1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 619 



abdomen are covered all over with similar hairs, the pectus and 

 thighs are very villose, but not the tibiae which have a metallic 

 sheen ; anterior tibial bi-dentate ; larger claw of intermediate tarsi of 

 the male not cleft. 



Length 7-7^ mm. ; width 3i-4 mm. 



This pretty species is said to have originally come from the 

 Zambesi Eiver. I have not seen any examples from the South 

 African area, and this description is made from Central African ones. 



Tribe PH.ENOMERIINI. 



Gen. PH^NOMERIS, Hope, 



Trans. Zoolog. Soc, 1825, p. 97. 



Eupijga, Mannerh. 



Mentum with a horny, briefly ciliate ligula edging the sides of the 

 anterior part of the mentum, which is semicircular, with the outer 

 face deeply impressed, almost excavate, it is ovate laterally from the 

 base to past the median part ; labial and maxillary palpi short, basal 

 joint of the latter very small, apical one with a deep, narrow, longi- 

 tudinal groove outwardly ; maxillae compressed narrowly, hollow at 

 the tip and armed with a sharp, curved tooth at the apex, and three 

 more on each side of the hollow part ; labrum projecting, broadly 

 emarginate in the centre ; head somewhat small, clypeus broader 

 than long, semicircular and marginate ; eyes moderately large, slit 

 by the short canthus of the genaj above the median part ; antennae 

 ten-jointed, club as long as the five preceding joints taken together ; 

 prothorax conspicuously narrowed laterally from about the median 

 part to the apex, sinuate from the middle to the outer angle, where 

 it is wider than across the middle, marginate all round except in the 

 median part of the base, which is a little less sinuate there than on 

 each side of it ; scutellum very long, triangular ; elytra wider at the 

 shoulders than the base of the prothorax, and greatly narrowed 

 laterally thence to the apical part, depressed, costate and striate and 

 having the humeral callus prolonged for a third of the length into a 

 ti'iangular, raised smooth area, dividing conspicuously the dorsal 

 costae and striae from the lateral ones ; propygidium covered only at 

 the base by the elytra, pygidium horizontal ; abdominal segments 

 fused together ; prosternum with a long aculeate process projecting 

 betw^een the intermediate cox;© ; hind femora thickened, anterior 

 tibiae with only one long, straight apical tooth, and having a slender 

 but long inner spur ; intermediate and hind femora without diagonal 



