﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  891 
  

  

  Kareiga 
  hypocrita, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Dark 
  brown, 
  clothed 
  with 
  squamiform, 
  elongate 
  white 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  antennae 
  flavescent 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  short, 
  but 
  broad, 
  rounded 
  

   laterally, 
  arcuately 
  emarginate 
  in 
  front 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  margin 
  some- 
  

   what 
  reflexed, 
  it 
  is 
  deeply 
  and 
  roughly 
  punctate 
  and 
  granulate, 
  and 
  

   the 
  head 
  is 
  very 
  closely 
  granoso-punctate, 
  each 
  puncture 
  bearing 
  a 
  

   short 
  hair 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  ampliated 
  and 
  rounded 
  a 
  little 
  past 
  the 
  median 
  

   part, 
  more 
  obliquely 
  attenuated 
  thence 
  to 
  the 
  anterior 
  angle 
  than 
  in 
  

   the 
  posterior 
  part 
  which 
  is 
  slightly 
  sinuate 
  and 
  is 
  not 
  serrate 
  like 
  

   the 
  anterior, 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long, 
  not 
  much 
  convex 
  and 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  nearly 
  coalescing, 
  fine, 
  but 
  somewhat 
  deep 
  punctures, 
  and 
  

   covered, 
  but 
  not 
  densely, 
  with 
  somewhat 
  long, 
  white 
  squamose 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  deeply 
  and 
  irregularly 
  punctured 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  sub-parallel, 
  very 
  little 
  ampliated 
  past 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  

   having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  two 
  dorsal 
  costules, 
  they 
  are 
  covered 
  with 
  

   oblong 
  punctures 
  separated 
  from 
  one 
  another 
  by 
  a 
  space 
  equal 
  to 
  

   their 
  size 
  and 
  enclosing 
  a 
  smaller 
  round 
  puncture 
  bearing 
  an 
  

   appressed 
  white, 
  somewhat 
  scale-like 
  hair 
  ; 
  propygidium, 
  pygidium, 
  

   and 
  abdomen 
  irregularly 
  aciculate 
  and 
  having 
  scattered 
  hairs 
  ; 
  pectus 
  

   and 
  legs 
  setulose 
  ; 
  anterior 
  and 
  intermediate 
  tarsi 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   tibiae, 
  villose 
  and 
  densely 
  bristly 
  under 
  the 
  joints 
  ; 
  female 
  with 
  a 
  

   conspicuous 
  spur 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  tibiae. 
  

  

  Length 
  14 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  7-J- 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Graham's 
  Town). 
  

  

  Gen. 
  HOPLIA, 
  Illig., 
  

  

  Mag., 
  ii., 
  1803, 
  f. 
  226. 
  

  

  Mentum 
  ampliate 
  ovate, 
  deeply 
  narrowed 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  

   apex, 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  there 
  with 
  the 
  angles 
  rounded 
  and 
  not 
  

   penicillate, 
  convex 
  and 
  not 
  grooved 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  face 
  ; 
  maxillae 
  

   broad, 
  arcuate, 
  inner 
  lobe 
  indistinct, 
  upper 
  one 
  short, 
  not 
  penicillate 
  

   at 
  the 
  tip 
  and 
  armed 
  with 
  five 
  or 
  six 
  sharp 
  inner 
  teeth, 
  apical 
  

   joint 
  of 
  labial 
  palpi 
  moderately 
  long, 
  slightly 
  arcuate 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  

   swollen 
  outwardly, 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  maxillary 
  sub-cylindrical, 
  moderately 
  

   acuminate 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  transverse, 
  nearly 
  straight 
  laterally 
  

   with 
  the 
  angles, 
  slightly 
  rounded, 
  and 
  emarginate 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  

   antennae 
  nine-jointed 
  in 
  both 
  sexes 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  transverse, 
  ampliated 
  

   and 
  rounded 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  short, 
  ogival 
  ; 
  elytra 
  

   with 
  a 
  distinct 
  humeral 
  and 
  apical 
  callus, 
  slightly 
  ampliated 
  behind 
  

   and 
  covering 
  the 
  propygidium 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  tri-dentate 
  outwardly 
  

   but 
  without 
  an 
  inner 
  apical 
  spur 
  ; 
  legs 
  not 
  robust, 
  short 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  

  

  