1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 



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testaceous red elytra; the propygidium and abdomen are clothed also 

 with appressed flavous scales, but the hind legs, which are reddish 

 brown, differ. The hind femora have beneath a shai-p tooth at about 

 the median part, and connected with a sharp carina reaching to the 

 apex ; the tibiae are also strongly carinate inwardly, the carina being 

 strongly serrate, and the apical inner process is very elongate, 

 strongly but bluntly dentate outwardly and is five-dentate at tip, the 

 upper apical tooth is small but very distinct, and the apical spur 

 which is set close to it is long and sharp ; the shape of the genital 

 armature is also different from that of H. auriventris, but the female 

 is not distinguishable from that of the latter. 



Length 10^-12 mm. ; width 6^-9 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



HopiiOCNEMis MUTiCA, Burm., 



Plate XLII., fig. 6. 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 55. 



This species also resembles H. auriventris, and more especially the 

 red-winged examples of H, armata, but it is only on the propygidium 

 that there are a few scattered tiavescent scales, the abdomen having 

 none. In the male the frontal tubercle is obliterated ; the colour is 

 black, the elytra only being brick-red, the sculpture and vestiture, 

 with the exception of the scales on the abdomen, are as in H. armata, 

 but in the hind legs, the trochanters of which are sub-spinose, there 

 is no tooth beneath, and the inner apical process of the hind tibise is 

 nearly as much developed as in H. armata, but broader, strongly tri- 

 dentate inwardly, bi-dentate at tip, and having four smaller l)ut 

 distinct teeth outwardly ; the forcipate clasps of the genital armature 

 are somewhat different from those of the two preceding species. 



Female unknown. 



Length 12^ mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Victoria West). 



HoPLOCNEMis FULiGiNOSA, Burm., 



Plate XLIL, fig. 7. 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 56. 

 Head and prothorax fuscous black, elytra and legs reddish brown ; 

 abdomen and pygidium covered with yellowish scales ; head rugose, 

 not tuberculate in either sex, clypeus acuminate, the two lateral 

 apical teeth set very close to one another, it is densely hairy, the 

 hairs being black ; prothorax obliquely attenuate laterally in the 



