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appressed, light pubescence, very long and fulvous on the abdomen 

 and legs, and very dense on the pectus. 



Length 15|- 16 mm. ; width 8-8J mm. 



Hab. Orange Eiver Colony (Parys), Transvaal (Potchefstroom, 

 Waterberg, Lydenburg). 



Gen. TE1CHINOPUS, Waterh., 

 Ann. and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1875 (4), p. 408. 



Mentum very narrow, very elongated, and fused with the ligular 

 part which bears very long, ciliate hairs, but does not project 

 beyond the basal joints of the labial palpi, the basal joints of the 

 palpi are contiguous, set on the outer face, parallel and longer but 

 not much wider than the second, apical one conspicuously ovate ; 

 maxillae long, club-shaped, rounded and slightly obliquely truncate at 

 the top where the labial palpi are inserted, the upper and inner lobe 

 are obliterated, but the inner part bears a few ciliae ; maxillary palpi 

 long, second joint broadly dilated at tip, cone-shaped, apical one sub- 

 fusiform or nearly cylindrical and not acuminate ; clypeus quadrate, 

 separated from the frontal part by a high transverse keel, plainly 

 marginate all round, laminate and projecting horizontally at the 

 anterior part, labrum fused with it or at least without visible suture, 

 quite vertical for some distance from the laminate projecting 

 edge, and sharply aculeate ; eyes very large, genae distinct and pro- 

 longed into a canthus dividing the anterior part of the eyes, frontal 

 part plane, strongly carinate laterally and without any transverse 

 ledge on the vertex ; antennae 10-jointed, the fourth joint is com- 

 pressed and aculeate in the inner part, and the club consists of six 

 very long lamellate joints ; prothorax plainly diagonally attenuate 

 laterally in the anterior part, but not in the posterior the angles of 

 which are moderately rounded ; scutellum ogival ; elytra parallel, 

 faintly bi-striate on the dorsal part, but with the juxta-sutural stria 

 plain, they have a thick fringe of very long hairs along the outer 

 margins, and cover the greatest part of the propygidium ; pygidium 

 sub-vertical, acutely triangular, but truncate at the apex ; anterior 

 tibiae bi-dentate, intermediate and posterior ones with an interrupted 

 ciliate carina dilated at apex ; intermediate and hind tarsi very 

 long, especially the latter, and beset with very long hairs ; hind 

 spurs not sharp at apex, but not compressed, and strongly divari- 

 cating ; claws long, slender, with the posterior half a little wider 

 than the anterior, the widened part ending in a very short vertical 

 tooth. 



