1904. ] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 131 
PLEIOPHYLLA VESTITA, n. spec. 
Fuscous, with the elytra and antenne light chestnut-red, legs 
reddish-brown; clypeus and head with a few greyish hairs; pro- 
thorax and scutellum clothed with a dense, long, appressed flavous 
pubescence; elytra sprinkled with numerous greyish flavescent, 
short, appressed hairs; pygidium and abdomen with appressed, 
closely set hairs; pectus with a long, dense fulvous pubescence; 
clypeus straight in front and laterally but with the outer angles 
moderately rounded, and instead of a suture provided with a plain but 
only slightly raised transverse keel, it is scrobiculate, but the head 
is roughly punctured with the walls of the punctures sub-granulose ; 
prothorax very closely punctured, and nearly straight laterally from 
the median part to the moderately sharp basal angle; elytra plainly 
coriaceous, a little ampliated laterally at a short distance from the 
humeral part, and having two plain dorsal striz in addition to the 
sutural one; pygidium vertical; antennal club 6-jointed and with 
the joint preceding it laminate and moderately long; the lower tooth 
of the inner anterior claws is very long. 
Female unknown. 
Length 15 mm.; width 9 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town). 
Gren. HUCYLOPHYLLA, Waterh., 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xv., 4th ser., 1875, p. 406. 
Mentum rounded laterally but with the outer angles sharp, ligular 
part as long as the mentum, and slightly narrower, oblong, not 
sinuate at the tip, separated from the mentum by a moderately 
distinct suture; last joint of labial palpi robust, straight inwardly 
but broadly fusiform outwardly ; maxillee moderately robust, bifid at 
the tip, the outer apical tooth is somewhat concave and broader and 
more laminate than the inner one which is somewhat sharp and 
bears an inner fascicle of strong, stiff cilize, last joint of maxillary 
palpi swollen, fusiform, acuminate ; mandibles robust, hollow, apical 
part trifid; clypeus strongly parabolic, long, separated from the head 
by a very plain, nearly transverse suture, vertical in front and with 
the upper margin moderately reflexed, the labrum is short but 
transversely broad and emarginate at the centre of the anterior part, 
frontal part simple, eyes moderately large; antenne 10-jointed, 
second joint moniliform, third triangularly produced in the inner 
part, fourth to tenth very long, curved and forming the club 
which is as long, in the curve, as the prothorax ; prothorax with the 
anterior angles rounded, broader at the base, the angles of which are 
