1896.] of the Coleopterct of South Africa. 357 



Gen. B^OGLOSSA, Chaud., 

 Bull. Mosc, 1850, i., p. 43. 

 Base of mentum very narrow, slightly notched in the centre, 

 lateral lobes very diverging from the base on the inner side, convex, 

 and very rounded outwardly, and ending in a very sharp conical 

 point ; ligula short, spear-shaped, with another equally sharp pro- 

 jection, one on each side at a broad angle with the median one, and 

 having thus the shape of a trident ; paraglossge entirely wanting ; 

 second joint of labial palpi very thick from base to apex, four times 

 as long as the apical one and more than twice as thick ; maxillary 

 palpi of Anthia, but the ultimate one more securiform ; labrum twice 

 as broad as long, with the apical part semicircular ; mandibles with 

 two sharp inner teeth on the left one, a bifid median and a short 

 basal one on the right ; prothorax with the anterior part broad and 

 aculeate laterally, and gradually narrowed from there to the base ; 

 elytra depressed, elongato-ovato or broadly oblong, with the posterior 

 margin subtruncate ; the joints of the anterior tarsi of the male not 

 dilated inwardly, nor lamellated underneath, but the inner half more 

 bristly than the outer ; apical part of the intermediate tibiae very 

 slightly dilated. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Elytra with four acute costse, intervals broad, pubescent . . . . villosa. 

 Elytra with eight moderately raised costse, intervals narrow, 

 striate melanaria. 



B^OGLOSSA VILLOSA, Schonh., 

 Syn. Ins., i., p. 233, not. i. 

 B. clecemsulcata, Eon. Mem. Ac. Tur., 1813, p. 452. 



Labrum short, semicircular in front, bi-impressed at the base ; 

 head black, broad, with a very deep impression on each side between 

 the eyes, roughly and closely punctured; prothorax dark ferruginous, 

 or black, very rugose, truncate at the base, broadest in the anterior 

 part, which is bluntly aculeate and gradually narrowed behind, 

 upper part with a transverse groove in the anterior part and a 

 narrower one at the base, and in the centre a broad median depres- 

 sion with each side of the disk slightly raised, and with a round 

 depression in the lateral part; elytra plane, elongato-ovate, ampliated 

 from below the base, one-third broader behind than in front, each 

 one with four distinct acute costse, with the intervals very broad and 

 filled with a dense fulvous or sometimes greyish pubescence. Length 

 28-31 mm. ; width 9-12 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Malmesbury, Worcester, Carnarvon, Burghers- 

 dorp). 



