1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 339 



apical one extending from the outer margin on one side to the other ; 

 under side and legs black, hairy. Length 17 mm. ; width 5|- mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury, between Limpopo and Zambeze 

 Elvers) . 



ECCOPTOPTERA MUTILLOIDES, Bert., 



Mem. Ac. Bologn., viii., 1857, p. 313, pi. 23, fig. 6. 

 E. lahrata, Fairm. Ann. Fr., 1891, p. 231. 



Head black, very pilose, deeply scrobiculate ; four first joints of 

 aTitennaB, legs, and anterior and median tarsi hirtose ; prothorax 

 deeply scrobiculated and with long black erect hairs, elongated, 

 swollen in the centre, with the median part subangular, the median 

 longitudinal groove very distinct; elytra elongato-ovate, very convex, 

 with the posterior margin broadly and deeply incised between the 

 outer angle and the suture, each one with nine costae running from 

 the base to very near the apex, the first costa bordering the suture 

 not so much raised as the other ; black, shining, with long erect, 

 sparse black hairs, denser and whiter on the outer margins ; the 

 base of the elytra with densely set short yellowish hairs, forming a 

 short basal band along the suture, and on each side of the disk a 

 median, transverse, white hairy patch, reaching from the fourth to 

 the seventh costa, and a broader, supra-apical one extending from 

 the outer margin on one side to the other ; under side very hairy. 

 Length 19 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Delagoa Bay (Lourenco-Marquez, Rikatla). 



Gen. POLYHIRMA, Chaud., 



Bull. Mosc, 1850, i., p. 44. 



Cypholoba, Chaud. 



Ligula elongato-ovate ; paraglossse half as broad as the ligula, but 

 very short ; mentum with the lobes rounded outwardly, the apical 

 part broadly incised, with the two angles ending in a sharp spine ; 

 second labial palpi one -third longer than the third ; labrum broader 

 than long, produced in front, convex ; head quadrate, suddenly 

 narrowed behind the eyes, which are bulging into a very distinct 

 neck ; prothorax elongato-cordate or cordiform, and occasionally 

 subhexagonal ; elytra elongato-ovate, oblong, or subparallel, slightly 

 convex in the anterior part and flattened behind, with the posterior 

 edge truncate diagonally, always costate, with the intervals deeply 

 punctured or alveolate. 



The male has always a more slender or less broadly cordiform 

 prothorax ; the elytra are more parallel and more depressed behind, 

 the three basal joints of the anterior tarsi dilated inwardly, and 

 with a series of lamellae under the inner dilatation. 



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