1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. ' 869 



villose, flavescent or yellow hairs ; the scales on the scutellum are of 

 the same colour as those covering the prothorax and the elytra ; the 

 latter are parallel, numerously costulate, but two only of the costules 

 are plain, and all the costules bear a row of short, whitish bristles, 

 along the suture and the outer margin these bristles are much longer 

 and stiffer ; legs black, very bristly, the smaller claw of the hind legs 

 is not cleft. The green scales sometimes turning into greenish yellow. 



Female : Exactly like the male and with the same vestiture, but 

 the scales on the pygidium and the abdomen have a somewhat whiter 

 tinge, and the clypeus is straight at the apex. 



Length 7-8 mm. ; width 3^-4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, Paarl). 



Group HOPLIDES. 



Keij to the Genera. 



A?. Labrum not produced vertically. 



Body broad, short, depressed, clypeus straight laterally and at 

 apex ; all the claws double and unequal, body clothed with 

 appressed hairs Anisochelus. 



Body elongate, clypeus sharply narrowed, reflexed or dentate, 

 anterior and intermediate claws double, unequal, posterior ones 

 single, simple ; body covered with squamiform hairs and occa- 

 sionally with scales Inanda. 



A'. Labrum produced vertically. 



B3. Body somewhat cylindrical, clothed with hairs and scales, 

 occasionally with hairs only. 



Clypeus attenuate laterally and emarginate at the tip, hind 

 claw single, the others double, unequal and simple ; maxillae 

 not dentate Microplus. 



Clypeus rounded laterally or sub-parabolic ; claws of anterior 

 and intermediate legs double, unequal, only the stouter 

 anterior one cleft ; maxillte sharply pluri-dentate ; body 

 clothed with scales or sub-squamose hairs MicwjiUdus. 



B^. Body clothed with sub-squamose hairs and no scales. 



rt=. Maxillse not dentate. 



Clypeus short, sub-parabolic, claws of anterior and inter- 

 mediate legs double, unequal. 



Last joint of maxillary palpi very swollen in the middle 

 and spindle-shaped Blikana. 



Last joint of maxillary palpi elongate, cylindrical . . . . Harpina. 



a'. Maxillffi dentate. 



