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scattered short whitish -yellow hairs ; scutellum and sides of the 

 abdomen j-ellowish ; legs brown, hind legs black. 



Length 3 lin. ; width IJ lin. 



Hah. Cape of Good Hope." 



HoPLiA CAFFRA, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., ii., p. 484. 



" Broad, black, shining, punctate, setose ; anterior tibiae tri-den- 

 tate ; claws cleft, posterior ones simple. 



Length 4 lin. ^ . 



From Caffraria. Eeceived from Herr Zeyher. Similar to Hoplia 

 morio (from Madagascar), but much broader, black, shiny, punctate, 

 and having a small whitish hair in each puncture ; the hairs on the 

 under side are broader and more scale-like ; antennas small, brown ; 

 legs thick, strong, but not very long ; anterior tibiae with three thick 

 obtuse teeth, the claws brown, all cleft, only the hind ones simple, 

 no spur on the tibiae." 



Congella tesseUatula may perhaps pi'ove to be identical with this 

 species. 



Gen. MICEODOEIS, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., i., p. 32. 



" Body tolerably slender on the whole, somewhat flattened 

 but rotundate and more than twice as long as broad ; the head 

 is flat and disk-like, rounded in front, slightly reflexed, and 

 decidedly larger in the male than in the female ; the antennae are 

 ten-jointed, but without sexual differences. The quite soft, almost 

 membranous labrum and similarly constructed mandibles are not 

 distinguishable externally l)ut are hidden deep under the widely pro- 

 jecting margin of the head, the under jaw and under lip are also 

 delicately formed, and this may be the reason why I could perceive 

 no membranous bi-lobate ligula at the end of the ligular portion, 

 w^hich, however, is not fused with the mentum ; galea of the maxillae 

 small, toothless, and with a long pencil of hairs ; the thin slender 

 palps project far forwards ; end joint of labial palpi ovately swollen ; 

 pronotum about as broad as long, som^ewhat swollen at the sides, 

 but not broader behind than in front ; scutellum small, cordate ; 

 elytra broader at the base than the prothorax, not narrowed behind, 

 but rounded apically ; legs short, not very strong ; anterior tibias 

 with three outer teeth, somewhat weak in the male, the four pos- 

 terior tibia? have an apical spur, but not the anterior ones ; tarsi only 



