1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 443 



Gen. EHABDOTIS, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iii., 1842, p. 526. 

 Mentum twice as long as broad with the outer face •plane at the 

 base, concave in front, hairy but not in the centre, nearly parallel 

 laterally, but broadly rounded and deeply incised in the centre in 

 front ; upper lobe of maxillae armed with a moderately curved tooth 

 slightly bifid at the tip ; inner lobe simple, densely pubescent ; last 

 joint of labial palps somewhat swollen, that of the maxillary sub- 

 cylindrical ; clypeus sub-parallel or slightly ampliated laterally, 

 marginate all round, angles rounded, anterior margin deeply 

 notched ; prothorax with a sharp tubercle in the centre of the 

 anterior margin ; elytra elongated, sinuate laterally, very little 

 attenuated behind and bearing a number of white lines and macules 

 set in depressions on a green or black background ; sternal process 

 very long, curving slightly downwards, without suture ; anterior 

 tibiae bi-dentate ; the two basal joints of the hind tarsi strongly 

 triangular outwardly ; inner spur of the hind tibiae somewhat 

 dilated in the female. 



Key to the Species. 



A 2 . Prothorax with only a rudimentary discoidal white line, or 

 without any. 



Elytra without a humeral diagonal entire white line. 



Elytra with a large white spot on the humeral callus and two 



smaller ones underneath ; the two basal joints of hind tarsi 



strongly spinose outwardly albinigra. 



Elytra with a minute white spot on the humeral callus, and 

 none underneath ; the two basal joints of hind tarsi spinose 

 outwardly aulica. 



A 1 . Prothorax with a complete discoidal white line. 



Prothorax with four uninterrupted white lines ; hind tarsi only 



moderately densely hairy inwardly . . . . semipunctata. 



Prothorax with five uninterrupted white lines ; hind tarsi 



thickly hairy inwardly sobrina. 



Ehabdotis albinigea, Burm., 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 1. 



Handb. d. Entomol., v., 1847, p. 563. 



albopicta, Boh., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 35. 



Black, moderately shiny ; head immaculate, deeply and closely 

 punctate, the punctures on the vertex are larger and less closely set 

 than in the anterior part the margin of which is deeply notched ; 

 prothorax with the median tubercle of the anterior margin sharp, 



