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branches fused together except at the very apex, where there is a 

 slight cleft. 



This genus is diffei'entiated from Gamka by the very slender, hardly 

 curved claws, the two branches of which are fused for the greatest 

 part of the length. 



Makalaka khodesiaxa, n. sp. 



Male : Piceous black with the elytra pale straw colour, and the 

 prothorax with a narrow, lateral marginal band of the same hue ; 

 antennae and palps fuscous black ; head and clypeus closely and 

 somewhat deeply punctate, glabrous except the anterior border of 

 the clypeus which has a fringe of erect, sub-flavescent hairs ; 

 prothorax covered with deep punctures separated by a smooth 

 interval not quite as broad as their own diameter, outer margin with 

 a fringe of bristly hairs ; scutellum glabrous, punctulate ; elytra 

 glabrous, not costulate, deeply and somewhat closely punctate, 

 outer margin with a fringe of pale hairs ; hind legs and pectus 

 moderately hairy. 



Length 5^ mm. ; width 2J mm. 



I Lib. Southern Rhodesia (Plumtree). 



Sub-Family MELOLON TH1 \M. 

 Tribe PACHYP0D1M. 



KAMOUTSA, n. gen. 



Mentum moderately elongated, rounded at apex ; labial palps 

 inserted laterally, apical joint swollen, broadly fusiform, not much 

 attenuated towards the tip, maxillae straight, truncated at apex, 

 hollowed inwardly, labial palps wanting in my two examples; 

 labium vertical, clypeus hollow with the margin reflexed, regularly 

 but broadly arcuate, frontal suture slightly raised, head marginate 

 laterally as far as the base ; antennae somewhat short, 10-jointed ; 

 club tri-jointed, anipliate ovate, as long as the six preceding joints 

 which are closely set, the seventh and sixth are very short and 

 angular inwardly, the second is rounded ; prothorax nearly twice as 

 broad as long, very hairy laterally; scutellum very large; elytra 

 nearly twice and a ball' the length of the prothorax, slightly sinuate 

 laterally and barely reaching the pygidium which is vertical, very 

 slightly convex and obtusely triangular ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate 

 outwardly; posterior tarsi long, all the claws long, somewhat slender, 



