1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 693 



as long as the first four put together, curved, and as long as the 

 claw. 



Female : Smaller than the male. The teeth of the clypeus are 

 much smaller, the frontal carina is reduced to a small, rounded 

 tubercle ; the punctures on the prothorax are equally deep but set 

 close to one another ; the shape and sculpture of the elytra and the 

 vestiture of the propygidium and abdomen are similar ; the femora 

 are also thick, the tibite are thickened, moderately deeply scooped 

 out at apex but simple, and the basal joints of the tarsi are longer, 

 and apparently free. 



Length 13-16 mm. ; width 8-10 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Beaufort West, George, Worcester). 



HOPLOCNEMIS SPECTABILIS, n. speC. 



H. crassipes, Lacord., Atl., pi. xxix., fig. 1 ; nee. Oliv. 



Male : The description of H. hylax applies in most points to this 

 species, but it differs in colour and in the shape of the cephalic horn 

 and of the posterior tibiae ; the colour is dull black on the upper 

 side, the hind legs are also piceous black ; the club of the antennae 

 is rufescent ; the shape of the head and clypeus is similar but the 

 cephalic horn is compressed laterally and sharply triangular; the 

 prothorax is a little more pubescent on the discoidal part, and the 

 median sulcus is broader ; the anterior tibise are not quite so robust, 

 the inner part of the posterior tibiae is more sharply prolonged, and 

 the inner edge of the process is somewhat sharply quadri-dentate ; 

 tarsi as in H. hylax. 



Female unknown. 



Length 15 mm. ; width 9^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Ladismith). 



HoPLOCNEMis KOiKOiNA, n. spec, 

 Plate XLIL, fig. 1. 



Very similar to H. spectahilis in shape and build, but the elytra 

 are occasionally rufescent brown, the hairs clothing the prothorax 

 are denser, there is no cephalic tubercle in either sex, the 

 propygidium and the abdominal segments are not scaly, but fringed 

 with long fulvous hairs, and the apical inner process of the hind 

 tibiae, which is as long as in H. spectahilis, is bluntly serrate on each 

 side. The female is distinguished from the male only by the simple 

 and more slender hind tibite. 



Length 13-15 mm. ; width 7^-9^ mm. 



Apart from the outward characters distinguishing H. koikoina 



