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



legs piceous with the coxae partly flavescent, tarsi light chestnut ; 

 antennae and palps straw colour ; clypeus strongly and regularly 

 arcuate, the whole head is covered with contiguous, simple, some- 

 what deep punctures, the suture is deep and extends from end to 

 end ; prothorax nearly twice as broad as long, attenuated laterally 

 for only about one-fourth of the length and nearly straight thence to 

 the base, the latter is normally sinuate, the discoidal part is some- 

 what convex, and there is a median longitudinal line fairly distinct 

 in the anterior part, but less so behind, the whole surface is covered 

 with aciculate punctures divided from each other by a space equal 

 to about twice their own diameter, the outer margin is moderately 

 broadly flavescent, the flavescent part being divided into an anterior 

 and a posterior patch ; scutellum punctate with the margins nar- 

 rowly smooth ; elytra not quite twice the length of the prothorax, 

 and broader than the latter at the base but more so at the apex, 

 each bears three fairly distinct geminate very shallow striae filled 

 with punctures, and the intervals, which are quite plane, are some- 

 what irregularly punctate ; the outer margins of both elytra and 

 prothorax are fringed with hairs which are longer in the prothorax ; 

 pectus and femora clothed with a very dense sub-fulvescent pube- 

 scence ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, inner claw of anterior 

 tarsi very slightly cleft on the top and twice the size of the outer, 

 claws of the intermediate and posterior ones long, somewhat slender 

 and of equal length or size. 



Length 7|- 8 mm. ; width 4-4J- mm. 



Mr. C. N. Barker writes of this species: "I came across them 

 in great numbers flying low over the veldt or settled and moving 

 about over the ground." 



This species will be easily identified through its small size. 



Anomala sepaeata, Brancs., 



Jahr. Ver. Trencs., xvi., 1897, p. 115. 



" Testaceous, oblong, shiny, glabrous above ; head finely punctate, 

 clypeus divided from the frontal part by a transverse impressed line, 

 the angles are rounded, the margin slightly reflexed and finely infus- 

 cate : antennae testaceous ; prothorax extremely finely, densely and 

 not deeply punctate, broadly arcuate on the sides, obsoletely bi-sinuate 

 at the base, and with a small fuscous spot on the sides ; scutellum 

 sub-triangular, rounded laterally, sparsely, most finely punctate ; 

 elytra two and a half times as long as the prothorax, somewhat 

 broader and more shiny, little ampliate in the middle, singly rounded 

 at apex, the humeral part prominent, dorsal part sub-regularly and 



