HYPOPHOLIS SOMMEBI. O 



luteous yellow, with a more or less clearly- defined red- 

 brown band close to the lateral margin ; the pygidium, 

 under side, and legs with fine short depressed grey hairs. 

 The head is broad, coarsely punctured, and has a fine 

 impressed, slightly curved, transverse line in front ; the 

 clypeus is short and broadly rounded, with the margin 

 a little reflexed, and the punctuation very coarse and 

 confluent. The thorax is more than twice as broad at 

 the base than long, it is rounded and narrowed at the 

 sides in front, with the anterior angles considerably 

 produced, the lateral margins are dilated and slightly 

 reflexed, the entire surface is coarsely punctured, the 

 punctures becoming closer and confluent towards the 

 sides, and there is an impressed longitudinal line in the 

 centre. The scutellum is rounded behind and of a nearly 

 semicircular form, with a few coarse punctures. The 

 elytra are broadest behind the middle, coarsely punc- 

 tured, and have two slight elevated longitudinal lines on 

 the disk. The pygidium is very closely and unevenly 

 punctured. The under side is closely punctured, with 

 the metasternum more sparsely punctured and longi- 

 tudinally impressed in the centre ; the mesosternal 

 process is long and conical ; in the male there is a 

 longitudinal impression in the centre of the abdomen. 

 The legs are moderately long and punctured, the anterior 

 tibiae are produced at the apex, and have a strong sub- 

 apical tooth, and in the female there is an additional 

 smaller tooth above this. The length of the body is 

 1820 millm. 



Judging by the number of specimens usually contained 

 in collections received from S. Africa, this would appear 

 to be a very common species in that country ; it belongs 

 to the sub-family Melolonthides, and is allied to the 

 well-known Melolontha vulgaris, the "Cockchafer" of 

 England. 0. E. J. 



Miss Glanville sends this beetle for identification as a 

 "pest from Vines," but gives no particulars as to habits 

 or mode of attack. 



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