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KABULA, n. gen. 

 Mentum and palpi of Hoplia, the maxillae are also similar in shape, 

 and six-dentate inwardly, but the two upper teeth are longer than 

 the others and project obliquely above them ; clypeus a little rounded 

 laterally, tri-dentate at the apex, separated from the head by a 

 suture ; antennae nine-jointed ; prothorax transverse, a little rounded 

 laterally ; grooved longitudinally in the middle, base slightly bi- 

 sinuate ; elytra elongated, not much broader than the prothorax at 

 the base, but a little wider at the apex, moderately callose at the 

 shoulder, and more distinctly so at the apex, hardly convex and 

 covering the edge of the pygidium which is broad and vertical in the 

 male ; legs moderately slender, and without an apical spur ; hind 

 tibiae slightly compressed inwardly ; claws of the four anterior legs 

 double, unequal, the smaller one somewhat divaricating, all simple, 

 those of the hind legs single and also simple ; no apical spur to the 

 posterior tibiae. 



KcT/ to the Species. 



Clypeus not excavate and plainly tri-dentate in front nioro<a. 



Clypeus deeply excavate, and simple in front Dtarquezo. 



Eabula morosa, n. spec. 



Fuscous brown, opaque, clothed with some slightly remote, ap- 

 pressed minute ashy-grey hairs ; clypeus sub-granulose, a little 

 rounded near the base, slightly obliquely attenuate thence and 

 plainly and somewhat shai'ply tri-dentate at the apex, head and 

 prothorax covered with cicatricose shallow punctures from the 

 centre of which springs a very short bristle ; the prothorax has a 

 shallow but plainly visible longitudinal furrow ; scutellum with a few 

 small appressed hairs ; elytra plainly tri-costate on the discoidal 

 part and having in addition another costa above the outer margin, 

 the suture is also raised, and the sculpture consists of closely set 

 cicatricose punctures a little more closely set than on the prothorax, 

 and bearing likewise a very small appressed hair, but the costae 

 and the suture have in addition a series of distant, short bristles ; 

 pygidium and abdomen aciculate, especially the former, and with 

 scattered minute hairs ; legs punctate and with similarly appressed 

 hairs ; they have no apical spur, the anterior tibiae are ti'i-dentate, 

 the three teeth are set close together and very oblique, none of the 

 claws is cleft, those of the four anterior ones are double and unequal. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 3i mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester"). 



