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notched in the centre, the outer angles are moderately rounded, the 
outer face is somewhat plane and bears some greyish hairs; labial 
palpi somewhat short, last joint acuminate-ovate ; maxillee robust, 
upper lobe produced into three more or less bluntly bifid teeth 
disposed in a semicircle, the lower lobe is very distinct, tooth-lke, 
and briefly ciliate inwardly; labial palpi moderately long, pilose, 
last joint almost fusiform, and having a shallow outer longitudinal 
impression ; mandibles robust, arcuate, moderately concave along the 
outer margin; clypeus about half the length of the frontal part, 
separated from it by a very narrow, slightly arcuate impressed line, 
and with the anterior margin arcuate and very little raised, anterior 
part sub-vertical, labrum vertical, strongly bi-lobate; eyes mode- 
rately large, briefly divided in the anterior part by a short, hairy 
canthus; antenne 10-jointed, basal joint moderately long, second 
moniliform, third and fourth sub-cylindrical, the fifth and sixth 
angular inwardly at the base, seventh small, compressed, the three 
last joints are parallel, laminate and form a club only slightly shorter 
than the whole pedicel; prothorax diagonally ampliated laterally 
from the anterior to the median part, and nearly straight thence, the 
anterior margin is glabrous except on the sides along the eyes, and 
the base is strongly sinuate; scutellum as broad as long, sharply 
arcuate at the apex; elytra plainly sinuate laterally in the anterior 
part, and broader thence to the apex, somewhat plane, and covering 
the greatest part of the propygidium; epipleural fold somewhat 
broad at the base, and very plain for one-third of the length; the 
latter is sloping; abdominal segments fused; mesosternum mucro- 
nate; tarsi moderately long, claws denticulate at the base, and 
having a sub-median vertical tooth underneath in the female, but 
not on the inner anterior claw of the male which is simple as well 
as the four posterior claws; anterior tibiz bi-dentate, and without 
inner spur; intermediate and posterior ones somewhat slender, only 
slightly dilated at the tip, and without an oblique ciliate carina 
outwardly, spurs moderately slender and somewhat sharp at tip 
in the male. 
HypoPHOLIS SOMMERI, Burm., 
Plate XLIIL., fig. 36. 
Handb., iv., 2, p. 283. 
H., sulcicollis, Boh., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 92. 
Hi, vitiata, Fihr., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 91. 
Chestnut-brown, with the elytra light testaceous, but having usually 
a supra-lateral darker band along the outer margin (sommert) and 
