1908.] Catalogue of the Goleojjtera of South Africa. 691 



THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONS AND COEEECTIONS WERE 

 MADE OE HAVE APPEAEED WHILE THIS PEESENT 

 PAET WAS IN THE PEESS. 



Sub-Family COPEIN^. 



Group CANTHONIDES. 



Gen. ELASSOCANTHON, Kolb., 

 Denksc. Med. Naturw. Ges. Jena, xiii., 1908, p. 130. 



Body ovate, highly convex. Head of moderate size, clypeus 

 briefly, not sharply five-dentate in front, the two sub-median teeth 

 distinct, moderately sharp, but the intermediate small tooth as well 

 as the external, also small outer tooth short, lopped off. Prothorax 

 transverse, deeply emarginate in front, slightly ampliate laterally 

 before the median part, angular, the juxta-lateral fold is curved and 

 approaches the sides in front and behind. Elytra contiguous with 

 the prothorax with the shoulders straight, eight costate, the eighth 

 stria situated close to the seventh and connected with it at apex, 

 but abbreviated near the shoulders ; epipleura moderately dilated, 

 the superior costa broadly sinuate near the middle. Anterior tibiae 

 somewhat broad, widely obtuse at apex, attenuated towards the base, 

 slightly serrate externally and bi-dentate there towards the apex 

 which is briefly spurred ; fore tarsi slender, very short, almost 

 shorter than the apical width, five-articulated, bi-ungulate. Hind 

 tibiae a little longer, shorter than the hind femora, slightly arcuate, 

 slender, slightly ampliate towards the apex ; the tarsi moderately 

 short, first joint shorter than the second. Metasternum ample, 

 level with the mesosternum and broadly divided between the median 

 coxae, which are longitudinal and slightly oblique. Abdomen short, 

 contracted ; pygidium drawn forward and marginated with a circular 

 impressed line set close to the basal margin. 



Elassocanthon brevipes, Kolb., 

 Loc. cit., p. 130. 



Black, somewhat opaque, palpi and tarsi brownish, anterior femora 

 provided with a rufo-villose, inner, sub -basal area ; anterior coxa? 

 and under side of the head rufous setose ; head and prothorax 

 closely punctate, the suture between the genae and the clypeus is 

 distinct, the vertex has a minute, smooth median area ; prothorax 



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