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upper lobe very short, penicillate at the tip 'and armed with four 

 robust falcate teeth ; apical joint of the labial palpi sub-cylindrical 

 but a little attenuate at the tip, that of the maxillary comparatively 

 short, fusiform outwardly only, and slightly inflexed inwardly ; 

 clypeus a Uttle attenuate laterally, straight at tip with the margin 

 reflexed and the angles very sharp ; antennae nine-jointed, some- 

 what short ; prothorax depressed, a little attenuate laterally in front, 

 straight from there, bi-sinuate at the base ; scutellum sharply ogival ; 

 elytra elongate, attenuate laterally from the shoulder towards the 

 apex, not quite covering the edge of the dorsal part of the abdominal 

 segments, deeply impressed diagonally in the anterior part from near 

 the humeral part to a third of the length, and leaving the propygidium 

 almost entirely uncovered ; pygidium convex in the male, vertical or 

 nearly so in both the sexes ; anterior tibiae sharply bi-dentate out- 

 wardly, hind femora and hind tibiae robust and swollen in the 

 male, all the tibiae with an apical spur ; tarsi short, thick, the fifth 

 joint very robust in the male, all the claws double, the stronger one 

 in the anterior and intermediate legs slightly bifid, the weaker one 

 slender and pressed against the other, and both those of the posterior 

 legs uncleft; body clothed wholly with minute scales, differing in 

 colour according to the sex. 



This South African genus consists of three species. 



Key to the Species. 



Body covered in both sexes with deep ochreous or dark orange-yellow 

 scales turning to white on the abdomen ; hind legs red militarh. 



Body entirely covered with sky-blue scales in the male, dark sienna- 

 brown in the female ; legs black trimeni. 



Prothorax, scutellum, a sutural and marginal band on the elytra, 

 pygidial part and whole under side sky-blue, discoidal part of elytra 

 lilac, in the male ; the whole upper side clothed with green scales and 

 the under side with yellow and white scales in the female })ntiitosa. 



SCELOPHYSA MILITARIS, Gyllh., 



Schonh. Syn. Ins., i., 3, App. p. 116. 

 Male : Entirely covered on the upper side with minute contiguous 

 scales varying in colour from light bright yellow to orange and 

 ochreous, the pygidial part and the al)domen are covered \vith 

 similar but flavescent scales, the clj'peus, however, is without any, 

 and the pectus is villose ; the antennae are fuscous, and the legs red 

 and slightly pubescent, deeply punctured, with the punctures 

 squamose ; head very rugose, clypeus broadly but shallowly 

 emarginate and with the angles sharp and somewhat reflexed ; 



