154 Transactions South African Pkilosoj)hical Society, [vol. xiii. 



tarsi longer than the tibiae, hind ones not ciliate underneath ; posterior 

 half of claws broadened, the lobe-like process truncate at apex,, 

 anterior half slender, hooked. 



Key to the Species. 



Fuscous ; elytra chestnut-brown ; clypeus obliquely ampliated towards 



the anterior part clypeata.. 



Testaceous; clypeus straight laterally testacea. 



ACHELYNA CLYPEATA, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 460. 



Fuscous-brown, with the elytra, abdomen, and legs chestnut-brown ; 

 palpi and antennae flavous ; the frontal part bears long, fulvous hairs; 

 the prothorax has a lateral fringe of similar hairs, and the pectus is 

 only moderately hairy ; clypeus slightly obliquely expanded laterally 

 towards the broadly arcuate apical part with the margins strongly 

 reflexed, covered, exceptalongthe anterior margins, with conspicuously 

 asperous punctures bearing each a long cilia, the head is simple and 

 punctulate; prothorax glabrous on the disk, moderately ampliate 

 laterally, only slightly attenuate from the median part to the rounded 

 posterior angles and covered with fine, closely set round punctures, 

 the base is pubescent in front of the scutellum which is cordate, 

 glabrous and faintly aciculate in the basal part ; elytra sinuate 

 laterally in front of the median part, slightly ampliated thence, and 

 covered with somewhat deep but not broad, nearly equi-distant 

 punctures, the juxta-sutural stria is very plain, and there are three 

 somewhat faint ones on each side ; the propygidium is almost entirely 

 covered by the elytra, the pygidium is broad, convex, very much 

 drawn forwards and has a fringe of very long, flavescent hairs ; the 

 abdominal segments are very hairy, and so is the inner part of the 

 posterior tibiae. 



Female unknown. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg). 



ACHELYNA TESTACEA, n. Spec. 



Shaped as the preceding species, but a little larger ; the colour is 

 testaceous-red, and the elytra reddish-yellow, the hairs on the head 

 and along the prothorax are of a lighter yellow, the sculpture is 

 nearly the same, but the asperous punctures on the basal part of the 

 clypeus are not quite so conspicuous, and the clypeus is straight 



