1908.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 663 



Sub Family HOPLIIN^. 



Gen. ANISONYX, Catal. i., p. 633. 

 Anisonyx sesuto, n. sp. 



Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, clothed on the head with 

 long, erect black setae interspersed with light fulvous and not very- 

 dense ones ; on the elytra these setae are seriate ; the whole under- 

 side of the pygidium and the legs have a long, dense yellowish 

 pubescence ; the long, acuminate clypeus is bare and closely 

 punctate, the frontal part is covered with golden green, ovate 

 scales ; on the prothorax these scales are disposed in three central 

 longitudinal bands and the sides are thickly covered with them ; 

 on the elytra they form three elongate agglomerations along the 

 suture, and they are somewhat crowded on the sides ; on the 

 pygidial parts and underneath these scales are quite contiguous, 

 and they are very numerous on the outer part of the intermediate 

 and posterior legs ; the elytra have a blunt costa on each side from 

 the shoulder to the apex, and the fore tibiae are sharply bi-dentate. 



The vestiture of this beautiful species, which is also smaller 

 than its congeners, makes its identification easy. It is so far as is 

 now known the most Eastern species of a purely endemic genus. 



Length 7-7i mm., width 3i-4 mm. 



Hab. Basutoland ('? Morija). 



Gen. HOPLOCNEMIS, Har., Cat. L, p. 690. 



HOPLOCNEMIS KARROOANA, n. Sp. 



Black with the elytra chestnut-red or dark red ; propygidmm and 

 abdomen clothed with dense yellow scales ; head with a triangular 

 juxta-clypeal ridge produced in a distinct tooth in the centre, the 

 clypeal lateral teeth are very sharp ; prothorax not grooved longi- 

 tudinally, covered with equi-distant, deep punctures which are 

 somewhat crowded, hairs of the margins black ; elytra and 

 scutellum of the usual shape ; the former are numerously punctate, 

 each puncture bearing a short black hair ; pygidium punctulate, 

 very briefly hairy ; pectus villose, the hairs more or less flavescent ; 

 hind femora of male strongly swollen and provided underneath close 

 to the apex, on the outer side, with a vertical, long, compressed tooth 

 slightly hamate at the tip, and the inner angle of the femora is 

 produced in a long process acuminate at the tip and bearing the 



