1908.] Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa. 677 



moderately curved, and with a slight hook at base ; spurs of hind 

 tibiae long, somewhat slender. 



This genus is readily distinguished from Clitopa by the shape of 

 the antennal club, and the much less truncated anterior part of the 

 clypeus. 



Eamoutsa feevida, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 78. 



Chestnut or chestnut-brown, with the prothorax almost black ; 

 the whole head is covered with deep, broad, contiguous, asperous 

 foveolate punctures and clothed with long flavous hairs ; antennae 

 chestnut-brown ; prothorax plainly attenuated laterally from the 

 sharp angular apex of the anterior part to the middle, slightly 

 ampliated there, and nearly straight thence to the angle of the base, 

 the latter being sinuate on each side, the surface is covered with 

 somewhat deep punctures self-contiguous and somewhat asperous 

 in front and on the sides, and separated on the disc by a smooth 

 space about equal in width to their own diameter, the sides, the 

 base, and the anterior part have a fringe of very long and dense 

 flavous hairs, some such hairs being also scattered on the discoidal 

 part ; at an equal distance from the apex and from the centre of the 

 disk is a short median impression ; scutellum long, wide, ogival, 

 impunctate ; elytra shaped as in Sckizonycha, slightly sinuate 

 laterally below the humeral part, and very slightly ampliate past the 

 middle ; there are no costules, and the surface is covered with deep 

 punctures slightly umbilicate, separated by an interval equal to their 

 own diameter, and bearing each a most minute greyish hair; pro- 

 pygidium covered with fine punctures bearing only an appressed 

 sub-squamose hair; on the pygidium, which bears a lateral fringe of 

 yellow hairs, the larger punctures are rilled by yellow, conspicuous 

 scales, or thick squamose hairs. The genital armature of the $ 

 greatly differs from that of Clitopa. 



Length 9 mm. ; width -i mm. 



Hab. Bechuanaland (Eamoutsa). 



DAMAEA, n. gen. 



Body cylindrical ; clypeus nearly porrect, straight laterally, slightly 

 arcuate in front with the anterior margin moderately reflexed, head 

 highly carinate laterally above the very large eyes, the carina 

 continued as an arcuate ridge on the vertex, clypeal suture in- 

 distinctly carinulate, mentum densely hairy, last joint of maxillary 

 palps cylindrical and slightly acuminate at apex ; antennae 10-jointed, 



