608 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



somewhat roughly ; elytra finely striate ; ground colour, brownish 

 yellow, the head, the middle of the prothorax, the region of the 

 suture and the outer margin, the outside of the tibiae and the tarsi 

 blackish ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate." 



This species, which I have not been able to identify, shou^ld come 

 in the same group {Hoplopus) as ^4. letula, which group comprises 

 all the species, the male of which has the claws of the anterior and 

 intermediate tarsi simple. 



Anomala kussaticeps, Fairm., 

 Annal. Soc. Entom. d. France, 1888, p. 179. 



" Ovate, convex, slightly ampliate behind, pale fulvous, shining, 

 head and tarsi somewhat light chestnut, outer teeth of anterior tibiae 

 fuscous, suture and outer margin of elytra, posterior margin of the 

 prothorax, whole sides of the scutellum very narrowly infuscate. 

 Ovambo. 



Length 13 mm. 



This Anomala resembles very closely A. pallida, Fabr., but it is a 

 little smaller, the head is more convex, less rugose, more narrowly 

 emarginate in the anterior part ; the prothorax is almost opaque ; 

 the striae of the elytra are more finely and more densely punctured, 

 and are geminate ; lastly, the claws of the anterior tarsi are much 

 less unequal, and the larger one is more sharply cleft at the tip." 



Anomala distant:, Arrow, 

 Transact. Entom. Soc. Loud., 1899, p. 258. 



" A close ally to the preceding species {A. trans valcnsis), but less 

 distinctly punctate, prothorax very finely punctate, strongly con- 

 stricted in front and with the emargination of the anterior margin 

 narrow ; elytra not very deeply lineato-punctate ; under side 

 sparingly hairy, hind tibiae and tarsi of all the legs rufous. 



Length 18 mm. 



(J . Outer claws of anterior legs unequally cleft, basal teeth of the 

 anterior tibiae short and curved. 



$ . A little larger ; outer claws of anterior and intermediate tibiae 

 equally cleft, basal tooth of the anterior tibiae long and straight. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria). 



This species exactly resembles the preceding one in size and 

 colouration, but it is distinguished by its less distinct puncturation, 

 the narrower emargination of the prothorax, the paler colour of the 

 middle tibiae, and the less abundant pubescence upon the sternum. 



of a fleshy colour in the centre, is opaque, and so is the scutellum ; the punctures 

 on the elytra are less deep ; the female only has all round the pygidium a 

 conspicuously dense fringe of very long, pallid hairs, and the propygidium is also 

 densely but l)rieriy pubescent ; inner claw of anterior tarsi cleft in both sexes. In 

 one example only among the nine which 1 examined was the fuscous sutural band 

 of the elytra obliterated. Length 14-14^ mm. ; width 7-7^ mm. 

 Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe). 



