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iby raised intervals giving them a coriaceous appearance ; pygidium 

 vertical, covered like the abdomen with a flavescent, short 

 pubescence; pectus densely hairy; antennal club tri-jointed, the 

 joint preceding the club very briefly laminate, and in some examples 

 little more than aculeate. 



Female unknown. 



Length 13-15 mm, ; width 7-8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 



Gen. MACEOPHYLLA, Hope, 

 The Coleopt. Man., 1837, i., p. 103. 



Mentum longer than broad, straight laterally, deeply emarginate 

 in the anterior part, and very densely hairy ; last joint of labial palpi 

 a little longer than the intermediate one which has the shape of an 

 inverted cone and is either sub-cylindrical or swollen outwardly ; 

 maxillae fairly robust, upper lobe more or less bluntly bifid at the 

 tip, inner lobe nearly of the same length, and ending in a third 

 tooth ; apical joint of maxillary palpi not quite as long as the two 

 preceding taken together, fusiform, slightly impressed outwardly 

 towards the basal part ; mandibles robust, concave, and with the 

 apical part laminate, chisel-like, strongly striate inwardly, and 

 having a molar tooth ; labrum robust, vertical, deeply and broadly 

 incised; clypeus short, either semicircular or truncate and with the 

 margin scarcely reflexed, head simple not carinate laterally above 

 the eyes which are large and divided in front by a conspicuous 

 canthus ; antennae 10-jointed, the long, curved club consists in the 

 male of five parallel, laminate joints, fifth joint also more or less 

 briefly laminate ; in the female the club is tri-jointed, thick and 

 about half the length of the pedicel, the seventh joint is broadly 

 dilated at the tip, and the fifth and sixth are nodose ; prothorax 

 broader than long, moderately convex in the posterior part, ampliated 

 laterally in the middle, and straight thence to the moderately 

 rounded basal angle, base deeply sinuate and ciliate ; scutellum 

 cordate ; elytra as broad at the base as the prothorax, slightly 

 ampliated laterally past the middle, and abruptly rounded behind, 

 only moderately convex, pubescent or nearly glabrous and covering 

 the greater part of the propygidium ; pygidium sub-vertical or ver- 

 tical ; abdominal segments free in both sexes, very convex in the 

 female ; legs robust, anterior tibiae with or without an inner spur, 

 plainly tri-dentate outwardly, the posterior ones alone bear a very 

 faint, oblique ciliated ridge on the outer face and are moderately 

 dilated at the apex, and the two spurs are sharp in the male ; they 



