62 Mr. G. J. Arrow on Afelolonthine Coleoptera. 



were captured on the niornin<2^ of Nov. 3, 1814, at Duyker 

 River, in the south of Cape Colony, a little to the west of 

 Mossel Bay. 



The type is one of three speeiinen^ in the British Museum 

 derived fri^ni the Pascoe (A>lleetion. There arc also four from 

 the Fry Colleetion and one from the Rdche Celleetion. All 

 these, as well as the two hnuiu'lit by Burchell, are males, and tlie 

 other sex remains still unknown. 'IMie s})ecies was wrongly 

 identified with Monochclus si)inipes, F., by Keiehe, and has a 

 general resemblance to that insect, but its structural characters 

 are not tln^se o'i Monoclwhts. Tliey Jigree with tlmse formulated 

 by Air. reriniiuey for his genus Gouna, one of those created 

 by the disnuinberment of the old Qi/muo/oma. This dis- 

 memberment is very unsatistactoiy, since by a process of 

 elimination the orij;inal genus is left without tangible differ- 

 ential features at all. The present foru), however, is nearly 

 related to Ot/mnolowa lineohita^ the ty}ie of Gouna, although 

 much larger ami broailer. Its comparatively large size and 

 sooty-black surface render it easily recognizable. 1 at first 

 susfiected that the absence of scales from the upper surface 

 might be due to age; but the specimens are in general well 

 preserved, and, as all agree in being smooth on the upper 

 surface, they are evidently in their natural condition. 



Z)icra}iocnemus hurcJielli, sp. n. 



Fuscous, with the elylia and legs reddish. Rather elon- 

 gate, the thorax distinctly longer tlian wide and not gibbous. 

 Clypous parabolical, the front margin very slightly retlexed 

 and with scarcely visible angles. Upper surface of the head 

 uniformly finely rugose and pubescent. Prothorax mode- 

 rately convex, the siiles regularly rounded and converging 

 torwarils. Front angles acute, hind angles obsolete. 



cJ . Prothorax tinely rugose and densely clothed with 

 rather short tawny pubescence, which changes into scales at 

 the posterior margin. The median sulcus is deep behind, but 

 vanishes beyond the middle. The scutellum is clothed with 

 elongate whitish scales and the elytra with round scales 

 varying in colour from chocolate to pale yellow, the light 

 ones forming a median longitudinal stripe which is broadest 

 near the shoulder, a sutural stripe broadest at the apical end, 

 and a quadrate patch between these. The pygidium and 

 propygidium are densely covered with orange scales, with a 

 darktr band at the base of the former. The claws of the 

 middle feet are without a basal appendage 



Lcuiith 55 mm. 



