358 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



This species appears to be very abundant where it occurs ; it is 

 distributed over Natal, the Orange River Colony, and the Trans- 

 vaal. In the Cape Colony it is met with in the Eastern Provinces 

 only. 



Length 12-13* mm. ; width 8-8£ mm. 



GORAQUA, n. gen. 



Male: Facies moderately robust, clypeus Bub-parallel but arcuate 

 laterally towards the apex the margin of which is narrowly sinuate 

 in the centre ; mentum long, sub-parallel, sinuate at apex, the labial 

 palps inserted near the apex, maxillae slender, the lobes inermous, 

 upper one surmounted by a long pencil of hairs ; prothorax sub- 

 trapezoidal, deeply arcuate above the scutellum ; elytra shaped as in 

 Atrichelapkims and Elaphinis, and thus less short and less robust 

 than in Anoplochilus, bi-costulate on each side with the intervals 

 slightly striolate, but the striae not geminate ; anterior tibiae tri- 

 dentate (?) in the manner of Anoplochilus ; the two basal joints of 

 hind tarsi triangular, the basal one shorter than the second, but not 

 spinose outwardly, sternal process broadly arcuate, not projecting 

 much beyond the coxae, and with a plain longitudinal groove. 



Intermediate in form between Atrichclaphinis, the buccal organs 

 and the mode of sculpture of the elytra of which are similar, and 

 Sisyraplwra, but differing from the latter in the non-dentate lobes of 

 the maxillae, and the less robust body. 



GORAQUA SMITHSANA, n. Sp. 



Female : Black, with the elytra fiavous testaceous, under side with 

 a somewhat metallic sheen, upper side opaque ; club of antennae 

 sub -rufescent. Head, with the exception of the clypeus and prothorax 

 very densely villose, the villosity light flavescent, decumbent in the 

 only example I have as yet seen, the whole disk covered with punc- 

 tures, but the arcuate part of the l>ase above the scutellum is broadly 

 impunctate, and therefore bare; scutellum impunctate, except along 

 the basal margin where there are a few briefly setigerous punctures; 

 epimera as densely rlavous pubescent as the prothorax ; elytra deeply 

 sinuate laterally, very little attenuate behind, hi-costate on each side 

 with the apical part of the suture sharp, but not acuminate, the 

 fiavous testaceous background is tessellated with black ; pygidium 

 covered with light yellow hairs not sufficiently dense, however, to 

 hide the black background ; sides of the abdomen and the whole 

 pectus clothed with dense, long fiavous testaceous hairs, except along 



