1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 545 



laterally, not dentate in the anterior part, and projecting much 

 beyond the clypeus, which is very narrowed at the base and sharply 

 acuminate and reflexed at apex ; genae distinct ; antennae ten-jointed ; 

 in the male the clava is formed of three lamellae of equal size, much 

 longer than the whole of the preceding joints, basal joint thick and 

 short ; prothorax marginate all round, obliquely attenuate laterally in 

 the anterior part, parallel in the posterior and not very convex ; 

 scutellum ogival ; elytra short, a little ampliate laterally past the 

 middle, feebly striate but deeply punctate ; pygidium very little 

 convex, nearly vertical ; intermediate and posterior tibiae not strongly 

 carinate transversely, mesosternum with a sharp, triangular inter- 

 coxal horizontal spine ; anterior tibiae sharply tri-dentate, anterior 

 tarsi moderately slender, inner claw not dentate but a little broader 

 in the centre than the outer one. 



In the only example at my disposal, which is a male, the anterior 

 tarsi are partly missing, and the description of the claws is taken 

 from Burmeister. The shape of the upper lobe of the maxillae is very 

 singular, and the club of the antennae in the male is nearly as elongate 

 and of the same shape as in some species of the Melolonthinid 

 Macrophyla. 



HoMCEOMOEPHUS EUFiPES, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom., loc. cit., p. 32. 



Male : Intensely black, with the prothorax moderately shining 

 and the elytra opaque ; it is glabrous on the upper side, and clothed 

 with dense fulvous hairs on the under side and legs ; basal joints of 

 antennae somewhat piceous red, club black ; head very rugose, truncate 

 laterally, nearly straight above the canthus of the genae, and with 

 the clypeus triangular, acuminate, with the apical margin reflexed ; 

 there is no trace of a clypeal carina, but at the junction of the clypeus 

 and of the frontal part there is a short, sharp median tubercle ; pro- 

 thorax attenuate obliquely laterally in the anterior part, straight from 

 about the median part to the posterior angle which is sharp, marginate 

 along the base except in the centre, obliquely declivous in the anterior 

 part, and very slightly impressed transversely there and also longi- 

 tudinally to beyond the median part, and covered with equally 

 remote round, not closely set punctures ; scutellum ogival, deeply 

 and rugosely punctured and grooved in the centre of the apical part ; 

 elytra very little sinuate laterally, and gradually ampliate past the 

 median part, they are short, a little broader than the prothorax, 

 slightly callose behind, not very convex, and have regular rows of 

 round, moderately deep punctures less distinct on the sides, the 



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