1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 135 



obliterated, the apical part of the posterior is moderately broadly 

 dilated, the two spurs are on the inner side, set somewhat close to 

 each other, slightly compressed and moderately sharp ; tarsi slightly 

 longer than the tibiae, the four basal joints are of nearly equal 

 length, and those of the hind legs are somewhat short, the claws are 

 long, strongly curved, and have a post-median, sharp, vertical tooth 

 underneath. 



The only species included in this genus has somewhat the appear- 

 ance of a Coniopholis of the Melolonthini division, this likeness is 

 still increased by the vestiture of the elytra and especially of the 

 abdominal segments, where the appressed hair springing from each 

 puncture is somewhat squamulose ; the maxillae have somewhat 

 stronger teeth than the majority of the Pachypodini, with the 

 exception of some species of Macrophylla. 



Keaseophylla disttncta, n. spec. 



Fuscous, with the antennal club and the elytra chestnut-brown ; 

 head, especially the frontal part and the vertex, with erect, fulvous 

 hairs ; prothorax and pectus clothed with a very dense, long pubes- 

 cence, femora also hairy; each puncture on the elytra bears a 

 minute hair, and those on the abdominal segment a short, appressed, 

 somewhat squamiform one ; clypeus truncate in front with the outer 

 angles slightly rounded and the margin somewhat raised, as long as 

 the frontal part and divided from it by a plain suture, both parts are 

 covered with deep, nearly contiguous, somewhat rough punctures ; 

 prothorax slightly convex in the posterior part and sloping in front, 

 very closely and somewhat deeply punctured, but the sculpture is 

 hidden by the long pubescence; scutellum foveolato-punctate, hairy; 

 elytra with three costules on each side and a juxta-sutural stria, the 

 two discoidal costules are distinct, but the other two are very weak, 

 and the whole surface is irregularly punctate and somewhat coria- 

 ceous ; the punctures on the pygidium and abdominal segments are 

 very closely set. 



Length 15 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



The habitat of this interesting species is not recorded, but I believe 

 it to have been captured in the neighbourhood of East London, in 

 the Cape Colony. 



PASAPHYLLA, n. gen. 



Mentum transverse, slightly sinuate laterally, divided from the 

 ligular part by a plain transverse suture, and with the outer angle 

 slightly rounded, ligular part slightly narrower at the base than the 

 mentum, and with the basal angle sharp, very deeply emarginata 



