892 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



the four anterior legs double, unequal, and slightly cleft, the hind 

 ones simple ; pygidium broad, vertical in both sexes ; body scaly. 



The genus has a very wide distribution. In the South African 

 species, from which I have drawn this generic description, the 

 female only has a small inner spur on the four hind tibiae. 



HoPLiA soKDiDA, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 196. 



Chestnut-brown, upper side partly covered in the male with 

 whitish scales, and completely in the female with flavescent ones, 

 under side and legs with silvery, white scales in both the sexes. 



Male : Head scaly, clypeus broad, transverse with the outer angles 

 slightly rounded, and emarginate in the middle of the apex ; pro- 

 thorax twice as broad as long, ampliated and rounded laterally in the 

 median part, and having five bands of ovate, non-carinate white 

 scales, the two lateral ones of which do somewhat commingle, and 

 spatuliform, short, erect and distant hairs ; scutellum scaly ; elytra 

 with a humeral and median basal callus on each side and an apical 

 median one, they are not costate, but there is a longitudinal impres- 

 sion between the two basal calluses and they are partly covered with 

 somewhat closely set ovate white scales, from among which spring 

 spatuliform erect black hairs which here and there form irregular 

 fascicles, especially in the median part of the disk, they are a 

 little broader than the prothorax and gradually ampliated towards 

 the apex where they are plainly wider than at the base. 



Female : Like the male, but a httle more massive and entirely 

 covered on the upper side with carinate scales more elongate on the 

 head and prothorax than on the elytra where they are ovate, the 

 elytra are also more plainly bi-costulate, and they have regular rows 

 of distant spatuliform hairs with occasionally short fascicles as in 

 the male. 



Length 6^-8 mm. ; width i-o mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Uitenhage) ; Natal (Durban) ; Transvaal 

 (Lydenburg). 



(Species which I have not seen or been able to identify.) 



HoPLiA ciLiATA, Casteln., 



Hist. Natur. d. Insect., ii., p. 144. 



" Black, prothorax with very short yellow hairs arranged along 



the sides and forming in the centre a longitudinal line, on each side 



of the prothorax are long brownish ciliie ; elytra brown, set with 



