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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  the 
  four 
  anterior 
  legs 
  double, 
  unequal, 
  and 
  slightly 
  cleft, 
  the 
  hind 
  

   ones 
  simple 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  broad, 
  vertical 
  in 
  both 
  sexes 
  ; 
  body 
  scaly. 
  

  

  The 
  genus 
  has 
  a 
  very 
  wide 
  distribution. 
  In 
  the 
  South 
  African 
  

   species, 
  from 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  drawn 
  this 
  generic 
  description, 
  the 
  

   female 
  only 
  has 
  a 
  small 
  inner 
  spur 
  on 
  the 
  four 
  hind 
  tibiae. 
  

  

  Hoplia 
  sokdida, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  196. 
  

  

  Chestnut-brown, 
  upper 
  side 
  partly 
  covered 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  with 
  

   whitish 
  scales, 
  and 
  completely 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  with 
  flavescent 
  ones, 
  

   under 
  side 
  and 
  legs 
  with 
  silvery 
  white 
  scales 
  in 
  both 
  the 
  sexes. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Head 
  scaly, 
  clypeus 
  broad, 
  transverse 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  

   slightly 
  rounded, 
  and 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  pro- 
  

   thorax 
  twice 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long, 
  ampliated 
  and 
  rounded 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  

   median 
  part, 
  and 
  having 
  five 
  bands 
  of 
  ovate, 
  non-carinate 
  white 
  

   scales, 
  the 
  two 
  lateral 
  ones 
  of 
  which 
  do 
  somewhat 
  commingle, 
  and 
  

   spatuliform, 
  short, 
  erect 
  and 
  distant 
  hairs 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  

   with 
  a 
  humeral 
  and 
  median 
  basal 
  callus 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  and 
  an 
  apical 
  

   median 
  one, 
  they 
  are 
  not 
  costate, 
  but 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  longitudinal 
  impres- 
  

   sion 
  between 
  the 
  two 
  basal 
  calluses 
  and 
  they 
  are 
  partly 
  covered 
  with 
  

   somewhat 
  closely 
  set 
  ovate 
  white 
  scales, 
  from 
  among 
  which 
  spring 
  

   spatuliform 
  erect 
  black 
  hairs 
  which 
  here 
  and 
  there 
  form 
  irregular 
  

   fascicles, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  disk, 
  they 
  are 
  a 
  

   little 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  prothorax 
  and 
  gradually 
  ampliated 
  towards 
  

   the 
  apex 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  plainly 
  wider 
  than 
  at 
  the 
  base. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  massive 
  and 
  entirely 
  

   covered 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  with 
  carinate 
  scales 
  more 
  elongate 
  on 
  the 
  

   head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  ovate, 
  the 
  

   elytra 
  are 
  also 
  more 
  plainly 
  bi-costulate, 
  and 
  they 
  have 
  regular 
  rows 
  

   of 
  distant 
  spatuliform 
  hairs 
  with 
  occasionally 
  short 
  fascicles 
  as 
  in 
  

   the 
  male. 
  

  

  Length 
  6^—8 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4-5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Uitenhage) 
  ; 
  Natal 
  (Durban) 
  ; 
  Transvaal 
  

   (Lydenburg). 
  

  

  [Species 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  seen 
  or 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  identify.) 
  

  

  Hoplia 
  ciliata, 
  Casteln., 
  

   Hist. 
  Natur. 
  d. 
  Insect., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  144. 
  

  

  " 
  Black, 
  prothorax 
  with 
  very 
  short 
  yellow 
  hairs 
  arranged 
  along 
  

   the 
  sides 
  and 
  forming 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  a 
  longitudinal 
  line, 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  

   of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  are 
  long 
  brownish 
  ciliae 
  ; 
  elytra 
  brown, 
  set 
  with 
  

  

  