﻿692 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  A 
  1 
  . 
  Posterior 
  tibiae 
  without 
  a 
  terminal 
  spur. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  tubercle 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  margin 
  ; 
  posterior 
  tibiae 
  

   very 
  convex 
  and 
  produced 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  into 
  a 
  very 
  long 
  process, 
  

   the 
  upper 
  sharply 
  spinose 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  blunt, 
  quadri-dentate 
  . 
  . 
  crassipes. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  without 
  tubercle 
  ; 
  posterior 
  tibiae 
  scooped 
  out 
  hori- 
  

   zontally 
  at 
  the 
  tip, 
  bi-spinose 
  inwardly 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  bifid 
  process 
  

   trongly 
  serrate 
  outwardly 
  fuliginosa. 
  

  

  Hoplocnemis 
  hylax, 
  Fabric, 
  

   Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  2. 
  

  

  Syst. 
  Entom. 
  Append., 
  p. 
  817. 
  

   Oliv., 
  Entomol., 
  i., 
  3, 
  p. 
  50, 
  pi. 
  xi., 
  fig. 
  95 
  a-b. 
  

   Lacordaire, 
  Atlas, 
  pi. 
  xxix., 
  fig. 
  4<x. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Head, 
  prothorax, 
  and 
  legs 
  piceous 
  brown 
  ; 
  elytra 
  cherry- 
  

   red 
  ; 
  head 
  very 
  rugose, 
  sharply 
  carinate 
  laterally, 
  clypeus 
  strongly 
  

   acuminate 
  and 
  sharply 
  tri-dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  there 
  

   is 
  a 
  greatly 
  compressed, 
  very 
  high 
  longitudinal 
  carina 
  strongly 
  

   bifid 
  at 
  tip, 
  it 
  is 
  pubescent 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  and 
  fringed 
  laterally 
  

   with 
  long, 
  black 
  hairs 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  one-third 
  broader 
  than 
  long, 
  a 
  

   little 
  ampliate 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  not 
  much 
  attenuated 
  in 
  front, 
  

   declivous 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part, 
  but 
  not 
  convex 
  on 
  the 
  disk 
  which 
  is 
  

   very 
  deeply 
  sulcate 
  longitudinally 
  from 
  the 
  anterior 
  declivity 
  to 
  the 
  

   base 
  which 
  is 
  marginate, 
  it 
  is 
  glabrous 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  and 
  

   covered 
  with 
  deep, 
  round 
  punctures, 
  somewhat 
  scattered, 
  and 
  

   fringed 
  laterally 
  with 
  dense, 
  black 
  hairs 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  long, 
  narrow, 
  

   moderately 
  sharp 
  at 
  tip, 
  and 
  deeply 
  punctate 
  ; 
  elytra 
  broader 
  at 
  the 
  

   base 
  than 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  obliquely 
  attenuated 
  from 
  the 
  humeral 
  part 
  to 
  

   the 
  apex 
  where 
  they 
  become 
  gradually 
  rounded, 
  somewhat 
  depressed 
  

   on 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  but 
  having 
  a 
  very 
  broad, 
  somewhat 
  rounded 
  

   costa 
  extending 
  diagonally 
  from 
  the 
  shoulder 
  and 
  ending 
  at 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  callus 
  ; 
  the 
  margin 
  is 
  slightly 
  raised 
  and 
  has 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  

   short, 
  black 
  bristles, 
  and 
  the 
  surface 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  non-contiguous, 
  

   but 
  nevertheless 
  somewhat 
  closely 
  set 
  punctures 
  bearing 
  each 
  a 
  

   very 
  short, 
  black 
  bristle 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  and 
  abdomen 
  covered 
  with 
  

   contiguous 
  yellowish 
  scales 
  interspersed 
  with 
  hairs, 
  pygidium 
  vertical, 
  

   free 
  from 
  scales 
  and 
  irregularly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  pectus 
  very 
  hairy 
  ; 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  very 
  thick, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  thigh 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  

   inner 
  apical 
  part 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  long, 
  sub-triangular 
  process 
  sharp 
  

   at 
  tip, 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  face 
  somewhat 
  deeply 
  scooped 
  out, 
  and 
  the 
  

   inner 
  bluntly 
  serrate; 
  first 
  basal 
  joint 
  of 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  nearly 
  obliterated, 
  

   the 
  two 
  following 
  short, 
  somewhat 
  transverse, 
  plainly 
  soldered, 
  

   fourth 
  sharply 
  and 
  very 
  distinctly 
  dentate 
  beneath, 
  fifth 
  nearly 
  twice 
  

  

  