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a little narrower, slightly attenuated laterally towards the apex, 
more strongly reflexed at the anterior part the margin of which 
has a fringe of thick, stiff, spine-like erect ciliw, alternately long and 
short, and is quite impunctate, the frontal part which is very strongly 
punctate has a double row of similarly stiff bristles along the suture, 
the basal part, however, is normally hairy ; the rest as in A. helvola. 
Length 11-12 mm.; width 6-64 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg). 
ACHLOA CAFFRA, Hrichs., 
Entomogr., 1840, p. 42. 
‘‘ Black, clothed with greyish villose hairs, elytra fuscous. Length 
5 lin. Body piceous, shining, head and prothorax black. Antenne 
testaceous, club a little shorter than the pedicel. Head small, 
frontal part somewhat plane, unequally punctate, clothed with 
greyish hairs, clypeus concave, smooth. Thorax as broad as the 
elytra, slightly narrowed in front, rounded laterally, emarginate at 
apex, sub-bisinuate at the base with the posterior angles moderately 
obtuse, slightly convex, closely, not at all strongly punctate, the 
sides somewhat smooth and more densely pilose, the hairs greyish. 
Scutellum sparingly punctate, clothed with decumbent greyish hairs. 
Elytra more densely and finely closely punctate, glabrous, testaceo- 
fuscous with the margin darker. Pygidium smooth, penultimate 
segment with a short, depressed pubescence, last one with long 
hairs ; pectus villose, the hairs greyish. Abdomen pubescent, the 
pubescence greyish. Legs piceo-fuscous. 
‘Not shorter but smaller and more cylindrical than A. heivola ; 
the villosity on the prothorax and on the pectus is shorter. 
Hab. Kaffirland.”’ 
I have not yet met with this species. 
Gen. GHDANOMERUS, Waiterh., 
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xv., 4th ser., 1875, p. 407. 
‘Body thick, somewhat cylindrical, hairy. Clypeus and frontal 
part each with a sharp transverse carina. Mentum small, diamond- 
shaped, truncate at the base. Labium and labial palpi not found. 
Maxilla short, acuminate, with the apex slightly truncate. Maxillary 
palpi with the basal joint very small; second joint much larger and 
about three times as long as the first, truncate at the apex, the third 
joint slightly transverse, the apical joint as long as the two pre- 
ceding taken together, inflated, fusiform, longitudinally impressed 
above. Mandibles triangular, simple. Antenne rather short, 
