1902.] Gatalorjue of the Golcoptcra of South Africa. 891 



Kareiga hypocrita, n. spec. 



Female : Dark brown, clothed with squamiform, elongate white 

 hairs ; antennae tiavescent ; clypeus short, but broad, rounded 

 laterally, arcuately emarginate in front and with the margin some- 

 what reflexed, it is deeply and roughly punctate and granulate, and 

 the bead is very closely granoso-punctate, each puncture bearing a 

 short hair ; prothorax ampliated and rounded a little past the median 

 part, more obliquely attenuated thence to the anterior angle than in 

 the posterior part which is slightly sinuate and is not serrate like 

 the anterior, twice as broad as long, not much convex and clothed 

 with nearly coalescing, fine, but somewhat deep punctures, and 

 covered, but not densely, with somewhat long, white squamose 

 hairs ; scutellum deeply and irregularly punctured and with a few 

 hairs ; elytra sub-parallel, very little ampliated past the middle and 

 having on each side two dorsal costules, they are covered with 

 oblong punctures separated from one another by a space equal to 

 their size and enclosing a smaller round puncture bearing an 

 appressed white, somewhat scale-like hair ; propygidium, pygidium, 

 and abdomen irregularly aciculate and having scattered hairs ; pectus 

 and legs setulose ; anterior and intermediate tarsi longer than the 

 tibiae, villose and densely bristly under the joints ; female with a 

 conspicuous spur on the posterior tibicE. 



Length 14 mm. ; width 7i mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town). 



Gen. HOPLIA, Illig., 

 Mag., ii., 1803, f. 226. 

 Mentum ampliate ovate, deeply narrowed laterally towards the 

 apex, deeply emarginate there with the angles rounded and not 

 penicillate, convex and not grooved in the anterior face ; maxillte 

 broad, arcuate, inner lobe indistinct, upper one short, not penicillate 

 at the tip and armed with five or six sharp inner teeth, apical 

 joint of labial palpi moderately long, slightly arcuate and a little 

 swollen outwardly, that of the maxillary sub-cylindrical, moderately 

 acuminate at the tip ; clypeus transverse, nearly straight laterally 

 with the angles slightly rounded, and emarginate at the apex ; 

 antennae nine-jointed in both sexes ; prothorax transverse, ampliated 

 and rounded laterally in the middle ; scutellum short, ogival ; elytra 

 with a distinct humeral and apical callus, slightly ampliated behind 

 and covering the propygidium ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly 

 but without an inner apical spur ; legs not robust, short ; claws of 



