﻿894 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  tibiae, 
  bristly 
  like 
  them, 
  and 
  having 
  large 
  claws 
  ; 
  in 
  

   the 
  four 
  anterior 
  feet 
  both 
  claws 
  are 
  of 
  equal 
  size, 
  strongly 
  divergent, 
  

   (owing 
  to 
  the 
  thick 
  but 
  non-setigerous 
  after-claw 
  which 
  intrudes 
  

   itself 
  between 
  them 
  at 
  the 
  base), 
  and 
  end 
  in 
  a 
  blunt 
  apex 
  alongside 
  

   of 
  which 
  a 
  sharp, 
  shorter 
  cleft 
  tooth 
  is 
  present 
  internally 
  ; 
  posterior 
  

   tarsi 
  with 
  a 
  long, 
  cleft, 
  always 
  folded 
  claw, 
  pygidium 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  

   perpendicular 
  and 
  not 
  drawn 
  in, 
  but 
  projecting 
  more 
  posteriorly 
  

   in 
  the 
  female. 
  Whole 
  upper 
  surface 
  shiny, 
  with 
  solitary 
  hairs. 
  

   Only 
  one 
  species 
  from 
  South 
  Africa." 
  

  

  Mickodoeis 
  aquila, 
  Burm., 
  

   Loc. 
  cit., 
  p. 
  33. 
  

  

  "From 
  Drege. 
  Surface 
  of 
  head 
  densely 
  and 
  coarsely 
  punctate, 
  the 
  

   vertex 
  almost 
  black, 
  with 
  yellow 
  hairs, 
  prothorax 
  very 
  shiny, 
  with 
  

   scattered 
  punctures 
  and 
  with 
  long 
  yellow 
  bristles 
  at 
  the 
  sides 
  ; 
  

   scutellum 
  tolerably 
  covered 
  with 
  yellow 
  hairs. 
  Elytra 
  shiny, 
  brown, 
  

   and 
  with 
  punctures 
  set 
  in 
  irregular 
  rows 
  which 
  bear 
  appressed 
  

   yellow 
  bristly 
  hairs 
  ; 
  under 
  surface, 
  legs, 
  antennae, 
  and 
  palpi 
  pale 
  

   yellow, 
  shiny, 
  with 
  scattered 
  bristles 
  ; 
  the 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  sternum 
  are 
  

   shorter 
  and 
  appressed, 
  those 
  at 
  the 
  anal 
  margin 
  forming 
  long 
  ciliae. 
  

  

  Length 
  3 
  lin." 
  

  

  I 
  do 
  not. 
  know 
  this 
  genus, 
  which 
  Lacordaire 
  places 
  in 
  the 
  Hoplides 
  

   group. 
  

  

  