416 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



SiAGONA SIMPLEX, Per., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, loc. cit., p. 6. 



Black, shining, nearly smooth ; head deeply and closely punctured ; 

 prothorax with the lateral longitudinal impressions interrupted in the 

 median part, hairless, and with a few scattered punctures ; elytra 

 nearly smooth with a few faint setigerous punctures in the dorsal 

 part, more or less seriate longitudinally, the anterior part with more 

 distinct and more closely set punctures. Length 13-15 mm. ; width 

 4 mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland. 



SlAGONA CAFFRA, Bohcm., 



, Insect. Caffr., i., p. 115. 

 S. melanaria, Klug, Peters' Eeise n. Mossamb., p. 154. 



The description of S. simplex applies almost entirely to this 

 species, the difference consists more in the size ; the elytra are very 

 sparsely punctured, very smooth, and the punctures are a little more 

 numerous near the base ; the head has only a few punctures, and 

 the prothorax is punctured only along the base and apex. Length 

 20 mm. 



Hah. Interior of Caffraria (Bohem.), Mozambique (Tette), Klug. 



Tribe HAEPALIDES. 



Mentum broad, deeply emarginate, with or without a median 

 tooth ; ligula either very slender or moderately broad, free at the tip, 

 which is slightly dilated and bear two long setae, from the para- 

 glossse which are longer than the ligula (with the exception of 

 Amhlystomus) and slightly pilose laterally, last joint of palpi sub- 

 fusiform, generally acute at the tip; maxillae subfalcate, outer 

 maxillary lobe very slender and acute ; head broad, not narrowed 

 into a neck, with one supra-orbital seta, and a very long one in the 

 apical angle of the clypeus ; mandibles usually short ; prothorax 

 transverse, seldom cylindrical {Batoscelis) posterior angles blunt or 

 acute, with a lateral seta above the median part ; elytra elongate, 

 nearly plane or not much convex, striate, either pubescent or 

 glabrous ; legs moderately long, anterior tibiee with three or four 

 short apical spines apically, only in one case dentate (Prtc//7/^r(Xc/i^Zz^s), 

 tarsi variable. 



The generic characters of the species included in this tribe are to 

 a great extent based on the shape and vestiture of the tarsi of the 

 male, the anterior, and sometimes the intermediate ones of which 

 are more or less dilated, glabrous, spongy, or with biseriated 

 squamulie underneath. However undesirable it may be to adopt 



