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the six joints forming the club are very long, almost as long as 

 the head, the fourth joint of the pedicel is less than half the length 

 of the third ; prothorax somewhat attenuate laterally in the anterior 

 part, posterior angles obtuse, elytra quite parallel ; pygidium vertical ; 

 anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly ; anterior tarsi as long as the 

 tibia, claws wide, each one plainly toothed underneath in the centre ; 

 spurs of hind legs sharp. 



The general appearance of the species for which I propose this 

 genus, which should follow Paraclitopa (Cat. ii., p. 119), is much like 

 that of the species of Microplus or Microplidus of the group Hoplides. 

 I have not been able to dissect the buccal organs of the only 

 example I have seen. 



Damara villosula, n. sp. 



Light chestnut-brown, clothed on the upper side with an appressed 

 greyish-white pubescence with an admixture of erect flavescent setae 

 which are denser and longer on the prothorax ; this pubescence is 

 much denser and more silvery on the underside and pygidium, and 

 the legs are very villose. Clypeus coarsely punctate and frontal part 

 deeply, and roughly foveolate punctate, the punctures bearing a 

 short bristle ; prothorax convex in the centre at a short distance 

 from the apex, and having a longitudinal smooth line running from 

 apex to base, the rest of the surface is covered with sub-contiguous, 

 somewhat broad but moderately shallow punctures, many of which 

 bear a long setulose bristle, the base is plainly sinuate on each side, 

 and the angles are obtuse, yet distinct ; scutellum long, sub-ogival ; 

 elytra parallel, very little, if at all, broader than the prothorax, 

 roughly and irregularly punctate, the punctures hidden, however, by 

 the appressed pubescence, they have in addition regular series of 

 erect setae, and each one is obsoletely bi-costulate. 



Length 7i mm. ; width 3 nun. 



Hub. Damaraland. 



The type is in the Stockholm Museum. 



Tmbe MELOLONTHINL 



Gen. SCHIZONYCHA, Erichs., Cat. ii., p. 190. 



SOHIZONYCHA DAMABINA, n. sp. 



Female : Head and prothorax brick-red ; elytra pale straw colour ; 

 pygidium and abdomen fuscous; clypeus arcuate in front, but 



