1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcm of South Africa. 857 



Female unknown. 



Length 3^ mm. ; width 15 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (no exact locality). 



Gymnoloma spuria, n. spec. 



Male : Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown ; prothorax with faint 

 traces of scattered whitish scales, often rubbed off, elytra with a 

 juxta-sutural band of white elongate scales beginning at about the 

 median part and reaching to the apex, and a discoidal one reaching 

 from the base to about the median part ; propygidium and pygidium 

 covered with elongate, not very closely set white scales, abdominal 

 segments edged with elongate scales, pectus pubescent ; head and 

 prothorax scabroso-punctate ; the clypeus is distinctly acuminate 

 laterally towards the apex, which is emarginjate in the centre, the 

 whole head is covered with sub-flavescent, villose hairs ; prothorax 

 grooved longitudinally in the centre and clothed all over with 

 very long, sub-liavescent villose hairs ; scutellum non-scaly ; elytra 

 elongate, sinuate laterally below the shoulder, but not conspicuously 

 narrowed from there towards the apex, very closely punctate, some- 

 what coriaceous, and having two not very distinct costules on each 

 side ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly, claws double, and each 

 cleft apically, those of the intermediate and posterior ones single, 

 but the latter only are simple ; club of antennae as long as the five 

 joints preceding. In this species the angles of the mentum are not 

 very sharp. 



Length 6-7 mm. ; width 3-3i mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



KNYSNA, n. gen. 



Mentum long, oblong, somewhat slender, not deeply constricted 

 laterally near the apex, which is very slightly sinuate and has the 

 outer angles distinct and slightly bristly, but not penicillate ; lobe 

 of maxillse short, slightly penicillate, and having an apical tooth 

 more or less sharply trifid, and three lower down, last joint of 

 maxillary and labial palpi fusiform, the latter short and very 

 swollen ; clypeus in the shape of a truncate cone emarginate at 

 apex ; antennae nine-jointed, club as long as the four preceding 

 joints taken together ; prothorax nearly plane, attenuate laterally 

 in the anterior part, bi-sinuate along the base, and deeply grooved 

 longitudinally in the middle ; scutellum short, broadly rounded at 

 the tip ; elytra elongate, parallel, not sinuate laterally, and covering 

 the dorsal part of the abdominal segments except the propygidium ; 



