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by raised intervals giving them a coriaceous appearance ; pygidium 
vertical, covered like the abdomen with a flavescent, short 
pubescence; pectus densely hairy; antennal club tri-jointed, the 
joint preceding the club very briefly laminate, and in some examples 
little more than aculeate. 
Female unknown. 
Length 13-15 mm, ; width 7-8 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 
Gren. MACROPHYLLA, Hope, 
The Coleopt. Man., 1837, 1., p. 103. 
Mentum longer than broad, straight laterally, deeply emarginate 
in the anterior part, and very densely hairy; last joint of labial palpi 
a little longer than the intermediate one which has the shape of an 
inverted cone and is either sub-cylindrical or swollen outwardly ; 
maxille fairly robust, upper lobe more or less bluntly bifid at the 
tip, inner lobe nearly of the same length, and ending in a third 
tooth; apical joint of maxillary palpi not quite as long as the two 
preceding taken together, fusiform, slightly impressed outwardly 
towards the basal part; mandibles robust, concave, and with the 
apical part laminate, chisel-like, strongly striate inwardly, and 
having a molar tooth; labrum robust, vertical, deeply and broadly 
incised; clypeus short, either semicircular or truncate and with the 
margin scarcely reflexed, head simple not carinate laterally above 
the eyes which are large and divided in front by a conspicuous 
canthus ; antenne 10-jointed, the long, curved club consists in the 
male of five parallel, laminate joints, fifth joint also more or less 
briefly laminate; in the female the club is tri-jointed, thick and 
about half the length of the pedicel, the seventh joint is broadly 
dilated at the tip, and the fifth and sixth are nodose; prothorax 
broader than long, moderately convex in the posterior part, ampliated 
laterally in the middle, and straight thence to the moderately 
rounded basal angle, base deeply sinuate and ciliate; scutellum 
cordate; elytra as broad at the base as the prothorax, slightly 
ampliated laterally past the middle, and abruptly rounded behind, 
only moderately convex, pubescent or nearly glabrous and covering 
the greater part of the propygidium; pygidium sub-vertical or ver- 
tical; abdominal segments free in both sexes, very convex in the 
female ; legs robust, anterior tibiae with or without an inner spur, 
plainly tri-dentate outwardly, the posterior ones alone bear a very 
faint, oblique ciliated ridge on the outer face and are moderately 
dilated at the apex, and the two spurs are sharp in the male; they 
