is not hollowed, there is a clypeal keel
which is seldom indistinct, and a frontal grooved suture, which,
however, turns into a short keel in a few species ; the eyes are
almost completely closed (Ablaberoides) or the hind keel does not
coalesce with the genal canthus, but is always developed (Zrochalo-
serica); the antenne are 10-jointed with the club tri-jointed and
very long in the male (Ablaberoides), or 9-jointed (Spherotrachelus) ;
prothorax short, strongly transverse, fringed with long sete; scu-
tellum large ; elytra short, sub-parallel or ampliato-ovate, in which
case they are more convex than when sub-parallel, punctate, striate
or non-striate with the exception of the juxta-sutural stria which is
always plainly visible; pygidium moderately convex; pro- and
meso-sternum hairy; anterior tibiew bi- or tri-dentate, legs of T'o-
chalus but with the anterior trochanters not so strongly dilated.

The characters assigned by Brenske to his genus Spherotrochalus
agree very well with those of Ablaberoides, of which I have seen the
type, except that the antenne are 10- instead of 9-jointed, and T'ro-
chaloserica, also one of Brenske’s genera would seem to differ mainly
in both eye-keels not being in contact. After careful examination I
came to the conclusion that completely or incompletely closed eye-
keels did not coincide with 10- or 9-jointed antenne, and that these
characters can be made use of merely to group the species, not to
divide them into genera.

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The characters distinguishing this genus from Tvochalus are the
presence of a strong, hind ocular keel which either unites in a straight
line with the genal canthus or is not quite connected with it, in
which case it is slightly higher than the genal keel, and the presence
of a transverse clypeal keel edging the usually deeply depressed
anterior part of the clypeus the lateral margins of which are always
continued as far as the sharp apical angle instead of being produced
into a more or less sinuate keel above the margin of the anterior
part.

The uniformity in facies and the enormous variation in colour
makes the study of the species a most difficult one, but the shape of
the genital armature helps greatly in the identification ; these arma-
tures are, however, so very complicated that it is difficult to give a
good description of them, and I greatly regret that I could not have
them figured; the presence or absence of an additional antennal
joint helps also in grouping species which but for that character
would be hardly distinguishable. Cf. A. ditissimus and A. pavonimus
with A. crassus, &e.

The distribution of species in South Africa is as wide as in the
genus T’rochalus.

Key to the Species.

A?. Antenne 10-jointed.
B?. Hind ocular keel meeting the edge of the genal canthus.

a. Clypeal transverse keel not reaching the sides.
Antennal joints of male free, clypeal keel very short... @neus.

a‘. Clypeal transverse keel reaching from side to side.
Clypeus strongly constricted laterally and tri-dentate.

b?, Anterior tibiz bi-dentate.
Elytra deeply striate on the dorsal part.. .. .. .. ditissimus.
Elytra slightly striate in the dorsal part os +e ee ©6pavoninis.

bt, Anterior tibiz tri-dentate.
Bronze-black, with the upper side fleshy red So 80 GRORETES

Bronze-black, with a broad discoidal red band on each
ClyiROM Mee eet sare acne Ae), eat ee ear wae ae PUPOUALLaIUS.

Bt. Hind ocular keel not meeting quite the genal canthus.

a?, Clypeus strongly constricted laterally and tri-dentate in
front.

b?, Frontal suture grooved.

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Body shining, median part of prothorax sub-strigillate,
striz of elytra obliterated on the sides .. .. .. «.. emeritus.

Body sub-opaque, median part of prothorax not strigil-
late, strive of elytra distinctly striate on the sides... .. Jlaetulus.

DUetromiales tir eh ee le dist is-- inet ment nner mnESe nS TCM ICUIUNLCLELe
a‘, Clypeus constricted laterally, tri-dentate in front.
b?. Frontal suture keeled.

Body very convex, ampliato-ovate ; elytra not distinctly
SUMEWE Go lop) Bo 56 06 60 06 so 06 Go G6 HEM@OR

bt. Frontal suture grooved.
Body elongato-ovate; elytra distinctly striate .. .. pauper.
At. Antenne 9-jointed.
B?. Hind ocular keel meeting the edge of the genal canthus.
a?, Body sub-parallel, not very convex.
Body short, massive.

Antennsy rufescent, outer joint of club moderately
erooved ime thes males) ele scl ynireloUnlle inne mE = COO NLILCUS.

Antennal pedicel flavous, club black, with outer joint
conspicuously grooved inthe male.. .. .. .. .. obtusus.

a‘. Body elongated.
b?. Anterior tibie tri-dentate.
c?. Body not iridescent.

Antenne rufescent; body not iridescent, bronze with-
GTM USN bo oa co oo co oo co 06 oo CHMAOIGTOUG

Antenne flavous ; body entirely testaceous-red .. .. testaceus.

Antenne flavous; elytra testaceous with the suture
and the outer margins fuscous or uniformly dark
chestnut sw. “ia, Lusty» te eS ates toe west SCCM aL ULDETU ae

ct. Body iridescent.

Antenne rufescent, club fuscous; elytra infuscate

laterally and behind .. quesitus.
bt. Anterior tibiz bi-dentate.

Body testaceous ; elytra with an outer marginal infus-

Ch CM MOG! soy do 66 oo op! an oo Wacom:

B:. Hind ocular keel not meeting the edge of the genal canthus.
a’. Body elongated.

INNES Gol BA Go oo oo oo co oa oo WAaRiens-

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at. Body ovate, convex, short.
Antenne black, with the four joints of the pedicel red breviusculus.

Antenne ferruginous, with the club slightly fuscous in

the male ominosus.

ABLABEROIDES NEUS, Blanch.,
Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 102.
Trochalus longicornis, Burm., Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 162.

Oblongo-ovate, convex, dark bronze, lighter on the head and
prothorax than on the elytra, palpi and tarsi somewhat rufescent ;
antennz piceous, with the four ultimate joints of the pedicel sub-
rufescent, club of the male more than twice the length of the pedicel
the joints of which are free; clypeus strongly constricted laterally
and with a strong sinuation between the gene and the constricted
part, the anterior margin is straight with the outer angles sharp
but not dentate, the centre, however, is plainly dentate, the dentate
part forming a carinule which divides the anterior part into two
depressions as far as the clypeal keel which is somewhat short, the
frontal suture is quite plain, not arcuate, the gene are strongly
developed, and meet the hind keel of the eyes, and the whole
surface is very deeply and closely punctate; prothorax twice as
broad as long, bi-sinuate in front and behind, very slightly
attenuated laterally towards the apical part the carinate margin
of which has a fringe of not closely set bristles, it is covered with
somewhat deep punctures separated by a smooth space slightly
narrower than their own diameter; scutellum ogival, sparingly
punctate; elytra about twice the length of the prothorax, some-
what convex in the anterior part, and having four very plain dorsal
striz on each side, the outer striz are obliterated, and the surface
is covered with deep, somewhat coarse punctures ; pygidium some-
what convex, closely and deeply punctate; under side very deeply
punctate; the metasternum with a few short hairs; hind cox with
a few lateral bristle-like hairs similar to those edging the margin
of the elytra, femora and anterior coxe hairy; anterior tibiz tri-
dentate but with the basal outer tooth much smaller than the others,
although distinct ; anterior tarsi shorter than the intermediate or
posterior ones, the basal one of the latter is as long as the one fol-
lowing, and shorter than the apical spur, the broadly dilated and
somewhat short hind tibize are strongly spinose inwardly, and the
hind coxe have a nearly straight posterior margin; abdominal
segments with one row of briefly setigerous punctures.

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notched, the inner forcipate process is spatulate, and the outer
slender.

The description of JT. longicornis, Burm., agrees very well with
that of A. enews, except that the elytra have no perceptible striz,
but they are not perfectly even.

Length 44-5 mm. ; width 23-3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

ABLABEROIDES DITISSIMUS, Nn. spec.

Body short, massive, convex, but with the elytra not very much
rounded laterally behind; bronze-black, with the elytra somewhat
redder and with a strong opaline sheen, head and prothorax some-
what opaque; antennz with the club slightly infuscate and the
terminal joints of the pedicel pale flavous, club not longer than
the pedicel in the male, with the two last joints plainly aculeate,
the other three are somewhat fused; clypeus plainly tri-dentate in
front and with the angle of the lateral sinuations often very sharp,
clypeal keel very plain but not reaching quite the sides, the whole
surface is very roughly punctate, especially the part comprised
between the keel and the suture; prothorax very much broader
than long, plainly ampliated from the anterior part to past the
median, very convex, closely punctured, sub-opaque and yet
opaline under certain light, the long lateral hairs are light
fulvous; scutellum punctate; elytra convex in the anterior part,
slightly ampliated laterally and having each five very distinct
strize and another but less plain one in addition, the intervals and
the sides are coarsely punctate, the subdued sheen is purplish;
under side as in A. enews; the forcipate clasps of the male
armature are very short, symmetrical, and in the shape of callipers.

Length 7-74 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Natal (Newcastle), Transvaal (Boksburg, Lydenburg),
Orange River Colony (Bothavyille), Southern Rhodesia (Upper
Limpopo).

ABLABEROIDES PAVONINUS, N. spec.

Black, shining, with the elytra either brown or chestnut-brown and
a conspicuous iridescent sheen all over, more noticeable, however,
on the elytra on account of their great convexity; in general
appearance it differs from A. ditissimus in not being so square
owing to the elytra being much more rounded laterally behind and
also more convex on the dorsal part; the pedicel of the antennz
is rufescent, and the club, which in the male is slightly longer than

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the whole pedicel, is black; the clypeus is tri-dentate in front, but
the angle of the lateral sinuation is rounded, the clypeal keel reaches
the sides; the shape of the prothorax is the same as in A. ditis-
sumus, but the punctuation of that part and also of the head is
neither so deep nor so rugose; the sharply ogival scutellum is also
sparingly punctured; the elytra have only three, or at most four,
plain striz, and the punctuation of the intervals, as well as of the
sides, is deep, but not as much as in 4. ditissimus, and the under
side is alike, but the anterior tibize are bi- instead of tri-dentate
outwardly; in the male the tubular part of the armature is notched
in the centre and on each side, and the two forcipate processes are
symmetrical, long, slender, and curve upwards at the tip.

Length 7-8 mm.; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Rikatla).

ABLABEROIDES CRASSUS, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., i., p. 184.

Serica mnterpunctata, Bohem., Vet. Ak. Foérh., 1860, p. 115.
Trochalus moerens, Péring., Trans. 8. Afric. Philos. Soc., vol. vi.,

1892, p. 33.
Ps moestus, Péring., loc. cit., p. 34.
, plagiatus, Péring., loc. cit., p. 34.
Pe var. vagans, Péring., loc. cit., p. 34.

Very dark bronze with a moderate sheen (7. crassus, T. moerens,
T. moestus), or with the elytra bronze-red and a bright sheen
(TI. interpunctatus), completely reddish on the upper side (7.
vagans), or lastly with a fuscous, longitudinal patch on each
elytron (ZT. plagiatus); pedicel of antennz rufescent, the club,
which in the male is slightly longer than the pedicel, is black
or darkly infuscate; it is a little more parallel than dA. pavoninus
and plainly less convex, but the shape of the head and prothorax,
and also the sculpture, are as in dA. pavoninus, while in general
appearance it more resembles 4. ditiss¢mus, but it is not quite so
massive; the elytra have the four dorsal striz very distinct, but the
sides are also fairly distinctly striate; the anterior tibixw are tri-
dentate, and the under side is similar to that of the other species
above mentioned, but the shape of the genital armature is very
different, the forcipate processes cross each other at about half the
length, the left one is slender and cylindrical, the other thickly
spatulate at the apex.

Length 6-74 mm. ; width 4—44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls), Ovampoland.

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A most variable species, not only in colouring, but also in the
general appearance, which is either sub-parallel or more or less
convex; the female is, however, less parallel than the male.

ABLABEROIDES RUFOVITTATUS, Péring.,
Trans. 8. Afric. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892, p. 33.

The description of A. crassus applies in its entirety to the present
species, which, is, however, constantly smaller, the colouration of
the elytra seems to be also constant, they are dark bronze with
a rufo-testaceous broad band extending over half the width of the
elytra, and beginning at about the third dorsal stria; the anterior
tibiw are also tri-dentate outwardly. In spite of its great likeness
to A. crassus, the difference in the shape of the genital armature
is very great; the forcipate processes are symmetrical, very short,
and bent downwards.

Length 5-53 mm.; width 3$-3$ mm.

Hab. Ovampoland.

ABLABEROIDES EMERITUS, nN. spec.

Body almost spherical, dark bronze, shining, but without an
opaline sheen; antenne ferruginous; clypeus sharply tri-dentate
in front, somewhat roughly punctured, frontal part of the head
less roughly punctate than the clypeus, and with a basal broadly
triangular smooth space ; prothorax very short and very broad,
covered with minute punctures separated by very narrow smooth
intervals which are sub-strigillate in the median part; scutellum
closely punctate; elytra plainly ampliated laterally in the centre,
very convex, very faintly quadri-striate in the dorsal part, and not
at all on the sides, and with the intervals and sides finely and not
deeply punctate; anterior tibiz bi-dentate ; basal tarsal joint much
shorter than the second; the genital armature of the male consists
of a symmetrical tube the downward opening of which is hidden
by a broad, spatulate operculum-like valve which coyers also a
moderately wide, forceps-like clasp.

Length 53-64 mm.; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn, Salisbury, Sebakwe).

ABLABEROIDES LAETULUS, Nn. spec.

Bronze-black, sub-opaque, and yet with an iridescent sheen,
antenne flavescent, legs ferruginous; body ovate; this species
differs from A. @neus, which it resembles by the presence of a

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sutural groove instead of a raised line in the frontal part; it is not
so spherical as A. emeritus, which is really its nearest ally, and from
which it is also distinguished by the punctuation of the prothorax
which is not so closely set, and by the deeply striate dorsal part
which plainly numbers six striz on each side; the anterior tibie are
also bi-dentate outwardly. If the genital armatures, which are on
the same plan, of the two species are compared, it is seen that the
tubular part is much more deeply notched and twists inwardly
on the left side in A. laetulus, the right process is sub-horizontal
and does not therefore act as an operculum, the inner forcipate
process is very short, and the apical part of the tubular part is
flattened into two small processes.

Length 54-64 mm.; width 4-44 mm,

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

ABLABEROIDES FAHRAI, Pér.
Trochalus eneus, Fahy., Insect. Caffr., 11., p. 131.

Ovate, reddish-bronze, with the elytra often greener, and with an
opaline sheen, antennze and palpi flavescent or rufescent, the club
‘slightly longer than the pedicel in the male; the sharply tri-dentate
clypeus is not as sinuate laterally as in 7’. emeritus, and the upper
angle of the lateral constriction is very sharp; instead of a frontal
suture there is a plainly raised line; the prothorax is of the same
shape as that of 7. emeritus, but the punctures, although equally
fine, are not set quite so close to each other, and the intervals in
the median dorsal part are not sub-strigillate; the elytra are more
elongato-ovate and appear therefore less convex in proportion, in
nearly all my examples the four dorsal striz are distinct, and
as often as not there are plain traces of a fifth and even a sixth;
interior tibiz bidentate outwardly; this species is easily recognised
from its congeners by the presence of a raised line instead of a
grooved suture at the junction of the clypeus with the frontal part,
but the shape of the genital armature distinguishes it also readily,
the two claspers being strongly twisted, spatulate at the tip with
the upper one nearly erect, and the other curving upwards
underneath.

Length 53-64 mm. ; width 33-44 mm.

Fahreeus, in his description of the species, says that the anterior
tibiz are tri-dentate, and that with the exception of the sutural
stria which is impressed behind, the striz are hardly visibly striate.
My examples, compared with the type, are, however, as described

here.
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Hab. Ovampoland.

Fahreus’ original name, 7. enews, being preoccupied, must be
changed into 7. fahrat.

ABBLABEROIDES TARDUS, n. spec.

Testaceous-red, with a bright sub-metallic not iridescent sheen;
antenne flavescent; as spherical as A. emeritus; the clypeus has.
sharp outer angles which are not, however, plainly reflexed, and the
median part is not dentate, the constricted part is narrow, and the
sides above it strongly sinuate, the frontal suture is replaced by a
fine raised line, and in the only example of this species which I have
seen there is in addition to the faint frontal suture a slightly im-
pressed, transverse line equi-distant from the frontal suture and
from the base; the prothorax is closely and the elytra sparingly
and weakly punctulate, the dorsal striz, with the exception of the
juxta-sutural one which is visible in the posterior part, are almost:
obliterated.

The raised line of the frontal part and the non-tri-dentate clypeus
will help in distinguishing this species from A. emeritus, and the
non-tri-dentate clypeus from 7’. falrei, which has also a raised
frontal line, but which is not so spherical.

Length 5 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland.

ABLABEROIDES PAUPER, Nn. spec.

Brownish-red, very slightly iridescent, antennz flavescent ; body
elongato-ovate ; clypeus very briefly denticulate in the centre of the
anterior margin and with the angles moderately sharp, but not
strongly reflexed, the constricted part is moderately narrow, and
there is a plain frontal grooved suture with the edges slightly
raised ; the prothorax is of the normal shape, faintly punctulate
in the median part, but more distinctly on the sides, the scutellum
is long and very sharp; the elongato-ovate elytra have seven plainly
visible striz and the intervals are almost impunctate ; the pygidium
is sparsely punctate.

Length 53-6 mm.; width 3} mm.

Hab. Ovampoland.

ABLABEROIDES COGNATUS, Nn. spec.

Very dark bronze, almost black, with the elytra somewhat dark
brown, sub-opaque and only very faintly iridescent; antenne

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rufescent, 9-jointed, club not quite as long as the pedicel in the
male; body sub-parallel and only moderately convex; clypeus
sharply tri-dentate in front, sinuate laterally, the clypeal keel is
distinct and the anterior part divided into two depressions by
the keel-lke continuation of the median tooth, the frontal suture
is fairly visible in some examples, or nearly obliterated in others,
the anterior part of the head is scrobiculate, almost granulose, the
posterior very deeply punctured ; the prothorax is short, more than
twice broader than long, ampliated gradually from the apical angle
to a short distance from the base, and rounded thence, strongly
sloping and covered with deep, fine, sub-contiguous punctures ;
elytra as broad at the base as the base of the prothorax, nearly
straight laterally and rounded only in the posterior part, moderately
convex in the anterior and having on each side five or six deep
dorsal striz, and occasionally two lateral ones, and covered
with deep, somewhat coarse striz ; pygidium convex, deeply punc-
tate, the punctures separated by an interval about equal to their
own diameter; legs and under side normal, anterior tibie plainly
tri-dentate.

Length 64 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg District), Southern Rhodesia
(Sebakwe).

In the male the two forcipate processes of the genital armature
are very short.

ABLABEROIDES OBTUSUS, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 128.

Black, sub-opaque, with a metallic sheen, or with the elytra
chestnut-red with the suture and a broad marginal outer band
deeply infuscate; in the totally black examples the elytra are
slightly iridescent; basal joint of the pedicel and club black, the
other joints rufescent, the club in the male is slightly longer than
the whole pedicel, and the outer joint is so deeply grooved from
base to apex that, when partially folded, the club seems to be quadri-
articulate ; body short and massive like A. crassus or A. pavoninus ;
the clypeus is sharply tri-dentate, the punctuation on the prothorax
is moderately closely set and partly hidden in well-preserved
specimens; the elytra have generally five plain dorsal striz on each
side; in the male the lower part of the genital armature is bifid and
vertical, the right valve being slightly longer than the left, and the
forcipate processes long and slender ; anterior tibiz tri-dentate.

Length 64-7 mm.; width 44-5 mm.

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Evidently allied to A. cognatus, but more massive; the genital
armature differs, although it belongs to the same type, and in
A. cognatus the club of the male is not so conspicuously grooved.

Hab. Natal (Durban); Transvaal (Lydenburg, Rustenburg,
? Johannesburg); Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo, Sebakwe).

ABLABEROIDES NAMAQUANUDS, Nl. spec.

Very dark bronze, nearly black underneath, and very dark brown
on the elytra, antenne wholly flavescent; body very elongated ;
the appearance is more that of an Ablabera than that of a
Trochalus ; clypeus narrow, sharply tri-dentate; prothorax deeply
and very closely punctured; scutellum very closely punctate ; elytra
elongated, sub-parallel, not much convex, plainly, yet not deeply
striate on the dorsal part, the stria numbering five or six on each
side, the intervals and sides are deeply and somewhat closely
punctate; the legs are piceous-red, and the anterior tibiz tri-
dentate outwardly; in the male the valve of the genital armature
is vertical and rounded at the apex, and the two forcipate processes
slender, symmetrical, strongly curved upwards, sub-horizontal at
apex, and altogether different from that of any of the other species.

Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

ABLABEROIDES TESTACEUS, Fahr.
Ablabera testacea, Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 114.

Head and prothorax testaceous-red, elytra and under side flavescent,
no metallic sheen, antennze wholly yellow, club longer than the
pedicel ; clypeus narrow in front, plainly tri-dentate; head, prothorax,
and scutellum deeply punctate; elytra elongated, sub-parallel, not
convex in the anterior part, and having on each side five or six
strie with the intervals slightly costate near the basal part and
moderately deeply punctate ; posterior coxe entirely hairless along
the outer margin; anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly ; posterior
ones broad, but only moderately ampliated inwardly.

I have not been able to examine the genital armature of the male
of this species which very closely resembles A. flavipennis and
A, tenellus.

Length 5-6 mm.; width 23-31 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg), Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury,
Sebakwe).

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ABLABEROIDES TENELLUS, Fahr.

Triodonta tenella, Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 135.
Trochalus pallidipennis, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 135.

Hardly different from A. testacews, except that the anterior tibie
are bi- instead of tri-dentate outwardly; the elytra have a more or
less distinct, infuscate outer marginal band, and in examples from
Port Natal the prothorax has, according to Fahreus, an apical
sub-triangular zneous patch; the shape, sculpture, and striation of
elytra are exactly as in A. testaceus, and the antenne are also
flavous.

I have seen one example only of this species in addition to
Fahreeus’ type, which is recorded from Port Natal, while my co-
type is from Ovampoland.

ABLABEROIDES FLAVIPENNIS, Fahr.
Ablabera flavipennis, Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 120.

This species is also so closely allied to A. tenellus and A. testaceus
that they can be distinguished only with difficulty, and all three
might prove to be one species only ; the colour, however, differs in
being dark bronze with the elytra testaceous-red but retaining
a black suture and an outer marginal infuscate band, or being
uniformly dark chestnut-brown; I have also seen examples with
the elytra uniformly testaceous-red, and also entirely black with
a faint metallic sheen; it resembles in general appearance Camenta
variabilis, and Fahrzeus described it as an Ablabera; it has no
opaline sheen, the clypeal keel is highly raised, and the frontal
suture deep.

In the male the genital armature has two long, forcipate processes,
the right one is longer and much more slender than the left and is
spatulate at apex, the left one is wide with the tip acuminate.

Length 44-54 mm.

Hab. Natal (Estcourt); Bechuanaland (Kanye) ; Southern Rhodesia
(Salisbury, Enkeldoorn, Buluwayo) ; Transvaal (Zoutpansberg).

ABLABEROIDES QUZESITUS, n. spec.

Dark bronze, elytra light flavescent with the posterior part and
the lateral margin infuscate, shining and sub-opaline especially on
the elytra; antenne with the two basal joints and the antennal club
fuscous, the remainder of the pedicel is rufescent ; it is less elongate
than the three preceding species, and the elytra are plainly ampliated
towards the posterior part; the legs are reddish, the clypeus very

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sharply tri-dentate; the prothorax deeply and not very closely
punctate, the elytra plainly striate in the dorsal part, and less so
on the sides, and the intervals roughly punctate ; hind tibiz broad,
but only moderately ampliated inwardly ; the clypeus is narrow in
front and sharply tri-dentate ; the frontal transverse suture is well
defined.

Male unknown.

Length 43 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg District).

ABLABEROIDES DECEDENS, Nn. spec.

Elongato-ovate, shining, hardly iridescent, chestnut-brown with the
elytra and legs lighter brown, antenne flavous; clypeus with the
anterior part narrow, sharply tri-dentate and with the outer margin
strongly sinuate, there is a very plain solution of continuity
between the posterior eye-keel and the genal canthus, and the
frontal, transverse suture is almost obliterated in the three examples
examined by me; prothorax closely punctate; elytra with four or
five plain dorsal striz, intervals closely punctate; the forcipate
processes of the genital armature of the male are symmetrical,
very long, sub-horizontal, broadly spatulate at apex, and not un-
like, although not contorted, those of A. namaquanus.

Length 54-6 mm. ; width 34-33 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

ABLABEROIDES OMINOSUS, N. spec.

Body short, convex, black with a metallic tinge, or dark bronze,
occasionally faintly iridescent, elytra and legs testaceous-red or
dark chestnut, with a broad fuscous outer marginal band; antennz
rufescent with the club fuscous; clypeus with a small median
tooth in the anterior margin the angles of which are sharp
but not much curved, the anterior part owing to the anterior
margin not being strongly reflexed is thus somewhat shallow,
the frontal suture is very plain, the clypeal part between the
keel and the suture is extremely closely punctate, the punctures
on the frontal part are deep but not so closely set; prothorax
very deeply punctate, the punctures equi-distant and separated
by an interval slightly narrower than their diameter; scutellum
somewhat short and broad, deeply punctate; elytra short, convex,
plainly striate in the dorsal part only, and deeply and somewhat
regularly punctate ; the genital armature of the male, which is of
the same type as in dA. namaquanus, and A. decedens, has two

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long, slender forcipate processes, the right one is spatulate at the
tip, the other is acuminate. This species differs from A. breviusculus
in the shape of the genital armature and in the colour of the
antenne.

Length 5-53; width 34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay); Natal (Durban).

ABLABEROIDES BREVIUSCULUS, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 134.

Body very short, somewhat massive, very dark bronze, iridescent,
legs piceous, antennz dark fuscous with the exception of the inter-
mediate joints of the pedicel which are rufescent; clypeus dentate
in the middle of the anterior margin, the tooth continued in a con-
spicuous longitudinal keel, outer angles sharp, but not dentate,
frontal suture somewhat indistinct ; clypeal part between the anterior
keel and the frontal suture more roughly punctate than the frontal ;
prothorax deeply and evenly punctate ; scutellum moderately long,
strongly punctate; elytra short, not amplhated laterally, deeply
quadri-striate on the dorsal part, the lateral striz are either very
faint or partly distinct ; the genital armature of the male resembles
very much that of A. ominosus, but the two forcipate processes
which are also long and slender, are spatulate at the tip, thus
resembling those of A. decedens, which are, however, longer and bent
to the right side.

Length 5-54 mm; width 33-4 mm.

Hab. Natal (Frere); Mozambique (Lourengo-Marquez) ; Southern
Rhodesia (Enkeldoorn).

(Species which I have not seen or been able to identify.)

TRIODONTA LINEOLATA, Brancs.,
Jars Vers Erenes., xvi:;p: 113, 1897.

‘‘Ovate, rufo-testaceous, closely punctate, pubescent, the
pubescence slightly ochraceous and greyish; head triangular,
clypeus truncate and slightly emarginate in front, without
denticule, impressed on each side, and with the margin reflexed ;
antenne testaceous; prothorax nearly twice as broad as long,
roundly narrowed in front, anterior margin broadly and at the
same time slightly emarginate, posterior one slightly bi-sinuate,
with the angles straight, the anterior ones acuminate, dorsal part
piceous, with the sides undefinitely fuscous; elytra distinctly striate
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a somewhat lighter pubescence, rufo-testaceous on the dorsal part,
fuscous on the sides, they are not twice the length of the prothorax,
are little ampliated past the middle, and obtusely rounded at apex ;
scutellum triangular, elongate; pygidium broadly triangular, rounded
at apex and with a longer pubescence; pectus and abdomen convex,
sternum slightly suleate longitudinally in the centre; legs red,
clothed with a greyish ochraceous pubescence; femora closely punc-
tate; anterior legs not strong, posterior tibize and femora dilated,
compressed, anterior tibiz tri-dentate, posterior ones spinulose.

Length 5-5-6 mm. ; width 3-5-4 mm.

Hab. Boroma, on the Zambesi River.’’

Perhaps identical with my Hwronycha sebakuana.

TRIODONTA BOROMENSIS, Branes.,
Loe. cit., p. 114, pl. iv., fig. 5.

“ Klongated, rufo-testaceous, closely punctate,clothed all over with
a thin greyish-ochraceous pubescence, margin of the thorax and elytra
ciliate ; head sub-triangular, clypeus emarginate in front, impressed
on each side, margin reflexed, eyes not prominent, antenne testa-
ceous; prothorax transverse one and a half wider than long, very
broad at the base, plainly narrowed, anterior margin broadly emar-
ginate, posterior roundly produced in the middle, impressed as
a sinus after the scutellum ; elytra twice the length of the thorax
and little wider, very slightly ampliated past the middle, sub-truncate
at apex, obsoletely striate, the sutural stria deeper than the others;
scutellum triangular; pygidium broadly triangular, convex, rounded
at apex; pectus and abdomen convex, sternum with an almost
obliterated longitudinal sulcus; legs red, femora closely punctate,
anterior ones simple, posterior dilated; anterior strongly tri-dentate,
median and posterior spinulose outwardly, and with long hairs
internally.

Length 6°5-7°5 mm. ; width 4-4:°3 mm.

Hab. Boroma, on the Zambesi River.”’

SERICA ZAMBESINA, Brancs.,
IBrorchy itis, os ILI

‘‘Brownish, opaque, ovate; clypeus roughly and sub-rugosely,
frontal part sparsely and finely punctate, slightly carinulate in
the centre ; clypeus separated from the frons by a raised line, very
slightly sinuate in front, and having the margins slightly reflexed ;
antennz testaceous ; prothorax transverse, twice as broad as long,

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densely but not deeply punctate, very broad behind, plainly narrowed
towards the apex and slightly bi-sinuate behind, sides ciliate, posterior
angles obtuse, not sharp; scutellum long, shaped as a triangle rounded
at apex, and roughly punctate ; elytra little wider than the prothorax,.
convex, and twice and a half its length, somewhat ampliated towards
the apex, broadly rounded together and declivous there, obsoletely
striate and densely punctate, lateral margin ciliate; anterior
tibiz obtusely tri-dentate ; pectus shining, densely punctate ; abdo-
minal segments more roughly punctate transversely in the middle;
pygidium convex, moderately shining, triangular, with the angles
rounded, and distinctly densely punctate.

Length 5-6 mm.; width 3-4 mm.

Hab. Boroma, on the Zambesi River.”’

Herr Brenske identified my Autoserica concordans with S.
zambesina, Brancs., but I think that it is a mistake.

SERICA CARBONARIA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 167.

«Antenne 10-jointed, body in general shorter and more
spherical, mesosternum broader, coxee considerably remote (Oma-
lopia) Muls.

Intensely black, and with a pearly sheen; elytra completely
opaque, striate, clypeus shiny.

Length 23 lin.

Short and compact, uniformly black, under side and pronotum
with a bright pearly glance, finely punctured ; clypeus shiny, densely
punctured; elytra completely opaque, distinctly striate, finely
punctate, in each puncture a grey, small puncture; antenne and
legs shining black, the joints brown.

Hab. South Africa.”

SERICA ROBUSTA, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 79.

‘“‘Ovate, very thick, black, moderately shiny; head very wide,
punctate; clypeus coarctate, angular, carinate in the middle ;
antenne ferruginous, club black, a little shorter than the pedicel ;
prothorax broad, convex, shiny, slightly punctate all over, and
having some fulvous lateral hairs; scutellum black, punctate ;
elytra convex, striate, punctate all over; dark red, with a purplish
sheen, suture and outer margin blackish ; legs piceous, posterior

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ones strongly compressed; pectus and abdomen black, sparsely
pilose, the hairs fulvous.

Length 8 mm.

Hab. Zululand.”

Tre ABLABERINI.

Body elongate, sub-cylindrical or with the elytra slightly ampliated
in the posterior part, but occasionally short and convex, although
less than in Trochalus (Oocamenta); clypeus gradually narrowed
laterally and either straight or sinuate before the apex, but occa-
sionally plainly constricted (Idecamenta), eyes divided in front by
a short genal canthus, and without any posterior keel ; antennze 9- or
10-jointed; prothorax not very convex and with a fringe of long
sete ; elytra elongated and covering the propygidium which is wide
and slightly convex; anterior cox sub-vertical and conical at apex,
very little slanting in the base, intermediate and posterior ones not
widely separated, the posterior slanting and only one-third the width
of the metasternum the episterna of which are slightly narrower
and of course longer than in the Sericini; femora not broadly
ampliated, tibize not compressed, hind ones with only a slanting
spinose ridge; hind spurs of the female visibly yet not strongly
ampliated.

The variable number of antennal club joints has led to a great
generic division where specific distinctions, would, in my opinion,
have achieved the same result.

This great variation in the number of joints of the antennal club
is a curious feature of the insects included in this Tribe ; it varies in
the male from 7 to 4, and from 6 to 3 in the female; the claws are
slender and not deeply cleft underneath, but the basal part is often
dilated and membranaceous.

On the whole the Tribe is very homogeneous, but certain genera,
such as Tulbaghia and Idecamenta, are closely allied to the Pachy-
podous Melolonthine, and have probably the same habits. The
females of Ablabera, Camenta, &c., are, however, met with as
commonly as the males.

The species of Ablaberini seem to be more restricted to the South
African Fauna than the Sericini ; a few of them have been met with
as far as Masailand, but I believe that none are found in Senegambia.
The range of the species in South Africa is very limited, differing
in that respect from the Serzcini, but the habits of the two seem
to be the same.

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Key to the Genera.

A+. Claws mostly slender, obliquely incised underneath at a short
distance from the apex, not lobate in the posterior part.

b?, Clypeus simple, divided from the head by a suture .. .. Ablabera.

bt. Clypeus with a median keel or raised suture, and a frontal
QUGE Secs avec eee ers, SG lest woe: cso ater bine ton» DMerocamenta.

a‘. Clypeus straight laterally, outer angles moderately rounded.

Frontal suture obliterated, reflexed anterior part edged by
a fine transverse line .. a Bie oc ag a. icenibe:

A3, Claws not incised underneath, but slightly dilated at base.

a3, Clypeus with a median keel and a frontal one, and arcuately
ROUGE TASS oo ca oo oo oo oo de oo oa Jhoilnagliiar

A’, Claws with a very broad basal vertically truncate lobe under-
neath.

a. Clypeus with a supra-apical keel or raised line, and a
frontal suture.

b?. Clypeus not hollowed.
c3, Gene not projecting; antennz 10-jointed in both sexes .. Camenta.

c?, Gene not projecting; antenne 9-jointed in the male .. Pericamenta.

ct. Gene distinctly projecting, antenne 10-jointed in the male,
G-oimmedtinstihestiemalen wee ee ees) es ke ee © OoCamenta,

at, Clypeus with two strongly raised keels.

Genz strongly developed, clypeus notched in front, not
lnolliong dc age” GNSS) sb. “as esp poe cccu mics Son POU MeO OR

bt. Clypeus hollowed.

Clypeus with a median and a frontal suture or slightly
raised line,

Genz moderately developed, clypeus rounded in front, not
MOLCHEd MCE Rei cet ac Ge ste a oe os aracamenta.

At. Claws with a moderately broad basal lobe.
a, Clypeus with two high keels.

Clypeus deeply incised laterally and strongly narrowed in
inelanteriorspart wae ewan aapes) fc 1s Use ose Lde@camenta-

Gren. ABLABERA, Erichs.,
Nat. Ins., iii, 1847, p. 695.
Mentum ampliated laterally, deeply constricted there at the

junction with the ligular part which is entirely fused, but bears
a somewhat plain trace of a suture, narrowed thence, but expanding

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towards the anterior part the angles of which are broadly rounded,
and the anterior margin broadly arcuate, the outer face is very slightly
convex in the median part, and the whole ligular part depressed; the
labial palpi are inserted into a deep lateral condyle at some distance
from the anterior angles, and the last joint is somewhat broadly
fusiform at the base; jaws robust, and with a double row of three
or four teeth set opposite each other in three tiers, the lower one
being more or less distinctly trifid, these teeth are set at right angles
to the inner edge of the maxilla which are truncate at the tip with
the outer angle sharp; last joint of maxillary palps flail-like, longer
than all the joints taken together; antenne 10-jointed with the club
elongate and 5- or 6-jointed in the male according to the development
of the last joint of the pedicel, or plainly 7-jointed; ovate and 5- or
6-jointed in the femaie, but with the last joint of the pedicel more or
less sharply acuminate; clypeus narrowed laterally diagonally from
the narrow canthus of the eyes towards the anterior angle which is
never blunt, and is occasionally very sharp, and even projecting, and
slightly emarginate laterally near the anterior part, or deeply sinuate ;
the anterior margin is more or less deeply sinuate, the margin itself
being always reflexed, and when it is very highly raised there is a
faintly impressed line along the narrow, seemingly depressed part,
but there is no suture in the median part,* and the clypeal suture at
the junction with the head is straight, in some species the anterior
margin is bi-sinuate, and in one (A. rufa) there is a somewhat
distinct, longitudinal keel in the middle of the anterior part; pro-
thorax convex, almost twice as broad as long, ampliated laterally
in the centre with the anterior angles sharp and the posterior
rounded, fringed laterally by more or less dense hairs, and having
also a few hairs along the outer part of the anterior margin; scu-
tellum cordate or ogival; elytra somewhat ampliated and convex in
the posterior part, or sub-cylindrical, without any distinct dorsal
costules, and covering the rather broad propygidium; pygidium
convex ; abdominal segments divided by deep sutures, but seemingly
fused, somewhat pubescent, pectus moderately pubescent; anterior
tibiz bi-dentate outwardly and having a very long inner spur which
in some species curves conspicuously outwardly in the male
(A. amoena, fuscipennis) but shows also a tendency to curving in
the other species—in the female, however, this spur is straight;
tarsi long, slender, claws more or less slender, divaricating, more
or less plainly cleft diagonally but not deeply underneath in the
anterior part; in some species only the inner claw of the anterior
tarsi is cleft; posterior cox moderately robust, posterior tibia

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robust, bi-incised on the upper edge and without oblique ridge,
the apical spurs sharp in both sexes, but more sinuate in the
female, in which sex the posterior tarsi are also shorter.

The species which I have been able to observe fly very low in the
daytime, and are met with from August to April in the Western Pro-
vinces of the Cape Colony.

The genus might be divided into two sections (Parablabera,
Ablabera), owing to the number of joints forming the antennal
club, but it is sometimes difficult to decide if the last joint of
the pedicel is a part of the club or not, owing to its being very
often briefly laminate. This division is also very artificial, because
A. gratula, for instance, with a 7-jointed club in the male has the
same shape and colouring as the species belonging to the group in
which the male has a 6-jointed antennal club.

The first section is mostly restricted to the Cape Colony, but it has
one representative in the Transvaal. One species of the genus is
recorded from German East Africa.

The character distinguishing this genus from Microcamenta, the
claws of which are alike, is the absence of a median transverse ridge
or clypeal suture in addition to the frontal one, and from Camenta,
the shape of the claws which are not lobate or swollen underneath
at the base.

Key to the Species.

A?. Antennal club of male 5- or 6-, of female 5-jointed, the ulti-
mate joint of the pedicel laminate but short in both sexes .. (Parablabera.)

a.? Antennal club of male 5-jointed.

Black, with the elytra partly testaceous, upper side clothed
with long, greyish remote hairs; clypeus not impressed in
OM oa o@- Shp. oe op. SOON anti Sum moUmE mine oOo eN On fs

Fuscous, with the elytra straw-colour, upper side densely
pubescent, clypeus impressed in front, not longer than the
CREM mnt ME ss ince oes) ec ws an los, “pelosula.

a. Antennal club of male 6-jointed.

Black, the elytra testaceous with a broad, black, marginal,
pasaland’suturaliband, <=. 2. «1 o. «1 -. -- splendida.

a, The ultimate joint of the pedicel not laminate in the female.
Body black, glabrous on the upper side Sc oo ool 65 Onto

Straw-colour, with the prothorax fuscous, and a sutural and
marginal fuscous elytral band; clypeus longer than the
forehead; inner spur of anterior tibiew of male strongly
OOkedey weet ess Mn cee) sis dee sews ite «. transvacdlica.

Black, with the elytra testaceous and glabrous, prothorax
with a juxta-marginal band of hairs in the anterior part .. hirticollis.

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At, Antennal club of male 7-jointed, that of the female 6-jointed..

a3, Anterior angles of clypeus only moderately sharp.

c?. Elytra with short, seriate hairs.
Body black, posterior part of elytra chestnut-brown ; inner
joint of antennal club of the male two-thirds shorter than
the one following cae ae 50

ct. Elytra glabrous.
Body black; inner joint of antennal club of the male half
the length of the joint following

b?. Elytra ampliato-convex.

bt.

Pe pe pS AS AR A

Body black, elytra chestnut-brown

Black, with the posterior part of the prothorax red, elytra
straw-colour with a fuscous outer band set oie nate

Elytra ampliate, not convex.

Chestnut-brown, with the head fuscous

2, Anterior angles of clypeus sharply produced outwards.

Clypeus of male deeply sinuate in the centre of anterior
part; outer angles projecting; body rufo-testaceous ; inner
spur of anterior tibiz hooked .,

Clypeus of male deeply sinuate in the centre, outer angles
not projecting; body rufo-testaceous; inner spur of anterior
tibie not hooked

. Outer angles of clypeus sharp, not produced outwardly,

bi-sinuate in the anterior part.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown ; inner spur of
anterior tibiae hooked in the male .. .. .. .. .«.

Ferruginous, inner spur of anterior tibie curved in the
male

Light testaceous-red (male unknown)

ABLABERA SPLENDIDA, Fabr.,

Spec. Ins., i., p. 41.

[voL. XIII.

(Ablabera.)

capicola.

delalandei

gravidula.

gratula.

modesta.

anvend,

matabelena.

namaqua.

hopeiana.

rufa.

. clypeata, Gyllenh., Schonh. Syn. Ins., i., 3, App., p. 70.
. emarginaticeps, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 101.

. lateralis, Wied. Germ. Mag., iv., p. 137.

. luridipennis, Blanch., loc cit., p. 101.

. notata, Wied. Germ. Mag., iv., p. 188.

. totta, Thunb., Mém. Ac. Petyr., vi., 1815, p. 428.

Black, elytra pale testaceous but with a broad basal black band,
a sutural, and a lateral one varying somewhat in width, glabrous on

ete

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the upper side and fringed along the prothorax and the elytral
margins with long but somewhat remote pallid bristles; the elytra
are very convex and ampliated in the posterior part; in the male the
clypeus is very strongly sinuate laterally in the anterior part, the
anterior angles are sharp but do not project, and the anterior margin
is plainly sinuate, the antennal club is infuscate with the three basal
joints of the pedicel rufescent and is 6-jointed, but the inner joint is
less than half the length of the one following; the club is 5-jointed,
and the fifth joint of the pedicel is very briefly aculeate; head and
prothorax very finely punctate, the clypeus is narrowly reflexed at
the apex, and the apical impressed transverse line is plainly visible ;
prothorax ampliated laterally with the anterior angles very sharp,
and the posterior ones much rounded, convex; elytra covered with
equi-distant round punctures with smooth intervals and having no
traces of dorsal costules, the suture itself is very little raised;
pygidium often reddish or testaceous in the centre, legs piceous ;
abdominal segments and pectus moderately densely pubescent.

Length 6-74 mm.; width 3-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester, Uiten-
hage, Graham’s Town, Kowie, Hast London).

The colour of the elytra varies from straw-colour to rufescent.

ABLABERA HOTTENTOTA, nN. Spec.

Female: Shape and sculpture of A. lateralis, but slightly more
elongated, entirely black and fringed laterally with somewhat remote
greyish sete, the shape of the clypeus is similar, the antennal club
is 5-jointed (); in some examples there is a faint fulvous patch in
the posterior part of the elytra, and a similar spot on the pygidium.

This species closely resembles A. lalandei, but is distinguished
from it by the very slender, moderately divaricating claws; g un-
known, but having most likely 6-jointed antenne.

Length 6 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam).

ABLABERA HIRSUTA, Blanch.,
Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 102.

Black, with the elytra testaceous-red, broadly infuscate along the
base, the suture and the sides, or fuscous with a broad reddish
patch in the posterior discoidal part, very convex and conspicuously
inflated laterally behind, covered on the prothorax and elytra with
long, erect, remote greyish sete, and having a fringe of conspicuously

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long and dense sete along the outer margins, antennal club of the
male and female 5-jointed, the inner joint slightly shorter than the
one following, last joint of pedicel more laminate in the male than in
the female, clypeus sinuate in the anterior lateral part, deeply emar-
ginate in the anterior, and with the surface plane; sculpture as in
the preceding species.

Length 6-7 mm.; width 34-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl).

ABLABERA TRANSVAALICA, N. spec.

Very light straw-colour, with the frontal part of the head from the
frontal suture to the base fuscous, the prothorax is also fuscous
black, except for a narrow, stramineous lateral margin, the scutellum
is black and the elytra have a narrow sutural, and a supra-marginal
slightly broader fuscous band; clypeus longer than the head, reflexed
at the apex, only slightly sinuate laterally in the anterior part,
anterior margin arcuate from angle to angle, the latter sharp, but
not projecting outwardly; head and clypeus finely and closely
punctate; prothorax convex, ampliated laterally past the median
part, closely punctulate ; elytra moderately elongated, slightly am-
pliated in the posterior part, covered with closely set and somewhat
deep punctures, glabrous on the upper side; under side pubescent ;
antennal club of male 5-jointed, the inner joint shorter than the one
following, fifth joint of pedicel very small, laminate; inner spur of
anterior tibiz of the male strongly hooked.

This species is distinguished from 4. hirsuta and also from 4.
ptlosula and A. splendida, by the much longer and straighter clypeus,
and the strongly hooked inner spur of the anterior tibize of the male.

Length 64 mm.; width 33 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

ABLABERA HIRTICOLLIS, n. spec.

Female: Head and anterior part of the prothorax black, posterior
part of prothorax reddish, elytra very pale testaceous with a more
or less broad fuscous lateral band; pygidium and under side
fuscous, legs partly piceous; clypeus not sinuate laterally in the
anterior part, faintly sinuate in front with the angles moderately
sharp but not projecting ; antennal club 5-jointed with the inner
joint half the length of the one following, the head and clypeus are
somewhat deeply punctured; prothorax fringed laterally with long
hairs and having a transverse fringe of similar hairs along but not
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ones scattered about the disk on well-preserved specimens ; scutellum
black, elytra sub-parallel, moderately convex behind, somewhat
deeply punctate and having a faint trace of a dorsal costule, the
suture is narrowly infuscate in some examples; in well-preserved
examples there is a row of sub-appressed hairs on the clypeal suture,
and also three or four hairs along the anterior depression.

Length 64-94 mm. ; width 34-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (? Worcester, Kowie).

I have seen an example of this species entirely black.

ABLABERA PILOSULA, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 116.
A. pulacaria, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 121.

Head infuscate, prothorax reddish, elytra very pale testaceous,
almost straw-colour, head and anterior part of clypeus_ briefly,
prothorax densely pubescent, elytra with rows of moderately long,
erect, sub-flavescent hairs, greyish along the margins; clypeus not
sinuate laterally but deeply emarginate in front with the anterior
part more deeply impressed than in the other species of Ablabera
known to me, and with the impression edged by a very faint trans-
verse suture in the manner of Camenta ; elytra convex; sculpture
normal; antennal club 5-jointed in both sexes.

Owing to the presence of a clypeal suture, which is, however, very
faint, in addition to the frontal one, this species might be included
in Camenta, but the shape of the claws is that of Ablabera.

Length 54 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Stellenbosch, Cape Town).

I am not quite sure that this is the true A. piloswla of Fahreus.

ABLABERA CAPICOLA, N. spec.

Head and prothorax black, elytra fuscous, or faintly chestnut-
brown in the posterior part, under side infuscate, legs reddish, club
of antenneze fuscous, the pedicel rufescent; head and prothorax
glabrous, the latter, however, fringed with a dense, long fulvous
pubescence; elytra with short, greyish erect hairs arranged in
regular rows, and having along the margins a dense fringe of fulvous
hairs ; clypeus not sinuate laterally, arcuately emarginate in front,
but with the outer angles slightly rounded in both the sexes ;
antennal club of male moderately long, 7-jointed, but with the inner
joint less than half the length of the one following, which is also
slightly shorter than the others, 6-jointed in the female, the inner

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joint half the size of the following one; punctures on the head and
prothorax fine, deeper and a little wider on the elytra.

Length 7-74 mm. ; width 4-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Clanwilliam).

ABLABERA LALANDEI, Blanch.,
Cat. Coll. Entom., 1850, p. 101.

Male: Black, glabrous on the upper side but fringed laterally with
moderately dense greyish hairs; clypeus plainly sinuate laterally
near the apex, and only slightly emarginate in front with the angles
somewhat sharp, but not projecting; club of antenne black,
7-jointed, the inner joint half the length of the one following, pedicel
rufescent; punctures on the elytra slightly wider and deeper than
those on the prothorax; anterior claws robust, strongly divaricating.
This last character distinguishes the present species from A. hotten-
tota ; it is also slightly less convex in the posterior part.

Length 7 mm. ; width 384 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Paarl).

ABLABERA GRAVIDULA, Nl. spec.

Female: Shape of A. splendida, but of heavier build, and with the
clypeus very slightly sinuate laterally towards the apex the outer
angles of which are not sharp, the anterior margin is nearly
straight; black, with the elytra and legs chestnut-red, the prothorax
and elytra are fringed with a dense, long, fulvous pubescence, the
inner joint of the 6-jointed antennal club is half the length of the one
following, the head and prothorax are finely punctured, the punctures
on the elytra are deeper and less closely set than on the prothorax ;
pectus with a very long but not very dense pubescence.

Length 9 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

ABLABERA GRATULA, 0. spec.

Head and anterior part of prothorax black, the posterior is red,
scutellum black, under side piceous, legs rufescent; elytra pale
testaceous and having an outer marginal narrow, fuscous band, the
pedicel of the antenne is flavous in both sexes, the club infuscate ;
the clypeus is deeply sinuate in front with the margin plainly
reflexed, distinctly sinuate laterally in the anterior part, and covered,
like the head, with deep equi-distant punctures, the antennal club of
the male is 7-jointed, the joints long and of equal length; the

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prothorax is plainly convex, glabrous but with an outer fringe
of long setz; the elytra are glabrous, very plainly ampliated behind
and convex there, as deeply punctate as the prothorax and without
any traces of dorsal costules; the antennal club of the female is
6-jointed, the inner joint is only half the length of the following
one,

Evidently allied to A. hirticollis, but more ampliated laterally
behind, and without traces of villosity on the prothorax.

Length 74-9 mm. ; width 4-43 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Clanwilliam).

ABLABERA MODESTA, 0. spec.

Female: Chestnut-brown, head fuscous, pedicel of antenne
flavous, antennal club black; clypeus deeply emarginate in front
and distinctly sinuate laterally in the anterior part; moderately
closely punctate ; prothorax glabrous on the upper side, fringed with
long, remote hairs laterally; elytra glabrous, much amplhated
laterally behind, but not convex there, somewhat deeply punctate,
and without any traces of dorsal costules.

Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm.

In general facies this species is not unlike Camenta pusilla.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam).

ABLABERA AMOENA, 0. spec.

Clypeus and prothorax light brick-red, head fuscous, elytra and
under side pale testaceous, almost straw-colour, antenne flavous ;
clypeus deeply emarginate laterally in the anterior part, with the
outer angles sharp and projecting in the male, and with the anterior
margin very deeply sinuate, in the female the clypeus is a little
shorter, more deeply incised laterally, less deeply sinuate in front,
and with the anterior angles sharp, but not projecting; both head
and clypeus are deeply punctured, and glabrous; prothorax convex,
covered with equi-distant punctures, not closely set, and fringed
laterally with a somewhat dense, greyish pubescence; scutellum
impunctate; elytra elongated, sub-cylindrical, but slightly ampliated
laterally in the female, covered with equi-distant punctures of the
same size and depth as those of the prothorax, and without any
traces of costules; abdomen and pectus pubescent, the outer margins
have a fringe of very short hairs; tarsi long; inner spur of anterior
tibize curving outwardly at apex.

Length 9-11 mm.; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam) ; Natal (Umvoti).

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In spite of the great distance separating the two recorded habitats.
of this species, the specimens are absolutely alike, and the genital
armature similar.

ABLABERA MATABELENA, N. Spec.

Closely allied in so far as the general facies goes, with P. amoena,
but the colour is redder, the head is not infuscate, the clypeus is.
plainly sinuate laterally, the outer angles do not project in the male,
and the anterior margin is only slightly sinuate, it thus resembles.
much the clypeus of the female of P. amoena, but it is sinuate only,
not deeply incised laterally ; the elytra have a faint trace of dorsal
costule ; the inner spur of the anterior tibie is straight, and the
inner claw of the anterior tarsi is not cleft.

Length 9 mm. ; width 43 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo).

ABLABERA FUSCIPENNIS, Blanch.,
Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 101.
A. infuscata, Bl., loc. cit., p. 101.

Head, prothorax, and under side black, scutellum fuscous ; elytra.
light or dark chestnut, pedicel of antenne flavous, upper part of
club infuscate in both sexes; clypeus more sharply narrowed
laterally in the male than in the female, not incised or deeply sinuate
in the anterior part, but with the outer angles sub-acuminate and
slightly projecting outwardly, anterior margin almost straight, but
with the median part very slightly projecting ; in the female the
clypeus is not deeply incised laterally near the anterior part, the
angles are moderately sharp but not projecting, and the anterior
margin is straight, both head and clypeus are very closely punctured ;
prothorax covered with round, equi-distant, somewhat deep and not.
very closely set punctures; scutellum punctate; elytra parallel in
the male, slightly ampliated towards the posterior part in the female,
deeply punctate, the punctures equi-distant as on the prothorax and
of nearly the same size, dorsal costules very slightly indicated ;
inner spur of the anterior tibia strongly curved outwardly at tip:
in the male.

Length 8-9 mm.; width 4-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

ABLABERA HOPEIANA, Nl. spec.

Totally chestnut-red, with the frontal part of the head slightly
fuscous ; pedicel of antenne rufescent, club infuscate; clypeus as.

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long as the head, plainly narrowed laterally, incised there close to the
apical margin which is strongly reflexed and the outer angles of
which are sharp and somewhat projecting in the male, this apical
margin is slightly bi-smuate, owing to the median part being sub-
aculeate, head and clypeus covered with somewhat deep, sub-
contiguous punctures ; prothorax of the normal shape, and with the
normal punctures and lateral fringe of hairs; elytra sub-cylindrical,
somewhat deeply punctured, and with the lateral fringe of hairs
neither very long nor dense; inner spur of anterior tarsi of male
gradually curved outwardly.

Length 6 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Hope Town).

ABLABERA RUFA, Fabric.,
Syst. Ent., p. 36.
Oliv. Ent., i., 5, p. 43, pl. vii., fig. 79.

Female : Somewhat rufescent, but with the elytra a little paler,
fringed along the sides of the protborax and elytra with a somewhat
long, dense, flavescent pubescence, antenne flavous ; clypeus plainly
emarginate laterally near the anterior part, deeply bi-sinuate in
front with the angles fairly sharp but not projecting, and with the
median part plainly angular, the anterior margin is very highly
raised, and there is a slightly raised longitudinal median keel, hardly
reaching the clypeal suture which, in some examples, is slightly
keeled ; prothorax and elytra normally punctate, the latter without
any traces of dorsal costules.

Length 74-9 mm.; width 4-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

(Species which I have not been able to identify).

ABLABERA RUFIPES, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 101.

‘“‘ Narrow, black, clothed with ashy-grey hairs underneath ; head
punctate, clypeus broadly reflexed with the angles prominent ;
antenne and palpi testaceous, club fuscous; prothorax closely
punctate, and with the sides ciliate; elytra oblong, black, roughly
punctate; legs testaceous ; abdomen black, slightly pilose.

Length 8 mm.

Collected by Delalande.”’

I have unfortunately mislaid my notes on the examination of

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Blanchard’s types, and I am therefore not certain that this species
is a valid one.

ABLABERA ADVENA, Gyllh., Schénh. Syn. Ins., i., 3, App., p. 100.
CBS:

ABLABERA ANALIS, Thunb., Mém. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 427.
Cap:

ABLABERA APICALIS, Fahr., Insect. Caffr., ii, 117. Orange River.

ABLABERA LUTARIA, Har., Col. Heft., v., 1869.

A. LURIDIPENNIS, Burm., Handb., iv., 2, p. 141. C. B.S.

ABLABERA NANA, Gyllh., Schénh. Syn. Ins., i., 3, App., p. 72.
Cbs:

ABLABERA PELLUCIDA, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iy., 2, Dp.) 0s
C. B.S.

ABLABERA ROSTRATA, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 138.
Caffraria.

ABLABERA SIMILATA, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 140.
CyB: Ss.

ABLABERA TENEBROSA, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 142.
Caffraria.

ABLABERA ViDUA, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 142. Caffraria.

It is most probable that on comparison with the types, all

these species will be found to have been described in this Catalogue,

under a different name, and that several of them will prove to

be synonymous.

MICROCAMENTA, Brensk.,
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 346.

Facies and buceal organs of Ablabera and Camenta; antenne
10-jointed, the club 7-jointed in the male, 6-jointed in the female:
clypeus deeply emarginate laterally with the anterior part strongly
reflexed and with a median, transverse, more or less raised suture,
and a plain clypeal one, gene strongly developed, oblique; the claws
have a plain, small curved tooth underneath instead of being finely
cleft.

The characters distinguishing this genus from some species of
Ablabera are the presence of two parallel arcuate keels or sutures
on the clypeus, and the strong development of the gene.

Key to the Species.

A3. Anterior margin of clypeus straight.
Black ; clypeus in the male with two plainly raised keels ;
inner spur of anterior tibie straight .. .. .. .. .. transvaalensis.

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A?, Anterior margin of clypeus broadly emarginate.
Pale testaceous; clypeus in the male with a sub-median
suture and a slightly raised keel; apex of anterior tibise
slightly curved outwardly .. .. .. .. .. «.. «. sebakuensis.

At. Anterior margin of clypeus angular in the centre.
Straw-colour, the two raised sutures on the clypeus not
Veny Wight Wess eres tec | a ie ok) ea Ia al cls, LOUAMpORNSIS.

MIcROCAMENTA TRANSVAALENSIS, Brensk.,
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 346.

Male: Piceous, elytra very dark chestnut-brown, antenne chest-
nut-brown; head and clypeus deeply and somewhat closely punctured,
the latter is deeply emarginate laterally in the anterior part with the
upper angle of the emargination not sharp, the anterior part is
straight and strongly reflexed, the reflexed part being bounded by
a plainly impressed transverse line, and above the median part there
is a very distinct transverse keel running parallel with the clypeal
one, gene well developed, oblique; inner joint of the antennal club
a little shorter than the one following; prothorax somewhat convex,
ampliated laterally in the posterior part, anterior angles sharp,
posterior broadly rounded, lateral fringe of hairs not dense, surface
moderately deeply punctulate, punctures equi-distant, not closely
set; scutellum closely punctate; elytra sub-parallel, moderately
convex, more deeply punctured than the prothorax, and without
any visible costules; under side clothed with greyish moderately
dense hairs; anterior tibie tri-dentate, tarsi not very long; the
tooth underneath the claw quite plain.

Length 5 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Maghaliesberg).

The only example of this species that I have seen is Herr Brenske’s
type, which he kindly lent me.

MICROCAMENTA SEBAKUENSIS, N. spec.
Pale testaceous, with the head slightly more rufescent ; antenne
flavous ; head and clypeus deeply pitted but the former more closely
than the latter which, in both sexes, is very deeply emarginated

laterally in the anterior part with the upper angle of the emargina-

tion very sharp, the anterior part is deeply incised in the centre in
the male, and the outer angles very sharp, while in the female it is
deeply emarginate, and the angles on that account are less pro-
minent, the anterior part is reflexed but there is no distinct impressed
transverse line as in M. transvaalensis, and the surface is hardly
punctate, at about the median part there is a slightly bi-sinuate

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suture and a sutural, slightly raised keel above it, which, however, is
more suture-like in the female, gene well developed, oblique; inner
joint of antennal club of the male much shorter than the one follow-
ing; prothorax somewhat densely punctured, lateral fringe of hairs
moderately dense; scutellum punctulate; elytra sub-parallel, but a
little ampliated laterally behind, not much convex, moderately deeply
punctate and with the lateral fringe of hairs somewhat dense ; inner
spur of anterior tibiz slightly bent outwardly at tip in the male.

Length 64-74 mm.; width 3+-3? mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

MIcROCAMENTA OVAMPOENSIS, n. spec.

Female: Very light straw-colour, antenne and palpi of the same
hue; shape and size of M. sebakwensis, but at once distinguished by
the shape of the clypeus the anterior margin of which is bi-sinuate
owing to the centre being plainly aculeate, the outer angles are,
however, as sharp as in M. sebakuensis, but the upper angle of the
lateral sinuation is not sharply aculeate, and the two ridges on the
clypeus are more like raised sutures than keels; the vestiture is the
same as in M. sebakuensis.

Length 7 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba).

TULBAGHIA, n. gen.

Mentum long, broader at the apex than at the base, but with the
sides straight, fused with the ligula, the labial palpi are inserted on
the lateral angle, the ligula being narrow, transverse, deeply sinuate
in the middle, rounded laterally and extending only from one palp
to the other, the outer face of the mentum is slightly convex and
clothed with very long, dense, bristly hairs, but slopes very strongly
towards the apex; last joint of labial palpi very swollen; maxille
massive, upper lobe produced into six sharp arcuate teeth, last joint
of maxillary palpi nearly cylindrical, and as long as the three pre-
ceding ones taken together; mandibles very robust, triangular, with
the upper edge chisel-like and cleft in the middle; no labrum ;
clypeus briefly vertical and slightly sinuate in front, hollowed above
with the margins reflexed, as long as the head and separated from
it by a plain, transverse suture, eyes very bulging, broadly exposed |
on the upper side, divided in front by a narrow canthus of the gene,
head plane; antenne 10-jointed; club 7-jointed in the male, the
joints very long, foliate, equal in length and width and arcuate, third
joint as long as the two preceding ones taken together and produced

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inwardly into an angle or even a sharp tooth at its junction with
the second joint which is short, sub-moniliform, the basal one is
short and thick ; prothorax hardly ampliated laterally in the middle
if seen from above, and with both the anterior and posterior angles
rounded ; scutellum ogival; elytra cylindrical, slightly callose at the
shoulders, not at the apex, slightly costulate, covering the pro-
pygidium; apical part of the broad pygidium somewhat drawn
forward ; abdominal segments free, the basal one obliterated ; meta-
sternum very long; legs moderately robust, tarsi long; anterior
tibiz bi-dentate outwardly, and having a very long, slender inner
spur, posterior ones with a plain, oblique ridge, apical spurs very
long and slender; claws slender and simple.

Key to the Species.

Inner joint of antennal club of male as long as the joint following ;
third joint of pedicel sharply aculeate at the base .. .. .. .. .. Lightfooti.

Inner joint of antennal club of male not so long as the joint following ;
third joint of pedicel not aculeate See eek ice ew aN dad> Roe Jucenents:

TULBAGHIA LIGHTFOOTI, n. spec.

Head and prothorax dark chestnut, the elytra, pygidium, under
side and legs lighter chestnut-brown, antenne of the male also
chestnut-brown ; clypeus semi-circular in front and without traces
of anterior angles, sub-sinuate laterally, deeply hollowed in the
anterior part and having a short median tubercle, more deeply
punctured in the posterior than in the anterior part and with the
suture dividing it from the forehead broad and smooth; forehead
plane, closely punctulate; prothorax sub-parallel laterally, only
slightly obliquely narrowed in the anterior and posterior parts,
and with the two angles equally rounded, rather plane, fringed
with long, somewhat dense hairs, and covered with deep some-
what irregularly disposed punctures; scutellum punctulate late-
rally; elytra sub-cylindrical, but not much convex, closely and
somewhat deeply pitted, and with the two dorsal costules distinct,
outer margin fringed with somewhat long hairs; pygidium closely
punctate and pubescent in the apical part; the closely punctured
abdomen, pectus, and femora have a long but not very dense flaves-
cent pubescence.

Length 11 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Tulbagh).

This species is not unlike a Pachypod in general appearance.

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TULBAGHIA CERERIS, nN. spec.

Pale testaceous, with the head slightly infuscate, the clypeus and
prothorax reddish, and the antenne flavescent; the clypeus is
straight laterally and strongly arcuate in the anterior part without
any trace of angles, moderately hollowed owing to the anterior
margin being strongly reflexed, the median part has no tubercle,
it is closely punctulate from the suture to the reflexed part which
is nearly impunctate, the head is also closely punctate; the antennal
club is long but the joints are not quite as parallel as in T. lightfootz,
and the inner joint is about one-fourth shorter than the one follow-
ing; prothorax equally rounded laterally in front and behind, and
with the angles rounded, moderately closely punctate and fringed
with long, remote hairs; elytra as in T. lightfooti but proportionately
more deeply punctate, the costules are evanescent; under side
rufescent, pubescent.

Length 65 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab, Cape Colony (Ceres).

Gen. CAMENTA, Erichs.,
Nat. Ins., ii., 1847, p. 695.

Mentum and maxille of Ablabera, the last joint of the labial palpi
is, however, less thickened at the base; clypeus slightly narrower at
the apex than at the base, either simple laterally, or incised there in
the anterior part and more or less narrowed thence to the anterior
angles which are sharp or moderately rounded, anterior margin
seldom truncate, more or less deeply sinuate, anterior part of the
clypeus with a transverse keel reaching or not from side to side,
and which may either be sharp or become almost obliterated and is
then replaced by a suture, and is divided from the head by an
impressed line extending from side to side, but never affecting
the shape of a keel; the eyes are not covered by the prothorax,
and are incised in the anterior part by a small canthus formed
by the nearly obliterated genx, but in some species these gens
become large and project a good deal beyond the eye which they
also incise more deeply (C. rufiventris, C. transvalia); it may be
said that the gene are more developed in the species which have
the clypeus incised laterally ; the margins are sharply raised, and
there is always a depression in the anterior part between the apical
margin and the clypeal keel, this impression is often smooth or
little punctate, and the posterior part is plane; head slightly longer

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than the clypeus, plane; antenne 10-jointed in both sexes, the
club joints varying in number from 8 to 4, always smaller
and more ovate in the female than in the male; prothorax nearly
straight laterally from the median part to the basal angle which is
distinct although somewhat rounded, deeply bi-sinuate in the anterior
part the angles of which are sharp and projecting; elytra elongated,
slightly ampliated laterally from the third part of the length but
only slightly sinuate there, not much convex (except the females
of C. caffrina and C. tumida), rounded behind and covering the
greatest part of the propygidium; pygidium convex, sub-vertical,
not drawn inwards, nor as broad as the penultimate abdominal
segment, these segments are convex, but although the suture is
very plain they are not retractible; pectus moderately densely
hairy; legs moderately long, anterior tibiz uni- or bi-dentate out-
wardly, and having a very long inner spur, posterior ones with a
plain oblique ridge, hind femora not very robust, tarsi moderately
long, slender, each claw having underneath a membranous, con-
spicuous quadrate lobe which extends from the base to the median
part, and is vertically truncate there, the anterior part of the claw is
slender and very abruptly curved.

As stated in the diagnosis of this genus, the species can be divided
into two groups according to the shape of the clypeus which is incised
laterally or not, but this character has not a great generic im-
portance, occurring as it does in species closely allied in general
form as well as in others the general facies or even size of which
differ somewhat considerably. An attempt has been made by Herr
Brenske to split the genus mainly according to the number of joints
composing the club of the male, and occasionally also of the female.
This character is so much more fictitious that the joints of the
pedicel abutting on to the club are always compressed, aculeate
and laminate with a tendency to form an additional joint, even
in several cases the inner joint of the club is only one-quarter of
the length of the one following, and this same joint varies in length
according to species; this goes far to prove that a specific character
is thus made to serve as a generic one. I attach much more
importance to the disappearance of an antennal joint than to the
increase or decrease in length of one of the club joints ; but even the
distinctive value of the presence or absence of one or more joints in
the antennz is somewhat illusory when we find that in genera very
closely allied to Camenta the male has a 10-jointed antenna and the
female a 9-jointed one, and again in the male of a species belonging
to a genus or sub-genus which but for this character could not be
separated at all from Camenta, the antenne are 9-jointed.

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But as the divisions to which Brenske has given a name will help
to identify the species, especially the male, I give them in the Key
and also a few new ones.

Key to the Species.

A?, Anterior tibizw bi-dentate.

B?. Clypeus not incised laterally.

Cs.

Antennal club of male 8-jointed; of the female tvri-
jointed, but the seventh and sixth of the pedicel
are half the length of those forming the club, fifth
and fourth aculeate

Clypeus faintly carinate in the anterior part, inner
joint of club two-thirds the length of the following
JOU ice. eye. atee amen remate

Clypeus plainly carinate, inner joint of club half the
length of the following joint

. Antennal club of male 7-jointed, of the female

6-jointed ..
a3, Clypeus not sinuate in front.

Inner antennal club joint of male slightly
shorter than the one following

Inner club joint of male one-third shorter than
the one following

a*, Clypeus sinuate in front.

Clypeus emarginate, inner antennal club joint
as long as the one following

a‘. Clypeus deeply arcuately emarginate.
Inner antennal club joint half the length of the
one following

. Antennal club of male 6-jointed, inner joint of the

club of the male not quite as long as the one fol-
lowing; of the female 5-jointed, joints as in Camenta

a°. Fourth joint of pedicel laminate in the male.

Clypeal keel very strong, arcuate; body rufo-
testaceous ..

a‘. Fourth joint of pedicel aculeate. -

b?, Antennal club of male moderately long.
c*. Clypeus emarginate in front.

Black or chestnut-brown, with the head infuscate.

Inner joint of antennal club of male only

slightly shorter than the one following :
Elytra not coriaceous

(EucaMENtTa).

castanea.
transvaalensis.

(CAMENTA).

innocua,

lydenburgiana.

salisburiana.

capicola.

(HyBocaMENTA).

modesta.

nigrita.

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Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 93

Gr.

ad‘.

Ws

Elytra coriaceous

Inner joint of antennal club of male half the
length of the club ..

Inner joint of antennal club two-thirds the length
of the club

Antenne flavous .. .. .. «.

Clypeus of male with an anterior carina
Clypeus of male without even an anterior suture
Antenne black.. ..

Clypeus not emarginate in front.

. Upper side glabrous.

Head and prothorax black, elytra testaceous with
a black border and black suture; antenne of
male flavous

Upper side pubescent.

Fuscous, elytra with a fuscous band or patch on
each side; antenne of male black

Club of male very long.

Upper side black, elytra very deeply pitted. .

Bt. Clypeus incised laterally.

C*. Antennal club 5-jointed in both sexes, but with the
inner joint slightly shorter in the female than in the
male ..

Anterior part of ee very bate incised 5 te
in both sexes : on oo =

Anterior part of clypeus not deeply incised laterally
in the female ..

Ct. Antennal club 4-jointed in both sexes; body villose. .

D?. Clypeus not incised laterally.

IDE

Clypeus deeply emarginate in the centre, outer
angles somewhat rounded

Clypeus incised laterally.

Clypeus not emarginate in front, apical angles
not rounded

Clypeus incised in the centre in front; apical
angles broadly rounded

Clypeus deeply emarginate in front, apical
angles sharply dentate ..

Clypeus tri-dentate infront... .. ..

coriacea.

pusilla,

tongaatsana.
rujina.
unicolor.
inops.

simillima.

variabilis.

ptlosella.

moro.

(HEMICAMENTA).

caffrina.

tumida.

(EMPECAMENTA).

rhodesiana.

nigra.

matabelena.

zambesina.

mashona.

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At. Anterior tibie uni-dentate.
Club of male 6-jointed, fourth joint of pedicel laminate .. (ARcHOCAMENTA).

Head and median part of prothorax infuscate; elytra straw-
Golo, yaaa mali 66 65 50 45 oo oo oo ao juulhonma

CAMENTA (HUCAMENTA) CASTANEA, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., 11., p. 107.

Chestnut-brown, shining, club of antenne flavescent; head and
clypeus covered with nearly contiguous punctures, clypeus in the
shape of a broadly truncate cone with the margins raised in the male,
while in the female the anterior outer angles are rounded and the
anterior margin very slightly sinuate, the clypeal ridge is ante-median,
transverse, and plainer in the male than in the female, the 8-jointed
flabellate club of the g is equal to two-thirds of the length of the
whole head, the inner joint is two-thirds of the length of. the other
joints ; in the ? the club proper is 3-jointed and much shorter than
in the g, but the three joints preceding, 7.e., the seventh, sixth, and
fifth, are plainly laminate but decrease in length, the seventh joint
being half the length of the following one, and the sixth and fifth
decreasing in proportion; prothorax narrowed laterally in the ¢
from near the median part to the anterior angle which is strongly
produced, nearly straight thence to the posterior angle, which is
plainly rounded, moderately convex in the central part of the disk,
covered with somewhat small, round punctures divided by a smooth
interval equal in width to their own diameter; in the ? the pro-
thorax is broadly rounded and ampliated laterally and equally
narrowed towards the anterior and posterior parts; scutellum
sharply ogival, depressed, and punctulate on each side of a
median longitudinal raised line; elytra plainly wider at the base
than the basal part of the prothorax, not sinuate laterally past the
shoulders, humeral callosity very little pronounced, but slightly
more so in the 9 than in the g, moderately convex and covered
with slightly rugose, unequal punctures very closely set, and having
in the dorsal part three geminate punctulate strie the intervals of
which are slightly costulate in the ? but not in the g, the two lateral
striz or costules respectively are very faint; the propygidium is
closely punctate but covered for the greatest part by the elytra;
pygidium plainly convex in both sexes, and having an apical fringe
of long, flavescent hairs; abdomen convex, each abdominal segment
deeply punctured and with a transverse series of flavescent hairs;
pectus closely punctured and moderately densely clothed with long,
flavescent hairs; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, and with the

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inner apical spur very long; claws with a broad lobe sharply
truncate in the median part.

Length 15-17 mm.; width 74-9 mm.

I have seen two females only ; they are smaller than the male.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port St. John, East London); Natal (Durban,
Maritzburg).

CAMENTA (EHUCAMENTA) TRANSVAALENSIS, n. spec.

Male: Shape, colour, and sculpture of C. castanea, from which
it differs, however, in the clypeus being more rounded laterally in
front, the clypeal keel is slightly more raised, and the inner joint
of the antennal club is only half the length of the following one.

Length 134 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg).

CAMENTA INNOCUA, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 108.

The description of C. castanea suits completely the present
species, which is of the size of C. transvaalensis, the clypeus,
however, is more rounded laterally in the anterior part the margin
of which is slightly simuate in both sexes; the 7-jointed club of the
male is longer than the pedicel, and the inner joint is shorter by
one-third than the second; in the female the 6-jointed club is a little
shorter than the pedicel, but all the joints are of equal length, and
the fourth basal joint plainly acuminate.

Length 13-14 mm. ; width 7-74 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

CAMENTA LYDENBURGIANA, N. spec.

This species resembles very much C. innocua, but it is only half
the size, the head and prothorax are more deeply punctured, the
lateral fringe of hairs along the prothorax and the elytra is denser,
the punctures on the elytra are deeper and rougher, the costules on
the dorsal part are much more prominent, and in the male the inner
joint of the 7-jointed club is only half the length of the club, and
shorter by one-third than the joint following.

Length 10-11 mm.; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

CAMENTA CAPICOLA, nN. spec.

Male: Smaller than the other four preceding species and
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more attenuated laterally with the anterior angles much rounded,
and the anterior margin sub-circularly emarginate, the clypeal keel
is strong; the inner joint of the 7-jointed club is less than half the
length of the one following; the punctures on the head and pro-
thorax are very shallow, but those on the elytra are deeper than in
C. innocua, and the costules are quite plain; the scutellum is not
impressed and is slightly punctulate.
Length 10 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay).

CAMENTA SALISBURIANA, Nn. Spec.

Testaceous, with the head and prothorax deeper brick-red. It
very closely resembles C. capicola, the clypeus, however, is not
so arcuately emarginate in the anterior part in the male, and the
inner joint of the antennal club is as long as the one following;
in the female the fourth joint of the pedicel is quite aculeate, and
although very small, might almost be considered as part of the club;
the prothorax is ampliated and rounded laterally in the centre, the
anterior and posterior halves being there equally narrowed, and the
basal angle very broadly rounded, whereas in C. capicola the posterior
half is straight, and the basal angle distinct although blunt; the
punctures on the head, prothorax, and elytra are similar in both
species, and the costules on the latter part are equally plain.

Length 8-9 mm.; width 44-5} mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

CaMENTA (HYBOCAMENTA) MODESTA, N. spec.

This species resembles so closely C. castanea, although slightly
smaller, and C. imnocua, that but for the shape of the antennal club
of the male of C. modesta they might be easily confounded; in the
male the moderately long antennal club consists of six laminate
joints of nearly equal length, and the fourth joint of the pedicel
is plainly compressed and aculeate.

Length 14-144 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Natal (no exact locality).

CaMENTA (HYBOCAMENTA) NiGRITA, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 102.

Ablabera intermedia, Blanch., loc. cit., p. 102.
Ablabera rufipennis, Fahr., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 110.

Fuscous, testaceous or chestnut-brown, but with the head always

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more or less deeply infuscate ; club of antenne flavous in the male,
piceous-red in the female; smaller than C. modesta, but of the same
shape ; clypeus deeply emarginate in front in the male, slightly less
in the female, clypeal ridge and frontal suture distinct in both sexes;
club of antennz 6-jointed in the male, the inner joint being always
a little shorter than the one following, the fourth joint of the
pedicel is slightly aculeate, but not laminate; in the female the
club is 5-jointed, but the inner joint is only half as long as the
one following, and the fifth one of the pedicel is very sharply
acuminate ; head and prothorax closely punctulate ; elytra covered
with somewhat deep round punctures separated by a smooth
interval equal to their own diameter, the dorsal costules are plainly
visible.

Length 10-11 mm.; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Graham’s Town, Uitenhage);
Natal (Durban, Umvoti).

CAMENTA (HYBOCAMENTA) CORIACEA, N. spec.

Closely allied to C. nigrita, and similar in shape; the colour is.
light or brown chestnut, with the head somewhat infuscate, and the
punctures on the elytra are divided by irregular raised intervals,
giving the elytra a very coriaceous appearance.

Length 94 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie).

CaMENTA (HYBOCAMENTA) PALLIDULA, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 115.

Also closely allied to C. simillima, and merely differs from it by
the plainly emarginate clypeus and the less parallel shape, this last
is due to the elytra being a little ampliated laterally past the middle ;
the colouring is also different, the head is infuscate as in C. simillima,
but the prothorax and elytra are a deeper testaceous, turning to dark
chestnut-brown, or nearly black, and the punctures of the elytra
are slightly deeper; antennal club of male as in C. simillima, but
flavous instead of black.

Length 5 mm.; width 3+ mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

Fahreus in his description compares this species with Ablabera
testacea, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 114; the latter, however, belongs to the
Sericid genus, Ablaberoides.

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CaMENTA (HYBOCAMENTA) RUFINA, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 113.

Head fuscous, prothorax distinctly red; scutellum black, elytra
testaceous; antennal club flavous in the male, rufescent in the
female ; head somewhat coarsely punctured, clypeus not distinctly
emarginate in front, and with the outer angles rounded, the clypeal
keel is straight, the clypeal suture is very distinct ; antennal club of
male 6-jointed, the inner joint slightly shorter than the one follow-
ing, fourth joint of pedicel slightly aculeate, club of the female
5-jointed, but with the inner joint half as long as the others, and the
fifth joint of the pedicel sharply acuminate; prothorax deeply punc-
tured ; elytra with the dorsal costules plainly defined, punctures
round and separated by smooth intervals.

Length 8-94 mm. ; width 44-53 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

CaMENTA (HYBOCAMENTA) UNICOLOR, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 113.

Female: Closely resembling C. rufina; the colour, however, is
paler, neither the head nor the scutellum are infuscate, the clypeus
is plainly emarginate in front, the clypeal keel is slightly arcuate,
the antenne are flavous ; the punctures on the head, prothorax, and
elytra are finer and more shallow, and the costules on the elytra are
hardly noticeable.

Length 84 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

CAMENTA (HYBOCAMENTA) SIMILLIMA, Nn. spec.

Closely allied to C. rufina, but much smaller, and with the same
colouration, 7.e., infuscate head and scutellum, reddish prothorax
and testaceous elytra, paler, however, than in C. rufina ; it is a little
more parallel, the whole antennz are black instead of flavous, the
costules on the elytra are very feebly indicated, and the punctures
are proportionately deeper. I know only the male of this species.

Length 6 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban),

CAMENTA (HyBOCAMENTA) INOPS, n. spec.

Shorter and a little broader in proportion than C, rufina, and of
nearly the same size as C. sinullima, but broader ; it is easily recog-

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mised from both these species by the anterior part of the clypeus
having in the male no traces of a transverse keel, the punctures on
both the clypeus and head are broader and slightly deeper than in
C. rufina, and the anterior part of the clypeus is not emarginate ;
the head is infuscate but has a reddish spot on the clypeus, the pro-
thorax is rufescent but with an ill-defined, infuscate lateral patch ;
the scutellum is black and the elytra livid brown; the sculpture is
that of C. rufina.
Length 6-64 mm. ; width 34 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

CAMENTA (HYBOCAMENTA) TONGAATSANA, 0. spec.

Piceous, with the anterior part of the clypeus and the extreme part
of the elytra slightly piceous-red; antennal club of male flavescent,
6-jointed, with the inner joint slightly shorter than the following
joint ; clypeus emarginate in front, and covered, like the head, with
very deep round punctures separated by a distinct interval; pro-
thorax of the usual shape, the punctures fairly deep and distinct ;
scutellum plainly punctate ; elytra more ampliated laterally past the
middle in proportion to the size than the other species of that group,
the punctures are deep with the intervals somewhat rugose, the first
dorsal costule is hardly raised and the second is almost obsolete.

Length 64 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Natal (Upper Tongaats).

CAMENTA (HYBOCAMENTA) VARIABILIS, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 118.

Black, with the anterior legs and the elytra testaceous-red, but
with the suture of the elytra and a marginal band black, scutellum
black, upper side glabrous ; clypeus straight in front in both sexes
and with the clypeal keel and clypeal suture strong, deeply but not
closely punctate, antenne reddish, but with the club sub-infuscate in
the male, only moderately elongated, 6-jointed, with the inner joint
somewhat shorter than the one following, that of the female is
5-jointed as usual; prothorax covered with deep, round, non-con-
tiguous punctures ; scutellum punctulate; elytra very plainly am-
pliated laterally from about the median part, convex, covered with
deep, sub-seriate punctures, costules very plain.

Length 42-5 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Lower Tugela).

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CAMENTA (HYBOCAMENTA) PILOSELLA, Nn. spec.

Black, but with the elytra deeply infuscate, and having two juxta-
sutural testaceous bands in the posterior part, but extending at times
from the shoulders to the apex, whole upper side clothed with sub-
erect, not very dense sub-flavescent hairs; clypeus slightly sinuate in
the anterior part and with the apical angles rounded, covered like
the head with deep, but somewhat scattered punctures; prothorax
covered with similar punctures; elytra deeply and coarsely punc-
tate, the costules well defined; 6-jointed antennal club of male
long, black, like the pedicel; anterior tibize testaceous; posterior
ones more or less deeply infuscate. Female unknown.

Length 44-44 mm. ; width 24-23 mm.

Hab. Natal (Lower Tugela, Umhamli village).

CAMENTA (HYBOCAMENTA) MoRIO, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 120.

Black, very shining, glabrous above; antenne black in the male,
reddish but with the club partly infuscate in the female; clypeus
not emarginate or sinuate in front, and with the anterior angles
somewhat sharper in the male than in the female, the clypeal suture
is nearly obliterated in the former, which is also more parallel, and
the very long antennal club of which is 6-jointed, and the fourth
joint of the pedicel briefly laminate, that of the female is 5-jointed ;
the shape and sculpture are the same as in C. pilosella ; the anterior
tibize are also testaceous.

Length 33-5 mm.; width 2-34 mm.

Hab. Natal (Estcourt, Frere); Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lyden-
burg).

CAMENTA (HEMICAMENTA) CAFFRINA, Nn. spec.

Red, with the head slightly infuscate in the male, black in the
female the prothorax of which is also infuscate laterally, but occa-
sionally totally piceous ; the male is more elongated and less convex
than the female, the clypeus is more deeply incised laterally and
the two anterior angles are very sharp and project also more than in
the female, the antennal club is 5-jointed in both sexes with the
inner joint a little shorter than the one following, and the fifth joint
of the pedicel is compressed and slightly acuminate ; the punctuation
of the head is very close, but not that of the prothorax ; the costules
of the elytra are very plain and the punctures sub-seriate.

Length 74-104 mm. ; width 43-53 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town, Uitenhage).

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CAMENTA (HEMICAMENTA) TUMIDA, n. spec.

This species, the male of which is unknown to me, but will prob-
ably prove to be much more elongated, will be easily recognised by
its rotund facies, which is much more convex than that of the female
of C. caffrina. Head and prothorax piceous, elytra chestnut-brown;
clypeus incised laterally past the median part, and narrowed thence
to the sharp anterior angles, which, however, do not project, faintly
bi-sinuate in the anterior margin, nearly smooth in front, but deeply
punctured between the clypeal keel and the suture, head covered
with nearly contiguous round punctures ; prothorax with sub-con-
tiguous round punctures, outer margins serrulate in the posterior
parts; elytra very convex, with the intervals between the very
plainly raised costules filled with equi-distant, round, deep punctures.

Length 11-124 mm. ; width 64-7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Albany, Seymour).

CAMENTA (EMPECAMENTA) RHODESIANA, h. spec.

Chestnut-red, clothed on the upper side with a somewhat dense,
erect, light fulvous pubescence; anterior part of the head ferrugi-
nous, clypeus not incised and narrowed laterally, but very deeply
notched in the anterior part the angles of which are much rounded,
the clypeal keel is sinuate and highly raised, the clypeal suture is
almost obliterated, the anterior part of the clypeus is smooth, the
posterior and also the head roughly foveate ; the 4-jointed antennal
club of the male is very long, and the joints equal, the sixth joint of
the pedicel is compressed, and the three preceding it very short and
equal in length; prothorax short and very diagonally ampliated
laterally from the anterior to the median part, somewhat deeply and
closely punctured, each puncture bearing a hair; elytra of the
normal shape but without any traces of costule, deeply punctured,
each puncture divided by a smooth space equal to their diameter and
each bearing a hair.

Female unknown. This species is closely allied to HL. sierra leonis,
Brsk., the type of which is a female, but the prothorax slopes more
laterally from the anterior angle to the median part.

Length 10 mm.; width 53 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

CAMENTA (EMPECAMENTA) NIGRA, Arrow,
Ann. & Magaz. Nat. Hist., Ser. 7, vol. ix., 1902, p. 95.

Black, shining, clothed with an erect, sub-flavescent pubescence,
tarsi piceous, head and clypeus deeply and closely punctured, the

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latter is plainly incised laterally and narrowed thence to the anterior
angles which are sharp but not projecting in the male, the only sex
I know, and the anterior, reflexed margin is slightly bi-sinuate, there
is a transverse impressed line in the anterior part reaching from one
end of the lateral incision to the other, but neither clypeal keel nor
clypeal suture; the 4-jointed antennal club is longer than the
pedicel the two ultimate joints of which are very small and com-
pressed, and the club, the four joints of which are of almost equal
length, is flavescent; prothorax deeply punctate, the punctures
round, equi-distant, and separated by a smooth interval nearly equal
in width to their own diameter ; elytra very coarsely punctured with
the intervals strongly coriaceous, the two dorsal costules very faint.

Length 64-7 mm.; width 31-33 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

CAMENTA (HMPECAMENTA) MATABELENA, N. spec.

Black, and covered like C. nigra with an erect flavescent pubes-
cence ; it is, however, more robust, and the shape of the clypeus is
different, being incised laterally and narrowed towards the anterior
part as in C. wigra, but the apical angles are very broadly rounded,
and the median part deeply and broadly notched and very plainly
reflexed in both sexes, the transverse clypeal keel is quite distinct,
and the clypeal suture is indicated in the male by a fringe of hairs,
but is visible in the female, the pubescence is denser and longer,
especially on the head and prothorax; the elytra are deeply punc-
tured, but not coriaceous ; the antennal club of the male is slightly
shorter than the pedicel, and therefore not as long as in C. mgra,
and the genital armature of the male is also different.

Length 83-9 mm.; width 44-42 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo).

CAMENTA (HMPECAMENTA) ZAMBESINA, Nn. spec.

Black, with the elytra light chestnut, clothed with a flavescent
pubescence, very long and villose on the head and _ prothorax ;
clypeus incised laterally with the angles of the incision very sharp,
narrowed and parallel thence to the anterior angle which is strongly
and sharply produced and reflexed, the anterior margin being thus
arcuately emarginate, the keel and clypeal suture have disappeared
in the male, the only sex I know, but the latter can be detected in
the shape of a slight transverse elevation ; the head and the posterior
part of the clypeus are closely punctured, the prothorax moderately
so, and the punctures on the elytra are equi-distant, deep but with

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smooth intervals, and bear each a short hair, the two dorsal costules
are very faint; the 4-jointed club is not quite the length of the
pedicel, and the whole antenne are rufo-flavescent.

Length 64-74 mm. ; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls, Sebakwe).

CAMENTA (HMPECAMENTA) MASHONA, N. spec.

Testaceous, with the head and prothorax brick-red, moderately
shining, and clothed all over with erect, somewhat densely set, long,
flavescent hairs; clypeus narrowed laterally below the strongly
angular notch, plainly tri-dentate in front owing to there being a
conspicuous median tooth on the anterior margin and the two outer
angles being sharply reflexed and acute; there is a strongly de-
veloped transverse bi-sinuate keel, and the clypeal suture is deep,
the head and the posterior half of the clypeus are very coarsely
punctate, and the anterior part is somewhat excavate; prothorax
ampliated laterally, rounded there past the median part and with
both angles broadly rounded, covered with somewhat irregular, deep,
moderately closely set punctures ; scutellum punctate in the centre ;
elytra sub-cylindrical, somewhat elongated, without traces of cos-
tules, deeply punctate ; pygidium, abdominal segments, and pectus
pubescent, anterior tibiz bi-dentate, antennal club of male 4-jointed.

Owing to the presence of the strong clypeal keel and deep suture,
as well as the narrowed anterior part of the clypeus, this species
might be mistaken for a Microcamenta. But the gene are not
greatly developed, and the claws are those of Camenta ; the antennal
club of the male is 4- instead of 7-jointed.

Length 8-84 mm.; width 44-44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

EMPECAMENTA BOROMENS!S, Brancs.,
Jahr. Ver. Trenes., xvi., 1897, p. 113, pl. iv., fig. 4.

‘“‘HKlongate, yellowish, with flavid hairs, roughly and densely
punctate on the upper side; clypeus narrowed at apex, slightly
emarginate laterally before the apex, with a foveate impression
towards the rounded anterior angles; antenne testaceous ; head and
prothorax darker than the elytra ; thorax transverse, longer by one-
half than broad, rounded laterally past the middle, narrowed in the
anterior part, the fore margin straight, the posterior broadly rounded,
dorsal part with hairs shorter than those on the margins; elytra not
wider at the base than the prothorax, gradually ampliated behind,
rounded and declivous at apex, two and a half times as long as the

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prothorax, slightly impressed inwardly towards the shoulders ;
pygidium broadly triangular, rounded at apex, densely punctate but
more finely than on the elytra; more sparingly hairy underneath ;
femora and knees infuscate; anterior tibie bi-dentate, the apical
tooth the longest but not strongly curved.

Length 6-5-7 mm.; width 3-2-4 mm.

Hab. Zambesi River (Boroma).”’

This species might prove to be a close ally of, if not identical with,
FH. matabelena.

CAMENTA (? ARCHOCAMENTA) PILosA, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 116.

Male: This species, which resembles more in general facies an
Ablabera than a Camenta, is a small insect with infusecate or nearly
black head, the prothorax is also deeply infuscate in the anterior
part, but has a broad, brick-red band near the basal part, the
scutellum is black, the elytra almost stramineous but with a lateral
fuscous band; the clypeus is gradually narrowed laterally, with the
angles moderately rounded, and the anterior part slightly sinuate in
the centre, the clypeal keel is sharp and the frontal suture plain, and
it is more deeply punctured than the head ; prothorax of the normal
shape, not deeply punctulate and fringed laterally with long, pallid,
but not densely set hairs; scutellum feebly punctulate; elytra with
only the first dorsal costule distinct, deeply punctured and somewhat
coriaceous especially along the fuscous border; the antennal club of
the male is 6-jointed, and the fourth basal joint is plainly laminate
and acuminate, but short; the anterior tibiae have only an apical
outer tooth.

Length 5 mm.; width 23 mm.

According to Brenske the characteristics of Archocamenta are a
5-jointed antennal club in the male and uni-dentate anterior tibia.
C. pilosa has the latter, but the antennal club is plainly 6-jointed.

Hab. Mozambique (Rikatla).

CAMENTA VENTRICOSA, Bohem.,
Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Férh., 1860, p. 116.

““Ovate, convex, piceous-black, shining, antenne and palpi testa-
ceous ; abdomen obscurely ferruginous; head closely punctate,
transversely carinate before the median part; prothorax very finely
and moderately closely punctate ; elytra not deeply, yet moderately
closely punctate, but more lightly and sparingly in the posterior
than in the anterior part, and having on each side two smooth, not

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raised dorsal carine ; pygidium not deeply punctate, and having a
moderately wide transverse smooth area.

Var. a. testaceous-red, head black, legs piceous.

Length 93 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab, In the neighbourhood of Lake N’Gami.”

I have seen the type only of this species. From my notes I find
that it is almost twice as large as Oocamenta rufiventris, and is there-
fore very short and stout, the clypeus is short, very deeply incised in
front in the anterior margin, slightly constricted laterally, the angles
of the stricture being dentate, and the transverse carinule is a clypeal
one. I did not at the time look at the number of antennal joints,
but it is very doubtful if this species belongs to Camenta.

PERICAMENTA, n. gen.

This genus differs from Camenta merely in the number of antennal
joints, which is nine instead of ten. In the male, the only sex
known to me, the club is 5-jointed, the inner joint being only slightly
shorter than the one following, the fourth joint of the pedicel is
compressed and acuminate, and the third one moderately long; the
shape of the clypeus, and also the general facies, is that of Camenta
imnocua or C. nigrita.

PERICAMENTA PAUPERCULA, Nn. Spec.

Dark chestnut-brown, with the head and prothorax fuscous,
antenne rufescent, legs piceous ; clypeus straight laterally, slightly
narrower at the apex than at the base, anterior angles moderately
rounded, anterior margin sinuate, the clypeal carina looks more like
a suture, being hardly raised; antennz 9-jointed in the male, the
club 5-jointed with the inner joint slightly shorter than the one
following, and the fourth joint of the pedicel short and compressed ;
the head and prothorax are covered with punctures of the same
size, the elongate elytra are somewhat deeply punctured with the
intervals slightly coriaceous, and the costules are quite visible.

Length 10 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

OOCAMENTA, n. gen.

Buccal organs of Camenta, the number of antennal joints is, how-
ever, 10 in the male with a 6- or 7-jointed club the joints of which
are equal in length, and of nine in the female, in which the club is
4-jointed and the joints also equal in length; the clypeus is not

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incised laterally, and has the anterior keel and the frontal suture of
Camenta, but the gene are considerably developed and _ project
beyond the eyes, the head is somewhat declivous, and the broadly
ampliated, convex elytra give to the species included in this genus the
appearance of a T'rochalus ; the anterior tibiz are strongly bi-dentate
outwardly, the claws are those of Camenta, the abdominal segments
are not free although the sutural line is deep, but the hind femora
are nearly as laminate as in Trochalus, and the short hind tibize are
also short, broad, and although bi-dentate on the upper edge, have
no oblique ridge on the outer side.

Key to the Species.

A?. Antennal club of male 6-, of the female 4-jointed .. .. (OocAmeENTA).
Body short, ampliato-ovate; prothorax and elytra faintly
IOUNATIN 66 GG co uo 66 do G0 6 96 50 ca UjpieMiires.

A', Antennal club of male 7-, of the female 4-jointed .. .. (PSEUDOCAMENTA).

Body less ampliato-ovate ; prothorax and elytra strongly
puUmctates ch). eta fare) Sere We omen ten eet g er MMO ite

OOCAMENTA RUFIVENTRIS, Burm.
Camenta rufiventris, Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1855, p. 146.

Head, prothorax, and scutellum black, very shining; elytra as
black as the prothorax, or having on each side a large basal reddish
patch which often invades the whole surface, abdomen reddish,
pectus piceous-red ; antennz occasionally brownish in the male, but
almost always flavescent in the female, the 10-jointed antennz
of the male have a 6-jointed club longer than the pedicel the fifth
joint of which is plainly angular at the base, the antenne are
9-jointed in the female, and the 4-jointed club is as long as the
pedicel the fourth joint of which is aculeate, and the fourth and
third are almost fused; the clypeal keel and suture are very plain,
and the punctures of the whole head are moderately closely set; the
short, convex prothorax is very faintly aciculate in the male, but
finely punctate in the female, except in the median posterior part ;
elytra short, ampliato-ovate, convex and having somewhat seriate
rows of shallow punctures without any traces of costules; pygidial
part deeply and closely punctate ; abdominal segments weakly punce-
tulate, pectus sparsely hairy.

Length 54-74 mm. ; width 4-5 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo, Victoria Falls, Enkeldoorn,
Sebakwe) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg).

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OocAMENTA (PSEUDOCAMENTA) TRANSVAALIA, n. spec.

Black, with the abdomen red, piceous-red, or testaceous-red, the
elytra, however, are often testaceous and more or less broadly infus-
cate laterally ; the antenne are flavous in both sexes, the 10-jointed
ones of the male have a long 7-jointed club the inner joint of which
is slightly shorter than the one following, the 9-jointed antenne of
the female have a 4-jointed, somewhat elongated club the joints of
which are of equal length; the head and clypeus have the same
shape as C. rufiventris, the gene are equally produced, the emargi-
nation of the anterior part, the keel, and the suture are identical, the
body, however, is much less ampliato-ovate, although distinctly
convex in the hind part of the elytra, the punctures are deeper and
very plain all over, and the costules of the elytra are visible.

Length 64 mm. ; width 34-32 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg, Pretoria, Lydenburg).

Gen. DIPLOTROPIS, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 104.

Mentum plainly amplated but not deeply constricted laterally
towards the anterior part the angles of which are obliquely truncate
but not angular, and the anterior margin plainly sinuate, inner face
very convex and not visibly impressed in the anterior part, last joint
of labial palpi ovato-acuminate ; maxille and palpi as in Ablabera
and Camenta, but the former have five teeth only; clypeus semi-
circular but incised laterally and deeply notched in the anterior part
with the margins sharp and reflexed, it has an anterior arcuate ridge
in the anterior part and another one at the junction with the fore-
head, and the gene are greatly developed; the antennz are 10-
jointed, and in the two species known the antennal club is long and
7-jointed ; the general facies is that of Camenta, the claws also being
alike, but it is differentiated by having two clypeal keels instead of a
clypeal keel and a frontal suture.

Key to the Species.

Clypeus deeply emarginate in the anterior part, prothorax and elytra
fringed with dense hairs; inner joint of club of male as long as the one
Pe Milas itt PM RNS i cats lob iotey cisq tise i neys cine 2-2) sj) MAGTING.

Clypeus deeply and narrowly notched in the anterior part; prothorax
and elytra with seriate, remote hairs; inner joint of club of male one-
fourth the length of the one following... .. .. .. .2 «+ ++ «+ Castanea.

108 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou. xt.

DIPLOTROPIS NIGRINA, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., 1., p. 105.

Diplotropis rufina, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 106.

Piceous, with the posterior part of the elytra reddish-brown,
antenne of the male yellow, clypeus semi-circular, very slightly
notched near the arcuate clypeal carina and very broadly rounded
thence to a deep median emargination, the frontal keel is sharp, the
rounded gen are very distinct and project much beyond the eyes,
both head and clypeus are covered with deep but not closely set
punctures ; antennal club of male very long, 7-jointed, all the joints
of equal length ; prothorax convex, deeply but not closely punctured,
fringed laterally with somewhat long, sub-fulvous hairs ; elytra sub-
parallel, fringed laterally with long, dense hairs, deeply punctate,
the punctures round and the intervals plane, the two dorsal costules
visible; pygidium, abdomen, and femora with a somewhat long
pubescence. Female unknown.

Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

DIPLOTROPIS CASTANEA, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffr., 11., p. 106.

Head and prothorax piceous, elytra piceous turning occasionally
to dark brown; clypeus shaped like that of C. nzgrina, but much
more deeply cleft in the centre and bi-lobate on that account, this
median incision does not, however, reach the strongly arcuate clypeal
suture, the genz project conspicuously, the clypeal carina is very
sharp, the clypeus is deeply punctate, and the head and gene sub-
rugose ; antenne reddish, club long, 7-jomted, but with the inner
joint only one-fourth as long as the others; prothorax and elytra
with a fringe of spaced, seriate hairs, the former is deeply but not
closely punctured, the punctures are much deeper and slightly more
closely set on the elytra, the pygidium, abdomen, and pectus are
pubescent. Female unknown.

Length 8 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Natal (Maritzburg).

PARACAMENTA, n. gen.

Mentum of Tulbaghia, but the labial palpi are inserted at a short
distance from the anterior angles, and the apical joint is swollen
outwardly; jaws of Camenta and Ablabera; clypeus longer or as
long as the head, declivous, straight laterally from near the base to

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about half the length, and thence strongly arcuate towards the apex,
the anterior margin is straight, strongly reflexed, and the anterior
part is somewhat hollowed, very little or not at all impunctate, and
the deeply punctate posterior part is, with one exception (P. calva),
clothed with long erect hairs, it is separated from the head by an
arcuate suture reaching the anterior angles of the eyes which are
incised by a narrow canthus, but in one species (P. bohemani) there
is, in addition to the suture, a plain median keel; antennx 10-jointed
in the male, the only sex known, the long club is 7-jointed; pro-
thorax somewhat short, more attenuated laterally in the anterior
than in the posterior part, and with both the anterior and posterior
angles obtuse, not much convex, and fringed laterally with long
hairs ; elytra slightly ampliated laterally in the posterior part, some-
what depressed and covering the propygidium, faintly costulate and
fringed laterally with long hairs; pygidium convex, drawn inwards ;
abdominal segments seemingly free or partly free ; legs and claws of
Camenta, from which this genus differs mainly by the hollowed
clypeus, the drawn-in pygidium, the plainly more free abdominal
segments, and the rounded anterior angles of the prothorax.

Key to the Species.

A. Third joint of the pedicel of antenne shorter than the two basal
ones taken together.

B?, Third joint of pedicel inwardly triangular.
a’. Clypeus with a median transverse keel.
Body testaceous-red .. .. ws «2 «1 «» «s «- bohemant.
a. Clypeus without a median keel.
Upper part of body chestnut-brown to 0b Ge we (Op NteiTe

Body testaceous, prothorax with a median, and elytra
with a sutural broad black band .. .. .. .. «. suturalis.

B'. Third joint of pedicel sharply aculeate at the base.
Head black, prothorax red; elytra straw-colour.. .. .. lydenburgiana.

A. Third joint of the pedicel of antenne as long as the two basal
ones taken together.

B. Third joint of pedicel slightly angular inwardly in the
middle.

Upper part of clypeus densely hairy ; inner joint of antennal
club as long as the one following .. ... .. «. «. + verticalis.

Upper part of clypeus not hairy; inner joint of antennal
club shorter than the one following .. .. .. +. «+ calva.

110 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou XHI.

PARACAMENTA BOHEMANT, Brensk.,
Berl. Entom. Zeit., 1897, p. 339.

Testaceous-red, with the head, but not the clypeus, slightly
fuscous; the clypeus is slightly sinuate laterally near the base,
parallel for half the length, slightly angular near the rounded
lateral part, and has a transverse median keel situated at about one-
third of the length, the space below this keel is punctulate but not
closely so, and there is a median smooth space, but the space
between this keel and the suture is as closely punctured as the
head itself, and clothed with somewhat sparse erect hairs forming
a denser fringe along the keel, antennal club of male long, curved,
the inner joint slightly shorter than the one following, eyes large,
strongly bulging; prothorax fringed laterally and also on the sides
of the anterior margin with long, sub-fulvous hairs, covered with
fine, round punctures separated by an interval equal to their own
diameter, hairy in the basal part above the scutellum which is finely
punctulate in the centre; elytra fringed laterally with somewhat
dense long hairs, slightly ampliated from beyond the humeral part,
but not appreciably sinuate, covered with deep, round punctures
separated by smooth intervals slightly broader in diameter than the
punctures themselves, the two dorsal costules are very plain on each
side, and the lateral ones are distinct; pygidium vaguely punctate
and with a fringe of long hairs along the margin; abdominal segments
with a fringe of somewhat setulose hairs, femora and pectus densely
hairy.

Length 12 mm.; width 6} mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Seymour).

PARACAMENTA CONSPICUA, Nl. Spec.

Chestnut-brown, head very slightly infuscate, palpi and antenne
rufescent; clypeus in nowise angular laterally, but as usual slightly
narrowed near the base, anterior margin straight in the median part,
the anterior part of the clypeus is partly hollowed, partly declivous,
and almost impunctate, but the still more abrupt anterior part is
scrobiculato-punctate, each puncture bearing a long, erect, almost
bristle-like flavescent hair, head plane, closely punctulate, hairless ;
prothorax finely punctured but with the punctures separated by a
smooth interval of the same width as their diameter, broadly sinuate
on each side at the base, fringed with long hairs; scutellum impunc-
tate; elytra deeply punctured with the narrow intervals slightly
raised in the posterior part, the dorsal costules are plainly visible,

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and the margins fringed with dense, long hairs; pygidium closely
punctulate ; abdomen hairy, pectus and femora densely hairy.
Length 12 mm.; width 6 mm.
Hab. Transvaal (no exact locality).

PARACAMENTA SUTURALIS, nN. spec.

Testaceous, with the posterior part of the clypeus, the head, the
median discoidal part of the prothorax, and a broad sutural band
black ; antenne rufescent; build and sculpture of P. conspicua, but
without a fringe of long hairs along the sides of the prothorax
and elytra; the clypeus is of the same shape as in P. conspicua,
and the posterior part is equally scabroso-punctate, but the hairs
there are not so dense, the under side is, however, as hairy.

Length 104 mm.; width 5% mm.

Hab. Natal (Hilton Road).

PARACAMENTA LYDENBURGIANA, 0. spec.

Head and under side fuscous, prothorax reddish ; elytra almost
straw-colour, antenne rufescent; anterior part of the clypeus nearly
impunctate, broadly excavate, posterior part punctate and _ hairy,
head punctulate; club of antennz very long, joints equally long,
third joint of pedicel aculeate at the base; prothorax of the normal
shape, but a little more elongate than usual, and with a fringe of
long but not dense flavescent hairs; elytra cylindrical, punctate,
costules evanescent, lateral fringe of hairs not dense; under side
hairy.

Length 8 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

PARACAMENTA VERTICALIS, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 109.

Brick-red, somewhat shining and fringed along the prothorax and
the elytra with very long, dense flavescent hairs; clypeus shaped as
in the two preceding species, but the hollowed anterior part is very
narrow, and the long, erect hairs spring from nearer the anterior
margin, and are very long; the shape and sculpture of the elytra
is as in the preceding species and quite as deep in proportion to the
size of the insect; the abdomen and femora are hairy, and the
pectus densely so; the antennal club is very long, and all the joints
are equal in the male, the third joint of the pedicel is long and
somewhat aculeate inwardly in the median part.

Length 74 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab, Transvaal (Lydenburg).

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PARACAMENTA CALVA, 0. spec.

A little smaller than P. verticalis, and more reddish; the clypeus
is of the same shape but there is a broader smooth space in the
anterior part, the posterior is punctate but not scabrose and
without erect hairs; the prothorax and the elytra are similar in
shape and sculpture, but are fringed laterally with short, some-
what remote hairs; the under side is equally hairy; the inner
joint of the antennal club is a little shorter than the one following ;
the third joint of the pedicel is long and somewhat aculeate inwardly
in the median part.

Length 6-7 mm.; width 3-35 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg).

IDAICAMENTA, n. gen.

Mentum of Camenta, maxille with five teeth only, as in Diplo-
bothris, three superposed ones in the upper and two in the inner side,
last joint of maxillary palpi long and very plainly fusiform ; clypeus
shorter than the head and declivous, parallel laterally, deeply incised,
at two-thirds of the length, much narrowed thence, but still parallel,
as far as the very slightly rounded apical angles, anterior edge
broadly emarginate, strongly recurved somewhat in the manner
of a Trochalus, hollowed in the anterior part, the hollowness being
bounded by an impressed line, sub-vertical above that line as far as
the median keel which is sub-arcuate and reaches from side to side,
plainly declivous thence to second arcuate keel separating it from
the head which is plane, the gene are strongly developed, but
oblique and not rounded or ampliated in front of the eyes,
the antennze are 10-jointed in the male, the only sex known,
the 10-jointed club is extremely long, and curved, the third joint
of the pedicel long and aculeate inwardly near the base; facies,
sculpture, and build of Psewdocamenta, of which it has also the
claws, the drawn-in pygidium, and the free or nearly free abdominal
segments, but from which it differs by the altogether different shape
of the clypeus, which resembles that of a Trochalidous melolonthid.

IDEHCAMENTA JUCUNDA, n. spec.

Pale testaceous or testaceous-red, antennex flavous; the hollowed
and declivous parts of the clypeus is almost impunctate, but the space
between the two keels and the head is covered with deep, closely set,
but not quite contiguous punctures; joints of the club equal, as
long as the prothorax, the third one of the pedicel with a plain

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pencil of hairs at the aculeate part; prothorax covered with some-
what closely set round punctures; scutellum impunctate ; elytra
not sinuate laterally, very slightly ampliated there past the median
part, not convex except in the posterior, deeply and somewhat
closely punctured, and with the costules very plain; pygidium and
abdomen as deeply and quite as closely punctured as the elytra,
the pubescence on the latter fairly long, and very long and dense
on the pectus and on the femora.

Length 11-13 mm.; width 6-7 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban); Transvaal (Barberton, Rustenburg),
Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

LERIBH, n. gen.

Mentum deeply foveate, sparingly villose, gradually and roundly
ampliated from the base to the ligular part which is fused with the
mentum, and broadly and deeply emarginate in front, the labial
palpi are inserted on the outer face of the mentum, close to the
sides, basal joint very small, nearly sunk into the cavity, last one
longer than the two, swollen outwardly ; maxille robust, concave,
without any traces of inner lobe, the upper margin is strongly
angular outwardly and has five sharp teeth arranged in a row, the
maxillary palpi are inserted quite close to the projecting upper angle
of the maxille, the two intermediate joints are sub-moniliform, and
the apical one which is longer than the other three taken together
is thickly fusiform; clypeus parallel, truncate in front and reflexed,
plainly grooved transversely before the median part, and separated
from the head by a frontal suture, the anterior vertical part of the
clypeus is triangular, and there are no traces of a labrum, the head
is as long as the clypeus, and has no ridge on the vertex, the eyes
have no superciliary keel; in the male the antenne are 10-jointed,
the pedicel consists of four joints, the second of which is thickly
moniliform, the third is as long as the first, the fourth is compressed,
sharply aculeate inwardly, and is about one-sixth as long as those
forming the 6-jointed club which is longer than the pedicel; pro-
thorax ampliated laterally in the median part, and with the posterior
angles rounded, not pubescent along the anterior margin; elytra
sub-cylindrical, not covering the propygidium; pygidium convex,
semicircular, slightly drawn forwards, abdominal segments con-
tractile, basal one nearly completely hidden by the coxe; all
femora robust; anterior tibia bi-dentate outwardly and with an
inner spur, tarsi moderately long and with the joints slightly
dilated at apex, and glabrous underneath, claws long, slender,

8

114 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou. X11.

cleft underneath past the median part, the lower tooth being
very much shorter than the upper; apical spurs of posterior tibiz
sharp ; anterior cox strongly conical.

This genus plainly connects the Pachypodini with the Sericine,
and but for the position of the spurs of the bind tibie might have
been included in the Clavipalpes of Lacordaire.

LERIBE VESCA, 0. spec.

Black, shining; elytra and legs piceous-black; head deeply and
somewhat coarsely punctured, clypeus truncate in front, straight
laterally with the angles slightly oblique, impunctate above the
anterior impressed transverse line which bear a few erect sete,
but punctate thence to the frontal suture; prothorax ampliated and
rounded laterally slightly past the median part, fringed laterally
with sete, but not pubescent along the anterior or posterior
margins, not much convex, but more dehiscent in the anterior
part, and covered with deep, somewhat closely set punctures ;
scutellum longer than broad, rounded at the apex, depressed ;
elytra almost twice as long as the prothorax, covering the half
of the propygidium, deeply and coarsely seriato-punctate, faintly
bi- or tri-costulate in the dorsal part, glabrous but having a fringe
of long sub-fulvous sete; pygidium convex, semicircular at apex,
fringed there with a row of long sete, as broadly and deeply pitted
as on the elytra; abdominal segments and pectus with long hairs
in the seriate punctures; all femora thick, anterior tibize bi-dentate
outwardly and with an inner spur, legs hairy; tarsi slightly longer
than the tibize, joints lightly nodose at apex, claws long and very
slender, slightly cleft underneath.

Length 5 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Natal (Ulundi).

The shape of the clypeus is exactly the same as in Onocheta
porcata of the Pachypodid Tribe of the Melolonthine.

Susp-Famiry MELOLONTHIN A.

Body with scales or soft hairs; labrum seldom absent; ligula
fused with the mentum, sinuate or emarginate in front; maxille
either edentate, very obtusely dentate or with robust teeth ; number
of antennal joints variable, that of the club also variable in the male,
and usually 3-jointed in the female (Sparrmannia Macrophylla ex-
cepted); abdominal segments free, partially free, imbricated or
fused ; hind tibize with two spurs set on side of the basal joint, near
or at the inner apical angle.

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(This Sub-Family can be divided into two sections.)

I. Abdominal segments free or partly free.

Maxille without any inner teeth... .. .. .. «2 .. «. «. Pachypodini.

II. Abdominal segments fused together.
Maxille with strong inner teeth.
Antennal club 7-jointed in both sexes... .. .. 0... 00. we) ee) Sparrmannini.

Antennal club 3-jointed in the female... .. .. .. .. «.. «. Melolonthini.

HRB HeE AO Eber O DENTE

*

Body without scales or squamose hairs,* in most cases densely
hairy on the pectus and along the base of the prothorax; ligula
fused with the mentum, both either broad or reduced to a mere
stem-like process, maxillee edentate, but with both lobes occasionally
sharp, labial palpi inserted either laterally or on the outer face of the
mentum, basal joint occasionally obliterated ; antenna: 8-10-jointed,
number of club joints variable in both sexes, clypeus either slightly
blunt in front with the angles rounded, parabolic or semicircular
with the apical margin always strongly reflexed, vertical or slanting
backwards in front; eyes always large, briefly divided by a short
canthus, frontal part keeled laterally or not and having often a trans-
verse prominence or keel along the vertex ; prothorax short, sloping
in front; scutellum cordate ; elytra depressed on the dorsal part,
seldom plainly costulate or striate and with a humeral callus, but no
apical one; abdomen either moderately convex or strongly com-
pressed laterally in the male; the segments free or deeply imbricated,
the ultimate one provided with a broadly extensible membranaceous
hinge; anterior coxe sub-vertical for at least one-third of their
length, and conical at apex; hind femora swollen; hind tibie
broadly dilated ; episterna broad and separated by a sinuose line,
often carinated in the upper part, from the epimera which are nearly
equally broad.

The non-soldered segments of the abdomen and the edentate or
nearly edentate maxille are really the only characters distinguishing
this Tribe from the Melolonthim. Many of the characters enume-
rated above need, however, some explanation, in so far that the
South African species and genera are concerned. The shape of the
upper lobe (galea) of the maxillee varies considerably: it is either
hollow, compressed, arcuate or laminate, denticulate or serrulate,

* Onocheta is an exception, it has squamose hairs on the intervals of the elytra.

116 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [Vvou. XI.

and even completely obliterated, it never has any teeth inwardly ;
the inner lobe is always visible, which is not the case in the Serzcine
or Melolonthini, and is either sharp or equal in length to the upper
lobe, in which case it gives to the maxilla a tri-cornered appearance,
and even when the galea is quite obliterated it is represented by a
few more or less rigid sete. It is plain from the structure of the
maxilla, and also of the mandibles, that the males do not take much
solid food, or in many cases any at all, unless they have suctorial
habits.

The maxillary palpi are either inserted laterally or on the outer
part of the mentum which is never plainly separated from the labial
or ligular part. It is, however, somewhat difficult to decide when
the insertion is lateral or not, because the condyle, which is often
very deep and wide, impinges often more on the edge of the outer
face than on the lateral side, this insertion may then be said to be
juxta-lateral, but it happens also that the basal labial joints are
inserted on the narrowed outer face in such a way that they are
either very close to each other or quite contiguous, this character
coincides with an extremely narrowed mentum. The number of
joints of these labial palpi is normally three, but in some cases
(Clitopa, Pseustophylla) the basal one has disappeared or is so deeply
buried in the condyle as to be invisible, or the second and third are
fused together (Apezopsis), the condyle is very oblique, very broad,
and with such a carinate outer edge as to often form a sharp angle at
the junction of the mentum with the hgular part; the labial palpi are
long, especially the apical one; the clypeus is strongly vertical and
broad in the anterior part, the anterior margin is strongly reflexed,
and the upper anterior part often concave or depressed ; the frontal
part is either carinate laterally above the eyes, in which case this pecu-
liarity coincides with the presence of a transverse keel or prominence
on the vertex (Cyclomera, Paraclitopa, Periclitopa, Pseustophylla) or
not; the labrum is usually very distinct, but is obliterated in two
genera (Achelyna, Pleistophylla) ; the eyes are always large and very
briefly divided in front by a short canthus, they show always less on
the upper than on the under side, where they are sometimes so
enormously enlarged that the mentum has been correspondingly
narrowed (T'richinopus, Pseudachloa, &e.); the antennz are 8—10-
jointed, in the male the joints of the club vary in number from 8 to
3, and in the females of the South African species known to me from
5 to 3, this club is always greatly developed in the male, being some-
times more than three times the length of the pedicel the two last
joints of which are generally compressed and acuminate or laminate,
and the basal joint is in the shape of an elongated club, only in one

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genus is the third joint plainly longer than the fourth (Clitopa), the
club itself is either laminate, parallel, or spatuliform in the male, and
ovate or ovato-ovate in the female; pygidium either vertical, sloping
slightly backwards, or strongly drawn forwards ; abdominal segments
plainly not soldered together but in many species provided between
the two ultimate segments with a distensible membrane, which
would seem to imply that the other segments are only partially
free ;** anterior tibize bi- or tri-dentate, and with or without an inner
spur, hind ones triangularly dilated towards the apex, spurs long,
sub-contiguous, either sharp in the male or compressed and broadly
dilated in the female, tarsi moderately long, or long, occasionally
ciliate.

With the exception of Clitopa precalva, little is known of the
habits of the South African species. In the case of the former, how-
ever, they are those of certain Algerian species of Rhizotrogus, the
females are wingless, the eyes considerably reduced, and they do
not seem to leave the ground; the eyes are, however, not much
inferior in size in the two females of Agostetha and Macrophylla
which I have seen, nor are they without wings. I suspect that
several species will, however, prove to have apterous females.

This Tribe is represented in South Africa by forty-eight species
representing twenty-four genera, which, with the exception of one
(Clitopa), seems restricted to the South African area, but five kindred
genera, including each one species, are recorded from Sansibar and
British and German East Africa. I expect, however, that this
number will be considerably increased. On the whole, the South
African genera and species are fairly homogeneous, and merge
insensibly into one another, in spite of the melolonthidous appear-
ance of Agostetha, Macrophylla, or Onocheta. Lacordaire founded
for the reception of these genera a Sub-Tribe of Melolonthine, the
Macrophyllides, thus separating them from his Sub-Tribe Pachy-
podides, and associating them with Sparrmaniia and Sebaris. He is
evidently in error, because not only the species of these two genera
have maxille very strongly dentate inwardly; but the abdominal
segments are very plainly fused together, and not “non soudés
ensemble,’ as lLacordaire states, also because the maxille of
Atgostetha, Macrophylla, &c., cannot be said to have a dentate
external lobe. Sparrmannia and Sebaris belong to the Melolonthin,
but form a distinct link with the South African Pachypodini, of
which they have the livery, just as Agostetha, which, except for its
livery, so closely resemble in general facies and shape of clypeus

* This membrane is also found in the genus Schizonycha and allied forms of
Melolonthine, in which the segments are quite fused.

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Leribe of the Sub-Family Srmricine, connects the latter with the
Pachypodini. Owing to the obliteration of the labrum the genera
Achelyna and Pleistophylla, are also connected with the Sericine, but
are differentiated by the mode of insertion of the spurs of the hind
tibiae as well as by their Pachypodinous appearance.

Key to the Genera.
A?. Labial palpi inserted laterally.
| B. Antenne 10-jointed.
C?. Frontal part not carinate laterally ‘above the eyes.
D2. Vertex without a transverse ridge.
Ki. Anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly.

F3, Antennal club tri-jointed, joints laminate,
parallel.

Antennal club not very long, acuminate ;
claws with a tooth-like angle at the base Onocheta.

Antennal club very long, not acuminate,
claws with a sub-median vertical tooth
undermesthi ys se pal cece we peteueeectigostetnas

F?, Antennal club more than tri-jointed, joints
laminate, parallel.

Antennal club longer, 5-jointed -. .- Macrophylla.
Antennal club 6-jointed .. .. ..° .. Pleiophylla.
E'. Anterior tibiee bi-dentate outwardly.
Antennal club 7-jointed .. .. .. .. .. Hucylophylla.

Ft. Antennal club tri-jointed, joints spatuli-
form.

Head with a frontal tubercle ; prothorax
GMENEN@>o 65 50 of vo oe aa oo Jihinneeine

C. Frontal part carinate laterally.
D'. Vertex with a transverse ridge or prominence.
hi‘. Anterior tibise tri-dentate outwardly.
I?, Antennal club tri-jointed.

Clypeus straight but slightly emarginate
in front.

Upper lobe of maxille plainly toothed;
antennal club not much longer than the
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nal club longer than the pedicel .. .. Pasaphylla.

Clypeus rounded or parabolic in front;
antennal club shorter than the pedicel

K'. Anterior tibiz bi-dentate.

Clypeus blunt in front; antennal club much
longer than the pedicel

Ft, Antennal club 5-jointed.
Anterior tibiee tri-dentate.

Clypeus completely rounded in front; an-
tennal club moderately long .. .. ..

palpi inserted on the outer face of the mentum.

B?. Insertion juxta-lateral.

C3

Cc:

. Claws with a short, sub-basal tooth underneath.
D?. Antenne 10-jointed.
K3. Labrum vertical.

a*. Anterior tibiw 3-dentate, frontal part cari-
nate laterally above the eyes.

Antennal club of ¢ tri-jointed, ampliato-
ovate, third joint not longer than the fourth

a‘, Anterior tibie bi-dentate ; frontal part not
carinate laterally above the eyes.

Antennal club of ¢ 3-jointed, parallel,
third joint longer than the fourth

>, Claws with a plainly lobate, basal process underneath.

E?. Labrum obliterated.
Antennal club 7-jointed
Antennal club 8-jointed
. Claws cleft underneath.

D*. Antenne 9-jointed.
Claws cleft underneath as in Schizonycha, anten-
nal club very long, parallel in the ¢

Claws with two blunt teeth underneath in addi-
tion to the apical one; club of antennz long,
SjoeiellbiOpaes “So. oq io! GB om) "oo. con eod

Et, Labrum horizontal, then vertical at apex.
Antenne 10-jointed.

Claws simple, antennal club 7-jointed

Cyclomera.

Periclitopa.

Paraclitopa.

Ramoutsa.

Clitopa.

Achelyna.

Pleistophylla.

Trichiodera.

Pseustophylla.

Gamka.

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Bt. Insertion median, basal joints nearly or quite contiguous.
C3, Antenne 10-jointed.
D?. Antennal club tri-jointed.
E?. Anterior tibie tri-dentate.
Labrum obliterated, clypeus strongly aculeate

in the vertical part ; frontal part projecting as
a laminate keel above the declivous clypeus.. Aipeiopsis.

E*. Anterior tibis bi-dentate.

Labrum transverse, very narrow, second and
third joints of labial palpifused .. .. .. Pseudachloa.

D*. Antennal club 6-jointed.

Clypeus laminate, projecting much beyond the
vertical acuminate labrum .. .. .. .. «.. Tvrichinopus.

C?. Antenne 9-jointed.

Anterior tibiew tri-dentate; antennal club tri-jointed ;
labrum triangular but with the suture nearly oblite-
rated ; pygidium strongly drawn forwards .. .. .. Achloa.

Ct. Antenne 8-jointed.

Anterior tibiz tri-dentate; antennal club tri-jointed ;
apex of pygidium reaching to the base of the femora Cdanomerus.

Gren. ONOCHATA, Erichs.,
Nat. Ins., iii., 1847, p. 654.

Mentum broad at the base, narrowed at about one-third of the
length whence it is sub-parallel with the outer angles of the apical
part slightly rounded, and the apex truncate, yet slightly sinuate
in the middle, separated on the outer face from the ligular part by a
somewhat broad, shallow furrow; labial palpi inserted nearly, but
not quite on the sides, last joint somewhat long, wholly straight
inwardly, and outwardly only for about half the length, whence it
is obliquely attenuate towards the sharply acuminate tip; upper
lobe of maxilla bluntly transverse at the tip, somewhat hollowed
inside, inner lobe shorter than the upper, tooth-like, and also blunt
at the tip; maxillary palpi long, apical one straight inwardly, more
convex outwardly and slightly curved towards the apical part;
mandibles arcuate and with the upper margin compressed at the
tip; clypeus as long as the frontal part, slightly ampliated laterally
from the base towards the basal angles which are only slightly
rounded, truncate in the anterior part which is nearly laminate and
projects much beyond the narrow, emarginate labrum, frontal part

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not carinate laterally above the eyes, and having a basal, arcuate,
only slightly raised keel; antennz 10-jointed, joints sixth and seventh
short, compressed, eighth, ninth, and tenth forming a club not quite
as long as the pedicel, laminate and somewhat dilated at the tip,
apical joint somewhat shorter than the one preceding; prothorax
nearly twice as broad as long, slightly convex, and with the posterior
angles moderately rounded ; scutellum sub-ogival; elytra parallel,
moderately convex near the base, barely covering the base of the
propygidium ; pygidium sub-vertical, slightly convex; intermediate
and posterior tibiae without an outer oblique ridge; anterior ones
with an inner spur, and tri-dentate outwardly, hind spurs somewhat
slender and moderately long; hind tarsi somewhat bristly under-
neath ; claws long and having underneath a very small, juxta-basal
vertical tooth.

The only species included in this genus is a very singular insect
which, unlike the other South African Pachypodini, has strongly
costate elytra, with the intervals filled with appressed, distinctly
squamose hairs. The female is unknown. I have seen the type
of the genus which is in the Schénherr Collection in the Stockholm
Museum.

ONOCH/TA PORCATA, Swartz,
Schonh. Syn. Insect., i., 3; Append., p. 87.

Male: Piceous, club of antennex slightly reddish-brown; head,
prothorax, pectus, and abdomen clothed with a somewhat light
fulvous pubescence longer on the sides and base of the thorax,
and also on the pectus; intervals of elytra filled with somewhat
long, scale-like greyish fulvous scales; clypeus separated from the
frontal part by an ill-defined, transverse suture obliterated in the
centre, and like the frontal part it is covered with deep, round punc-
tures from each of which springs a short hair, longer, however, on the
frontal part the basal ridge of which is not very sharp ; prothorax
plainly ampliated laterally in the middle, deeply punctured, with the
punctures larger and less closely set in the anterior part, and having
a longitudinal impression in the median part only of the disk ;
scutellum moderately closely punctured, except in the apical part;
elytra parallel, not much convex, but somewhat abruptly convex
behind, strongly quadri-costate on each side, and with the suture
also highly raised, the punctures are nearly smooth and shining,
and the intervals, as well as the outer margin, are covered
with scale-like appressed hairs springing from somewhat shallow
punctures; propygidium aciculate; pygidium punctulate, clothed,
like the abdomen, with appressed hairs, and having a fringe of

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longer ones along the outer margin; femora and tibiz somewhat
hairy.

Female unknown.

Length 18 mm.; width 8 mm.

Hab. ? Transvaal (no exact locality).

Gren. AIGOSTETHA, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Ent. Mus., 1850, p. 163.

This genus differs from Macrophylla merely in the number of the
antennal joints forming the club, these being three instead of five,
the club is in some species even longer and more curved than in
Macrophylla, and the seventh joint is occasionally also laminate
and long; the shape of the clypeus varies also in the species, some
haying an inner spur on the anterior tibie, others none; the facies
also is not uniform, being sub-cylindrical in some and _ plainly
depressed in others; these differences, however, and also some
other minor ones cannot be regarded as generic.

Key to the Species.
A?. Seventh joint of antenne not laminate.
B?. Anterior tibis with an inner spur.
Body testaceous-red.

Clypeus semi-circular, plane, separated from the frontal part
by a distinct transverse suture; upper side glabrous; club
of antenne long, very little curved Ge wee. saaetion ae COU Das

A‘. Seventh joint of antennex Jaminate, long.
Head and prothorax black.

Clypeus very concave, straight in front, separated from the
frontal part by a very shallow arcuate line, upper side very
pubescent; club of antenne very long and strongly curved .. ciliata.

B'. Anterior tibiz without an inner spur.
Clypeus plane, parabolic in front.

Clypeal suture fine, but distinct; prothorax and elytra
covered with a short, appressed pubescence, body massive,
JO ae restos HG) "Sor (Si isc, oa ab) co Uiuladaiie

Clypeal suture obliterated or indistinct; upper side glabrous;
bodyisub-parallell 2 sc Ge.) acm pice cen Cin ee Se RELONOLCOTN or

AXGOSTETHA SIMPLEX, 0. spec.

Brick-red, shining, glabrous on the upper side, but with the
vertical anterior part of the clypeus, the labrum, and the outer

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margin of the prothorax hairy, the basal part and also the
outer margins of the elytra are thickly and densely pubescent,
and the pubescence fulvous ; pectus also very thickly pubescent; club
of antennez chestnut-brown ; clypeus short, semicircular from side
to side with the anterior margin moderately raised, separated from
the frontal part by a very plain, transverse stria, frontal part simple,
whole head with somewhat scattered, round punctures; prothorax
somewhat convex in the posterior part, not attenuated laterally from
the median part to the rather sharp outer angle, and covered with
equi-distant, not closely set, round punctures; scutellum moderately
sharply ogival ; elytra sub-parallel, sinuate laterally in the anterior
part, covered with deep, round, equi-distant punctures separated
by an interval broader than their diameter, the juxta-sutural stria
is quite plain, and there is only a faint trace of a dorsal one;
propygidium finely aciculate and very briefly pubescent; pygidium
sparsely punctulate but smooth in the median part, not pubescent ;
abdomen sparsely punctulate even on the sides; legs very slightly
punctate, femora moderately pubescent; hind tarsi ciliate underneath.
Length 19 mm.; width 9$ mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

ZEGOSTETHA CILIATA, Herbst,
Kaf., i., p: 45; pl. xxu., fig. 5.
M. marituma, Casteln., Hist. Nat., ii., p. 133.

Head and prothorax black, elytra and under side light chestnut,
legs reddish-brown ; the head, except the clypeus, and the prothorax
are clothed with a dense, long, appressed, fulvous pubescence, the
elytra have a very closely-set but very short pubescence of the same
colour altogether obscuring the background, the pygidial part and
abdominal segments are clothed with greyish appressed hairs much
less closely set than on the elytra, and the pectus is hidden by a
fulvous very dense villosity ; clypeus concave, truncate in front and
with the outer angles moderately rounded, impunctate, separated
from the somewhat depressed frontal part by a very plain, trans-
verse suture; frontal part very closely punctured ; club of antenn
very strongly curved, and as long as the prothorax, the seventh
joint is plainly lamellate and about one-eighth of the length of those
forming the club, the sixth and also the fifth are somewhat aculeate,
the three preceding are equal and sub-moniliform ; prothorax emar-
ginate laterally, and sinuate from about the median part to the
somewhat sharp basal angle, very finely and closely punctured ;
scutellum finely punctured; elytra sub-cylindrical, very finely

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and closely punctate, and showing no traces of striz or costules
except the juxta-sutural stria; pygidium vertical, somewhat deeply
and very closely punctate, sub-coriaceous.

Female unknown.

Length 21-22 mm.; width 11-12 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Knysna).

I am not quite satisfied that this insect is the M. ciliata of Herbst,
and I only give it on Burmeister’s authority. The figure given by
Herbst is more like M. brachiata, but this author’s description
is almost useless. There is very little doubt, however, that it is
the M. maritima of Castelnau.

ALGOSTETHA BRACHIATA, Nn. spec.

Male: Black, the elytra chestnut-red ; clypeus straight laterally,
truncate in front but with the outer angles rounded, half as
long as broad, scrobiculate, suture somewhat arcuate, frontal
part scrobiculate but not as broadly as on the clypeus; club
of antenne extremely long, strongly curved; prothorax twice as
broad as long, strongly slanting laterally from the apical part
for one-third of the length, and slightly thence to the basal
angle which is sharp, marginate ali round, very slightly convex, and
having a somewhat deep longitudinal impression along the outer
margin, covered with nearly contiguous, round, deep punctures, with
the intervals somewhat raised in the posterior part, and a median
longitudinal smooth line, slightly raised, and obliterated at both
ends, the margins bear traces of a band of appressed, flavescent
hairs, denser and thicker laterally ; scutellum ogival, but somewhat
rounded at the tip, closely foveolato-punctate and very densely
pubescent along the base; elytra slightly broader than the basal
part of the prothorax, but with the basal angles very broadly
rounded, and the humeral eallus very distinct, a little ampliated
at a short distance from the shoulder, and nearly of the same width
thence to the rounded posterior part, covered with moderately broad,
irregularly yet closely set punctures the intervals of which are
somewhat coriaceous, especially laterally, and having in addition
to the plain sutural stria two geminate ones on the disk, and an
elongated impression under the humeral callus, each puncture
bears a very minute hair almost always obliterated, but less so
along the margins and the suture, the outer margin has a row
of equi-distant somewhat stiff bristly hairs ; pygidium very closely
punctured, the sculpture, however, is hidden by a coating of dense,
flavescent appressed hairs; the abdomen has a less dense coating

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of similar hairs, and all the segments are very closely punctured ;
the pectus is very densely pubescent, the pubescence is long and
flavescent ; anterior tibiz tri-dentate outwardly, basal tooth distinct
but not deeply incised, no inner spur, tarsi of intermediate legs
as long as the tibia or even a little longer.

Female: Of a more massive build than the male; head and pro-
thorax black, elytra chestnut-red, legs piceous, abdomen and pectus
reddish; clypeus strongly arcuate in front almost from the base,
suture deep, transverse ; prothorax of the same shape as the male,
but covered on the discoidal part with irregularly set foveate punc-
tures, and smaller and more closely set ones along the sides, in
the centre of the anterior part there is a narrow, shallow groove ;
scutellum sculptured as in the male but much more broadly rounded
at the apex; elytra much more dilated laterally from near the
humeral part, much more coarsely punctured, more coriaceous
and with the dorsal striz more distinct; propygidium, pygidium,
and abdomen clothed with greyish hairs as in the male, the
pubescence is very much less dense and shorter on the pectus;
the tarsi of the intermediate and hind legs are only half the length
of the tibia, the tri-jointed club of the antenne is thick, and about
half the length of all the other joints taken together, the sixth and
seventh joints are nodose, the eighth broadly dilated at the tip ; the
abdomen is very convex.

Length 194-234 mm.; width 103-134 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cradock, Barkly West).

AXGOSTETHA LONGICORNIS, Fabric.,
Ent. Syst., i., 2, p. 160.

Male: Black, with the elytra brownish-red, legs black; antennz
and palpi chestnut-red; upper side glabrous except for a fringe
of flavescent hairs along the base; clypeus sub-orbicular, with
no outer angles, and with the anterior margin very slightly
reflexed, plane, having an extremely faint, very often nearly
obliterated clypeal suture, closely and somewhat roughly punc-
tured like the head; prothorax strongly narrowed obliquely
laterally from slightly past the median part to the apex, and
sinuate from beyond the middle towards the basal angle which
is sharp, broader at the base than at the median part, deeply and
closely punctured, and having a median longitudinal groove-like
impression in the anterior part; scutellum deeply punctured ;
elytra sub-parallel and having on each side two somewhat faint
costules, covered with deep, slightly irregular punctures separated

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by raised intervals giving them a coriaceous appearance ; pygidium
vertical, covered like the abdomen with a flavescent, short
pubescence; pectus densely hairy; antennal club tri-jointed, the
joint preceding the club very briefly laminate, and in some examples
little more than aculeate.

Female unknown.

Length 13-15 mm, ; width 7-8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

Gren. MACROPHYLLA, Hope,
The Coleopt. Man., 1837, 1., p. 103.

Mentum longer than broad, straight laterally, deeply emarginate
in the anterior part, and very densely hairy; last joint of labial palpi
a little longer than the intermediate one which has the shape of an
inverted cone and is either sub-cylindrical or swollen outwardly ;
maxille fairly robust, upper lobe more or less bluntly bifid at the
tip, inner lobe nearly of the same length, and ending in a third
tooth; apical joint of maxillary palpi not quite as long as the two
preceding taken together, fusiform, slightly impressed outwardly
towards the basal part; mandibles robust, concave, and with the
apical part laminate, chisel-like, strongly striate inwardly, and
having a molar tooth; labrum robust, vertical, deeply and broadly
incised; clypeus short, either semicircular or truncate and with the
margin scarcely reflexed, head simple not carinate laterally above
the eyes which are large and divided in front by a conspicuous
canthus ; antenne 10-jointed, the long, curved club consists in the
male of five parallel, laminate joints, fifth joint also more or less
briefly laminate; in the female the club is tri-jointed, thick and
about half the length of the pedicel, the seventh joint is broadly
dilated at the tip, and the fifth and sixth are nodose; prothorax
broader than long, moderately convex in the posterior part, ampliated
laterally in the middle, and straight thence to the moderately
rounded basal angle, base deeply sinuate and ciliate; scutellum
cordate; elytra as broad at the base as the prothorax, slightly
ampliated laterally past the middle, and abruptly rounded behind,
only moderately convex, pubescent or nearly glabrous and covering
the greater part of the propygidium; pygidium sub-vertical or ver-
tical; abdominal segments free in both sexes, very convex in the
female ; legs robust, anterior tibiae with or without an inner spur,
plainly tri-dentate outwardly, the posterior ones alone bear a very
faint, oblique ciliated ridge on the outer face and are moderately
dilated at the apex, and the two spurs are sharp in the male; they

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are much more broadly dilated in the female, in which sex the
transverse ciliated ridge is very plain on both the intermediate and
the posterior tibiz, and the apical spurs of the latter are blade-like
and conspicuously dilated; tarsi very little longer than the tibie, the
joints of nearly equal length; claws long, curved and having a sub-
vertical, slightly hooked tooth set in both sexes close to the basal
part which is not dilated, the inner tooth is longer than the outer.

The female is of a much heavier build than the male, and the
elytra are considerably more convex and more broadly ampliated ;
the antennal club is thick, ovate, and the apical joint shorter than
any of the other four,

There is considerable doubt as to the type of this genus as founded
by Hope; the species which he mentions, 1.e., Macrophylla longi-
cornis, Hope, has not been described, and is not identical with
Melolontha longicornis, Fabr., the antennal club of which is only
tri-jointed.

Key to the Species.

A?. Fifth joint of antenne laminate, moderately long.
B°. Anterior tibize without an inner spur.
C*. Upper side glabrous.
D2. Totally testaceous-red.

Clypeus blunt in front and with the outer angles
broadly rounded, suture indistinct ; punctures on the
PLoOUoraxcinesssMalloweae se ee oe ee se capicolas

Clypeus semicircular in front, suture indistinct, pune-
tures on the prothorax deep .. .. .. .. .. «.. natalensis.

Dt. Head and prothorax black, elytra testaceous or chest-
nut-brown.

Clypeus semicircular in front, suture obliterated .. nigricollis.
C*. Upper side pubescent.

Clypeus truncate in front, concave, separated from the
frontal part by a suture; elytra and prothorax densely
DUDCSCONTE MER ee ee ea sce, . cit ioe pon 9 ee el PUDENE.

A‘, Fifth joint of antennz laminate, very long.
Bt. Anterior tibia with an inner spur.

Clypeus truncate in front with the angles rounded, plane,
separated from the head by a transverse keel obliterated in
the middle DT ah! ME Me isa Markie.

MacrROPHYLLA NATALENSIS, N. spec.

Entirely testaceous-red, shining, and glabrous on the upper side
except for a thick fringe of flavescent hairs along the base, and a

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finer one along the outer margin of the elytra; clypeus parabolic,
clypeal suture hardly visible, covered, like the head, with closely set,
deep, somewhat rounded punctures; prothorax gradually narrowed
laterally from the blunt angular basal part to the apex, and not:
sinuate in the posterior part, distinctly sloping in the anterior,
having in the front part of the disk a somewhat broad median
elongated impression and covered with round, fairly deep punctures
not very closely set; scutellum hardly punctate; elytra a little
narrower at the base than the base of the prothorax, somewhat
sinuate laterally in front of the median part, having two fairly
distinct costules, and covered with deep, round punctures separated
by an interval narrower than their diameter; antennal club 5-jointed,
the joint preceding the club very briefly laminate; pygidium ver-
tical, and, like the abdominal segments, very slightly pubescent ;
pectus with a very dense fulvous pubescence.

Female unknown.

Length 14 mm.; width 8 mm.

Hab. Natal (Maritzburg).

MACROPHYLLA CAPICOLA, N. spec.

Similar in build and colour to M. natalensis, also glabrous on the
upper side, but differing in the shape of the clypeus which is nearly
straight in front but has the outer angles broadly rounded, the
clypeal suture is weakly indicated; the basal angles of the pro-
thorax are sharper; the punctures on the head are much finer, those
on the prothorax and elytra are much shallower, and the latter are
scarcely coriaceous; pygidium vertical, briefly pubescent; pectus
with a very dense and long flavescent pubescence.

Female unknown.

Length 23 mm.; width 10 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Transkei, Fort Beaufort).

MACROPHYLLA NIGRICOLLIS, n. spec.

Black, with the elytra reddish-brown or chestnut-red, glabrous on
the upper side, except along the base of the prothorax and the outer
margins of the elytra which are sub-parallel; clypeus parabolic,
suture obliterated or hardly visible, deeply and very closely punc-
tured, the punctures slightly more closely set than on the vertex;
antennal club 5-jointed, the joint preceding the club laminate but
varying in length, and occasionally very small; prothorax slightly
sinuate laterally in the posterior part, with the basal angles rounded,
impressed longitudinally on the front part of the disk, moderately

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sloping in the anterior part, the punctures somewhat fine and
separated by an interval equal to their own diameter; scutellum
punctate ; elytra coriaceous, the punctures deep, somewhat broad,
the two costules on either side distinct; pygidium sloping, very
slightly pubescent like the abdominal segments; pectus clothed
with a very dense light fulvous pubescence. The upright teeth
of the maxilla are somewhat sharper in this species than in the
others.

Female unknown.

Length 16-17 mm.; width 84-94 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale).

MACROPHYLLA PUBENS, 0. spec.

Fuscous, elytra and antenne chestnut-brown; head and prothorax
clothed with a dense, short, appressed, light fulvous pubescence,
elytra also clothed with a very short, dense pubescence; clypeus
concave, straight in the anterior part and also laterally, and with the
outer angles only very slightly rounded, suture distinct, both the
head and clypeus are covered with fine, very closely set punctures ;
prothorax plainly sinuate laterally in the posterior part, and with
the basal angle sharp, covered like the head with very fine and
closely set punctures; scutellum very finely punctured and densely
pubescent; elytra sub-parallel, very finely punctured and having on
each side three or four somewhat plain strize in addition to the juxta-
sutural one; the abdomen is missing in the two examples which I
have examined; pectus clothed with a long and very dense flavescent
pubescence; antennal club 5-jointed, joint preceding the club lami-
nate and moderately long.

Female unknown.

This species closely resembles M. ciliata, and is likewise pube-
scent on the prothorax and elytra, but it is larger and can easily
be distinguished by the 5-jointed, instead of 3-jointed antennal
club.

Length 27 mm.; width 14 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown).

MACROPHYLLA MARITIMA, Burm.,
Plate XLIV., fig. 9.
nec. M. maritima, Casteln.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 447.

Male: Fuscous-brown with the elytra chestnut-brown, the head
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and also the sides of the prothorax have a very short, somewhat
greyish, inconspicuous pubescence, the elytra are glabrous; the
clypeus is straight in front with the outer angles moderately
rounded, the suture is sub-carinate laterally and almost obliterated
in the centre, and the whole head is very finely and very closely
punctured; the prothorax is as finely and as closely punctured as
the head and has a plain longitudinal groove in the anterior part ;
scutellum very finely punctulate ; elytra sub-parallel, somewhat
coarsely punctured, plainly coriaceous, and with three fairly dis-
tinct striz on each side, in addition to the sutural stria; pygidium
sloping and clothed with a very short appressed pubescence ; ab-
domen with a similar pubescence; pectus clothed with a dense
greyish-flavescent and long pubescence; antennal club 5-jointed,
the fifth joint of the pedicel is laminate and one-fourth the length
of the club, the fourth is very angular, and the third bead-like, but
also slightly aculeate in the centre.

Female: More massive than the male, and with the elytra deeply
sinuate laterally in front of the median part, and conspicuously
ampliated thence; the clypeus has the outer angles more broadly
rounded than in the male, the suture is not interrupted in the
middle, nor carinate laterally, and the anterior frontal part is deeply
depressed ; the punctures on the prothorax are deeper and broader,
and the median impressed line is continued further towards the base;
the elytra are not so coriaceous, the punctures are equally deep
but rounder, the dorsal striz are obliterated, and the sutural one
ill-defined ; the pubescence on the pygidium and under side is the
same as in the male, the posterior tibize are broadly dilated, and the
spurs also broadly dilated, and spear-shaped; there are wings under
the elytra; the club is 5-jointed, fairly long, but thick, ovate, and
with the two apical joints, especially the last one, shorter than any
of the other three.

Length 31-33 mm.; width 16-20 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

PLEIOPHYLLA, n. gen.

Buccal organs of Macrophylla and Algostetha, which it closely
resembles, the anterior tibiz are also tri-dentate outwardly and have
no inner spur, the antennal club, however, consists of six long,
curved, laminate joints, and the fourth joint of the pedicel is also
similarly laminate but moderately short; the inner tooth under the
anterior claws is very long.

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PLEIOPHYLLA VESTITA, n. spec.

Fuscous, with the elytra and antenne light chestnut-red, legs
reddish-brown; clypeus and head with a few greyish hairs; pro-
thorax and scutellum clothed with a dense, long, appressed flavous
pubescence; elytra sprinkled with numerous greyish flavescent,
short, appressed hairs; pygidium and abdomen with appressed,
closely set hairs; pectus with a long, dense fulvous pubescence;
clypeus straight in front and laterally but with the outer angles
moderately rounded, and instead of a suture provided with a plain but
only slightly raised transverse keel, it is scrobiculate, but the head
is roughly punctured with the walls of the punctures sub-granulose ;
prothorax very closely punctured, and nearly straight laterally from
the median part to the moderately sharp basal angle; elytra plainly
coriaceous, a little ampliated laterally at a short distance from the
humeral part, and having two plain dorsal striz in addition to the
sutural one; pygidium vertical; antennal club 6-jointed and with
the joint preceding it laminate and moderately long; the lower tooth
of the inner anterior claws is very long.

Female unknown.

Length 15 mm.; width 9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

Gren. HUCYLOPHYLLA, Waterh.,
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xv., 4th ser., 1875, p. 406.

Mentum rounded laterally but with the outer angles sharp, ligular
part as long as the mentum, and slightly narrower, oblong, not
sinuate at the tip, separated from the mentum by a moderately
distinct suture; last joint of labial palpi robust, straight inwardly
but broadly fusiform outwardly ; maxillee moderately robust, bifid at
the tip, the outer apical tooth is somewhat concave and broader and
more laminate than the inner one which is somewhat sharp and
bears an inner fascicle of strong, stiff cilize, last joint of maxillary
palpi swollen, fusiform, acuminate ; mandibles robust, hollow, apical
part trifid; clypeus strongly parabolic, long, separated from the head
by a very plain, nearly transverse suture, vertical in front and with
the upper margin moderately reflexed, the labrum is short but
transversely broad and emarginate at the centre of the anterior part,
frontal part simple, eyes moderately large; antenne 10-jointed,
second joint moniliform, third triangularly produced in the inner
part, fourth to tenth very long, curved and forming the club
which is as long, in the curve, as the prothorax ; prothorax with the
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also rounded, than across the median part, base sinuate on each side;
scutellum broad, as wide at the base as long, cordate; elytra broad,
short, rounded at the shoulders, ampliated laterally but a little nar-
rowed in the posterior part, very slightly convex, sub-costulate, and
covering the greater part of the propygidium; pygidium triangular,
sloping; pectus and prothorax densely pubescent; anterior tibiz
bi-dentate outwardly and without any inner spur; intermediate and
posterior ones without an oblique carina, apical part of posterior
tibia ampliated, the two spurs inserted in the inner part close to
each other, but divaricating, compressed, and somewhat dilated, but
sharp at tip (#); hind femora short, swollen; tarsi longer than the
tibiae, slender, claws long, curved, the anterior ones have a con-
spicuously long, curved basal tooth under the inner claw similar to
that of Macrophylla, but only a very small and basal one under the
outer, whereas in the case of the intermediate and posterior legs this
tooth, which is, however, smaller, is under the outer claw, the inner
ones being merely dilated at the base.

EUCYLOPHYLLA LATA, Waterh.,
Loe. cit., p. 406.

Male: Body short, broad, fuscous with the elytra dark-chestnut
and clothed with a very dense, short, appressed light fulvous pube-
scence, the head is moderately pubescent, the prothorax, pectus, and
femora are clothed with a long, dense greyish-white pubescence, and
the abdomen with dense appressed hairs of the same colour, club of
antennee fulvous; clypeus and frontal part covered with deep, round,
somewhat large, nearly contiguous punctures which are, however,
very much finer in the posterior part; prothorax gradually ampliated
from the much rounded apical part to the rounded basal angle, and
very closely and deeply punctured, the punctures somewhat fine and
almost contiguous; scutellum with numerous setigerous punctures ;
elytra plainly ampliated laterally towards the median part, and nar-
rowed towards the posterior, they have on each side four costules,
and the outer margins are briefly ciliate; propygidium finely punc-
tulate; pygidium sloping backwards, deeply and closely punctured,
each puncture bearing a somewhat long, appressed greyish hair
similar to those clothing the abdominal segments, but on the exposed
part of the dorsal segments this greyish pubescence is longer and
denser than on the ventral; the latter are very closely punctured.

In general facies this species resembles Agostetha brachiata.

Length 17-174 mm. ; width 94 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

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TLAOCERA, n. gen.

Mentum broad, rounded laterally, not clearly separated from the
broadly truncated, cone-shaped ligular part which is only half the
width of the hollowed mentum; palpi inserted laterally, last joint
swollen, nearly fusiform ; maxillze robust, upper lobe somewhat con-
cave, laminate, emarginate at the tip, inner lobe very plain, sharp;
maxillary palpi robust, apical joint swollen, strongly fusiform out-
wardly, less so inwardly; mandibles strong, arcuate at the tip, com-
pressed inwardly on each side, not membranaceous at the base;
antenne 10-jointed, the sixth and seventh joints compressed, the
latter projecting slightly in the inner part, club tri-jointed, as long
as the pedicel, joints laminate, straight outwardly but ampliated
inwardly ; clypeus semicircular in front, slightly shorter than the
_ head and separated from it by a strongly bi-sinuate, shallow suture,
broadly perpendicular in front with the anterior margin much
reflexed, labrum well-developod, deeply incised; prothorax little
convex; plainly ampliated and rounded laterally in the middle,
bi-sinuate along the base with the outer angles not sharp, but also
not rounded, strongly depressed in the anterior part (male); elytra
sub-parallel, not convex on the upper side, projecting beyond the
propygidium and pygidium, the latter vertical; anterior tibie tri-
dentate, and with a long inner spur; intermediate and posterior
ones with an oblique carina on the outer side, apical part of the
latter somewhat dilated, spurs long, but not very sharp; tarsi longer
than the tibia, stiffly bristly at apex, claws long, curved, and having
a juxta-basal, short, vertical tooth underneath.

I propose this genus for a singular insect, the prothorax of which
is strongly impressed on the anterior part, and having a tubercle on
the frontal part, in the manner of a ¢ Pachypus ; the general facies,
however, is not unlike that of Achloa.

TLAOCERA SAGA, N. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra and antenne chestnut-brown, frontal
part, prothorax, scutellum, pectus, and femora clothed with long,
dense fulvous hairs ; clypeus semicircular in front, straight laterally,
concave, having a double row of deep punctures on the anterior part,
but smooth along the suture, frontal part deeply punctured, each
puncture bearing a long hair, plane, and having a sharp, compressed,
somewhat longitudinal tubercle in the centre ; prothorax broadly and
somewhat deeply impressed in the anterior part, which is also a little
more closely punctured than the posterior part where the punctures

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are more scattered but equally deep; prothorax cordate, densely
hairy ; elytra nearly parallel, slightly broader at the base than the
basal part of the prothorax, somewhat depressed in the dorsal part,
and having on each side, in addition to the plain juxta-sutural stria,
two dorsal geminate somewhat indistinct ones, they are punctulate
and have faint longitudinal rows of wider but shallow punctures ;
pygidium deeply but not closely punctate in the basal part, nearly
impunctate in the apical; abdominal segments somewhat compressed
laterally.

Female unknown.

Length 124 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester), Hex River Valley.

KRASEOPHYLLA, n. gen.

Mentum broad, not distinctly separated by a suture from the short
ligular part which is bi-impressed on the-outer face and a little
shorter and narrower than the mentum which is nearly twice as
broad as long and sharply angular laterally, the ligula is briefly
incised at the centre, the apical joint of the labial palpi is fusiform
outwardly but not inwardly, and as long as the preceding joint;
maxillz robust, armed at apex with a sharply trifid upper tooth and
a double inner one, these teeth are nearly straight; last joint of
maxillary palpi fusiform, acuminate, moderately swollen, deeply
impressed outwardly for half its length; mandibles somewhat blunt
at apex, incised in the median part of the inner edge, and having a
long, ciliate membrane ; clypeus truncate in front and with the outer
angles slightly rounded, separated from the head by a straight suture,
somewhat narrow in the anterior vertical part which is not much
attenuated, and with the upper margin moderately reflexed; labrum
vertical and as wide as the vertical part of the clypeus, broadly
incised as far as the base in the central part; eyes large, divided in
front by a hairy canthus; antenne 10-jointed, second joint trans-
verse, compressed laterally, third—-fourth cylindrical, equal, fifth—-sixth
compressed and angular on the inner side, seventh laminate, short,
eighth-tenth laminate, very long, slightly inflexed and forming the
club; prothorax attenuate laterally from the slightly ampliated median
part, sinuate in the posterior part with the basal angle sharp, base
sinuate ; scutellum cordate; elytra slightly ampliated laterally at
about the median part, hardly convex, costulate, covering the basal
part of the propygidium ; pygidium yertical; anterior tibiz sharply
tri-dentate and having a somewhat long inner spur; the oblique
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obliterated, the apical part of the posterior is moderately broadly
dilated, the two spurs are on the inner side, set somewhat close to
each other, slightly compressed and moderately sharp ; tarsi slightly
longer than the tibiz, the four basal joints are of nearly equal
length, and those of the hind legs are somewhat short, the claws are
long, strongly curved, and have a post-median, sharp, vertical tooth
underneath.

The only species included in this genus has somewhat the appear-
ance of a Contopholis of the Melolonthini division, this likeness is
still increased by the vestiture of the elytra and especially of the
abdominal segments, where the appressed hair springing from each
puncture is somewhat squamulose; the maxille have somewhat
stronger teeth than the majority of the Pachypodini, with the
exception of some species of Macrophylla.

KRASEOPHYLLA DISTINCTA, N. spec.

Fuscous, with the antennal club and the elytra chestnut-brown ;
head, especially the frontal part and the vertex, with erect, fulvous
hairs; prothorax and pectus clothed with a very dense, long pubes-
cence, femora also hairy; each puncture on the elytra bears a
minute hair, and those on the abdominal segment a short, appressed,
somewhat squamiform one; clypeus truncate in front with the outer
angles slightly rounded and the margin somewhat raised, as long as
the frontal part and divided from it by a plain suture, both parts are
covered with deep, nearly contiguous, somewhat rough punctures ;
prothorax slightly convex in the posterior part and sloping in front,
very closely and somewhat deeply punctured, but the sculpture is
hidden by the long pubescence; scutellum foveolato-punctate, hairy ;
elytra with three costules on each side and a juxta-sutural stria, the
two discoidal costules are distinct, but the other two are very weak,
and the whole surface is irregularly punctate and somewhat coria-
ceous ; the punctures on the pygidium and abdominal segments are
very closely set.

Length 15 mm.; width 8 mm.

The habitat of this interesting species is not recorded, but I believe
it to have been captured in the neighbourhood of East London, in
the Cape Colony.

PASAPHYLLA, n, gen.

Mentum transverse, slightly sinuate laterally, divided from the
ligular part by a plain transverse suture, and with the outer angle
slightly rounded, ligular part slightly narrower at the base than the
mentum, and with the basal angle sharp, very deeply emarginate

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laterally, ampliated towards the apex which is straight with the
outer angles slightly rounded; palpi inserted laterally, last joint
swollen and fusiform and also somewhat acuminate outwardly,
nearly straight inwardly; maxille with the upper lobe compressed,
hardly concave, the upper part serrate, and with alternate stiff
bristles and two plain teeth on the inner side next to the inner lobe
which is very plain, rounded at the top, and briefly penicillate
inwardly at the tip; labial palpi long, last joint slightly fusiform
outwardly, nearly straight inwardly, the outer impression long and
narrow ; apical part of the triquetrous maxille laminate transversely,
chisel-like, not membranous inwardly, head with a clypeal transverse
keel, also plainly keeled laterally, and having another transverse
prominence on the vertex, clypeus straight in front but slightly
emarginate in the middle and with the margin reflexed, labrum
broad, projecting a little forwards, deeply incised; antennz
10-jointed, third joint slightly longer than the fourth, sixth and
seventh compressed, laminate inwardly, the seventh, however, longer
than the sixth, club tri-jointed and curved, the joints half as long
again as the whole pedicel; prothorax ampliated laterally and
rounded at the centre, posterior angles rounded ; elytra sub-parallel
but plainly sinuate laterally in the anterior part and covering
only the basal part of the broad propygidium; pygidium small,
vertical; anterior tibiz tri-dentate and having a very small inner
spur, intermediate ones with a rudimentary transverse ciliated keel,
entirely wanting in the posterior which are moderately dilated at
apex, with the lower spur somewhat sharp, and the upper
narrowly blade-like; claws with a post-median vertical tooth
underneath.

Evidently allied to Kraseophylla, but the mandibles have no molar
tooth nor are they thickly membranous inwardly.

PASAPHYLLA LIBENS, Nn. spec.

Testaceous or light chestnut-brown, club of antennz flavous, head,
prothorax, scutellum and pectus clothed with a very dense and long
flavous pubescence ; head deeply and broadly punctured, the punc-
tures nearly contiguous, and separated from each other by a sharp
wall, clypeus broadly rounded laterally but nearly straight in front
and plainly emarginate in the centre, the raised part of the vertex is
not keeled, but the clypeal carina is very distinct; prothorax closely
shagreened, a little less attenuate laterally from the ampliated median
part towards the base, the outer angle of which is rounded, than
towards the anterior part; scutellum somewhat long, cordiform ;

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elytra wider at the base than the prothorax, sinuate laterally in the
anterior part, a little ampliated past the middle, covered with fine
irregularly disposed but somewhat closely set punctures each bearing
a minute greyish-fulvous appressed hair, the juxta-sutural stria is
distinct only in the anterior part, and there are two dorsal very faint
costules on each side; propygidium broad, covered with fine asperous
punctures each bearing a fine, short, appressed flavescent hair ;
pygidium small, vertical, punctured like the pygidium and also
clothed with a short, appressed pubescence, the sides of the abdominal
segments are similarly punctured and pubescent, the penultimate
abdominal segment is nearly twice as broad as the ante-
penultimate, and the legs are villose and irregularly foveolato-
punctate.

Length 17-214 mm.; width 8-94 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon).

Gen. CYCLOMERA, Klug,
Monastb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 658.
Diaclaspus, Brensk., Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1896, p. 359.

Mentum broad, convex, bulging laterally with the outer angles
sharp at their junction with the narrower ligular part which is short,
deeply emarginate near the lateral insertion of the palpi, expanding
a little towards the apex where it is broadly emarginate in the
middle, separated from the mentum by a plainly triangular, some-
what indistinct suture; the two basal joints of the labial palpi
short, broad, apical one strongly swollen on the outside; maxille
moderately long, somewhat narrow, upper lobe laminate, rounded at
the tip and emarginate and ciliate inwardly and also along the
margin, inner lobe projecting beyond the base of the upper one as
a somewhat sharp hooked tooth, and densely ciliate ; maxillary palpi
moderately long, last joint fusiform, nearly as long as the two pre-
ceding, which are of nearly equal length ; mandibles triquetrous, not
much curved at apex; head strongly declivous from the vertex to
the apical part of the clypeus, and not quite as long as the latter,
sharply carinate laterally for half the length, the vertex higher than
the broad basal part and having a more or less sharply defined trans-
verse prominence, frontal part separated from the clypeus by a
groove the edges of which are sometimes slightly carinate, the
anterior vertical part of the clypeus is not very broad, the anterior
margin is reflexed, the labrum is strongly developed, transverse, not
incised ; the 10-jointed antennz have a tri-jointed club as long as

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the five preceding joints, the sixth and seventh are compressed and
more or less sharply angular inwardly, the third is not longer than
the fourth ; prothorax a little ampliated and rounded laterally in the
middle, sinuate in the posterior part and with the basal angles either
sharp (dispar, rikatlensis) or moderately rounded (delagoensis), basal
part moderately sinuate; scutellum cordate; elytra sub-parallel,
somewhat depressed in the dorsal part, covering only the basal part
of the propygidium, pygidium sloping; anterior tibiz tri-dentate
outwardly, and with a slender inner spur, no oblique carina on the
outer part of the intermediate and posterior ones, the latter are
dilated at the apex, the spurs are compressed, the upper one is either
broadly rounded (rikatlensis) or blunter than the lower, the tarsi are
long, slender, bristly at the apex of the joints, and also beneath in
the case of the posterior ones, the basal joint of which is not longer
than the one following, but plainly wider ; claws long, slender, some-
what widened at the base and having a post-median, short, vertical
tooth; membranaceous hinge of the ultimate abdominal segment
very plain.

Although I have not seen Klug’s type of the genus, the excellent
figures given of C. dispar leaves no doubt as to the identity of
the insect. Brenske’s genus Dvaclaspus founded on a species,
D. delagoensis, is in all respects identical with Cyclomera.

I know only the males of the three species I include in this genus,
but Klug has given the figure and description of what he believed to
be the female of Cyclomera dispar, Like the females of the two
species of Macrophylla known to me, it is more heavily built than
the male, more convex, the femora are very short and thickened, the
hind ones almost resembling a disk, the tibise are short, the hind
ones even shorter than the femora, tolerably three-cornered, and
nearly as broad as long at the apex, with the spurs strong, short,
and bluntly pointed ; the tarsal joints are very short, and the claw
very small.

The species included in this genus are densely but somewhat
briefly hairy on the prothorax and scutellum, and have a very long
pubescence on the pectus; the elytra are shagreened and clad with
a very short, appressed pubescence.

Key to the Species.

A?, Frontal part simple.
B?. Head with a clypeal not grooved keel.
C?. Clypeus rounded in front.

Keel very high, seventh antennal joint compressed and
acuminatelimwardly 925) 2 fe cr Aen ere CS ICU tee

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Keel moderately high, sixth antennal joint compressed
and acuminate, seventh laminate and one-fifth the length
Oli HO Clit) se G6 6S Be So do Go oa oa oo WOlna Ee

At, Frontal part plainly bi-impressed.
Bt. Keel plainly grooved.

Keel high, seventh antennal joint compressed and acuminate rikatlensis.

Ct. Clypeus acuminate in front.

CycLOMERA DisPar, Klug,
Peter’s Reis. n. Mossamb., 1862, p. 256, pl. xv., figs. 2-3.

C. natalensis, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 81.

Male: Fuscous, with the under side antenne and legs piceous, or
fuscous with the sides of the prothorax the elytra and abdomen
testaceous-red ; head and clypeus covered with deep, almost con-
tiguous punctures separated by sharp walls, and briefly pubescent,
the punctures on the frontal part and on the vertex are almost
scrobiculate, the latter is somewhat densely pubescent, the ledge on
the vertex is plainer in some examples than in others, and there is
also occasionally a faint longitudinal prominence in the centre of the
frontal part; prothorax closely shagreened, densely hairy, the hairs
flavous, rounded and ampliated laterally in the median part, sinuate
in the posterior, and with the basal angles distinct, base moderately
sinuate and having a dense fringe of short hairs; scutellum cordate,
densely pubescent ; elytra parallel, slightly broader at the shoulders
than at the base of the prothorax, depressed on the dorsal part,
briefly ciliate along the outer margins, closely shagreened, clothed
with a fine, very short appressed flavescent pubescence, plainly
striate along the suture only, but having also some irregular, very
faint longitudinal striz or costules ; propygidium finely aciculate ;
pygidium scabroso-punctate and faintly pubescent ; abdominal seg-
ments, scabroso-punctate, briefly pubescent; pectus and femora
clothed with a long and very dense flavescent pubescence ; tibie
villose; hind ones deeply punctate, upper spur lanceolate ;’ basal
tarsal joint longer than the following, and much wider; penultimate
abdominal segment very much wider than the one preceding.

Female: “ Differs from the probable male in colour and clothing,
particularly in the structure of the legs, the antennal club is rela-
tively smaller and dark; it is more convex, the colour is not black,
but light chestnut-brown, the punctures are weaker, the hairy cloth-
ing reddish-yellow, and less distinct above than underneath and at
the sides; on the head the keel which divides the vertex from the

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frontal part is sharper than in the male; the prothorax is strongly
convex in the middle, as broad as long and with the hind angles
rounded; elytra more rugose than punctured, and not without
indication of some imperfectly formed shallow grooves; femora and
tibia short, thickened, covered with impressed punctures, lightly
hairy, tarsal joints rudimentary and becoming still smaller towards
the claw joint, claws also very small, but not without the tooth
underneath.”

Length 174-20 mm.; width 83-10 mm.

I have received from Durban two examples taken at the same
time, one with fuscous, the other with testaceous-red elytra. The
latter greatly resembles the figure of C. castanea, KI.

Hab. Natal (Durban), Mozambique (Inhambane, teste Klug).

The description of the female is taken from Klug.

CyYCLOMERA RIKATLENSIS, Nl. Spec.

Very closely allied to C. delagoensis, but a little more slender; the
colour is the same, and so is the general facies, but it differs in the
following points: the clypeus is plainly aculeate in the middle of
the anterior part, the margin is more reflexed, and the median part
of the surface is impunctate, the sides only have some sub-foveate
punctures, the frontal part has a longitudinally raised prominence,
the transverse ledge on the vertex is very distinct, and the surface
is broadly foveate; the prothorax is very finely shagreened and
plainly rounded and ampliated in the middle laterally, but it is
sinuate in the posterior part with the outer angle sharp, the pubes-
cence is the same as in C. natalensis ; the elytra, however, are very
coriaceous instead of being shagreened, and are glabrous except
along the outer margins under the humeral and the rounded pos-
terior parts where there are a few appressed, short, fulvous hairs
in addition to the marginal fringe, which is rather long ; legs as in
C. natalensis, but the two basal joints of the hind tibie are not quite
so broad, and the upper spur is more broadly dilated and rounded
at the tip.

Length 20 mm.; width 84 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Rikatla).

CYCLOMERA DELAGOENSIS, Brensk.
Diaclaspus delagoensis, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1896, p. 360.

Chestnut-red, with the elytra slightly darker; palpi and antennz
somewhat ferruginous, club sub-flavescent ; clypeus and frontal part

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briefly pubescent, the pubescence longer and erect on the vertex,
prothorax and scutellum clothed with a long appressed flavescent
pubescence, not dense enough to hide the sculpture; elytra also
clothed with very minute appressed fine hairs, pectus densely
pubescent ; abdomen and pygidium with fine appressed hairs; head
and clypeus covered with very closely set sub-scabrose punctures ;
prothorax ampliated and rounded laterally in the middle, a little less
attenuated thence towards the distinct basal angle than in the
anterior part, but not sinuate, outer margin plainly serrulate in the
posterior part, base bi-sinuate and having a dense fringe of short
flavescent pubescence, finely shagreened and with the appressed
hairs somewhat silky; scutellum closely punctate; elytra almost
cylindrical but somewhat depressed in the median dorsal part, very
finely and closely shagreened, having faint traces of four costules on
each side, the juxta-sutural stria is very often completely obliterated ;
the humeral callus is denuded and slightly punctate ; propygidium
and pygidium very closely aciculate, each aciculate puncture bearing
a moderately long, fine appressed hair similar in length and texture
to those clothing the finely aciculate upper side of the abdominal
segments, the median part of the latter is deeply and closely punc-
tured ; femora deeply punctured, hind ones swollen, joints of hind
tarsi, especially the broadened basal one very deeply punctate, upper
hind spur lanceolate ; penultimate abdominal segment broader than
the antepenultimate, membranaceous hinge of the last joint con-
spicuous.
Length 194-23 mm.; width 94-104 mm.
Hab. Mozambique (Lourengo-Marquez, Maputa River).

CYCLOMERA CASTANEA, Klug,
Peter’s Reis. n. Mossamb., 1862, p. 256, pl. 15, fig. 4.

““One single male example from Inhambane, resembling Clitopa
in structure as well as in colour. Brownish-black, not without
metallic lustre, and covered with long, reddish-yellow hairs as far
as this colour extends, the elytra only are differently coloured, being
brown, but instead of being densely hairy they have a few scattered
hairs; the head is truncate in front, free of hairs up to the vertex,
the clypeus is reflexed at the margin and coarsely punctate, sepa-
rated from the frontal part by an impressed line, the posterior edge
of the latter is swollen and raised, and the vertex is covered with
longer, reddish-yellow hairs; the greatly projecting palpi and the
antennz are brown, excepting the club, which is black; prothorax
densely and finely scaly; scutellum punctate; elytra punctate,

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rugose between the punctures, the sides with a yellow-haired
border; legs dark, excepting the femora which are paler and
reddish-brown, the tarsal joints shiny brown, the tibie with
rusty-brown hairs. —

“ Length 84 lin.”

I have not seen this species. In the figure given by Klug the
clypeus is a little more acuminate in front than in C, dispar, thus
resembling that of C. rikatlensis.

Gren. PERICLITOPA, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1896, p. 358.

Closely allied to Cyclomera and only distinguished by the shape
of the antennz, the elongated tri-jointed club of which is either
considerably or distinctly longer than the pedicel, and curved, and
by the bi-dentate anterior tibiae and the non-dilated basal joints of
the hind tarsi. The head and buccal organs, the vestiture, shape,
and claws are as in Cyclomera, the pygidium is also very sloping.

Key to the Species.
A?. Clypeus separated from the head by a suture.

Suture very plain, clypeus transverse, not much arcuate in front;
club of antenne more than twice the length of the pedicel, and
(qonrtolloROWEh oa, GG oo 0G 06 00° Go co oo So an 56 JNM.

Suture almost obliterated, clypeus broadly rounded laterally ; club
of antenne a little longer than the pedicel, inner joint black, like
the pedicel, the other two flavescent .. .. .. .. .. «. .. varicornis.

All the joints concolorous, chestnut-brown 56 GO po sa 60. Mlmtararsaliays
At. Clypeus separated from the head by a sharp carina.

Clypeus plainly narrowed laterally towards the slightly blunt
apex, ledge on the vertex prominent; club of antennz three
times! as) long as! the jpedicelly) ys) Werte cite aren tetsnn elton COILED) Dn

PERICLITOPA FISCHERI, Brensk.,
Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1896, p. 358.

Head and prothorax fuscous, anterior part of clypeus, under side,
legs and antenne brownish-red; elytra dark chestnut, clypeus with
a very plain suture, transverse and with the outer angles very little
rounded, margins strongly reflexed, it is roughly punctured and

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briefly pubescent, the frontal part is somewhat scrobiculate, very
plainly carinate laterally and densely hairy especially on the vertex ;
club of antennz more than twice as long as the pedicel, the joint
preceding the club sub-laminate ; prothorax clothed with a very
dense fulvous pubescence, finely shagreened, rounded laterally just
a little before the median part; sinuate in the posterior the outer
angle of which is sharp; scutellum covered with a pubescence
similar to that of the prothorax; elytra very coriaceous, and
covered with minute flavescent appressed hairs springing from
every interstice, plainly sinuate laterally, depressed on the dorsal
part, the juxta-sutural stria is well defined, and there is on each
side two very faint dorsal striae and two supra-lateral costules,
the margins, including the sutural ones, have a fringe of densely
set, short, fulvous ciliz; propygidium, pygidium, and abdominal
segments aciculate, each puncture bearing a fine somewhat flaves-
cent hair, these hairs being much more dense on the upper side of
the segments ; pectus and femora covered with a very dense, long,
light fulvous pubescence; intermediate and posterior tibize with a
very rudimentary oblique carina, anterior ones bi-dentate outwardly
but having also an indication of a third rudimentary basal tooth ;
hind tarsi somewhat bristly underneath; apical spurs of hind tarsi
sharp.
Length 19 mm.; width 9 mm.
Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

PERICLITOPA GARIEPINA, N. spec.

Piceous, with the antenne fulvous, the long pubescence clothing
the prothorax, the scutellum and the pectus is light fulvous ; head
and clypeus closely and roughly punctured, briefly pubescent, but
the hairs on the vertex are long; the clypeus is plainly narrowed
laterally towards the truncate apical part and is separated from the
head by a very sharp keel, the ledge on the vertex is very plain and
is united with the clypeal keel by a longitudinal median ledge; the
club of the antenne is three times as long as the whole pedicel and
strongly curved, the joint preceding the club is produced into a
short laminated process; prothorax finely shagreened, moderately
rounded laterally, but slightly less narrowed towards the posterior
than towards the anterior part, and with the basal angle rounded ;
elytra sub-parallel, but slightly narrower at the posterior declivous
part than at the base, strongly coriaceous and with a minute,
appressed greyish hair in each interstice; pygidial part with
appressed, somewhat long hairs; abdominal segments more deeply

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punctured than the pygidium, each puncture bearing a somewhat
long, fulvous hair; some of the legs are missing in the only example
that I have been able to examine, but the hind tibize have no traces
of an oblique carina, and the hind spurs are sharp.

Length 17 mm.; width 8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska).

PERICLITOPA VARICORNIS, Nn. spec.

Black, with the elytra light earthy-brown, vertex of head, pro-
thorax, scutellum, upper side of abdominal segments and pectus
clothed with a long, dense, greyish pubescence; antennze black
with the seventh joint as well as the ninth and tenth, these last
two forming part of the tri-jointed club, pale testaceous, the third
inner joint of the club black like the pedicel, which is only a little
shorter than the club itself; clypeus blunt in front and with the
outer angles broadly rounded, somewhat short, not plainly separated
from the frontal part by either a suture or a keel, the vertex has no
distinct transverse ledge, the surface of the whole head is strongly
shagreened and the hairs on the frontal part are very long; pro-
thorax rounded laterally and with the posterior angles distinct but
not sharp, finely shagreened; scutellum closely punctate; elytra
sub-parallel but plainly narrower at the posterior part than at the
base, very faintly costulate, finely shagreened and clothed with very
short appressed hairs springing from each interstice; pygidium
strongly sloping backwards, plainly punctulate, each puncture with
a somewhat long greyish hair; anterior tibize bi-dentate outwardly ;
hind tibize without an oblique ridge, and not much dilated at apex,
hind spurs sharp; claws reddish.

Length 13-134 mm.; width 6-62 mm.

Transvaal (Lydenburg).

PERICLITOPA DUBIOSULA, 0. spec.

Closely allied to P. varicornis and differing mainly in the colour
of the antennex, all the joints of which are chestnut-brown ; the
pubescence of the head, prothorax, and pectus is greyish and
equally long, but the elytra are slightly more roughly shagreened
and chestnut-brown; the pygidium, under side, and palpi are also
chestnut-brown.

Female unknown.

Length 15 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg).

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PERICLITOPA ERICHSONI, Klug.

Clitopa erichsont, Peter's Reis. n. Mossamb., 1862, p. 254, pl. xv.,
fig. 1,

““Resembles a Rhizotrogus of medium size, but is peculiar in
colour. The upper side is dark brown, and with the exception
of the clypeus densely punctured, the frontal part is excavated,
sharply edged in front by a straight, prominent transverse keel,
and divided from the vertex by a lower keel, the clypeus is smooth,
projecting in an inclined direction, with the margin reflexed, the
antenne are reddish; the head and prothorax wrinkled, densely
grey-haired, more lightly rugose and hairy on the elytra, which
are of a redder colour; sternum and legs dark brown like the head
and prothorax and similarly hairy; abdomen brownish-yellow, lightly
rugose and hairy.

A single male, probably from Inhambane.

Length 7 lin.”

I have not met with this species, which, however, is figured by
Klug. The description of this author is unfortunately not complete
enough to enable one to decide whether it belongs to Clitopa, Peri-
clitopa, or Cyclomera. In the shape of the head with its clypeal
and frontal transverse keels and the sloping clypeus it resembles
some species of Periclitopa or Cyclomera. Judging from the figure,
it differs from Cyclomera in the longer antennal club, and owing
to the tibize being bi-dentate outwardly it should be included in the
genus Clitopa.

PERICLITOPA BRENSKEI, Brancs.,
Jahr. Ver. Trencs., xvi., 1897, p. 114, pl. iv., fig. 6.

‘«Piceous, pectus and thorax clothed with long greyish hairs,
which are fulvous, shorter and dense on the vertex and mouth parts,
clypeus divided from the vertex, ovate-transverse, roughly punctate
and sprinkled with hairs, anterior margin broadly reflexed; antennze
piceous, club darker than the pedicel; thorax black, transverse,
twice broader than long, rounded laterally, more attenuated in front
than behind, posterior angles oblique, anterior more obliquely
rounded, emarginate in front, bi-sinuate behind, roundly produced
laterally in the median part, disk very closely punctate, the punc-
tures sub-rugulose ; elytra as broad as the thorax, prominent at the
shoulders with the sides sub-parallel, singly rounded at apex, pale
yellowish, with the lateral, apical, and sutural margins darker,
densely punctate, with the punctures now and then sub-rugulose,
and bearing short, greyish hairs, the dorsal part bears three very

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obsolete raised lines, and the lateral margin is fringed with long ciliate
hairs, especially towards the shoulders; pygidium in the shape of
an elongated triangle, rounded at apex, more sparingly punctate
than the elytra; pectus clothed with a long and dense pubescence,
which is shorter and less dense on the prothorax ; legs concolorous,
pitchy black, tibize and tarsi with fine red sete ; femora compressed,
hind ones dilated; anterior tibiz strongly bi-dentate, third tooth
extremely worn out, apical denticules not sharp, posterior tibiz
stronger at apex, tarsi elongate.”

Length 15-18 mm.; width 7-9 mm.

Hab. Region of the Zambesi River (Boroma).

I have not seen the type of this species, which, according to
Brancsik, is pronounced by Herr Brenske to be closely allied to
P. Fisheri, Br. Branesik’s figure answers well to that of Clitopa
bohemani.

Gen. PARACLITOPA, Waterh.,
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xv., 4th ser., 1875, p. 407.

‘Very close to Clitopa, but differing in the following particulars :
Clypeus separated from the forehead by a strong line, completely
rounded in front, with the margins reflexed. Forehead with a well-
marked transverse arched keel. Antennez 10-jointed ; the first joint
large, the second narrower and transverse, the third a little longer
than broad, slightly narrowed at the base, the fourth shorter and
with the internal apical angle slightly produced, the fifth shorter
and produced into a short lamella, the sixth and tenth forming a
moderately long-curved club. Elytra slightly narrowed towards the
apex, and not covering the abdomen very perfectly. Anterior tibize
tri-dentate.”’

PARACLITOPA LANUGINOSA, Waterh.,
Loe. cit., p. 407.

‘‘ Fusco-griseous, pubescent; head piceous black, body testaceous
underneath, antennz flavous; head closely punctulate, margin of
clypeus reflexed ; prothorax twice as broad as long, convex, finely
and closely punctulate, clothed with long testaceous hairs, sides and
posterior angles rounded ; elytra a little wider than the thorax and
two and three-quarters as long, slightly narrowed towards the apex,
covered with closely set asperous punctures, briefly pubescent,
singly rounded towards the apex ; pectus clothed with long testa-
ceous hairs.

Length 6 lin. ; width 23 lin.

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Hab. Wake N’Gami.”

This species is unknown to me. I am, however, informed by Mr.
‘Waterhouse that it is ‘‘ very near Periclitopa varicornis. but that it
has yellow antennz and abdomen, and the elytra are not quite so
finely sculptured.”

Gen. CLITOPA, Erichs.,
Nat. Ins., iil., 1847, p. 653.

Male: Mentum sub-orbicular or rounded laterally, incised and
projecting along the base of the ligular part and separated from it by
a plain suture, the ligular part is angular at the base, rounded
laterally and attenuated towards the apex which is semicircular,
the labial palpi are only bi-jointed owing to the basal one being fused
with and sunk into the outer face of the ligula, set very obliquely,
contiguous at the base, and with the upper part assuming the shape
of a broad oblique condyle, on which the second joint is articulated,
the apical joint is very strongly swollen outwardly and somewhat
acuminate at the tip, but straight inwardly ; the maxille are straight,
somewhat dilated and truncated at the apex, hollowed inwardly, the
basal joint of the maxillary palpi is inserted in the apical part in a
line with the upper lobe which is slightly hollow, bluntly marginate
and bearing three stiff setae on the outer margin of the concave part,
the inner lobe is hardly distinct, yet corneous, and not fasciculate ;
maxillary palpi long, second and apical joints elongated, the latter
ampliated outwardly, straight inwardly; paraglosse of the ligula in
the shape of two contiguous, nearly oblong, hairless lobes, not pro-
jecting beyond the constricted part of the ligula; clypeus somewhat
shorter than the head, and either divided from it by a distinct carina
or a groove, coneaye, straight or little curved in front, broad in the
anterior part and with the upper margin much reflexed; labrum
broad, transverse, not emarginate; eyes large, frontal part not cari-
nate laterally, nor transversely on the vertex; antenne 10-jointed,
the club as long as the pedicel and tri-jointed, third joint somewhat
elongated, equal in length to the two following, sixth and seventh
compressed, inner angle of the latter projecting greatly, sub-laminate ;
thorax regularly and moderately rounded laterally, and with the
basal angle sharp, very strongly bi-sinuate at the base, clothed like
the head with a very deep, more or less erect pubescence ; elytra
slightly but regularly ampliated along the outer margin from the
humeral part to past the middle, and plainly narrowed thence to past
the middle, depressed on the upper side, and covering the basal part
of the propygidium, briefly but densely hairy, the hairs appressed ;

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pygidium triangular, truncate at the apex; abdominal segments,
legs, and pectus densely villose ; anterior tibiz with two very long
outer teeth, especially the apical one, and a very small inner spur ;
intermediate and posterior tibie with an entire, sharp, ciliate, oblique
carina, apical part of the posterior not much dilated, spurs long,
sharp ; tarsi longer than the tibiz, not bristly underneath, claws
long, curved, with the base angular, and a small juxta-basal vertical
tooth.

Female: Mentum moderately wide, broadly triangular at apex, and
with the very short labial palpi inserted laterally, last joint very
swollen, maxille straight, quite edentate, basal joint of maxillary palps
very minute, second and third swollen at apex, fourth strongly fusi-
form, clypeus semicircular with the margin reflexed and slanting in
front, shorter than the frontal part and separated from it by a high
transverse keel (C precalva), frontal part with a plain lateral ridge, but
no distinct transverse basal one; antenne 9-jointed, club 3-jointed,
ovate, last joint of pedicel laminate but very short; eyes very little
exposed on the upper side, but facetted like those of the male; pro-
thorax nearly twice as broad as long, not much attenuated in front,
rounded laterally; scutellum very broad and long, sub-ogival at
apex; elytra short, very widely ampliated in the posterior part the
hind margin of which is straight, but moderately rounded laterally,
not much convex and not covering completely the propygidium, and
wingless; pygidium broadly triangular, vertical; abdominal seg-
ments projecting beyond the margin of the elytra, but very deeply
sutured ; metasternum somewhat narrow ; anterior tibize tri-dentate,
the upper tooth very small, the lower one very long, tarsi very short,
claws also short, weak, simple, hind tibize with faint traces of an
oblique ridge in the intermediate only, not on the hind ones which
are moderately ampliated at apex, hind spurs not much thickened.

From the description of the generic characters of the two sexes it
will be seen how different they are from each other. Mr. G. A. K.
Marshall, who has discovered both sexes of one species in the
Matoppos, near Buluwayo, has sent me the following account of its
capture: ‘The male was flying about in some numbers in the hot
sunshine close to the ground over a limited area, and while we were
catching them, Sheppard called out to me that he had found about a
dozen coming out of a hole in the ground. Shortly afterwards I
found a similar bunch of them, but instead of coming out of the
ground I found that they were burrowing into it after a single
female. On digging her out I was very much surprised to find how
utterly different she was from the males in every way. At first I
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search we found several more, and there can be no doubt whatever
as to the relationship of the two forms. So far as I could ascertain,
the female does not come out of her burrow at all, but merely sits in
it with the end of her abdomen exposed; the passing males soon
collect round her, there being usually from six to twelve, and they
buzz about and tumble over one another in a most aimless manner.
After a few moments the female begins to descend into the earth,
and the males dig frantically in order to follow her. By this time
most of them will have flown, and only three or four which have got
the best start continue digging. I do not know to what depth they
finally go, though in one case I found a female about four inches
down with two males still following her. The flight of males only
lasted three days. In the case of Clitopa rufiventris the flight was
evidently just over, for we only found the males resting on the
herbage.”

I have taken Clitopa bohemani, Blanch., as the type of the genus,
but I am not at all sure that it was founded on that species by
Erichson. If, as I am inelined to believe, it was on the species
from Mozambique described eight years afterwards by Klug under
the name of C. erichsoni, the genus would be identical with Per-
clitopa, Brensk. I am afraid, however, that this point can never be
elucidated.

Key to the Species.
A?. Clypeus separated from the frontal part by a suture.

B?. Clypeus and frontal part clothed with erect, stiff, bristle-like
hairs.

a?. Elytra very plane, slightly broader across the base than
across the apex.

Elytra testaceous, with the suture and outer margins
fuscous, the pubescence scattered, fine .. .. .. +. bohemant.

Elytra chestnut-brown, outer margin slightly fuscous,
the pubescence somewhat dense.. .. -- -- ++ ++ zambesina.

at. Elytra not very plane, not broader across the base than
across the apex.

Body piceous or piceous-brown ; elytra concolorous... rufiventris.
A‘. Clypeus separated from the frontal part by a keel.
B*. Clypeus partly or wholly bare.

Clypeus with an inner fringe of stiff hairs along the margin
only ; elytra with five bands of greyish-white hairs .. -. precalva.

Clypeus bare; elytra with minute, hardly visible hairs .. nitidipennis.

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CLITOPA BOHEMANI, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom., 1850, p. 164.

Head, prothorax, scutellum, and pygidium fuscous-brown, elytra
bright testaceous with the suture and the outer margins fuscous,
under side and legs reddish-brown ; antenne and palpi light ferru-
ginous red; head and clypeus coarsely punctate, the latter a little
amplhated laterally at the anterior part, straight in front with the
angles rounded, a little shorter than the head, not separated from
the frontal part by a suture but having instead a smooth, narrow,
impunctate, transverse band, difficult to distinguish owing to the
dense covering of upright fulvous hairs, which, however, are replaced
on the anterior part of the clypeus, especially on the margin, by stiff
ciliate ones ; prothorax hardly convex and very sloping, covered with
almost contiguous punctures, emitting each a very long decumbent
or appressed flavescent hair, forming thus a very dense pubescence ;
clypeus as pubescent as the prothorax ; elytra a little broader at the
base than the prothorax, covered with irregular punctures each
bearing a very short appressed greyish hair, the juxta-sutural stria
is distinct, and there are on each side two fairly well marked dis-
coidal costules and a plainer supra-marginal one, the humeral callus
is impunctate, and the elytra are broader at the base than across the
posterior declivity, not distinctly ampliated laterally in the middle,
and the outer margins have a fringe of not closely set sete; pygidial
part closely aciculate and with appressed greyish hairs; abdomen,
pectus, and femora clothed with a long, very dense greyish pubescence
with a slightly flavescent tinge.

Length 15-16 mm. ; width 8-84 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Upper Limpopo River).

CLITOPA ZAMBESINA, nN. Spec.

Resembles C. bohemamni, but is larger and has a more depressed
appearance on the upper side; the clypeus and head are clothed
with similar hairs, but the clypeus is very plainly sinuate in
front, the prothorax is also sloping but the pubescence is more
fulvous ; the chestnut-brown elytra are much more closely punctate,
and are therefore more coriaceous and the appressed hairs more
numerous, they are plainly broader at the base than across the pos
terior declivous part, the discoidal depression is very distinct, and
they are not costulate on both sides, the juxta-sutural stria is
obliterated past the median part; the pygidial part and under side
are as in C. bohemani, but even more densely hairy.

Length 18 mm.; width 10 mm.

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The.shape of the genital armature of the male closely resembles
that of C. bohemani, differing only in the angle of the curvature. It
is quite possible that this species might prove to be only a local
variety of C. bohemant.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (between the Limpopo and the Zambesi
Rivers).

CLITOPA RUFIVENTRIS, Bohem.

Onocheta rufiventris, Boh., Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 82.
C. capra, Arrow, Ann. and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1892, vol. iv., p. 99.

Piceous, with the palpi and often the antennal club piceous-red at
apex ; the head and prothorax have the same shape and the same
vestiture as C. bohemant, the colour of the pubescence is as a rule
greyish, but occasionally it is light fulvous; the elytra are not so
depressed in the dorsal part nor are they distinctly narrower across.
the posterior declivous part as in C, bohemani and C. zambesina, they
are also much more shagreened than in these two species, and the
greyish appressed hairs springing from the interstices form a denser
covering; some examples have four plain costules on each side,
others not so many, but the supra-marginal one is never wanting ;
the under side is very densely villose, the villosity greyish-white.

Length 15-164 mm. ; width 74-9 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo, Limpopo River, Salisbury).

CLITOPA PRACALVA, N. Spec.

Male: Chestnut-brown, with the median part of the prothorax
fuscous-brown, palpi and pedicel of antenne light chestnut, club
darker than the pedicel, the posterior part of the head, the prothorax,
and scutellum, the pygidium and under side are clothed with a very
long pubescence, greyish-white underneath, but having a slight
flavescent tinge on the upper side, the elytra have each five longi-
tudinal stripes of appressed greyish-white hairs; clypeus deeply
excavated, separated from the frontal part by a slightly bi-sinuate
plain keel, and having a fringe of erect, bristle-like hairs along the
semicircular margin, but in the inner part the frontal part is densely
hairy, the hairs long and not bristle-like, the clypeus is impunctate
except along the margin, and the frontal part is deeply and coarsely
pitted ; prothorax shaped as in the other species and also closely
punctate, the punctures along the base being very closely set ; elytra
coriaceous, not very plane, and slightly wider across the apex than

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and the outer margins have a fringe of very long sub-ciliate hairs;
in the male the antennal club is slightly shorter than the pedicel.

Length 12-13 mm.; width 7 mm.

Female: Reddish-brown, shiny; frons and clypeus deeply pitted,
the punctures almost foveate on the semicircular clypeus the margin
of which is much raised and has an inner row of fairly long, upright,
sub-fulvous hairs, the frontal keel is highly raised, the frontal
part is more densely hairy, and although not carinate along the base
there is a very faint elevation there; prothorax twice as broad as
long, rounded and ampliated laterally in the middle, moderately
convex, fringed on the sides with very long, fine hairs, very sparingly
punctate even on the sides, where each puncture bears a long setose
hair, and having a fringe of shorter ones in the median part of the
base above the scutellum which is large, moderately acuminate at
apex, and closely punctulate ; elytra gradually ampliated from near
the humeral part to three-fourths of the length, and hardly narrowed
thence to the posterior angle which is not broadly rounded, they are
moderately convex, very little dehiscent behind, cover the greatest
part of the propygidium, are shiny, irregularly sub-punctulate in the
anterior part, coriaceous behind, have extremely faint traces of two
dorsal striz, and are fringed laterally and behind with very long
hairs, but are otherwise glabrous ; pygidium very broad at the base,
triangular, vertical, deeply and closely punctate, each puncture being
briefly setigerous, and fringed with long hairs laterally ; abdomen,
pectus, and legs clothed with very long, greyish hairs.

Length 104 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Matoppos).

CLITOPA NITIDIPENNIS, Arr.,
Annals and Magaz. Nat. Hist., vol. ix., 1902, p. 100.

“Bright testaceous, head, prothorax, and scutellum clothed with
pale flavous hairs, which are extremely minute, hardly visible on the
elytra, but long and dense on the rest of the body; clypeus small,
semicircular, bare, shining, roughly punctate, separated from the
frontal part by a strongly elevated keel, this frontal part as well as
the whole posterior part is clothed with long and dense sete ;
antenne reddish-testaceous, the second, fourth, fifth, and sixth joints
are nearly equal, the third a little longer, the club tri-jointed and
longer than the pedicel ; prothorax short, with the sides regularly
curved, strongly contracted in the anterior part, less so behind, hind
margin lobate in the middle; elytra moderately broad, shining, very
minutely hairy, the hairs flavous, the sutural and other cost obso-

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lete, the sutural angles separately arcuate; pygidium small, not
densely pilose; anterior tibia with two long teeth distinctly sepa-
rated, and having a slender inner spur.

Length 18-5 mm.

Hab. Portuguese East Africa.

This species is rather longer than C. rufiventris (C. capra, Arr.),
but the thorax is shorter. The posterior part of the head is covered
with erect sete, the clypeus being naked, shining, and very narrow.
The antenne, like the elytra and the lower surface of the body, are
of a bright reddish-testaceous colour, and the antennal club is long.
The legs and claws are of the normal form.”

I have not seen this species, which differs from C. rufiventris in
the narrow, naked, shining clypeus, divided from the frontal part by
a highly raised keel. This last character is also found in Synclitopa,
Kolbe.

Gren. ACHELYNA, Erichs.,
Nat. Ins., iii., 1847, p. 653.

Mentum long, sub-parallel laterally, faintly separated by an
impressed line from the ligular part which is very short and deeply
and broadly sinuate at the apex, the cotyloid cavities of the labial
palpi are juxta-lateral, but set on the outer face of the ligular part,
the three joints are short, thick, the last one very swollen, turbinate,
and sharp at tip; maxilla robust, triquetrous, the upper lobe is
broad, hollow, with the upper margin serrate and with four distinct
spine-like teeth in the inner part, inner lobe obliterated ; maxillary
palpi long, joints robust, second ampliated at the tip, third conical,
apical one as long as the other two together, cylindrical, slightly
truncate at the tip; clypeus as long as the head, arcuate in front,
triangular in the anterior vertical part, and slightly impressed in the
middle at the apex, labrum obliterated, frontal part simple, without
a clypeal suture; antennz 10-jointed, the seven ultimate joints are
laminate and form a long, not curved, club, the third joint is nearly
equal in length to the basal one, but more slender and somewhat
broadly triangular in the inner side; prothorax moderately ampliated
laterally in the middle, but very little in the posterior part the angles
of which are rounded; scutellum ogival; elytra slightly ampliated
laterally past the median part, deeply punctured and sub-costulate
and covering nearly the whole of the propygidium ; pygidium very
wide, convex, drawn forwards ; abdomen and pectus villose, but the
latter not very densely pubescent; anterior tibiz bi-dentate out-
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tarsi longer than the tibiz, hind ones not ciliate underneath; posterior
half of claws broadened, the lobe-like process truncate at apex,
anterior half slender, hooked.

Key to the Species.

Fuscous; elytra chestnut-brown; clypeus obliquely ampliated towards
the anterior part CR om oc Age “om oo 9nd, ao GMTIAnii

Testaceous ; clypeus straight laterally HO oo «8666 to | Ge HORA

ACHELYNA CLYPEATA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 460.

Fuscous-brown, with the elytra, abdomen, and legs chestnut-brown ;
palpi and antenne flavous; the frontal part bears long, fulvous hairs;
the prothorax has a lateral fringe of similar hairs, and the pectus is
only moderately hairy ; clypeus slightly obliquely expanded laterally
towards the broadly arcuate apical part with the margins strongly
reflexed, covered, exceptalong the anterior margins, with conspicuously
asperous punctures bearing each a long cilia, the head is simple and
punctulate ; prothorax glabrous on the disk, moderately ampliate
laterally, only slightly attenuate from the median part to the rounded
posterior angles and covered with fine, closely set round punctures,
the base is pubescent in front of the scutellum which is cordate,
glabrous and faintly aciculate in the basal part; elytra sinuate
laterally in front of the median part, slightly ampliated thence, and
covered with somewhat deep but not broad, nearly equi-distant
punctures, the juxta-sutural stria is very plain, and there are three
somewhat faint ones on each side; the propygidium is almost entirely
covered by the elytra, the pygidium is broad, convex, very much
drawn forwards and has a fringe of very long, flavescent hairs ; the
abdominal segments are very hairy, and so is the inner part of the
posterior tibia.

Female unknown.

Length 8 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

ACHELYNA TESTACEA, N. spec.

Shaped as the preceding species, but a little larger; the colour is
testaceous-red, and the elytra reddish-yellow, the hairs on the head
and along the prothorax are of a lighter yellow, the sculpture is
nearly the same, but the asperous punctures on the basal part of the
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laterally instead of being somewhat obliquely dilated towards the
anterior part; the punctures on the elytra and also the striate
costules are similar, but the marginal fringe of hairs is dense and
somewhat long.

Length 94 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab, Transvaal (Lydenburg).

PLEISTOPHYLLA, n. gen.

Mentum narrow, parallel, twice as long as broad, apical part
plainly sinuate at the centre and with the outer angles slightly
rounded, no visible suture between the mentum and the lgular
part, labial palpi juxta-lateral, small, apical joint cylindrical;
maxillee somewhat weak, armed at apex with five transversely set,
sharp, not hooked teeth, labial palpi long, last joint a little longer
than the two preceding taken together, nearly cylindrical, but
slightly oblique outwardly at tip, and having there a_ short,
longitudinal impression; head long, parallel laterally, clypeus very
short, parabolic, separated from the frontal part by a semicircular
suture, vertical in front, somewhat broadly but briefly triangular
there and plainly but not deeply notched at the apex, upper margin
reflexed ; labrum entirely obliterated ; eyes very large, very bulging,
completely exposed to view from above, the canthus being most
rudimentary, almost obliterated; antenne 10-jointed, club 8-
jointed, the last seven joints are very long, somewhat flexed
outwardly, and normally set close to each other, but the structure
of the one preceding (the third from the base) is very singular, for it
is nearly as long as the basal one but much more slender, triangularly
dilated at about the median outer part and emits there a laminate
joint similar to those forming the club and only slightly shorter ;
prothorax short with the anterior angles very broadly and the
posterior ones very little rounded, not ampliated in the middle,
not very convex on the disk, and with the basal part not sinuate
laterally, but slightly oblique on each side of the middle ; scutellum
parallel, bluntly ogival at the tip; elytra parallel, with the humeral
angles rounded, costulate, not very convex and covering the pro-
pygidium ; pygidium one-third broader than long, slightly convex (3),
sub-vertical; anterior tibie bi-dentate outwardly, intermediate and
posterior ones with a stiffly ciliated oblique ridge reaching only half-
way across, apical part of posterior tibize not broadly dilated, spurs
long, sharp, set far apart and strongly diverging ; tarsi long, slender,
basal joint of hind ones as slender and very little longer than the one
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process truncate in front, occupying half the length of the claw, and
with the other half curving above it nearly at right angles.
This genus is closely allied to Achelyna.

PLEISTOPHYLLA SINGULARIS, nN. spec.

Head and prothorax brownish-red; elytra chestnut-brown,
antennee and under side pale testaceous, the whole of the frontal
part and the outer and basal margins of the prothorax are densely
villose, and the pectus and femora are clothed with a very long,
dense, light fulvous pubescence ; the whole of the head, the clypeus
included, is covered with scabrose, nearly contiguous punctures ;
prothorax closely and finely punctured, glabrous, somewhat im-
pressed in the median projecting basal part; elytra glabrous, but
with a small fringe of hairs, nearly parallel and with the humeral
angles rounded, deeply and somewhat coarsely punctate, and having
on each side four coste the inner one of which is more developed
than the others ; scutellum glabrous, punctate, and having a median
raised line; pygidium sparsely aciculate and having a fringe of long
hairs not set close to each other; abdominal segments with a similar
fringe ; anterior tibize bi-dentate outwardly.

Length 104-114 mm. ; width 53-6 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

Gen. TRICHIODERA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, 1855, p. 437.

Mentum wide, twice as broad as long, not incised laterally and
partly fused with the ligular part which is sinuate on the sides, as
broad as the mentum at the apex where it is broadly emarginate,
with the angles rounded; labial palpi inserted on the outer face,
tolerably massive, last joint swollen, ovate, acuminate; upper lobe of
maxillee curved and hollowed inwardly, chisel-like at the tip but
briefly denticulate there, inner lobe inconspicuous, ciliate at tip;
mandibles triquetrous, somewhat sharp at the tip and shaped there
like the upper lobe of the maxille, that is to say chisel-like; last
joint of maxillary palpi long, slightly curved, sub-fusiform outwardly,
not much acuminate ; head with a strong, slightly arcuate clypeal
suture, and a finer one on the vertex, not carinate laterally above the
eyes which are large, the clypeus is arcuate in front with the margin
tolerably reflexed, the labrum is moderately narrow and incised in
the centre of the apical part; antenne 9-jointed, third joint
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three parallel joints one-third longer than the pedicel; prothorax
ampliated and rounded laterally with the posterior angles rounded,
clothed with long hairs; scutellum sub-ogival, very hairy; elytra
somewhat short, glabrous, without sutural stria or costules; pygidium
much broader than long, sub-vertical; femora and pectus very
densely hairy; anterior legs tri-dentate and with an inner spur, the
four posterior ones with an entire oblique ciliate keel, the hind ones
moderately dilated at the tip, the spurs sharp ; tarsi longer than the
tibie, claws greatly divaricating and cleft underneath in the manner
of Schizonycha.

TRICHIODERA BICARINATA, Gyllenh.,
Schénh. Synon. Insect., i., 3; App., p. 82.

Testaceous-red, forehead, prothorax, scutellum, and pectus clothed
with a dense, long, flavous pubescence, club of antennx flavous ;
clypeus truncate in front and with the outer angles slightly rounded,
narrower than the frontal part, separated from it by a slightly arcuate,
sharp keel, sparingly punctate, frontal part very closely punctulate,
divided from the vertex by a ridge somewhat obliterated in the centre,
not carinate above the eyes; prothorax ampliated and rounded
laterally, posterior angles rounded, basal part very strongly sinuate ;
elytra slightly wider at the base than the base of the prothorax,
sinuate laterally and ampliated from about the median part, glabrous
but having the outer marginal normal fringe of ciliate hairs, deeply
and equally punctured, and having no costules or striz, not even a
juxta-sutural one; propygidium and pygidium almost impunctate,
the latter somewhat convex towards the apical part, slightly drawn
forward, and fringed with long hairs; femora very hairy; tibie
faintly punctate.

The female is unknown to me. I have seen the type of this
species which is in the Schonherr Collection in the Stockholm
Museum.

Length 11 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town, Fort Beaufort).

PSEUSTOPHYLLA, n. gen.

Mentum straight laterally for one-third of the length, thence
narrowed obliquely towards the apex of the ligular part which is
arcuate and fused with it, condyle of labial palpi narrow, long, quite
lateral, labial palpi bi-jointed, basal joint truncate, short, second joint
a little curved, tolerably cylindrical outwardly and moderately sharp
at the tip; maxille wanting in my example, last joint of maxillary

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palpi cylindrical ; clypeus moderately long, separated from the frontal
part by a sharp transverse keel, blunt in front with the outer angles
rounded and the margins reflexed, slightly declivous in the anterior
part, the labrum short, narrow, not incised, head plainly carinate
above the eyes, frontal part with a moderately raised transverse ledge
separating it from the vertex; antennz 9-jointed, second joint
nodose, third a little longer and narrower than fourth, which is
shaped like an elongated obliquely truncated cone, fifth and sixth
compressed but with their inner side projecting very little and fitting
close against the three joints of the club, which are as long as the
pedicel, but plainly spatulate ; prothorax ampliated laterally and
sub-aculeate in the centre, posterior angles rounded, base sinuate ;
elytra not broader at the shoulders than the base of the prothorax,
but very clearly ampliated from the humeral part, covering half the
propygidium, and with neither suture nor costule; anterior tibize
tri-dentate outwardly, the basal tooth very weak, posterior and
intermediate with an entire oblique ciliate keel, the posterior dilated
at apex, and with the two spurs sharp; anterior tarsi somewhat
short, posterior moderately long, closely ciliate underneath, basal
joint much shorter than the second; claws short, three-toothed, the
upper tooth is sharp and curved underneath, the median one rounded
at the apex but somewhat curved like the apical one and not so long,
and the sub-basal tooth is similar to, but slightly shorter than, the
intermediate one ; pygidium of the male as broad as long, somewhat
drawn forwards.

PSEUSTOPHYLLA PRETORIANA, Nl. Spec.

Testaceous, with the frontal part fuscous and the prothorax
testaceous-red ; clypeus sparsely punctate, labrum densely
pubescent, clypeal keel very high, transverse; frontal part
deeply and closely punctate and having a slight, median
longitudinal raised line, sharply carinate laterally from the
angle of the clypeal suture to the vertex the suture of which
is very distinct, the head is glabrous except the base which
has a broad fringe of short, appressed yellow hairs; prothorax
convex in the posterior part, somewhat angulate laterally in the
middle, sparingly ciliate laterally and along the base, glabrous on
the upper side and covered with deep, round punctures separated
by an interval narrower than their diameter, and having a plain
median longitudinal impressed line; scutellum cordate, punctulate,
nearly glabrous except the basal part; elytra plainly ampliated
laterally at a short distance from the shoulders, slightly depressed

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on the dorsal part, glabrous, but having an outer marginal,
normal fringe of yellowish ciliw, covered with closely set, equi-
distant round punctures, and having no costule or stria, not even
a juxta-sutural one; pygidium as broad as long, sparingly punctate,
frmged with somewhat long hairs, drawn inwards; abdominal
segments and femora very hairy; pectus very densely
pubescent.

Female unknown.

Length 94 mm. ; width 5} mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria).

GAMKA, n. gen.

Mentum parallel, very deeply and broadly emarginate in the
anterior part with the angles rounded, condyle of labial palpi almost
lateral, elongated, sunk in the cavity and very short, like the second,
the apical one moderately long, swollen outwardly, straight inwardly,
obtuse at tip; maxille bearing a few rigid hairs along the inner
margin, straight and laminate at the apex, but having one or two
rigid sete set at right angles to the upper margin, the inner lobe is
seemingly fused with the upper, last joint of maxillary palpi longer
than the other three taken together, and plainly fusiform; labrum
sub-horizontal, somewhat long, vertical at apex and plainly emar-
ginate in front; clypeus truncate in front, with the angles very
little rounded, separated from the head by a fine keel, the latter
without a transverse ridge on the vertex; genz strongly developed,
sub-parallel, eyes only moderately large; antennz 10-jointed, club
6-jointed, arcuate, joints very long, laminate and all of equal length ;
prothorax with the anterior margin arcuate and not hairy, moderately
convex and fringed laterally with long bristles, base slightly bi-sinuate,
posterior angles rounded ; scutellum ogival; elytra sub-cylindrical,
projecting beyond the pygidium which is drawn in, abdominal seg-
ments very narrow, hind cox broad parallel, hind femora swollen,
hind tibia not longer than the femora, broadly dilated at apex ; tarsi
long, slender, claws long, very slender, simple; anterior tibiw
bi-dentate outwardly, inner spur long, slender.

The small insect included in this genus differs from all the South
African Pachypodini in the great horizontal development of the
labrum ; it is not unlike Tulbaghia cereris in general appearance,
but is at once differentiated from the Tribe Ablaberini by the
position of the spurs of the hind tarsi, and the presence of a
labrum.

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GAMKA MINUTA, N. spec.

Male: Head, prothorax, and under side reddish-brown, elytra pale
testaceous, almost stramineous, with the suture narrowly infuscate ;
antennz dark chestnut; labrum nearly half the width and half the
length of the clypeus, margins of the latter plainly raised, the
anterior one transverse, surface deeply pitted, that of the head also
deeply pitted and bearing scattered, upright, flavescent hairs,
clypeal keel sharp, vertex simple; antennal club of male longer
than the head, labrum included, 7-jointed, but the inner joint
is formed by the laminate elongation of the inner basal part of the
fourth antennal joint, the remainder of this particular joint being
compressed and looking as if supporting the base of the fan when
the latter is folded or partially spread; prothorax slightly convex in
the posterior part, rounded and ampliate laterally in the middle, with
the basal angles rounded but with the apical ones sharp, and having
a lateral fringe of long, bristle-like hairs, it is deeply and somewhat
roughly punctate, the punctures being separated in the median part
by an interval equal to their diameter; scutellum brownish, ogival,
impressed at the base; elytra parallel, not much convex except in
the apical part where they project beyond the strongly drawn-in
pygidium, very faintly bi-costulate on each side near the suture,
coarsely punctate, and with a lateral marginal fringe of equi-distant
hairs extending to two-thirds of the length; margin of the punctate
pygidium with a fringe of long hairs; pectus only moderately densely
hairy ; upper margin of intermediate and posterior tibiz with two
angular, bristly projections not continued as oblique ridges on the
outer face of the tibia.

Length 54 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley).

AIPEIOPSIS, n. gen.

Mentum more than twice as long as broad, straight laterally, but
tapering a little towards the apical part which is narrowed, truncated
at the tip, nearly as broad as long, and divided from the mentum by
a plainly triangular suture; labial palpi set in the outer face, joints
thick, the two basal ones short, contiguous, apical one massive, sub-
fusiform outwardly, nearly straight inwardly, not acuminate at tip ;
maxillz long, straight, somewhat dilated towards the apex, and with the
maxillary palpi inserted on the top, on a level with the obtuse, nearly
obliterated, slghtly hairy upper lobe, inner lobe also obliterated but
ciliate ; mandibles very long, slender, sharp at the tip; head plane,
separated by a high transverse carina from the clypeus which is

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strongly declivous, very concave from base to apex, and is provided
along the nearly vertical basal carina with an arcuate smooth ledge,
the apical part of the clypeus slants backwards, is strongly aculeate
at the tip, and penicillate there, the labrum being completely fused
with the clypeus without traces of a suture; eyes large, canthus
very small; antennz 10-jointed, club tri-jointed and as long as
the whole pedicel, third to fifth joints very angular inwardly, sixth
and seventh greatly compressed and sub-lamellate inwardly, the
seventh, however, projecting less than the sixth ; prothorax rounded
laterally and with the basal angles also broadly rounded, not much
convex; scutellum cordate; elytra parallel, somewhat depressed,
without costules or striz# with the exception of the juxta-sutural
stria which is, however, very faint, and covers only the basal part of
the propygidium; pygidium vertical, bluntly triangular; anterior
tibiz sharply tri-dentate ; intermediate and posterior ones with an
oblique, punctulate but not bristly carina, hind tibize very broadly
dilated at the apex, the upper spur long, compressed, rounded at
apex, the lower sharp; hind femora short, swollen. The labial palpi,
tarsi, and claws are missing in my example.

The rudimentary structure of the maxillee coupled with the apical
insertion of the maxillary palpi would seem to imply that the males
of the species included in this genus take no food. In shape it
somewhat resembles Cyclomera and Periclitopa, the buccal organs
of which are, however, very different.

Key to the Species.

Elytra without costules on the elytra, the latter very finely punctured hirsuta.
Elytra with costules on the elytra, the latter less finely punctured .. hirticollis.

AIPEIOPSIS HIRSUTA, N. spec.

Male: Reddish-brown, with the elytra light chestnut-brown, club
of antenne flavescent, frontal part, prothorax, scutellum, and pectus
clothed with a very long and very dense fulvous pubescence,
pro-pygidium and pygidium with appressed, sub-flavescent, fine
hairs similar to but not so dense as those clothing the sides of the
abdomen, femora villose; elytra with a very short, appressed
flavescent pubescence springing from the extremely closely set, fine
punctures which impart to the elytra a finely coriaceous appearance ;
frontal part deeply and somewhat widely punctate, almost scro-
biculate, straight laterally, bounded in front by a sharp transverse
carina, clypeus strongly parabolic in front, very concave, strongly
declivous at the basal part, the declivity bounded in the lower

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by an arcuate ledge, the concave part is faintly punctulate, and the
declivous part smooth ; prothorax finely and closely punctate but the
sculpture is hidden by the long pubescence; scutellum aciculate ;
elytra parallel, somewhat depressed on the upper side and with the
humeral callus distinct and elongated, the juxta-sutural stria is alone
faintly visible, and there are no traces of costules; the pygidial part
is finely and very closely punctured.

Female unknown.

Length 18 mm.; width 84 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls).

AIPEIOPSIS HIRTICOLLIS, Waterh.,
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xv., 4 ser., 1875, p. 406.

‘“Klongated, parallel, convex, brownish, clothed with a flavous
pubescence; frontal part bearing on the anterior part a short,
shining, transverse lamina; clypeus concave, plainly punctulate,
margins strongly reflexed, anterior angles well rounded ; prothorax
broader by two-fifths than long, obliquely narrowed in front, clothed
with along flavous pubescence, anterior angles obliterated, sides
reflexed in the anterior part, shining, base lobate in the middle;
elytra as broad as the thorax and two and a half times as long,
slightly convex, finely punctulate, nearly parallel, briefly pubescent
and bi-costate on each side; under side clothed with long hairs;
anterior tibiz strongly tri-dentate.

Hab. Uake N’Gami.”’

I have not seen this species, which is probably the same size as
B. hirsuta; but Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, whom I asked to compare
my example with his species, writes that it is ‘‘ very near B. (Cyclo-
mera) lurticollis, but the latter has coste on elytra, which are also
less punctured.,”’

PSEUDACHLOA, n. gen.

Mentum fused with the ligular part, narrow, straight laterally
from about one-third of the length, narrowed thence but still parallel
as far as the point of insertion of the palpi, the ligular part is shaped
like a sharp spine; labial palpi massive and inserted on the outer
face of the mentum but not quite contiguous at the base, the second
joint is somewhat triangular and fused with the apical one which is
sharply conical and inserted obliquely on the second, the outer angle
of which, moreover, projects distinctly and bears two long sete ;
maxillz straight, the inner lobe is very plain, and ciliated at the tip,

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the upper one is produced into a slightly hollow quadrangular process
slightly bi-sinuate on the upper edge, serrate on the outer, each
interval of the serration bearing a long hair ; labial palpi long, apical
joint fusiform but slightly more swollen outwardly than inwardly ;
maxille triquetrous, sharp and curved at the tip and having a very
plain inner median tooth ; clypeus nearly as long as the head, concave,
broadly vertical in front, not separated from the frontal part by a
suture or a carina, frontal part with a slight basal transverse ledge,
labrum very narrow, not sinuate ; antenne 10-jointed, the tri-jointed
club of the male as long as the pedicel, seventh joint compressed,
fitting against the base of the club; prothorax a little ampliated and
rounded laterally in the median part, slightly sinuate in the posterior,
and with the basal angles sharp, base strongly sinuate; scutellum
cordate; elytra sub-parallel, somewhat convex and covering the
greatest part of the propygidium ; pygidium large, bluntly triangular,
vertical, plane; abdominal segments free, the penultimate with a
narrow membranous hinge nearly twice as broad as the ante-
penultimate; anterior tibie bi-dentate outwardly; tarsi a little
longer than the tibie the intermediate and posterior ones of which
have a sharp oblique ciliate median carina on the outer side, claws
slender, long, somewhat aculeate underneath at middle.

The insect included in this genus, and the female of which is
unknown, resembles closely the species of Achloa; the head, pro-
thorax, and under side are likewise quite as densely pubescent, but it
differs by the 10-jointed antenne, the singular shape of the labial
palpi, the vertical pygidium, and the bi-dentate tibiz.

PSEUDACHLOA LEONINA, N. spec.

Male: Very light chestnut, somewhat testaceous, head, prothorax,
scutellum and the whole under side clothed with a thick, long, fulvous
pubescence almost as dense as in some species of Sparrmannia ;
clypeus finely, head more deeply punctured, each puncture bearing
a long setulose, erect hair ; prothorax and scutellum finely yet deeply
and closely punctured; elytra sub-parallel, slightly narrower at the
base than the basal part of the prothorax the sharp angles of which
project a little beyond the rounded humeral part, slightly tri-costulate
on each side and faintly striate on each side of the costules, covered
with somewhat scattered, somewhat deep punctures, most of which
bear a somewhat long, appressed light fulvous hair, arranged in
longitudinal rows, the outer margins have a fringe of long, sub-ciliate
hairs; the propygidium is abruptly declivous and like the perpen-
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appressed, light pubescence, very long and fulyous on the abdomen
and legs, and very dense on the pectus.

Length 153-16 mm.; width 8-81 mm.

Hab. Orange River Colony (Parys), Transvaal (Potchefstroom,
Waterberg, Lydenburg).

Gren. TRICHINOPUS, Waterh.,
Ann. and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1875 (4), p. 408.

Mentum very narrow, very elongated, and fused with the ligular
part which bears very long, ciliate hairs, but does not project
beyond the basal joints of the labial palpi, the basal joints of the
palpi are contiguous, set on the outer face, parallel and longer but
not much wider than the second, apical one conspicuously ovate ;
maxille long, club-shaped, rounded and slightly obliquely truncate at
the top where the labial palpi are inserted, the upper and inner lobe
are obliterated, but the inner part bears a few ciliz; maxillary palpi
long, second joint broadly dilated at tip, cone-shaped, apical one sub-
fusiform or nearly cylindrical and not acuminate; clypeus quadrate,
separated from the frontal part by a high transverse keel, plainly
marginate all round, laminate and projecting horizontally at the
anterior part, labrum fused with it or at least without visible suture,
quite vertical for some distance from the laminate projecting
edge, and sharply aculeate; eyes very large, gene distinct and pro-
longed into a canthus dividing the anterior part of the eyes, frontal
part plane, strongly carinate laterally and without any transverse
ledge on the vertex; antennze 10-jointed, the fourth joint is com-
pressed and aculeate in the inner part, and the club consists of six
very long lamellate joints; prothorax plainly diagonally attenuate
laterally in the anterior part, but not in the posterior the angles of
which are moderately rounded; scutellum ogival ; elytra parallel,
faintly bi-striate on the dorsal part, but with the juxta-sutural stria
plain, they have a thick fringe of very long hairs along the outer
margins, and cover the greatest part of the propygidium; pygidium
sub-vertical, acutely triangular, but truncate at the apex; anterior
tibiae bi-dentate, intermediate and posterior ones with an interrupted
ciliate carina dilated at apex; intermediate and hind tarsi very
long, especially the latter, and beset with very long hairs; hind
spurs not sharp at apex, but not compressed, and strongly divari-
cating ; claws long, slender, with the posterior half a little wider
than the anterior, the widened part ending in a very short vertical
tooth.

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The two species included in the genus are very delicate insects
remarkable for the very long slender hairs clothing the hind legs.
The genus is not recorded outside the South African limit.

Key to the Species.

Flavescent, with the frontal part of the head infuscate and with the
prothorax and legs reddish, antenne flavous.. .. .. .. .. .. favipennis.

Fuscous, with the elytra straw-colour, antenne piceous .. .. .. titania.

TRICHINOPUS FLAVIPENNIS, Waterh.,
Loe. cit., p. 409.
Péring., Trans. 8. Afric. Philos: Soc., 1888, vol. iv., pt. 2, pl. i., f. 10.

Head black, clypeus, prothorax, and legs reddish, antenne and
under side flavescent, elytra pale straw-coloured ; clypeus transverse,
straight in front and with the outer angles not rounded, broadly but
not deeply punctate, clypeal carina sharp, frontal part impressed
and with a few shallow punctures bearing a long erect flavescent
hair; antennz as long as the pedicel; prothorax with somewhat
scattered punctures bearing each a very long erect hair equal in
length to those forming a dense fringe along the outer margins, the
punctures are a little more closely set on each side of the median
part of the disk, which has, however, an impunctate longitudinal
band, the basal part is simuate and has a somewhat deep impression
in the centre of the sinuation; scutellum very densely hairy, the
flavescent hairs appressed; elytra deeply and irregularly punctate,
each puncture bearing an erect setulose hair, they are faintly bi-
striate on the dorsal part in addition to the plain juxta-sutural stria,
and the outer margins have a thick fringe of hairs as long as those
on the prothorax, the pubescence on the pygidial part, the abdomen,
the pectus, and the femora is also very long and not appressed ; the
intermediate tarsi have very long setulose hairs at the apical part of
each joint, and the hind tibiz as well as the hind tarsi bristle with
erect fine hairs, each one as long as the joints, the basal one of
which is longer than the second.

Length 94 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Otjimbingue).

TRICHINOPUS TITANIA, 0. spec.
Similar in shape to 7’. flavipennis, but differing not only in the
colouring (the body being fuscous with the elytra also straw-coloured),
but the clypeus is a little shorter, more broadly rounded laterally in

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front, the clypeal carina is visible in the centre only, the piceous
antennal club is shorter than the whole pedicel, the marginal fringe
of hairs on the elytra is much shorter, and so is the pubescence on
the under side, nor are the hind legs bristling with so many erect
hairs.

I have seen only one example of this species, and two, including
the type in the British Museum, of the other, yet owing to the shape
of the clypeal part of the head, coupled with the shorter antennal
club, I think 7. tctania is distinct from T. flavipennis.

Length 9 mm, ; width 33 mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Walfish Bay).

Gen. ACHLOA, Erichs.,
Entomogr., 1840, p. 41.

Nanarcta, Blanch.

Mentum very narrow, parallel, ligular part ogival, basal joints of
labial palpi massive, contiguous, set on the outer face of the ligular
part which they hide, apical joints cylindrical, truncate at the tip, a
little longer than the two preceding taken together ; maxille slender
and having the maxillary palpi inserted at the apex and inwardly
a narrow, tooth-like process, obtuse and penicillate at the tip,
maxillary palpi long, the last one very elongated, cylindrical, slightly
inflexed towards the tip, mandibles triquetrous, sharp at tip, but
without molar tooth or fringe of short hairs; antennz 9-jointed,
joints 3-5 of nearly equal length, 6 compressed, sharply acuminate
inwardly, 7-9 laminate, long and forming the club which is only a
little shorter than the whole pedicel; clypeus more or less concave
with the anterior margin plainly raised, sloping in front, labrum
separated from the anterior part of the clypeus by a plain suture,
triangular, not notched at the tip, but occasionally with a slight
longitudinal impressed line in the centre, head as long as the clypeus
and separated from it by a transverse suture ; eyes large, bulging,
divided in the anterior part by a very short canthus; prothorax
plainly narrowed in the anterior part, very little wider across the
median part than across the base which is bi-sinuate; scutellum
broadly ogival; elytra non-costulate and non-striate except for the
juxta-sutural stria which, however, is nearly obliterated, sub-parallel,
convex, covering half the broad propygidium, and having a row of
long setz along the outer margins; pygidium sloping forwards almost
as much as in some South African Hopline, on account of this great
development of the pygidium the abdominal segments are very
narrowed in the centre, and the penultimate segment has a distinct

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fold; anterior tibiz sharply tri-dentate outwardly and without an
inner spur, intermediate and posterior one with an entire diagonal
carina, and broadening towards the apex, apical spurs set between
the tarsus and the lower angle, both not compressed, sharp at the
tip; tarsi long, slender, joints bristly at the base, the two basal of
nearly the same length, claws long, slender, very little curved,
simple, not thickened or widened at the base.

The two species included in this genus are pale-testaceous insects
whose head, thorax, and pectus are as densely clothed with light
flavescent hairs as some species of Cephalotrichia.

So far as is known the genus has not been met with outside the
South African limit.

Key to the Species.
A?. Body and elytra light testaceous, hairs flavescent.

B?. Clypeal suture semicircularly curved in the centre towards
the frontal part.

Clypeus straight laterally, with the outer angles slightly

rounded ga 868 o0 helvola.
Clypeus narrowed laterally and with the outer angles
broadly rounded Taye fs ise eh VBS [ae Year. se) pdelicatulas
Bt. Clypeal suture transverse.
Clypeus deeply punctured, anterior margin hairless, frontal
part normally pubescent .. .. .. .. «. «. -- «= bdlandula.
Clypeus impunctate, anterior margin and frontal part with
a row of stiff, closely set bristles .. .. .. .. «. -. echinaticeps.
At, Body black, elytra fuscous, hairs greyish.
CIMAEH CONG, BMOMHNGs bo bo 0d 60 65 do oa oo Chifmr

ACHLOA HELVOLA, Erichs.,
Entomogr., 1840, p. 42.

Very light testaceous, and clothed, except on the elytra which are
glabrous, with long, dense flavescent hairs; clypeus slightly arcuate
in front with the outer angles somewhat rounded, nearly straight
laterally, concave and made to appear still more so by the highly
reflexed anterior part, very sparsely punctulate, each puncture bear-
ing an erect hair, divided from the frontal part by a sutural line
which is very strongly arcuated towards the basal part in the centre,
frontal part very closely punctured and densely hairy, the hairs

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erect, prothorax slightly ampliated laterally in the centre, much less
attenuated thence to the somewhat blunt, though not rounded basal
angle, than towards the apex, and with the base strongly bi-sinuate,
somewhat closely punctulate, and clothed with a long, erect pubes-
cence; scutellum punctulate, densely hairy; elytra glabrous except
for a few upright hairs at the base on the inner part of the humeral
callus, and the normal marginal fringe the setose hairs of which are
long, slightly ampliated laterally from the median part, very closely
punctate, the punctures fine but not of equal size, not costulate but
having a distinct juxta-sutural stria obliterated in the posterior part,
this stria has a row of remote, erect, setose hairs very often ob-
literated ; the broad propygidium the pygidium, which slants steeply
forwards, and the abdominal segments bear very long villose hairs
which are extremely dense on the pectus.

Length 10-12 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town; Uitenhage, East London).

ACHLOA DELICATULA, N. spec.

Similar in shape, size, colour, and sculpture to A. helvola but dif-
fering in the shape of the clypeus which is plainly narrowed laterally
towards the anterior part the outer angles of which are much
rounded, the marginal reflexed part is plainly sinuated, and even
incised at the centre.

Length 10-104 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Albert).

ACHIOA BLANDULA, Nn. spec.

This species is very closely allied to both the preceding ones ; the
colour, size, and vestiture are identical, but the clypeal suture, the
upper edge of which is slightly carinate, is transverse, and the clypeus
itself is deeply and irregularly punctured, almost scrobiculate ; the
punctures on the elytra, and especially on the propygidium,
pygidium, and abdomen are much deeper than in any of the other
species.

Length 10-104 mm.; width 54-6 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Boksburg).

ACHLOA ECHINATICEPS, nN. Spec,

Size, shape, and vestiture of A. helvola which it very closely
resembles, the sculpture is also similar, but the clypeal suture is
only moderately arcuate from side to side, while the clypeus itself is

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a little narrower, slightly attenuated laterally towards the apex,
more strongly reflexed at the anterior part the margin of which
has a fringe of thick, stiff, spine-like erect ciliw, alternately long and
short, and is quite impunctate, the frontal part which is very strongly
punctate has a double row of similarly stiff bristles along the suture,
the basal part, however, is normally hairy ; the rest as in A. helvola.

Length 11-12 mm.; width 6-64 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

ACHLOA CAFFRA, Hrichs.,
Entomogr., 1840, p. 42.

‘‘ Black, clothed with greyish villose hairs, elytra fuscous. Length
5 lin. Body piceous, shining, head and prothorax black. Antenne
testaceous, club a little shorter than the pedicel. Head small,
frontal part somewhat plane, unequally punctate, clothed with
greyish hairs, clypeus concave, smooth. Thorax as broad as the
elytra, slightly narrowed in front, rounded laterally, emarginate at
apex, sub-bisinuate at the base with the posterior angles moderately
obtuse, slightly convex, closely, not at all strongly punctate, the
sides somewhat smooth and more densely pilose, the hairs greyish.
Scutellum sparingly punctate, clothed with decumbent greyish hairs.
Elytra more densely and finely closely punctate, glabrous, testaceo-
fuscous with the margin darker. Pygidium smooth, penultimate
segment with a short, depressed pubescence, last one with long
hairs ; pectus villose, the hairs greyish. Abdomen pubescent, the
pubescence greyish. Legs piceo-fuscous.

‘Not shorter but smaller and more cylindrical than A. heivola ;
the villosity on the prothorax and on the pectus is shorter.

Hab. Kaffirland.”’

I have not yet met with this species.

Gen. GHDANOMERUS, Waiterh.,
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xv., 4th ser., 1875, p. 407.

‘Body thick, somewhat cylindrical, hairy. Clypeus and frontal
part each with a sharp transverse carina. Mentum small, diamond-
shaped, truncate at the base. Labium and labial palpi not found.
Maxilla short, acuminate, with the apex slightly truncate. Maxillary
palpi with the basal joint very small; second joint much larger and
about three times as long as the first, truncate at the apex, the third
joint slightly transverse, the apical joint as long as the two pre-
ceding taken together, inflated, fusiform, longitudinally impressed
above. Mandibles triangular, simple. Antenne rather short,

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8-jointed; the basal joint slightly inflated, the second as broad
as long, the third, fourth, and fifth becoming shorter and broader,
the sixth, seventh, and eighth forming an elongate-ovate thick club.
Anterior tibiz strong, with three teeth on the outer edge; the basal
one small, the apical very long, and reaching to the apex of the
second joint of the tarsus. Tarsi as long as the tibia; posterior
femora very large, ovate, flat on the inner side, convex on the outer
side, posterior tibiz a little shorter than the femur, triangular, with
a strong oblique setiferous keel, the apex furnished on the inside
with two strong blade-like spurs, which are rounded at the apex;
intermediate tarsi long, about twice as long as the tibia; posterior
tarsi a little longer than the tibia. Every claw simple. Abdomen
short; the pygidium large, with the apex nearly reaching to the base
of the femora.” ;

I have not seen the only species included by Mr. C. O. Water-
house in this genus.

(CHDANOMERUS HIRSUTUS, Waterh.,
Loe. cit., p. 408.

“Cylindrical, hairy, the hairs white, chestnut-brown, head and
prothorax piceous-black, vertex, forehead and clypeus having each a
shining, transverse sharp keel; prothorax ample, convex, covered on
each side with asperous punctures, sides rounded (median part
almost angulate), posterior angles rounded ; scutellum smooth ;
elytra equal in width to that of the prothorax, and almost twice
its length, convex, parallel, obtuse towards the apex, moderately
closely punctulate, the punctures asperous, and having on each
side two hardly conspicuous costules. Length 33—4% lin.; width
14-2 lin.

There is a fringe of stiff hairs between the two ridges on the head;
the prothorax is clothed with long whitish hair, the elytra with
white scale-like hair, the under part of the body with soft white
hair.

Hab. Lake N’Gami.”

Trine SPARRMANNINI.

Head, prothorax, and pectus very densely villose, ligula fused with
the mentum, both broad, labial palpi inserted laterally, the apical
joint fusiform and deeply impressed longitudinally; maxilla strongly
and sharply dentate inwardly; labrum present; antennz 10-11-
jointed, club 6-7-jointed in both sexes; eyes divided in front by

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a short canthus, and having a more or less distinct orbital keel, first
five abdominal segments not quite covered laterally by the elytra,
the last one alone mobile; episterna very broad, epimera nearly as
broad and separated by a fine suture; anterior cox transverse ;
spurs of hind tibize or at least one of them broad, compressed, in
both sexes.

The insects for which I propose to found this Tribe are strikingly
peculiar in many respects. They are massive, mostly clothed on the
head and prothorax, pectus, and abdomen with a long pubescence,
which is often extremely dense and very hygrometric; the clypeal
shape is peculiarly their own; they are also remarkable by the
dilatation of the compressed spurs of the hind tibiz, and, as the
number of antennal joints forming the clubis the same in both sexes,
as in some Ablaberint, the female would not be easily distinguished
except for the still more broadly dilated, and often spatuliform hind
spurs. [am not aware of any other Melolonthine in which the number
of antennal joints reach eleven (Sparrnvannia); in this genus, the first
and second joints of the anterior tarsi are spinose inwardly at the
tip, and another peculiarity is that in some species the teeth of the
claws vary in length and position according to the sex, and differ
also in species belonging to the same genus.

As I have already said in treating of the Pachypodiu, they are
closely connected with them; the genus Beriqua of the Melolonthini
does, on the other hand, form a sort of connecting link with the
Sparrmannini?. I suspect them to live in the larval stage in old
termite dung-heaps, like some species of Schizonycha, They are
often met with flying in large numbers at dusk round a small bush,
the crowd consisting probably of males awaiting the emergence of
the females, which are, however, as common as the males.

Apart from one species of Sebaris recorded from Angola, repre-
sentatives of this Tribe have not been met with outside the South
African limit.

Key to the Genera.

Third joint of antennal pedicel very long.
Antenne 11-jointed.*

Apical joint of maxillary palps moderately short, fusiform, labrum
strong, deeply incised ; antennal club 7-jointed Se hee ee | 6Spanymannia.

Antenne 10-jointed.

Apical joint of maxillary palps long, fusiform outwardly only,
labrum very small, sinuate; antennal club 6-jointed .. .. .. Sebaris.

* In S. bechuana the antenne are 10-jointed.

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Gren. SPARRMANNIA Casteln.,
Hist. Natur. d. Col., 11., p. 132.

Leontocheta, Erichs.; Cephalotrichia, Hope.

Mentum rounded and deeply constricted near the median part or
slightly above it, paraglossee very well developed in the inner face,
hairy at the tip but not projecting beyond the mentum which is
broadly but not deeply emarginate in the apical part, and the outer
sides of which slope diagonally, the ligular part is strongly defined
by a transverse suture, and is about one-third of the width of the
basal part of the mentum; labial palpi lateral, apical joint slightly
curved, somewhat swollen outwardly, sub-truncate at the apex;
mandibles strong, deeply concave inwardly and having at apex a
long sub-horizontal lamellate tooth truncate at the tip; maxille
robust, armed at the tip with five sharp teeth set in a row and
having two teeth set transversely under the upper row; last joint
of maxillary palpi fusiform, very swollen in the outer part, sharply
acuminate and deeply grooved along the whole length of the upper
side ; clypeus reflexed, more or less parabolic from a certain distance
from the base, more or less deeply notched at the apex, or simple,
separated from the head by a slightly arcuate suture, vertical in the
anterior part and with the anterior margin moderately reflexed,
labrum broad, nearly bi-lobate; frontal part simple, hairy, divided
from the clypeus by a suture; eyes very large, divided in the anterior
part by the canthus of the gene which are otherwise obliterated ;
antenne 11-jointed, third joint very long, only a little shorter than
the basal one, second moniliform, fourth very minute, club foliated,
7-jointed in both sexes, the two inner joints slightly shorter than
the others, the first, however, is sometimes conspicuously shorter
(S. bechwana); prothorax ampliated and rounded laterally in the
middle, convex; scutellum neither broad nor long, ogival; elytra
slightly broader at the base than the prothorax at its highest
part, slightly ampliated laterally at a short distance from the
humeral part, and covering only the base of the propygidium,
they are not costulate, and the epipleural fold is very much reduced
in the basal part; pygidium declivous, as long as broad at its widest
part, shield-like, somewhat convex in the median part; abdomen
very voluminous; hind cox nearly transverse; metasternum not
very broad, mesosternum simple ; anterior tibiz strongly tri-dentate,
intermediate and posterior ones with two carine en chevron, posterior
tibiae broadly dilated at the tip, and provided with two inner flat
spurs rounded at the tip and conspicuously dilated in the female of

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most species, the apical part is seldom sparsely bristly (S. trans-
vaalica); the tarsi are moderately long, and the joints of equal
length, the two or three basal ones spinose inwardly at tip, the
claws are moderately robust, much curved, and each one has under-
neath a basal and a sub-median vertical tooth varying in length and
also in position in the different species according to the sex.

The species of Sparrmannia are massive insects mostly clothed on
the head and prothorax, the pectus and the abdomen with extremely
dense and long pubescent hairs, giving them a very singular appear-
ance; this pubescence, however, is thinner in two species (S. flavo-
fasciata, S. bechwana), but in others it is like a thick felt on the
upper side except on the elytra. They are crepuscular insects; in
the Karroo they appear in great numbers as the light disappears
(there is no twilight proper in South Africa), and my colleague,
Dr. Purcell, informs me that they are very numerous although local,
and their flight produces quite an audible noise. I have some
reasons to believe that, like some species of Schizonycha they pass
some of their early stage in the accumulated excrements of the white
ants, Hodotermes, sp. sp. They seem to appear in the months of
October and November in the Cape Colony.

Several of the species are very closely allied, but the shape of the
clypeus varies in every one. The valves of the genital armature
differ very much. The only outward character distinguishing the
females from the males are the wider apical spurs of the hind
tibiee.

The genus is restricted to South Africa.

Key to the Species.
A?, Elytra concolorous.

Be. Antenne 11-jointed.

C2. Head and prothorax with a thick, felt-like pubescence
hiding the teguments.

D°. Clypeus incised in front.

Head entirely hidden by the pubescence; clypeus
moderately reflexed, deeply incised in the centre

. F 5 reeiees ( vertumnus.
and not sinuate on either side of the incision

~* (leo.
Head not hidden by the pubescence, clypeus dis-
tinctly reflexed, deeply incised in the centre, and
sinuate on either side of the incision .. .. .. transvaalicu.

Head hidden by the pubescence, clypeus moderately
deeply incised in front, the angles of the incision
not projecting much beyond the margin which is
very little arcuate ee eee ee ae ks. Drleska.

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Head hidden by the pubescence, clypeus strongly
parabolic, deeply incised in the centre, and not
sinuate on either side go, oo “oo 66 5, Ga —GaanEoll@n

D'. Clypeus not incised in front.

Clypeus very briefly arcuate in front, and with the (namaqua.
sides\nearly straicht |. nese yl eee Voschamana-

Clypeus semicircular from side to side .. .. .. fusciventris.

Head hidden by the pubescence, clypeus plainly
arcuate in front and very slightly sinuate in the
Centre “s.. ae =< <a) Ces) oo cep ta) Se eC ONLag UGE

C:. Head and prothorax with very long and fine pubescent
hairs not hiding the tezuments.
Clypeus deeply incised in the centre, the two angles
projecting strongly tooth-like, straight laterally, but
with the anterior angles rounded; lower median
tooth of anterior claws very minute .. .. .. .. distincta.

Clypeus deeply incised in the centre, the two angles
projecting strongly tooth-like, outer angles sharp den-
tate, lateral part bulging in the middle; lower median
tooth of anterior claws very long .. .. .. .. .. diéscrepans.

At. Klytra with a black suture, or transverse black bands.

Elytra with two transverse black patches, and the suture black,
inner joint of antennal club slightly shorter than the one
ooh Aba ORI BOWNObe 160 co oo. oa -do so do: co (Maen

Bt. Antenne 10-jointed.

Elytra with the suture and the outer margin of elytra nar-
rowly black; inner joint of antenne very much shorter than
the following, which is also somewhat shorterthan the third bechuana.

SPARRMANNIA VERTUMNUS, Pall.,
It., i., pl. xliv., fig. 8:; pl. xlyi., figs. 38/739; 405 p 462:

S. alopex, Fabric., Mant. Insect., i., p. 19; Oliv., Ent., i., 5., p. 16,
pl. iv., fig. 35a—0.
S. brunnipenns, Casteln., Hist. Nat., i1., p. 131.

Testaceous, with the elytra pale testaceous, testaceous, or occa-
sionally chestnut-brown; legs slightly reddish-brown, palpi and
antennz reddish-brown, but with the club of antenne flavescent;
head, with the exception of the clypeus, prothorax, and the whole
pectus clothed with an extremely long and dense pale fulvous
hygrometric pubescence, each hair of which stands erect in well
dessicated example, looking like a thick coating of felt if the
specimen has been wetted, the abdomen and also the femora are
clothed with a slightly greyer pubescence nearly akin to that of the

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pectus and the prothorax, but slightly thinner, the two edges of the
tibize have a conspicuous fringe of long greyish hairs; clypeus finely
aciculate, straight laterally for a short distance from the base, thence
parabolic and deeply notched triangularly in the centre, the margin
is plainly reflexed, but the two angles of the incision are not
conspicuously tooth-like, the head is aciculate like the clypeus, the
suture between the two is noticeable if the hairs are removed, there
is no basal carina, yet there is a plain, slightly raised, transverse
elevation ; prothorax twice as broad as long, somewhat convex,
ampliated laterally in the median part, but very broadly rounded
at the basal angle, the sculpture is completely hidden above
and under by the pubescence; scutellum about equal in length
to the width at the base, also hidden by the prothoracie pubescence
as well as by its own; elytra glabrous, shining lightly, yet
somewhat coarsely and irregularly punctate, very faintly tri- or
quadri-striate in the dorsal part, but having a very plain stria at
a short distance from the suture; propygidium and pygidium closely
aciculate, more convex from the base to the apex in the male, more
triangular and distinctly depressed on each side in the female, the
two ultimate abdominal segments are very closely aciculate all over,
and the others closely along the two margins but much less so in the
centre ; anterior tibiz sharply bi-dentate outwardly, the apical tooth
especially strong and long when not worn out, inner spur long,
slender, those of the hind tibiz only very slightly more dilated
towards the tip in the female than in the male. In this sex the
shape of the claws differ much from that of the female, the upper
apical tooth is faleate, and underneath there is an equally falcate
one, as in the genus Schizonycha, and in addition another nearly sub-
basal and falcate, and the base of the claw is only angular, whereas
in the female there is a simple, faleate upper tooth, a vertical, nearly
median, and a shorter, but plain, basal one.

The shape of the genital armature of the male is very distinct from
that of the other species.

Length 19-26 mm. ; width 104-13} mm.

Hab. The typical form with pale testaceous colour seems to be
confined to the Karroo proper or its close vicinity, in the Cape
Colony (Worcester, Fraserburg, Beaufort West, Victoria West,
Prince Albert, Graaf Reinet, Humansdorp, Willowmore, Mossel
Bay, Uitenhage), but the form with light chestnut elytra occurs
in Namaqualand, Bushmanland and Damaraland.

Boheman records this species from ‘‘ Caffraria tota,’’ but it seems
to me probable that this author mistook S. transvaalica for S.
vertumnus.

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SPARRMANNIA LEO, Gyllenh.,
Schonh. Syn. Ins., i., 3; Append., p. 62.

“Testaceous, shining, densely clothed with pallid hairs; elytra
glabrous.

Length 8-9 lin.

Claws longer and more strongly curved, with three teeth, those
of the male with a fine notch next to the apex, and a broad but
short tooth at the base, that of the female shorter, the apex is simple
and they have two distinct sharp separate teeth at the base.”

I have not yet met with this species.

SPARRMANNIA TRANSVAALICA, nN. Spec.

This species, of which I have seen two females only, resembles
closely S. vertumnus, but it is distinguished by the very much
thinner pubescence on the head, prothorax, and abdomen, the
very closely set punctures on the head, which are, however,
smaller than those on the clypeus, are plainly visible, the margins
of the clypeus are more reflexed, and the two angles of the median
incision are much more tooth-like, owing to the margin being some-
what sinuate next to them; the hind spurs of the tibiz, especially
the upper one, are very much more broadly dilated than in the
female of A. vertwmnus, its nearest ally. The elytra are light
flavous.

Length 23-24 mm.; width 12 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg).

SPARRMANNIA CAPICOLA, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLVI, fig. 47.

Smaller than S. vertwmnus, but clothed with a similar pubescence,
the colour is the same, but the elytra are somewhat more roughly
punctured, and plainly more coriaceous, but it differs from S. ver-
twmnus by the more elongated clypeus which is also deeply slit in
the middle with the angles of the incision not dentate, and the
whole surface of which is almost impunctate; by the shape of the
antennal club, the inner joint of which is plainly shorter than the
one following, and by that of the anterior claws of the male,
in which the upper tooth is simple, and only in the basal part
is there a short, vertical one, the basal tooth being obliterated, but in
the intermediate and posterior legs there is a conspicuous, vertical,
slightly post-median tooth and a minute basal one; in the female

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the claws are much more like those of the same sex of vertwnnus,
but the median vertical claw is not so long.

Length 19 mm.; width 10 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

SPARRMANNIA PRIESKA, 0. spec.,
Plate XLVI,, fig. 46.

This species resembles closely S. vertwmnus, and might be easily
taken for a dwarfed race of the same; the pubescence on the upper
and under sides is identical, the shape of the clypeus is also nearly
the same, but it is not quite so deeply cleft in proportion to its size ;
the outer margin iof the elytra and also the suture are a little
darker chestnut-brown than the dorsal part, the hind spurs of the
tibiz are wider in both male and female than in S. vertwnnuws, and
almost transparent, and the genital armature of the male is altogether
of a different type from that of S. vertwmnus, and is narrow and
elongated as in S. capicola, but differently shaped.

Length 133-15 mm. ; width 7-8 mm.

Hab, Cape Colony (Hope Town, Prieska).

SPARRMANNIA NAMAQUA, ND. spec.,
Plate XLVI, fig. 41.

Shape, size, and vestiture of S. capicola, and, but for the much
smaller size, also closely resembling S. vertwmmnus ; the colour of the
elytra is, however, less testaceous, and somewhat light chestnut-
red, and the clypeus is straight laterally for a short distance, thence

moderately diagonal, and only slightly emarginate in the centre with

the angles of the emargination sharp, but not at all dentate; in
the male the lower tooth of the anterior claws is not quite as
apical as in S. vertummus, and is shorter, although as much curved
as the upper, and the third one is slightly more basal; the genital
armature differs much from that of S. vertwninus.

Length 17-19 mm ; width 84-10 mm.

Cape Colony (O’okiep).

SPARRMANNIA BOSCHIMANA, DN. spec.,
Plate XLVL., fig. 42.

A very close ally of S. namaqua, and also of S. vertwmnus ; it is
however, easily differentiated from the latter by the clypeus which
is entire, not even emarginate in the centre in the male, and only
very slightly so in the female ; the pubescence is similar to that of

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the two species mentioned ; the shape of the claws is the same as in
S. namaqua, but the elytra are more finely aciculate, and are also
paler ; the genital armature of the two species are nearly similar, but
the valves are more robust in S. boschimana, and the basal scooped-
out space is strongly angular, and much less so and also more sloping
in S. namaqua.

Length 18-21 mm.; width 10-12 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Bushmanland).

SPARRMANNIA FUSCIVENTRIS, Boh.,
Ins. Cafix., u., p80.

I have only seen Boheman’s type of this species, which is a
female, and almost similar to S. boschimana, the clypeus is re-
gularly semicircular from side to side, and the apical spurs of the
hind tibiz are, especially the upper one, more broadly marginate
than in either S. namaqua or S. boschimana.

Length 20 mm.; width 10 mm.

Hab. Neighbourhood of Limpopo River, teste Bohem.

SPARRMANNIA GONAQUA, 1. Spec.,
Plate XLVL., fig. 43.

This species is somewhat smaller than S. fusciventris and S. boschi-
mana, from which it is almost indistinguishable unless examined
very carefully, but on careful comparison the clypeus is seen to be
differently shaped ; it is not emarginate in the centre as in S. fusci-
ventris, and it is more arcuate than in S. boschimana, and slightly
more sinuate in the centre than in this last-named species, the shape
of the claws of the male is also similar. The difference in the shape
of the genital armature bears out the slight difference in the general
facies. In shape it is not unlike that of these two species, but it is
not at all scooped out in the basal part.

Length 16-17 mm.; width 84-9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Beaufort West).

SPARRMANNIA DISTINCTA, Péring.,
Plate XLVI, fig. 48.
Trans. 8. Afric. Phil. Soc., vol. iv., 1888, p. 103.

Pale testaceous all over, or with the elytra testaceous-red or
reddish-brown ; clypeus straight laterally, then very oblique, deeply
incised triangularly in the centre, and with the angles of the incision

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produced as a reflexed tooth, the outer angles are rounded, the
clypeus has only a few scattered long hairs, and is very weakly
punctulate, the head is plainly and closely punctate, and has very
long decumbent hairs, which are not, however, dense enough to hide
the sculpture ; prothorax covered with closely set small punctures,
each bearing a very long and very fine sub-erect, pubescent hair, but
the whole pubescence is not thick enough to hide the sculpture ; the
same pubescence is found on the scutellum, the apical part of which
is not punctulate; elytra of the normal shape, deeply and closely
punctate, very faintly striated and having along these extremely
faint striz a series of remote, long, sub-appressed, light flavescent.
hairs similar to those on the prothorax, along the median part of the
base and extending triangularly towards the median part of the
suture these hairs are much denser ; the propygidium, the pygidium,
which is sparsely punctured, and the abdomen are clothed with a.
long, but not very dense pubescence, which is, however, much
denser and equally long on the pectus and femora; legs normal,
inner spur compressed, and only very moderately broadened at tip
in the female, the upper one sharp in the male, the anterior claws of
which have each two basal teeth.

This species and also the following one are easily distinguished
from the other concolorous ones by the very much less dense and
more scattered pubescence ; the teeth of the maxille are also longer
and sharper.

Length 17-18 mm. ; width 9-94 mm.

Hab. Natal (Newcastle), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg,
Rustenburg, Johannesburg, Waterberg).

The pale testaceous examples are from the Lydenburg District.

SPARRMANNIA DISCREPANS, Nl. Spec.

Resembles very much S, distincta ; the colour is chestnut-brown
and the hairy pubescence light fulvous ; the elytra are also as deeply
but more closely punctured, but the plain distinctive character is the
shape of the clypeus, the sides of which instead of being straight are
plainly bulging out, and the anterior part plainly quadri-dentate, the
two median teeth being strongly recurved and longer than the two
lateral ones which are, however, plainly reflexed; the rest as in
S. distincta, but in my examples (two females) the tooth on the
under side of the claws is median, and nearly as long as the upper
one.

Length 18 mm.; width 11 mm,

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo).

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SPARRMANNIA FLAVOFASCIATA, Burm.,
Plate XLVL., figs. 36, 37, 45.
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 435.

Fuscous-black, with the elytra testaceous, but having a broad basal
black band and a somewhat broader apical one, the suture has a
narrow black line, and the two bands are sometimes connected by a
similarly narrow line along the outer margin, the width of these
black bands varies considerably ; clypeus impunctate, anterior angles
plainly rounded, median part incised with the two angles produced
into a moderately recurved tooth, with a somewhat plain sinuation
on each side of it, head granulose except along the basal part, clothed
with erect, long, fine, moderately dense pubescent hairs ; prothorax
clothed with a similar pubescence which does not hide the closely
scabrose-punctate sculpture, the base is much more densely villose
than the rest of the prothorax ; scutellum scabrose-punctate, mode-
rately densely pubescent; elytra somewhat parallel, closely and
somewhat densely punctate, very faintly striate, glabrous ; propy-
gidium clothed with denser, appressed greyish-white hairs than the
pygidium, which is somewhat comparatively denuded, owing to
the setigerous scabrose punctures not being closely set ; the sides of
the abdomen are clothed with a thick, appressed, greyish pubescence,
but the median part is almost glabrous, the pubescence on the pectus
and femora is very dense and long; the inner joint of the antennal
club is a little shorter than the one following, and the teeth of the
maxille are very long and sharp; in the male the upper posterior
spur is moderately wide, but in the female it is very broadly spatu-
late, and the lower tooth of the anterior claws is basal in the male,
sub-median in the female.

Length 16-174 mm.; width 8-81 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Burghersdorp), Orange River Colony (Parys),
Natal (Newcastle).

SPARRMANNIA BECHUANA, 0. spec.

Somewhat of the same build as S. flavofasciata, but smaller ; it is
black, with the elytra pale flavous and with the suture and a very
narrow outer marginal band black; in shape the clypeus is nearly
similar to that of S. flavofasciata, but the two median teeth are
longer, the anterior margin is not sinuate, and it is plainly punctate
instead of being smooth; the pubescence on the head and prothorax
is the same, but the prothorax is much more coarsely and broadly

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punctate, and the punctures separated by broader intervals; the
punctures on the elytra, which are also somewhat parallel, are finer
and much more shallow, the pubescence on the propygidium and
pygidium are equally dense, and only the half of the abdominal
segments are clothed with whitish appressed hairs, the median part
of the abdomen is likewise glabrous; the pectus is moderately
densely pubescent, but the hairs on the prosternum, and also along
the basal part of the base of the prothorax, are plainly fulvous, while
the others are white; in the male, the only sex known to me, the
inner posterior spur is very broadly dilated, and the antenne are 10-
jointed, the club 7-jointed, but the inner joint is only a quarter of the
length of the one following, which is also shorter than the third;
the anterior claws have only one basal tooth, but the intermediate
and posterior ones have two apical ones cleft in the manner of
Schizonycha.

Length 14 mm.; width 64 mm.

Hab. British Bechuanaland.

Gren. SEBARIS, Casteln.,
Hist. Nat., 1840, i1., p. 131.

Mentum narrow, orbicular laterally, truncate at the tip but slightly
sinuate in the middle, labial palpi small, inner lobe of maxille pro-
duced into a slightly hooked tooth, upper lobe lamellate, somewhat
rounded at the tip, simple and with three or four set at the apex,
paraglossz distinct but not projecting beyond the mentum, last joint
of maxillary palpi as long as the three joints preceding taken
together, fusiform outwardly, straight inwardly, and with a deep
longitudinal groove outwardly ; mandibles robust, hollowed inwardly
but with the apical part almost truncate and ciliate ; clypeus vertical
in front, with the anterior margin strongly reflexed, labrum oblite-
rated, antenne 10-jointed, club 6-jointed, the joints are of equal
length, but the fourth joint of the pedicel projects distinctly in the
male, they are not as elongated in the female as in the male; the
other characters are as in Sparrmannia, but the claws are more
abruptly hooked, the basal angle is somewhat broadly lobate, and
the post-median tooth underneath is vertical and set close to this
lobate basal part in both sexes.

Distinguished from Sparrmannia by the shape of the maxillary
palpi and of the claws, and also by the obliterated labrum.

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SEBARIS PALPALIS, Casteln.,
Plate XLVI, figs. 32 and 44.
Hist. Natur., ii., p. 131.
Lacordaire’s Gener., iii., p. 306; Atlas, pl. xxxiii., fig. 1.

Light chestnut-red ; head, prothorax, scutellum, and under side
clothed with very long and very dense sub-erect fulvous hairs, hiding
the sculpture of the teguments; clypeus hollowed and with the
margins very much reflexed, the outer part is produced obliquely
outwardly, the outer angles of the anterior part are produced into a
somewhat blunted tooth, while the anterior margin is also produced
diagonally from the outer angle to the median part, where it is
triangularly incised, with the angles of the incision forming two
broad sub-triangular teeth, the outer angles of the anterior part are
not quite as sharp in the female as in the male, the hollowed clypeus
is closely punctate and moderately pubescent, the frontal part of the
head is entirely hidden by the long hairs, but it is closely punctulate
like the prothorax ; the scutellum is sparingly punctate and smooth
at the apex; elytra a little ampliated laterally past the humeral part,
somewhat convex, glabrous, deeply and somewhat coarsely punctate,
and having on each side four costules, they have an outer fringe o
moderately long fulvous hairs ; the pygidium is sparingly punctured ;
the two posterior spurs are only a little wider in the female than in
the male.

Length 15-194 mm. ; width 84-11 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Barrydale, Aberdeen).

Another species of this genus is recorded from Humpata in Angola.

Tre MELOLONTHINI.

Body with scales or villose hairs or both; ligula fused with the
mentum, both broad, labial palpi inserted laterally, or sub-laterally on
the outer face of the mentum; maxille strongly dentate inwardly,
labrum strong, bi-lobate in most cases, transverse in others;
antenne 7—10-jointed, the number of club-joints variable in both
sexes; eyes divided in front by a short canthus; the first five
abdominal segments are fused with the suture, and often obliterated
in the centre, the last one alone is mobile; anterior cox seldom
subvertical, mostly strongly slanting or quite transverse.

A?, Labrum bi-lobate or deeply incised.

Hpisterna, long, narrow, divided from the narrow epimera by
a keel, and not on a level with the epimera .. .. .. «. Schizonychides

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Episterna broad or very broad, and on a level with the epimera Leucopholides,

A‘. Labrum transverse. Anterior coxie sub-vertical at apex,
episterna narrow

-. Diplotaxides.

Burmeister divided the Melolonthini in two groups; in the first
one he included all the species in which the anterior margin of the
prothorax is lined with a narrow membrane and in the second all the
species in which this margin is either fringed with dense hairs or
completely hairless. Kolbe, however, has very rightly pointed out *
that these characters are too variable to be absolutely relied upon,
and he has proposed another division based on the size and the plane
of the episterna and epimera of the metasternum, a division which I
have adopted, although in the genus Beriqua it does not apply.

Group SCHIZONYCHIDES.

The South African representatives of this group can be divided
into two sections; in the first one, or true SCHIZONYCHIDES, are
placed all the genera closely connected with the genus Schizonycha,
and which, with very few exceptions (Atys, Suntemnonycha), have
the third antennal joint longer than the fourth; they are cha-
racterised also by an arcuate clypeus, seldom straight laterally
(Spathoschyza), and not incised or strongly sinuate in the centre of
the anterior margin; this first division is very homogeneous, and is
connected with the Tribe Sparrmannini by the genera Beriqua and
Glyptoglossa, in which the epimera are broader than in the other
South African Scuizonycuipes. In Glyptoglossa the basal joints of
the anterior tibia are as spinose inwardly at apex as in the Sparr-
mannini, and this character is also found, although in a lesser degree,
in some species of Schizonycha. In this first section the generic
differences are often small, and consist in the presence or absence of
clypeal and frontal sutures or keels, coupled with the number of
antennal joints ; the species are so remarkably alike that without an
examination of the male’s genital organs the identification becomes
almost an impossibility; in the second section, Pstuonycuipes, I
have placed the genera in which the third antennal joint is not
plainly longer than the fourth ; this character also coincides with a
more or less porrect clypeus, the angles of which are generally a
little rounded laterally and the anterior margin incised or sinuate
in front.

* Beitz. z. Kenntn. der Melolonthiden, Ann. Soc. Ent. d. Belg., vol. 38, 1894.

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Key to the Genera.
A?. Clypeus arcuate or straight laterally, not incisedinfront True ScHIZoNYCHIDES.

B?. Episterna broad or somewhat broad, not carinate along
the epimera.

C*. Anterior margin of prothorax with a lateral fringe
of hairs, nude in the centre.

D?. Frontal part with a posterior transverse eleva-
tion or keel along the base.

Clypeus with a transverse frontal suture and
an intermediate frontal keel; claws with two
basal vertical teeth.. .. .. .. .. .. .. Grlyptoglossa.

Clypeus with a frontal, slightly arcuate keel,
claws cleft underneath... ... .. .. .. .. Beriqua.

B'. Episterna narrow, carinate along the epimera.
a. Labial palpi inserted on the outer face of the mentum.
b3, Clypeus with the outer angles rounded.

c?, Claws three-toothed underneath.
Prothorax conyex.

d?, Clypeal carina set close to the frontal suture and
often obliterating it.

Antenne 10-jointed So 80 oo on po 66 aa Iaixoonvaha.
LMMSaATG Col 45° 35 ao oa. 6a 3d co oo lia
d*. Prothorax hollowed infront... .. .. .. :. .. Hntyposis:

a‘, Labial palpi inserted laterally.
b>. Clypeus with the outer angles rounded.
c'. Claws long, slender, simple underneath .. .. .. Holisonycha.
b*. Clypeus straight laterally with the angles sharp.
Claws 4-toothed underneath 60) Sn Gdiece oo SRO.

D*. Frontal part without a transverse elevation or
keel along the base.

a?. Clypeus with a frontal keel.

Keel very sharp, antenne 9-jointed .. .. .. Syngeneschiza.

C*. Anterior margin of prothorax, pubescent in the

centre.
a’, Clypeus with a frontal suture.

Third antennal joint not elongated, lower tooth
of claws truncate .. .. .. .. .. .. «. Suntemnonycha.

A‘. Clypeus porrect, little rounded laterally, incised or sinuate
in fromte ss fice O22 2. an gee ee tee Tee

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B?. Mesosternum simple.
C. Anterior margin of prothorax with a pubescent border.
D?. Upper side glabrous.
Claws without basal tooth, and with a sub-
median vertical one oo 0b o> mo oa oo Isaumrrne.
D'. Body with scales or squamose hairs.
a°. Propygidium grooved in the centre.
Claws without a basal tooth, but with a
small sub-median one .. .. .. .. .. Psilonychus.
at. Propygidium simple.
Claws with a short basal tooth and an ante-
median sub-hamate one .. .. .. .. .. Coniopholis.
B'. Mesosternum produced into a long horizontal spine.

Anterior tibiz uni- or bi-dentate according to sex ; facies
OT WIAIOIODIMons ee 00 9s 40 00 90 Ga om oo Jom NOES.

BERIQUA, n. gen.

Mentum broad, transverse, nearly straight laterally, being only
very slightly sinuate near the point of insertion of the palpi, narrowly
incised in the centre of the anterior part which is quite straight
with the angles sharp, there is no trace of suture dividing the ligular
part from the mentum ; the apical joint of the short labial palpi is a
little shorter than the second, slightly fusiform and slender ; maxille
with a sharply trifid tooth at the tip and an inner, somewhat ciliate
one, apical joint of maxillary palpi a little shorter than the two pre-
ceding ones taken together, slightly fusiform at base, truncate at the
tip; mandibles robust, concave, tri-dentate at the tip, and lined
inwardly with a broad, briefly villose membrane ; head with a sharp
clypeal carina, clypeus with the margin slightly reflexed, vertical
part narrow, labrum short and very broadly incised; antenne 10-
jointed, basal joint moderately long, second one moniliform, third to
fifth short, of equal length, set close to each other, sixth and seventh
sharply angular inwardly, club long, tri-jointed, the joints straight, a
little shorter than the whole pedicel (3); prothorax convex, plainly
ampliated laterally in the median part; elytra slightly broader at
the base than the base of the prothorax, ampliated laterally from
about the median part, convex, and covering half the propygidium
which is somewhat convex and vertical; pectus densely villose ;
anterior tibiz tri-dentate ; posterior ones somewhat broadly dilated
at apex, the spurs are flattened, rounded at the apex, the upper one
very plainly dilated, and they have one oblique median ridge ; tarsi
long, slender, claws moderately curved and having underneath a

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similarly curved but shorter sub-apical tooth, and a small, vertical
basal one.

The facies of the only species which I propose to include in this
genus closely resembles that of some species of Sparrmannia. It is
very hairy on the prothorax and the pectus; the shape of the claws
is exactly that of Schizonycha; but the epimera are somewhat
broader and not carinate along the episterna.

BERIQUA MODESTA, Nn. Spec.

Male: Chestnut-red, moderately shining, head and _ prothorax
clothed with long, light fulvous hairs, not sufficiently dense, how-
ever, to hide the teguments; pectus and femora with similar hairs
forming a very dense long pubescence ; clypeus glabrous, blunt in
the anterior part and with the outer angles rounded, sides somewhat
narrowed towards the apex, the margin is reflexed, and it is deeply
but sparingly punctured in the anterior part and impunctate in the
centre, the clypeal carina is sharp, transverse, the frontal part
simple, deeply and somewhat closely punctured as far as the extreme
basal part; prothorax convex, ampliated laterally on the median
part, sinuate along the base but not along the anterior margin, and
covered all over with equi-distant, deep, round punctures, and
having a smooth raised median line in the posterior part of the disk;
scutellum somewhat sharply ogival; elytra sinuate from the humeral
to the median part and ampliated laterally thence, somewhat convex,
without any costule or stria, not even a juxta-sutural one, and
covered with deep, round punctures, each bearing a minute greyish
hair in the manner of Schizonycha; propygidium and pygidium
faintly aciculate ; abdomen convex, deeply and somewhat closely
punctate laterally.

I have seen only two examples of this species; in one of them (3g)
the tooth under the claws is very short, hardly distinct, the claw
itself being merely wider and only slightly incised where the tooth
should be, in the other the tooth is conspicuous.

Length 13 mm.; width 74 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

Gren. GLYPTOGLOSSA, Brensk.,
Annal. Genov. Mus., 1895, p. 223.

Mentum broad, transverse, slightly rounded laterally but sharply
angular at the apex, ligular part much narrower than the mentum
and separated by a very plain, slightly arcuate suture, deeply emar-
ginate laterally and broadly and deeply incised in the anterior part,

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but only slightly emarginate in G. namaquensis ; apical joint of labial
palpi ovatulo-acuminate ; maxille very robust, arcuate, armed at
apex with two sharp teeth and a trifid one below; apical joint of
maxillary palpi somewhat thickly fusiform and having an elongate
impression outwardly ; maxille strongly hooked, almost falcate at
the tip and having a very plain, sharp, inner median tooth ; labrum
strong, vertical, broadly incised; clypeus semicircular, head with a
clypeal suture and a frontal slightly raised ridge ; eyes large, divided
on the upper side by a setulose canthus reaching to about one-half
of the exposed part ; antennz 10-jointed, first joint long, triangularly
thickened at the tip, second a little less than half the length of the
basal one, swollen outwardly at apex and set near the inner edge of
the first, the three following moderately short, equal, sixth and
seventh vertically compressed, antennal club tri-jointed, the joints
lamellate, and only a little shorter than the whole stalk; prothorax
moderately convex, ampliated and rounded laterally in the middle,
moderately bi-sinuate at apex and base, and with the outer angles
rounded ; scutellum cordate; elytra slightly narrower at the base
than the base of the prothorax, moderately yet distinctly ampliate
laterally before the median part, somewhat convex, not costulate or
striate except for the sutural stria, and covering only the base of the
propygidium ; pygidium sub-vertical, slightly convex ; pectus clothed
with a very dense, long pubescence ; anterior tibiz sharply tri-den-
tate ; intermediate and posterior ones with only one oblique ridge,
apical spurs of hind tibie laminate and with the upper one con-
spicuously dilated in both sexes; tarsi somewhat elongate, but not
longer than the tibie in G. namaquensis, the apical part of the basal
joints of the anterior pair spinose inwardly; claws long, slender,
hooked, and having past the middle a short vertical tooth which
seems to form the angle of the slightly broadened basal part. The
female is distinguished from the male by the shorter antennal club
and the somewhat more spatuliform upper spur of the hind tibie.

The genus is represented in South Africa by four species greatly
resembling each other, but differentiated also by the shape of the
genital armature of the male. They seem restricted to the arid
districts of the Cape Colony.

One species however, has been recorded from Abyssinia.

Key to the Species.
A?. Clypeus semicircular in front.

Very light flavous; prothorax clothed with long, dense, flavous
airssaters: very long 9 5.) sec ee) ce ee) eee we taper.

Testaceous ; prothorax glabrous above ; tarsi somewhat short.. namagquensts.

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A‘. Clypeus slightly arcuate in front.

Frontal carina sharp, slightly cleft in the centre, space between
the carina and the clypeal suture small and roughly punctate.. lurida.

Frontal carina weak, arcuate; space between the carina and
the clypeal suture broad, impunctate in the centre .. .. .. burmeisteri.

GLYPTOGLOSSA DISPAR, Nl. spec.,
Plate XLVL., fig. 9.

Male: Very light flavous, shining; clypeus semicircular and
having some fine, shallow, somewhat scattered punctures, suture
somewhat arcuate but nearly obliterated in the centre, frontal carina
straight, the space between the clypeal suture and the carina is
somewhat deeply punctate laterally, but there is only a few scattered
punctures on the centre, the vertex is closely and somewhat deeply
punctured except along the base, which is smooth; prothorax
ampliated and rounded laterally, basal angles broadly rounded, outer
margin very slightly serrulate, covered with nearly contiguous small
punctures, each bearing a very long, appressed flavous hair, the
whole forming a somewhat dense pubescence; scutellum almost
impunctate, but clothed with long appressed hairs springing from
the base; elytra narrower in the anterior part, sinuate laterally
before the median, and somewhat ampliated thence to the posterior
part, covered with closely set, fine punctures, and having no traces of
costules or striz except the juxta-sutural one; the greatest part of
the propygidium is uncovered and finely aciculate, the slightly con-
vex, vertical pygidium is closely punctured in the median part only,
the sides being impunctate; abdomen finely punctate, and having
few, scattered, long, fine appressed hairs, median part of the suture
of the segments somewhat obliterated; pectus and femora very
densely villose; anterior tibiw strongly tri-dentate outwardly, and
having a long, inner slender spur, tarsi long, slender, intermediate
tibize with an oblique rudimentary, ciliate ridge in addition to the
median one; posterior tibiee with the oblique ridge on the outer side
continued in a conspicuous tooth, apex dilated, strongly ciliate, the
two spurs laminate, the upper one dilated at the tip in the male, the
only sex known to me.

Length 193-20 mm.; width 91-101 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

GLYPTOGLOSSA NAMAQUENSIS, 0. spec.
Plate XLVL., fig. 52.
Male: Shape and size of G. dispar, but easily distinguished by
the shorter tarsi, the joints of which are much broader and also

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thicker ; the colour is brick-red, shining; the prothorax has only a
fringe of flavescent distant hairs along the anterior and lateral parts,
and a dense one along the base; the semicircular clypeus and the
frontal part between the clypeal suture and the frontal ridge which
is somewhat emarginate in the centre, is impunctate except for a few
isolated punctures on each side of the frontal part, the frontal ridge
is immediately followed by a groove, and the vertex, like the frontal
part is almost impunctate, except for a few lateral punctures; the
punctures on the glabrous prothorax are fine and not closely set, the
nearly impunctate scutellum is very hairy, and the punctures on
the elytra are fine and somewhat closely set, the propygidium,
pygidium, abdomen, and pectus are as in G. dispar; the hind legs
are also as in that species, but the inner median tooth is reduced to
a triangular projection.

Female unknown.

Length 19 mm.; width 93 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

GLYPTOGLOSSA LURIDA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 274.

Plate XLVL, fig. 50.

Male: Testaceous, with the head sometimes ferruginous, shining ;
clypeus somewhat blunt in front, but the angles being broadly
rounded it has a slightly arcuate appearance, the clypeus and the
narrow interspace between the clypeal suture and the sharp frontal
suture, which is plainly incised in the centre, and also the vertex,
are deeply and closely punctured, in addition to the frontal ridge
there is also on the vertex a slight transverse, ridge-like rise ; pro-
thorax ampliated laterally and rounded in the median part, basal
angles rounded, covered in the anterior and median parts with round,
irregular deep punctures more scattered in the posterior part where
they bear each a sub-erect, long flavous hair, the anterior and lateral
margins have a fringe of similar hairs, and the base is thickly but
more briefly pubescent, the pubescence appressed as in the scutellum ;
elytra sinuate laterally before the median part, ampliated thence to
the posterior part, without costules or striz except the sutural stria,
and finely and closely, yet deeply punctured; pygidium plainly
convex and impunctate like the exposed part of the propygidium ; the
two basal segments of the abdomen densely pubescent laterally, the
others with a few fine hairs ; pectus very densely hairy ; tarsi long,
slender, median inner part of hind tibie very slightly angular.

Female: Entirely like the male, and distinguished only by the

190 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [ vou. XII.

more dilated laminate spurs of the hind tibie and the slightly shorter
club of the antenne.

Length 193-22 mm.; width 10-11 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon; Hope Town).

GLYPTOGLOSSA BURMEISTERI, Brensk.,
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 382.

Plate XLVL, fig. 51.

Male : Head and prothorax light testaceous-red, elytra, under side,
and legs flavescent ; clypeus somewhat blunt in front but with the
angles broadly rounded, as in G. lurida, but it is punctate laterally
only, the suture is slightly arcuate in the centre, the frontal carina
is far removed from the clypeal suture, not very much raised and
deeply bi-sinuate, the space between the suture and the carina has
only a very few scattered, shallow punctures, but the vertex is
deeply and closely punctate; prothorax shaped as in the other
species, covered with round, irregular punctures, separated by smooth
also irregular intervals, the anterior and the outer margins have a
fringe of somewhat remote longish hairs, and the base has a dense
fringe of flayous hairs, but the punctures on the disk are not
setigerous ; clypeus impunctate and with the basal part only covered
by the basal fringe of hairs; elytra more ampliated laterally in the
middle than in the other species, and like them without costules or
striae with the exception of the sutural stria; propygidium finely
aciculate ; pygidium punctulate in the central part only from base to
apex ; abdomen almost glabrous, and bearing somewhat scattered
and shallow punctures; pectus clothed with a long, thick, flavous
pubescence ; tarsi long, oblique ridge on the posterior tarsi culmi-
nating in a conspicuous triangular inner tooth.

Length 19 mm.; width 10 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Western Province, but exact locality unknown).
Brenske gave the Transvaal as the habitat of this species, but I think
that this locality is erroneous.

GEN. SCHIZONYCHA, Erichs.,
Ins. Deutsch., ui., p. 658.

Mentum transverse, sub-quadrate, not very convex in the lower
part, plainly bi-impressed in the anterior the margin of which is
deeply incised in the middle, the incision is straight (quesita), oftener
triangular, but sometimes only moderately deeply incised (caffra,
&e.) ; labial palpi inserted on the outer face, close to the sides, basal

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joint very small, second sub-cylindrical and a little longer than the
third, which is acuminato-ovate ; mandibles very robust, triquetrous
outwardly, curved, hollowed inwardly and sometimes bi-dentate at
the tip ; maxillee robust and having a brush of fulvous hairs at the
tip of the inner lobe, and ending in two robust, not much curved,
strongly bifid teeth at the top and a double one lower down ; maxil-
lary palpi moderately long, the ultimate joint nearly cylindrical and
truncate at the apex, but occasionally slightly swollen towards the
base and sub-acuminate at the tip (cdliata, crinita, &c.); antenne
10-jointed, the 3-jointed club nearly as long or longer than the
pedicel in the male, shorter and either ovate or elongated in the
female ; head broad or moderately broad, clypeus vertical in front,
like the strongly developed labrum, with the anterior margin slightly
reflexed and more or less broadly truncate or slightly sinuate, and
having sometimes a longitudinal median raised line, there is always
a clypeal, sharply raised keel * set very close to the frontal suture,
which disappears very often, especially if this clypeal keel is not
arcuate, and in addition there is another keel on the base of the
vertex, which is, however, always less sharp than the clypeal one,
and is occasionally grooved; the prothorax is sinuate in front and
behind, always narrower in the anterior than the posterior part,
amplated past the middle if seen from above, and either rounded
there and narrowed thence towards the base which is either angular
or broadly rounded, or nearly straight thence to the sharply angular
base, it is convex, covered with punctures, either round, cicatricose, or
with scabrose edges, the outer margin is always more or less sharply
serrate and has a fringe of long sete, and the base occasionally a
much denser fringe; the scutellum is more or less sharply ogival,
and has one or more lateral series of foveolate punctures, it is often
a little more acuminate in the male than in the female; elytra not
broader at the base than the prothorax at its widest part, sinuate
laterally before the middle, more or less ampliated thence towards
the posterior part, convex, covering one-half of the propygidium,
covered with deep, equi-distant punctures, marginate all round and
having a somewhat narrow epipleural fold, the outer margin has a
fringe of somewhat remote sets, diminishing in size from the base to
past the median part, but one species (S. globator) has in the posterior
part a thick, brush-like fringe of fulvous hairs; pygidium broader
than long, arcuate at the base, semicircular, more or less deeply
punctured, glabrous all round; penultimate abdominal segment
often wider than the antepenultimate, ultimate one either narrow or
comparatively broad, and having a fringe of short or long hairs along

* In S. barda this keel is very indistinct.

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the margin; prosternum hairy, mesosternum short, hairy, meta-
sternum broad and having a median longitudinal groove, either
densely or sparingly hairy or occasionally squamulose ; metathoracic
episterna narrow, their lateral margins keeled ; cox narrow, trans-
verse; legs robust, anterior tibiz bi- or tri-dentate outwardly,
posterior obliquely bi-carinate, hind ones with two long, apical spurs,
more flattened in the female than in the male, tarsi long or very
long, with the basal jomts knobby or even dentate inwardly at apex
in the male (S. ciliata), but always shorter in the female; the basal
joint of the hind ones may be longer, of the same length, or shorter
than the second; the long curved claws are cleft underneath, and
have a very small basal tooth, and the upper one is either longer and
as robust as the lower, or much more slender and even shorter, but
it is never obliterated. The shape of these teeth differ, however, not
only in the sexes, but also in the anterior and posterior legs of the
male especially.

The livery of these insects consists in minute, greyish hairs,
which is, however, sometimes squamose; occasionally, but seldom,
however, there are a few not very densely set scales, and it may be
said that all the punctures are setigerous, but they are never so
dense that these hairs or scales hide the background, which varies
from pale testaceous to chestnut or rusty brown, and even black.
In some species found in the Cape Colony the pectus is peculiarly
villose.

These insects are crepuscular, perhaps nocturnal. Two of them
(S. unicolor and S. twmida) are found in the neighbourhood of Cape
Town in the heaps of old excrements piled outside their galleries by
the white ant Hodotermes viator, a subterraneous species occurring
all over South Africa, at the foot of bushes which have grown in
these débris, and in company with the Dynastidous species Syrich-
thus verus and Pycnoschema corydon. It is very probable that many
other species have similar habits.

The species are extremely local, only one or two range from
the Western Provinces of the Cape Colony to Natal. One species,
however, very numerous in Natal and the Transvaal (S. squamifera),
has been recorded from Ovampoland, and I have captured a single
specimen near Cape Town.

All the species are remarkably uniform in shape and livery, and
but for the help afforded by the shape of the genital armature of the
male they could hardly be distinguished from each other. I have
examined the types and co-types of Boheman and of Brenske, but
I have not been able to identify with certainty three of Burmeister’s
species. I have had also the loan of species formerly belonging to

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Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 193

the collections of Candéze, Thomson, &c., but the greatest confusion
prevails in the identification of the South African species, of which
I describe now seventy-seven.

Key to the Species.

A*. Anterior tibive tri-dentate outwardly.

b?. Upper tooth of anterior claws as robust or nearly as robust
as the lower, and as long or longer.

C3. Basal joint of hind tarsi longer than the second.

Black ; body globose ; prothorax with scabrose closely set
punctures, each puncture having a plainly squamose white

hair. 9¢

Chestnut-brown ; prothorax scabrose; body elongated ;
each puncture with a most minute hair on the upper

side. 9¢

C*. Basal joint of hind tarsi as long as the second.

(ee

be,

De.

(UR

Clypeus with a median longitudinal carina.

Penultimate abdominal segment not broader than the
antepenultimate.

Ferruginous-red ; prothorax closely scabroso-punctate
from the apex for two-thirds of the length; pygidium
with scabrose punctures. ¢

Pale testaceous; prothorax with closely set, round,
non-scabrose punctures. ¢

Black ; prothorax with broad, round punctures; elytra
with a brush-like band of fulvous hairs along the
posterior margin of the elytra. ?

Black; prothorax with broad, deep punctures; elytra
without the brush-like band of fulvous hairs

Penultimate abdominal segment broader than the
antepenultimate.

Ferruginous-red ;_ prothorax closely scabroso-punctate
from the apex to two-thirds of the length ; pygidium
with non-scabrose punctures

Clypeus without a median longitudinal carina.

Ferruginous-red ; clypeus obtuse but not sinuated in
front ; prothorax with shallow, scattered punctures, not
scrobiculate laterally. 9? ..

C'. Basal joint of hind tarsi longer than the second.

IDE.

Prothorax ampliated laterally past the middle, but
narrowed thence towards the basal angle.

13

saginata,

boschimana,.

ciliata.

crinita.

globator.

idonea.

comosa.

fartula.

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DE
ts

. Basal angle broadly rounded.

a?, Clypeus broadly truncated and emarginated.

Median part of clypeal ridge directed backwards ;
penultimate abdominal segment not broader than
the preceding one aes Olu Ge ea eae

Scutellum very closely punctate.

Median part of clypeal ridge straight in the centre,
strongly sinuate on each side; penultimate abdo-
minal segment broader than the preceding one.

Head broad, clypeus deeply emarginate ; pygidium
punctured ; scutellum very closely punctate ex

Head moderately broad, clypeus emarginate ;
d fo)

pygidium with a longitudinal, median, impunctate

space; scutellum punctate laterally only .. ..

at, Clypeus obtuse or not broadly truncate.
b?. Clypeus not plainly sinuate.

Penultimate abdominal segment not broader than
the preceding one, the ultimate swollen.. .. ..

Penultimate abdominal segment broader than the
preceding one, the ultimate broad, swollen ; lower
(oYeo) Giitervelm iver Gs 50 oo co av oe

Penultimate segment broader than the one pre-
ceding, the ultimate narrow, plane; lower tooth of
each claw very small ..

b'. Clypeus sinuate.

Penultimate abdominal segment not broader than
the one preceding, ultimate one moderately broad,
not swollen .. ..

Basal angle sharp.

\o

I’, Prothorax plainly bi-impressed on each side
near the apex and near the base.

I"'. Prothorax not distinetly bi-impressed.
a’, Clypeal carina straight.

Clypeus broadly truncate in front, frontal part
with a faint longitudinal ridge, but in the male
(0) APN ne ate aay wii ou eqs

a, Clypeal carina arcuate.

G?. Penultimate abdominal segment not broader
than the preceding one.

H*. Body slender, sub-cylindvical in both sexes.

[VOL. XIII.

infantilis.

transvaalica.

parilis.

puerilis.

disputabilis.

mediastina.

inedita.

meracula.

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Frontal part of the head granular; last
abdominal segment broad, swollen .. ..

Frontal part closely foveolate-punctate ; last
abdominal segment narrow, not swollen ..

Frontal part foveolate-punctate; last ab-
dominal segment somewhat broad, very
Swolleng cc! hb Sge tee eee Pe

Prothorax with the punctures moderately
closely set and the intervals transversely
scabrose in the anterior part, forming
irregular, smooth, transverse folds in the
posterior part where the punctures are also
MMONERSCAGCTE DL sy eyot tayse sce torcll ate wheres

Prothorax with the punctures very closely
set in the anterior part, a little less so on
the posterior part where the intervals are
smoothiandimotmaised 2) ssmee-)) cee

Prothorax equally foveolate all over, the
fover separated by narrow, raised, smooth
MGCL VALSeumers ete. lccue cays, ise eee. erei= bers

. Body not slender, massive and convex in the

female.
a®, Clypeal carina sharp.

Prothorax with broad, nearly equi-distant
foyer, separated by smooth, raised inter-
vals, and having a plain smooth median
band in both sexes, upper and under side
with squamulose hairs ve

Prothorax with nearly equi-distant deep
punctures, each filled, as on the elytra
and under side, with a conspicuous white
scale, no median longitudinal smooth band

a‘, Clypeal carina very feebly indicated.

Clypeus narrow but very broadly trun-
cate and not emarginate in front; supra-
basal folds of prothorax non-interrupted
in the median part of the base... ..

G'. Penultimate abdominal segment wider than the
antepenultimate.

ize

Upper tooth of anterior claws not emarginate
underneath towards the tip.

No basal cephalic carina; prothorax with
equally distant fover separated by narrow,
smooth intervals 56

evasperans.

insuesd,.

gonaqua,

exvacerbans.

profuga,

continens.

. ( carbonaria.
( quesita.

squamifera.

barda.

minima.

5

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Basal cephalic carina distinct, anterior part
of prothorax with closely set punctures
divided by scabrose intervals ; posterior with
remotely set foveate punctures and smooth,
raised transverse intervals, a raised line in

the centre .. . ( saga.
| perplexabilis.
No raised line in the centre .. .. .. .. dwrbana.

Punctures on the prothorax equal, equi-
distant, intervals slightly plicate transversely,
especially on the sides.

Basal cephalic carina sharp, last abdominal
segment narrow, slightly convex .. .. .. dissimilis.

Basal carina not sharp, grooved; last
abdominal segment somewhat broad and
GOMES Ga Go oo ad dq od oo oo HOMME

Punctures on the prothorax sub-foveate,
equi-distant, intervals smooth, not raised ;
basal cephalic carina indistinct .. .. .. mruwrigena.

Punctures on the prothorax small, contiguous,
very scabrose in the anterior part, a little less
closely set in the posterior, a narrow longitu-
dinal smooth line in the centre .. .. .. neglecta.

Punctures on the prothorax not contiguous,
but somewhat closely set and with the inter- ,
vals slightly scabrose in the antevior part only plausibilis.

Punctures on the prothorax sub-foveate, cica-
tricose in the anterior part, with the intervals
plainly raised there as well as on the posterior,
a longitudinal smooth patch in the centre .. rujfina.

Prothorax with small, somewhat cicatricose
punctures, separated by an interval equal to
or a little less than their diameter, and with
a faint median smooth space .. citimu.
valida.

.
i es

at, Upper tooth of anterior claws plainly emargi-
nated underneath.

Clypeal suture quite obliterated .. .. .. tumida.

Dr‘. Prothorax either very slightly or not at all ampliated
laterally in the middle, and nearly straight thence to
the sharp basal angle.

a*, Male and female.

b?. Penultimate abdominal segment not wider than the
antepenultimate.

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Testaceous-red, shining, head small, clypeus semi-
circular; prothorax with round punctures, sub-
seabrose only in. the anterior part; pectus densely
hairy, basal joint of hind tarsi very small in the male villosa.

bt. Penultimate abdominal seement wider than the
antepenultimate.

Piceous, body slightly depressed, head small; pro-
thorax with the punctures cicatricose and scabrose
in the anterior part, less scabrose in the median
posterior part, and having a plain median smooth
space; upper tooth of claws plainly emarginate
underneath atythe tip 2... .. a. s2 «w« «0 @bssensa.

Chestnut-brown, body cylindrical, head large; punc-
tures on the prothorax round, not scabrose; upper
tooth of claws not emarginate underneath.. .. .. fraudulenta.

at. Female only.
c?. Head broad.

Body massive, convex ; prothorax with round fovere
and raised smooth intervals, closely scabrose at the
anterior part of the sides; penultimate abdominal
segment with a basal transverse median groove .. infarsa.

c'. Head narrow.

Body massive, clypeal carina moderately arcuate,
suture distinct; prothorax with round, somewhat
scattered punctures, with the intervals smooth and
plane. 9? ee acc uek ae all healed og ses TUCULL Os

B'. Upper tooth of anterior claws much more slender and
shorter, seldom as long as the lower in the male.

C'. Basal hind tarsal joint shorter than the second.

D2. Prothorax bulging laterally just past the middle, and
narrowed thence towards the base.

E?. Penultimate abdominal segment not wider than
the antepenultimate.

F?, Upper tooth only of anterior claws shorter than
the lower.

No prothoracic supra-basal fold; upper tooth of
anterior claws very small, sometimes indistinct ;
prothorax with round foveolate punctures all over immicxta,

F". Upper tooth of each claw shorter than the lower.
a?. Head with a basal carina.

No prothoracic supra-basal fold; prothorax with
round, foveolate punctures allover .. .. .. fraudigera.

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Clypeus truncate and plainly sinuate in front ;
prothorax with a longitudinal smooth line dis-
tinct only from the median to the basal part ;
last abdominal segment wide, swollen See eer eantcanrd.

a. Head without a basal carina.

Clypeus truncate and sinuate in front; pro-
thorax with a median longitudinal smooth line ;
last abdominal segment somewhat narrow,
Swollenys 1 ciiRcrote nema wrists tl eee nent Pn ACLOLLCIIL SIS.

E?. Penultimate abdominal segment wider than the
antepenultimate.

F°. Upper tooth of anterior claws only shorter than
the lower.

G". Basal carina projecting more or less distinctly
in the centre.

H?’. Basal angle of prothorax broadly rounded.

Clypeus semicircular in front in both the
SOREN 201. Werctch mass “sua gmetad acre mrcio gerne Mian MOL ULES

H’. Basal angle of prothorax sharp.

Clypeus blunt in front, last abdominal seg-
ment narrow, notswollen .. .. .. .. Janguens.

Clypeus blunt in front, but abdominal seg-
ment somewhat broad, swollen .. .. .. ignava.

F'. Upper tooth of each claw shorter than the lower.

I?. Body elongated, sub-cylindrical in both
sexes,

a?. Head with a basal carina.

Last abdominal segment very broad,
swollen wiel | SOE uaacsn Uns eenyetel ete smn GG. eUSs

«a, Head without a basal carina.

Each puncture with a minute yet plain
hair on the upper side, and a white scale
on the under side; last segment broad,
convex Sia ao oa8 66 5 do oo | nmol.

Clypeus deeply emarginate in front,
clypeal carina plainly triangular; last
abdominal segment broad, not swollen.. ovampoana.

I', Body sub-cylindrical in the male, swollen
and very convex in the female.

a’, Basal cephalic carina very sharp.
Prothorax with raised, irregular areolets
and a very plain, longitudinal raised
ita REMC ey BAR aNa IG: oon gol Gud:

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«. Basal cephalic carina indistinct.

Prothorax with round punctures not
closely set, especially along the base,
and with the walls not raised; club
of male elongato-ovate ..

Prothorax with the punctures more
closely set and the intervals slightly
raised on the discoidal part; club of
male elongated, parallel

D'. Prothorax not bulging laterally in the middle, and
nearly straight thence to the sharp basal angle.

K?. Penultimate abdominal segment not wider than the
antepenultimate.

F°. Upper tooth of all the claws slender and shorter
than the lower.

G?*. Antennal club of the male longer than the stalk.
x'. Antennal club of the male shorter than the stalk.

Light testaceous, not squamulose; prothorax
scabroso-punctate along the anterior part, and
with a few fovere separated by conspicuous
smooth areas on the discoidal part. .

F'. Upper tooth of each claw more slender but longer
than the lower.

Dark chestnut-brown, plainly squamulose ;_pro-
thorax foveolato-punctate with the intervals raised

4*, Penultimate abdominal segment wider than the
antepenultimate.

F?. Upper tooth of every claw more slender and
shorter than the lower.

G2. Antennal club of male shorter than the stalk.

H?. Basal outer tooth of anterior tibiew strong
and sharp.

I?. Frontal part of the head closely scrobicu-
late, not granulose.

Prothorax sub-scabrose punctate on the
anterior part, and with rounder punctures
divided by smooth, slightly raised walls on
the posterior :
Clypeal suture slightly arcuate ;
sides of pectus, coxe, episterns,
and abdomen conspicuously squa-
WGECl) Gon 08 doy wee opie
Clypeal suture triangular, pectus
moderately hairy ..

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natalensis.

russula.

spectabilis.

algoensis.

zambesiana.

salisburiana.

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Prothorax closely scrobiculato-punctate,
the punctures cicatricose and divided by
narrow, fold-like intervals, sides of pectus,
cox, episterns, and abdomen with non-
squamose hairs

Basal cephalic carina very indistinct ;
prothorax with nearly equi-distant round
punctures separated by smooth intervals,
not raised on the discoidal part, but
somewhat so on the sides; last abdominal
segment moderately short and not much
swollen’ 5) aa. bien Hse

Basal cephalic carina distinct; prothorax
scabrose along the anterior margin, and
covered on the rest of the surface with
round punctures separated by smooth
intervals forming transverse areolets in
the median part:
Last abdominal segment broad,
Waa woOllsl ss so oo coal
Last abdominal segment some-
what narrow, not swollen

H'. Basal outer tooth of anterior tibie feebly
indicated in the male.

I’. Frontal part of the head distinctly granu-
lose.

Prothorax closely scabrose all over ..

Prothorax scabroso-punctate in the ante-
rior part, intervals of punctures hardly
raised in the posterior; last joint of
prothorax granulose on the whole of the
anterior part, scabroso-punctate thence to
the very highly raised, transverse, supra-
basal fold, and having on the middle of
the disk an elongated smooth patch, and
several elongated areolets on each side
of it Paw ace ore oo) ado. O06, os

G'. Antennal club of the male longer than the stalk.

Prothorax with moderately closely set round
punctures having smooth, plane intervals ;
pectus very densely pubescent ..

F'. Upper tooth of anterior claws only more slender
and shorter than the lower.

G?. Antennal club of male shorter than the stalk.

Prothorax with the punctures on the posterior
part closely set and divided by irregular smooth
walls, hair in each puncture plainly visible

elegans.

furva.

noscitata.

valvata.

TUgOSU.

( indotata.
| fatidica.

debilis.

scabiosa.

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G'. Antennal club of male longer than the stalk.

Prothorax with round punctures divided by
smooth intervals, and more closely set in the
anterior part; pectus very densely pubescent.. caffra.

A‘, Anterior tibie bi-dentate outwardly.

3", Upper tooth of every claw shorter and much more slender
than the lower.

C*. Basal hind tarsal joint much shorter than the second.

D?. Prothorax narrowed laterally from the median part
to the basal angle.

Testaceous; clypeus slightly retuse in front, head
punctate ; prothorax with a supra-basal, smooth fold,
upper and under sides covered with greyish sub-
S(UMMOSEMMAINGMEsme sec) cl cies Gis) | wc ners veel re UILCHCLO:

Sienna-brown; clypeus truncate and emarginate in
front, head granulose ; prothorax and elytra squamose confinis.

Testaceous ; clypeus truncate and plainly emarginate
in front; head granulose; prothorax and elytra with

very squamiform hairs { divulsa.

nal inops.

D:. Prothorax not narrowed laterally from the median part
to the basal angle.

a’, Head punctate.

Dark brown; clypeus truncate, sinuate in the centre ;
prothorax covered with not closely set, non-cicatricose
punctures, upper tooth of anterior claws very slender
amdeveryshort.s- sc 21) sh «euces call aap sos Mgmecornis..

Dark brown; clypeus truncate, not sinuate in the
middle; prothorax covered with closely set scabrose
punctures in the anterior part, broader, less closely
set and cicatricose in the posterior; upper tooth of
the claws very fine, but somewhat deeply cleft... .. vicaria.

SCHIZONYCHA SAGINATA, Nn. spec.

Female: Black, legs piceous, tarsi brown, antenne and _ palpi
ferruginous ; shining ; clypeus somewhat obtuse in the median part
and not sinuate there, but with the median part of the margin
reflexed, clypeal carina sharp, hardly arcuate, basal carina acute,
the surface of the whole head is covered with coarse rugose punctures,
but in front of the clypeal and basal carine there is a distinct smooth
transverse area; prothorax twice as wide as long, very little ampliated
in the median part of the sides which are closely serrated, rounded
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closely set fulvous sete, it is convex on the upper side and altogether
scabrose except for a somewhat faint smooth median longitudinal
band; scutellum with only one puncture on each side of the apical
part; elytra very convex, somewhat short, being only twice and a
quarter the length of the prothorax, slightly amplated laterally past
the middle, fringed with long, somewhat scattered fulvous hairs from
the humeral angle to about one-third of the length, and thence with
a thick band of shorter ones, covered with closely set punctures
enclosing a minute granule and bearing a short, decumbent squamose
and somewhat long greyish-white hair; pygidium with somewhat
deep, round, scattered punctures; pectus clothed with a dense, long
fulvous pubescence ; abdominal segments with a transverse row of
punctures bearing each a very long, decumbent seta, penultimate one
pluri-punctate laterally, not wider than the one preceding, last one
somewhat narrow, plane; anterior tibiae very sharply tri-dentate,
tarsi somewhat short; basal joint of the hind ones dilated at the tip
and longer than the one following.

Length 13 mm.; width 8 mm.

This species, the male of which is unknown, is allied to S. globator,
and has likewise a thick fringe of dense, short hairs along the outer
and posterior margins of the elytra; it differs, however, from it in the
absence of a longitudinal raised line in the centre of the elypeus, the
prothorax is scabrose instead of being broadly punctate, the sculpture
is different and it is as convex as S. natalensis 2 .

Hab. Cape Colony (Bushmanland).

SCHIZONYCHA BOSCHIMANA, Nl. spec.

Female: Ferruginous-red, with the elytra a little paler than the
head and prothorax, shining, glabrous on the upper side except for a
row of not closely set sete along the outer margin of the prothorax
and elytra; clypeus quite truncate in front and not much rounded
laterally, clypeal carina distinctly arcuate, and having behind a
straight transverse impressed line, the basal carina is situated at
some distance from the base, and is slightly arcuate, the surface of
the whole head is coarsely punctured; prothorax sharply crenulate
along the sides which are plainly narrowed from the apical part to
about two-thirds of the length where they are ampliated, and thence
obliquely attenuated towards the basal angle, it is closely but not
sharply scabrose except along the base where it is nearly smooth,
and along the base it has a short fringe of flavescent hairs; scutellum
with a lateral row of punctures on each side; elytra elongated, twice
and a half the length of the prothorax, a little sinuate laterally before

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the median part which is slightly ampliated, and covered with equally
distant, moderately deep, round punctures separated from each other
by a space equal to their diameter, and apparently glabrous ; pygidium
with scattered round punctures; pectus clothed with a long, dense
flavescent pubescence ; seriated punctures of the abdominal segment
not deep and bearing a short hair, penultimate segment not wider
than the preceding one; anterior tibiz tri-dentate; anterior tarsi
moderately long, upper claw longer than the lower one and not quite
so wide ; basal joint of hind tarsi a little dilated at the tip and longer
than the one following.

Length 13 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Bushmanland).

This species is distinguished by the truncate, riot sinuate anterior
part of the clypeus.

SCHIZONYCHA CILIATA, Burm.,
Plate XLIIL., fig. 58.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 268.

Head and prothorax chestnut-brown, elytra and under side ferru-
ginous-red, shining, glabrous on the upper side but haying a fringe
of not closely set sete along the outer margin of the prothorax and
elytra, pectus thickly villose, abdominal segments with the normal
transverse row of long, appressed hairs; clypeus plainly obtuse in
front, slightly sinuate in the middle, especially in the male, margin
reflexed, and emitting in both sexes a distinct, median longitudinal
ridge stopping a little short of the clypeal carina which is sharp and
arcuate, there is no impressed line behind it, and the gene are con-
spicuously projecting in a triangle much rounded at the top, the
basal carina is formed by a very slightly raised line having a series
of deep punctures immediately adjoining it, and the surface of the
whole head has deep, round, somewhat scattered punctures except
along the anterior part of the clypeal and the posterior part of the
basal carinee ; prothorax a little ampliated laterally past the median
part, plainly attenuate thence to the apex, distinctly serrate, closely
scabrose on the upper side from the apex to near the base, somewhat
scabroso-punctate there and having in the centre a somewhat indis-
tinct smooth longitudinal line sometimes wanting, the base is fringed
with dense flavescent hairs ; scutellum sparsely punctulate all over ;
elytra elongated, slightly ampliated laterally past the median part,
covered with moderately deep punctures separated from each other
by a larger space than their diameter and bearing each a most minute
hair; anterior tibiz strongly tri-dentate, tarsi longer than the tibie,

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upper claw longer than the lower, emarginate underneath at the tip
in all the legs, lower one equally robust, and apical, basal joint of
hind tarsi slightly clubbed at the apex, as long as the one following ;
abdominal segments with scattered punctures in addition to the
transverse row, the penultimate not wider than the one preceding ;
apical parts of the propygidium and pygidium covered with closely
set punctures and somewhat scabrose in the basal part which is.
often coriaceous.

In the female the punctures on the elytra are rounder and a little
more shallow than in the male, the antenne are yellowish, and the
club very little longer in the male than in the female; the epipleural
fold of the elytra is deeply seriato-punctate.

Length 203-23 mm. ; 8-94 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

SCHIZONYCHA CRINITA, Brensk.,
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 356.

Female: This species is closely allied to the preceding one; it
differs, however, in the following points: the punctures on the head
are less rugose, the gen do not project conspicuously, the prothorax
has a transverse band of minute scabrose punctures along the
anterior margin only, the other punctures are round and not very
closely set, and the sides of the prothorax, the basal part of the
elytra, and the whole pectus have a conspicuously long flavescent
pubescence ; the colour is also much lighter, the elytra and under side
are somewhat testaceous.

Length 15-16 mm. ; width 8 mm.

Found on bushes at sunset.

Hab. Cape Colony (Malmesbury).

SCHIZONYCHA GLOBATOR, Fabric.,
Syst. Insect., i., p. 20.
Oliv. Entom., i., 5, p. 40, pl. vi., fig. 60.

Female: Black, opaque, antennze ferruginous, prothorax and
anterior half of the elytra fringed with long, moderately dense
fulvous hairs which in the posterior part of the elytra are replaced
by a thick, brush-like band of fulvous ones, pectus clothed with a
long, light fulvous pubescence, legs hairy, piceous-brown ; clypeus.
slightly obtuse in the anterior part where it is broadly but not deeply
sinuate, with the margin strongly reflexed and emitting in the centre
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sharp, arcuate and slightly angular in the centre, the basal one is
also sharp but less so than the clypeal one and somewhat triangular
in the centre, the space on the head between the two carina is filled
with deep, round, confluent foveate punctures, which are occasionally
a little more scattered on the clypeus; prothorax very convex,
ampliated laterally at about the middle and a little more diagonally
attenuated thence towards the anterior than towards the basal part,
closely but not very sharply serrulate, covered with round, somewhat
closely set fovez separated from each other by a much narrower
space than their diameter, and having in the centre a short, smooth
band, base fringed with a light fulvous pubescence ; scutellum with
a lateral series of punctures sometimes interrupted ; elytra somewhat
short, being hardly more than twice as long as the prothorax, very
convex but not ampliated laterally, and covered with deep, round
foveate punctures similar to those on the prothorax, but divided
from each other by a space equal to their diameter; pygidium
covered with closely set foveate punctures; anterior tibie strongly
tri-dentate outwardly, tarsi very little longer than the tibiew, upper
claw of the anterior ones much longer than the lower which is some-
what perpendicular, basal joint of hind tarsi plainly clubbed at the
apex and a little longer than the one following.

Male unknown to me. Burmeister says in his description of this
‘sex that the club of the antenne is only very little longer than in the
female, that the median part of the prothorax has a longitudinal
smooth band, and that the scutellum is wholly smooth with a
marginal groove; but these two last characters are also met with in
the female.

Length 114-12 mm.; width 64-64 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

SCHIZONYCHA IDONEA, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLIIL., fig. 57.

? S. corrosa, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., vol. iv., 2, p. 270.

Black, or piceous-black, very little shining, antenne ferruginous ;
jJegs and tarsi piceous-red ; extremely closely allied to S. globator,
the female, however, is a little Jess convex on the elytra, and the
clypeus has no longitudinal carina in either sex; the shape and
sculpture of the head, prothorax, and elytra are identical, but each
foveolate puncture bears a short greyish hair; the basal part of the
prothorax and the pectus are clothed with a dense and somewhat
long flavescent pubescence, the sides of the prothorax and of the
anterior part of the elytra from the base to the middle have a fringe

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of long, not very closely set sete, but there is no brush-like fringe
of short and very dense fulvous hairs in the posterior part, as in
S. globator ; the shape of the clypeus and head is similar to that of
the last-named species, but the gene project a little more and the
clypeus has no distinct longitudinal median ridge; the sides of the
abdominal segments are closely punctate and bear a few scale-like
hairs, and the penultimate one is also closely punctured along the
apical margin; anterior tibize strongly tri-dentate, tarsi somewhat
short in both sexes, upper claw much longer than the lower one and
equally robust. The female hardly differs from the male.

Length 10-12 mm.; width 6-64 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

The males are met with flying low near the ground at the hottest
time of a summer day (December).

SCHIZONYCHA comosaA, Burm.,
Plate XLIIL., fig. 52.

Handb, d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 270.

This species is so closely allied to S. ciliata that but for the shape
of the genital armature and a few minor characters it might be looked
upon as a small example of the same; the clypeus, however, is more
deeply sinuate in front; on the prothorax the punctures are not so
plainly asperous, and the median smooth longitudinal line is more
distinet, especially in the female ; the pygidium is much less closely
punctured, not coriaceous in the basal part and has there a median
longitudinal impunctate space in the male, not in the female.

Length 154-16 mm.; width 8-8+ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore, Beaufort West).

The genital armature does not resemble that of S. ciliata.

SCHIZONYCHA FARTULA, 0. spec.,

? S. unicolor, Herbst., Kaff., iii., p. 156, pl. xxvi., fig. 9.

Female: Ferruginous-red, or sometimes chestnut-brown; palpi
and antenne testaceous, tibiz piceous-red; clypeus moderately
arcuate, not sinuate in front, clypeal carina arcuate, sharp, edged
very closely behind by a slight transverse impressed line, basal
carina distinct and slightly bi-sinuate, the surface of the head is
covered with nearly coalescing, sub-scabrose elongate punctures, a
little less deep on the clypeus than on the frontal part; prothorax
distinctly ampliated laterally in the middle, very little more
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serrate in the anterior, the outer margin has the normal fringe of
sete, and the base is briefly pubescent, the surface is sprinkled with
round punctures, somewhat distant from each other except along the
anterior edge, and has a median impunctate transverse space ;
scutellum closely punctulate in the basal part, above the transverse:
impression, and with one puncture only on each side; elytra a little
ampliated laterally past the median part, covered with closely set
round punctures bearing each a most minute hair, and separated
from each other by a space equal to their diameter; pygidium with
scattered, somewhat shallow round punctures more closely set in the-
anterior part; pectus very little pubescent; anterior tibiz tri-dentate,
tarsi short, claw of anterior tarsi very divaricating, upper claw much
longer than the lower one which appears thus more vertical than it
really is, and slightly emarginate underneath at the tip; basal joint
of hind tarsi clubbed at the tip, as long as the second one.

Male not known with certainty.

Length 14-15 mm. ; width 8-81 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

SCHIZONYCHA INFANTILIS, n. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 55.

Pale testaceous, with the head and prothorax light brick-red ;
clypeus rounded laterally in the anterior part, which is plainly
emarginate in the centre, the anterior margin is reflexed, the clypeal
carina is plainly sinuate on each side of the median part, which is
broadly triangular, with the apex directed towards the basal very
sharp carina, the median part of which is also broadly triangular
with the apex directed forwards, the whole surface is covered with
round, broad not contiguous punctures, and there is no trace of
clypeal suture ; prothorax ampliated laterally at a short distance
from the basal angle, very broadly rounded thence to the base, and
with the crenulate margin slightly sinuate, the surface is covered
with nearly equi-distant punctures, smaller and more scabrose in
the anterior than in the posterior part, and separated everywhere by
a space of about their own diameter, the anterior part is transversely
impressed, and the lateral fringe of sete is not dense; scute!lum
very closely punctured all over; elytra sub-cylindrical, covered with
closely set punctures separated from each other by a space equal to
their width and bearing each a very small, flavescent hair; pygidium
covered with closely set foveolate punctures; pectus very little
pubescent ; abdominal segments densely punctulate laterally, less so
in the middle, each puncture bearing a flavescent appressed hair ;

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anterior tibia tri-dentate, anterior and intermediate tarsi long, upper
claw of anterior ones longer than the lower but a little more slender ;
basal joint of hind tarsi shorter than the second. Female not known
with certainty.

Length 10-11 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury); Damaraland.

This species is very closely allied to S. meracula, but the shape of
the valves of the genital armature is different.

SCHIZONYCHA TRANSVAALICA, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 53.

Brick-red, with the elytra slightly paler than the prothorax ;
clypeus deeply and broadly emarginate in front in the centre,
clypeal carina hardly arcuate and slightly sinuate supra-laterally,
basal carina distinct and projecting in the centre. The surface
of the whole head, including the basal part, is covered with round,
deep, non-contiguous punctures, no clypeal suture; prothorax
rounded and ampliated laterally from the median to the basal
part, and with the anterior obliquely attenuate and slightly sinuate,
impressed transversely on each side at a short distance from the
anterior margin, covered with somewhat deep, round punctures
separated from each other by a space wider than their own
diameter, and somewhat asperous on the sides and along the
anterior part, the outer margin is only very slightly serrulate,
and only in the posterior part; scutellum deeply and _ closely
punctured; elytra covered with deep punctures separated by an
interval about equal to their diameter, and slightly cicatricose in
the anterior part; pygidium with deep foveate punctures somewhat
closely set; sides of the abdominal segments and of metasternum
deeply and closely punctured, pectus very little hairy, penultimate
abdominal segment wider than the preceding one; anterior tibix
tri-dentate, tarsi long, upper part of the claw longer than the lower
and equally robust.

Female unknown.

Length 11 mm.; width 5 mm.

Southern Rhodesia (between the Limpopo and Zambesi Rivers).

SCHIZONYCHA PARILIS, nN. Spec.

Light testaceous, head and prothorax testaceous-red ; it resembles
extremely S. transvaalica; the sculpture is the same, but the
head is not quite as broad and the clypeus, which is semicircular
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the penultimate abdominal segment is broader than the one
preceding, the sides of these segments are more numerously
punctured than in S. transvaalica, and the punctures on the
pygidium leave in the middle an impunctate longitudinal area.
The club of the antenne is equally long in both sexes. The genital
armature of the male is not unlike that of S. ignava, but the right
side is slightly longer and also slightly thicker than the left and
also more curved.

Length 104-11 mm. ; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Middle Limpopo, Enkeldoorn).

SCHIZONYCHA PUERILIS,
Plate XLL., fig. 65.

Closely allied to S. parilis, and greatly resembling it, but the
clypeus of the male is only moderately blunt and not sinuate, the
punctures on the median discoidal part of the prothorax are a little
broader, more widely scattered, and there is a somewhat distinct
median smooth space; the pygidium has only a few vague
punctures, mostly noticeable on the sides of the base; the pen-
ultimate abdominal segment is not broader than the one preceding,
the ultimate one is somewhat broad and swollen; legs and claws
as in the preceding species; in the female the clypeus is semi-
circular, and the club of the antenne is almost as long as in the
male.

Length 94-10 mm.; width 4% mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Griqualand West, Bechuanaland, Kuruman,

SCHIZONYCHA DISPUTABILIS, Nl. Spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 69.

Also closely allied to S. puerilis, from which it can be hardly
distinguished, except by the more transverse, non-sinuate clypeal
carina, the penultimate abdominal segment which is broader than
the one preceding, and the shape of the genital armature which
differs much from that of all the preceding species.

Female not known.

Length 9 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Middle Limpopo).

ScHIZONYCHA MEDIASTINA, 0. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 64.

Fuscous, elytra chestnut-brown, antenne and palpi ferruginous ;
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clypeus truncate but with the sides rounded, and covered like the
head, with the exception of the basal part of the latter, with very
closely set scabrose punctures; prothorax closely scabroso-punctate
in the interior part and with deeper and somewhat close non-
scabrose punctures on the posterior, supra basal-fold very distinct,
outer margin moderately plainly serrulate; scutellum not distinctly
punctate ; elytra elongated and covered with deep punctures equally
distant from each other and bearing a minute greyish hair; pygidium
faintly punctulate ; sides of abdominal segments and metasternum,
cox, and episterns with appressed greyish squamose hairs; anterior
tibie tri-dentate, tarsi long, lower part of the incised claws short,
especially in the anterior, not much arcuate and nearly median
owing to the long curve of the upper; penultimate abdominal
segment broader than the one preceding, last segment moderately
wide, not swollen.

Female unknown.

Length 11 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. South Africa (no exact locality).

SCHIZONYCHA INEDITA, 0. spec.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 40.

Brick-red, with the elytra not paler than the rest of the body ;
clypeus very rounded laterally but briefly sinuate in the centre of the
anterior part; clypeal carina arcuate, somewhat angular in the
centre and having a transverse impressed line behind, the basal
carina is sharp, slightly arcuate, and the surface, with the exception
of the basal part behind the carina, is covered with asperous
punctures more closely set, however, in the frontal part than on
the clypeus; prothorax distinctly amplated laterally and broadly
rounded towards the base, the outer margin is plainly serrate and
has a fringe of long setulose hairs, the sculpture consists of deep,
round punctures very briefly setigerous, more cicatricose in the
anterior than in the posterior part, but more closely set on the
sides than on the middle of the disk; scutellum with two lateral
punctures on each side near the base; elytra sub-cylindrical,
covered with slightly elongate punctures bearing each a very
minute hair, and divided from each other by a space equal to
twice their own diameter; pygidium closely foveolato-punctate ;
pectus briefly pubescent; abdominal segments closely punctulate
laterally, each puncture bearing an appressed hair, penultimate one
not broader than the preceding, last one very little swollen ; anterior
tibiee tri-dentate; tarsi long, upper claw of anterior ones much

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longer than the lower but of equal thickness; basal joint of hind
tarsi longer than the second.

Female unknown.

Length 12 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. North-East Damaraland.

The genital armature closely resembles that of a very different
species, S. ferraria.

SCHIZONYCHA MERACULA, N. spec.,

Very closely allied to S. infantilis ; the general appearance is the
same, but it differs in the following points: the clypeus is also
sinuate in the centre, but the corners are more broadly rounded,
the very sharp carina is not sinuate, and is normally arcuate, but
the basal carina which is not very sharp, especially laterally, is
produced in a triangle the apex of which is prolonged into a not
very well defined longitudinal raised line reaching the centre of
the frontal carina, the punctures are plainly asperous in the frontal
part and more shallow on the clypeus; on the prothorax, which
is of nearly similar shape but less obliquely attenuate laterally,
the punctures in the posterior part are a little more scattered,
and there is on the median part a somewhat indistinct longitudinal
smooth space; the punctures on the scutellum are less numerous ;
on the elytra the discoidal part is somewhat coriaceous owing to
some sub-transverse slightly raised folds, and the very briefly
setigerous punctures are a little wider apart, the pygidium and
the under side are alike, the anterior tibiz are also tri-dentate, and
the upper claw of the anterior tarsi is longer than the outer, which
is very short, almost coalescing with the upper. In the female the
frontal longitudinal cephalic carina is obliterated.

The shape of the valves of the genital armature resembles very
much that of S. transvaalica, but it is shorter, and the declivous
part is more perpendicular.

Length 11 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Walfish Bay) ; Ovampoland.

SCHIZONYCHA EXASPERANS, 0. spec.

Allied in shape and colouration to S. puerilis; the sculpture is
nearly identical, but it differs in the shape of the clypeus which,
being truncate in front for the greatest part of the length, seems
to be broader. The body is a little more robust than that of
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penultimate abdominal segment is not broader than the preceding,
and the last one is swollen.

Length 114 mm. ; width 54 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg).

In shape the genital armature is not unlike that of S. puerilis,
but the clasps are considerably shorter.

SCHIZONYCHA INSUESA, N. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 68.

Ferruginous ; clypeus blunt in front but strongly rounded laterally
and covered, like the head, with closely set scabrose punctures a
little broader than in S. mediastina, the clypeal carina is arcuate
as in the last-named species but is shorter transversely ; prothorax
very strongly serrate laterally, not very closely scabroso-punctate
along the anterior part, and irregularly punctured on the discoidal
and posterior part, these punctures are somewhat deep and the
intervals between them are slightly raised, the supra-basal
transverse fold is very plain; scutellum almost impunctate ; elytra
covered with minutely setigerous punctures, somewhat deep and
separated from each other by a space wider than their own diameter ;
pygidium with small, scattered punctures; abdominal segments
vaguely punctured; pectus sub-villose; tarsi long, upper part of
the claw very long and curved, lower short and not much curved ;
penultimate abdominal segment not broader than the one preceding,
last segment very little swollen.

Length 12 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

SCHIZONYCHA GONAQDA, Nn. Spec.

Ferruginous-red, club of antenne flavescent, clypeus semi-
circular laterally from the sharp basal angle to the median anterior
part which is briefly sinuate, frontal carina strongly arcuate, clypeal
suture discernible only in the median part, clypeus and frontal part
deeply punctured, space behind the basal carina smooth; pro-
thorax amplated laterally past the median part, and rounded thence
towards the basal angle, outer margin finely serrulate, and nor-
mally fimbriate; the surface is covered in the anterior part with
scabrose, closely set punctures, a little less scattered and non-
scabrose in the posterior discoidal part, in the centre there is a not
very distinct longitudinal smooth band, and the supra-basal,
impunctate folds are very plain; scutellum punctate laterally ;
elytra elongate, but distinctly sinuate below the humeral part, and

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somewhat ampliate behind, the punctures are deep, equi-distant;
and the hairs are very minute; pygidium deeply and closely pune-
tate all over ; abdominal segment very little punctate in the middle,
but with the lateral punctures bearing long, pubescent hairs, penul-
timate not wider than the one preceding ; pectus clothed with dense,
pubescent hairs; upper claw of anterior legs longer and slightly
broader than the lower, and plainly emarginate underneath towards
the tip. The nearest ally of this species is S. znswesa, which is,
however, quite distinct. In shape the genital armature is not
unlike that of S. barda, but is different nevertheless. Female
unknown.

Length 12 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand),

SCHIZONYCHA EXACERBANS, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 41.

The nearest ally of this species, so far as the shape of the clypeus
and the sculpture of the body are concerned, is S. plausibilis, but it
is more slender, and the colour is testaceous-red ; the clypeal carina
is more arcuate, and the suture is therefore shorter; the coxa:
and metasternum instead of being pubescent have only a few
hairs along the anterior part, but they have instead a white
squamose hair in each puncture. The outward differences sepa-
rating the two species are thus in S. eracerbans a more slender shape
and redder colour, a more arcuate clypeal carina, and a squamulose
pectus, but the shape of the genital armature is very dissimilar from
that of S. plausibilis ; the upper tooth of all the claws is longer than
the lower, not much more slender at the base, but slightly emar-
ginate underneath at the apex, and therefore quite similar to those
of S. plausibilis.

Length 13 mm.; width 62 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

SCHIZONYCHA PROFUGA, N. spec.,
Plate LL, fig. 84.

Head, prothorax, and legs chestnut or rusty-brown, elytra paler,
sometimes testaceous, antennz and palpi rusty-red, club not much
elongated; clypeus plainly sinuate in. front in both sexes, wider
in the female, clypeal carina arcuate in both sexes, suture distinct,
basal carina also distinct, not sinuate in the male, slightly so in the
female ; prothorax plainly ampliated slightly past the median part,
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length, surface covered with almost contiguous cicatricose punctures
separated by scabrose intervals, except along the base and for a
median space above the scutellum where these intervals are not
scabrose, and the punctures are less cicatricose; scutellum pluri-
punctate on each side, the punctures more numerous in the female
than in the male; elytra elongated, distinctly sinuate laterally before
the median part, and very little ampliated thence ; the punctures are
divided by intervals narrower than their diameter, and somewhat
raised in the diseoidal part, the hair they bear is most minute; pygi-
dium covered with closely set foveolate punctures separated by
intervals half the size of their diameter ; pectus moderately densely
villose; abdomen convex in both sexes, the segments are closely
punctured laterally, each puncture bearing a fine appressed hair, the
penultimate segment is slightly wider than the one preceding in the
male, but not wider in the female the last segment of which is very
swollen ; upper tooth of all the claws longer and only slightly more
slender than the lower one.

Length 14-16 mm.; width 7-8? mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury), Mozambique (Lourenco-
Marquez).

SCHIZONYCHA CONTINENS, N. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 80.

This species is much smaller than S. valida, but the shape is
similar, it is also ferruginous, with the head and prothorax fuscous
and the antenne ferruginous ; clypeus semicircular but very slightly
obtuse in the median anterior part, clypeal carina sharp, arcuate,
slightly angular in the middle, and having behind at some distance
a transverse impressed line and a small, triangular smooth median
patch adjoining it, the basal carina is sharp and the space behind it
impunctate, but the rest of the head is covered with contiguous,
scabrose punctures; prothorax ampliated and rounded laterally
somewhat beyond the median part, as obliquely narrowed towards
the posterior as towards the anterior angle, and with the outer
margin very plainly serrate and covered with foveate punctures
somewhat cicatricose in the anterior part, and separated by narrow
equal, slightly raised walls all over the surface; scutellum with two
arcuate rows of punctures impinging on each other; elytra deeply
punctured, the punctures separated from each other by a space
narrower than their own diameter; pygidium closely foveolate-
punctate ; punctures on the sides of the abdominal segments and on
the metasternum deep, and bearing each a squamose hair, pectus
very little hairy; tarsi long, upper part of the claws, especially the

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anterior ones, little longer and very slightly more slender than the
lower which is also elongate ; the genital armature resembles a little
that of S. zambesina, which belongs to a different section of the genus.
Length 123-13 mm.; width 6-61 mm.
Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Barberton, Waterberg, Pretoria) ;
Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo).

SCHIZONYCHA CARBONARIA, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 99.

Black; palpi, antenne, and legs piceous, each puncture on the
upper side with a short, but distinct white hair; club of antennz of
the male moderately long, the three joints pilose laterally; body
sub-parallel in the male, more ampliated laterally and much more
convex in the female; clypeus truncate in front, slightly more
emarginate in the centre in the male than in the female, clypeal
carina arcuate but with the median part sub-triangular, suture plain,
basal part not carinate, yet slightly raised, space behind the eleva-
tion punctulate, surface covered with nearly confluent, sub-scrobicu-
late punctures; prothorax not much ampliated laterally in the
middle and only slightly narrowed thence towards the sharp basal
angle in the male, but much more plainly narrowed in the female,
coarsely serrate along the outer margin and with the fringe of stiff
hairs conspicuous, it is covered with foveolate punctures almost
contiguous in the anterior part where the narrow intervals are
scabrose, more remote and with smooth intervals in the posterior
part, and having in the middle of the disk a longitudinal smooth
space; elytra short, nearly parallel and not much convex in the
male, ampliated and very convex in the female, the punctures are
deep and the intervals smooth; pygidium with shallow, nearly
obliterated round punctures in the male, deep and moderately closely
set in the female; penultimate abdominal segment slightly wider
than the antepenultimate, last segment very narrow in the male,
broader in the female; pectus not hairy; upper tooth of claws a
little more slender in the male than in the female, but longer than
the lower in both sexes; tarsi long.

This species is very closely allied in shape to S. quesita, S.
durbana, S. spuria, and S. squamifera. It, is much smaller than
the three first-named species, but the female can hardly be dis-
tinguished from rubbed examples of S. squamifera; the shape of
the genital armature is of quite a different type from that of he
species above mentioned, and resembles closely that of S. puerilis,
the left lobe, however, is truncate at apex,

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Length 9-104 mm. ; width 53-65 mm.

Hab. Natal (Frere, Maritzburg) ; Mozambique (Lourengo-
Marquez).

Boheman gives the whole of Caffraria as the habitat of this
species. This leads me to the belief that more than one species were
included by this author under this name. My examples are abso-
lutely similar to his co-type in the Stockholm Museum,

SCHIZONYCHA QUSITA, N. spec.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 60.

Black; palpi, antennz, and tarsi piceous; this species closely
resembles S. durbana, but it is a little more robust, and the shape of
the genital armature differs considerably ; clypeus blunt and plainly
sinuate in front, clypeal carina very little arcuate and having the
clypeal suture reaching nearly from side to side, the basal carina
is not sharp, and the surface of the head, with the exception of the
basal part, is covered with very closely set foveate punctures
separated by a narrow interval; prothorax amplated and rounded
laterally near the median part and closely serrate, covered with
deeply cicatricose, elongate punctures very closely set and somewhat
asperous in the anterior part, but separated in the discoidal by a
space nearly equal to their own diameter, in the central part there is
a smooth, somewhat plainly visible longitudinal band, and the trans-
verse supra-basal fold is conspicuous and smooth; scutellum with
two lateral series of broad punctures; elytra covered with somewhat
deep punctures separated from each other by a space equal to their
own diameter, and bearing like those on the head and prothorax a
minute greyish hair; pygidium deeply but not very closely pune-
tate ; tarsi moderately long, the hind ones of the female a little shorter
than those of the male, upper part of the claw very long and more
robust than the lower which is nearly median; penultimate
abdominal segment not broader than the preceding one, last seg-
ment somewhat broad, not swollen.

Length 133-14 mm.; width 74-8 mm.

Hab, Transvaal (Klerksdorp, Johannesburg).

SCHIZONYCHA SQUAMIFERA, Wallengr.,
Ent. Tidskr, 18815cp. 19)

S. liliputana, Brensk., Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 377.

Black, not very shining, or piceous-brown, sometimes also chest-
nut-brown ; antennz ferruginous, tarsi piceous, the outer margin of

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the prothorax and of the elytra has a fringe of somewhat long cilix,
and the pectus is only briefly pubescent; clypeus sub-truncate in
the anterior part the median part of which is slightly emarginate,
the clypeal carina is very sharp, arcuate, and behind it there is a
straight impressed line, the basal carina is not very sharp, and the
whole surface is covered with rugulose, closely set foveolate punc-
tures filled with a conspicuously broad lanceolate flavescent-greyish
scale; prothorax ampliate laterally at about the median part and
a little more diagonally attenuate thence towards the apex than
towards the base, serrate and covered with foveate punctures
separated from each other by a space equal to half their diameter
and filled with broad appressed scales like those on the prothorax,
there is in the centre a faintly raised, smooth, short, longitudinal
area, and in the female, and also in some very small male examples,
there are occasionally faint, wavy, irregular, smooth, transverse
bands; scutellum filled with foveate punctures; elytra moderately
elongate, slightly ampliated laterally past the median part, covered
with foveate punctures separated from each other by a space equal
to their own diameter, and filled, like the head and prothorax, by a
conspicuous scale; basal part of propygidium and the whole pygi-
dium covered with deep punctures bearing each a very short seta ;
penultimate abdominal segment not wider than the antepenul-
timate, ultimate one narrow, not swollen; pectus clothed with scales
laterally, abdominal segments each with three rows of squamose
appressed hairs; anterior tibie tri-dentate, tarsi somewhat long,
upper claw of the anterior ones longer than the lower, a little more
slender and slightly emarginate underneath at the tip; basal joint
of hind tarsi very little longer than the second, moderately clubbed
at the tip ; legs with a few hairs and a few scales.

In spite of its resemblance to S. idonea, this species is easily dis-
tinguished by the scaly covering. The genital armature differs also
considerably in shape. The female is slightly wider than the male
across the posterior part of the elytra; the tarsi are of the same
length as in the male.

Length 74-13 mm. ; width 4}—74 mm.

The type of S. liliputana, Brsk., is a very small example, probably
a stunted form caused by a lack of food in its early stage. I have
seen three similar examples from Frere, in Natal. In spite of their
very small size, the genital armature does not in the least differ from
that of the large examples.

The range of this species is somewhat wide.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch), Natal (Frere, Durban, Um-
voti), Ovampoland.

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SCHIZONYCHA BARDA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom, iv., 2, p. 273.

Chestnut or fuscous-brown, sometimes nearly black on the upper
side, club of antennz, under side and legs piceous-brown; clypeus
somewhat short, and with the whole of the apex truncate, and the
sides only moderately rounded towards the anterior part, the clypeal
carina is not as much raised as in the other South African species,
and is somewhat obliterated towards the outer angles, it is not
strongly arcuate, and the suture is very plain, the basal carina is
sharp and slightly bi-sinuate, and the surface is closely cicatricose-
punctate ; the head is small in proportion to the width of the pro-
thorax which is ampliated and rounded slightly past the median
part, with the outer margin plainly serrate from the apex to the
middle, and less thence to the base, the lateral setae are somewhat
bristly and short, and it is covered with cicatricose punctures closely
set in the anterior part, rounder and set a little more apart in the
posterior, above the centre of the base, there is a longitudinal, not
always distinct, smooth space; scutellum with a lateral row of
closely-set punctures ; punctures on the elytra deep and with the
intervals on each side of the suture slightly coriaceous ; pygidium
faintly punctulate; tarsi long, upper tooth of the claws very long
and curved, lower one very short, and nearly median on that
account, but also curved; the pectus and sides of the abdomen have
a few squamose sub-flavescent hairs, but the former is not villose ;
penultimate segment a little broader than the preceding, last segment
somewhat narrow, not swollen. The female is as much convex as
that of S. natalensis or Atys ovatula, but has 10-jointed antenne.

Length 103-13 mm. ; width 541-7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage).

This species differs from the other in the clypeal carina being very
little raised, but it is not quite obliterated as stated by Burmeister.
The forcipes of the genital armature are almost exactly like those of
S. dissensa.

SCHIZONYCHA MINIMA, 0. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 70.

Dark chestnut-brown, moderately shining, each puncture above
and under with a squamose greyish hair; clypeus blunted in front,
and not much sinuated there, clypeal carina arcuate, suture
moderately plain, basal carina indistinct, frontal surface closely
scrobiculate ; prothorax ampliated laterally past the median part
and moderately narrowed thence to the sharp basal angle, covered
with round fovex separated by a narrow raised smooth interval,

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these fovez are only slightly narrower on the sides than on the
disk; scutellum with a few foveate punctures; elytra elongated,
somewhat coriaceous along the median dorsal part, punctures
very deep and separated by a very narrow interval; pygidium with
semi-contiguous round, shallow fovew; penultimate abdominal
segment wider than the one preceding, last one somewhat narrow,
swollen; pectus with a few appressed, short hairs; upper tooth of
all the claws longer than the lower, and of nearly equal size. Female
unknown.

Length 9 mm. ; width 4+ mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourengo- Marquez).

SCHIZONYCHA SAGA, N. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 59.

Fuscous or very dark brown, palpi and antenne ferruginous, legs
piceous-red ; this species closely resembles S, durbana, but the elytra
of the male are not quite so cylindrical, being slightly ampliated
laterallyin the posterior part ; the clypeus is only blunt in the median
part which is not plainly sinuate, and is thus nearly arcuate, the
clypeal carina is very arcuate and has behind a transverse impressed
line far removed from it in the centre, and the surface of the whole
head is more deeply and also more roughly punctured ; the sculpture
of the scutellum consists of deep foveate punctures separated by
smooth, rounded walls, and there is a fairly plain median longi-
tudinal smooth space, the outer sides are very plainly serrate ;
scutellum with a lateral row of large, deep punctures; elytra sub-
coriaceous, and covered with deep, round punctures separated from
each other by a space somewhat wider than their diameter, and each
bearing a minute greyish hair, pygidium closely foveolate-punctate ;
abdomen closely punctate, penultimate segment broader than the one
preceding, last segment moderately broad, not much swollen, pectus
briefly pubescent; tarsi long, hind ones not shorter in the female than
in the male, upper part of claws longer than the lower, but of equal
width. Female like the male.

Length 123-13 mm.; width 65-7 mm.

Hab, Cape Colony (Worcester).

SCHIZONYCHA DURBANA, 0. spec.

Piceous-black, with the palpi and the antennz chestnut-brown,
each puncture on the upper side bears a very minute greyish hair,
the pectus is somewhat thickly hairy; clypeus biunt in front, very
slightly sinuate in the centre and with the sides widely rounded

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towards the anterior part, clypeal carina moderately arcuate and
having behind an impressed line set closely against the median part,
the surface of the whole head, including the basal part, is covered
with very closely set, rugose, cicatricose punctures; prothorax
ampliated and rounded laterally from the median to the basal part,
strongly serrate and moderately villose, the surface is covered with
round, deep punctures separated on the discoidal part by smooth,
irregular patches not quite as much raised as the supra-basal, trans-
verse fold; scutellum impunctate; elytra sub-coriaceous in the
anterior, and sometimes in the posterior part, covered with deep
punctures separated from each other by a space equal to their
diameter; pygidium moderately closely punctate ; abdominal seg-
ments deeply and closely punctate except in the middle, each
puncture is setiferous, penultimate segment wider than the one pre-
ceding ; tarsi long, piceous-red; upper tooth of the claws much
longer than the lower, and of equal thickness. The female is like
the male, not more convex, nor ampliate. It is almost impossible
to notice the difference in shape and sculpture between this species
and S. saga except by comparison with the latter ; the punctures on
the prothorax are, however, a little less deep, and the intervals are
not raised in the posterior part, the shape of the genital armature of
S. durbana differs much from that of S. saga, and hardly differs from
that of S. capensis, which is, however, quite a different species.
Length 124-133 mm.; width 64 mm.
Hab. Natal (Durban).

SCHIZONYCHA PERPLEXABILIS, nN. spec.

Piceous, with the club of antenne flavescent, shape of S. durbana
and S. saga; the clypeus, however, is more distinctly simuated, and
the hair in the punctures are more visible on the upper side; the
punctures on the prothorax are as broadly foveate as in S. saga, and
the intervals are similar. The shape of the genital armature is very
different from that of S. durbana and S. saga; it resembles that
of S. constrata, but the branches of the forceps are more diverging,
and the lateral projecting angle is quite apical, and smaller. Female
unknown.

Length 13 mm. ; width 7 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

SCHIZONYCHA DISSIMILIS, nN. spec.

Chestnut-brown, shining, hair in the punctures distinct on the upper
and under sides; shape of S. consweta, and with the punctures of

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the prothorax similar to those of. S. constrata. The last abdominal
segment is somewhat narrow and slightly convex. It is a little more
slender in build than the two species above mentioned, the clypeus
is sinuate in front in the male, and very little in the female, but the
main distinctive character is the shape of the genital armature,
which very closely resembles that of S. perplexabilis, the divari-
cating branches are, however, a little shorter, but similarly shaped.
The clypeus of the female is more arcuate in front than in the male.

Length 11-124 mm. ; width 54 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg).

SCHIZONYCHA CONSTRATA, Nl. spec.,
Plate XLLI., fig. 75.

Ferruginous, and with all the punctures bearing each a con-
spicuous whitish hair; club of antenne testaceous; build of S. rufina,
shorter but not more slender in proportion to its size; the shape of
the clypeus is similar, but there is a smooth triangular sinall patch in
the frontal part adjoining the clypeal carina, and the suture is distinct;
on the prothorax the punctures are broader, with the intervals irregu-
larly raised at about the median part of the disk, which has also a
longitudinal smooth median slightly raised patch, but they are set
somewhat close to each other in the anterior part and_ sides;
pygidium with round punctures separated from each other by a space
equal to their own diameter ; punctures on the sides of the abdomen
numerous and plainly squamulose ; pectus somewhat densely pubes-
cent; tarsi long, upper part of the claw of the intermediate legs
moderately long,. strongly curved, and robust, lower part very
slightly cleft, but also robust, penultimate abdominal segment
broader than the preceding, last one very swollen. My examples
have lost their claws except those of the intermediate legs. _ Female
unknown. The shape of the genital armature is of the same type as
that of S. rwfina, but differs much nevertheless.

Length 134 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Waterberg).

ScHIZONYCHA RURIGENA, Brensk.,
Plate XLI., fig. 76.
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 366.
Ferruginous, head infuscate, elytra chestnut-brown, club of antenne
flavescent, all the punctures on the upper side bearing a very distinct
greyish hair; clypeus arcuate laterally but plainly emarginate

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the anterior part and with the marginal edge distinctly reflexed, the
clypeal carina is arcuate and the suture is very distinct, the basal
carina is not distinet, and the whole surface is covered with some-
what deep punctures which are scabrose on the frontal part; prothorax
ampliated and rounded laterally in the median part and covered all
over with deep, round, equi-distant punctures separated from each
other by a space slightly narrower than their own diameter, and not
scabrose along the anterior margin or the sides, the outer margin is
plainly serrate ; scutellum with four or five punctures on each side ;
elytra somewhat short, a little amphated from past the median part,
and covered with deep, equi-distant punctures the intervals of which
are slightly raised ; pygidium with deep, round punctures separated
from each other by a space equal to their own diameter ; abdominal
segments with longer hairs than usual in the punctures, penultimate
one broader than the preceding, last one swollen; punctures on
the metasternum bearing each a short, appressed hair ; tarsi some-
what short ; upper part of anterior claws longer than the lower one
and a little less robust.

Female unknown.

Length 14 mm.; width 74 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Zambesi River).

SCHIZONYCHA NEGLECTA, Bohem.,
Plate XLLI., fig. 52.
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 101.
g S. puncticollis, Boh., loc. cit., p. 98.

Totally fuscous-brown, or with the elytra and abdomen ferruginous,
antenne brick-red; similar in shape and size to S. continens ; the
clypeus and head are alike, and the sculpture also; the prothorax
has the same shape, but the outer margin is very little serrulate, the
punctures are finer, more closely set, and the intervals are plane,
the punctures along the anterior margin are slightly asperous, and
there is a median longitudinal smooth, slightly raised line ; scutellum
numerously punctate except at the apex; elytra a little coriaceous,
and covered with somewhat deep punctures separated by an interval
equal to their own diameter; pygidium somewhat closely punctate,
penultimate abdominal segment slightly wider than the antepenulti-
mate, and the last one narrow and swollen; pectus with very few
hairs; tarsi long, upper part of claws longer than and of the same
thickness as the lower one. Female like the male; the shape of
the genital armature is unlike that of any other South African species.

Length 134-15 mm. ; width 64-74 mm.

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Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Zambesi River); Damaraland (Oma-
ruru); Ovampoland (Omrramba); Transvaal (Pienaar’s River) ;
Bechuanaland (Kuruman).

I have found by examination of the sexual characters of the types
that S. neglecta is the female of S. puncticollis.

SCHIZONYCHA PLAUSIBILIS, n. spec.

This species is so closely allied to S. neglecta that it is at first
sight difficult to distinguish the two, but apart from the totally
different shape of the genital armature, it is differentiated by the
punctures on the prothorax, which are not quite so closely set,
especially in the posterior part, the median longitudinal smooth line
is also less plainly indicated; the pygidium is much more broadly
punctured, and the epipleural fold of the elytra is distinctly punctate
near the basal part; tarsi long, both teeth of the claws long, upper
one longer than the other, and slightly emarginate underneath ;
the nearest approach to the shape of the genital armature is that of
S. zambesiana, but it is very distinct.

Length 134-15 mm.; width 7-10 mm.

Hab, Natal (Durban, Umsimkulu, Maritzburg).

SCHIZONYCHA RUFINA, Bohem.,
Plate XLL, fig. 73.
Insect. Caffr., 1i., 97.

Rusty-red, and with a minute hair in every puncture. In general
appearance it very much resembles S. spuria, the shape of the clypeus
is the same, but the clypeal carina is more arcuate, and the
suture nearly obliterated; the punctuation of the prothorax is
different on account of the punctures being cicatricose and also more
asperous in the anterior part of the sides, which are also less am-
pliated at about the median part, and less obliquely attenuate
towards the basal angle, the median longitudinal smooth space when
it occurs is also more conspicuous, and the punctures on the
scutellum and elytra are a little broader; the punctures on the
pygidium are also deeper and more cicatricose; the tarsi are also
long, and the upper tooth of the anterior claws which is very curved,
is not emarginated underneath. In the female the hind tarsi are
slightly shorter than in the male; the penultimate abdominal
segment is hardly wider than the preceding one, and the last is
swollen; in the male the penultimate is slightly wider than the
antepenultimate, and the last is also very swollen.

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Length 13-18 mm.; width 84-94 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Boksburg); Cape Colony (Kim-
berley).

Boheman gives the whole of Caffraria as the habitat of this species ;
so far, I have received it only from the localities here mentioned.
I fear, however, that several allied species have been included
under the name by him, because a second example labelled Type
and sent to me from Stockholm Museum is, as a matter of fact,
a new species which does not agree with the description of this
author, while the first example seen does agree. The outer apical
margin of the forceps is more obliquely narrowed towards the apex
than in the figure.

SCHIZONYCHA VALIDA, Bohem.,
Plate XLITI., fig. 62.
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 96.

Rusty or chestnut-brown, somewhat pale testaceous ; hair in each
puncture most minute on the upper side; pectus densely villose ;
clypeus semicircular, very slightly blunted in front in the male,
clypeal carina arcuate, suture distinct and set very close to the
carina, basal carina sharp, punctures on the clypeus foveate, on the
frontal part plainly scabrose; prothorax ampliated and rounded
laterally past the median part, less narrowed thence to the sharp
basal angle than towards the apical, outer margin serrate along
the whole length, surface covered with cicatricose punctures with
asperous intervals in the anterior part, in the posterior these
punctures are broader, and the intervals are smooth and very
slightly raised, but occasionally they form some small areolets near
the centre, especially in the female; the depth of the punctures and
the sharpness of the scabrose parts differ, however, very greatly even
in examples from the same locality; scutellum pluri-punctate
laterally ; elytra deeply punctate, plainly coriaceous; pygidium
closely punctured, the punctures more shallow, as usual, in the
male than in the female; penultimate abdominal segment a little
broader than the ante-penultimate in both sexes, last one somewhat
broad or very broad, more or less swollen; upper tooth of all the
claws much longer than the lower and robust.

This species varies very much in size, colour, and sculpture. My
examples from the neighbourhood of the Zambesi River are darker,
more robust, and more deeply sculptured all over than those from
the Klerksdorp, Pretoria, and Waterberg Districts in the Transvaal.
Some of the latter are as pale testaceous and as slender as S. cvtuma,

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with which they would undoubtedly be confused but for the shape of
the genital armature of the male, which, although of nearly the same
shape, is, however, different.

Length 133-20 mm.; width 71-10 mm.

Hab, Transvaal (Klerksdorp, Pretoria, Waterberg) ; Southern
Rhodesia (neighbourhood of Zambesi River); Damaraland.

ScHIZONYCHA CITIMA,
Plate XLIIL., fig. 61.

Sub-eylindrical, pale testaceous, head and prothorax light-chest-
nut; club of antennz long, flavescent ; head and prothorax similar
in shape to those of S. valida, the sculpture is also of the same kind,
but much less deep, and with the intervals less scabrose or not at all
raised in the posterior part; the punctures on the elytra and on the
pygidium are alike, but the elytra are not coriaceous; the upper
tooth of the claws is a little more slender, but longer than the lower ;
the branches of the forceps of the genital armature are more con-
stricted laterally about the median part, more divaricating thence,
not as obliquely truncate at apex, and have no small triangular
projection in the inner part above the inner angle.

Length 15-17 mm.; width 7-74 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Manica, Salisbury).

SCHIZONYCHA TUMIDA, Cast.,
Plate XLI., fig. 58.
ish Natur. d: Col:, 1: ps 1338:

Chestnut-brown, with the elytra a little redder and the head slightly
darker than the prothorax, club of antenn flavescent, a very small
white hair in each puncture; clypeus semicircular, clypeal carina
moderately arcuate and without any distinct trace of a clypeal
suture, the basal carina is sharp, slightly angular in the centre, the
surface of the whole head, with the exception of the space beyond the
basal carina, is covered with closely set, contiguous, sub-scabrose
punctures ; prothorax ampliated and rounded laterally in the median
part, the outer margin is finely serrate and normally setulose, the
whole surface is covered with somewhat small, round punctures equi-
distant and separated by an interval equal in width to their diameter
except along the anterior margin, where they are set very closely ;
scutellum with two lateral rows of deep punctures ; elytra cylindrical,
covered with round punctures equal in size to those of the prothorax,
and set at the same distance from each other; pygidium with

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moderately closely set, round punctures, a little more scattered on
the apical part; abdominal segments finely but not very numerously
punctured laterally, pectus clothed with a long, yellowish pubescence ;
tarsi long, upper part of claws, especially the anterior, longer and
somewhat more robust than the lower, but emarginate underneath at:
the tip ; penultimate abdominal segment broader than the one pre-
ceding, last segment not broad, not convex.

Length 16-18 mm. ; width 74-9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, ? Namaqualand).

The female is more massive than the male, and the punctures
somewhat deeper and more cicatricose on the prothorax.

My typical example is from Drége’s own collection, and is labelled
Schizonycha capensis, Dej., but I doubt if it is the insect described
under that name by Burmeister. In the Collection of the late Jas.
Thomson it is labelled S. twmida.

SCHIZONYCHA FRAUDULENTA, Nn. Spec.

Closely allied to S. twmida, and closely resembling it in shape,
size, colour, and sculpture, but the head has a distinct clypeal suture
which is wanting in S. capensis, the punctures on the prothorax are
slightly less closely set in the posterior part, and the prothorax is
plainly less ampliated past the median, and nearly straight thence to
the basal angle if viewed from above; the punctures on the elytra are
slightly deeper and broader, the pectus is very hairy; the penulti-
mate abdominal segment is broader than the ante-penultimate, and
the terminal one is very broad and convex, much broader than in
S. tumida; the tarsi of the anterior legs are missing in the male
example sent to me under the name of S. capensis by Herr Brenske,
but the upper tooth of the intermediate and posterior claws is longer
than the lower, a little more robust, and not emarginate underneath ;
it is when the genital armature is examined that the difference
between S. fraudulenta and S. tunida is strongly marked. In the
last-named species the branches of the forceps are somewhat:
slender, of equal length, and symmetrical (pl. l1., fig. 58), whereas
in the former the shape is almost similar to that of S. vicaria
(pl. xlii., fig. 54), but the left branch of the forceps is narrower
and sharply acuminate at the tip.

Length 16 mm.; width 74 mm.

Locality not recorded.

It might be that the upper tooth of the anterior claws is shorter
and more slender than the lower, in which case this species would
come near S. scabiosa, which it somewhat resembles also, but in

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which the head is much narrower ; the prothorax, however, has the
same shape in both species.
In Herr Brenske’s Collection.

ScHIZONYCHA VILLOSA, Brensk.,
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 367.

Brick-red, shining, prothorax a little redder than the elytra;
clypeus plainly semicircular, but obtuse for a very short space in
the anterior part, and with the margin distinctly reflexed all round,
the clypeal carina is almost transverse, the basal one is nearly as
much raised as the clypeal, and the surface of the head, with the
exception of the base, is covered with cicatricose punctures some-
what asperous in the frontal part ; prothorax ampliated and rounded
laterally at about the median part, which slopes so much downwards
that if seen from above it does not seem to be narrowed towards the
sharp basal angle, it is covered with round punctures somewhat
irregularly scattered in the discoidal part, but set nearer to each
other on the sides, the outer margin is very slightly crenulate, and
the hairs are somewhat long; scutellum pluri-punctate on each side ;
elytra somewhat short, and with the punctures deep and each bear-
ing a minute greyish hair; pygidium with only a few scattered round
punctures ; pectus densely pubescent in the male, and with a few
appressed squamulose hairs in the female ; femora somewhat densely
hairy; tarsi moderately long, claws very diverging, upper tooth
curved, much longer and more curved than the lower, which is very
short, sub-vertical, and also sub-median; the basal hind tarsal joint
is very short in the male, and proportionately less so in the female.

Length 11 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Natal (Estcourt, Maritzburg).

SCHIZONYCHA DISSENSA, Nl. Spec.,
Plate XLIIL,, fig. 53.

Black, not much shining, elytra and legs occasionally deep fuscous-
brown; antenn and palpi piceous-red ; punctures on the upper side
bearing a very minute greyish hair; head small in proportion to the
width of the prothorax, clypeus not much arcuate laterally near the
base, but more so towards the anterior part, which is somewhat blunt
but not quite truncate, the clypeal carina projects triangularly in the
median part; the basal carina is distinct, but not very sharp, and the
whole surface is covered with contiguous, foveolate, shallow punctures
somewhat asperous on the frontal part; prothorax not ampliated

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laterally in the median part, and nearly straight from there to the
basal angle, sharply crenular along the outer margin which is beset
with very long, fulvous setose hairs, the anterior part and the sides
are covered with very closely set, deep, somewhat asperous foveolate
punctures, more scattered and a little broader in the median and
posterior part of the disk which has a somewhat conspicuous longi-
tudinal median smooth space, with several irregular smooth areolets
on each side of it; scutellum with one uninterrupted row of punc-
tures along the outer edge; elytra not much convex, punctures deep,
equi-distant, intervals smooth; pygidium with numerous small
punctures ; punctures on the abdominal segment and on the meta-
sternum bearing each a long fulvous hair forming a dense pubescence
on the pectus; penultimate abdominal segment wider than the ante-
penultimate, last one narrow; tarsi moderately long, teeth of the
claws very deeply cleft, upper one as robust as the lower, longer and
plainly emarginate underneath towards the tip; the hind tarsi are
very little shorter in the female than in the male, in which sex the
basal joint is very little shorter than the second, whereas it is plainly
longer in the female ; the shape of the genital armature is unlike all
others, it is the only one in which the symmetrical lobes are as
sharply acuminate at the tip.

Length 13 mm. ; width 15 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown).

This species will be easily recognised owing to its small head and
very little convex elytra.

SCHIZONYCHA INFARSA, 0. Spec.

Female: Dark chestnut-brown, shining, tibize and tarsi piceous-
red, antenne and palpi ferruginous; clypeus sub-truncate in front
with the median part sinuate, the anterior margin is sharply
reflexed, the clypeal carina very arcuate and strongly reflexed, and
behind it there is a deeply impressed transverse line, also slightly
arcuate in the median part, the basal carina is distinct, and the space
behind it smooth, but the rest of the head is covered with very rough,
large scrobiculate punctures; prothorax ampliated laterally towards
the median part, but very little attenuate thence towards the basal
angle which is sharp, but plainly narrowed in the anterior part,
sharply serrate, very convex and having the normal fringe of some-
what long and not closely set setzealong the outer margin, itiscovered
with deep round punctures, enclosing a smaller pit, these punctures
are more closely set along the sides, where they coalesce and
become almost scrobiculate, but the discoidal ones are separated

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from each other, are somewhat irregularly scattered, and are divided
by a space somewhat wider than their own diameter, the basal
margin is not fringed with hairs; scutellum with two somewhat
irregular lateral rows of punctures; elytra convex, a little ampliated
laterally past the median part covered with moderately shallow
punctures, somewhat closely set yet separated from each other by a
space equal to their own diameter, and bearing each a most minute
hair, these punctures are not round and are slightly cicatricose ; edge
of propygidium closely punctulate, pygidium covered with deep, round,
closely set punctures; pectus very slightly pubescent; abdominal
segments covered, except in the median part, with very closely set,
setiferous, scabrose punctures, the penultimate segment, which is
a little wider than the one preceding, has a basal transverse median
carinate groove, and the punctures on the side are broader than on
the other segments, and not scabrose; anterior tibie strongly tri-
dentate ; tarsi short, anterior claws strongly developed, upper one
as long and nearly as robust as the lower one; basal joint of hind
tarsi as long as the second.

Male unknown.

This species has a short, robust facies.

Length 17 mm.; width 10 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

ScHIZONYCHA NEUTRA, 0. spec.

Female: Rusty-red, with the elytra and abdomen redder, shining,
the punctures on the upper side bear a most minute hair, antenne
reddish-brown; head small, clypeus oblique laterally towards the
anterior part, which is truncate in the centre, and the outer part
rounded, the clypeal carina is moderately arcuate, the clypeal suture
short and close to the carina, the basal one is distinct and projects
slightly in the middle towards the frontal part, and the surface of
the clypeus and frontal part is somewhat closely cicatricose punctate:
except along the clypeal suture and the basal carina ; prothorax broad,
not ampliated laterally in the middle, not narrowed thence towards
the base, but nevertheless very slightly sinuate above the basal angle,.
the outer margin is plainly serrate and normally setulose, and the
punctures on the surface are very scattered, but a little more closely
set along the median anterior part, they are round, very little cica-
tricose, there is distinct median longitudinal smooth space, and the
interspaces are smooth ; scutellum broad, punctate laterally ; elytra.
ampliated from a third of the length; punctures broad and deep,
the suture is infuscate; pygidium not distinctly punctulate ;.

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punctures on the sides of the abdominal segments very small and
bearing a very minute squamulose hair, those on the coxe and
metasternum bear each an appressed hair, fine and short; penulti-
mate segment of abdomen wider than the preceding one, last segment
swollen ; intermediate and posterior tarsi moderately long; upper
tooth of the claws of these tarsi (the anterior ones are missing in
‘my examples) much longer than the lower, and of equal size.
Length 15 mm.; width 83 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

SCHIZONYCHA IMMIXTA, n. spec.,
Plate LI., fig. 67.

Testaceous, with the elytra paler, but occasionally totally sub-
ferruginous ; club of antenne sub-flavescent, as long as all the joints
taken together ; clypeus truncate and plainly sinuate in front, clypeal
carina arcuate, suture distinct, basal carina indistinct, and replaced
by a transverse row of foveolate punctures, clypeus and frontal part
with foveolate punctures separated by smooth intervals; prothorax
slightly ampliated laterally at about the median part, and not much
attenuated thence towards the sharp basal angle, covered with equi-
distant round punctures, separated by somewhat narrow, very
slightly raised, smooth walls, from the centre of the discoidal part
there runs a narrow, smooth, longitudinal band reaching the base,
and the transverse supra-basal folds have disappeared entirely, the
outer margins show very little traces of serration ; scutellum with
one lateral row of punctures; elytra very little ampliated laterally
before the median part, covered with round punctures separated by
smooth intervals; hairs most minute; upper half of the pygidium
set with irregular deep punctures, lower half impunctate ; abdomen
distinctly depressed in the middle, penultimate segment not broader
than the one preceding, last segment narrow, transverse, the sides of
the abdomen are deeply, closely, and somewhat broadly punctate,
and the pectus is moderately densely pubescent ; tarsi long, upper
tooth of anterior claws extremely small and at times indistinct, that
of the intermediate and posterior ones much longer and more robust
than the lower. Female unknown.

Length 114-124 mm. ; width 64-74 mm.

This species is easily recognised by the absence of the supra-
basal raised folds of the prothorax, the great length of the club of
the antenne, and the almost obliterated upper tooth of the anterior
claws. The shape of the genital armature is also very charac-
teristic, and unlike any other.

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This species is labelled, S. corossa, Burm., in the Brussells
Museum.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town, Transkei).

SCHIZONYCHA FRAUDIGERA, 0. spec.

Testaceous-red, with the antennal club of the male sub-flavescent ;
closely allied to S. immixta ; the sculpture of the head and prothorax
is quite similar, that is to say, the latter is covered with equi-distant,
round, foveolate punctures all over, and the basal fold is almost
obliterated; but the occipital keel is hardly distinct, the shape is
much more slender, and the upper tooth of all the claws is slender ;
the shape of the genital armature of the male, although of the same
type, is different, the two symmetrical branches of the forceps are
gradually very narrowed with a slight curve from the base toa short
distance from the apex, where they are spatulate, the inner margin
being straight, whereas in S. inumixta the branches are bi-sinuate
inwardly and outwardly.

Length 104-11 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

SCHIZONYCHA VAALENSIS, 0. spec.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 50.
2S. africana, Klug (nec. Casteln.), Peter’s Reis., p. 257.

Chestnut-brown, moderately shining, club of antennz long in
the male, sub-flavescent in both the sexes ; clypeus truncate in front,
plainly sinuate in the centre, and broadly rounded laterally ; clypeal
carina somewhat strongly arcuate, suture distinct, no basal carina
or groove, the surface of the whole head is covered with closely set
scrobiculate punctures which are slightly narrower and a_ little
more rugose on the frontal part than on the clypeus; prothorax
plainly serrate along the whole of the outer margins, plainly am-
pliated laterally in the median part, and nearly as much attenuated
thence to the basal angle as towards the apical one, covered with cica-
tricose punctures very closely set and with the intervals raised and
rugulose on the sides and in the anterior part, and even sub-scabrose
along the margin, rounded, larger and more broadly scattered,
especially on the sides, from the median to the basal part, and having
at about the middle an elongated longitudinal, smooth, slightly
raised space; scutellum with two or three lateral punctures in the
anterior part ; elytra elongated, almost sub-cylindrical in both sexes,
covered with somewhat deep punctures separated by a very narrow

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interval slightly raised along the sutural part only, hairs minute ;
pygidium covered with round foveate punctures, which are somewhat
closely set and similar in both the sexes; abdomen only very slightly
impressed in the centre in the male, and with the segments nearly
as numerously punctured in the median part as on the sides, penul-
timate segment as broad as the antepenultimate, last one narrow
and transverse in both the sexes and somewhat swollen; pectus
with a few villose hairs springing from foveolate punctures; tarsi
long, those of the female almost as long as those of the male, upper
tooth of anterior claw more slender than the lower but equally long,
that of the intermediate and posterior claws equally long, but only
very slightly more slender.

Length 14-154 mm.; width 74-8 mm.

Through the courtesy of Dr. H. Kolbe, of the Berlin Museum,
Ihave been able to compare a typical species of S. africana, Klug,
nec. Casteln., which almost completely resembles the present species.
I have unfortunately not been able to examine its genital armature.
That of S. vaalensis is very singular. So far as I know, however,
the habitat of this species is restricted to the neighbourhood of the
Vaal River.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley, Vaal River, Barkly West).

SCHIZONYCHA MANICANA, N. spec.,
Plate LI., fig. 72.

Head and prothorax testaceous-red or sub-ferruginous, elytra and
abdomen very pale testaceous, legs chestnut-brown, club of antennz
long in the male; clypeus. truncate, plainly sinuate, and with the
sides oblique, clypeal carina triangularly arcuate, suture distinct,
basal carina very sharp, not sinuate, the clypeus is scrobiculate-
punctate, the frontal part foveolate with the intervals plainly granu-
lose; prothorax conspicuously serrate laterally, ampliated there in
the centre, but only moderately narrowed thence to the sharp basal
angle, covered with cicatricose punctures, smaller, very scabrose and
closely set along the anterior part, the punctures in the discoidal
part, and reaching as far as the base, are broader, and although
slightly irregularly set, are divided by a smooth space nearly
equal in width to the diameter of the punctures, and there is in both
sexes a longitudinal smooth, raised line in the posterior discoidal
part, the hairs on the head and prothorax are very minute, but the
fringe of setose hairs along the outer margins of the prothorax is long;
scutellum with two lateral rows of punctures; elytra elongated, very
little amplhated laterally in both sexes, deeply punctured, the

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punctures bearing each a most minute hair, intervals narrower than
the punctures, and slightly raised along the sutural part only;
pygidium covered with closely set, somewhat deep punctures similar
in either sex ; abdomen of the male slightly depressed in the middle,
penultimate abdominal segment not wider than the one preceding,
last one two-thirds as broad as the penultimate, and convex in both
sexes ; pectus moderately densely villose; tarsi long, upper tooth of
all the claws shorter and more slender than the lower. The female
is distinguished from the male merely by the more convex abdomen
and the slightly shorter tarsi.

Length 153-16 mm.; width 74-72 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Manica).

SCHIZONYCHA AFFINIS, Bohem.,*
Plate LI., fig. 66.
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 103.
S. oblonga, Bohem., loc. cit., p. 102.

Testaceous, with the clypeal part slightly infuscate, palpi and
antenne sub-flavescent, club very long in the male; clypeus slightly
blunt in front in the male, semicircular in the female, beset, like the
frontal part, with deep non-coalescing sub-foveolate punctures, basal
part impunctate along the carina, frontal carina transverse, distinctly
bi-sinuate, no clypeal suture, basal carina also bi-sinuate in the male,
less so in the female, prothorax ampliated laterally past the median
part, and with the basal angles distinctly rounded, covered all over
with equi-distant, somewhat closely set, round punctures, which are,
however, faintly scabrose along the anterior margin; outer margin
indistinctly serrulate ; scutellum with a marginal row of punctures ;
elytra elongated, sinuate laterally before the median part, normally
punctured, and with the hair in each puncture hardly visible ;
pygidium beset with round punctures nearly similar in both sexes,
but varying in number and closeness in individuals ; pectus with
long, appressed flavescent hairs; abdominal segments with hairs
longer and more numerous in the male, the penultimate segment is
broader than the one preceding in both sexes, the ultimate one is
transverse, narrow, and depressed in the male, bulging and wider in
the female, the apical margin is sinuate in both but more deeply in
the male; tarsi long, upper tooth of anterior claw shorter by one-
half than the lower and not so robust, that of the intermediate and
posterior legs longer than the lower and equally robust. This species

* In the Explanation of the Plate, in vol. xii., p. 908, this species is erroneously
named S. perfidiosa.

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is closely allied to S. infantilis, but is differentiated by the shape of
the genital armature.

Length 12-13 mm. ; width 6-61 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley); Orange River Colony (Botha-
ville) ; Transvaal (Rustenburg, Lydenburg); Southern Rhodesia
(Buluwayo, Salisbury).

Boheman’s co-type of S. oblonga does not differ in any appreciable
degree from S. affiiis, except that the clypeus is a little more arcuate,
but this character seems to vary somewhat in individuals of the
same species.

SCHIZONYCHA LANGUENS, 0. spec.,
Plate LI., fig. 63.

Shape, size, colouring, and sculpture of S. affinis, the punctures of
the prothorax are only slightly deeper. But in spite of this great
resemblance to S. affinis, the difference in the shape of the genital
armature of the males of the two species is very great (vid. pl. l.,
figs. 63, 66); the clypeus is blunt in front instead of being semi-
circular, and the last abdominal segment is somewhat broad and
swollen.

Length 11-114 mm.; width 53-6 mm.

Hab. Orange River Colony (Bothaville); Transvaal (Rustenburg).

SCHIZONYCHA IGNAVA, N. spec.,
Plate XLIIL., fig. 56.

Pale testaceous, but with the head, prothorax, and legs light
testaceous-red ; clypeus blunt in front, hardly sinuate, but with the
sides broadly rounded, carina transverse, plainly sinuate in the
centre, no suture, basal carina sharp, projecting triangularly in the
middle, the clypeus is closely foveolato-punctate and the frontal
part plainly asperous; club of antennz long in the male ; prothorax
ampliated laterally and rounded slightly past the median part, very
much less attenuated thence to the sharp basal angle than in the
anterior part, covered laterally and broadly along the anterior
margin with closely set, asperous punctures, but on the discoidal part
the punctures from about the median part to the base are round
and non-asperous,-in the centre of the disk there is an elongated
smooth patch ; scutellum pluri-punctate on each side; elytra
moderately elongated, slightly ampliated laterally before the median
part, deeply punctured, the diameter of the intervals lesser than
that of the punctures, and coriaceous in the dorsal part; pygidium
with moderately closely set punctures, leaving a median smooth
longitudinal band; penultimate abdominal segment slightly broader

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than the one preceding, ultimate one somewhat broad and convex ;
pectus not densely villose; the anterior tarsi are wanting in both
my examples; the upper tooth of the intermediate and posterior
claws is longer and of the same width as the lower.

Length 84-11 mm.; width 5-64 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls); Transvaal (Lydenburg).

SCHIZONYCHA EGENS, 0. spec.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 24.

Brick-red, with the elytra slightly lighter than the prothorax, hair
in the punctures very minute; antennal club of the male as long as
all the joints taken together; clypeus truncate in front and very
slightly sinuate, very little attenuated laterally, clypeal carina
arcuate, suture plain, basal carina indistinct, clypeus sub-scrobiculate,
frontal part more closely scrobiculate, with the intervals scabrose ;
prothorax ampliated laterally past the median part, sub-serrate
along the outer margins, covered all over with round, eaui-distant
punctures having nearly smooth, non-raised intervals, these punc-
tures are of equal size, except along the anterior margin where they
are narrower ; scutellum with one lateral row of broad punctures ;
elytra somewhat elongated and of normal shape, intervals of the
punctures very slightly raised along the suture; pygidium with
somewhat irregularly set foveate punctures; abdomen a little
depressed in the centre, deeply and closely punctate laterally ;
penultimate segment wider than the antepenultimate, last one
swollen and as broad as the penultimate; pectus hardly hairy ;
tarsi long, upper tooth of all the claws very slender and shorter
than the lower.

Female unknown.

Length 10} mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

This species greatly resembles S. infans, but differs by the absence
of a basal cephalic carina, the smooth intervals of the punctures in
the discoidal part of the prothorax, and the much broader and more
swollen ultimate abdominal segment; the shape of the valves of the
penis is not the same as that of S. infans.

ScHIZONYCHA PAUPERCULA, N. spec.,
Plate XLIIL,, fig. 42.
Somewhat light testaceous-red, moderately shining and with the
hairs in the punctures of the upper side small, yet very distinct,
those on the under side have a conspicuous greyish-white scale ;

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clypeus somewhat oblique laterally, truncate in front with the outer
sides somewhat broadly rounded, very slightly emarginate in the
middle in both sexes, clypeal carina arcuate, no clypeal groove, no
basal carina or groove, the surface, except the basal part, is closely
scrobiculate ; antennal club of antenne flavescent, long in the male ;
prothorax plainly ampliated and rounded laterally past the median
part, and less obliquely attenuated thence towards the sharp basal
angle than towards the anterior, outer margin somewhat finely
serrulate, the whole surface covered with somewhat cicatricose, equi-
distant punctures, a little more widely set, however, in the discoidal
part than on the sides and along the anterior margin, the intervals
on the median dorsal part are nearly smooth but much narrower and
slightly scabrose on the sides; scutellum pluri-punctate except at
the apex; elytra elongated, nearly cylindrical in both sexes, very
closely and deeply punctured, and with the intervals much
narrower than the latter; propygidium and pygidium very closely
and finely punctate in both sexes, each puncture bearing a minute
squamulose hair; pectus not hairy; abdomen hardly depressed in
the centre in the male, not very convex in the female, all the seg-
ments are nearly as closely punctured in the middle as on the sides,
the penultimate is broader than the one preceding, and the last
one is wide and swollen in both the sexes; the basal tooth of the
anterior tibiee is very small in the male, and almost obliterated in
the female; the tarsi are long, and the upper tooth of all the claws
much more slender, especially in the male, than the lower.
Length 11-124 mm.; width 5-53 mm.
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

SCHIZONYCHA OVAMPOANA, N. spec.,
Plate XLIIL, fig. 55.

Testaceous, elytra somewhat paler than the prothorax, head
darker; palpi and antennze somewhat ferruginous; head narrow,
eyes very large; clypeus plainly emarginate in front, clypeal carina
sub-triangularly arcuate in the middle, suture distinct in the centre
of the frontal part, separated there from the apex of the carina by a
double row of punctures, and slightly bi-sinuate, basal carina sinuate,
surface of clypeus and forehead covered with deep, nearly coalescing
punctures except in the centre above the suture; prothorax
ampliated laterally at about the median part, less diagonally
attenuated thence towards the basal part than towards the apical,
serrulate and moderately densely villose along the outer margin,
basal angle sharp, surface covered with deep, sub-foveolate punc-

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tures slightly cicatricose in the anterior part, separated by a space
equal to their diameter, in the centre there is a somewhat plain,
smooth line having the appearance of being slightly raised ;
scutellum with a marginal row of deep punctures, a basal one,
and two or three punctures transversely set; elytra elongated,
normally sinuate laterally, deeply punctured with the intervals non-
coriaceous, and the hairs in the punctures extremely small;
pygidium covered with moderately deep, sub-cicatricose, equally
distant punctures separated from each other by a space equal to
their diameter ; pectus not densely hairy ; abdominal segments with
long hairs in the punctures; penultimate segment almost twice as
broad as the one preceding, last one flat, moderately broad; upper
tooth of all the claws shorter and more slender than the lower in the
male, the only sex known to me.

Length 20 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba).

SCHIZONYCHA SPURIA, 0. spec.,
Plate LI., fig. 74.

Black, moderately shining, palpi, antenne, and legs piceous;
clypeus blunt in front and very slightly sinuate in the middle,
clypeal carina arcuate, suture distinct, straight, basal one not
sinuate, surface covered with scabrose, foveolate, nearly contiguous
punctures bearing each a very distinct squamose greyish hair ;
prothorax moderately ampliated laterally at about the median part,
much less diagonally attenuated thence towards the base than
towards the anterior part, basal angle sharp, outer margin plainly
serrate and fringed often with dense fulvous hairs, surface covered
with irregular, transverse, slightly raised smooth folds in the intervals
of which are some slightly scabrose fovee bearing each an appressed,
very distinct squamose greyish hair; scutellum raised in the centre,
the lateral punctures squamose; elytra not much elongated,
cylindrical, not sinuate laterally, covered with deep punctures
bearing each a conspicuous squamose greyish hair, from the base to
past the median part the intervals are raised, and coriaceous ;
pygidium impunctate ; pectus clothed with long, moderately dense,
light fulvous hairs ; abdominal segments with a few hairs, and some
squamose greyish scales laterally, the two intermediate segments
depressed in the centre, penultimate one a little wider than the one
preceding, last one moderately wide, flat; tarsi moderately long,
upper tooth of all the claws shorter and much more slender than the
lower.

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Female unknown.

This species resembles very closely S. quesita, the upper tooth of
the claws is, however, slender and shorter than the lower, and the
shape of the anterior claws of the male, and also of the genital
armature, is very different. The apical point of the branches of the
forceps is bent almost at right angles, and the lateral emargination
is much more densely hairy than represented in the figure.

Length 12-13 mm.; width 7-74 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg, Lydenburg.)

ScHIZONYCHA NATALENSIS, Brensk.,
Plate LI., fig 71.

Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1896, p. 352.

Male: Piceous, or chestnut-brown, somewhat shining; clypeus
sinuate in front, clypeal carina arcuate, suture plain, no basal carina,
surface of the clypeus closely foveolate, the fovese more scrobiculate
on the frontal part ; prothorax not much ampliated laterally in the
median part and only slightly sinuate laterally towards the base
the outer angle of which is sharp, the outer margin is serrate, and
the ciliate hairs neither numerous nor long, the surface is covered
with deep, round, sub-foveate punctures separated from each
other by a space equal to their diameter, and a little wider in the
median posterior part of the disk than on the anterior or on the
sides, the walls are very slightly and irregularly raised and smooth ;
scutellum with a lateral row of punctures; elytra not much
elongated, somewhat ampliated laterally past the median part, in
both sexes, covered with deep, closely set punctures separated by
a space smaller than their diameter and bearing each a most minute
hair, the intervals in the discoidal part are slightly coriaceous ;
pygidium with deep, round, broadly scattered punctures; pectus
with only a few appressed hairs; abdominal segments closely
punctured except along the median part, where it is very little
depressed, penultimate segment broader than the one preceding, last
one moderately broad and somewhat convex; tarsi somewhat long,
upper tooth of all the claws more slender and shorter than the
lower.

Length 12-14 mm. ; width 63-74 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

Female differs from the male in the prothorax being a little
more ampliate laterally, and having in the centre a somewhat plain,
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more ampliated laterally, and the upper tooth of all the claws is as
long and as robust as the lower one.

The original deseription was.
made from a female example.

SCHIZONYCHA RUSsULA, Bohem.,
Plate XLITI., fig. 12.
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 100.

The description of the two series of S. natalensis suits exactly this
species, the male, however, has quite differently shaped genital clasps,
and the club is much more elongated; in the female the longitudinal
impunctate smooth band of the prothorax is much more marked than
in the same sex of S. natalensis. Boheman’s type is a female.

Length 9-11 mm.; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

SCHIZONYCHA SPECTABILIS, n. spec.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 39.

Testaceous-red, or chestnut-brown with the elytra and abdomen
testaceous, very shiny ; club of antenne flavescent; all the pune-
tures on the upper side and the abdomen bear a most minute hair,
and the margins of the prothorax, which are strongly serrate, have a
fringe of ciliate hairs, the pectus is clothed with moderately long,
flavescent hairs which are appressed, and are somewhat more
squamose on the coxe and the episterns; the frontal part is
roughly scabrose-foveolate, the clypeus blunt and slightly sinuate
in the centre, the clypeal carina is sinuate in the median part in
the male, not in the female, moderately arcuate, and the median
part of the suture is distinct, the basal carina is sharp, and the
space behind smooth; the prothorax is not much ampliate laterally
in the middle, and only very slightly sinuate thence towards the
sharp basal angle, in the anterior part it is covered with cicatricose
irregular fossules, has a transverse median impunctate space and a
supra-basal parallel one, and the interval between the two spaces is
filled with cicatricose, irregular fossules; scutellum with two or
three punctures on each side in the male, impunctate in the female ;
elytra elongate, punctures deep; propygidium with two transverse,
apical rows of small punctures; pygidium almost glabrous, with
scattered, somewhat shallow punctures, in the male, the punctures
more closely set, more numerous, and deeper in the female ; penul-
timate abdominal segment not broader than the one preceding,
ultimate one swollen in both sexes; tarsi very long; upper claw

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of tarsi slender, slightly shorter than the lower in the anterior tarsi
of both sexes; basal outer tooth of anterior tibize very short in the
male ; in the female the last abdominal segment is very broad, and
divided in two by a deep suture bearing a row of distant appressed
sete.

Length 18-20 mm. ; width 84-10 mm,

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

SCHIZONYCHA ALGOA, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 83.

Very dark chestnut-brown, with the elytra slightly lighter, antennze
ferruginous, clypeus arcuate, but truncate and slightly sinuate in the
centre, clypeal carina not much arcuate, somewhat triangular and
having no impressed line behind, the frontal part is covered with
broad, round, contiguous punctures, leaving a small smooth space
at the back of the median part of the clypeal carina, and the clypeus
is similarly punctured, but there is an impunctate transverse band
along the clypeal carina; prothorax convex, not narrowed laterally
from the median part to the sharp basal angle, serrulate along the
outer margin which is fringed with somewhat long set, and covered
with closely set foveolate punctures a little smaller on the anterior
part and sides than on the posterior; scutellum with two rows of
punctures impinging on each other; elytra plainly ampliated
laterally past the median part, and covered with deep punctures ;
pygidium deeply and somewhat closely punctured ; abdomen closely
and finely punctate; penultimate abdominal segment not wider
than the one preceding; last joint very swollen; metasternum and
femora densely villose; tarsi long, upper tooth of all the claws
slightly longer than the lower, and a little more slender.

Length 144 mm.; width 74 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourengo-Marquez).

SCHIZONYCHA ZAMBESIANA, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 81.

Testaceous-red or chestnut-brown, each puncture with a short
white squamose hair; clypeus rounded, obliquely narrowed from
the base laterally, but truncate in front and plainly sinuate there in
the middle in both sexes, clypeal carina not much arcuate, clypeal
suture distinct, basal carina plain, transverse in the male, slightly
bi-sinuate in the female, clypeus and head coarsely foveolate, except
behind the basal carina, where the latter is granulose; prothorax a
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thence to the sharp, basal angle, closely punctate and somewhat
scabrose in the anterior part and on the sides, but with the punctures
a little more scattered and not scabrose in the posterior, in the
discoidal part is a smooth space, sometimes very plain ; scutellum
with two series of punctures; elytra elongate, sub-cylindrical,
punctures deep; pygidium with shallow punctures separated from
each other by a smooth space broader than their own diameter in
the male, much deeper in the female; sides of abdomen, cox
episterns, and metasternum covered with very closely set elongate
white scales; penultimate abdominal segment a little wider than the
preceding one, ultimate segment moderately broad, slightly swollen,
and more punctured in the female than in the male; upper tooth of
anterior claws much more slender than the lower, and nearly of
equal length in both sexes, club of antenne long, but a little shorter
in the female than in the male.

Length 13-15 mm. ; width 64-7 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls, Sebakwe).

The chestnut-brown examples resemble much S. profuga, but the
species is easily recognised by the white scales covering the sides of
the abdo nen and metasternum, the coxe and episterns.

SCHIZONYCHA SALISBURIANA, N. spec.,
Plate XLIIL, fig. 38.

Light brick-red, with the elytra pale testaceous, clypeus slightly
infuscate, antenne flavescent ; clypeus broadly rounded laterally,
obtuse in front, nearly straight in the male, feebly sinuate in the
female, clypeal keel very high, broadly triangular, reaching the
outer margins in the male, not in the female, vertex of head
conspicuously keeled, surface covered with shallow punctures in
the male and deep ones in the female; prothorax of the normal
shape and very plainly serrate laterally, covered with small cicatri-
cose punctures, nearly equi-distant in the centre of the disk in both
sexes, and slightly asperous along the anterior margin; scutellum
punctate ; elytra cylindrical in the male, moderately ampliated
laterally in the female, covered with equi-distant punctures bearing
a minute greyish hair, and separated by a smooth space equal in
width to their diameter; pygidium somewhat broadly and deeply
pitted, penultimate abdominal segment one-third wider than the
antepenultimate one in both sexes; anterior tibice tri-dentate out-
wardly, tarsi very long; upper claw of all the tarsi more slender
than the lower one in both sexes.

Length 14-15 mm.; width 6-74 mm.

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Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

This species is closely allied to S. zambesiana. The clypeal carina
is triangular, while in S. zambesiana it is only very slightly arcuate,
and the pectus is moderately hairy instead of being squamose ; the
clasps of the genital organs are differently shaped (cf. fig. 38,
plyxlnysand fis: Si, pl) xli):

SCHIZONYCHA ELEGANS, Nl. spec.

Rusty-red, with the elytra, abdomen, and club of antenne testa-
ceous ; clypeus broadly truncate and deeply sinuate in the anterior
part, clypeal carina arcuate, basal one sharp, clypeus deeply and
closely punctured, the punctures asperous, frontal part with plainly
scabrose punctures, each puncture bearing a small greyish-white
hair similar to those on the prothorax and elytra; prothorax not
narrowed laterally from the median part to the base, but slightly
sinuated above the basal angle, and with the outer margin serrulate,
covered with closely set scabrose punctures in the anterior part, and
by slightly broader and more cicatricose ones in the posterior, the
latter being divided in the discoidal part by irregular, slightly raised
smooth intervals ; scutellum punctate laterally; elytra narrow, very
elongate, the punctures are very deep; pygidium with a few faint
lateral punctures ; punctures on the sides of the abdomen numerous,
and bearing each a short greyish hair; metasternum briefly yet
somewhat densely villose; basal tooth of anterior tibiae not very
strong, yet distinct ; tarsi very long, upper tooth of all the claws
shorter than the lower and more slender.

Length 153-164 mm.; width 7-8 mm.

The genital armature of this species greatly resembles that of
S. caffra, but the two lobes are a little more elongate, and are less
deeply sinuate laterally ; the shape of the clypeus is very different in
the two species.

Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg); Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez).

SCHIZONYCHA FURVA, N. spec.,
Plate XLI., figs. 60, 61.

Ferruginous, with the elytra redder-brown, club of antenne
ferruginous, each puncture on the upper and under side with a most
minute hair, but the pectus is slightly pubescent ; clypeus somewhat
small, truncate, slightly sinuate in front, clypeal carina moderately
arcuate but with the suture distinct for the greatest part of the
width, basal carina indistinct, both the head and the clypeus are
covered with very closely set round punctures ; prothorax slightly

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amphiate laterally past the median part, and only very slightly
attenuate obliquely thence to the sharp basal angle, covered with
nearly equi-distant round punctures, deeper on the sides, the
margins of which are not very distinctly crenulate; scutellum
covered with broad punctures except at the apex; elytra a little
ampliated laterally in the posterior part, deeply punctured ; pygidium
covered on each side with foveolate punctures, leaving, however, a
longitudinal, narrow, median smooth space; abdominal segments
closely punctured except for a narrow, median space, each puncture
bearing a hair a little longer than those on the upper side, penulti-
mate segment broader than the preceding, apical one swollen ; tarsi
long, upper claw of the anterior tarsi very slender and shorter than
the lower.

Female unknown.

Length 114 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. ? Cape Colony.

SCHIZONYCHA NOSCITATA, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLIIL, fig. 43.

Chestnut-brown ; head and prothorax ferruginous, each puncture
on the upper side bears a whitish, small, yet conspicuous hair, the
ciliz along the outer margins of the prothorax and of the anterior
part of the elytra are long, and the pectus is very pubescent ; club of
antenne flavescent; frontal part of the head and also the clypeus
very closely and deeply punctured, the punctures non-granulose, the
former is blunt in the median anterior part, but hardly sinuate, the
clypeal carina is very arcuate, and somewhat angular in the middle ;
the basal carina is not much raised, and is grooved; prothorax
moderately rounded laterally at about the median part, very little
narrowed, and not sinuate thence to the basal angle, covered with
irrecular, round, cicatricose punctures set somewhat closely along
the anterior margin and the sides, but much more scattered and
broader in the posterior, and haying there a median, smooth, some-
what raised space, and a few smaller similar areas across ; the outer
margins are serrate, more strongly so in the anterior than in the
posterior part; scutellum with two irregular lateral rows of pune-
tures ; elytra ampliate laterally from about the median part, the
punctures deep; pygidium with scattered, fairly deep punctures ;
abdominal segments as closely and numerously punctured in the
median part as on the sides, penultimate one wider than the pre-
ceding, last one broad, very swollen; tarsi long. The claws are
missing in my male example. The female is unknown.

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In general appearance this species resembles S. spurza and S.
rufina, but the prothorax is not narrowed laterally between the
median and the basal part as in these two species, and the shape of
the genital armature is also different.

Length 17 mm.; width 9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (? Namaqualand).

SCHIZONYCHA VALVATA, Brensk.,
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 353.

This species, described from a female example, is very closely
allied to S. noscitata, but while in S. noscitata the basal tooth of the
anterior tibiz is very distinct, it is almost obliterated in S. valvata,
although a female ; the shape and sculpture of the head are similar,
the basal carina has also a distinct groove; the punctures are
nearly the same, but a little more closely set on the discoidal part
which bears a longitudinal smooth line, but has no areolet; the
scutellum and the elytra are identical, and the hair in the punctures
is small but distinct ; the pygidium is punctured alike, but in the
centre there is a broad, shallow, depressed, longitudinal band, and
also a small, lateral impression on each side of the base; the last
segment of the abdomen is moderately broad, transverse, and not
swollen; the tarsi are as long as in the male (the hind ones are
missing in the type), the upper tooth of the anterior and intermediate
claws is deeply cleft, narrower and shorter than the lower.

Length 174 mm. ; width 9 mm.

The type is the only example of this species which I have seen,
and is labelled ‘8. Af.”” “Coll. Jekel.”’

ScHIZONYCHA RUGOSA, Brensk.
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 353.

Chestnut-brown, with the elytra somewhat light testaceous;
antenne and palpi sub-flavescent ; clypeus only slightly blunted in
front, and somewhat narrow owing to the strongly arcuate clypeal
suture; the suture is distinct, and so is the basal carina which is
grooved, the surface of the clypeus is closely scrobiculato-foveate,
and the frontal one granulose ; prothorax scarcely ampliated laterally
in the middle, nearly straight thence towards the basal angle which
projects, plainly serrate laterally from the anterior angle to about
the median part, and covered all over with small, closely set
granules, giving it a very scabrose appearance, supra-basal folds con-
spicuously raised; scutellum pluri-punctate; elytra elongated, a

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little ampliated laterally before the median part, deeply punctured
and with the hair in the punctures quite distinct ; pygidium some-
what closely punctate, except at the apex which is slightly coriaceous ;
abdomen slightly impressed in the centre at the base, penultimate
segment much broader than the one preceding, last segment wide,
swollen; pectus with a moderately long, appressed pubescence;
anterior tibiz with the basal tooth almost obliterated, tarsi long,
upper tooth of all the claws very slender and shorter than the
lower.

Shape, size, and colour of S. indotata, from which it differs mainly
by the sculpture of the prothorax, which is closely scabrose all over ;
the shape of the genital armature is almost identical with that of S.
fatidica, which it also closely resembles, but the left branch of the
forceps is somewhat broader.

Length 16 mm. ; width 8 mm.

The type, the only example I have seen, is labelled “ Natal.”

SCHIZONYCHA INDOTATA, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLITI., fig. 67.

Chestnut-brown, with the head fuscous and the prothorax rusty-
red; clypeus broadly truncate in front, but with the sides well
rounded, not emarginate in the centre, clypeal carina moderately
arcuate, suture distinct, basal carina distinct but not very sharp ;
the part behind the basal carina is smooth, but the frontal part is
plainly granular, and the clypeus covered with contiguous, some-
what scabrose punctures; prothorax very little obliquely narrowed
laterally from the median to the apical part, nearly straight from the
middle to the basal angle, but still having a slight sinuation above
the angle which is very sharp; the punctures are granular and very
closely set in the anterior part, larger, cicatricose, and set moderately
close to each other in the posterior ; there is a faint, small, smooth
space in the centre of the disk; scutellum pluri-punctate laterally ;
elytra elongate, sub-cylindrical, deeply punctured, each puncture,
like those on the head and prothorax bearing a minute greyish hair,
and separated from each other by a space equal in width to their
diameter; pygidium with scattered, shallow, round punctures, but
with the apical part impunctate ; punctures on the sides of the
abdomen squamulose, but the penultimate segment which is much
wider than the one preceding, has a few long hairs, and the meta-
sternum is villose ; tarsi very long, upper tooth of claws shorter than
the lower, and more slender; basal outer tooth of anterior tibize
almost obliterated.

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Length 17 mm.; width 8 mm.
Hab. Southern Rhodesia. Exact locality unknown; Transvaal
(Lydenburg).

SCHIZONYCHA FATIDICA, nN. Spec.,
Plate XLIIL., fig. 45.

This species is very much like S. indotata, the shape and the
colour are identical, but the clypeus is very plainly sinuate in the
centre, the clypeal carina, and also the sculpture of the head are
similar, but not that of the prothorax, which is narrowly scabrose
along the anterior margin only, the other punctures are cicatricose
and divided by wavy, smooth, unequal round intervals, imparting to
the surface a roughly scrobiculate appearance ; in the centre there
is an elongated, raised, smooth space, and one or two areolets on
each side of it; the supra-basal folds are very raised, the basal
angles project very much, and the posterior lateral part is on that
account more deeply sinuate; the scutellum and elytra are punc-
tured alike, and so is the pygidium ; the penultimate segment of the
abdomen is also wider than the preceding, and has a few long hairs ;
the numerously punctured abdominal segments are squamulose, and
the metasternum is very densely hairy ; tarsi very long, upper tooth
of claws shorter and much more slender than the lower. The genital
armature of the male is on the same plan as that of S. indotata, but
of somewhat different shape; the basal outer tooth of the anterior
tibize is very blunt.

Length 16-19 mm. ; width 8-9} mm.

Hab, Cape Colony (Kowie, Graham’s Town, Port St. John).

This species is labelled S. capensis, Burm., in the Candéze
Collection.

SCHIZONYCHA SCABIOSA, N. spec.,
Plate XLIITI,, fig. 44.

Chestnut-brown, each puncture bearing a minute whitish hair;
pectus somewhat densely pubescent; club of antenne flavescent ;
body sub-cylindrical ; head and clypeus closely scabroso-punctate,
clypeal carina arcuate, suture very fine, basal carina distinct; pro-
thorax a little ampliated laterally in the middle, very little narrowed
thence, but slightly sinuated above the basal angle, margins strongly
serrate in the anterior part, the surface is covered with cicatricose
punctures asperous in the anterior part, larger and smoother in the
posterior, where they are divided by narrow, smooth, irregular walls,
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tudinal band; scutellum with a duplicate lateral row of punctures ;
elytra deeply punctate; pygidium with deep, somewhat closely set
foveolate punctures; all abdominal segments deeply and closely
punctured all over, penultimate one broader than the preceding, last
one very swollen; tarsi long; upper claw of anterior ones much
narrower than the lower, and slightly shorter; that of the posterior
and intermediate longer and very little less slender. Female
unknown.

The sculpture of the prothorax is not unlike that of S. puncticollis,
which it somewhat resembles, but in the latter the punctures in the
posterior part are not divided by smooth walls, and the prothorax
itself is much more ampliated in the middle, and distinctly narrowed
towards the base. The shape of the genital armature is also very
different.

Length 14-144 mm. ; width 63-7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage).

SCHIZONYCHA CAFFRA, Nl. spec.

Testaceous, with the head and prothorax somewhat brick-red, club
of antenne flavescent, shining, and haying a minute hair in every
puncture, basal part of prothorax with a fringe of long flavous
pubescence ; pectus very densely villose; clypeus truncate in the
anterior part and only very slightly sinuate there, clypeal carina
arcuate, basal one somewhat sharp but not much raised, surface of
the clypeus and frontal part cicatricoso-punctate ; prothorax not
narrowed laterally from the median to the basal part, but slightly
sinuate above the basal angle, which is sharp; the outer margin is
finely crenulate serrate, and the ciliz are long, it slopes a little more
than usual towards the anterior part, and is covered with equi-
distant round punctures slightly narrower in the anterior than in the
posterior part, and separated by a smooth space equal in width to
their own diameter; scutellum with only a few punctures ; elytra
moderately elongate, deeply punctured ; pygidium sub-coriaceous,
and sprinkled with a few shallow punctures; tarsi long, upper tooth
of anterior tibizw very fine, not deeply cleft, and thus very much
shorter in the male than the lower one, while in the intermediate
and posterior tarsi it is longer and not more slender than the
lower, which is sub-perpendicular; in the female the tarsi are
much shorter, and the claws of the anterior and posterior legs
are similar to those of the hind ones in the male; the penultimate
joint of the abdominal segment is a little wider than the one pre-
ceding,

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The genital armature is of the same type as that of S. fatidica, but
the right branch is more sinuate outwardly.

Length 15-16 mm. ; width 7-84 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Graham’s Town).

SCHIZONYCHA DEBILIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 272.

Colour, size, and shape of S. caffra, the description of which
apples very well to the present species, except for the claws of the
tarsi of the male, the only sex known to me. The anterior claws are
of the same shape as those of S. caffra, 7.c., they are divaricating and
cleft at the tip, the upper tooth is not deeply cleft, is very slender and
shorter than the lower, and those of the intermediate and posterior
legs have the same shape, instead of the upper one being very long
and as robust as the lower, which is short and of equal width. The
genital armature is also slightly different in shape from that of
S. caffra, and is very much like that of S. fatidica.

Length 15-16 mm.; width 74-8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Transkei).

SCHIZONYCHA INCRETA, N. Spec.,
Plate XLVI, fig. 54.

Elongate, pale testaceous, but with the head and prothorax some-
what brownish, and hoth covered with closely set, squamiform,
greyish hairs springing from the punctures, the elytra have similar
hairs, which are not, however, quite so densely set ; clypeus rounded
in the anterior part in the male, blunter but not emarginate in the
female, covered with deep punctures, the clypeal carina is sharp, and
so is the basal one, the space behind the latter is impunctate ; pro-
thorax ampliate laterally slightly past the median part, and only a
little more diagonally narrowed thence towards the anterior angle
than towards the basal one, covered with deep punctures separated
from each other by a space equal to their own diameter, but finer
and more closely set on the sides, above the basal part there is on
each side a conspicuously impunctate, shining, transverse fold;
scutellum as closely punctured as the discoidal part of the pro-
thorax ; elytra elongated, plainly sinuate laterally at about one-third
of the length, and a little ampliated there, covered with deep
punctures less closely set than on the prothorax, being separated
from each other by a space broader than their own diameter ; basal
part of propygidium, pygidium and abdomen moderately closely
punctured with the punctures squamiferous as on the upper side ;

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pectus not densely pubescent, and with whitish scales on the sides ;
anterior tibiz bi-dentate, not sinuate above the basal tooth, tarsi
long, upper claw of anterior tarsi narrower, but as long as the lower ;
club of antenne very long in the male, shorter, but still elongated in
the female ; penultimate abdominal segment slightly wider than the
preceding one, ultimate one somewhat swollen in the female.

Length 12-134 mm.; width 6-7 mm.

The somewhat dense covering of sub-squamose white hairs on the
upper side is very plain.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez, Beira).

SCHIZONYCHA CONFINIS, n. spec.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 40.

Siena-brown, clothed above and under with very dense greyish,
very squamiform hairs, less scale-like on the metasternum ; clypeus
with the margins highly reflexed, truncate and sinuate in the middle
in front, distinctly angular laterally at the base, and having only a
few shallow punctures, no clypeal suture, clypeal carina not much
arcuate, frontal part very closely punctured, basal carina moderately
sharp, basal space impunctate; prothorax ampliated laterally in the
middle, but not much attenuated thence towards the basal angle,
covered with small, nearly contiguous round punctures, and haying
no raised transverse supra-basal fold; scutellum more rounded at
the apex than in the other South African species, and very closely
punctate all over; elytra sub-cylindrical, the punctures are deep, but
small; pygidium also closely punctured, the punctures equal and
separated by an interval not equal to their own diameter; penulti-
mate abdominal segment broader than the one preceding, ultimate
one not swollen ; upper tooth of anterior tarsi slender, and not quite
as long as the lower one; anterior tibie bi-dentate outwardly
Female unknown.

This species has a covering of still denser squamulose hairs than
S. increta, the clypeus is more truncate, and, owing to the highly
reflexed anterior margin, seems to be hollow; like S. imverta, it has
no impunctate, raised fold above the basal part of the prothorax.

Length 14 mm. ; width 7 mm.

Hab, Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

ScHIZONYCHA DIVULSA, N. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 79.
Narrow, sub-parallel, pale testaceous, with the head, prothorax,
and legs slightly testaceous-red ; covered with minute whitish hairs

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issuing from the punctures on the upper and under sides; clypeus
truncate and emarginate in front, covered with closely set scabrose
punctures, clypeal carina sharp, basal carina distinct, the space
between the two is closely granulose, the basal part beyond the basal
carina is smooth; club of the antenne of the male very long; pro-
thorax very little ampliated laterally slightly past the median part,
covered with scabrose punctures along the anterior part for about
half the length, and thence by more scattered and non-scabrose ones
to the basal part, each one of these punctures bears a very small
squamiform hair, and above the base there is on each side a smooth,
shining fold; scutellum with one or two semicircular series of deep
punctures ; elytra sub-cylindrical, covered with deep round punctures
bearing a minute squamiform hair, and separated from each other by
a space about equal to their own diameter ; pygidium covered with
somewhat closely set, round punctures; abdominal segments covered
especially on the sides with very numerous setiferous punctures,
pectus with appressed greyish sub-squamiform hairs; penultimate
abdominal segment wider than the one preceding; anterior tibia bi-
dentate, tarsi very long, upper claw of all the tarsi very slender and
much shorter than the lower.
Length 114-12 mm.; width 55 mm.
Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg); Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

SCHIZONYCHA INOPS, 0. spec.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 60.

The description of S. divulsa applies in its entirety to this species ;
the squamulose hairs of the prothorax are only slightly thicker, but
the genital armature of the two species differ considerably (cf.
pl. xli., fig. 79, and pl. xliii., fig. 60).

Length 12 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba).

SCHIZONYCHA NIGRICORNIS, Burm,
Plate XLIII., fig. 48.

Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 272.

Fuscous or dark brown, with the legs a little redder than the
elytra ; antennz dark ferruginous ; all the punctures on the upper
and under sides bearing a whitish squamiform hair; head small,
clypeus short, truncate and not emaginate at the tip, clypeal carina
sharp and haying behind a straight transverse impressed line, basal
carina distinct, but not very sharp; the surface of the head is
covered with somewhat deep, not scabrose fovez disposed trans-

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versely; prothorax convex, not attenuate laterally from the non-
ampliated median part to the base, only slightly sinuate above the
basal angle, a little narrowed in the anterior part, which is plainly
serrate, but the margin of the posterior part is simple, it is covered
with scattered punctures somewhat irregular in the discoidal part,
but set more closely along the sides, especially along the anterior
margin where they are slightly scabrose ; scutellum with a few lateral
punctures, elytra covered with deep punctures separated from each
other by a space a little wider than their own diameter, and bearing
each a squamose hair of the same size as those of the head and
prothorax ; pygidium irregularly plicate longitudinally in the middle,
coriaceous, and with scattered squamose hairs; sides of abdominal
segments, and metasternum somewhat thickly squamose, penulti-
mate abdominal segment wider than the antepenultimate, anterior
tibiz bi-dentate, tarsi moderately long, upper tooth of all tarsi very
minute and very short, lower claw robust; basal joint of hind tarsi
short, second one one-third longer.

Length 14-15 mm.; width 7-8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony. My two examples of this species were
collected by Zeyher. The genital armature is not unlike that of
S. vicaria, but shorter, and the left clasp is considerably wider at
apex.

SCHIZONYCHA VICARIA, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLII, fig. 54.

Piceous-black, antennz and tarsi piceous-red; all the punctures
bear a white squamose hair; head somewhat small, clypeus broadly
truncate, not sinuate in the centre. This species is similar in shape to
S. indotata and S. fatidica, but its nearest ally is S. wigricornis, from
which it is distinguished by the punctures on the prothorax being more
cicatricose, more closely set, more scabrose in the anterior part, and
separated on the posterior by irregular, slightly raised, smooth walls ;
the scutellum has also three or four punctures on each side, but the
punctures on the elytra are deeper, and the juxta-sutural space
is more coriaceous; the penultimate abdominal segment is wider
than the one preceding and has a few long hairs, but the squamose
hairs on the sides of the segments are not so plainly squamose, and
the metasternum is densely villose ; the anterior tibixe are bi-dentate
like those of S. nigricornis but more briefly sinuate above the basal
tooth; the tarsi are longer, and the upper tooth of the claws is more
deeply cleft but also very slender, and, lastly, the two genital arma-
tures vary in shape.

Length 154 mm. ; width 8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand),

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(Species which I have not teen able to identify.)

SCHIZONYCHA CORROSA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 270.

Basal joint of hind tarsi a little shorter than the second. ‘‘ Ovate,
broad, dark chestnut, strongly punctate ; pectus and femora little
fulvo-pilose. Length 5 lin. 9. South Africa, from Echlon, Very
broadly built, especially the prothorax, and on that account the head
appears smaller than usual; dark chestnut-brown, coarsely but not
very deeply punctate, in each puncture a small, yellow bristle;
clypeus evenly rounded, with a raised margin, the middle of the
margin somewhat elevated, frontal keel distinctly curved towards
the jaws; pronotum broad, especially towards the sides, strongly
rounded, the outer margin finely crenulate, and with long ciliz ; elytra
with the punctures scarcely more scattered than on the prothorax ;
pygidium with only a few scattered punctures ; legs tolerably short,
especially the tarsi of the female; antennal club very small.”’

SCHIZONYCHA PERFORATA, Burm.,
Loe. cit., p. 267.

‘* Basal joint of hind tarsi a little longer than the second. Reddish
fuscous, shiny, prothorax very densely ruguloso-punctate; elytra
regularly but less densely punctate. Length 9 lin. g. Longer than
S. tumida, head very thick and broad, with the high margin lightly
incurved in the middle, and with a transversely sharply raised keel in
the middle, densely and strongly punctate; pronotum more densely
but somewhat more finely punctate, the punctures coalescing to
transverse wrinkles, along the middle a smooth band; elytra with
much more scattered but not finer punctures; sternum and legs
clothed with long, yellow bristly hairs; the margin of the pronotum
and elytra beset with stiff, curled, brown ciliz ; antennal club as long
as the stalk ; tarsi of male very long. Cape of Good Hope.”

Gen. ATYS, Reich.,
Galinier’s Voyag. en Abyss. Zool., p. 289.

The only character distinguishing this genus from Schizonycha is
that in the male the antenne are 9- instead of 10-jointed, owing
to the fourth and fifth joints being fused together, but in some
females the 10 joints are fairly distinct. Kolbe says that the pectus
is glabrous, but in the South African species they are seldom
clabrous, being sparingly pilose, and occasionally squamose.

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Apart from the number of antennal joints there is nothing to

distinguish the insects included in this genus from those included in
Schizonycha; with one exception, A ovatula, they have an elon-
gated, somewhat slender appearance, and the genitalia of the male

have their counterparts in those of Schizonycha, and are of the
same type.

AA.

INS

Key to the Species.
Anterior tibixw tri-dentate.

Upper tooth of anterior claws as robust, or nearly as robust, as the
lower, and longer.

a*, Frontal part simple.
Body elongated; prothorax without a longitudinal, smooth,

median line; third antennal joint hardly longer than the
fourth ((¢ ))--

Body ampliated ; prothorax with a plain median longitudinal
smooth line; third antennal joint longer than the fourth ( ?)

at, Frontal part witha median, longitudinal keel.

Body elongated; antennal club third joint of ¢ longer
than pedicel, shorter than the fourth, fifth and sixth

Body elongated; antennal club of ¢ not longer than pedicel,
third joint longer than fourth, fifth, and sixth, not com-
pressed

Upper tooth of anterior claws more slender than the lower, and
slightly shorter.

Clypeus slightly blunted in front, simple; metasternum sparsely
villose

Clypeus plainly blunted in front and sinuate in the middle;
metasternum glabrous

Clypeal carina arcuate, occipital carina blunt, abdominal
segments not hairy, second hardly wider than the third ..
Clypeal carina sharply triangular, occipital very sharp; ab-
dominal segments with long sete, second one much broader
than the third

Punctures on the upper side bearing a short squamose hair ;
metasternum with plain whitish scales

A‘. Upper teeth of anterior claws very slender and very short

ATYS HYBRIDA, N. spec.

hybrida.

ovatula.

inscita.

inverti.

infans.

stramined,

fallax.

hypocrita.

simplex.

humilis.

Sub-elongated, light testaceous, with the head and anterior part

of prothorax darker, antennal club flavescent in the male; clypeus
semicircular, frontal keel slightly arcuate, the suture behind
it very short, occipital keel slightly sinuate, not grooved, surface

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of the whole head deeply punctate; prothorax amplated and
rounded laterally in the posterior part the angles of which are
also rounded, outer margins serrulate, surface asperous-punctate in
the anterior part and deeply but not closely cicatricose-punctate in
the discoidal and also on the sides, the basal smooth ridges are quite
plain, and each puncture bears a minute hair; scutellum sparingly
punctate ; elytra slightly amplhated laterally past the sinuated part,
covered with somewhat deep punctures bearing each a small
greyish hair and separated from each other by a space about equal
to their own diameter; pygidium only sparsely punctate ; second
abdominal segment plainly broader than the third ; pectus sparingly
hairy ; anterior tibie tri-dentate ; upper tooth of all the claws more
robust and longer than the lower.

The genital armature of the male is almost similar to that of
Schizonycha dissensa, pl. xliu., fig. 10.

Length 10 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Newcastle) ; Transvaal (Pietersburg).

ATYS INSCITA, Nn. spec.

Very similar in general appearance to A. hybrida, but differs in
the shape of the clypeal and frontal keels, the first is very little
arcuate, but the suture immediately behind it is produced into a
short, acute triangle the apex of which is continued as a longitudinal,
only slightly raised keel meeting the strongly median sinuate part of
the occipital one ; the antennal club of the male is longer than the
pedicel, the fourth joint of the male is very much longer than the
third and consists plainly of two fused joints, and the fifth and sixth
are strongly compressed; in the female, however, these two joints are
much more distinctly seen, and it may safely be said that they are
not entirely fused ; the prothorax has a broad lateral impression on
each side of the anterior part and the punctures are smaller and
more closely set, and also slightly more cicatricose on the dorsal
part ; the second abdominal segment is wider than the third, and
the segments are more pubescent in the male than in the female.
The genital clasps of the male are shaped somewhat in the manner
of those of A. hybrida, but they are hardly emarginate in the inner
part.

Length 10$ mm. ; width 54-54 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg) ; Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

ATYS INVERTA, Nn. spec.
Light brick-red, with the elytra paler ; the hairs in the punctures
are extremely minute ; clypeus truncate, very slightly sinuate in the

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middle, and very short, covered with shallow foveate punctures,
the clypeal carina is sharp and not much arcuate, the basal one is
fairly distinct and slightly arcuate, the space between the two
carine is filled with sub-scabrose, irregular foveolate punctures, and
the basal part is impunctate ; in the male the antennal club is not
longer than the pedicel, and the third joint is as long as the other
two following, which are not very angular inwardly; prothorax
short and broad, not much ampliated laterally in the median part
and very little attenuate thence to the basal angle, covered with
cicatricose punctures separated by narrow, somewhat sharp walls on
the sides, and a little wider and not quite so closely set in the
median and basal discoidal parts, there is no smooth transverse fold
above the base; scutellum with two series of punctures; elytra
sinuate laterally a little above the median part, deeply and closely
punctured with the punctures equal in size and separated from each
other by a space narrower than their own diameter; pygidium
covered with deep, round, nearly contiguous punctures divided by
a narrow wall; abdominal segments and metasternum covered with
deep, closely set punctures ; pectus hardly pubescent ; penultimate
abdominal segment not wider than the one preceding; anterior
tibiz bi-dentate, tarsi very long, upper claw of the anterior ones
slender, but nearly as long as the lower.

Female unknown.

Length 114 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourengo- Marquez).

Atys ovatuta, Brensk.,
Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1898, p. 360.

Testaceous, but also often chestnut-brown, and with the antenne
rusty-brown ; the female of this species, of which I have seen a
long series from several localities, is far from rare, but the male is
unknown. It is so closely allied to Schizonycha natalensis 2, as
well as to S. mediocris, that but for the number of antennal joints
the three might easily be mistaken for one species ; the shape is the
same, but the punctures on the prothorax are deeper and more closely
set than in Schizonycha natalensis, and whereas in that species the
discoidal part has no median smooth area, there is a very plain,
longitudinal smooth band in O. ovatula, and if, as I strongly
suspect, the male has 10-jointed antenne, it will be found to be
closely allied to my S. mediocris, in which, like in 5. natalensis, the
antenne are 10-jointed in both sexes, and the males of which have
such very dissimilar genital clasps.

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Length 104-134 mm.; width 6-8 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay, Knysna, Graham’s Town,
Kowie); Natal (Durban).

ATYS INFANS, 0. spec.,
; Plate LI., fig. 62.

Testaceous-red, with the elytra a little lighter, each puncture on
the upper side bearing an extremely minute hair; head somewhat
small, clypeus blunt, slightly sinuate, clypeal carina moderately
arcuate, suture distinct, basal carina plain, slightly arcuate, clypeus
with contiguous foveate punctures, frontal part closely scrobiculate,
the narrow intervals scabrose ; club of antenne long in the male;
prothorax amplhated laterally at about the median part, attenuated
thence towards the sharp basal angle, serrate only along the anterior
part of the outer margins, covered with equally distant, round
punctures separated by narrow, smooth intervals, somewhat raised,
however, in the discoidal part which has a more or less distinct,
median, smooth line, these punctures are very little broader in the
posterior than in the anterior part; scutellum with a lateral row of
punctures ; elytra elongated, slightly ampliated laterally before the
median part, covered with closely set round punctures divided by a
narrow interval not half their diameter, but nearly equal to it,
however, in the posterior part, and very slightly raised, especially
along the juxta-sutural part, which is on that account slightly
coriaceous ; pygidium foveato-punctate, the punctures set more or
less apart, the distance varying in each of the six male individuals
which I have examined ; median part of abdomen slightly depressed
and with very few punctures on each segment, including the
penultimate one which is broader than the antepenultimate, last
one very narrow ; transverse, plane; pectus with very short,
appressed hairs; upper tooth of all the claws more slender and
shorter than the lower.

Female unknown.

Length 10-104 mm. ; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg, ? Pretoria); Natal (Frere).

ATYS STRAMINEA, N. spec.

This species, the female only of which is known to me, greatly
resembles A. hybrida in shape and size, the clypeus, however, is
much more blunt and plainly sinuate in the middle in front; the
punctures on the prothorax are almost confluent on the sides and
in the anterior part, and the smooth interspaces of the discoidal

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part form transverse, somewhat irregular folds not unlike the supra-
basal ones, which in this ease are partly obliterated, and the:
punctures along the base are very broad ; the penultimate abdominal
segment is only slightly broader than the one following, the deeply
and closely punctate metasternum is quite glabrous.

Length 10 mm. ; width 54mm.

Hab. Ovampoland.

ATYS FALLAX, 0. spec.

Testaceous, slightly testaceous-red on the head and prothorax ;
antenne reddish-brown; clypeus blunt and slightly sinuated at:
apex, the clypeal keel is sub-transyerse, and the suture triangular,
the frontal part is somewhat depressed, the occipital keel is fairly
plain and the surface is deeply and irregularly punctate ; prothorax
narrowed from about the median part to the apex, but nearly
straight from the middle to the basal angles which are sharp, the:
outer margin is somewhat obsoletely serrulate, and the punctures.
are not rugose and are moderately closely set even along the sides ;.
the punctures on the elytra are indistinctly setigerous; those on the
pygidium are somewhat scattered, and the second abdominal segment
is nearly as wide as the one preceding. The nearest approach to-
the shape of the genital claspers is perhaps that of Schizonycha
mediocris, but in A. fallax the open space is wider and more ovate,
and the apices more slender, more constricted at a certain distance
from the tip and quite parallel.

Female unknown.

Length 113-12 mm.; width 6-64 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

ATYS HYPOCRITA, N. spec.

Closely allied in general appearance and colour to A. fallax ; the
clypeus is also blunt and slightly sinuate in front, but the clypeal
keel is very plainly triangular, and the frontal suture quite straight,
the occipital is very sharply carinate and slightly triangular in the
centre in the male only, the frontal suture is hardly distinct in the
female the antennal club of which is plainly 10-jointed; the
prothorax is more narrowed from the post-median ampliated part
to the sharp basal angle, and the punctation is even more remote,
but in both sexes the basal part is smooth and impunctate ; the
punctures on the elongated elytra bear a very short hair; the
pygidium is very deeply and somewhat closely punctate, and the
second abdominal segment is very plainly wider than the preceding

Vi,

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one, and as usual much more deeply punctate in the female than
in the male; the shape of the claws is alike in both sexes; the
shape of the genital armature of the male is nearer to that of Sch-
zonycha divulsa than to that of any of the other South African
species, but the apices of the clasps are not incised inwardly at base.
Length 14-15 mm.; width 64-7 mm.
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

ATYS SIMPLEX, n. spec.

Chestnut-red with the elytra chestnut-brown, moderately shining,
each puncture on the upper side bears a somewhat plainly squamose
hair, and underneath a conspicuous white scale; club of antenne
somewhat infuscate in the female, the only sex known to me;
clypeus straight in front, broadly rounded and oblique laterally, not
sinuated in the centre of the anterior part, clypeal suture slightly
arcuate, suture visible, set very closely to the carina, no distinct basal
carina or groove, the clypeus is deeply and closely foveate, the
frontal part scrobiculate with the narrow intervals slightly scab-
rose ; prothorax ampliated laterally and rounded past the median
part, diagonally narrowed thence towards the sharp basal angle,
outer margin non-crenulate, surface covered with somewhat rounded
punctures more closely set along the sides and also the anterior
margin than in the median and posterior sides of the disk, but with
the intervals only slightly raised and non-scabrose, while in the
discoidal part they are smooth and not raised; scutellum somewhat
closely punctate all over; elytra ampliated laterally before the
median part, deeply and closely punctate with the intervals
between the punctures somewhat narrow, and not raised; pygidium
very closely punctured, the punctures fine and almost contiguous ;
penultimate abdominal segment broader than the one preceding,
last segment half the width of the penultimate, not swollen ; pectus
without any hairs; tarsi moderately long (?); upper tooth of all
the claws shorter and more slender than the lower.

Male unknown.

Length 11 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

ATYS HUMILIS, n. spec.

Brick-red, shining, antenne flavescent ; clypeus broadly truncate
distinctly emarginate in front, clypeal carina not very arcuate, and
having behind a transverse impressed line, the basal carina is
distinct but not much raised and covered with somewhat broad,

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more or less deep, sub-coalescing, cicatricose punctures ; prothorax
not narrowed laterally, although slightly sinuate from the median to
the basal part the angle of which is sharp, the outer margin is
finely serrate, and it is covered with round, equi-distant punctures,
and has in the middle a faintly raised, longitudinal, narrow, smooth
band; scutellum with one row of punctures often partly oblite-
rated ; elytra sub-cylindrical, somewhat deeply punctured ; pygidium
covered with the exception of the apical part with round punctures
separated from each other by a space equal to their own diameter ;
abdominal segments finely punctulate, penultimate segment not
broader than the antepenultimate, last one somewhat narrow,
moderately swollen; metasternum very briefly hairy; tarsi long,
upper tooth of anterior claws very fine and shorter than the lower,
yet deeply cleft. In the male the club of the antenne is longer
than the pedicel and curved.

Length 12-13 mm.; width 64-7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town, East London, Seymour).

GEN. ENTYPOSIS, Kolbe,
Ann. Soc. Ent. d. Belg., vol. 38, 1894, p. 576.

The only difference between this genus and Schizonycha is the
presence of a deep impression in the anterior part of the prothorax,
and of a small tubercle in the centre of the anterior margin; the
other characters are met with in many other species of the genus
Schizonycha.

ENTYPOSIS MENDAX, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLL, fig. 78.

Shape and colour of Schizonycha infans, and very slightly longer,
but differentiated by a conspicuous squamose white hair in every
puncture on the upper side; on the abdomen and pectus these squa-
mose white hairs are also found, but they are-slightly smaller on the
lower than on the upper side ; the clypeus is nearly straight in front,
and slightly sinuate in the centre, and narrow, the clypeal carina is
only slightly arcuate, the suture is quite plain, the very sharp basal
carina is transverse, and the frontal space narrower than in the
other South African species; it is scrobiculate, with the walls of
the scrobiculated punctures somewhat asperous, and the punctures
on the clypeus are somewhat irregularly foveate and contiguous ;
prothorax plainly ampliated laterally at about the median part, as
much narrowed towards the posterior as towards the anterior part,
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discoidal impression reaching from the median part to the anterior
margin which bears a small tubercle in the centre, and it is covered
on the sides with somewhat broad but closely set punctures having
scabrose intervals, but the punctures in the median impression are
not very closely set, and the intervals are smooth; scutellum not
very distinctly punctured; elytra deeply punctured, the punctures
are equi-distant, and along the basal part, the intervals are slightly
raised; pygidium covered with equi-distant foveolate, shallow
punctures separated by a narrow interval; abdomen with squamose
hairs laterally, not depressed in the centre, penultimate segment.
nearly twice as broad as the one preceding, ultimate one broad and
convex ; pectus without pubescence; anterior tibiz tri-dentate, basal
tooth very short; all the tarsi are missing in the only example I
have seen, and which closely resembles H. montana, Brsk.

Length 12 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Mashunaland).

HOLISONYCHA, n. gen.

Mentum strongly incised laterally near the ligular part, and very
sharp at apex, labial palpi inserted laterally, the other buccal organs
as in Sechizonycha; the antennal club of the male is as long as the
pedicel the joints of which, with the exception of the two basal
ones, are very small and closely set, the third being hardly longer
than the fourth; the head and body are those of Schizonycha, but
the long and slender claws are not much curved, and are simple at.
the tip.

HOo.LIsONYCHA MELLILA, n. spec.

Light brick-red, or pale testaceous, shining, each puncture on the
upper side with a most minute hair; head small, clypeus truncate
with the outer angles rounded, hardly emarginate in the centre, clypeal
carina very slightly arcuate, suture indistinct, basal carina distinct,
slightly sinuate in the middle; clypeal surface covered with irregular
punctures having raised intervals, frontal surface plainly granulose ;
prothorax not much ampliated laterally towards the median part,
and attenuated thence to the basal angle which is distinct, but not
very sharp, outer margin somewhat crenulate in the posterior part,
and ciliate, surface covered with round, scattered punctures.
separated by smooth intervals, the punctures are more closely set on
the sides and along the anterior margin; scutellum impunctate; elytra
elongated, cylindrical, the punctures somewhat apart; pygidium
not distinctly punctate ; abdominal segments not deeply punctate

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laterally, and having a minute hair in each puncture; penultimate
segment broader than the preceding, last one not quite half as wide
as the penultimate, slightly convex ; pectus with some long, but not
very dense, appressed hairs; anterior tibize sharply tridentate
outwardly ; tarsi very long, claws long, slender, simple. The clasps
of the genital armature are absolutely like those of Schizonycha saga.
Female unknown.

Length 10-12 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

Gren. SYNGENESCHIZA, Brensk.,
Stett. Ent. Zeit., lix., 1898, p. 381.

Very near Schizonycha, the head has only one frontal, arcuate,
sharp keel, without any transverse occipital keel or prominence, the
head is plainly broader than the clypeus, the eyes are very large ;
the antenne are 9-jointed, and the third joint is very elongated and
longer than the following two taken together, the club of the male is
only slightly shorter than the pedicel; claws cleft at tip as in
Schizonycha.

SYNGENESCHIZA OMRRAMBA, N. spec.

Very pale testaceous, sub-livid, but with the sutural part of the
elytra slightly, and the frontal part deeply infuscate ; antenne and
legs of the same colour as the body ; clypeus parabolic, but slightly
truncate in the anterior part, gene sub-transverse, eyes very large,
frontal carina very sharp, little arcuate, both the clypeus and frontal
part are covered with broad, irregular, briefly setigerous punctures ;
antennal club of male a little shorter than the whole pedicel, and
slightly attenuated towards the tip, third joint of pedicel as long as
the three following taken together ; prothorax ampliate and rounded
laterally towards the middle part, and only very slightly more
attenuated in the anterior than in the posterior part, the angles of
which are not rounded, the punctures are moderately closely set and
not rugose; on the parallel elytra the punctures are somewhat
broad, and separated from each other by an interval slightly
narrower than their own diameter ; pygidium fairly deeply but not
closely set; penultimate abdominal segment nearly twice as broad
as the one preceding; tarsi long, robust, upper tooth of claws
longer but of nearly equal width than the lower, anterior tibie tri-
dentate.

Closely allied to S. tarsata, Brsk., the type of the genus, but
different. From my notes this species is identical with a co-type ot

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Adoretus sellatus, Klug, communicated to me by the Berlin Museum,
and the claws of which I unfortunately did not examine at the
time.

Length 10 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba).

SUNTEMNONYCHA, n. gen.

Mentum and buccal organs of Schizonycha, but the robust man-
dibles are not quite so curved at apex, and not bifid there; the
clypeus is arcuate as in Schizonycha, but the margin is less strongly
reflexed, it is separated from the frontal part by a deep trans-
verse suture instead of a sharp keel, and the frontal part has no
basal raised ridge; the antenne are 10-jointed, the club in the
male is as long as the pedicel, the two ultimate joints of which are
acuminate and laminate respectively; the body is like that of
Schizonycha, but the whole anterior margin of the prothorax has a
short pubescent fringe; the legs are as in Schizonycha, the upper
tooth of all the claws is long, curved, and sharp, the lower follows
the same curve, but is abruptly truncate; pectus and median part
of basal margin densely hairy.

Differs from Schizonycha by the presence of a frontal suture
instead of a keel, the truncature of the lower tooth of the claws,
and the shape of the two ultimate joints of the antennal pedicel.

SUNTEMNONYCHA COLLUSOR, Nn. spec.

Ferruginous, a little lighter on the elytra, antennal club of male,
the only sex I know, light chestnut-brown, the joints of this club are
parallel from the base to two-thirds of the length, and slightly ampli-
ated thence, and therefore wider there than in the same sex of the
Schizonycha species ; clypeus parabolic, very little blunted in front,
and with the anterior margin only moderately raised, it is divided from
the frontal part by a deep, transverse, slightly arcuate suture, the
frontal part has no basal elevation whatever, and the whole surface
is covered with nearly contiguous sub-foveate punctures separated
by narrow, raised walls; prothorax and elytra of the same shape as
in Schizonycha ; the former is densely pubescent along the frontal
and outer margins, and also along the median part of the base above
the scutellum, the punctures are not scrobiculate laterally, and
are divided from each other on the disk by a space equal to their own
diameter, but they are more closely set along the anterior margin ;
the scutellum is hairy, and the punctures on the elytra are deep
with the smooth, slightly raised intervals, narrower in the anterior

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than in the posterior part; pygidium closely punctate, the punctures
Squamigerous; abdominal segments with squamiform appressed
hairs on the sides ; pectus very densely pubescent; anterior tibix
tri-dentate, tarsi long ; lower tooth of all the claws sharply truncate,
the upper one long and incurved.

Length 134 mm. ; width 7 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Melsetter).

Grn. SPATHOSCHIZA, Arr.,
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. ix., 1902.

Labial palpi inserted laterally on the outer face of the mentum :
last joint of maxillary palpi sub-cylindrical, truncate at the apex ;
clypeus emarginate in front, straight laterally, but slightly attenuate
towards the apex, with the anterior angles sharp, concave in the
anterior part, separated from the front by an arcuate keel, and
having in addition a median frontal one ; eyes very large ; antenne
10-jointed, club long in the male, third joint longer than the fourth,
penultimate one of pedicel long ; body slender, elongate ; claws cleft:
underneath at the tip as in Schizonycha, but having also a sub-
vertical median tooth and a quadrate basal one.

SPATHOSCHIZA DEBILIS, Arr.,
foe. ‘eit. p. 96:

Pale testaceous, with the head somewhat reddish, antennal club
flavescent, briefly but not densely pilose, the hairs are flavescent
and somewhat longer on the under side ; clypeus and anterior frontal
part roughly punctate, the occipital part only slightly punctate, the
eyes are very large and the genal canthus very slender ; prothorax
ampliated and rounded laterally past the middle part and not wider
across the base than across the anterior part, finely crenulate and
with the posterior angles sharp, closely and somewhat deeply
punctate, all the punctures bearing a short, setulose hair; elytra
cylindrical, very little wider at the base than the base of the pro-
thorax ; covered with deep, equi-distant, setigerous punctures
separated by an interval about equal in width to their own diameter ;
pygidium deeply and somewhat closely punctate, fringed with long
hairs; under side deeply and somewhat closely punctured all over ;
second abdominal segment broader than the third ; hind basal tarsal
joint much shorter than the second.

Length 9 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

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SEBAKUB, n. gen.

Mentum fused with the ligular part, deeply impressed on the
outer face, bulging laterally and with the ligular part transverse,
not emarginate, but with the angles rounded, last joint of labial
palpi longer than the two preceding, slightly curved, sub-cylindrical,
but somewhat acuminate towards the tip; mavxille robust, hollowed
on the inner face, provided with two strongly bifid teeth, diverging,
but set on the same line, and an angular one beneath these two, the
latter has a small bunch of hairs and represents evidently the inner
lobe of the maxille ; maxillary palpi moderately long, last joint very
swollen outwardly, almost clavate, and somewhat deeply impressed,
straight inwardly ; mandibles robust, but compressed and chisel-
like at the tip; labrum vertical, deeply emarginate; clypeus
narrower than the head and separated from it by a somewhat
indistinct, transverse impressed line, eyes large, divided in front by
a slightly hairy canthus, head without any transverse frontal ridge ;
antenne 9-jointed, the three last joints form the club, which is
moderately elongate and longer in the male, ovate in the female,
the first joint is longer than third-sixth, the sixth is sharply
laminate in the male, less so in the female; prothorax ampliated
laterally in the middle and nearly equally attenuate thence towards
the base as towards the apex, outer margins slightly reflexed, basal
angle sharp, anterior margin slightly pubescent near the angles in
the male, but all along the length in the female; scutellum some-
what short, ogival, one-fourth broader than long; elytra hardly
wider at the shoulders than the basal part of the prothorax, slightly
sinuate below the humeral part and thence moderately ampliate
towards the posterior, moderately convex, retuse behind and
covering nearly the whole of the propygidium; propygidium sub-
vertical but convex in both sexes; abdominal segments fused ;
anterior tibie strongly tri-dentate outwardly and with a long inner
spur, tarsi moderately long, claws moderately robust, long, and
having underneath a sharp median tooth ; apical spurs of posterior
tibia long and sharp in the male, compressed and rounded in the
female; posterior and intermediate tibie with two incomplete
oblique ridges.

SEBAKUE CORIACEA, 0. spec.

Chestnut-brown, turning sometimes to ferruginous, glabrous on
the upper side, but with the mouth parts and the pectus, the
metasternum especially, densely hairy ; head scrobiculate, separated
by a sinuate, transverse, somewhat indistinct impressed line from

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the clypeus, which is shorter, has strongly reflexed margins, and is
deeply emarginate in the centre; prothorax slightly sinuate in the
anterior part, ampliated laterally at about the median, somewhat
moderately convex, covered with very closely set, deep, round
punctures which are separated from each other by a space narrower
than their own diameter, the outer margin is reflexed and strongly
serrate from the anterior angle to the median part, but carinate
thence to the sharp basal angle, and the anterior is briefly hairy in
the centre; scutellum ogival, somewhat short, closely and deeply
punctate; elytra ampliated laterally from about the median part,
not very convex, somewhat retuse behind, plainly tri-costate on
each side and with the suture also plainly raised, the whole surface
is covered with nearly confluent, deep punctures, giving to the elytra
a very coriaceous appearance; propygidium and pygidium very
closely punctured, the latter somewhat convex, glabrous along the
edges except for a few short sete at the apex; abdomen closely
punctulate, glabrous.

Length 18-20 mm. ; width 94-11 mm.

The genital armature of the male is strikingly different from that
of any of the South African Melolonthine.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

Gen. PSILONYCHUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 288.

Mentum quadrate, entirely fused with the ligular part, which is,
however, so reduced in length that the labial palpi are inserted on
the angles of the anterior part, which is straight, not emarginate ;
second joint of the labial palpi thick, last joint short, ovate, but
sub-acuminate at tip; maxille robust and with a quadrifid, strong
tooth at the tip and two simple teeth underneath, maxillary palpi
moderately long, last joint fusiform, not impressed laterally ;
mandibles very robust, arcuate ; labrum vertical, not deeply emar-
ginate, head small, narrower than the clypeus and without a clypeal
suture, or with only a faint one, clypeus more or less deeply
emarginate in the centre and with the margins slightly reflexed ;
eyes moderately large; antenne 9- or 10-jointed, club usually tri-
jointed, but occasionally 4-jointed, long in the male, ovate in the
female, the two last joints of the pedicel more or less compressed ;
prothorax moderately convex, either sub-aculeate or ampliated
laterally in the middle according to the sexes, and equally attenuated
thence towards the sharp anterior angle as it is towards the base
the angle of which is not much pronounced, in the centre is a more

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or less distinct longitudinal shallow groove with smooth, flat walls
and a smooth patch on each side in the posterior part, the outer
margins are simple or serrate; scutellum ogival; elytra sub-
cylindrical, but a little depressed in the posterior part, faintly
costulate or not and covering almost the whole of the propygidium
which has a deep, median, longitudinal groove ; pygidium vertical,
slightly convex, more or less cordiform ; abdomen not much convex
in the male, more so in the female; pectus densely hairy ; legs and
tarsi moderately long, anterior tibia uni- or bi-dentate outwardly
and with a very small inner spur, posterior ones with an evanescent
oblique keel, claws moderately long and with a vertical tooth under-
neath a little before the median part; in the female the spurs of the
hind tibiz are only very slightly compressed.

The species included in this genus are extremely alike, and were it
not for the shape of some of the antennal joints in the male their
identification would prove almost impossible. On that account I
do not propose, therefore, to split the genus into species with
9-jointed or 10-jointed antenne or uni-dentate or bi-dentate tibia.
The head and prothorax are deeply pitted, each puncture bearing a
whitish scale and occasionally an erect hair, and the less deeply
pitted elytra have bands of similar scales, sometimes interrupted,
and alternating with denuded lines, while the pygidium and the
abdomen, the latter especially, are densely scaly.

Key to the Species.

A?. Antenne 9-jointed.
B. Anterior tibix bi-dentate outwardly.

Elytra with three broadly interrupted bands of scales on each
Sid@ a fal fee Lape baat ae Ee ee ae da ear ad) Wee eeerzcena

At. Antenne 10-jointed.
B?. Anterior tibie uni-dentate.
a?. Club tri-jointed.
Clypeus almost hexagonal.
b?. The two penultimate joints of pedicel not aculeate.

Elytra uniformly covered with scales, but having three
small denuded patches on each side .. .. .. «. «- eckloni.

Elytra with alternate, entire rows of scales .. .. .. darkeri.
bt. The two penultimate joints of pedicel aculeate.
Elytra with broadly interrupted bands of scales .. .. gracilis.

at. Club 4-jointed.

Elytra with broadly interrupted bands of scales .. .. duponti.

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Br. Anterior tibixe bi-dentate.
Clypeus rounded laterally and deeply emarginate.
a?. The penultimate joint of pedicel plainly laminate.
Elytra with broadly interrupted bands of scales .. .. perturbator.
a*. Penultimate joints of antenne not aculeate.

Prothorax very densely hairy and also scaly ; elytra with
a denuded patch on each side of the posterior dorsal part grondahli.

Prothorax densely hairy, almost languinose, without any
BEMICSMMIM ees Scien yesh Waid Gave” (See salah gules. uhods | UaaeeelOmeOliase

PSILONYCHUS DERIDENS, 0. spec.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 28.

Dark bronze-green, moderately shining, female testaceous-red,
antenne piceous in the male, red, with the club infuscated in the
female, head with a fairly distinct clypeal raised line in both sexes,
head and clypeus clothed with long, greyish hairs in the male and
without any scale, but with some squamiform hairs in the female ;
elytra with four rows of not very closely set, white, elongated
scales, broadly interrupted two or three times ; edge of propygidium,
pygidium, and abdomen clothed with denser and slightly longer
scales, pectus with a dense sub-flavescent pubescence; head and
clypeus scabrose; prothorax covered with deep, round, contiguous
punctures, somewhat rugose in the anterior part, less so in the pos-
terior, grooved from the base to past the middle, and with the walls
of the groove smooth and shining, on each side is a basal, smooth,
longitudinally elongated patch; scutellum cordate, impunctate ;
elytra sub-cylindrical in the male, slightly ampliated laterally before
the median part in the female, feebly bi-costulate on each side and
having rows of irregularly set punctures deeper in the male than in
the female; in the latter the scales on the upper side are very few,
and those clothing the under side are very much finer than in the
male ; legs hairy and scaly.

Length 13-134 mm. ; width 63-74 mm.

Hab. Natal (Umvoti), Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

PsILONYCHUS ECKLONI, Burm.,
Plate XLIIL., fig. 29.
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 289.
P. ferrugineus, Boh., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 87.
Male: Reddish-bronze, shape and size of the preceding species,
but with a different vestiture, being clothed on the upper side with

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elongated, slightly yellowish-white scales, longer and more hair-like
on the head and prothorax, and leaving slightly past the median
part of the elytra three small, denuded, elongated spots set sub-
transversely on each side; the clypeus is aculeate laterally and
deeply emarginate in front, being thus almost hexagonal; the pro-
thorax is plainly scrobiculate, and has no median longitudinal groove,
but the supra-lateral elongate patch on each side of the posterior
part is very plain; scutellum somewhat deeply punctate; elytra
non-costulate ; propygidium clothed with very fine, slightly squami-
form, appressed hairs, but having a band of scales along the posterior
margin; pygidium, abdomen, and legs clothed with whitish scales,
pectus densely hairy; anterior tibiz uni-dentate; legs, palpi, and
antennz rufescent-brown.

Length 13 mm. ; width 7 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

PsILONYCHUS BARKERT, Nl. Spec.

Male: Narrower and more cylindrical than the two preceding
species, clothed like P. ecklonit with whitish or slightly flavescent
scales which form on each elytron four uninterrupted bands sepa-
rated by three narrow denuded lines; the hairs along the margins
of the prothorax, the base especially, are plainly flavous ; the clypeus
is more sharply emarginate in the centre and narrower than in
P. ecklont; the prothorax has a faint median longitudinal impres-
sion in the posterior part, and the lateral denuded patch is narrow
but distinct ; scutellum impunctate; the elytra are not costulate,
but the denuded lines seem to be slightly raised behind ; pygidial
part and under side as in the preceding species; anterior tibie
uni-dentate.

Length 114-12 mm. ; width 54-52 mm.

Hab. Natal (Umhlati).

PsILONYCHUS GRACILIS, Burm.,
Plate XLIILI., fig. 27.
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 289.
P. decorus, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 88.

Male: Bronze-green, with the elytra and legs often rufescent,
clothed on the upper side with white lanceolate scales, disposed on
the elytra in four broad bands, divided by a narrow, smooth line,
and having a broad, sub-quadrate, denuded patch under the
scutellum, and a narrower but longer transverse band slightly past

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the median part, extending across the median part of the disk;
clypeus hexagonal and covered like the head with somewhat hair-
like scales springing from the scrobiculate punctures; antenne,
palpi, and legs rufescent; prothorax of the usual shape, plainly
grooved for two-thirds of the length, and with the walls of the
groove broadly smooth, the basal, elongate denuded patch is very
distinct on each side, the hairs on the outer margins and in the base
are white, but occasionally flavescent ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra
cylindrical, non-costulate; under side and legs as in the other
species ; anterior tibiz uni-dentate outwardly; sixth and seventh
joints of antenne aculeate.

Length 12-13 mm.; width 53-6 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Frere); Transvaal (Lydenburg, Pretoria,
Potchefstroom, Johannesburg).

Pstnonycuus pupontt, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 289.

Male: A little more robust than P. gracilis, bronze-green, but with
the scales on the upper side finer and much more elongated, the
pattern on the elytra is quite indistinct ; clypeus plainly hexagonal ;
the broad denuded walls of the median groove of the prothorax
are very plain, but the supra-lateral, basal, denuded patch is
sometimes very indistinct, and the outer margins are strongly
serrate ; the scutellum is impunctate ; the elytra are not costulate
but the punctures are deep and seriate ; the antenne and palpi are
rufescent or piceous, the eighth antennal joint is laminate and
reaches to two-thirds of the length of the eighth, the sixth is also
laminate but is only one-fifth of the length of the eighth, and the
anterior tibia are uni-dentate.

Length 134-14 mm.; width 63-7 mm.

Hab, Natal (Upper Tongaat).

PSILONYCHUS PERTURBATOR, Nl. spec.

Male: Shape, colour, and size of P. gracilis, the white scales on
the upper side are of the same size and similarly disposed, but it
differs in the shape of the clypeus the outer sides of which are not
aculeate in the median part, and are thus very much less hexagonal ;
in the shape of the antennal joints, the seventh of which is laminate
and about one-sixth of the length of the eighth, while the sixth is
not aculeate; and also in the tibiz being bi-dentate outwardly ; the
median depression of the prothorax is not deep, the two smooth walls
are more in the shape of two parallel median patches, and the supra-

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lateral, supra-basal ones are often indistinct; scutellum impunctate,
but with a slight median impression at the base.

Length 13-134 mm.; width 6-64 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie) ; Natal (Durban).

PsILONYCHUS GRONDAHLI, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 290.
P. costicollis, Bohem., Insect. Caffrar., 11., p. 90.

Bronze-green, with the usual clothing of scales, which, however,
are flavescent on the upper side, and very few in number on the
prothorax which is very coarsely punctured and clothed with very
long, erect, dense flavescent hairs; the head is also hairy, and the
scales on the clypeus are also somewhat hair-like, the latter is
moderately emarginate in front and not acuminate or angular
laterally ; the median impression is absent in the three examples at
my disposal, and there are therefore no smooth walls, but the supra-
basal, supra-lateral patches are distinct; the elytra are very cylin-
drical and more costulate than the other species, the three dorsal
bands of slightly flavescent scales are sub-obliquely interrupted past
the median part in a more or less indistinct manner ; scutellum im-
punctate; anterior tibiz bi-dentate outwardly; antennz chestnut-
red, the two ultimate joints of the pedicel not aculeate.

Length 10 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Natal (Maritzburg).

PsILONYCHUS PILOSICOLLIS, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., 11., p. 89.
P. pruinosus, Gerst.

I have seen the type only of this species, which differs from my
examples of P. gréndahlt by its size, which is about one-third
larger; the pubescence of the prothorax is longer, more lanuginose,
without any traces of scales, and the punctuation is very much
narrower ; the costules of the elytra are much less in relief, and the
scales are slightly finer; the anterior tibia are bi-dentate.

T did not possess P. derzdens at the time I examined the type or
co-type of P. pilosicollis, Boh., nor did I think of verifying then the
number of the antennal joints. This species might thus prove to be
identical with P. deridens, Boheman’s description agreeing pretty
fairly with it, but the co-type seen was certainly different. Boheman
gives also to that species a vast area of distribution, 7.e., ‘ Caffraria
tota.’’ Now such is really not the case, and it is thus probable that

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this author, not having paid any attention to the shape and number
of antennal joints, has confounded several species under one name—
a mistake easily accounted for by the great likeness to each other of
nearly all the species of this genus.

Gey. CONIOPHOLIS, Erichs.,
Nat. Ins., iii., 1847, p. 657.

Mentum and ligular part fused without any trace of suture, dotted
over the almost impunctate outer face with a few fine hairs, deeply
emarginate on the anterior part with the angles slightly rounded ;
last joint of labial palpi small, sub-fusiform, impressed on the outer
face ; maxillee hollowed, armed with six strong, arcuate teeth, nearly
equal in size and set in two tiers, last jot of maxillary palpi fusi-
form, but a little compressed, and moderately acuminate, not grooved
outwardly ; maxillee robust, arcuate, and with a sharp cutting edge ;
labrum vertical, very deeply incised; clypeus narrower than the
head and separated from it by a deep transverse suture, head only
very faintly raised on the vertex, eyes large and distinctly carinate ;
antenne 10-jointed, the three last joints forming the club, which is
nearly as long as the pedicel with the exception of the first joint in
the male, and a little shorter in the female, the second joint is
almost as long as the third, but stouter, the sixth and seventh are
compressed and angular; prothorax with the anterior margin either
slightly pubescent near the anterior angles or quite glabrous,
ampliated and plainly angular laterally at about the median part,
and with the basal angle sharp; scutellum ogival, as long as broad,
impunctate longitudinally in the centre ; elytra slightly wider than
the prothorax, and a little ampliated laterally at about the median
part, sub-cylindrical, non-costate, and covering the greater part of
the propygidium ; pygidium vertical, slightly convex, abdomen con-
vex, segments fused; pectus densely hairy ; anterior tibie tri-dentate
outwardly and with a long inner spur, posterior ones with a plain
oblique keel ; tarsi only moderately long, claws strongly curved, and
having underneath a small triangular one between the base and the
median part, and a wide, compressed, hamate one set at about the
median part, and shorter than the upper; in the female the apical
spurs of the hind tibi are only slightly more dilated and compressed
than those of the male.

The two species included in this genus are covered on the upper
side with whitish scales set at the bottom of each puncture; the
pectus is very hairy.

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Key to the Species.

Punctures on the upper side deep, white scales conspicuous .. .. .. lepidiota.

Punctures on the upper side finer, white scales not conspicuous .. .. proxina.

CoNIOPHOLIS LEPIDIOTA, Burm,,
Plate XLIILI., figs. 24, 25.

Handb. d. Entomol IV., ii. p. 284.

Totally dark chestnut, or chestnut-brown, with the elytra light
chestnut, slightly rufescent, club of antennz flavescent ; head and
clypeus covered with closely set, nearly contiguous punctures the
walls of which are raised on the head, each puncture filled with a
somewhat round, white scale, the angles of the clypeus are rounded,
and it is deeply sinuate in the centre of the anterior margin, the
sutural line is very plain; prothorax more attenuated laterally from
the ampliated median part towards the apex than towards the base
the angle of which is sharp, very little convex, the outer margins are
plainly crenulate, the disk is covered with nearly confluent, round,
deep punctures containing a round white scale, in the anterior part
there is a central, longitudinal impression; scutellum cordate, smooth
in the centre, punctulate and scaly laterally ; elytra slightly wider at
the shoulders than the basal part of the prothorax, very slightly
sinuate laterally before the median part, and not much ampliated
thence to the posterior, moderately convex, non-costate, covered
with somewhat rounded punctures separated from each other by a
smooth space nearly equal to their own diameter, and containing a
slightly elongated white scale ; the propygidium is almost completely
covered by the elytra; the pygidium is somewhat cordate, vertical,
plane, covered with nearly contiguous punctures, each with a white
scale; abdominal segments and femora covered with sub-contiguous
white scales broader than those of the upper side, pectus densely
pubescent, the pubescence flavescent; anterior tibie strongly tri-
dentate outwardly, tarsi moderately long.

This species varies so much in size that I thought the smaller
form might prove to be a distinct species, until I saw a fairly long
series caught in the same neighbourhood. The complicated genital
armature is the same in both forms.

Length 12-194 mm. ; width 7-9} mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg).

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CONIOPHOLIS PROXIMA, n. spec.,
Plate XLIIL., fig. 26.

A very close ally of the preceding species, and differing mainly
by the more finely punctured prothorax and elytra and the finer
white scales; the shape of the genital armature is plainly
different.

Length 15-15} mm.; width 8 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg).

GEN. RHABDOPHOLIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 290.

Haplobrachiwm, Bohem.

Mentum straight, but broadly rounded laterally towards the
apical part which is broadly and deeply emarginate, completely fused
with the ligular part, but with the junction still indicated by a
bi-sinuate suture, glabrous and sparsely punctate, and bi-impressed
in the basal part; labial palpi short, the basal joint very small, the
intermediate conical, the apical one broadly ovato-acuminate, longer
than the other two taken together; maxille short and very robust,
the upper lobe produced into a transverse, bluntly trifid erect tooth,
and the inner into a triangular one nearly on the same level as the
other, and briefly ciliate inwardly ; maxillary palpi long, the last
joint equal in length to the other three, a little thickened outwardly
towards the tip where it is very slightly curved; mandibles very
massive, arcuate, hollowed inwardly, the outer edge sinuate, the
inner one straight; clypeus about one-fourth of the length of the
frontal part and separated from it by an arcuate raised line, pro-
jecting beyond the narrow, very broadly emarginate vertical labrum,
plainly reflexed in the anterior part, where it is sinuate or nearly
straight in the male, broadly and ideeply emarginate in the female,
frontal part with one or three median longitudinal raised lines
reaching from base to apex; eyes large, briefly divided in the
anterior part by a short canthus ; antennz 10-jointed, the three last
joints lamellate, nearly paralleland forming the club whichis only very
slightly shorter in the male than all the other joints taken together,
but in the female the joints of the club are more ampliated and
shorter than the pedicel, the third, fourth, and fifth joints are of
nearly equal length, and the seventh shorter, compressed, and
slightly angular inwardly; prothorax one-third longer than broad,
little convex, sub-parallel or only slightly ampliated laterally, very

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briefly setulose along the anterior margin, moderately sinuate along
the base, and having in the median part one or three raised lines, as
well as a conspicuous lateral keel “running alongside the outer
margin ; scutellum cordate, as broad as long, sharp at the apex;
elytra elongated, very little ampliated laterally, and convex in the
anterior part only in the male, more ampliated and more convex in
the female, having on each side nine large sharp cost, and covering
only half the propygidium ; pygidium either very slanting or almost
vertical ; anterior part of metasternum and prosternum produced into
a long spine-like, nearly horizontal process reaching as far as the
median part of the prosternum; abdominal segments seemingly
soldered, but with the sutures deep; anterior tibiz bi-dentate
outwardly and with a somewhat short inner spur ; intermediate and
posterior ones with a longitudinal groove on the outer face, and
with a more or less plainly obliterated, oblique, ciliate keel on the
posterior, the two apical spurs of which are very long and slightly
flexed, and more slender and sharper at the tip in the male than in
the female; tarsi moderately long, but longer in the male than in the
female, the joints are bristly underneath, and the last one is longer
than the others ; the claws long, strongly curved, and having in the
male a very minute tooth forming an angle at the base, and in the
female a very strong, median, vertical tooth.

The livery of the three species included in this genus consists of
very dense white or occasionally flavescent ovate or sub-lanceolate
scales either covering the whole body with the exception of the
pectus, which is somewhat densely hairy or disposed in bands on
the prothorax and the interstices of the elytra.

The genus seems to be restricted to the South African area.

Key to the Species.
A’, Pygidium strongly slanting backwards.
B?. Clypeus emarginate on the centre.

C?. Anterior tibiz uni-dentate in the male, bi-dentate
in the female.

Head and prothorax with one median longi-
tudinal denuded raised line .. .. .. .. .. costipennis.

Head and prothorax with three denuded longi-
tudinal raised'lines’ .j. ).2 \c. 2. )-2)) 6 26 albosimara-

A‘, Pygidium vertical.
B'. Clypeus not emarginate in the centre.

Ct. Anterior tibixe bi-dentate in the male.

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Head with one median, raised, longitudinal line
and a smooth elongated patch on each side of it ;
prothorax with three raised denuded longitudinal
PAOOGIIUTIOR Se - sc) aici crs Voaye Pale, peice Ce) tre Mee PPORGEG:

RHABDOPHOLIS COSTIPENNIS, Bohem.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 23.
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 84.

Chestnut-brown, covered with contiguous elongato-ovate scales,
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, 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 cost, 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 tibize plainly grooved on the outer part, and having a.
very rudimentary trace of an oblique ciliate keel in the female only ;
anterior tibie bi-dentate outwardly, or the teeth sharper in the
female than in the male.

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In some examples the scales are flavescent instead of white.
Length 23-284 mm. ; width 12-144 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Port St. John), Natal (Durban).

RHABDOPHOLIS ALBOSTRIATA, Burm.,
Plate XLITI., fig. 27.

Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 292.
RR. suleipenms, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 85.

Shape of the preceding species, but a little smaller ; the colour is
the same but the scales are a little finer, and fill only the interstices
and not the sides of the coste, which are therefore more con-
spicuously bare than in F#. costipennis ; the head instead of one
longitudinal raised, denuded line has three broader ones in the
centre; the prothorax is more ampliated laterally and rounded at
about the median part; and has three median, broad, slightly raised,
denuded bands, and two lateral parallel ones above the outer
margin; the tectiform cost of the elytra are bare of scales, the
outer ones are broader at the base than in Lf. costipenmis, and the
intervals being narrowed in proportion, the line of white scales is
very narrow, offering a strong contrast with the broadly squamose-
white supra-marginal interval. The rest as in &. costipenms.

Length 21-224 mm. ; width 10-12 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

RHABDOPHOLIS IRRORATA, Péring.,
Trans. Entomol. Soc., London, 1896, p. 160.

Male: Piceous, with the elytra occasionally piceous-brown, club
of antenne dark chestnut-brown, longer than the whole pedicel ;
the punctures on the head and prothorax are not filled with scales,
but the space between the lateral raised lines of the latter and the
outer margin is densely scaly; the intervals on the elytra, the
pygidial part, and the under side, except the pectus are scaly ; head
closely and irregularly punctured, and having a plain, smooth, raised
longitudinal line and an elongated smooth space on each side of it,
the clypeal suture is somewhat faint, the clypeus is straight in front
with the margin much raised and not sinuate; the prothorax is
similar to that of R. albostriata, closely punctate, and has likewise
three median, smooth raised lines and two supra-lateral ones, the
anterior and lateral margins are fringed with long, erect, slightly
flavescent hairs ; scutellum moderately scaly, smooth in the anterior
part; elytra with the coste very plain and somewhat rounded, they
are shorter, in proportion to the size, than the other two species of

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the genus and cover nearly the whole propygidium, the white scales
fill the interval only ; pygidium vertical, fringed with long hairs
and having also some on the apical part of the inner face ; the

femora and the whole pectus are covered with a very long greyish
pubescence.

Female unknown.
Length 144-154 mm. ; width 74-8 mm.
Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Potchefstroom),

Group LEUCOPHOLIDES.

This group is characterised by the broad episterna on a line with
the episterna which are also not divided from the former by a keel.

Some of the South African genera and species have very strong
affinities with Madagascar ones.

Key to the Genera.
A’. Anterior tibise without inner spur.

B?. Anterior margin of prothorax with a bare membrane.
a. Mesosternum mucronate.

Inner claw of anterior tarsi simple, outer one strongly

toothed underneste 350 3. .. «. «. «« «© «e ypopholis.
a. Mesosternum simple.

Kach anterior claw with a short, vertical basal tooth .. Pegylidius.

Each claw cleft at apex underneath Be Go oo oe Palani

At. Anterior tibiz with an inner spur.
Bt. Anterior margin of prothorax ciliate.
a?, Antenne 10-jointed.

b?. Mesosternum sub-mucronate, abdomen not bulging
beyond the elytra.

Antennal club of male very long; hind callus of
elytra greatly developed .. .. .. > «- «- «- Hulepida.

bt. Mesosternum simple, abdomen strongly bulging.

Antennal club of male short; propygidium deeply
grooved longitudinally... .. .. .. «. «+ «+ <Asthenopholis-

at. Antenne 9-jointed.

Antennal club of male?; propygidium simple .. .. Brachylepis.

Gen. HYPOPHOLIS, Erichs.,
Nat. Ins., iii., 1847, p. 657.

Mentum rounded laterally at the base and deeply sinuate or
incised at about the median part, the anterior margin 1s slightly

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notched in the centre, the outer angles are moderately rounded, the
outer face is somewhat plane and bears some greyish hairs; labial
palpi somewhat short, last joint acuminate-ovate ; maxillee robust,
upper lobe produced into three more or less bluntly bifid teeth
disposed in a semicircle, the lower lobe is very distinct, tooth-lke,
and briefly ciliate inwardly; labial palpi moderately long, pilose,
last joint almost fusiform, and having a shallow outer longitudinal
impression ; mandibles robust, arcuate, moderately concave along the
outer margin; clypeus about half the length of the frontal part,
separated from it by a very narrow, slightly arcuate impressed line,
and with the anterior margin arcuate and very little raised, anterior
part sub-vertical, labrum vertical, strongly bi-lobate; eyes mode-
rately large, briefly divided in the anterior part by a short, hairy
canthus; antenne 10-jointed, basal joint moderately long, second
moniliform, third and fourth sub-cylindrical, the fifth and sixth
angular inwardly at the base, seventh small, compressed, the three
last joints are parallel, laminate and form a club only slightly shorter
than the whole pedicel; prothorax diagonally ampliated laterally
from the anterior to the median part, and nearly straight thence, the
anterior margin is glabrous except on the sides along the eyes, and
the base is strongly sinuate; scutellum as broad as long, sharply
arcuate at the apex; elytra plainly sinuate laterally in the anterior
part, and broader thence to the apex, somewhat plane, and covering
the greatest part of the propygidium; epipleural fold somewhat
broad at the base, and very plain for one-third of the length; the
latter is sloping; abdominal segments fused; mesosternum mucro-
nate; tarsi moderately long, claws denticulate at the base, and
having a sub-median vertical tooth underneath in the female, but
not on the inner anterior claw of the male which is simple as well
as the four posterior claws; anterior tibiz bi-dentate, and without
inner spur; intermediate and posterior ones somewhat slender, only
slightly dilated at the tip, and without an oblique ciliate carina
outwardly, spurs moderately slender and somewhat sharp at tip
in the male.

HypoPHOLIS SOMMERI, Burm.,
Plate XLIIL., fig. 36.
Handb., iv., 2, p. 283.
H., sulcicollis, Boh., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 92.
Hi, vitiata, Fihr., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 91.

Chestnut-brown, with the elytra light testaceous, but having usually
a supra-lateral darker band along the outer margin (sommert) and

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occasionally one or two discoidal fuscous bands (vittata); head and
clypeus deeply but only moderately closely punctured, each puncture
bearing a very fine appressed greyish hair, clypeus arcuate but
obtuse and slightly sinuate in front, and with the intervals between
the punctures plainly coriaceous, attenuate laterally in the anterior
part, very little ampliated in the centre, and only very slightly
narrower across the base, the angles of which are sharp, than across
the median part, there is a median longitudinal impressed line, the
punctures are moderately shallow and not very closely set, and only
the lateral ones bear a minute hair, the anterior margin is briefly
and the median part of the basal one very densely pubescent ; elytra
glabrous, coriaceous, covered with deep, nearly confluent punctures
and having on each side two costules somewhat distinct but oblite-
rated in the anterior part; pygidium strongly sloping, clothed with
greyish appressed hairs; abdominal segments punctate, each punc-
ture bearing a short somewhat scale-like hair, pectus and legs with
appressed, longer hairs; anterior tibize bi-dentate but occasionally
with a slightly angular basal sinuation; basal part of claws some-
what angular, sub-median part with a sub-vertical tooth, and of
equal length in the female, but with the inner one quite obliterated
in the anterior legs on the male, and also on the four posterior ones.

Length 17-22 mm.; width 94 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Willowmore, Port Elizabeth,
Graham’s Town, Seymour, King William’s Town, Griqualand
West); Natal (Durban, Frere, Umvoti, Maritzburg, Echowe); Trans-
vaal.

This species is very common in the eastern parts of the Colony,
in Natal and in the Transvaal. In Natal it causes serious damage
to the plantations of wattle-trees (Acacia mollissima, W.).

PEGYLIDIUS, n. gen.

Mentum twice as broad as long and very deeply incised laterally
at its junction with the ligular part, the suture of which is quite
obliterated, this ligular part is broadly rounded laterally, and very
deeply emarginate in the middle in front, last joint of labial palpi
fusiform, not quite as long as the two preceding ones put together ;
maxillae robust, ending in a compressed bifid tooth at the apex, and
having two sharply bifid teeth on each side under the apical one,
lower lobe distinct and ending in a pencil of hairs; maxillary palps
fairly long, the last joint fusiform and acuminate at tip, slightly
longer than the second, not impressed laterally ; mandibles robust,
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inwardly ; antenne 10-jointed, the sixth joint is dilated and cup-
shape, the seventh is compressed and fits closely against the first
joint of the club, which is somewhat bristly, not as long as the whole
pedicel; head and prothorax as in Hypopholis, but with the basal
part of the latter densely hairy above the scutellum; scutellum
cordate, broader than long; elytra slightly broader than the
prothorax, and sub-angular at the shoulders, sinuate laterally before
the middle and moderately ampliated thence towards the posterior
part, but much less rounded there than in Hypopholis, depressed
and plainly callose in the posterior declivity, covering the greatest
part of the propygidium, non-costate but with the suture plainly
raised ; pygidium sub-yvertical, somewhat broadly arcuate ; abdominal
segments soldered, and clothed, like the pygidial part, with short,
appressed hairs which are denser and longer on the pectus ; meso-
sternum simple; tarsi moderately long, anterior tibiz bi-dentate
outwardly, and without an inner spur, teeth of claws long, mode-
rately arcuate, angular at the base, and having at a short distance
from the base a sub-vertical, slightly hamate tooth under each claw.

Plainly allied to Hypopholis, but differing mainly by the structure
of the claws and the simple mesosternum. The genital armature is
also of a different type altogether.

PEGYLIDIUS MASHUNUS, N. spec.,
Plate XLIIL., fig. 37.

Reddish-brown, with a faint bronze sheen forming on the elytra
faint, irregular macules of that hue, antenne and palpi flavescent,
under-side chestnut-brown; clypeus semicircular, divided from the
head by a plain, transverse impressed line, both head and prothorax
very finely punctulate and with a minute hair in each puncture ;
prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, hardly attenuated laterally
from the median part to the sharp basal angle, but strongly narrowed
from the middle to the sharp apical angle, anterior part straight in
the middle, basal one strongly bisinuate and densely hairy above the
scutellum, decidedly convex in the central part, and with the outer
sides slightly depressed, not deeply punctured, the punctures divided
by finely aciculate intervals wider than their own diameter; scu-
tellum cordate, broader than long, aciculate and punctate; elytra
deeply punctured and with the intervals equal in diameter to the
punctures themselves, but slightly raised and plainly aciculate, each
puncture bears a minute greyish hair, and there is no trace of costule,
the humeral callosity is hardly visible, but the posterior one is con-
spicuous; propygidium and pygidium clothed with greyish, fine

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appressed hairs slightly squamiform; abdominal segments also
clothed with similar hairs, which are, however, more sparse on the
thighs, and denser and longer on ‘the pectus. i

Length 20-21 mm.; width 11-114 mm.

I have seen a long series of this species, the colouring and
sculpturing of which is very constant.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Manica, Umtali, Sebakwe).

Gren. PEGYLIS, Erichs.,
Ins. Deutschl., iii., p. 657.

Mentum broad, strongly sinuate laterally, fused with the ligular
part, which is very broadly and deeply notched in front into two
sub-quadrate lobes covered with thick hairs on the outer face; apical
joint of labial palpi ovato-acuminate, the three joints of nearly the
same length; maxillee very robust, bluntly toothed at the tip and
with irregularly bifid teeth below the upper one, last joint of maxillary
palpi somewhat slender, fusiform, truncate at the tip and a little
longer than the second joint; mandibles arcuate, with a sharp cutting
edge, the right one ending in a sharp arcuate tooth; the antenne
9-jointed in the male, 10-jointed in the female ; club tri-jointed and
longer in the male than in the female in which sex all the joints are
very distinct, but in the male the fifth and sixth joints are fused into
one, and the seventh is very minute and fits again the base of the
first joint of the club; labrum vertical, bi-lobate; clypeus semi-
circular but deeply emarginate in front, separated from the head by
an impressed line; eyes large; prothorax more than twice broader
than long, ampliated laterally past the median part, not much con-
vex, strongly bisinuate along the base; scutellum cordate ; elytra
somewhat plane, a little broader at the shoulders than the prothorax,
ampliated laterally beyond the shoulders, not costulate, covering the
whole propygidium and the base of the pygidium; abdominal seg-
ments fused, mesosternum simple, legs somewhat slender, anterior
tibiz tri-dentate outwardly, but with the basal tooth very weak; no
inner spur, the posterior ones without any oblique ridges; tarsi
moderately long, claws robust, hooked, each one cleft at the tip in
the manner of Schizonycha, and also aculeate at the base.

PEGYLIS CONSPURCATA, Gerst.,
Arch. f. Naturgesch., xxxiii., 1, p. 42; DieGlied. Faun. Sansibar., p. 112.

Testaceous-red, moderately shining, each puncture on the upper
side bearing minute greyish hairs; propygidium, pygidium, abdomen

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and legs clothed with small, appressed greyish hairs slightly denser
on the pectus ; head and clypeus covered with deep, round punctures
with aciculate intervals; prothorax with similar punctures, more
than twice as broad as long, ampliated laterally past the median
part, and much more strongly attenuated in the anterior, not very
convex and grooved longitudinally in the centre; scutellum cordate,
strongly punctured; elytra with a distinct humeral and posterior
callosities, somewhat plane, covering the propygidium, not plainly
costulate, covered with deep, nearly foveate punctures separated by
raised walls giving them a strongly coriaceous appearance. They
are sprinkled with irregular, small, metallic, brown patches, which
are, however, often obliterated ; pygidium slanting in each sex; legs
not robust, tarsi moderately long.

Length 144-154 mm. ; width 7-84 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Mazoé); Sebakwe, Umtal. The first
example was described from East Africa (Lake Jipe). My examples
are quite similar to P. hauseri, Brsk., but they are also, I believe,
identicai with P. conspurcata, Gerst.

Gren. HULEPIDA, Kolb.,
Ann. Soe. Ent. d. Belg., vol. xxxviii., 1894, p. 554.

Mentum longer than broad, sub-parallel laterally, deeply impressed
either longitudinally or transversely on the outer face, the upper
outer angles are rounded, and the median apical part incised, the
suture of the mentum with the ligular part is obliterated, last joint
of labial palpi acuminate-ovate, or very swollen outwardly ; maxillee
very robust, and with three strong, more or less distinctly bifid teeth ;
last joint of maxillary fusiform outwardly, very little swollen inwardly,
broadly impressed outwardly in the male, very slightly or not at all
in the female ; mandibles very robust, concave, and with the upper
edge laminate; clypeus shorter than the head and separated from it
by a very faint sinuate transverse keel, strongly sinuate in the
anterior margin, anterior part sub-vertical, very short; labium very
long, vertical, bi-lobate; eyes very large, divided in the anterior
upper part; antenne 10-jointed; joints 6-8 narrow, compressed,
third and fourth of nearly the same length, fifth slightly shorter than
the fourth, basal joint slightly longer than the third and fourth taken
together ; the last three joints form the club, and are parallel and
slightly sinuate, and almost as long as the pedicel in the male, more
ovate and shorter in the female, in which sex the fifth, sixth and
seventh joint are also less compressed ; prothorax twice as broad as

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long, moderately convex, bulging laterally in the median part and
with both angles sharp; scutellum somewhat short, nearly semi-
circular ; elytra elongated, covering the greater part of the long
and broad propygidium, slightly ampliated laterally at about the
median part, and having a long supra-marginal impression as a
continuation of the humeral callus, the posterior calluses are very
conspicuous ; pygidium strongly slanting ; abdominal segments fused
but with the suture well-defined ; metasternum with a median longi-
tudinal line and produced as a blunt triangle between the trochanters
of the intermediate femora ; anterior tibie bi-dentate outwardly, and
having a sharp, slender inner spur, intermediate and posterior ones
with a very slight oblique keel, apical end of hind tibie very little
dilated, spurs more slender and sharper at the tip in the female than
in the male; tarsi slightly longer in the male in the anterior and
intermediate legs, and shorter in the posterior, shorter in all the
legs in the female; claws long, divaricating, angular underneath
at the base, and with a sharp, vertical post-median tooth in both
sexes,

The species included in the genus are wholly covered with con-
tiguous, lanceolate greyish-white, or sub-flavescent scales; some of
them have one or more lateral rows of very distinct white scales,
larger than those forming the vestiture. This character has been
made use of for differentiating some species, but it seems to me to
be somewhat variable.

The genus is represented in Nyassaland; German East Africa ;
Cameroon and Lower Congo.

The South African species are captured from November till end
of January.

Key to the Species.

A?. Elytra without series of remote, white scales.

Pygidium moderately elongated in both sexes and wider than
lomeaetethe DASE. os ec se: = hs ee tee we ee le mashona.

A’, Elytra with series of remote, white scales.

Pygidium strongly elongated, not wider at the base than

anatina.
long

Pygidium moderately elongated in both sexes:
Elytra plainly costate. .
Elytra not costate

lepidota.
tschindeana.

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EULEPIDA MASHONA, Arrow,
Plate XLITI, fig. 31.

Ann. and Magaz. Natur. Hist., ser. 7, vol. ix., 1902, p. 98.

Dark chestnut-brown, with the legs and under side piceous; club:
of antennee and palpi reddish-brown; covered with flavescent,
elongated, contiguous scales, hiding completely the background, but.
the pectus is clothed with a short, dense, appressed pubescence, and
the scales on the abdomen are whiter than on the upper side; head
and clypeus closely punctured, the punctures are rounded, but less
deep in the basal part of the head; prothorax obliquely narrowed
laterally from the median part to the apex, slightly ampliated at the
centre, nearly straight thence to the basal angle which is as sharp
as the anterior one, outer margin plainly serrate, base strongly
sinuate, surface closely punctate; scutellum semicircular, punctate ;
elytra somewhat depressed and covering the propygidium, deeply
punctured, punctures separated from each other by a somewhat.
coriaceous interval equal in width to their own diameter, and having
on each side two very faint costules, visible only in rubbed speci-
mens, the greatly developed posterior calluses are covered with
whiter and more hair-like scales; and in none of the examples that
I have seen have I been able to detect traces of a supra-marginal
row of remote white scales.

Length 25-29 mm.; width 12-15 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, between the Zambesi and
Limpopo Rivers, Buluwayo).

KULEPIDA ANATINA, Brensk.,
Plate XLIII., fig. 30.

Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1896, p. 185.

Closely resembling the preceding species, the clothing of scales is
similar, but the scales are finer, less lanuginose, and either pure
white or flavescent, the antennal club is flavescent, the elytra are
more convex in the posterior part, somewhat narrower, and they
have on each side two somewhat ill-defined rows of white scales set
far apart, and often entirely wanting in the female examples, the
posterior half of the propygidium is not covered by the elytra, and
the pygidium is very elongated in both sexes, but especially so in
the male; the scales on the abdomen are very minute, and the three
basal abdominal segments have in the centre a very distinct, isolated
patch of still smaller and whiter scales, and the hairs on the pectus
are not squamose or lanceolate. The shape of the genital armature

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of the male is very different from that of the other two South
African species known to me.

Length 26-33 mm. ; width 13-16 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe, Umtali).

EULEPIDA TSCHINDEANA, 0. spec.,
Plate XLVI, fig. 12.

Quite similar in shape and size to H. mashona ; the clypeus and
the pygidium of the male, the only sex I know, are identical, but the
squamose hairs on the upper and under parts are much finer, more
closely set, and have therefore a less squamose appearance ; each
elytron has four series of very conspicuous but somewhat remote
white lanceolate scales irregularly geminate and less numerous on
the first dorsal row, a few of these scales can also be detected along
the suture, and the apical callus is moderately pubescent. Apart
from the difference in vestiture, this species is readily distinguished
from the two other South African ones which I have examined by
the shape of the genital armature of the male.

I have retained for this species the MS. name given to it by Herr
Brenske, who kindly communicated his example to me.

Length 274 mm.; width 14 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Beira).

EULEPIDA LEPIpoTA, Klug.,
Monatsb. Berl. Ac., 1855, p. 658; Peter’s Reis., 1862, p. 256, pl. xv.,
fig. 5.
Kolb., Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. xxxviii., p. 555.

I considered EH. mashona identical with this species, and the
extremely good figure given in Peter’s Reise looks uncommonly like it,
but in his Key to the Species of the genus, Kolbe, who has seen Klug’s
type, says that in HZ. lepidota the elytra are subsulcate. The elytra
of this species are provided with broad, weakly impressed longitudinal
grooves which occur in no other species of the genus.

Hab. Mozambique (Tette-Quilimane).

Grn. ASTHENOPHOLIS, Brensk.,
Stett. Entomol. Zeit., 1898, p. 388.
Mentum slightly ampliated laterally, deeply impressed on the
outer face which is hairy, ligular part narrower, rounded laterally at
apex, deeply sinuate in the middle of the anterior part, last joint of

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labial palpi swollen, briefly fusiform, very little acuminate at the tip,
a little longer than the preceding joint; maxille very robust, deeply
hollowed inwardly, armed on the upper margin with two strongly
bifid teeth and having two more beneath these, these teeth, however,
are extremely sharp, but they are also occasionally entirely blunted ;
last joint of the moderately long maxillary palpi fusiform, not.
sharply acuminate, plainly but briefly setulose and not impressed ;
mandibles very robust, arcuate, deeply hollowed on the outer face
and sharply edged round the hollow; labrum vertical, deeply cleft ;
head small, wider, however, than the clypeus, and separated from it
by a very plain transverse suture, frontal part with a transverse,
almost keeled elevation on the vertex, clypeus transverse with
the anterior margin reflexed and the angles moderately rounded,
eyes divided in the anterior part by a hairy canthus; antenne
10-jointed, the three last joints forming an elongato-ovate club
shorter than the pedicel, and only slightly more elongated in the male
than in the female, the fifth, sixth and seventh joints are angular on
the inner side; prothorax short, convex, plainly hairy along the
anterior margin, more attenuate laterally in the anterior than in the
posterior part, and with the basal angles sharp; scutellum ogival,
sharp at apex; elytra as wide at the humeral part as the base of the
prothorax, but occasionally a little wider, and plainly ampliate
laterally from about the median to the posterior parts, somewhat
convex behind, moderately retuse there and not covering completely
the propygidium which is deeply and conspicuously grooved longitu-
dinally in the centre in the same manner as, although more con-
spicuously than in Psilonychus ; pygidium vertical, slightly longer
than broad, plane; abdomen very swollen in both sexes, strongly
bulging laterally beyond the elytra in the male, not in the female ;
segments fused; hind tibiz with one rudimentary oblique keel ;
anterior tibize tri-dentate, and with a long inner spur; tarsi short,
claws long, curved and with a nearly median vertical tooth.

This genus is represented in British East Africa by one species
which occurs also in Natal. The other South African species is
so extremely variable that it has been several times described under
different names. The two have each three short longitudinal
denuded bands set past the median part of each elytron.

Key to the Species.
Teeth of maxille very sharp, scutellum closely punctate.. .. swb-fasciatus.

Teeth of maxille blunt, seutellum impunctate .. .. .. .. crassus.

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ASTHENOPHOLIS SUB-FASCIATA, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom., 1850, p. 152.

A. dasypus, Burm., Handb., iv., 2, p. 318.
A. adspersus, Bohem., Ins. Caffr. ii., pegs
A. minor, Brsk., Stett. Ent. Zeit., p. 390.

Chestnut or ferruginous-brown, with the club of antenne yellow,
but also occasionally with the head and prothorax fuscous or even
with the whole upper side fuscous-black ; clypeus, prothorax, and
scutellum covered with deep, closely set cicatricose punctures bearing
each a yellowish squamose hair ; elytra with each puncture bearing
also a whitish, minute scale, pectus densely hairy, abdomen and
pygidial part clothed with fine, appressed, sub-flavescent hairs:
clypeus deeply and closely punctured, rounded laterally, emarginate
in the centre, head with a distinct transverse prominence on the
vertex, scrobiculate ; prothorax with the squamose punctures set
very close to each other, the outer margins are slightly serrate in
the anterior part, the anterior and basal margins densely hairy ;
scutellum closely punctate hairy; elytra with three costules
on each side and having past the median part three elongated,
parallel impunctate bands, which in some examples ascend how-
ever towards the base as in the type (swb-fasciatus) or are very
indistinct or not at all visible (A. minor); the appressed hairs
on the pygidial part and abdomen are a little more flavescent
than the squamose ones on the elytra. Herr Brenske has com-
municated to me his types of 4. transvaalensis and A. minor which
I am unable to separate from A. swb-fasciatus and A. adspersus
Boh., the two types of which I have seen. In order to show how
variable this species is, | may mention that I have received from
Malvern, Natal, examples with black thorax and fuscous, or black
elytra taken with examples having a black thorax and nearly scale-
less black-red elytra. The first mentioned would be A. menor of
Brenske, to the latter, however, he assigned the name in litt. of
A. bechuana. <A. transvaalensis, Brsk., is somewhat larger than the
typical A. swb-fasciata, and the colour of the upper side is fuscous
black, as in A. minor. The genital armature of A. swb-fasciata and
A. minor are absolutely similar,

Length 16-21 mm.; width 10 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town, Seymour, Transkei, East
London, Port St. John); Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Malvern) ;
Transvaal (Pretoria, Rustenburg, Lydenburg); Bechuanaland, teste

Brenske.

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ASTHENOPHOLIS CRASSUS, Arrow,
Ann. and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1902, vol. ix., 7th ser., p. 97.

Male: Larger than A. swb-fasciata, but with the same build and the
same sculpture on the head and prothorax, but the scutellum is very
closely and somewhat roughly punctate in the latter, and absolutely
impunctate in the three examples of the present species which I
have seen; the ground colour is black, and the punctures on the
elytra show more than they would on a reddish, shining surface, but
they are less closely set than in A. swb-fasciata; the impunctate
longitudinal smooth bands are placed as in the latter species, but
are wider, and the hairs in the punctures of the head and prothorax
as well as on the abdomen are slightly thicker; the shape of the
genitalia is nearly the same in both species, but the apical part of the
valve is produced into a short, reflexed process rounded at the tip ;
the antennal club is yellow, and the pedicel rusty-red.

Length 24-25 mm.; width 13-14 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban). The species was originally described
from British East Africa.

Gren. BRACHYLEPIS, Kolbe,
Ann. Soc. Ent. d. Belg., 1894, p. 552.

Head small; antenne 9-jointed, the club of the male is much
shorter than the pedicel, and ovate, clypeus short, simple, with the
margin slightly reflexed, frontal part without transverse elevation or
keel; prothorax short; elytra with a distinct sutural costa; pygidium
broader than long, mesosternal cone absent; anterior tibie tvri-
dentate ; tarsi of all the legs slender, the joints long; claws with a
sub-vertical median tooth underneath, and a short, basal one.

The species of the genus, which has been kindly communicated
to me by Herr Brenske, is a massive insect, the body of which is
plainly ampliated past the median part, with the abdomen very
convex and strongly bulging laterally beyond the elytra in the
male in the manner of Asthenopholis, from which it differs in the
absence of a basal or occipital ridge, by the number of joints of the
antenne, and the absence of a groove on the propygidium; the
shape of the claws is nearly the same, but the tarsi are longer than
in Asthenopholis.

BRACHYLEPIS HAUSERI, Brensk. ? in litt.
Male: Fuscous-black, with the antennz chestnut-red; head and
prothorax covered with contiguous sub-flavescent scales hiding com-
pletely the background of the prothorax, but slightly less dense on

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the head, the clypeus of which is sinuate in the centre, and some-
what short; the short prothorax is serrulate laterally and the basal
angles project longitudinally beyond the line of the base; scutellum
sealy; elytra slightly broader than the prothorax at the base, slightly
sinuate past the humeral part and strongly ampliated thence to the
posterior part, the suture is costate, and there are faint traces of two
or three costules, both the humeral and postical calluses are very
distinct and the surface is deeply punctate, the punctures being
only moderately closely set and filled each with a greyish-white
scale; propygidium extremely closely punctulate and very briefly
pubescent ; pygidium broader than long, covered with contiguous
sub-flavescent scales; abdomen strongly bulging out laterally and
very convex, covered also with contiguous small white scales, pectus
and episterna clothed with appressed thick squamose hairs, which in
the former are mingled with a sub-fulvescent pubescence; legs
scaly ; anterior tibiz tri-dentate.

I have not ascertained by dissection the sex of the only example
known to me, but I am satisfied, in spite of the shape of the antennal
club, that it is a g, owing to the shape of the spurs of the hind
tarsi.

Length 27 mm.; width 144 mm.

Neighbourhood of Zambesi River (Ikuta), communicated by Herr
Brenske.

Group DIPLOTAXIDHES.

Labrum transverse or arcuate, not incised; anterior cox strongly
oblique and vertical at apex; clypeus either very short in both sexes
or strongly prolonged and even bi-lobate in the male.

The shape of the labrum and of the anterior coxe characterise
this group which is represented in South Africa by five species,
belonging to one or possibly two genera, the males of which have
the two or three basal tarsal joints dilated and hairy underneath ;
this dilatation can also be traced in the female of some species.

Gren. APOGONIA, Kirby,
Trans. Lin. Soc., xii., 1818, p. 401.

Catagonia, Kolbe, Entomol. Nachr., vol. xxv., 1899; p. OF:

Ceratogonia, Kolbe, loc. cit., p. 45.

Mentum quadrate, plane, fused with the ligular part which is
truncate at the tip, but the suture is visible ; last joint of labial palpi
cylindrical but somewhat acuminate at the apex; maxillee robust,
swollen at the base and ending in four strong arcuate teeth, without

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traces of an inner lobe; last joint of maxillary palps fusiform, twice
as long as the third, and not impressed laterally, maxille laminate
and bifid at the tip; labrum narrow, transverse, not sub-cordate, not
incised; clypeus separated from the head by a very faint suture,
either diagonally narrowed laterally and truncate in front (Apogonia),
or strongly aculeate and incised in the centre, or even bi-lobate in
the male (Catagonia, Ceratogonia), head large, eyes large, divided in
the anterior part by the canthus of the genz which are, however,
fused with the clypeus; antenne 10-jointed, the first and second
joints are as long as the rest of the pedicel, much thicker than the
other joints which are small and moniliform, the three-jointed club is
elongate in the male, ovate in the female; prothorax twice as broad
as long, anterior angles very sharp, posterior ones angular, anterior
margin not fringed with hairs; scutellum ogival; elytra broader than
the prothorax and with the humeral angles sharp, moderately convex,
costulate, not callose behind, covering the propygidium or the greatest
part of it; pygidium small, cordate, declivous ; abdomen convex, the
segments fused, pectus not hairy; anterior tibiz bi- or tri-dentate
outwardly, and with a very distinct inner spur (Catagonia, Apogonia),
or without (Ceratogonia), posterior ones without a distinct oblique
ridge, tarsi long, hairy underneath, especially in the male, in which
sex the two basal joints of the anterior tarsi are somewhat dilated at
the apex, especially the second (Apogonia), or the three basal joints,
the second in particular, very broadly dilated in all the tarsi (Cata-
gonia, Ceratogonia), claws somewhat robust, deeply cleft at the apex,
the lower tooth as arcuate as the upper, nearly as long, and slightly
broader.

The genus 1s represented in India, Ceylon, Borneo, Java, Sumatra,
&e. It occurs also in East and West Africa, and five South African
species are now known.

Key to the Species.
A?, Anterior tibie tri-dentate.

B. Clypeus narrow in both sexes, truncate laterally, straight at
apex ; anterior tibiae with an inner spur in both sexes .. .. Apogonia.

a°. Punctures on the elytra round, intervals very little raised
in the male, smoother in the female.

Testaceous or ferruginous with a metallic sheen .. .. curtula.
Dark bronze, very shiny... 9.9) «: (4 se. <8 -mo eee tneprova.

a‘. Punctures on the elytra very deep and the intervals cori-
aceous, bronze with a ferruginous tinge .. .. .. .. m

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A‘. Anterior tibis bi-dentate.

B*. Clypeus aculeate laterally, deeply incised in front, and con-
siderably produced in themale.. .. .. .. .. .. .. Catagonia,

Testaceous-red with a bronze sheen... .. .. .. ni cemovata-

Br. Clypeus aculeate laterally, deeply incised in front and pro-
duced in the male into two very long, horn-like lobes ;
anterior tibise without an inner spur in both sexes -. .. Ceratogonia.

Elytra pale testaceous, with a metallic sheen no 90 co Wien.

APOGONIA CURTULA, Péring.

Schizonycha curtula, Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc., vol. vi., 1892,
Doi.

Testaceous-red, with a metallic sheen, palpi and club of antenne
yellowish ; clypeus deeply and somewhat rugosely punctured, trun-
cate in front in the male, sinuate in the female, suture fairly distinct,
punctures on the head not as rugose as on the clypeus, and separated
from each other by a space equal to their diameter; prothorax more
attenuated laterally in the anterior than in the posterior part,
bulging and rounded in the middle, very slightly convex, with the
margins not reflexed, and covered with round, not contiguous
punctures more closely set on the sides than on the disk, and
slightly deeper in the male than in the female; scutellum ogival,
finely punctate laterally ; elytra plainly callose close to the humeral
angle, slightly sinuate there, and thence very slightly ampliated,
moderately convex, and with two dorsal costules on each side, the
suture is raised, and the intervals are filled with round punctures
with smooth intervals nearly equal in width to the diameter of
the punctures, the latter are seriate on the sides; apical part of pro-
pygidium and pygidium deeply punctured; abdomen and meta-
sternum also deeply and closely punctured, each puncture bears a
minute, sub-flavescent hair; legs slightly hairy; anterior tibize tri-
dentate, tarsi longer in the male than in the female, and much more
densely hairy underneath especially the anterior and intermediate
ones, the second and third joints of the anterior tarsi, and also the
apical part of the first which is longer than either of the other two,
are very plainly dilated triangularly at the tip; the joints of the
intermediate and posterior ones are normal; in the female the
second and third joints of the anterior tarsi are also dilated, but
only slightly.

Length 84-94 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Omrramba).

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APOGONIA IMPROBA, 0, spec.

Female: Size and shape of the preceding species, but dark bronze
and very shiny; the shape and sculpture are the same, but the
punctures on the elytra are somewhat finer, and the intervals quite
smooth and plane.

I have seen only one female example. It is quite possible that
the male has more characteristic differences.

Length 94 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

APOGONIA MASHONA.,, Nl. Spec.

Testaceous-red, turning to bronze-green, on the elytra ; in shape it
closely resembles A. curtula and A. improba, but it is at once
distinguished by the constantly smaller size, and the much deeper
and coarser punctures on the upper part, and also by the shape of
the clypeus which is not so sharply diagonally narrowed laterally
nor so truncate in front in the male, and not at all sinuate there in
the female ; the second and third joints of the anterior tarsi are only
slightly dilated.

Leneth 7-74 mm.; width 4-41 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe ; Umtali, Mazée).

APOGONIA OVATA, Fahr.,
Plate XLVI, fig. 17.

Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 94.
Ceratogonia kolbet, Kraatz. Deutsch. Entoml. Zeitsch., 1899, p. 141.

Chestnut or reddish-brown, with a strong metallic tinge, club of
antenne flavescent ; head and prothorax covered with fine, although
deep punctures, separated by a smooth interval, nearly equal in
width to their own diameter; scutellum finely but not densely
punctate ; elytra with the humeral angles sharp and slightly pro-
jecting beyond the rounded base of the prothorax, covered with
deep, round, somewhat closely-set punctures, and having on each
elytron two dorsal costules, edged on either side by a regular row
of punctures, suture plainly raised ; underside coarsely punctate ;
anterior tibie bi-dentate ; in the male the clypeus is as long as the
head, strongly aculeate laterally, and the apical part is deeply
incised, the two angles of the incision being remarkably sharp, the
three basal joints of all the tarsi are very much dilated, the second
one especially, and provided underneath with a somewhat flat brush
of flavescent hairs ; in the female, the clypeus, which is not as long

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as the head, is diagonally attenuate laterally and deeply emarginate
at apex, with the angles sharp, but not projecting; the tarsi of the
anterior tibie have the three penultimate joints slightly ampliated
at the tip, but the joints of the other tarsi are normal.

Length 7-74 mm. ; width 33-4 mm.

Fahreeus’s description was made from a female, the type of which
I have seen.

Hab. Orange River Colony (Bothaville) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg,
Rustenberg, Zoutpansberg); Southern Rhodesia (Umtali, Sebakwe) ;
Natal (Estcourt) ; Bechuanaland (Kanya).

APOGONIA MARSHALLI, Arrow.,
Plate XLVI. figs. 9, 16.

Ceratogonia marshalli, Arr., Ann, and Magaz. Nat. Hist., ix.
1902, p. 94.

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Pale testaceous, shining with a faint metallic tinge; head and
prothorax covered with fine punctures nearly equi-distant and
separated from each other by a smooth interval equal in width to
their diameter, and having a faint supra-lateral impression on each
side ; scutellum more or less plainly punctured ; elytra very deeply
and closely punctured and having each two dorsal, fine costules
edged on each side by a regular row of punctures; anterior tibice
bi-dentate ; pygidium and underside briefly pubescent ; in the male
the clypeus is cleft right to the base, and produced into two long
sharply aculeate lobes, slightly divaricating, and also slightly
bisinuate outwardly, longer than the head, and looking like two
porrect horns ; the joints of all the tarsi have a thick brush of hairs
underneath, and the three basal ones, particularly the second, are
very greatly dilated; in the female the clypeus is very obliquely
narrowed laterally towards the median part, which is deeply cleft
triangularly, but at its longest part it is only half the length of the
head, and all the tarsi, except for a very slight ampliation of the
three basal joints of the anterior pair are normal.

Length 6-74 mm.; width 33-4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe, Umtali).

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