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



broad ones on the posterior ; abdomen clothed with white scales ; 

 under side and legs clothed with very dense white hairs, which are 

 appressed and squamiform on the hind legs ; head rugose, clj'peus 

 short, parallel, dentate on each side at tip ; prothorax gradually 

 attenuate laterally from the base to the anterior angle, not gi'ooved 

 longitudinally ; scutellum very long and very sharp ; elytra ampliate 

 and rounded from the humeral angle to about the median part, 

 gradually narrowed from there to the apex ; the humeral angle is very 

 distinct, and there is on each side three broad but very shallow 

 longitudinal furrows, in which the ovate scales are denser ; the 

 pygidium is slightly inclined forward, but the abdominal segments 

 are not compressed in the centre ; the three outer teeth of the 

 anterior tibiae are set close to one another, but are not connate, and 

 the basal one is shorter than the other two ; the hind tibiae are very 

 swollen, longer and somewhat thicker than the femora, simple, but 

 somewhat deeply excavate inwardly at apex under the apical spur ; 

 basal joint of hind tibiae obliterated, the other three fused, but with 

 three short teeth underneath, last joint three times as long as all the 

 preceding taken together, and armed underneath with a strongly 

 triangular tooth, claw^ as long as the apical joint, dentate underneath 

 at the middle. 



Female unknown. 



Length 10-10^ mm. ; width 6-6i nnn. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



I found my examples on grasses, not in flowers like the other 

 species of Pachycncma. 



Gen. HOPLOCNEMIS, Har., 



Coleopt., Heft, v., p. 123, 1869. 



Hoploscelis, Burm. 



Mentum very elongate, straight laterally, and strongly acuminate, 

 deeply foveate, labial palpi thick, lobe of maxillae densely hairy at 

 the tip, but not inwardly ; no inner tooth ; apical joint of maxillary 

 palpi long, swollen inwardly, emarginate outwardly ; head carinate 

 on each side above the eye, clypeus long, sharply attenuate laterally, 

 truncate at tip and having on each side three shai-p, vertical teeth ; 

 head with a frontal tubercle or not ; prothorax longer than broad, 

 or vice versa, slightly rounded laterally, narrower than the elytra 

 which are somewhat ampliate laterally below the humeral part, 

 gradually attenuated towards the apex where they do not quite 

 cover the propygidium, nearly plane, but having a more or less 



