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longer than broad. “Metasternal lobes short, non-contiguous, 
narrowly separated. Elytra with small brownish spots; scapular 
area without sulphurous stripe, sparsely venulated, transparent at 
its whole length, except the hind part of the basal third. Hind 
femora at the outer surface yellowish-grey, with a very narrow grey 
stripe along the upper outer keel; their inner surface of the same 
colour as the outer, but lighter; the inner lower sulcus greenish- 
yellow; knee lobes with grey spots inwardly and outwardly. Hind 
tibiae with upper surface greyish-greenish, with two pale rings at 
the base, divided by a dark grey ring (another dark grey ring is 
just below the second pale ring), and with a violet-rose spot at the 
lower end; their lower surface is yellowish-grey with two grey 
rings and a pale one included between them; the number of spines 
is 10 at the inner side and 12 at the outer; all spines are pale, with 
black ends. Hind tarsi violaceous-rose. Length of the body 
28 mm.; of pronotum 6 mm.; of elytra 22 mm.; of hind femora 
19-5 mm.; of hind tibiae 16 mm. 
Males are quite like the described female; their meta- 
sternal lobes are contiguous; in the shape of the outer 
genitalia they are quite like #. plorans. The dimensions 
of a male (from Stellenbosch) are: Length of body 
22 mm.; of pronotum 45 mm.; of elytra 165 mm.; of 
hind femora 14 mm.; of hind tibiae 12 mm. 
The chief characters of this species are the form of the 
impression on the vertex and, especially, the peculiar 
coloration of the hind tibiae, as well as the rather large 
(for an Huprepocnemis) number of spines on the same. 
The lack of a dark median stripe on the outer median field 
of the hind femora is also a very good character to dis- 
tinguish this species from H. ibandana G.-T., while from 
E. plorans it may be quite easily separated by the lack of 
the sulphurous stripe in the axillar field of the elytra and 
by the sparse venulation of this field. The coloration of 
the hind tibiae exactly coincides with the description of 
Serville’s species, which is from the same locality, and this 
enabled me to confirm the identity of Serville’s and Walker’s 
species; Serville’s observation concerning the shortness 
of the elytra in his species might be due to bad preparation 
of his specimen. 
British Museum specimens: Cape of Good Hope 1 9 
(Walker’s type of annulifera); Stellenbosch, 2 33, 1 9; 
Capetown, iii, 1893, 2 99; Namaqualand (C. D. Rudd), 
2 33,3 99. 
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