1904.] Catalogue of the Coleo])tera of South Africa. 27 



HYBOSEEICA, n. gen. 



Clypeus obliquely attenuated laterally towards the anterior part 

 which is slightly angular in the centre, the outer angles are rounded, 

 and the lateral and apical margins are reflexed, the genae are short ; 

 mentum of Autoserica ; antennae 9-jointed, club tri-jointed in both 

 sexes, not much longer in the male than in the female, elongato- 

 ovate, not as long as the pedicel, and with a deep impression on 

 the outer part of the ultimate joint ; prothorax short, triangular ; 

 elytra strongly convex in the median dorsal part ; anterior tibiae 

 tri-dentate outwardly ; claws normally cleft, lower tooth wider than 

 the upper, posterior tibiae with the inner margin straight and thus 

 gradually ampliated from base to apex ; body glabrous on the upper 

 side. 



Key to the Species. 



Basal joint of hind tarsi slightly longer than the second, hind spur 



longer than the first joint globuliformis. 



Basal joint of hind tarsi much longer than the second, hind spur 

 shorter than the first joint caffra. 



Hybosebica globulifobmis, Brensk., 



Berl. Ent. Zeit., vol. xlvi., 1902, p. 451. 



Brownish-red, with a fleshy tinge, or occasionally sub-fuscous, 

 plainly iridescent, and with only a slight sericeous sheen, antennae 

 slightly flavescent in the male, rufescent in the female, 9-jointed in 

 both sexes, the club much shorter than the pedicel in the male ; 

 clypeus with the anterior angles much rounded, the anterior margin 

 very slightly emarginate and aculeate in the .centre, and both lateral 

 and apical margins reflexed, it is covered with round, closely set, 

 equi-distant punctures, the sub-arcuate impressed suture is very 

 plain, and the frontal part punctulate ; prothorax one-third longer 

 than the head, slightly narrowed laterally in the anterior part, but 

 not sinuate thence to the rounded, basal one, convex, closely punctu- 

 late, and with a lateral fringe of somewhat long, light fulvous hairs ; 

 scutellum short, much rounded at the apex ; elytra conspicuously 

 convex, slightly costulate, very indistinctly striate and with the 

 intervals as well as the costules closely punctate ; pygidium broadly 

 cordate, closely punctate; coxae very broad, and covering the greatest 

 part of the third abdominal segment ; hind femora not very much 

 broadened, gradually enlarged from base to apex, i.e., the inner 

 margin is not sinuate near the base and curved towards the apex; 

 anterior tibiae plainly tri-dentate outwardly ; fore tarsi somewhat 

 short, claws normally cleft, the lower tooth slightly more robust 



