272 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [Vou. Xi. 
Key to the Species. 
Punctures on the upper side deep, white scales conspicuous .. .. .. lepidiota. 
Punctures on the upper side finer, white scales not conspicuous .. .. proxina. 
CoNIOPHOLIS LEPIDIOTA, Burm,, 
Plate XLIILI., figs. 24, 25. 
Handb. d. Entomol IV., ii. p. 284. 
Totally dark chestnut, or chestnut-brown, with the elytra light 
chestnut, slightly rufescent, club of antennz flavescent ; head and 
clypeus covered with closely set, nearly contiguous punctures the 
walls of which are raised on the head, each puncture filled with a 
somewhat round, white scale, the angles of the clypeus are rounded, 
and it is deeply sinuate in the centre of the anterior margin, the 
sutural line is very plain; prothorax more attenuated laterally from 
the ampliated median part towards the apex than towards the base 
the angle of which is sharp, very little convex, the outer margins are 
plainly crenulate, the disk is covered with nearly confluent, round, 
deep punctures containing a round white scale, in the anterior part 
there is a central, longitudinal impression; scutellum cordate, smooth 
in the centre, punctulate and scaly laterally ; elytra slightly wider at 
the shoulders than the basal part of the prothorax, very slightly 
sinuate laterally before the median part, and not much ampliated 
thence to the posterior, moderately convex, non-costate, covered 
with somewhat rounded punctures separated from each other by a 
smooth space nearly equal to their own diameter, and containing a 
slightly elongated white scale ; the propygidium is almost completely 
covered by the elytra; the pygidium is somewhat cordate, vertical, 
plane, covered with nearly contiguous punctures, each with a white 
scale; abdominal segments and femora covered with sub-contiguous 
white scales broader than those of the upper side, pectus densely 
pubescent, the pubescence flavescent; anterior tibie strongly tri- 
dentate outwardly, tarsi moderately long. 
This species varies so much in size that I thought the smaller 
form might prove to be a distinct species, until I saw a fairly long 
series caught in the same neighbourhood. The complicated genital 
armature is the same in both forms. 
Length 12-194 mm. ; width 7-9} mm. 
Hab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg). 
