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the scutellum is not so sharply ogival and is shagreened ; the elytra 

 are somewhat plainly quadri-costate on each side, and also deeply 

 cicatricoso-punctate, but these punctures are not set close to each 

 other, and are somewhat obliterated in the posterior part of the 

 costae ; the pygidium is shagreened and has a distinct longitudinal 

 smooth and shallow median furrow, the appressed hairs on it as 

 well as on the abdomen are very minute and equally distant, and the 

 posterior tibiae of the male, the only sex known to me, are a little 

 more robust than in the two preceding species. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 



The example from which this description is made was sent to me 

 by the late Dr. Dohrn, of Stettin, and came from either Zeyher or 

 Dr6ge. 



KAEEIGA, n. gen. 



Mentum ampliate laterally, not wider at the base than at the apex, 

 hardly longer than broad, incised laterally near the point of inser- 

 tion of the palpi, semicircularly emarginate at apex ; labrum 

 vertical, arcuately emarginate ; palpi of Hoplia ; maxilla short, very 

 robust, upper lobe armed with two short, robust, bifid teeth somewhat 

 blunt and set somewhat in the inner edge, mandibles sharply bi-cari- 

 nate on the outer face, concave between the two carinas, falcate at the 

 tip and slightly bifid inwardly ; antennae ten-jointed, basal joint long, 

 clava as long as all the intermediate joints taken together ; head 

 somewhat broad and having distinct genae the canthus of which 

 divide nearly equally the anterior part of the large eyes, clypeus 

 transverse, not so broad as the head, rounded laterally and deeply 

 emarginate in the centre ; prothorax short, twice as broad as long, 

 crenulate laterally, very little sinuate along the base ; scutellum 

 somewhat short, broadly ogival ; elytra plane in the anterior part, 

 slightly broader at the base than the base of the prothorax, sub- 

 parallel ; pygidium vertical ; anterior and intermediate tarsi longer 

 than the tibiie, posterior ones not longer, claws double, unequal, and 

 simple, the inner one of the posterior legs very short ; anterior tibiae 

 tri-dentate, the teeth broad, turned slightly downwards, intermediate 

 and apical ones connate ; intermediate and hind tibiae with two series 

 of closely set, short, serrate teeth on the upper side ; all tibiae with a 

 spur in the female, the joints of the tarsi are very villose and densely 

 bristly underneath. 



The only species included in this genus has the general appearance 

 of an Enipecta (Meloloxthin.e), l)ut the elytra are more depressed. 



