1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 609 



I have separated them only after a careful comparison of many 

 specimens from various collections." 



NONGOMA, n. gen. 

 Mentum ovate laterally and with the apical part a little more 

 attenuate than in Anomala, but similarly impressed in the outer 

 face ; palpi also similar in shape ; maxillae not dentate but produced 

 into an inflexed transverse lobe emarginate in the middle ; the shape 

 and sculpture of the body are similar to those of Anomala, but the 

 hind tibiae are gradually ampliated triangularly from the base to the 

 apex, and the two apical spurs are more laminate, more parallel and 

 longer ; the club of the antennee, which are nine-jointed, is in the 

 male as long as all the other joints taken together, the inner claw 

 of the anterior and intermediate tarsi is simple in both sexes, and 

 all the claws are of nearly equal length. 



NONGOMA CALCARATA, Arr., 



Trans. Entom. Soc, 1899, p. 259. 



Either pale testaceous with two slightly fuscous supra-lateral 

 longitudinal patches on the prothorax, or totally testaceous, but with 

 the head infuscate, or having two large longitudinal fuscous patches 

 on the prothorax and a very broad discoidal one extending from the 

 suture of the elytra to about the median dorsal part, as well as one 

 or two narrow ones above the outer margin ; head deeply but not 

 roughly punctured, scutellum straight laterally, arcuate in front and 

 with the margin distinctly reflexed, it is covered with round not 

 closely set punctures, and is not at all shagreened ; in some examples 

 the punctures are almost indistinct on the head and on the clypeus ; 

 prothorax punctulate with the punctures set more closely on the 

 sides, and having occasionally a median longitudinal impressed line ; 

 scutellum punctulate ; elytra deeply punctato-striate, with the 

 intervals costulate in the dorsal part and with the irregularly 

 pluri-seriate punctures on the third interval reaching to a very short 

 distance ; pygidium densely cicatricoso-punctate ; pectus very 

 densely tiaiiy ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, apical tooth 

 very long and nearly straight. 



This species is very variable not only in colouration but also in the 

 sculpture of the head, prothorax, and scutellum, which, in some 

 examples, are hardly distinctly punctulate. 



Length 12^14^ mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie, Port St. John), Natal (Durban), 

 Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez) . 



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