1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 271 



this author, not having paid any attention to the shape and number 

 of antennal joints, has confounded several species under one name — 

 a mistake easily accounted for by the great likeness to each other of 

 nearly all the species of this genus. 



Gen. CONIOPHOLIS, Erichs., 

 Nat. Ins., hi., 1847, p. 657. 



Mentum and ligular part fused without any trace of suture, dotted 

 over the almost impunctate outer face with a few fine hairs, deeply 

 emarginate on the anterior part with the angles slightly rounded ; 

 last joint of labial palpi small, sub-fusiform, impressed on the outer 

 face ; maxillae hollowed, armed with six strong, arcuate teeth, nearly 

 equal in size and set in two tiers, last joint of maxillary palpi fusi- 

 form, but a little compressed, and moderately acuminate, not grooved 

 outwardly ; maxillae robust, arcuate, and with a sharp cutting edge ; 

 labrum vertical, very deeply incised ; clypeus narrower than the 

 head and separated from it by a deep transverse suture, head only 

 very faintly raised on the vertex, eyes large and distinctly carinate ; 

 antennae 10-jointed, the three last joints forming the club, which is 

 nearly as long as the pedicel with the exception of the first joint in 

 the male, and a little shorter in the female, the second joint is 

 almost as long as the third, but stouter, the sixth and seventh are 

 •compressed and angular ; prothorax with the anterior margin either 

 slightly pubescent near the anterior angles or quite glabrous, 

 ampliated and plainly angular laterally at about the median part, 

 and with the basal angle sharp ; scutellum ogival, as long as broad, 

 impunctate longitudinally in the centre ; elytra slightly wider than 

 the prothorax, and a little ampliated laterally at about the median 

 part, sub-cylindrical, non-costate, and covering the greater part of 

 the propygidium ; pygidium vertical, slightly convex, abdomen con- 

 vex, segments fused ; pectus densely hairy ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate 

 outwardly and with a long inner spur, posterior ones with a plain 

 oblique keel ; tarsi only moderately long, claws strongly curved, and 

 having underneath a small triangular one between the base and the 

 median part, and a wide, compressed, hamate one set at about the 

 median part, and shorter than the upper ; in the female the apical 

 spurs of the hind tibiae are only slightly more dilated and compressed 

 than those of the male. 



The two species included in this genus are covered on the upper 

 side with whitish scales set at the bottom of each puncture ; the 

 pectus is very hairy. 



