1902.] Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 881 



compressed ; legs moderately slender but hind ones robust and with 

 the tibiae somewhat dilated triangularly ; anterior tibiae strongly 

 bi-dentate, the apical tooth is very long, and there is no apical spur ; 

 claws of the anterior and intermediate legs double, unequal, but the 

 smaller one is nearly as long as the stronger one, which is cleft in the 

 anterior legs, whereas in the intermediate both are cleft. 



This genus differs from Hai^nna in the shape of the last joint of 

 the maxillary palpi, and the cleft claws. 



Blikana comosa, n. spec. 



Black, covered all over with a very long pubescence, fuscous 

 brown on the prothorax, mixed with sub-fiavescent greyish hairs on 

 the elytra where they form there four or five greyish longitudinal 

 bands on each side ; abdomen, pectus, and legs densely villose, the 

 pubescence ashy-grey ; head and prothorax very closely and some- 

 what roughly punctured ; elytra oblong, parallel, strongly coriaceous 

 and having on each side two very plain costae ; propygidium and 

 pygidium clothed with dense greyish hairs similar to those on the 

 abdomen ; hind legs somewhat robust in the male, the tibiae being 

 plainly dilated at apex. 



Length 7-8 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Gen. HAEPINA, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 201. 

 Mentum obovate laterally from the base to the point of insertion 

 of the labial palpi, attenuate from there and quite parabolic at the 

 apex where there are no setae, maxillas robust, horny, the two lobes 

 indistinct, very obliquely truncate at the apex, penicillate there and 

 without inner teeth ; apical joint of labial palpi very swollen out- 

 wardly, that of the maxillary elongate, cylindrical, but slightly bent 

 inwards ; clypeus broadly rounded laterally but a little blunt at the 

 apex, and with the margin finely refiexed, but it is not concave, and 

 it is separated from the head by a transverse suture ; prothorax 

 obliquely attenuate laterally from the apex to the middle, nearly 

 straight from there to the base which is sinuate, and not very 

 convex on the disk ; scutellum longer than broad, ogival ; elytra 

 somewhat broader than the prothorax, parallel, covering the whole 

 propygidium ; pygidium as broad at the base as long, vertical in 

 the male, abdomen scai-cely compressed ; legs moderately strong ; 

 anterior tibiae tri-dentate, claws of the anterior and intermediate 



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