1904] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 271 
this author, not having paid any attention to the shape and number 
of antennal joints, has confounded several species under one name— 
a mistake easily accounted for by the great likeness to each other of 
nearly all the species of this genus. 
Gey. CONIOPHOLIS, Erichs., 
Nat. Ins., iii., 1847, p. 657. 
Mentum and ligular part fused without any trace of suture, dotted 
over the almost impunctate outer face with a few fine hairs, deeply 
emarginate on the anterior part with the angles slightly rounded ; 
last joint of labial palpi small, sub-fusiform, impressed on the outer 
face ; maxillee hollowed, armed with six strong, arcuate teeth, nearly 
equal in size and set in two tiers, last jot of maxillary palpi fusi- 
form, but a little compressed, and moderately acuminate, not grooved 
outwardly ; maxillee robust, arcuate, and with a sharp cutting edge ; 
labrum vertical, very deeply incised; clypeus narrower than the 
head and separated from it by a deep transverse suture, head only 
very faintly raised on the vertex, eyes large and distinctly carinate ; 
antenne 10-jointed, the three last joints forming the club, which is 
nearly as long as the pedicel with the exception of the first joint in 
the male, and a little shorter in the female, the second joint is 
almost as long as the third, but stouter, the sixth and seventh are 
compressed and angular; prothorax with the anterior margin either 
slightly pubescent near the anterior angles or quite glabrous, 
ampliated and plainly angular laterally at about the median part, 
and with the basal angle sharp; scutellum ogival, as long as broad, 
impunctate longitudinally in the centre ; elytra slightly wider than 
the prothorax, and a little ampliated laterally at about the median 
part, sub-cylindrical, non-costate, and covering the greater part of 
the propygidium ; pygidium vertical, slightly convex, abdomen con- 
vex, segments fused; pectus densely hairy ; anterior tibie tri-dentate 
outwardly and with a long inner spur, posterior ones with a plain 
oblique keel ; tarsi only moderately long, claws strongly curved, and 
having underneath a small triangular one between the base and the 
median part, and a wide, compressed, hamate one set at about the 
median part, and shorter than the upper; in the female the apical 
spurs of the hind tibi are only slightly more dilated and compressed 
than those of the male. 
The two species included in this genus are covered on the upper 
side with whitish scales set at the bottom of each puncture; the 
pectus is very hairy. 
