1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 661 



Pro thorax convex, densely arcuately aciculate and with erect hairs ; 

 scutellum aciculate like the prothorax, bare. Elytra impressed 

 behind the scutellum, regularly striate and transversely punctate 

 in the striae, sub-sutural interstice with one single series above the 

 one half. Pygidium densely transversely aciculate and hairy. 

 Underside and legs densely pilose, the hairs erect and disposed 

 in fascicles towards the sides of the segments ; antennae entirely 

 testaceous. ^ : More sparsely pilose, legs fuscous bronze. 

 ? : Entirely more densely pilose, all the legs and tarsi testaceous 

 bronze. 



Length 9-9 \ mm. ; width 3 J mm. ( $ ) to 5 mm. ( ? ). 



Hob. Damaraland." 



Gen. ANODONTOPOPILLIA, Ohaus., 



Deutsch. Ent. Zeitschr., 1901 (1902), p. 271. 



Pharaonus, Per., nee Blanch., Cat. i., p. 615. 



I gave the description of Pharaonus, loc. cit., from Popilia sub- 

 vittata, Burm., but Ohaus has created for this species the genus 

 Anodontopopillia which differs from Pharaonus in having the 

 maxillae not dentate. In Gnatholabis the lower part of the maxilla 

 is tri-dentate, but the upper part laminate ; in Pharaonus proper 

 the maxillae, teste Ohaus, are 6-dentate. 



Gen. GNATHOLABIS, Erichs, Cat. i., p. 616. 



Gnatholabis hirsuta, Ohaus., 



Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1901, p. 258. 



" Oblong, depressed, fuscous green-bronze, densely hairy, the hairs 

 whitish grey, elytra smooth, testaceous with the whole margin, the 

 humeral part and a double stria situated towards the apical calluses 

 black-bronze. Clypeus quadrate with the anterior margin especially 

 raised, fuscous, hairless, densely rugulose punctate, frontal part and 

 vertex densely and connuently punctate and densely flavo-hirsute. 

 Prothorax convex, indistinctly sulcate longitudinally in the middle, 

 moderately umbilicate punctate, but more closely so at the sides, 

 dilated before the middle, abruptly narrowed in front with the 

 anterior angles sharp, arcuate laterally behind, with the hind 

 angles sub-erect, sparingly hairy in the middle, more densely 

 towards the sides, the hairs greyish. Scutellum punctate and 

 hairy like the thorax. Elytra plane, hairless, shiny, impressed 

 behind the scutellum, regularly punctate striate with the sub- 



