1902.] Catalogue, of the CoJeoptera of South Africa. 623- 



on the outer side ; anterior tibiae also short and dilated, tri-dentate 

 outwardly and with a long, terminal inner spur ; claws of all the 

 tarsi somewhat long, unequal, but simple, the more robust one a 

 little longer than the other. 



The singular insect included in this genus might, but for the 

 presence of two apical spurs to the posterior tibiae, be included in the 

 Hoplinice. It is remarkable for the shape of the horizontal labrum, of 

 the mandibles and of the compressed abdomen, as well as for the 

 great development of the uncovered propygidium and pygidium. It, 

 is on that account not unlike some species of Heterochelus. 



IsoPLiA LAsiosoMA, Burm., 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 2, p. 488. 



Black, moderately shining, elytra more or less pale, testaceous- 

 yellow, and having a black patch on the humeral part and on each 

 side of the scutellum, an arcuate transverse band in the centre, and 

 an apical one connected along the outer margin with the median one ; 

 the head, prothorax, scutellum, margins of the pygidial part and the- 

 whole under side are covered with long hairs, greyish in the male, 

 yellow in the female, the elytra are clothed with upright and shorter 

 ones ; clypeus and head closely granulose ; antennae with the basal 

 joint and the club black, the other joints testaceous red ; prothorax 

 very closely cicatricoso-punctate, with the punctures nearly confluent 

 and setigerous ; scutellum with similar but finer punctures ; elytra 

 somewhat depressed in the middle on each side of the suture, not 

 striate but having series of punctures somewhat geminate in the 

 dorsal part and more irregular on the sides, the humeral callus is 

 greatly developed, the apical one nearly forms the outer angle of the 

 apical part which is obliquely truncated on each side of the suture, 

 the latter is plainly raised ; propygidium and pygidium covered with 

 elongate, somewhat oblong punctures separated from one another by 

 a space equal to their width, the propygidium has a long basal fringe 

 of hairs, and so has the pygidium which is distinctly convex in the 

 posterior part, somewhat knobby there in the female, and is densely 

 hairy ; the under side is also very densely hairy and deeply and 

 closely punctured ; the punctures are elongate ; all the femora are 

 deeply grooved at the apex ; the tibiae are short, very compressed, very 

 obliquely truncate inwardly, sharply tri-dentate outwardly ; claws, 

 long, slender, simple. 



Length 8:^-8^ mm. ; width 4^ mm. 



In general facies this species resembles a hirtose Valgus 



Hah. Natal (Durban). 



