1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 189 



thicker ; the colour is brick-red, shining ; the prothorax has only a 

 fringe of flavescent distant hairs along the anterior and lateral parts, 

 and a dense one along the base ; the semicircular clypeus and the 

 frontal part between the clypeal suture and the frontal ridge which 

 is somewhat emarginate in the centre, is impunctate except for a few 

 isolated punctures on each side of the frontal part, the frontal ridge 

 is immediately followed by a groove, and the vertex, like the frontal 

 part is almost impunctate, except for a few lateral punctures ; the 

 punctures on the glabrous prothorax are fine and not closely set, the 

 nearly impunctate scutellum is very hairy, and the punctures on 

 the elytra are fine and somewhat closely set, the propygidium, 

 pygidium, abdomen, and pectus are as in G. dispar ; the hind legs 

 are also as in that species, but the inner median tooth is reduced to 

 a triangular projection. 



Female unknown. 



Length 19 mm. ; width 9f mm. 



Hob, Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



Glyptoglossa lurida, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 274. 



Plate XLVL, fig. 50. 



Male : Testaceous, with the head sometimes ferruginous, shining ; 

 clypeus somewhat blunt in front, but the angles being broadly 

 rounded it has a slightly arcuate appearance, the clypeus and the 

 narrow interspace between the clypeal suture and the sharp frontal 

 suture, which is plainly incised in the centre, and also the vertex, 

 are deeply and closely punctured, in addition to the frontal ridge 

 there is also on the vertex a slight transverse, ridge-like rise ; pro- 

 thorax ampliated laterally and rounded in the median part, basal 

 angles rounded, covered in the anterior and median parts with round, 

 irregular deep punctures more scattered in the posterior part where 

 they bear each a sub-erect, long flavous hair, the anterior and lateral 

 margins have a fringe of similar hairs, and the base is thickly but 

 more briefly pubescent, the pubescence appressed as in the scutellum ; 

 elytra sinuate laterally before the median part, ampliated thence to 

 the posterior part, without costules or striae except the sutural stria, 

 and finely and closely, yet deeply punctured ; pygidium plainly 

 convex and impunctate like the exposed part of the propygidium ; the 

 two basal segments of the abdomen densely pubescent laterally, the 

 others with a few fine hairs ; pectus very densely hairy ; tarsi long, 

 slender, median inner part of hind tibiae very slightly angular. 



Female : Entirely like the male, and distinguished only by the 



