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slender and sinuate, the lower one flattened, narrow, truncate at 
the tip; in the female the claws are long, but of the normal shape. 
The mentum is covered with an extremely long, dense pubescence. 
GRYPHONYCHA PUBERULA, Fhr., 
Plate XLVLI., fig. 2. 
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 136. 
Rufescent, with a fleshy tinge and slightly iridescent ; clypeus with 
a plain frontal suture, anterior margin slightly angular in the centre, 
the whole surface is roughly punctured, and the frontal part of the 
head punctulate; antennz 9-jointed, club tri-jointed, that of the 
male shorter than the pedicel; prothorax twice as broad as long, 
and plainly sinuate laterally in the posterior part, the angles of 
which are not rounded, very faintly punctulate; scutellum long, 
punctulate ; elytra punctato-striate, with the intervals raised and 
slightly tectiform, especially in the female, and moderately deeply 
punctate ; anterior tibize with two outer teeth, but having also above 
the second one a sinuation ending in a faint angle. 
Length 8-9 mm.; width 43-5 mm. 
Hab. Transyaal (Johannesburg, Rustenburg). 
EURONYCHA, n. gen., 
Plate XLVL,, figs. 1, la. 
Buccal parts of Autoserica; clypeus diagonal laterally, one-half 
narrower at the apex than at the base, emarginate there, and having 
one frontal, arcuate shallow suture; eyes only slightly incised by 
the canthus of the gene; antennee 9-jointed, club tri-jointed, one- 
third shorter than the pedicel in the male; prothorax nearly straight 
laterally, but wider at the base than at the apex; elytra costulate ; 
whole body clothed with a very dense, and very short silky 
pubescence ; anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly; anterior tarsi of 
male very short, densely hairy outwardly, the four basal joints are 
compressed, broadly dilated triangularly outwardly, the fifth joint is 
produced into a very broad lamina somewhat tectiform on the upper 
side, the claws are set at right angles to each other and are fused 
with the apical joint, the lower tooth of the inner claw is much 
broader than the upper one which ends sharply, and the two teeth of 
the outer claws are considerably reduced; in the female the claws 
are normally cleft ; posterior margin of coxe straight, angular out- 
wardly and covering the greatest part of the abdominal segments in 
