1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 475 



wardly, inner part deeply bisinuate between the apex and the 

 base of the median tooth, which is nearly as high as the apical 

 part of the internal lobes, truncate and obtusely bifid at the 

 tip ; ligula membranaceous at the base, horny at the apex, triangu- 

 larly dilated with the outer sides of the apical part sloping, 

 emarginate in the centre and with two long setae, one on each 

 side of the angular part ; paraglossse short, narrow, curving 

 inward, with the tip free and projecting slightly beyond the outer 

 apical part of the ligula ; penultimate joint of the labial and 

 maxillary palpi thickened at the tip, and bearing from five to eleven 

 setae, last joint either much elongate and cultriform or securiform, 

 and obliquely truncate inwardly in both sexes, maxillae ending in a 

 long, sharp, hook ; labrum emarginate and with two setigerous 

 punctures, a median and an angular one on each side ; head parallel 

 with a distinct neck ; eyes prominent ; epistoma long ; antennae very 

 long, all the joints pubescent, even the apical part of the basal one, 

 the third one longer or as long as the fourth and fifth together ; 

 prothorax sinuate in the outer posterior part the margins of which 

 are recurved, base truncate or with the median part subpedunculate ; 

 elytra elongato-ovate, seldom convex, striate, with the intervals 

 slightly convex ; legs moderately long ; tarsi similar in both sexes, 

 last joint twice as long as the penultimate one which is not incised, 

 sometimes densely pubescent underneath, sometimes spinose. 



Hab. Eudema are met with in damp places, under stones ; 

 E. nohile is sometimes captured on the branches of small trees or 

 shrubs. Mons. Eaffray informs me that he has once found Isotarsus 

 eustalactus on a shrub, devouring a mollusc (Helix sp. ?). The 

 species of this genus inhabit Africa, Madagascar, the two Indian 

 peninsulae, Ceylon, Java, and the southern part of China and 

 Australia. 



De Chaudoir in his ' Essai Monographique sur les Panageides ' 

 published in -the ' Annales de la Soci^te Entomologique de Belgique,' 

 vol. xxi., 1878, has grouped the species formerly included in the 

 genus Eudema, in three genera, restricting the said genus to one 

 Indian species, and adopting the genus Craspedophorus of Hope and 

 retaining Epicosmiis, one of his own genera, while he includes 

 in Isotarsus of Laferte, two species with a very peculiar facies. I 

 have in vain tried to detect characteristic differences between the 

 South African species included by Chaudoir in these sundry genera, 

 and, except for Isotarsus, I feel compelled to group them under one 

 genus only. In Craspedophorus the last joints of the palpi are 

 more elongated than in Eudema, and in C. Zamhezianum they are 

 almost similar in the male to those of Tefflus, while in Eudema the 

 same joints are more securiform, but there is a good deal of variation 

 in the size of these organs, which are more or less obliquely truncate. 



