1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 697 



almost angular are longitudinally depressed, with the edge completely 

 plane, the lateral margins are arcuate, crenate, converge in the anterior 

 part, the posterior angles are acute ; elytra having on each side nine 

 series of alternate chain-like links, four primary and five secondary, 

 the first ones a little thicker than the others, the tubercles of the 

 chains are narrow, sub-elongate, every chain having on each side a 

 sharp, slender costule interrupted by numerous seriate foveolae ; the 

 tubercles of the chains bear brief fulvous fascicles of hairs, before 

 the apex is a juxta-marginal abbreviated series of weaker fasciculated 

 granules little discernible long past the middle ; anterior tibiae little 

 dentate externally, the two apical teeth are approximate, divided by 

 a sinus and are large, the five lateral small teeth are smaller, the 

 last one extremely small. 



Length 10-5-12 mm. 



Hab. Great Namaqualand (Kubub)." 



Gen. GLAEESIS, Erichs., 

 Nat. Insect., hi., 1848, p. 925. 



Kolbe records (loc. cit.,p. 125) the capture of G. frivaldskyi in the 

 Kalahari. This species is recorded from Hungary, Turkestan, 

 Northern Africa, and North America. 



Sub-Family HOPLIIN^. 



Gen. HOPLOCNEMIS, Gemm. 

 Hoplocnemis lightfooti, Pering., Catal., h\, p. 664. 



Female : Slightly less shiny than the <^ , and with the pubescence 

 paler ; the clypeus is as sharply acuminate ; the foveolate punctures 

 of the prothorax are similar in size and proximity, but the median 

 part of the disk is only slightly depressed, not grooved longitudinally 

 and is impunctate as in the $ ; the sculpture of the elytra consists 

 of sparse foveate punctures bearing each a minute greyish hair and 

 irregularly seriate except the two juxta-sutural ones; in the posterior 

 part these punctures are obliterated except along the outer margin; 

 the propygidium is clothed with greyish flavescent hairs, and the 

 surface of the not densely pubescent pygidium is very bluntly raspy ; 

 hind femora very robust, hind tibiae very short, robust, dilated at the 

 apex and without any traces of apical spurs. 



This species is the only one known to me having a broad, smooth 



