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anterior part for half the length, and slightly x-ounded in the 

 posterior, slightly convex, deeply and closely punctured, denselj'' 

 hairy, and fringed with longer hairs laterally ; scutellum long, sharp 

 at tip, impressed longitudinally in the middle which is bare, but the 

 sides are covered with slightly flavescent scales ; elytra gradually 

 and moderately ampliate laterally in the middle, the humeral callus 

 is not as strongly developed as in the other species of Hoplocnemis, 

 and the oblique, rounded dorsal costa is not very distinct, they are 

 covered with small, elongate, flavescent scales not closely set, and 

 have, in addition to the sutural and marginal rows of black bristles, 

 several series of equally long, black bristles on each side ; the elytra 

 barely reach to the basal margin of the propygidium which is covered 

 with very closely set scales, while on the pygidium the scales are not 

 contiguous ; the latter is vertical in the male, and the two apical 

 abdominal segments are not scaly ; posterior femora of the male very 

 much thickened and convex on the outer face, tibiae a little shorter 

 than the thigh, not very swollen but dilated at apex, horizontally 

 scooped out there ; the inner apical part is produced into two linear 

 spines, and the outer is bifid at tip and serrate along the outer 

 margin ; the four basal joints of the tarsi are very short, and nearly 

 fused, the fifth is more than twice as long as the four basal ones 

 taken together, and is somewhat compressed, the claw is curved, 

 compressed, and sharp inwardly, but the apical tectiform part is 

 scooped outwardly beneath. 



The female is like the male but usually smaller, the femora and 

 tibiae are normal, and the claw of the hind tarsi is simple. 



Length 9-10 mm. ; width 5-6^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Uitenhage, Port Elizabeth). 



Hoplocnemis crassipes, Oliv., 

 Plate XLII., fig. 3 ; Plate XLIV., fig. 3. 

 Entom., i., 3, p. 51, pi. xxiii., fig. 200 a-c. 

 Head, prothorax, and scutellum black, elytra and legs cherry-red ; 

 head very rugose and having in the centre a slight transverse 

 impression abutting on a transverse, very slightly raised ridge sepa- 

 rating the head from the clypeus which is sharply acuminate, and 

 the two anterior lateral teeth of which are set very closely together ; 

 the head and clypeus are fringed with fulvous hairs ; prothorax 

 attenuate laterally in front for rather more than one-third of the 

 length and sub-parallel from there, fringed with dense black or light 

 fulvous hairs, not very convex, not grooved longitudinally, but 

 slightly impressed near the base, and having in the anterior part a 



