450 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



long, slender, the lobes inermous, the upper one with a long pencil 

 of hairs ; last joint of labial palps slightly swollen outwardly, that 

 of the maxillary cylindrical ; clypeus sub-parallel, being slightly 

 narrower at apex than at the base, the outer angles are slightly 

 rounded, and the anterior margin reflexed ; antennae normal ; pro- 

 thorax sub-trapezoidal, strongly arcuate above the scutellum which 

 is long and sharp ; elytra elongated, depressed, plainly attenuate 

 behind, with the suture sharply raised and very sharply acuminate 

 and projecting at apex ; propygidium sharply marginate at apex, the 

 margin slightly overhanging the pygidium which is of normal shape ; 

 anterior tibiae sharply dentate outwardly at apex and bi-angular 

 above the tooth in the $ , bi-dentate and with a slight sinuation 

 above the second tooth in the $ ; tarsi normal ; sternal process 

 arcuate ampliate, projecting beyond the coxae somewhat in the 

 manner o Protcetia. 



NlPHETOPHORA CARNEOLA, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entomol., v., 1847, p. 559. 



Bohem., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 31. 



hildebrandti, Har., Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1878, p. 213. 

 maculipes, Kraatz, Deut. Ent. Zeit., 1883, p. 384. 

 spinipennis, Fairm., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1887, p. 132. 



Fuscous metallic underneath, opaque above, the upper side and legs 

 light cinnamon colour, maculated with numerous small fuscous spots 

 and sprinkled with still more numerous minute white dots; on the pro- 

 thorax are traces of two discoidal fuscous, narrow bands ; the pygidium 

 bears numerous white patches, each of the abdominal segments are 

 similarly maculated, and so are the sides of the pectus ; head with a 

 median carinule separating two broadly pitted impressions ; clypeus 

 finely punctate ; prothorax moderately closely variolose punctate on 

 the sides and in front, but with only very few shallow punctures in 

 the centre and above the base, and clothed with a very fine and very 

 short greyish pubescence on the sides of the disk ; scutellum briefly 

 fringed with greyish hairs along the base, impunctate ; elytra very 

 plane and having on each side two very flat costules, the three dorsal 

 intervals have each two geminate, non-punctate striae, the back- 

 ground is very finely aciculate, the suture is produced into a long, 

 triangular spine, which varies, however, greatly in length in the 

 male, this spine is shorter, or very short, in the female ; pectus 

 cicatricose punctate, each puncture bearing a squamose hair; legs 

 roughly punctate, briefly pubescent. 



Length 10-15J mm. ; width 6-8 mm 



