1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 137 



elytra wider at the base than the prothorax, sinuate laterally in the 

 anterior part, a little ampliated past the middle, covered with fine 

 irregularly disposed but somewhat closely set punctures each bearing 

 a minute greyish-fulvous appressed hair, the juxta-sutural stria is 

 distinct only in the anterior part, and there are two dorsal very faint 

 costules on each side ; propygidium broad, covered with fine asperous 

 punctures each bearing a fine, short, appressed flavescent hair; 

 pygidium small, vertical, punctured like the pygidium and also 

 clothed with a short, appressed pubescence, the sides of the abdominal 

 segments are similarly punctured and pubescent, the penultimate 

 abdominal segment is nearly twice as broad as the ante- 

 penultimate, and the legs are villose and irregularly foveolato- 

 punctate. 



Length 17-21-J mm. ; width 8-9J mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Carnarvon). 



Gen. CYCLOMEEA, Klug, 



Monastb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 658. 



Diaclaspus, Brensk., Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1896, p. 359. 



Mentum broad, convex, bulging laterally with the outer angles 

 sharp at their junction with the narrower ligular part which is short, 

 deeply emarginate near the lateral insertion of the palpi, expanding 

 a little towards the apex where it is broadly emarginate in the 

 middle, separated from the mentum by a plainly triangular, some- 

 what indistinct suture ; the two basal joints of the labial palpi 

 short, broad, apical one strongly swollen on the outside ; maxillae 

 moderately long, somewhat narrow, upper lobe laminate, rounded at 

 the tip and emarginate and ciliate inwardly and also along the 

 margin, inner lobe projecting beyond the base of the upper one as 

 a somewhat sharp hooked tooth, and densely ciliate ; maxillary palpi 

 moderately long, last joint fusiform, nearly as long as the two pre- 

 ceding, which are of nearly equal length ; mandibles triquetrous, not 

 much curved at apex ; head strongly declivous from the vertex to 

 the apical part of the clypeus, and not quite as long as the latter, 

 sharply carinate laterally for half the length, the vertex higher than 

 the broad basal part and having a more or less sharply defined trans- 

 verse prominence, frontal part separated from the clypeus by a 

 groove the edges of which are sometimes slightly carinate, the 

 anterior vertical part of the clypeus is not very broad, the anterior 

 margin is reflexed, the labrum is strongly developed, transverse, not 

 incised ; the 10-jointed antennas have a tri-jointed club as long as 



