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



pygidium l>road, vertical ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly with 

 the two basal teeth connate and set at right angles with the tibia, the 

 apical tooth is directed obliquely forward ; the claws of the anterior 

 and intermediate legs are double and both cleft, that of the posterior 

 is single and simple ; the hind tibiae of the male are moderately 

 robust but not thicker than the thigh. 



KOEISABA AMABILIS, n. SpSC. 



Black, densely clothed with long, villose greyish and black hairs on 

 the upper, and with greyish-white ones on the under sides, hind legs 

 villose, hind tarsi also villose and bristly ; clypeus attenuate latei'ally, 

 very sharply tri-dentate at the apex, the three teeth of equal size and 

 reflexed ; prothorax deeply and somewhat closely punctured, the 

 punctures not scabrose ; scutellum clothed wdth white hairs ; elytra 

 broadly ampliated at the humeral part which is rounded, and 

 gradually narrowed from there to the apex, not costate on the 

 ■discoidal part, but having a somewhat broad, longitudinal impression 

 along the suture ; pygidium broad, moderately slanting forwards, 

 nude and shiny. 



Length b\ mm. ; width 3^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (no exact locality). 



The only example of this species which I have seen, is a male 

 which was sent to me by the late C. A. Dohrn, who had received it 

 from Drege. 



Gen. STENOCNEMA, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 66. 



Mentum moderately ampliated laterally in the median part, a little 

 attenuated l)ut not much constricted towards the apex which is 

 straight, ligula very short, the lobes quite lateral ; lobe of maxillae 

 glabrous, not penicillate at the top, armed inwardly with five very 

 strong teeth and five or six hooked stiff ciliae ; apical joints of labial 

 and maxillary palpi sub-cylindrical ; head triangular and with the 

 clypeus deeply emarginated in front and the angles dentiform and 

 reflexed ; prothorax obliquely attenuate in the antei'ior part for one- 

 third of the length, straight from there and with the base arcuate ; 

 scutellum very long and narrow ; elytra ampliated neai- the humeral 

 part, attenuated from there towards the apex ; propygidium wide, 

 pygidium vertical ; anterior legs without apical spur, anterior tibiae 

 strongly tri-dentate, the three teeth are set at right angles, but the 

 apical one is a little more slender than the other two which are very 



