On a new Ginus of Pytliidw. 31 1 



females of the two species are very similar. The female of 

 the Jiew species differs chiefly in the somewhat narrower 

 front, in the fourth antennal joint being somewhat shorter 

 than the flftli and following joints, and in the perfectly 

 smooth claws *. 



Pufia. — Closely resembles that of E. barnardi ; I can 

 detect no differences. 



Larva. — liesembles that of E. barnardi in its two-jointed 

 anteniue ; its hairy but sj)ineless lateral " pseudo[)odia," 

 bifid at thetij) beneath; its Hve-braiiched gill-tufts; its four 

 spiierical, equal-sized, anal papillie; and in the absence of 

 any distinct knobs bearing the two pairs of long hairs on the 

 anal segment. It differs from both E, barnardi and 

 E. capensis in the extremely numerous short, thick, black 

 spines on the dorsal surface. These s})ines are arranged as 

 follows: — The cephalic segment, behind the horny liead- 

 ])lates, has four more or less regular transverse rows of ihem, 

 about fifteen in each row ; behind the fourth row is a trans- 

 verse bare area, then a patch of about forty spines, about 

 half of which are in the middle third, the remainder being 

 rather smaller and scattered over the lateral thirds. Tlie five 

 intermediate segments each have about fifty to sixty spines, 

 which, again, are most closely placed on the middle third ; 

 some of these spines are very slightly larger than the others 

 and occupy the same positions as the spines in E. capensis 

 and E. barnardi. There are about twenty spines on the 

 terminal segment, which is more evenly rounded than in 

 E. barnardi. 



XXX VT. — A nno Gfmis o/'Pythidaj (Coleopf era) from the 

 Fallclund hlands. By G. C. CUAMPION, F.Z.S. 



POOPHYLAX, gen. nov. 



Head short, broad, inserted into the ])rothorax to near the 

 eyes and obliquely narrowed before them, broadly truncate 

 in front, and excavate on each side behii'.d the shoit e|)istoma ; 

 eyes sn)all, rounded, convex, laterally projecting; antenmu 

 inserted beneath the cariniform orbits at a little before the 

 eyes ; labrum transverse ; mandibles exposed at the tip, their 



* In my original description of E. barnardi I only noted the rndfl 

 claws as Laving spines on the underside. In reality these ."pines occur 

 in both sexes, though they are more conspicuous in the male. 



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