﻿€18 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  TABOEA, 
  n. 
  gen. 
  

  

  Mentum 
  ovate 
  laterally 
  for 
  two-thirds 
  of 
  the 
  length, 
  constricted 
  

   and 
  triangularly 
  ampliated 
  thence 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  broadly 
  

   and 
  somewhat 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  centre, 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  

   are 
  slightly 
  rounded 
  ; 
  the 
  palpi 
  are 
  as 
  in 
  Popillia, 
  but 
  the 
  maxillae 
  

   have 
  at 
  the 
  upper 
  end 
  two 
  long, 
  falcate 
  teeth, 
  the 
  outer 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  

   is 
  very 
  deeply 
  bifid, 
  and 
  three 
  other 
  equally 
  sharp, 
  but 
  horizontal 
  at 
  

   the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  galea. 
  The 
  presence 
  and 
  the 
  disposition 
  of 
  these 
  teeth 
  

   are 
  the 
  distinctive 
  characters 
  separating 
  this 
  genus 
  from 
  Gnatholabis, 
  

   which 
  has 
  the 
  clypeus 
  and 
  the 
  prothorax 
  similarly 
  shaped 
  and 
  

   clothed 
  also 
  with 
  long, 
  appressed 
  hairs. 
  Kraatz 
  (Deutsch. 
  Entom. 
  

   Zeit., 
  1892, 
  p. 
  390), 
  included 
  the 
  only 
  species 
  known 
  among 
  

   Gnatholabis, 
  having 
  not 
  examined 
  the 
  mouth 
  parts. 
  Dr. 
  Ohaus 
  

   includes 
  it 
  in 
  Nannopopilia, 
  Kolb. 
  (Stett. 
  Entom. 
  Zeit., 
  1897, 
  p. 
  354), 
  

   but 
  the 
  shape, 
  the 
  disposition, 
  and 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  teeth 
  of 
  the 
  maxillae 
  

   are 
  different 
  in 
  N. 
  minuscula, 
  the 
  only 
  other 
  species 
  belonging 
  to 
  

   Nannopopilia, 
  and 
  so 
  is 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus. 
  

  

  Tabora 
  ludificans, 
  Ancey., 
  

   Natural. 
  Sicilian, 
  ii., 
  1883, 
  p. 
  96. 
  

   Shining, 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  brassy 
  green 
  ; 
  elytra 
  navous 
  with 
  an 
  

   elongato-quadrate 
  patch 
  under 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  the 
  suture 
  and 
  a 
  broad 
  

   outer 
  marginal 
  band 
  bottle-green 
  or 
  very 
  nearly 
  black 
  ; 
  under 
  side 
  

   black, 
  antennae 
  and 
  legs 
  brownish 
  red 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  very 
  slightly 
  broader 
  

   than 
  long, 
  straight 
  laterally, 
  nearly 
  sub-parallel, 
  truncate 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  

   with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  very 
  little 
  rounded, 
  and 
  the 
  anterior 
  margin 
  

   reflexed, 
  it 
  is, 
  like 
  the 
  head, 
  finely 
  rugose 
  and 
  plicate 
  transversely 
  ; 
  

   prothorax 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  attenuated 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  part 
  for 
  about 
  one- 
  third 
  of 
  the 
  length, 
  slightly 
  emarginate 
  

   thence 
  to 
  the 
  outer 
  angle 
  which 
  is 
  sharp, 
  marginate 
  all 
  round, 
  

   the 
  median 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  base 
  is 
  slightly 
  sinuate, 
  it 
  is 
  conspicuously 
  

   plicate 
  transversely 
  with 
  the 
  folds 
  very 
  closely 
  set, 
  and 
  is 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  long, 
  dense, 
  decumbent 
  yellowish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  broadly 
  

   ogival, 
  transversely 
  plicate 
  ; 
  elytra 
  not 
  broader 
  in 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  

   than 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  but 
  plainly 
  emarginate 
  laterally 
  between 
  these 
  two 
  

   parts, 
  not 
  much 
  narrowed 
  from 
  the 
  median 
  to 
  the 
  posterior 
  part, 
  

   plane 
  in 
  the 
  anterior, 
  but 
  somewhat 
  convex 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  median, 
  

   deeply 
  and 
  regularly 
  punctato-striate 
  with 
  the 
  intervals 
  convex, 
  

   glabrous 
  except 
  for 
  a 
  few 
  short 
  hairs 
  along 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  in 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  part 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  partly 
  uncovered, 
  glabrous, 
  pygidium 
  a 
  

   little 
  convex, 
  scabroso-punctate 
  but 
  completely 
  covered 
  with 
  

   flavescent, 
  very 
  dense 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  ; 
  all 
  the 
  segments 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  

  