1904. ] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 273 
CONIOPHOLIS PROXIMA, n. spec., 
Plate XLIIL., fig. 26. 
A very close ally of the preceding species, and differing mainly 
by the more finely punctured prothorax and elytra and the finer 
white scales; the shape of the genital armature is plainly 
different. 
Length 15-15} mm.; width 8 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg). 
GEN. RHABDOPHOLIS, Burm., 
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 290. 
Haplobrachiwm, Bohem. 
Mentum straight, but broadly rounded laterally towards the 
apical part which is broadly and deeply emarginate, completely fused 
with the ligular part, but with the junction still indicated by a 
bi-sinuate suture, glabrous and sparsely punctate, and bi-impressed 
in the basal part; labial palpi short, the basal joint very small, the 
intermediate conical, the apical one broadly ovato-acuminate, longer 
than the other two taken together; maxille short and very robust, 
the upper lobe produced into a transverse, bluntly trifid erect tooth, 
and the inner into a triangular one nearly on the same level as the 
other, and briefly ciliate inwardly ; maxillary palpi long, the last 
joint equal in length to the other three, a little thickened outwardly 
towards the tip where it is very slightly curved; mandibles very 
massive, arcuate, hollowed inwardly, the outer edge sinuate, the 
inner one straight; clypeus about one-fourth of the length of the 
frontal part and separated from it by an arcuate raised line, pro- 
jecting beyond the narrow, very broadly emarginate vertical labrum, 
plainly reflexed in the anterior part, where it is sinuate or nearly 
straight in the male, broadly and ideeply emarginate in the female, 
frontal part with one or three median longitudinal raised lines 
reaching from base to apex; eyes large, briefly divided in the 
anterior part by a short canthus ; antennz 10-jointed, the three last 
joints lamellate, nearly paralleland forming the club whichis only very 
slightly shorter in the male than all the other joints taken together, 
but in the female the joints of the club are more ampliated and 
shorter than the pedicel, the third, fourth, and fifth joints are of 
nearly equal length, and the seventh shorter, compressed, and 
slightly angular inwardly; prothorax one-third longer than broad, 
little convex, sub-parallel or only slightly ampliated laterally, very 
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