1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 131 



Pleiophylla vestita, n. spec. 



Fuscous, with the elytra and antennae light chestnut-red, legs 

 reddish-brown ; clypeus and head with a few greyish hairs ; pro- 

 thorax and scutellum clothed with a dense, long, appressed flavous 

 pubescence ; elytra sprinkled with numerous greyish flavescent, 

 short, appressed hairs ; pygidium and abdomen with appressed, 

 closely set hairs ; pectus with a long, dense fulvous pubescence ; 

 clypeus straight in front and laterally but with the outer angles 

 moderately rounded, and instead of a suture provided with a plain but 

 only slightly raised transverse keel, it is scrobiculate, but the head 

 is roughly punctured with the walls of the punctures sub-granulose ; 

 pro thorax very closely punctured, and nearly straight laterally from 

 the median part to the moderately sharp basal angle ; elytra plainly 

 coriaceous, a little ampliated laterally at a short distance from the 

 humeral part, and having two plain dorsal striae in addition to the 

 sutural one ; pygidium vertical ; antennal club 6-jointed and with 

 the joint preceding it laminate and moderately long ; the lower tooth 

 of the inner anterior claws is very long. 



Female unknown. 



Length 15 mm. ; width 9 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Graham's Town). 



Gen. EUCYLOPHYLLA, Waterh., 

 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xv., 4th ser., 1875, p. 406. 

 Mentum rounded laterally but with the outer angles sharp, ligular 

 part as long as the mentum, and slightly narrower, oblong, not 

 sinuate at the tip, separated from the mentum by a moderately 

 distinct suture ; last joint of labial palpi robust, straight inwardly 

 but broadly fusiform outwardly ; maxillae moderately robust, bifid at 

 the tip, the outer apical tooth is somewhat concave and broader and 

 more laminate than the inner one which is somewhat sharp and 

 bears an inner fascicle of strong, stiff ciliae, last joint of maxillary 

 palpi swollen, fusiform, acuminate ; mandibles robust, hollow, apical 

 part trifid; clypeus strongly parabolic, long, separated from the head 

 by a very plain, nearly transverse suture, vertical in front and with 

 the upper margin moderately reflexed, the labrum is short but 

 transversely broad and emarginate at the centre of the anterior part, 

 frontal part simple, eyes moderately large ; antennae 10-jointed, 

 second joint moniliform, third triangularly produced in the inner 

 part, fourth to tenth very long, curved and forming the club 

 which is as long, in the curve, as the prothorax ; prothorax with the 

 anterior angles rounded, broader at the base, the angles of which are 



