1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 157 



three parallel joints one-third longer than the pedicel ; prothorax 

 ampliated and rounded laterally with the posterior angles rounded, 

 clothed with long hairs; scutellum sub-ogival, very hairy; elytra 

 somewhat short, glabrous, without sutural stria or costules; pygidium 

 much broader than long, sub-vertical ; femora and pectus very 

 densely hairy; anterior legs tri-dentate and with an inner spur, the 

 four posterior ones with an entire oblique ciliate keel, the hind ones 

 moderately dilated at the tip, the spurs sharp ; tarsi longer than the 

 tibiae, claws greatly divaricating and cleft underneath in the manner 

 of Schizonycha. 



Tmchiodera bicarinata, Gyllenh., 

 Schonh. Synon. Insect., i., 3 ; App., p. 82. 



Testaceous-red, forehead, prothorax, scutellum, and pectus clothed 

 with a dense, long, flavous pubescence, club of antennae flavous ; 

 clypeus truncate in front and with the outer angles slightly rounded, 

 narrower than the frontal part, separated from it by a slightly arcuate, 

 sharp keel, sparingly punctate, frontal part very closely punctulate, 

 divided from the vertex by a ridge somewhat obliterated in the centre, 

 not carinate above the eyes ; prothorax ampliated and rounded 

 laterally, posterior angles rounded, basal part very strongly sinuate ; 

 elytra slightly wider at the base than the base of the prothorax, 

 sinuate laterally and ampliated from about the median part, glabrous 

 but having the outer marginal normal fringe of ciliate hairs, deeply 

 and equally punctured, and having no costules or striae, not even a 

 juxta-sutural one ; propygidium and pygidium almost impunctate, 

 the latter somewhat convex towards the apical part, slightly drawn 

 forward, and fringed with long hairs ; femora very hairy ; tibiae 

 faintly punctate. 



The female is unknown to me. I have seen the type of this 

 species which is in the Schonherr Collection in the Stockholm 

 Museum. 



Length 11 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Fort Beaufort). 



PSEUSTOPHYLLA, n. gen. 



Mentum straight laterally for one-third of the length, thence 

 narrowed obliquely towards the apex of the ligular part which is 

 arcuate and fused with it, condyle of labial palpi narrow, long, quite 

 lateral, labial palpi bi-jointed, basal joint truncate, short, second joint 

 a little curved, tolerably cylindrical outwardly and moderately sharp 

 at the tip ; maxillae wanting in my example, last joint of maxillary 



