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legs double, unequal, the smaller claw is about two-thirds of the 

 length of the stronger, and instead of being appressed, it divaricates 

 plainly, the posterior claws are single, and simple. 



Harpina vittigera, Burm., 

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



Black, moderately shining ; head very closely scabroso-punctate, 

 clypeus sub-foveolate ; prothorax finely shagreened and having deep 

 scattered punctures each bearing a stiff erect cilia, among these are 

 spread a few greyish appressed hairs : elytra oblong, parallel, coria- 

 ceous and having on each side two distinct costae and four bands of 

 appressed, squamose, greyish-white hairs, in the first three intervals 

 there is a line of single hairs, but between the third band and 

 tlie supra-marginal one the hairs are more numerous ; pygidium, 

 abdomen, and legs with similar appressed W'hitish hairs, pectus clothed 

 with a light fulvous pubescence ; the claws of the four anterior legs 

 are double and unequal, those of the posterior single, and none are 

 cleft. 



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



Hab. Cape Colony (? Cape Town). 



NANAGA, n. gen. 



Mentum broad, somewhat short, ovate, not deeply constricted 

 laterally at the point of insertion of the antennae ; upper lobe of 

 maxillae a little elongate, fasciculate at the tip, armed inwardly 

 with five teeth, the three apical ones arranged transversely at the 

 tip ; apical joint of labial palpi swollen at the base, moderately 

 acuminate towards the apex, that of the maxillary sub-cylindrical ; 

 clypeus slightly attenuate laterally, straight at the tip and with the 

 angles distinct although slightly rounded, not plainly divided from 

 the head by a suture ; antennae nine-jointed, basal joint strongly 

 turbinate, club a little longer than all the other joints taken together ; 

 prothorax longer than broad, narrowed laterally in the anterior part, 

 sinuate in the posterior and with the basal angle sharp ; scutel- 

 lum short, triangular ; elytra moderately sinuate laterally, plainly 

 narrowed towards the apex, and leaving the greater part of the 

 propygidium uncovered ; pygidium of the male steeply slanting 

 forwards ; abdomen compressed ; anterior legs bi-dentate, basal tooth 

 very short but oblique ; posterior legs robust, tibiae triangularly 

 dilated at apex, tarsi long ; all the claws double, unequal, the more 

 robust one cleft at the tip. 



