from PortiKjuese West Ajrica. l.'U 



Melolouthidae. 



ARiEOHOPLiA, geii. nov. 



Corpus gracile, paulo (Icprcssuin. Cl3peus planus, lateribus rec-tis, 

 paiilo convcrgentibns, antice abruptc productis, virguliformibus. 

 Labium oraniuo corncuin, augustura. Palpi robusti, longi. 

 Antenna} 9-articulatic. Pedes longi, tibiis poslicis (maris pra^- 

 cipue) inflatis. Ungues pedum 4 auteriorum duplici, fissi, pedum 

 2 posticorura unici, intcgri. 



TypPj " Pdchycaeina " Dehindti^ Nonfricd. 



Both sexes of this very peculiar insect were collected by 

 Dr. Welwitsch at Iluilla. Ilerr Nonfiied appears to have 

 described the species from tlie male alone, the female having 

 the hind tibia3 only slightly swollen and the single hind claw 

 of normal size. The form of the hind tibiae evidently led 

 him to place it in Pachycnema, with which it has really no 

 near relationship. Whereas that genus is the type of the 

 suctorial division of the Ilopliinoe with membranous ligula, 

 Arti'ohoplia belongs to the true Hopliinae, distinguished by 

 entirely horny mouth-organs of the usual biting type. Its 

 most remarkable feature is the form of the clypeus, the outer 

 margins of which are drawn out into long straight compressed 

 rods, as in the Cetoniid genus Gnathocera. 



Rutelidse. 



Anomala cerea, sp. n. 



Elongata, robusta, testacea, clypeo. tibiis poslicis, anticorura mar- 

 ginibus externis tarsisque omnibus piceis ; capite sat fortiter 

 punctato, clypeo brevi, rugoso, margine valde retlexo, uigro ; pro- 

 thorace subtilissirae baud crebre punctato, latoribus leviter 

 arcuatis, baud angulatis, antice approximatis ; scutello late, vix 

 augulato, subtiliter punctato ; elytris haud costatis, laevissime 

 punctatis, punctis plerumque irregularibus, seriebus 4 gemiuatia 

 ordinatis ; pygidio modice punctato ; pectore pedibusque sat longo 

 fulvo-birtis ; abdomiuenitido, parum punctato; unguibusmajoribus 

 pedum anticorum, focminaeque pedum mediorum fissis. 



Long. 15-18 mm. 



Hab. Bihe, Garenganze, Bembe. 



This is another member of the African group of Anonialce, 

 pale in colour, with darker tarsi and tibite, in which the male 

 lias the larger claw of the front foot only cleft and the female 

 those of the front and middle feet. The other species of the 

 group are A. imimdura, Boh., dypeata, Arr., transvaUnsia, 

 Arr., Distanti, Arr., ustulaiipes^ Fairm. ( = rufa, Kolbe, intrusuy 



