358 Descrijytive Catalogue [1896. 



B^OGLOSSA MELANAEIA, Bohem., 



Plate IV., fig. 8. 

 Insect. Caffr., i., p. 101. 



Head black, very rugose, with two long deep impressions between 

 the eyes; prothorax of the same shape as in B. villosa, but a little 

 more gradually cordiform, disk alike, black, with a few rough punc- 

 tures ; elytra nearly oblong in the male, gradually ampliated from 

 below the humeral part in the female, plane or little convex, 

 hairless, black, moderately shining, punctato-striate, with eight 

 convex intervals on each side. Length 26-30 mm. ; width 10-12 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Griqualand West). 



Gen. ANTHIA, Weber, 

 Obs. Entom., 1801, p. 17. 



Base of mentum straight, lobes rounded outwardly, nearly straight, 

 although slightly sinuated inwardly, broadly incised in the upper 

 edge, which leaves thus the two angles very acute ; ligula spatuli- 

 form, very convex, of nearly equal width for two-thirds of the length 

 and suddenly narrowed at the base, with the paraglossse very short, 

 fused with the ligula at the narrowed part, slightly diagonal at the 

 tip, with the outer angle projecting ; second labial palpi slightly 

 curving inwards, twice as long and nearly twice as thick as the 

 ultimate one, which is rounded at the tip ; maxillary palpi subclavate, 

 the last one truncate at the tip ; labrum long, subtruncate, or slightly 

 projecting in the middle at the apex, the outer angle separated from 

 the apical part by a slit on each side ; prothorax cordiform or 

 subhexagonal ; elytra nearly parallel {higuttata) or elongato-ovate 

 (Jcce77i(/2t^ to to), nearly plane or convex, and gradually narrowed behind ; 

 legs long, strong, the three basal joints of the anterior tarsi of the 

 male dilated inwardly, and with a series of lamellae under each 

 dilatation ; the apical part of the intermediate tibiae is also broadly 

 dilated inwardly in that sex. 



Hah. The genus is represented in Africa (Northern Africa, Egypt, 

 Senegal, Kordofan, Nubia, Abyssinia, and East and West Coasts), 

 Arabia, and India. 



This genus may be divided in three sections : — 



Section 1. Prothorax cordiform in both sexes ; elytra parallel, almost plane. 

 ,, 2. Prothorax subhexagonal in both sexes ; elytra elongato-ovate, convex. 

 ,, 3. Prothorax produced behind in two long lobes in the male, arcuated 

 in front in the female. 



