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



separated from the head by a transverse suture, sub-parallel laterally, 

 deeply emarginate semi-circularly at tip and with the angles sharply 

 acuminate, reflexed, and projecting transversely ; prothorax oblique 

 laterally from the apex to the median part, emarginate in the 

 posterior, and with the base moderately arcuate ; scutellum very 

 long, narrow, and shaip at tip ; elytra strongly narrowed laterally 

 from the humeral part towards the apex, but not sinuate, and covering 

 the dorsal part of the abdominal segments ; propygidium uncovered 

 by the elytra, pygidium vertical in the male ; anterior tibiae strongly 

 bi-dentate in the male and sharply angular above the second tooth, 

 the first and second teeth are remote, set nearly at right angles, the 

 apical one is nearly twice as long as the other, and both are slightly 

 curved backwards at the tip ; the posterior femora and tibiae are very 

 swollen, the intermediate and hind tarsi are thick, especially the 

 latter, the fifth joint of the posterior ones is very robust and shaped 

 as in some species of Pachycncma ; claws of the anterior and inter- 

 mediate legs double and cleft, the outer claw being only half the 

 length of the inner one ; posterior claws double, but with the inner 

 one very minute, and the outer simple and robust ; tibiae without 

 apical spur in both sexes. 



The general appeai'ance of the only species known is not unlike 

 that of Pachyoicma. 



OuTEMQUA FESTIVA, Pering., 



Plate XLIV., fig. 6. 



G)/mnoloma festiva, Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. iii., pt. ii., 



1885, p. 95. 



Male : Black, with the elytra flavescent or light testaceous yellow, 

 and the hind legs occasionally red or reddish brown ; the prothorax 

 has a broad margin all round of bluish opaline scales and is clothed 

 on the disk with flavescent, dense, short hairs ; the scutellum is 

 squamulose and the elytra have a very broad sutural band of bluish 

 opaline ovate scales reaching from base to apex ; the pygidial pai't 

 and the under side are covered with dense, similar scales, which are 

 also somewhat densely sprinkled on the intermediate and hind 

 femora ; the head is very rugose, and clothed with short yellowish 

 hairs, the apical angles of the clypeus project outwardly as a trans- 

 verse tooth ; the prothorax is closely scabroso-punctate and is not 

 grooved longitudinally in the middle ; the elytra are clothed with 

 appressed, dense, yellowish-white hairs, and they have on each side 

 four distinct rows of white, long bristles ; posterior tibise compressed, 

 robust ; intermediate and posterior femora robust, especially the 



