1904. ] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa, 133 
TLAOCERA, n. gen. 
Mentum broad, rounded laterally, not clearly separated from the 
broadly truncated, cone-shaped ligular part which is only half the 
width of the hollowed mentum; palpi inserted laterally, last joint 
swollen, nearly fusiform ; maxillze robust, upper lobe somewhat con- 
cave, laminate, emarginate at the tip, inner lobe very plain, sharp; 
maxillary palpi robust, apical joint swollen, strongly fusiform out- 
wardly, less so inwardly; mandibles strong, arcuate at the tip, com- 
pressed inwardly on each side, not membranaceous at the base; 
antenne 10-jointed, the sixth and seventh joints compressed, the 
latter projecting slightly in the inner part, club tri-jointed, as long 
as the pedicel, joints laminate, straight outwardly but ampliated 
inwardly ; clypeus semicircular in front, slightly shorter than the 
_ head and separated from it by a strongly bi-sinuate, shallow suture, 
broadly perpendicular in front with the anterior margin much 
reflexed, labrum well-developod, deeply incised; prothorax little 
convex; plainly ampliated and rounded laterally in the middle, 
bi-sinuate along the base with the outer angles not sharp, but also 
not rounded, strongly depressed in the anterior part (male); elytra 
sub-parallel, not convex on the upper side, projecting beyond the 
propygidium and pygidium, the latter vertical; anterior tibie tri- 
dentate, and with a long inner spur; intermediate and posterior 
ones with an oblique carina on the outer side, apical part of the 
latter somewhat dilated, spurs long, but not very sharp; tarsi longer 
than the tibia, stiffly bristly at apex, claws long, curved, and having 
a juxta-basal, short, vertical tooth underneath. 
I propose this genus for a singular insect, the prothorax of which 
is strongly impressed on the anterior part, and having a tubercle on 
the frontal part, in the manner of a ¢ Pachypus ; the general facies, 
however, is not unlike that of Achloa. 
TLAOCERA SAGA, N. spec. 
Male: Black, with the elytra and antenne chestnut-brown, frontal 
part, prothorax, scutellum, pectus, and femora clothed with long, 
dense fulvous hairs ; clypeus semicircular in front, straight laterally, 
concave, having a double row of deep punctures on the anterior part, 
but smooth along the suture, frontal part deeply punctured, each 
puncture bearing a long hair, plane, and having a sharp, compressed, 
somewhat longitudinal tubercle in the centre ; prothorax broadly and 
somewhat deeply impressed in the anterior part, which is also a little 
more closely punctured than the posterior part where the punctures 
