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shallow cicatricose punctures nearly coalescing; propygidium
covered with very closely set, fine, very short, somewhat irregular
folds on the whole of the median part; pygidium finely plicate
transversely and finely scabrose at apex in the female; under side
almost glabrous except for a short pubescence on the sides of the
metasternum; abdominal segments deeply and closely punctate,
process of prosternum strongly carinate and with the apical part
sloping, deeply impressed, and glabrous ; anterior tibiae very sharply
tri-dentate; joints of anterior tarsi a little thickened, inner claw
contorted, broad, bifid at tip in the male; in the female these joints
are not very slender, and the two claws are equal.

Length 31-38 mm. ; width 15-18 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Knysna, Port St. John), Natal
(Durban).

RHIZOPLATYS BITUBERCULATUS, Klug,
Plate XL., fig. 32.

Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 657; Peters’ Reis., 1862, p. 253.

General appearance of the preceding species, but a little narrower,
and with the elytra more finely punctured and the strize nearly
invisible; head as in FR. trituberculatus ; the mandibles are sharply
aculeate in the outer angle of the anterior margin and very sharply
dentate in the inner, the spine-lke tooth being recurved; the
cephalic horn is sharper and longer; in the male the prothorax
is similarly sculptured, but is a little more ampliate laterally at
middle, and it is deeply and broadly excavated from the anterior
margin to two-thirds of the length, with the anterior part of the
walls of the excavation produced into two conical, very conspicuous
tubercles ; the posterior part of the disk is slightly impressed in the
middle ; the female much resembles that of A. tritwberculatus, but
the prothorax is much more deeply and broadly punctured and is
even scrobiculate laterally, and there is a distinct impression, callose
on each side, in the anterior part of the prothorax; under side as in
i. trituberculatus, but the four outer spines on the intermediate
and posterior tibiz are not connate at base.

Length 33-35 mm.; width 15-16 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls), Mozambique (Lourengo-
Marquez).

RHIZOPLATODHES, n. gen.

Closely allied to Rhizoplatys, but with the shape of the mentum
and maxille different. Mentum diagonally ampliate laterally from
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the base to a third of the length, emarginate there and slightly
attenuate towards the apex where it is very deeply sinuate in the
outer angles, and bi-lobate at the apex ; it is not very convex in the
median part, but is deeply impressed at apex ; maxillee with the upper
lobe armed with two sharp teeth bent at right angles, the upper of
which is a little concave and placed above the second one which is not
hollowed and is set on the inner margin and a little below the first,
and below these the inner lobe is produced into a trifid, transverse
tooth; palpi and mandibles as in Riizoplatys, but the mandibles are
more aculeate and produced at apex into a triangular reflexed tooth.

RHIZOPLATODES CASTANEIPENNIS, Bohem.,

Insect. Caffrar., 1i., p. 27.

Rluzoplatys ambiguus, Gerst., Deck. Reis., p. 873, p. 105, pl. vii.,
fig. 2.

Head and prothorax piceous black; elytra either piceous black or
chestnut-brown, legs piceous red; head very rugose; clypeus very
obliquely attenuate laterally, and with the apical part triangular and
reflexed; in the male the posteridr part of the head is deeply
excavate in the middle, and there is, close to the apex of the
clypeus, a conspicuous, vertical tooth, hooked backwards at tip
and about 2 mm. long; in the female there is a similar impression,
but much more shallow, the dentate apex of the clypeus is prolonged
towards the median part in a short, high carina, connected often
with a sharp tubercle situated in the centre of the head ; prothorax
briefly retuse in front in the male, the retuse part being divided
nearly into two by a triangular, narrow longitudinal impression
which is continued as a deep furrow along the discoidal part as
far as the base; in the female the anterior part is not retuse, and
the impression is more in the shape of a groove, also continued as
far as the base; in both sexes the surface is covered with round
punctures a little remote in the posterior part and denser and a little
deeper in the anterior and lateral parts; scutellum punctate in the
base and centre; elytra elongate, somewhat plane, nearly parallel,
declivous at apex, covered with shallow, slightly cicatricose
punctures closely set, and with the striz obliterated; pygidium
moderately closely punctate in the male, rugose in the female ;
abdominal segments with one median row of setigerous punctures,
but the apical one is smooth in the centre in the male; this segment
is very rugose, and the others closely punctured, as well as having

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the transverse row ; metasternum, hardly impressed longitudinally ;
basal intercoxal process of prosternum strongly sloping, triangular,
carinate all round and grooved transversely along the lower part.

Length 23-27 mm. ; width 11-13 mm.

Boheman evidently saw female examples only, judging from his
description, and from his type. The males seem to be much rarer,
and I-have seen only two examples. There is little doubt that
Rhizoplatis ambiguus, Gerst., is identical with Boheman’s R. castanet-
pens.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg, Potchefstroom, Klerksdorp,
Lydenburg). I believe, but am not quite sure, that my male
example from Johannesburg was found in a Termite nest.

Susp-Haminy RUTEHLIN 4.

Ligula horny and fused with the mentum, slightly or strongly sloping
backwards ; labial palpi inserted laterally ; maxille always robust, or
very robust, inner lobe obliterated, but showing faintly in Lsoplia,
upper lobe provided with strong, more or less falcate teeth, with the
exception of Gnatholabis, mandibles plane, and densely ciliate
inwardly, sub-triquetrous, or very convex and triquetrous, and
frmged on the base only with short dense ciliz (Adoretus, &c.),
projecting slightly or distinctly beyond the labrum which is free,
horizontal, sub-horizontal or quite vertical ; clypeus simple, not in-
cised; gene reduced to a mere canthus; eyes large; antenne eight- to
ten-jointed, club tri-jointed not much developed in the African insects,
even in the male; scutellum of moderate size in the South African
genera, with the exception of Phenomeris where it is very elongated ;
elytra covering the basal part of the ‘propygidium and having or
not an epipleural membrane ; anterior coxe transverse, except in
Phenomeris, and Isoplia ; mesosternum produced sometimes in a
projecting aculeate or carinate process, mesothoracic epimera more
or less projecting ; legs mostly robust, hind and intermediate tibiz
with two or more oblique rows of short bristles on the outer part,
and having two apical spurs; claws of anterior and intermediate
tarsi unequal, sub-parallel or very little diverging, the more robust
claw mobile, a seta between the two claws; last three spiracles of
the abdomen placed on the ventral segment.

Owing to the presence of unequal claws, the stronger of which is
hinged, this Sub-Family is connected with the Hopliine, but is at
once distinguished by the presence of two apical spurs on the inter-

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mediate and posterior tibie instead of one. The claws are equal
only in the genus Phenomeris where they are also dentate under-
neath in the four anterior legs in the manner of many MELOLONTHINAE.
With the Dynastina they are connected by the position of the
spiracles which is nearly similar. The form of the punctate
striation on the elytra of many species of Anomala is somewhat
similar to that found in many species of DyYNASTINZ.

Most of the South African RuTELIN# are nocturnal or crepuscular ;
only a few are found on flowers in daytime. They remain mostly
hidden in the foliage during the day, but I have found some Adoretus
buried under a thin layer of earth at the foot of trees during the
daytime. The specific study of the African species is extremely
difficult, with a few exceptions in the genus Popillia and kindred
genera, and on that account I have found a comparison of the genital
armature of the male most useful, not only for discriminating between
South African species, but also between those from other African
localities.

In South Africa we have two aberrant forms; one has been already
mentioned—.e., Phenomeris—but Isoplia is perhaps still more ab-
normal owing to its adaptation to a floral life. In that way it has
acquired characters not unlike those found among the Heterochilus
of the Sub-Family Hopxiin#, and, as in many of the latter, the upper
lobe of the maxille has a pencil of hairs. This is the only instance
known to me among the RUTELINA.

The South African species and genera are divided into four Tribes.

Labrum vertical, greatly developed, antenne ten-jointed ; man-
dibles convex, hollowed inwardly, sharply acuminate and falcate at
tip, narrowly pubescent along the basal part only of the inner edge ;
elytra without membranaceous epipleura; antenne ten-jointed .. ADORETINI.

Labrum nearly horizontal, short, not projecting beyond the
clypeus; mandibles plane underneath, not much hooked at the
tip, and pubescent along the whole inner edge; elytra with
membranaceous epipleura; antenne nine-jointed; anterior cox
transverse; mesosternal epimera not projecting ; claws of the tarsi
often incised except the posterior ones wieS nee) Meek eee ginko a GSNO EATEN

Labrum quite horizontal, continued in a line with the clypeus ;
mandibles plane; elytra without membranaceous epipleura ;
antennge nine-jointed, anterior coxe longitudinal; mesosternal
epimera projecting; all claws simple... ..9 ©. a.) .s)0e-) 2 eSORLIINT,

Labrum horizontal, projecting much beyond the clypeus ; man-
dibles plane; elytra without membranaceous epipleura ; antenne
ten-jointed, anterior coxe longitudinal ; mesosternal epimera pro-
jecting ; claws of the four anterior tarsi with a curved median tooth
underneath sre hate Mele a bate RS RTS OE ae ve ET CEN EES

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Tre ADORETINI.

Gen. ADORETUS, Casteln.,
Hist. Natur. d. Insect., i1., 1840, p. 142.

Mentum sub-parallel or trapezoidal, deeply incised laterally near
the point of insertion of the antenne which are inserted in the outer —
face, narrower thence to the apex, the anterior part of which is either
nearly straight but plainly incised in the middle, or slopes a little
on each side from the broadly and deeply incised median part,
convex, but depressed in the anterior part; labial palpi short, the
apical one sub-cylindrical; maxilla robust or moderately robust
ending at the tip in two arcuate teeth transversally set, the first
tooth is disconnected from the second and is more slender, the other
one is either bifid, or trifid, but sometimes the three teeth are only
slightly connate at the base, maxillary palpi long, apical joint sub-
fusiform, not quite as long as the two preceding taken together, or
only alittle longer than the penultimate one, and obsoletely impressed
laterally ; labrum vertical, obliquely attenuate laterally, or triangular;
crenulate, mandibles swollen at the base, hollowed inwardly, curved
and acute at the tip, and sometimes serrate inwardly; clypeus
declivous in front, edged with a fine, more or less raised margin,
either semicircular, rounded in front only, or occasionally sub-
truncate, or sub-truncate but emarginate in the middle, shorter and
separated from the head by a transverse impressed line, head and
clypeus plainly scabrose; eyes very large, bulging, divided above
the median part by the canthus of the gene for a third of the
length; antenne short, slender, ten-jointed, club as long as the
five preceding joints taken together; prothorax twice as broad as
long, very little sinuate in front, but more distinctly so along the
base the angles of which are somewhat rounded, sides also rounded
in the middle and fringed there with bristly hairs; scutellum as long
as broad at the base, ogival, but not very sharply acuminate; elytra
hardly wider at the base than that of the prothorax, slightly ampliate
thence for about one-sixth of the length, then sinuate, and a little
more ampliated from there to the rounded apical part, they have on
each side a distinct stria along the suture and usually four, more or
less raised, costules usually with a somewhat regular series of
punctures on each side of them; the propygidium is partly hidden by
the elytra, the propygidium is somewhat convex in the middle, and
vertical ; anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly, basal tooth very short,
inner spur long and slender; intermediate and posterior tibiae with
two transverse rows of bristles not always very distinct on the outer

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sides ; tarsi somewhat short and robust, posterior ones not longer
than the hind tibie; claws unequal, parallel, inner one of the
anterior tarsi and outer one of the intermediate ones cleft at the
tip; each coxe produced behind at the base in a more or less long,
but nearly always very distinct lobate process; mesosternum not
projecting in front.

The species are usually covered with short, appressed hairs, at
times somewhat squamiform, but never dense enough to hide com-
pletely the teguments ; several species have series of remote, upright
hairs on the elytra, and the lateral margins have a fringe of bristly
ones always longer in the anterior part. They are found on trees
and are crepuscular. Near Kimberley I found many examples
hidden a few inches under the surface of the ground, at the foot of
the trees dotting the landscape. The genus has a wide range. It is
represented in the whole of Africa, in Madagascar, Arabia, India,
China, Java, Manilla, &c., and there is also one species in Southern
Russia. The African species are very much alike, but all those I
know can be somewhat easily recognised by the shape of the genital
armature of the male.

Key to the Spacies.

A5, Clypeus regularly rounded from eye to eye in both sexes.
B?. Trochanters of hind legs spinose in the male.

Chestnut-brown, covered with dense greyish hairs.

Suture of the clypeus with the head very plain, scutellum

closely punctured, hind trochanters produced into a very

long spine i(pl: li figs) Ba. ee) i ein ee COICO:

Suture of the clypeus hardly distinct ; scutellum with only
a few punctures, hind trochanters produced into a short
spine (pl. li.) f16-2))\ ce a tees) eee ce ee UR LOCLOstise

B'. Trochanters of male not spinose.
a3. Elytra not distinctly costulate.

Chestnut-red, clothed with white concolorous hairs ; | incongruens.
hE Mb eB Gn oq) fom soo) pos oe. oo od Moo | CUR

Fuscous brown, densely clothed with white scale-like
hairs, and having on each side four rows of granules
bearing each a white bristle (pl. li., fig. 4) .. .. .. punetipennis

Fuscous with the elytra dark chestnut-brown, sparingly
clothed with greyish hairs; clypeus very elongate(pl. li.,

fig. 6) salisburiensis.

a’. Elytra with only one distinct costule on each side.

Dark chestnut-brown; prothorax with three con-
spicuous bands of white scales, scutellum clothed with
similar scales (pli di., fi .5)) v2 jon So. oe nt ke hophioimass

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at. Elytra distinctly costate.

Body very pale testaceous, basal part of the head
and the suture fuscous or black; punctures on the
prothorax and elytra moderately closely set, shallow
(pl. li., fig. 7)

Body very pale testaceous, concolorous, punctures on
the prothorax and elytra very closely set and deep
(pl. li., fig. 8)

Body testaceous but with the head, two broad patches
on the prothorax, the intervals on the elytra and also
the outer margin somewhat darker than the back-
ground; prothorax sub-foveolate ; punctures on the
first interval of elytra very rugose, costz very distinct
(plelis tis. 9)

Head, prothorax, and scutellum brick-red; elytra
chestnut-brown, costulate, very coriaceous (pl. li.,
fig. 10) ‘

A4, Clypeus sub-parallel laterally, sub-arcuate or arcuate in front.

a?

a’.

Elytra not costulate.

Fuscous with the clypeus, sides of prothorax, scutellum and
elytra chestnut-brown, clothed with squamiform white hairs
forming three longitudinal bands on the prothorax and two
more or less distinct rows of interrupted white patches on
each elytron (pl. li., fig. 11)

Elytra slightly costulate.

Fuscous brown, clothed with very dense greyish hairs ;
elytra, each with four rows of remote impressions bearing
a fulvous bristle (pl. li., fig. 12)

Brick-red, clothed with greyish hairs; each elytron with
the costz slightly interrupted regularly by a transverse
raised line (pl. li., fig. 13)

Fuscous brown on the upper side, elytra each with four
light testaceous costules ; prothorax and elytra clothed with
long, greyish appressed hairs ..

Testaceous red, clothed with dense, sub-squamiform hairs ;
elytra covered with closely set cicatricose punctures (pl. li.,
fig. 14) ..

Testaceous, with the head, two very wide patches on the
prothorax and the suture infuscate:
Clypeus short, plainly arcuate (pl. 11., fig. 15)
Clypeus short, very little arcuate (pl. li., fig. 16)
Clypeus long, plainly arcuate (pl. li., fig. 17)

Testaceous, head brownish, closely scabrose from apex to
base, prothorax with a small, median impression; elytral
coste very distinct

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ictericus.

ovampoensis.

Fusculus.

mashunus.

variegatus.

laticeps.

fraudulentus.

neonditus.

zambesianus.

inpurus.
exasperans.
FSraudator.

latiusculus.

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Testaceous, slightly metallic, but darker in the median part
of the head, prothorax and dorsal part of the elytra, the
cost of which are interrupted at regular intervals by a
darker patchy (plas fies 18)i5 egies nach Sci acnisE

A3, Clypeus arcuate in front and emarginate in the centre in the
male only.
Testaceous brown, with the head and two broad discoidal
patches on the prothorax sub-infuscate; elytra with the cost
very plain, and the punctures very deep and conspicuously
rugose:(pl.di,;. figs L9)) 5 2 6 a ee ee CH DO SRUSE

Brown, somewhat infuscate on the dorsal part of the elytra, sub-
metallic, elytra densely hairy, each costa with a tesselate row of
denser hairy patehes (plo i., tig. 20). es ee en cesstllatnus:

Pale testaceous, with the hind part of the head only infuscate,
hind tibize fusco-ferruginous ; costules moderately raised (pl. li.,
2) AM SA dh BR Gb Abo Gy) yaw om, og | CARON.

Pale testaceous, with the head, two patches on the prothorax,
and the suture and hind tarsi infuscate (pl. li., fig. 22) .. .. picticollis.

A?. Clypeus arcuate in front and emarginate in both sexes.

Dark fuscous, with the sides of the prothorax and legs reddish
brown, somewhat metallic; prothorax with a median sulcus;
clypeus of the female distinctly rounded laterally towards the
anterior part (pl. lis) fig.923) 9s ees eee wee ne mmECTOO OnUtLSe

Fuscous brown, darker and more metallic in the centre of the
prothorax and the discoidal part of the elytra; prothorax without
a median sulcus; clypeus of the female distinctly sinuate laterally
MOMENRUES IONS NOOR ENAIng Poe oo 6d an ca oo oo co (CHONG.

At. Clypeus truncate in front in the male, arcuate in the female.
Elytra costate.

Pale testaceous, with the posterior part of the head infuscate,
upper side with long but much spaced flavescent hairs (pl. li.,
Te Da ies, Pec: eh ye ohne” AR InGabrny Foe DU eae Rech ai ne de et rem COICO TES

ADORETUS CAPICOLA, Burm.,
Plate XLI., fig. 1.
Handb. d. Entom., iv.,i., p. 472 @.

A. testaceus, Fahr., Ins. Caffr., i., p. 70 3.

Rusty red, with the legs somewhat testaceous red, and the
tarsi darker ; whole upper side covered with minute appressed
greyish hairs equally dense everywhere, elytra with four nearly
evanescent costules which, like the suture, bear a series of remote
very short erect white hairs ; head very closely punctured, clypeus
quite semicircular; prothorax as closely punctured as the head, and

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having a slight metallic tinge, and no trace whatever of a median
groove or impression ; elytra not broader at the base than the
prothorax, a little ampliate laterally from about one-fourth of the
length and only slightly narrowed in the posterior part, not very
convex, strongly callose on each side above the apical part, and
covered with closely set, almost contiguous, somewhat wide
punctures, imparting to them a coriaceous appearance, but hidden,
however, to a great extent by the appressed hairs; the pygidium
and under side are covered with hairs similar to those on the upper
side in texture and colour, but somewhat longer. In the male the
hind trochanters are produced into a very long, acute spine; the
genital armature is elongate, sub-parallel, obliquely narrowed out-
wardly at apex and deeply emarginate in the centre.

Length 11-12 mm.; width 6-64 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban), Cape Colony (Uitenhage), Port St. John.

Burmeister’s description was made from a female example.

ADORETUS INCONGRUENS, n. spec.
Plate XLI., fig. 3.

The description of A. testaceus applies almost entirely to this
species, which is, however, a little smaller, and has no slight
metallic tinge on the prothorax ; the elytra have also the evanescent
costules, and are somewhat metallic in the intervals; but whereas
it is difficult to recognise the female from that of A. testaceus, the
male differs owing to spine of the hind trochanters being very short;
the shape of the genital armature is very different; the sheath is
open on the upper side for two-thirds of the length only, and instead
of being nearly parallel and only very slightly ampliate at the apex,
it broadens triangularly from the median part, is broadly and deeply
incised in the middle at the tip, and the two lobes are obliquely
truncate.

Length 10-114 mm.; width 54-6 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

ADORETUS FALLACIOSUS, n. spec.
Plate XLI., fig. 2.

The male of this species is hardly to be distinguished from
A. incongruens in colour and general facies, but it is redder and has
no metallic tinge on the elytra which are not more plainly costulate,
but the punctures of which are a little shallower, and the whitish
appressed pubescence is denser; the suture of the clypeus is hardly

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distinct, and the scutellum is a little shorter and has only a few
punctures; the most distinctive character is found in the shape of the
genital sheath, which is open entirely on the upper side, narrowed
towards the apex where it is deeply but somewhat narrowly incised,
and with the two lobes parallel and vertical. The spine of the
hind trochanters is short.

Female unknown.

Length 10 mm.; width 51 mm.

Hab. British Bechuanaland (Kanye).

ADORETUS ILLITUS, n. spec.

Female : Chestnut-brown with a distinct metallic tinge, clothed
on the upper side with short and very dense squamulose whitish-
grey hairs, hiding the background ; the head and clypeus are
normally scabrose and the suture is indistinct; the prothorax is very
closely punctured and has no median impression; the scutellum is
very finely punctulate, and the elytra are not costulate, and are
covered with very small and very closely set punctures which are
not scar-like, except along the outer margins.

This species, which in general appearance resembles A. fallaciosus,
is distinguished from it by the finer and denser non-cicatricose
punctures on the elytra, which are also non-costulate.

The male is unknown to me.

Length 9 mm. ; width 54 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

ADORETUS PUNCTIPENNIS, Fahr.,
Plate XI, fig. 4.
Insect Caffr., il., p. 67.

Closely allied to A. testaceus ; the shape of the head, prothorax,
and elytra is the same, but the contiguous punctures on the head are
slightly more scabrose, and the suture between the head and the
clypeus is less carinate; the series of white, sub-erect, short hairs
on the elytra are plainer, but there is no costule, and in front of each
remote white hair there is a very small denuded round spot, which,
in the anterior part, is faintly granular; the greyish-white hairs are
also denser and in fresh examples hide the ferruginous colour ;
the under side and legs are clothed with appressed hairs similar in
texture to those of the upper part, but slightly longer, and on the
pygidium there is a narrow denuded longitudinal median line. In
the male the hind trochanters are simple, and the genital armature

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a little broader than in A. testaceus, nearly parallel, much more
obliquely truncate laterally at the tip, and more broadly emarginate
in the centre.

Length 13-14 mm.; width 7-74 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban), Mozambique (Lourengo-Marquez, Ama-
tongaland), Transvaal (Rustenburg), Southern Rhodesia (Zambesi
River).

ADORETUS HOPLIOIDES, Bohem.,*
Plate XUL., fig. 5.
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 148.

Upper side chestnut-red, moderately shining and without any
metallic sheen ; under side fuscous except on the sides, legs reddish
brown, tarsi piceous ; clypeus semicircular, finely granulose like the
greatest part of the head, and covered with squamose white hairs
shorter than those clothing entirely the head ; the prothorax is
attenuated laterally in the anterior part, as far as the middle, and
thence nearly straight, covered with nearly contiguous punctures,
clothed with squamose white hairs and having three very plain
longitudinal bands of white scales, a median and a supra-marginal
on each side; scutellum densely scaly ; elytra covered with nearly
contiguous cicatricose punctures, from each of which springs white
squamose hairs, there is only one not very distinct costa reaching
the apical callus which is moderately developed, but in addition
four rows of distant, very short bristles, having each in front a
somewhat conspicuous lanceolate white scale ; pygidium and legs
clothed with white hairs, sides of abdomen and pectus with white
scales.

Length 94-104 mm. ; width 5-52 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo, Enkeldoorn, Sebakwe) ;
Natal (Durban).

This species is a very distinct one, owing to the three bands of
white scales on the prothorax, and the white scaly scutellum.

ADORETUS SALISBURIENSIS, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLL., fig. 6.
Black, with the elytra ferruginous brown; head covered with

irregular, non-scabrose punctures, clypeus parabolic, a little more
elongate in the centre than in the other South African species, and

* The generic name of this species, and also of A. variegatus, has been
erroneously printed Hriesthis in Boheman’s ‘Insecta Caffrarie.”’

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with the margins much reflexed, it is not distinctly scabrose, the
suture 1s obliterated, and the whole head is clothed with white, not
dense, appressed hairs ; prothorax covered with somewhat round
punctures in the discoidal part, and very irregular ones on the sides,
the clothing of white appressed hairs is scanty; scutellum clothed
with somewhat dense white hairs ; elytra not costulate, covered
with deep, round, closely set punctures with irregular, slightly
raised intervals imparting a strongly coriaceous appearance, from
each puncture springs a minute greyish-white, non-squamulose
hair, and there are on each side four rows of distant, very short,
white bristles, which are, however, seldom distinctly seen; the
hairs of the pygidium are long, and those on the under side somewhat
scanty ; the legs are black and clothed with white hairs; the inner
anterior claws are more deeply cleft than in the other species. |

Female unknown.

Length 8 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

ADORETUS ICTERICUS, Burm.,
Plate XUI., fig. 7.
Handb. d. Entomol., iv.' 1, p. 469.

A. ngriceps, Fahr., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 74.

Testaceous or very pale testaceous, and without any metallic
reflection, but having along the base of the head a black band which
is prolonged along the eyes, the tarsi are reddish brown or piceous
red; head broadly punctured, clypeus scabroso-punctate, and both
clothed with scattered small greyish appressed hairs, the suture is
very distinct ; prothorax covered with not closely set, round,
shallow punctures a little more cicatricose on the sides than on the
disk, each bearing a very short, appressed, non-squamose greyish-
white hair quite similar in shape and size to those of the elytra;
scutellum sharply triangular, somewhat plainly costulate, deeply and
closely punctured but not coriaceous owing to the intervals between
the punctures not being much raised or sinuated, each puncture
bears a thin and short appressed hair not set closely enough to
form anything like a distinct clothing ; pygidium with long hairs;
under side somewhat sparingly clothed with appressed greyish hairs
longer than those of the upper part. In the male the sheath of the
genital organ is open for three-fourths of the length, parallel for
three-fourths of the length and thence slightly ampliated, broadly
and semicircularly incised in the middle at apex, with the two lobes
somewhat diverging and acuminate at the tip.

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Length 12-124 mm. ; width 6-64 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Port St. John, Uitenhage),
Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg).

ADORETUS OVAMPOENSIS, Nl. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 8.

Similar in shape, size, and colour to A. zctericus, but there is no
basal transverse fuscous band on the head, the suture is not fuscous,
the punctures are closer, deeper, and the pubescence is denser; the
hind tarsi are infuscate; the shape of the genital armature is very
different from that of A. ictericus ; it is completely open on the
upper side, very declivous, narrowed towards the apex and produced
there on each side into a bifid tooth set almost at right angles.

Length 12-13 mm.; width 64 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Evari River).

ADORETUS FUSCULUS, Fthr.,
Plate XUI., fig. 9.
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 77.

This species is so closely allied to A. cribrosus that it might be
confused with it. The two fuscous patches on the prothorax are,
however, more distinct, the elytra are also browner, noticeably on
the sides, and the punctures, especially in the first interval, are
more rugose than in 4A. cribrosus, but those of the prothorax are
broader and less closely set; the sheath of the male armature is also
entirely open on the upper side, but gradually and sharply acuminated
from past the middle to the apex where it is finely and not deeply
incised ; and the clypeus in the male is rounded and not emarginate
as in A. cribrosus 3.

Length 9 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. British Bechuanaland (Kanye).

ADROETUS MASHUNUS, N. spec.,
Plate XLI,, fig. 10.

Head and prothorax brick-red, elytra chestnut-brown, legs and
under side testaceous ; clypeus parabolic, but slightly oblique laterally
at the base, scabrose, head scabroso-punctate, and both clothed with
some small appressed white hairs; prothorax somewhat plainly
ampliated and rounded in the median lateral part, covered with

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closely set, rugulose punctures, which are less numerous in the
median part of the disk, from each puncture springs a minute
greyish appressed hair; scutellum brick-red; elytra not conspicuously
costulate, and covered with very small and very dense punctures a
little smaller and less closely set than those of the prothorax and
giving them a very coriaceous appearance, the whitish pubescence
is denser owing to the greater number of punctures, and I cannot
find any traces of the four series of small bristles ; the pubescence
on the pygidium, under side, and legs is somewhat dense; the inner
claw of the anterior legs is deeply cleft at the apex ; the sheath of the
genital armature of the male is open on the upper side, very declivous
from the median part, and suddenly narrowed thence into two long,
narrow forcipate lobes separated by a narrow incision.

Length 9 mm.; width 5-51 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe).

ADORETUS VARIEGATUS, Bohem.,
Blew) IEC. ave, Ih,
Insect. Caffrar., ii. p- ise

A. melanoleucus, Péring., Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 161.
A. decoratus, Arrow, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1899, vol. iv.,
p: 121.

Chestnut-brown on the upper side, but with the head, the median
part of the prothorax, and on the elytra a dorsal series of patches
and a supra-marginal broad band eneo-fuscous, covered with white
squamiform appressed hairs forming on the prothorax three some-
what plain longitudinal lines; on the elytra the scale-like appressed
hairs are shorter than on the prothorax, and form on the dorsal part
a regular series of transverse white patches alternating with fusco-
geneous transverse, glabrous ones, and there are also two or three
more white patches in the posterior supra-lateral part ; the under side
and hind tibiz are plainly fuscous ; clypeus broader than long,
straight laterally, plainly arcuate in front; prothorax covered with
somewhat deep setigerous punctures, more abundant and more
closely set on the sides; scutellum densely scaly ; elytra not
costulate, covered with deep, round, setigerous punctures; in shape
the genital armature resembles very much that of A. capicola, but it
is not quite so robust, but more parallel laterally and more sinuate
on each side at the apex.

Length 84-83 mm. ; width 44 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo, Enkeldoorn, Sebakwe).

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ADORETUS LATICEPS, Fahr.,
Plate XUI., fig. 12.
Insect. Catfrar., i1., p. 69.

Ferruginous, with a very slight metallic tinge on the head and
prothorax, and clothed with a very dense greyish white pubescence ;
the head is very scabroso-punctate, the clypeus is still more
scabrose, parabolic in the male, quite semicircular in the female,
with the margin plainly reflexed ; the prothorax is very closely
punctured, but the punctures are shallow; there is no median
impression or furrow; the elytra are finely coriaceous, somewhat
depressed, plainly callose on each side at the apex, not costulate, but
having on each side four rows of distant, inconspicuous round
impressions, bearing a fulvous, moderately long bristle. The genital
armature of the male is less declivous than that of A. testacews, more
parallel, incised at apex with each lobe obliquely truncate on
each side.

Length 10-114 mm. ; width 54-52 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Griqualand West), Southern Rhodesia
(Upper Limpopo).

ADORETUS FRAUDULENTUS, Nn. Spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 13.

Head and prothorax reddish brown, elytra testaceous red, under
side and legs testaceous, metallic sheen almost indistinct; clypeus
and head very scabrose, and clothed with greyish appressed hairs,
clypeus rounded in front, but straight laterally ; prothorax not much
attenuate laterally in front, and covered with punctures which on the
sides and in front are very closely set and scabrose, but a little less
so in the median part of the disk, from each puncture issues a small
greyish white appressed hair; elytra somewhat plainly costulate
with the intervals very closely punctured, and as each puncture bears
an appressed hair, these hairs form a somewhat dense coating ; tarsi
reddish brown ; the outer claw of the hind legs is so small as to be
difficult of detection ; in shape the sheath of the genital armature
resembles a little that of a A. acterzcus, but it is more sinuated laterally
on the upper side, less incurved, plainly tri-dentate at the apex.

Length 114 mm.; width 6mm.

Hab. ? Southern Rhodesia.

ADORETUS INCONDITUS, Ni. Spec.

Female: Head and basal part of clypeus, median part of prothorax
and elytra fuscous brown, the latter have four distinct testaceous

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costules on each side, the sides of the prothorax, legs, and the under
side are testaceous ; clypeus and frontal part of the head very closely
scabroso-punctate and covered with dense fulvous appressed hairs
similar to those covering the prothorax and elytra, the latter is very
finely, deeply, and closely punctured, and the appressed hairs are
longer than in the other South African species ; scutellum somewhat
testaceous, hairy, and very closely punctate ; elytra covered with
cicatricose closely set punctures from each of which springs an
appressed hair, which is set more close to each other on the four
costules on each side than on the intervals; under side and legs
clothed with greyish hairs similar to, but less dense than, those on
the upper side.

Length 138 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Bedford).

ADORETUS ZAMBESIANUS, N. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 14.

Light brick-red, shiny but without a metallic tinge, clothed on the
upper surface with very short appressed greyish white hairs, set
somewhat close to each other, the under surface and legs are clothed
with longer and less squamose white hairs ; head normally scabroso-
punctate, clypeus semicircular, suture distinct, the hairs on the head
and prothorax are plainly squamose, thicker and longer than those
on the elytra; prothorax very short, covered with somewhat irregular
non-contiguous punctures; scutellum covered with the same whitish
hairs as on the elytra which are plainly quadri-costate on each side,
with the intervals and the costze themselves filled and covered
respectively with contiguous cicatricose punctures, the apical callus
is not greatly developed; the abdomen and the pectus are somewhat
infuscate. The genital armature differs from that of all the other
species, the sheath is open only at the apical part, which is very
declivous and tapering, narrowly incised in the middle, with the
two lobes narrow, but shghtly rounded outwardly.

Length 7-8 mm.; width 4-5 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls, between the Zambesi
and the Limpopo Rivers).

ADORETUS IMPURUS, Fahr.,
Plate XLI., fig. 15.
Insect. Caffrar., 11., p. 71.
Pale testaceous, somewhat shining but without a metallic tinge, the
head is fuscous, and on the prothorax are two discoidal fuscous

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patches separated by a narrow testaceous band, the suture is
faintly fuscous, the whole surface of the body is covered with fine
appressed not squamose hairs; the head is granulose, the clypeus is
slightly oblique laterally at base and rounded in front in the male,
quite semicircular with the margin plainly reflexed in the female,
the punctures on the prothorax are deep, broad, somewhat closely
- set, the elytra are faintly costulate, and the intervals deeply and very
closely punctured ; the sheath of the genital armature of the male is
open on the upper side, elongate, moderately declivous, bi-sinuate
laterally, narrowing towards the apex where it is incised in the centre
with the sides very obliquely narrowed.

Length 10-114 mm.; 5-6 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

ADORETUS EXASPERANS, 0. spec.
Plate XLL,; fig. 16.

In colour, shape, size, and sculpture this species is so very much
like A. wmpurus that it is most likely to be confused with it
unless the difference in shape of the genital armature of the
male is noticed. The sheath is equally long, and also bi-sinuate
laterally, but it is a little more deeply incised in the middle at the
apex and sharply dentate laterally.

Length 11 mm.; width 53 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Fort Beaufort).

ADORETUS FRAUDATOR, 0. spec.
Plate XE, fig. 17.

Colour, shape, and size of the two preceding species, but the
prothorax has no discoidal infuscate patch, the clypeus is more
rounded at the apex, the punctures on the elytra are a little broader,
and the suture is hardly infuscate ; the club of the antenne is much
more elongate, being nearly as long as all the joints taken together,
and the shape of the genital armature differs considerably ; it is open
on the upper side and suddenly very sharply acuminate from about
the median part to the apex where it is narrowly incised, somewhat
in the manner of A. mashunus, but it is less declivous.

Length 10 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Natal (Eshowe).

ADORETUS LATIUSCULUS, N. spec.,

Female: Testaceous without any metallic sheen, head, median part
of the prothorax and shoulders somewhat infuscate ; clypeus half as
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long in the centre as wide, very parabolic, very scabrose, head more
closely scabroso-punctate than the clypeus, both with a very short
appressed pubescence partly obliterated in my example; prothorax
not much attenuated laterally in front, covered with closely set
punctures separated from each other by a space corresponding to
half their diameter, and having in the median part of the disk a
transverse lozenge-shaped shallow impression; scutellum punctu-
late; elytra not quite as broad at the base as the base of the
prothorax, but much more so towards the apical part, plainly
costulate, the costze are impunctate but the intervals are filled
with closely set but not contiguous, moderately regular punc-
tures; the four series of bristles cannot be detected in my example
which is a female, the carina of the epipleural fold is deeply punc-
tured at remote intervals; the larger anterior claw is deeply cleft at
the apex, and the inner claw of the hind legs is very small, but
distinct.

Length 124 mm.; width 64 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Barberton).

ADORETUS DISSIDENS, N. spec.,
Plate XUI., fig. 18.

Testaceous, but somewhat infuscate on the upper side, and with a
slight metallic sheen more noticeable on the head and prothorax ;
head and clypeus granuloso-punctate, She former is nearly straight
laterally at the base and parabolic in front; the punctures of the
prothorax are small, but very closely set, especially on the sides, and
there is a slight median longitudinal impression, the small, white
appressed hairs clothing the head and prothorax are only moderately
dense; the elytra are distinctly costate, the cost are lighter than
the rest of the background, but are interrupted at regular intervals
by a fuscous patch which imparts to them a tesselated appearance,
the intervals are filled with somewhat irregular, closely set, mode-
rately deep punctures, the greyish appressed pubescence is some-
what dense; the hind legs and all the tarsi are ferruginous; the
sheath of the genital armature of the male is entirely open on the
upper side, parallel, straight transversely at the tip but slightly
attenuate obliquely laterally.

Length 10 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. Natal (Estcourt).

ADORETUS SEBAKUENSIS, n. spec., pl. xliii., fig. 29.

Pale testaceous, the head is a little infuscate, the whole body, except the legs, is
covered with a coating of white squamose hairs hiding the background; the hind
tarsi are fuscous ; the clypeus of the male is much more parallel than in any of the
other South African species and quite transverse in front, but in the female it is
plainly arcuate; the prothorax and elytra are very closely punctured, but the
punctures are hidden by the vestiture, the elytra are very obsoletely tri-costate on
each side, and the apical part of the pygidium has no squamose hairs. In general
appearance it is not unlike A. capicola, but is easily recognised by the shape of the
head, the absence of spinose trochanters in the male, the less distinctly costulate
elytra, and the denser and whiter coating of squamose hairs; the shape of the

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ADORETUS FLAVEOLUS, Fahr.,
Plate XLI., fig. 24.
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 75.

Very closely allied to A. exasperans and A. fraudator, especially
to the latter, the colour is the same, but the clypeus is nearly straight
at the apex in the ¢ with the angles rounded, the punctures on the
prothorax are more shallow, the costules on the elytra are a little less
noticeable; the colour of the body is pale testaceous, with the head
somewhat infuscate in the posterior part, the suture is hardly darker
than the background of the elytra, and the tarsi are brownish; in shape
the clypeus resembles that of A. exasperans and A. impurus, but it
is transversely straighter at the apex, and the shape of the genital
armature of the male differs from both, being broader, shorter, more
ovately open on the upper side, abruptly acuminate near the apex,
and narrowly cleft there.

Length 9-94 mm.; width 47-54 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe).

ADORETUS CRIBROSUS, Har.,
place: lg fo 1
Coleopt., Heft. v., 1869, p. 124.

A. cribratus, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Entom., 1850, p. 234.

Testaceous brown, very faintly metallic, head fuscous, median
part of prothorax sometimes slightly infuscate in the discoidal
part; clypeus semicircular, scabroso-punctate, separated from the
_ head by a very distinct carina, head moderately closely punctate,
and with a somewhat more distinct metallic sheen, each puncture
bears a small whitish appressed hair; prothorax covered with closely
set but not contiguous, and somewhat irregular, small, deep punctures
emitting each a very fine whitish appressed hair; scutellum closely
punctured; elytra very plainly costate, the costae smooth and im-
punctate and having each a series of very distant, short white
bristles, the intervals are filled with irregular, deep, nearly con-
tiguous punctures separated by raised, sinuose walls, the suture
is raised, they are not strongly callose at the apex, and each
puncture bears a very minute greyish-white hair; the pygidium,
under side, and legs are somewhat thinly clothed with greyish
appressed hairs; all the tarsi are reddish brown; the sheath of the
genital armature is entirely open on the upper side, not very
declivous, sinuate, deeply emarginate laterally, at a short distance
from the apex, very slightly incised at the middle, the inner angle

genital armature is different from that of both A. capicola and A. punctipennis.
Length 13 mm. ; width 63 mm.
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

ADORETUS SIMPLEX, n. spec., pl. xliii., fig. 30.

Shape, size, and sculpture of A. impwrus, but the colour is a little darker, and
the coating of squamulose hairs is a little denser, the clypeus of the male is
plainly truncate instead of being arcuate, as in A. impurus, and is therefore more
like that of A. exasperans, but it is even straighter than in this last-named species,
and the genital armature is very different in shape from that of any of the other
South African species. Length 103 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

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of the incised part projecting in the shape of a minute tooth, the
outer angle sharp.

Length 103-12 mm.; width 54-54 mm.
Hab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Harding, Frere).

ADORETUS TESSULATUS, Burm.,
Plate XLI., fig. 20.
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 529.
A. maculatus, Fahr., Insect. Caffr., i., p. 68.

Fuscous brown on the upper side, with the clypeus, the sides of

the prothorax and the elytra lighter brown, under side and legs

testaceous red, hind legs somewhat infuscate ; clypeus straight:
laterally at the base, rounded thence but distinctly emarginate

in the centre in the male, but not in the female, the suture with
the head is slender but distinct, and both the head and clypeus

are scabrose and covered with dense greyish hairs; prothorax also

clothed with dense appressed hairs, it is very closely punctured, and
has a metallic sheen; elytra plainly tri-costulate on each side, deeply
punctured and clothed with fine, short, very closely set appressed

hairs, the three costa of the elytra are regularly hairy but have
a tesselate appearance owing to the hairs being interrupted at

regular intervals by denuded, transverse patches; the sheath of
the genital armature of the male is entirely open on the upper

side, slightly sinuate laterally but sub-parallel for the greater part.

of the length and obliquely truncate on each side towards the apex
which is not deeply emarginate and is not cleft.

This-species is very closely allied to A. obscurus from Senegambia.

The shape of the head and vestiture are identical, but the sheath of

the genital armature is not so obliquely truncate laterally and is.

broader at the apex.
Length 9-11 mm.; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand, Griqualand West), Orange

River Colony (Bothaville), Natal (Estcourt), Damaraland, Transvaal
(Potchefstroom, Rustenburg).

ADORETUS BECHUANUS, 0. spec.,
Plate XUI., fig. 21.

Pale testaceous, with the head and the hind tibiz fuscous black,.
clothed with greyish moderately dense greyish hairs; closely allied
to A. fraudulentus and to A. flaveolus, but differs from the former in
having the clypeus more truncate in front, and from the second in it

ADORETUS DISPARILIS, n. spec., pl. xliii., fig. 31.

Pale testaceous, slightly metallic, and covered on the upper and under sides and
also on the legs with somewhat long and very dense squamulose, appressed,
flavescent hairs, so closely set on the scutellum as to hide the whole surface; the
clypeus is rounded laterally and truncate in the anterior part in the male, sub-
acuminate there in the female, in which the median lateral part of the prothorax is
also slightly more ampliate than in the male; the elytra are plainly costate ; the
joints of the tarsi are very short, but the apical one is long and very robust in the
male, and in both sexes the apical outer tooth of the anterior tibie is a little
shorter than in the intermediate. The genital armature differs much from that.
of the other. South African species. Length 9-94 mm.; width 44-4? mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

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being plainly sinuate in the middle of the anterior part, the punctures
on the prothorax are equally distant, but more shallow and less broad
than in A. fraudulentus, and the scutellum is more sharply acuminate
at the apex; the elytra are somewhat distinctly costulate, and the
pubescence is slightly denser; the valves of the genital armature
although of somewhat the same shape as in A. fusculus, are more
robust, more widely open on the upper side from base to apex.

Length 103 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. British Bechuanaland (Ramoutsa).

ADORETUS PICTICOLLIS, Fithr.,
Plate XLI., fig. 22.
Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 74.

Colour, shape, and size of A. impurus ; distinguished from it mainly
by the shape of the clypeus and of the valves of the genital armature ;
the clypeus instead of being rounded in front is straight, then broadly
rounded till the median anterior part where it is distinctly emar-
ginate; the sculpture of the head, prothorax, and elytra does not
differ also from that of A. wmpurus ; the suture of the elytra is more
broadly or more plainly infuscate, and the infuscate patch on the
prothorax is conspicuous ; the valves of the genital armature instead
of being narrow and tapering towards the apex and not much retuse,
are sub-vertical bi-partite from base to tip, the two parts are a little
more broadly separated on the upper than on the under side, sym-
metrical, parallel, truncate at the apex and with the outer angles
slightly spinose. The female cannot be distinguished from that of
A. wmpurus and A. exasperans.

Length 10-11 mm. ; width 43-54 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg, Lydenburg), Orange River
Colony (Bothaville).

ADORETUS INGLORIUS, n. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 23.

Pale testaceous, with the head infuscate and the suture of the
elytra slightly darker than the background (? immature) or fuscous-
brown with a slight metallic tinge and with the sides of the pro-
thorax broadly testaceous; legs testaceous with the anterior ones
slightly rusty red; clypeus broadly rounded laterally, but not from
the base, plainly emarginate in the centre of the anterior part, and

ADORETUS SIMULANS, n. spec., pl. xliii., fig. 32.

Almost similar to A. tessulatus, Burm.; the vestiture is identical, and on the
elytra the three tessellate rows on each side are alike ; the female has the clypeus
also arcuate in front, but it is a little longer and more regularly curved from the
base, that of the male is nearly transverse and plainly emarginate in front, but not
incised as in the same sex of A. tessulatus. The shape of the genital armature is
quite different from that of the latter, and closely resembles that of A. separabilis,
a very distinct species, but the opening is much more ovate, and the gee incision
is broader, deeper, and its apical angles sharper. Length 10-11 mm.; width
54-6 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

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with the margin distinctly reflexed all round; head and clypeus
conspicuously granulose; prothorax very closely punctured, clothed
with long, appressed greyish hairs and having a plain longitudinal
impressed line in the centre; elytra sub-costulate, intervals filled
with cicatricose punctures, giving them a very coriaceous appearance,
and clothed like the scutellum with long, decumbent greyish hairs.
In general appearance this species is closely related to A. prcticollis,
but the appressed hairs forming the vestiture are longer; the shape
of the genital armature is also somewhat similar, but the upper edge
of the valves is more apart, parallel for a short distance only and
thence more open and more sinuate.

Length 12 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab, Cape Colony (Seymour), Natal (Durban).

One of my male examples has the anterior part of the clypeus
non-emarginate.

ADORETUS PICINUS, Fahr.,
Insect. Caffry ii; pia 3
A nasutus, Hahr’ loc: cit., p» i222

Dark chestnut-brown, with a very distinct metallic sheen on the
upper side; sides of prothorax, pectus, and legs testaceous; head
and prothorax very closely granulose; prothorax and elytra of the
normal shape, the former is somewhat closely punctured, the latter
only slightly costulate with the intervals cicatricose, and the whole
surface is clothed with somewhat long, appressed hairs; the clypeus
is straight laterally at the base, thence obliquely rounded, broadly
emarginate in front in the male, only slightly in the female, and
with the margin conspicuously raised; the shape of the genital
armature is not unlike that of A. testaceus, but it is a little narrower,
more parallel, and not slightly inflated laterally towards the apex.

The co-type of A. picinus, Fahr., is undoubtedly the male of
A, nasutus, and the only example of this sex which I have seen.
Fahroeus states, however, in his description of A. picinus, that the
apical margin of the clypeus is rounded.

Length 114-124 mm.; width 53-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska, Kakamas).

ADORETUS CURTULUS, n. spec., pl. xli., fig. 25.

‘neous, clothed with appressed, dense, greyish-white squamose hairs; antennee
testaceous, club of ¢ very long; clypeus straight laterally, arcuate in front, head
normally scabrose; prothorax deeply and somewhat closely punctured, especially
laterally ; elytra covered with similar punctures somewhat regularly seriate, and
having on each side three distant cost; under side and legs moderately pubescent.
This species is very short, and comparatively very broad, and is thus easily
recognised by its facies. In the shape of the genital armature it approaches
A. capicola.

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(Species which I have not been able to identify.)
ADORETUS ATRICAPILLUS, Klug,

Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659 ; Peter’s Reis., p. 261.

‘“‘Hlongate, pale testaceous, head black, clypeus short, ferruginous.

Length 4 lin.

One example from Sena. Similar to A. negrifrons, but relatively
somewhat narrower, more strongly punctate and almost glabrous.
The clypeus, instead of being rounded and produced, is short and
truncate, with the margin only a little reflexed. The line which
divides the clypeus from the head is also more prominent, but not
straight, being arched inwards. The head only is dark brown,
almost black, the clypeus ferruginous, and the rest of the body
and the legs pale-yellowish. The apices of the femora, tibiz and
tarsal joints are brown.”

ADORETUS CUPREUS, Arrow,
Annals and Magaz. Natur. Hist., 1899, vol. iv., p. 121.

‘‘ Hlongato-ovate, broad, chestnut-brown with a coppery sheen
sparsely clothed with greyish hairs or scales on the upper side, and
more densely so on the under side; head moderately large, rugose,
clypeus arcuate, wrinkled and ustulate; prothorax three times
broader than long, very closely punctate, sparsely setulose ; scutellum
rugose ; elytra finely rugoso-punctate, obsoletely costate, sparingly
setulose, but with larger white scales scattered towards the costules,
sides wholly arcuate.

Length 103-12 mm. Female.

This species has apparently some affinity with A. picnus, Bohem.,
which, however, has the prothorax coarsely punctured and the sides
of the elytra straight as far as the middle. In A. cupreus the width
of the elytra is greatest at the middle, and the entire sculpture is
very fine and close.

Hab. Barberton, and in Natal.”

Mr. Arrow is mistaken in saying that in A. prconus, Bohem., the
sides of the prothorax are straight as far as the middle.

ADORETUS MURINUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 468.
‘‘ Puscous, clothed with a greyish pubescence ; outer margin of the
prothorax, coste of elytra and legs paler than the background.
Length 6 lin. :
Hab. South Africa; received from Drége.

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Tolerably vivid brown, shiny on account of the sparseness of the
hairy coating and punctures. Antenne, palpi, sides of pronotum
and legs yellowish brown; the scutellum and also the four small
coste of the elytra and even sometimes the abdomen and sternum
of the same colour, hind angles of pronotum rounded ; the hairs of
the male are shorter and whitish, those of the female are longer,
grey with a tinge of yellow; tarsi darker brown than the rest of the
leg. The small head distinguishes this species at once from all the
others.”

Burmeister assigns also to this species delicately formed mouth
parts, a scarcely crenular labrum, fine and pointed maxillary teeth,
tarsi long and thin, and hind coxe with a narrow but long truncate
process.

ADORETUS sUBCOSTATUS, Klug,
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659; Peter’s Reis., p. 261.

‘‘ Hlongate, pale testaceous, head brown, elytra rugoso-punctate,
sub-costate.

Length 44 lin.

One example from Tette. In regard to shape and colouration what
has been said of A. atricapillus holds good for this species also,
excepting that the head is simply brown. With regard to the
sculpturing, the punctures on the prothorax and elytra are par-
ticularly deeper, those on the latter being connected by transverse
wrinkles. Besides there are three only slightly raised lines (of
which traces occur in A. ngrifons) extending along the whole length
of the elytra. The tarsi are brown. One example from Tette
(Mozambique).”’

ADORETUS TARSATUS, Klug,
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659; Peter’s Reis., p. 260.
‘“‘Hlongate, fuscous, clothed with a whitish pubescence, sides of

prothorax, pectus, abdomen, and legs pallid, tarsi ferruginous.
Length 4 lin.

ADORETUS KAHLEI, Nonfr., Entom. Nachr., 1892, p. 110.

‘Oblong, convex; purple, persicino-setose, under side shining, suffused with
purple, densely squamose. Head sub-rotund, deeply punctate, shining, briefly
setose, clypeus rounded, distinctly marginate; antenne red; thorax plane, deeply
and closely punctate, shining, purple, densely setose ; scutellum cordate, vaguely
punctate. Elytra convex, elongate, parallel, granulated, briefly but densely setose,
shining. Pygidium aciculate, opaque. Legs and tarsi setose, with the sete
somewhat fulvous, shining; anterior tibie sharply tridentate. Length 14 mm.
Zarmbesi River.

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Elongato-ovate, the head of medium size, densely punctate every-
where on the upper side, rugoso-punctate in parts with raised
longitudinal stripes on the elytra. Colour pale yellowish brown ;
clypeus, palpi, antenne, and sides of the prothorax paler yellow ;
under side as well as the legs pale yellow, the only brownish part
being a mark on each side of the sternum in front of the attachment
of the hind femora, and also on the tarsi of all the legs. Several
examples from Tette (Mozambique).”’

Through the courtesy of Herr Kolbe, of the Berlin Museum,
I have been able to examine one of the co-types. The shape,
sculpture, and vestiture of this species are the same as in 4. prcinus,
Fahr., but the clypeus is not quite so deeply emarginate in the
centre as in that species; the emargination is more like that of
A. tessuliatus, Burm., = A. maculatus, Fahr.

Tre ANOMALINI.

Key to the Genera.

A’. Elytra straight at the base between the scutellum and the
humeral angle; elytra sub-cylindrical.

Maxille with hooked teeth; hind tibix a little narrower at the
apex wana the median part 2. 9... 2.9 3. -«. =. .. ..' Anomala.

Maxille without hooked teeth, hind tibie broadly dilated at the
pC KG MY OM Mec saree ere wc ele! levi Nett ips. are, LNONGOMA

A’. Elytra very slanting at the base from the humeral angle to the
scutellum ; elytra plane or very little convex.

B?. Anterior tibizw bi-dentate, basal tooth very small or nearly
obliterated, apical one somewhat straight.

Pygidium not hairy: mesosternum simple; median part of
the base of prothorax not emarginate .. .. .. .. .. Peripopillia.

Pygidium with two patches of whitish hairs, mesosternum,
produced into a conspicuous process; median part of the
base of the prothorax emarginate .. ,.. .. .. .. .. , Popillia.

Br. Anterior tibiz bi-dentate, basal tooth very sharp, apical one
curved.

a’, Maxille sharply toothed.

Clypeus rounded laterally, margins much reflexed ; club
of antenne very large in the male, prothorax not mar-
ginate in the median part of the base .. .. .. .. Pharaonus.

Clypeus as long as broad, sub-parallel, truncate and
reflexed at the tip; prothorax longer than broad,
sinuate laterally, marginate all round .... .. .. TYabora.

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at. Maxille not sharply toothed.

Upper lobe of maxille produced into a laminate process
rounded at the tip and hollowed inwardly ; clypeus not
reflexed at the tip ; prothorax marginate all round .. Gnatholabis.

Gren. ANOMALA, Samouelle, ©
Ent. Usef. Compend., i., 1819, p. 191.
Heteroplia, Burm. ; Hoplopus, Cast.; Rhinoplia, Burm.

Mentum more or less ovate laterally from the base to the point of
insertion of the palpi, parallel thence with the outer angles slightly
rounded, and the apical part broadly emarginate in the centre, it
has on the outer face a deep cordiform impression reaching from
the apex to somewhat past the median part, and the non-impressed
part is covered with dense and very long fulvous setz, the apical
margin has a few short sete, the apical joint of the labial palpi is as
long as the two preceding, slightly curved, truncate at apex and
occasionally impressed longitudinally in the outer face; maxille
armed at the tip with three powerful hooked teeth, the two lower
ones of which are bifid or geminate, but connate; the basal one is
sometimes distinctly trifid (A. wstwlata); but in A. mgrovestita the
upper teeth are reduced to a round lobe followed by three teeth
disposed transversely ; maxillary palpi moderately long, apical joint
as long as the two preceding taken together, sub-fusiform, obtuse at
the tip, and slightly impressed laterally ; antennz nine-jointed, basal
joint slender for half the length, clubbed thence, and as long as all
the three joints following; the sixth joint is narrow, transverse, the
club is tri-jointed, the joints somewhat hairy outwardly, moderately
long, sometimes of the same length in both sexes, sometimes longer
in the male than in the female (A. zambesicola) ; head moderately
large and having very large eyes divided for about one-third of their
length by the canthus of the genz; the clypeus is usually shorter
than the head, sometimes parallel laterally, and sub-truncate or
arcuate at apex, but always with the outer angles more or less
rounded, it is separated from the head by a transverse impressed
line reaching from eye to eye, and is always more densely or more
rugosely punctured than the head; prothorax marginate all round,
obliquely attenuate laterally from about the median part to the apex,
sub-parallel from the median to the basal part, where it is, however,
always slightly broader than across the median, the basal angles
without being sharp are well-defined, the surface is somewhat
convex but very sloping in front, the base is bi-sinuate, and along the

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outer margin is a series of setigerous punctures often asymmetrical
and varying from 7 to 8; scutellum ogival, slightly transversely
impressed at the base and a little broader than long; elytra very
little wider at the base than the basal part of the prothorax, slightly
bi-sinuate below the humeral angle, and gradually ampliated laterally
from one-third to about three-fourths of the length, and not much
attenuate thence towards the rounded posterior part, the outer and
posterior margins are sharp, they are moderately convex, but more
so in the posterior part where there is a median supra-apical callus,
near the humeral angle there is also a conspicuous one which is
sometimes prolonged for one-sixth of the length as an elongate
raised surface, they have more or less deeply punctured striae,
geminate in the dorsal part and separated by smooth or punctured,
round or sharp coste, the stria of the median dorsal part do not
reach quite the apex, and the supra-lateral ones are interrupted on
the humeral callus, between the second and third dorsal costz the
space is somewhat broadening near the base and filled with numerous
punctures resolving themselves into one or two regular series at
some distance from the base ; the propygidium is partly covered by
the elytra, the latter is declivous or abruptly sloping and more or
less convex, and has a fringe of hairs along the inferior margin ;
the segment of the abdomen, except the sixth and seventh in the
male and the sixth in the female, has a transverse series of deep
setigerous punctures ; metasternum somewhat broad, usually with a
shallow median impressed line or depression; mesosternum not
acuminate between the intermediate coxe the anterior edges of
which as well as of the posterior ones are sharply carinate ; hind
trochanters with a lobate process; anterior tibize bi- or tri-dentate
and having a very distinct inner spur situated at some distance from
the point of insertion of the tarsi the joints of which are robust, sub-
triangular, spinose beneath and provided with two hinged parallel
claws the outer of which is a little shorter than the inner; this latter
is either simple in the anterior and intermediate tarsi, simple in the
anterior only, or cleft transversely in the male, but in all the South
African species known to me, except one (A. mgrovestita), the female
has the claw of both the anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft; the in-
termediate and hind tibiz are compressed inwardly, slightly attenuate
at apex and have two slight, transverse bristly ridges on the outer
part. The livery of the South African species is of two sorts. They
are either completely more or less pale testaceous: the elytra are
either entirely or partly black and shiny, but without a metallic
sheen: or the upper side, and sometimes the whole body, is metallic
and either variegated with bronze-red, brown or black, or also

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wholly testaceous. They are crepuscular or nocturnal insects, and
can be captured by beating the trees.

The specific study of the 28 South African species known to me is
extremely difficult. An examination of the genital armature of the
males, as figured in plate xli. will, however, easily lead to their
identification, but all the females are extremely alike. I have had
no difficulty, however, in identifying both sexes by means of the
locality, for a glance at the habitat of the species shows how
restricted is their area of distribution in South Africa, and so far
as I know A. fuscipes is the only one having a somewhat wide
range, for it occurs in the Orange River Colony, in Buluwayo, and
Mazoe in Southern Rhodesia, and also in Northern Damaraland.

Key to the Species.

A?. Inner claw of the anterior tarsi somewhat slender in both
sexes.
B4. Inner claw of the anterior tarsi only cleft in the male and
in the female.

Ferruginous red, elytra piceous and with a narrow red-
dish margin; prothorax closely aciculate; clypeus very
narrow, broadly reflexed ; intervals of elytra conspicuously
COLIBACEOUS (Pl lie, Me 20) sg se ery re ee ies SIG NOUCSLUL.

B3. Inner claw of the anterior and intermediate tarsi simple
in the male, cleft in the female.

a?, Elytra piceous.

Piceous with the frontal part of the head and the
anterior legs reddish; prothorax indistinctly acicu-
late; clypeus narrow, hollow, and broadly reflexed ;
intervals of elytra smooth (pl. li., fig. 27)... .. .. vetula.

at. Whole body testaceous.
b?. Anterior tibis tri-dentate.

Head and clypeus somewhat roughly punctured ;
prothorax almost impunctate, and without any
median impression (pl. li., fig. 29) .. .. .. .. damara.

bt. Anterior tibiz bi-dentate.

Head and clypeus with round punctures, not sha-
ereened; clypeus quadrate; head and prothorax
each with two fuscous patches; elytra with a broad
sutural black band (pl. li., fig. 28) .. .. .. .. bohemani.

Head and clypeus shagreened; prothorax impunc-
tate, very vaguely aciculate, and having a short basal
longitudinal impressed line (pl. li., fig. 30) .. .. exoleta.

Head and clypeus shagreened; prothorax distinctly
aciculate, and having a very faint median longitudinal
impressed line (pl. li., fig. 31) .. .. «. .- «. exitialis.

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B?. Inner claw of the anterior tarsi cleft, and that of the
intermediate simple in the male.

BE:

ip 2]
N b

Gz

bt. Elytra wholly or partly piceous.

at

. Clypeus parallel.

2. Colour testaceous or testaceous red.
. Anterior tibie bi-dentate.

Clypeus a little elongate and slightly arcuate in front ;
prothorax indistinctly aciculate laterally (pl. li.,
fig. 32).. it Sec

Clypeus not very elongate and sub-truncate in front ;
prothorax punctulate laterally (pl. li., fig. 33) .

Clypeus very short and sub-truncate in front; pro-
thorax hardly punctulate laterally (pl. li., fig. 34) ..

Clypeus sub-truncate in front, but with the outer angles
somewhat rounded; prothorax distinctly aciculate
(pl. li., fig. 35)

Clypeus sub-truncate in front, but wider at its ex-
tremity than at the base

Anterior tibise tri-dentate.

Clypeus truncate in front; prothorax distinctly acicu-
late all over

Testaceous red with two black patches on the pro-
thorax, and the elytra wholly or partially piceous;
prothorax finely punctulate (pl. li., fig. 36)

Clypeus broadly rounded laterally.

Prothorax finely punctulate, with a median fus-
cous longitudinal band, and a transverse patch on
each side of it; elytra with a very narrow sutural
infuscate band (pl. li., fig. 37) ..

Inner claw of anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft in the
male.

a?. Anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly.

(ie

Testaceous, clypeus very little rounded laterally ; pro-
thorax aciculate (pl. li., fig. 39)

. Anterior tibize bi-dentate outwardly.
. Body testaceous or brick-red.

Body elongate, somewhat narrow, brick-red with the
tibie black; clypeus plainly rounded laterally, not
aciculate in the discoidal part (pl. li., fig. 38) ..

Elytra with a distinct infuscate sutural band.

Testaceous, head infuscate; prothorax plainly punc-
tulate, outer and basal margins of the elytra and
suture narrowly infuscate (pl. li., fig. 37)

Testaceous, head infuscate; prothorax aciculate,
elytra with a triangular fuscous basal band continued
along the suture (pl. li., fig. 40)

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immatura.

zambesicola.

repensa,

transvaalensis.

clypeata.

colluta.

pinguis.

ustulata.

tolerata.

intrusa.

probativa.

phthysica.

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A*. Inner claw of the anterior tarsi broad or very broad in the male.
B?. Prothorax and elytra metallic, more or less deeply fus-
cous or chestnut-brown.

Head finely rugose; prothorax very deeply and closely
punctured ; the three first coste on each elytron sub-
tectiform and smooth (pl. li., fig. 41) Re) ee) er) ein LUE

Head finely rugose; prothorax with closely set but not
deep punctures; the three first coste on each elytron
transversely plicates )/()) Vien se) es fennel es OUI DOR:

Head closely rugulose; prothorax with very faint, round,
small punctures more distinct on the sides, first and
second intervals of each elytron sub-tectiform,impunctate,
punctures on the strise very deep; second interval pluri-
punctate for about a quarter of the length (pl. li., fig. 44) castanea.

Head closely rugulose; prothorax with distinct but shal-
low punctures; punctures on the striz round and mode-
rately deep, second interval pluri-punctate for half the
length.

Inner claw of the male moderately broad ; under side
testa ceouss (plies ties 42) iy lsc ee yee icone MnRCOL CUS

Inner claw of the male very broad ; under side the
colour of the elytra (pl. li., fig. 43) .. .. .. resplendens.

B'. Prothorax and elytra partly or completely testaceous.

Head slightly infuscate; prothorax with a very broad
fuscous patch ; elytra sharply costate and with the striz
very deeply punctured, nearly totally piceous with a broad
supra-marginal testaceous band, or piceous with a broad
triangular infuscate sutural band (pl. li., fig. 46) .. .. dorsata.

Head infuscate; prothorax with a very broad discoidal
fuscous patch; elytra costate on the dorsal part the strise
of which are fuscous and the coste testaceous; second
interval irregularly punctured for four-fifths of the length parca.

Head slightly infuscate, the rest of the body testaceous ;
elytra costate, second interval irregularly punctured for a
short distance only (pl. li., fig. 45) wie) ih faq Dee MUS CICOD Se

Head and median part of the prothorax reddish brown,
metallic ; elytra somewhat short, costulate, flavescent, and
with the second interval irregularly punctured for a quarter
of thellength (ples, fey 47) 5.) eee ee nC LOOM:

ANOMALA NIGROVESTITA, Arr.,
Plate XLI., fig. 26.
Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond., 1899, p. 119.

Ferruginous red, moderately shining, elytra piceous, with a basal
humeral reddish patch and a narrow sutural band of the same colour ;

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head very small, deeply and roughly punctured like the clypeus
which is somewhat depressed with the margins much reflexed,
broadly rounded laterally and somewhat arcuate in front; prothorax
somewhat sinuate laterally between the median part and the basal
angle, deeply and moderately closely punctured and having in the
centre from the median part to the base a narrow, elongate, im-
punctate space, along the outer margin there is a series of not
closely set, reddish bristles; scutellum with a median impression,
deeply punctured ; elytra nearly parallel in the male, slightly ampliate
at about one-third of the length in the female, punctato-striate, the
punctures seriate but somewhat transverse, shallow, very irregular,
and giving to the elytra a very coriaceous appearance, they are not
obliterated on the apical callus which is not very conspicuous, and
the intervals are costulate, the outer margin has a fringe of reddish,
bristle-like hairs; pygidium deeply and coarsely punctured and
fringed at the apex with long, reddish-brown hairs; pectus and legs
villose, the former very densely ; the hind tibiae are darker than the
others, the inner claw of the anterior tarsi only is cleft, in both sexes.
Length 13-15 mm.; width 7-74 mm.
Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

. ANOMALA VETULA, Wiedem.,
Plate XUI., fig. 27.
Germ. Mag. Entom., iv., p. 138.

A. miens, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1., p. 238.
A. ered, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 186.

Piceous black, very shining and with a faint metallic tinge, head
and anterior legs reddish, palpi and antennz rufescent ; prothorax
with a very narrow rufescent margin, but occasionally reddish brown
with two black patches on the prothorax; head somewhat narrow
with the clypeus distinctly hollowed and the margins strongly
reflexed, is broadly rounded laterally, but nearly straight in front
and roughly punctured, the head is also roughly punctured in the
anterior part and more regularly and somewhat closely in the
posterior; prothorax plainly attenuate diagonally laterally from the
median to the anterior part, very slightly ampliate in the middle,
nearly straight thence to the basal angle, bi-sinuate along the base
and having a narrow marginal fold, moderately convex, faintly
aciculate in the discoidal part and a little more distinctly so on the
sides ; scutellum impressed at the apex, plainly punctate and having
also a faint trace of a longitudinal impressed median line; elytra not
broader than the prothorax at the base but slightly ampliated from

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the shoulder to a third of the length and much more strongly there,
convex, very deeply punctato-striate with the intervals between
each duplicate series of punctures costulate, and more distinctly
so in the male than in the female, but the interval between the
juxta-sutural costa and the second is filled in the anterior part with
irregular non-seriate rough punctures, these rows of punctures are
obliterated near the humeral and the apical callus which are very
distinct; pygidium covered with round, equi-distant. punctures
moderately closely set and fringed at apex with long fulvous hairs,
the pectus is clothed with similar villose hairs and each abdominal
segment has a transverse median row of similar but shorter ones in
the female; legs somewhat villose; anterior tibiae bi-dentate out-
wardly in both sexes, inner claw of the anterior and intermediate
tarsi simple in the male, cleft in the female.

Length 13-164 mm.; width 7-9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth, Graham’s
Town).

ANOMALA BOHEMANI, Fiahr., n. spec.,
Plate LXL., fig. 28.
Insect. Caffrar., i1., p. 65.

Testaceous, without any metallic sheen, head with the sides
diagonally fuscous, prothorax with two sub-longitudinal fuscous
patches occasionally obliterated; elytra with a broad sutural black
band extending as far as the second or even the third stria, but
confined in the extreme posterior part to the suture only, the outer
margin has also a black line except near the humeral part; clypeus
parallel laterally, truncate in front with the outer angles somewhat
rounded and with the anterior margin very reflexed and covered, like
the head, with moderately closely set round punctures; prothorax a
little longer in proportion to the size than in the other South African
species, being in length half that of the elytra, faintly aciculate in the
centre and more distinctly on the sides; elytra of the normal shape,
plainly regularly punctato-striate, with the punctures round and
somewhat deep, second interval numerously and irregularly punctured
from the base to four-fifths of the length in both sexes ; propygidium
and pygidium somewhat finely punctate; pectus densely pubescent ;
anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly; in the male the club of the
antennee is as long as all the other joints taken together, and the
inner claw of the anterior and intermediate tarsi is simple, and cleft
in the female.

Length 103-114 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban), Orange River (teste Boheman).

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ANOMALA DAMARA, 0. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 29.

Pale brick-red, shining, palpi and antennz testaceous, tarsi darker,
head very slightly infuscate in the frontal part, deeply and very
closely punctured, the clypeus is rounded laterally, slightly arcuate
in front in the male and sub-truncate in the female, the margins are
reflexed and the punctuation is more rugose than on the head;
prothorax nearly sub-parallel from the median very slightly ampliate
part to the basal angle, but slightly sinuate, little convex and im-
punctate ; scutellum impressed longitudinally in the middle and very
slightly punctate; elytra sinuate laterally at a short distance from
the shoulder and ampliate from about the median part, somewhat
deeply punctato-striate with some of the intervals faintly costulate
and the broad interval between the first and the second stria filled
with irregular shallow punctures giving it a coriaceous appearance,
the punctures are nearly obliterated on the humeral callus but not
on the apical; pygidium with shallow, not closely set, small punctures
and having no fringe of hairs; pectus clothed with flavous hairs, legs
slightly hairy inwardly; anterior tibie bi-dentate outwardly, inner
claw of anterior and intermediate tarsi simple in the male, cleft in
the female.

Length 134-15 mm.; width 8 mm.

Hab. Damaraland (Otjimbingwe).

ANOMALA EXOLETA, 0. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 30.

Pale testaceous, shining, hind tibize and tarsi darker; head finely
yet deeply and closely punctured especially in the anterior part,
clypeus sub-truncate in front but broadly rounded laterally, the
margin is reflexed and the punctuation is similar to that of the
anterior part of the head; prothorax slightly sinuate laterally between
the median part which is not ampliate and the basal angle where
it is slightly broader than across the median part, very finely
aciculate, but the aciculation is hardly distinct in the centre of the
disk where there is a faint impressed median line obliterated occa-
sionally ; scutellum with a few small lateral and basal punctures ;
elytra regularly punctato-striate, the punctures are moderately deep
and the four raised intervals distinct, the punctures are obliterated
near the humeral and apical callus, and those between the first and
second punctate strize are shallow but not very rugose; the shape is
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punctured, not fringed with hairs; pectus, abdomen, and legs as in
A. damara; anterior tibize bi-dentate outwardly, inner claw of
anterior and intermediate tarsi simple in the male, cleft in the female.
Length 15-184 mm.; width 8-94 mm.
Hab. Orange River Colony (Bothaville), Mozambique (Lourengo-
Marquez).

ANOMALA EXITIALIS, n. spec.,
Plate XLL, fig. 31.

Very closely allied to A. exoleta; the colour, shape, and sculp-
ture are similar, but the size is somewhat larger; the difference
is in the shape of the clypeus, which is more parallel laterally, the
outer angles are not quite so broadly rounded, and the anterior
part is almost truncate; the head and clypeus are a little more
roughly punctured, the aciculation of the prothorax is more distinct,
and the anterior tibize have either a third basal not very pronounced
outer tooth or a distinct sinuation ; the shape of the genital armature
of the male differs much from that of any other South African
species; the inner claw of the anterior and intermediate tarsi is
simple in the male, cleft in the female.

Length 17-18 mm.; width 9-94 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Middle Limpopo), Mozam-
bique (Lourengo-Marquez).

ANOMALA IMMATURA, Bohem.,
Plate XUL., fig. 32.
Ofvers. Vet. Ak. Férh., 1860, p. 16.
A. solida,* Arrow, Trans. Entom. Soc., 1899, p. 257.

This species closely resembles A. exoleta and A. exitialis, but
it is not quite so pale testaceous, the clypeus is longer, quite
parallel laterally, while the anterior part is very slightly arcuate
with the outer angles only moderately rounded, and the anterior
margin is conspicuously reflexed; the punctures on the elytra are
rounder and less rugose, and the intervals are very little raised ; the
inner claw of the anterior tarsi is slightly cleft in the male, but in
the female that of the anterior and of the intermediate ones are
deeply incised. The shape of the genital armature of the male is

* In Boheman’s type the fore tibie are tri-dentate but the basal tooth is very
small, whereas they are bi-dentate in A. solida (mutata), Arrow, but there is no
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very different from that of the three allied species mentioned
before.

Length 15-17 mm. ; width 73-95 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Griqualand West), Transvaal (Potchet-
stroom).

ANOMALA ZAMBESICOLA, N. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 33.

Light brick-red with the clypeus a little darker than the rest of
the body. This species resembles A. wmmatura, but it is a little
wider in proportion to its length, the club of the antenne of the
male is a little longer, and is equal in length to all the other joints
put together; the head and clypeus are a little more roughly
punctured ; the latter is not quite so long, and is sub-truncate in
the anterior part; the punctures on the prothorax are more distinct,
and there is in the median part of the disk a short, impressed
longitudinal line; the scutellum is a little shorter; the elytra in
the male have several irregular rows of punctures on the first and
second intervals, but they are normally geminate and regular in the
female; the pygidium is moderately closely punctured in the median
part, scrobiculate laterally, and is not fringed with hairs, but the
pectus is densely clothed with light fulvous ones; anterior tibiz
bi-dentate outwardly; inner claw of the anterior tarsi of the male
slightly cleft, in the female the inner claw of both the anterior and
intermediate tarsi are somewhat deeply cleft.

Length 134-15 mm.; width 74-9 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Mazoé, Enkeldoorn), Ovampo-
Jand (Okovango River).

ANOMALA REPENSA, 0. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 34.

This species is so closely allied to A. zambesicola that it is difficult
at first sight to distinguish it, except by comparing the genital
armatures, but the clypeus is slightly shorter and more broadly
rounded laterally, although equally truncate in front, and the
anterior margin is more vertically reflexed; the aciculation on the
»prothorax of the male is very slight, but in the female it is the
denser and much more distinct; the intervals between the punctate
striz on the elytra are much less numerously punctate, and the
valves of the genital armature are more elongate, more sharply
acuminate at the tip, where they diverge much more, and have on

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each side a much longer and also much deeper impression; in the
male the inner claw of the anterior and intermediate tarsi is very
slightly cleft, but deeply so in the female, and the colour is a little
paler in both sexes than in A. zambesicola, but that of the head, tarsi,
and hind tibiz is the same.

Length 16-164 mm.; width 9 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Johannesburg).

ANOMALA CLYPEATA, Arr.,
Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1899, p. 257.

‘“‘ Very closely allied to A. solida,* Arr., but a little longer; testa-
ceous, clypeus sub-truncate and widest towards the anterior margin,
lateral margin of the prothorax sub-angulate in the median part ;
pygidium roughly punctate.

Length 17-19 mm.

Male: Claws of the anterior tarsi not evenly cleft, basal outer
teeth of the anterior tibia long and curved, tarsi long and
robust.

Female: Claws of the anterior and intermediate tarsi evenly
cleft, basal outer teeth of the anterior tibiz long and straight, tarsi
shorter and more slender than in the male.

Hab. Cape Colony (Adelaide).

This is closely allied to A. solida, but is distinguished by the
shape of the clypeus, which is widest at its extremity.”

ANOMALA PINGUIS, Péring.,
Plate XUL., fig. 36.
Trans. Entomol. Soc., 1896, p. 161.

Testaceous red, with two broad longitudinal black patches on the
prothorax; elytra piceous, with a very small basal testaceous red
patch, which, however, in some examples is developed into a broad
and long lateral band, hind and intermediate tibiz and all the tarsi
piceous ; clypeus slightly fuscous, closely and roughly punctured,
sub-truncate in front, well rounded laterally, and with the anterior
margin much reflexed, especially in the male, anterior part of the
head deeply and closely punctate; prothorax slightly wider in the

ampliate median part than at the base, finely and closely punctulate,

and having a fine median line faintly impressed; scutellum more
distinctly punctulate in the female than in the male; elytra deeply
and irregularly punctato-striate with the raised intervals plainly

* A. immaculata, Boh.

a

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costate in both sexes, but the punctures are deeper and more
irregular in the male ; pygidium very closely punctured ; pectus not
densely hairy ; anterior tibiz bi-dentate in both sexes; inner claw
of the anterior tarsi only cleft in the male, deeply cleft in both the
anterior and intermediate ones in the female.

Length 15-18 mm. ; width 8-10 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

ANOMALA COLLUTA, Nn. spec.

Testaceous, shining, with the clypeus, the hind tibia, and the
tarsi piceous red. This species, of which the male is not known
to me, is distinguished from the other testaceous species by the
more massive body; the anterior tibiz are plainly tri-dentate, as in
A. damara; the clypeus is quite parallel laterally, as in A. ammatura,
but sub-truncate in front, and the head and clypeus are a little more
rugose than in these two species; the prothorax is plainly punctulate
and has a median longitudinal impressed line on the disk; the
scutellum is faintly aciculate, and the punctate strize on the elytra
are normal; the pygidium is deeply and irregularly punctured and
scrobiculate laterally, and the pectus is densely villose; the inner
claw of the anterior and intermediate tarsi are deeply and broadly
cleft.

Length 18 mm.; width 114 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourengo-Marquez).

ANOMALA TRANSVAALENSIS, Arr.,
Plate XLI., fig. 35.
Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1899, p. 258.
A. pallida, Fahr. (nec Fabric., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 60.)

Testaceous, shining, legs reddish, hind tibiw piceous red; it has
the general appearance of A. wmmatura, although smaller, but the
shape of the clypeus is similar to that of A. zambesicola, and the
punctuation is nearly the same on the head and prothorax, but
the scutellum is more closely punctured, and the series of punctures
on the elytra are much more regular and geminate, except in
the first interval; the pygidium is somewhat closely and deeply
punctured and scrobiculate laterally ; the inner claw of the anterior
tarsi of the male is somewhat deeply cleft. The female is unknown
to me.

Length 134-141 mm.; width 7-8 mm.

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Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria), British Bechuanaland (Kanye), Cape
Colony (Griqualand West).

ANOMALA USTULATA, Arrow,
Plate XLI., fig. 37.
Annals Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1899, iv., p. 118.

Pale testaceous, with the whole head fuscous brown, and having
on the prothorax a median longitudinal narrow black patch and a
transverse one of equal length on each side of it, tarsi reddish
brown ; clypeus and anterior part of the head scrobiculate, basal
part of the latter deeply and somewhat closely punctate; club of
the antenne not longer than the four preceding joints taken together
in the male; prothorax short, twice as broad as long, and having
along the outer margin a row of distant bristles; scutellum very
closely and somewhat deeply punctured along the base and on
the sides, and impressed longitudinally at the apex; elytra pale
testaceous but having a narrow infuscate line alongside the
scutellum, the suture, and the outer margin, there is no raised
interval, the striz are regularly punctured, and the punctures
round and moderately deep; the pygidium is finely coriaceous, and
the pectus is moderately densely hairy; the anterior tibize are
bi-dentate outwardly, and the inner claw of the anterior and inter-
mediate tarsi is strongly cleft in both sexes. The genital armature
of the male is exactly similar to that of A. probatiwwa. The female
has sometimes the whole of the discoidal part of the prothorax
suffused with fuscous brown.

Length 16 mm.; width 8 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourengo-Marquez), Transvaal (Pretoria),
Damaraland.

ANOMALA INTRUSA, nN. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 38.

Red, moderately shining, with the tibie and the tarsi black; in
the male, however, only the outer part of the anterior tibiz is black;
clypeus truncate in front, with the outer angles broadly rounded
and the anterior margin moderately reflexed, it is very roughly
punctate, like the anterior part of the head, and the eyes are very
large in the male; prothorax of normal shape, faintly aciculate
laterally and having in the female a short, median impressed line
which in the male is only faintly indicated ; scutellum with a few
scattered punctures; elytra conspicuously sub-parallel in the male,
normally ampliated laterally from a third of the length in the

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female, very deeply punctato-striate and plainly costate in both
sexes, but with the punctures more irregular in the discoidal part
in the male ; pygidium somewhat closely punctured in the middle
and sub-scrobiculate laterally ;. pectus moderately hairy; anterior
tibie bi-dentate outwardly ; inner claw of anterior and intermediate
tarsi cleft in both the sexes. In this species the three teeth of the
maxille are not bifid, and the shape of the genital armature does
not at all resemble that of the other South African species.

Length 14-15 mm.; width 64-74 mm.

I have seen three males of this species, easily recognisable by
their elongate, sub-parallel shape; in one of them the claws are
partly broken; in the second the inner claw of the intermediate
tarsi is distinctly although not deeply cleft, but in the third example
this claw is simple.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

ANOMALA TOLERATA, N. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 39.

Pale testaceous, with the clypeus mostly always slightly infuscate,
hind tibize piceous, head very roughly and closely punctured, clypeus
sub-truncate at apex and moderately broadly rounded laterally,
anterior margin reflexed and moderately highly raised ; prothorax
nearly straight laterally from the median part to the basal angle,
and moderately closely aciculate all over; scutellum with scattered
punctures; elytra of the normal shape, deeply punctured and
costulate in both sexes; pygidium deeply and not very closely
punctured laterally, and less closely in the centre; pectus villose ;
anterior tibize tri-dentate in the male, bi-dentate in the female;
inner claw of anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft in both sexes.

Length 124-134 mm.; width 6-64 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Enkeldoorn).

ANOMALA PROBATIVA, 0. spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 37.

Pale testaceous, with a narrow border on the elytra along the
base and the scutellum, and a slightly broader one along the suture ;
the head is also more or less deeply fuscous, and in many examples
the humeral callus and the striz are more or less deeply infuscate ;
clypeus broadly rounded laterally, sub-truncate in front if the male,
arcuate in the female, and with the anterior margin moderately
highly reflexed, it is very closely shagreened, the head is equally

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shagreened, but more regularly punctate in the posterior part; pro-
thorax of the normal shape, and having a fringe of long, not closely
set hairs, it is covered with very closely set round punctures, and
has on the disk a very short, median impressed longitudinal line
which is often obliterated in the male; scutellum with moderately
closely set punctures, and having in the female a distinct longitudinal
impressed line; elytra deeply punctato-striate in both sexes, and with
the intervals plainly costate, the punctures on the first one are very
coarse and closely set; the pygidium is very closely aciculate and
is plainly fringed with somewhat long hairs all round, including the
basal part in the female, but the basal fringe is very short and not
dense in the male; anterior tibize bi-dentate outwardly, inner claw
of the anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft ; pectus densely hairy in
the male, less so in the female.

Length 184-15 mm.; width 8 mm.

Hab. Naa (Durban, Newcastle), Transvaal (Busioubare)

In two female examples from Rustenburg, the prothorax has the
whole of the median part fuscous.*

ANOMALA PHTHYSICA, 0. Spec.,
Plate XLI., fig. 40.

Testaceous, with the posterior part of the head slightly infuscate,
and having on the elytra a triangular black patch extending on the
base as far as the fifth stria on each side and tapering into a sutural
border at about the median part; tarsi piceous brown in some
examples; clypeus nearly parabolic, very closely and deeply
punctured; the anterior part of the head is equally closely punctured,
but the punctures on the posterior part are regular and not so
closely set; the anterior margin is only moderately reflexed ; pro-
thorax normally shaped, not fringed laterally with hairs, indistinctly
aciculate, and without any impressed median line; scutellum in-
distinctly aciculate ; elytra with deep, somewhat regular series of
punctures, the intervals of which are very plainly costate ; the juxta-
sutural interval, instead of being filled with numerous irregular
punctures, is distinctly costate, and the irregular punctures are
restricted to the basal part; pygidium very closely punctate; pectus
very little villose; anterior tibize bi-dentate outwardly, inner claw of
the anterior and intermediate tarsi not broad, and cleft in the male.
Female unknown to me.

Length 142-13 mm. ; width 6-64 mm.

* This variable species may prove to be identical with A. ustulata, the armature
of the males being similar.

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Hab. British Bechuanaland (Range), Southern Rhodesia (Salis-
bury ; between the Zambesi and the Limpopo Rivers).

ANOMALA OVAMPOA, N. spec.

Piceous red, with a greenish bronze sheen; clypeus broadly
rounded laterally, sub-retuse in front where it is only slightly
reflexed, very closely and roughly punctured, head also roughly
punctured from the transverse impressed line to the base; palpi and
antennee piceous red with the club of the latter flavescent ; prothorax
obliquely attenuate laterally from about the median part to the
apex, and nearly straight from the middle to the posterior angle,
covered with very closely set and deep round punctures separated
from one another by a space equal to one of the punctures, and
having in the centre a longitudinal smooth area; scutellum with
fine scattered punctures and a smooth median area; elytra of the
normal shape, and having the three first intervals on each side
carinate, sub-tectiform, and smooth, in the third interval the pluri-
seriate punctures reach only to about one-fifth of the length, the
punctures of the stria are somewhat deep and regular; the pygidium
is covered with small but deep foveate punctures somewhat closely
set; the pectus is moderately densely villose; the anterior tibie
are bi-dentate outwardly, and in the female, the only sex known
to me, the outer claw of both the anterior and intermediate tarsi
are deeply cleft and somewhat broad.

Length 11 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Ovampoland.

This species resembles very closely A. senegalensis, the 9? of
which is unknown to me; but the cost on the elytra are not
aciculate, and the punctures on the second and third intervals are
more numerous and extend further from the basal part.

ANOMALA DITA, N. spec.,
Plate XUI., fig. 41.

This species is very closely allied to the preceding one, but a
ittle more robust in proportion to its size. The colour varies
between piceous red and reddish bronze; the shape of the clypeus
is the same, and the sculpture of the whole head is somewhat
roughly shagreened, but not quite as strongly as in A. ovampoa ;
the punctures on the prothorax are finer, less deep, more scattered
on the discoidal part, and although being as numerous laterally,
they are less rugose there; the shape of the elytra is normal, but

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they have along the outer margin and under the humeral callus
an elongate, raised, smooth area, more conspicuous than in the
other South African species; the three first intervals of the elytra
are sub-tectiform, and more or less distinctly plicate transversely
owing to the punctures in the striew being transverse, the punctures
on the other striz are deep and regular, in the third intervals the
pluri-seriate punctures reach only to about one-sixth of the length,
and the scutellum is deeply and closely punctured; pygidium
completely covered with equi-distant, closely set, deep punctures ;
anterior tibize bi-dentate outwardly ; outer claws of the anterior and
intermediate tarsi very broad and slightly cleft in the male, less
robust and more deeply cleft in the female.

Length 11-114 mm.; width 53-6 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Enkeldoorn).

ANOMALA CASTANEA, F'ghr.,
Plate XLI., fig. 44.
Insect. Caffrar., 11., p. 61.

Aineous or reddish bronze, with the sides of the prothorax, the
pygidium, under side, and femora testaceous. Similar in shape and
size to A. ovampoa from which it differs in the very faintly aciculate
prothorax, the finer and closer punctures of the scutellum, the deeper
punctures of the strie of the elytra the three first intervals of which
are narrower and therefore sharper, and the second and third inter-
vals deeply pluri-serrate from the base to about one-quarter of the
length; pygidium closely punctured; pectus very little pubescent ;
anterior tibie bi-dentate outwardly; inner claw of the anterior and
intermediate tarsi slightly cleft in the male, the inner anterior claw
being very broad. Female unknown.

Length 11 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Rustenburg).

ANOMALA CAFFRA, Burm.,
Plate XLL., fig. 42.
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 266.

Chestnut-brown, with a conspicuous metallic sheen, prothorax
especially bronze greer, under side and femora brick-red, but also
metallic; sculpture and shape of the clypeus and head similar to
those of the preceding species; prothorax having also the same
shape, finely and equally punctured in the manner of A. dita, but
with the punctures rounder and less closely set on the sides; the

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shape of the elytra is also that of A. dita, but there is no conspicuous
smooth callus on the outer margin at a short distance from the base,
the first three dorsal intervals are not so sharply costiform, all the
punctures of the strize are much shallower and rounder, especially
on the first three dorsal ones and on the second and third intervals
the pluri-seriate punctures reach to about the median dorsal part ;
the pygidium is of the same colour as the elytra and deeply and
closely punctate; the pectus is moderately densely pubescent ; the
anterior tibiz are bi-dentate; the inner claw of the anterior and
intermediate tarsi are deeply cleft in both sexes, but the former in
the male is not broad.

Length 11-124 mm. ; width 6-74 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

ANOMALA RESPLENDENS, F'ahr.,
Plate XLI., fig. 43.
Insect. Caffrar., 11., p. 60.

Extremely closely allied to A. caffra; the colour is the same,
although a little more greenish, but the under side and femora are of
the same colour as the upper side ; the punctures on the prothorax
are round but a little more closely set, and on the elytra the fifth
punctate stria is obliterated from the base to about the median
part. This, however, may prove to be accidental. The main dis-
tinctive characters are found in the much broader outer claw of the
anterior tarsi, which is very deeply cleft in the inner side in the
male (the intermediate one is also very deeply cleft, but is not
broad), and in the shape of the genital armature of the male, the
clasps of which are less elongate, more sloping, and the lower
process of which is very much longer and curves upwards.

Length 12 mm.; width 7 mm.

Hab. Natal (Frere).

Fahroeus’ type is a female.

ANOMALA DORSATA, Fthr.,
Plate XLI., fig. 46.
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 63.
A. vitiapenmis, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 64.
A, margymcollis,* Arr., Ann. Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1899, iv., p. 119.
Testaceous, with the head and tarsi piceous red; on the prothorax
are two more or less faint fuscous patches which occasionally invade

* Mr. Arrow informs me that he believes A. marginicollis to be a variety of the
very variable A. dorsata.

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the whole of the discoidal part, the elytra have a fuscous band along
the scutellum and the suture, and the outer margin is also slightly
infuseate, but as often as not the surface is infuscate with the
exception of a somewhat broad supra-marginal testaceous band ;
clypeus sub-parabolic but a little obtuse in front, and slightly
attenuate and rounded laterally in the male, less so in the female,
very closely and somewhat roughly punctate all over the head ;
prothorax covered with deep, round, very closely set punctures ;
elytra very deeply punctato-striate and with all the intervals dis-
tinctly costate and smooth, on the second interval there are only a
few punctures near the base, the inner claw of the anterior and
intermediate tarsi is cleft in both sexes, and the anterior one is very
broad in the male; the pygidium in both sexes is covered with
almost confluent, sub-scrobiculate, somewhat deep punctures, and
the abdomen is very little pubescent; the anterior tibie are
bi-dentate in the female, but have a third short basal angular:
tooth in the male.

Length 103-13 mm. ; width 6-74 mm. :

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (between the Zambesi and Limpopo
Rivers, Salisbury, Mazoé, Buluwayo), Transvaal (Pienaars River).

The examples with testaceous elytra and sutural infuscate band
resemble very much A. phthysica, but the males are at once dis-
tinguished by the broader inner anterior claw.

ANOMALA FUSCICEPS, Fahr.,
Plate XLI., fig. 45.
Insect. Caffr., 11., p. 62.

Pale testaceous, with the head chestnut-brown, shining, but not
metallic, and having the suture and the outer margin of the elytra
very narrowly darker; head very closely and deeply punctured,
clypeus shagreened, distinctly attenuate laterally towards the anterior
part which is sub-truncate with the angles broadly rounded ; pro-
thorax of the normal shape and having only seven setigerous
punctures along the outer margin, covered with dense, deep,
round punctures, slightly cicatricose, and smaller and still more
closely set along the anterior margin, in the male there is a very
narrow smooth longitudinal band, and a short, impressed line in the
female; scutellum with punctures of nearly the same size as those
on the prothorax, but a little less closely set ; elytra a little elongate
and not much ampliate laterally past the median part in the female,
deeply punctato-striate and with the four juxta-sutural intervals

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plainly costate ; in the male only the basal part of the second and
third intervals are pluri-punctate, but the number and extent of
these irregular punctures vary; pygidium covered with closely set,
deep punctures; pectus very slightly pubescent; anterior tibiz
bi-dentate outwardly in both sexes; inner claw of anterior and
intermediate tarsi cleft, the anterior one of the male broad.

Length 104-134 mm. ; width 6-6; mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Mashonaland, Zambesi River),
Northern Damaraland, Orange River Colony (Bothaville).

The examples from Mashonaland, Zambesi, and Damaraland are
a little redder and more metallic than the others.

ANOMALA DELAGOA, 0. spec.,
Plate XLL., fig. 47.

Flavescent, with the head, the discoidal part of the prothorax the
scutellum and the tibiz reddish brown with a strong metallic sheen,
which is also, but in a much lesser degree, noticeable on the elytra ;
head deeply and very closely punctured, the punctures are more
irregular on the clypeus, which is therefore more shagreened, and is
plainly attenuate laterally with the angles broadly rounded, and the
anterior part sub-truncate; prothorax a little broader at the base
than across the median part, and covered with somewhat closely
set, round, moderately shallow punctures equi-distant all over the
surface ; scutellum with somewhat scattered, round, moderately
deep punctures ; elytra a little shorter in proportion to the size than
any of the South African species, being only twice as long as the
prothorax, deeply punctato-striate, especially the first four strie,
the four intervals of which are distinctly costate ; the third interval
is pluri-punctate from the base to about one-fifth of the length; the
pygidium is closely punctate, and the pectus only slightly villose ;
anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly ; inner claw of the anterior and
intermediate tarsi cleft in both sexes, the anterior inner claw is very
broad in the male.

Length 10-104 mm. ; width 52-6 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourengo-Marquez).

ANOMALA PAROA, 0. spec.

Testaceous, with the head reddish brown, the prothorax has a
very broad fuscous sub-metallic patch covering the whole of the
central part, and also a round spot close to the supra-lateral fossa
which, as often as not, coalesces with the central patch ; elytra with

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the suture and all the dorsal strize infuscate but with the seven
costate intervals testaceous ; clypeus and anterior part of the head
strongly and closely shagreened, basal part of the head closely
punctured ; the clypeus is sub-truncate in front and moderately
rounded laterally ; prothorax of normal shape, and with the supra-
lateral fossa conspicuously deep, it is covered with very closely set
equi-distant, moderately deep, round punctures ; scutellum somewhat
closely punctured; elytra plainly costate on the dorsal part; the
costz are not carinate, and are smooth, the punctures in the striz#
are deep and somewhat irregular towards the sides, and the second
interval is filled with punctures irregularly disposed from the base to
four-fifths of the length; pygidium sometimes slightly infuscate,
covered with coalescing, shallow, somewhat cicatricose small fovese ;
pectus very little pubescent; anterior tibia bi-dentate; claws of
anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft in the female, the only sex
I know.

Not unlike the female of A. dorsata, but with the elytra more
ampliate laterally behind, and easily distinguished from all the
other South African species by the irregular punctuation of the
second interval extending from the base to four-fifths of the -~
length.

Length 114-124 mm. ; width 6-7 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

(Species which I have not been able to identify.)

ANOMALA BRUNNEA, Klug,
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659; Peter’s Reis., p. 259.

‘Reddish brown, head and prothorax with an sneous sheen,
vaguely and finely punctate, elytra striato-punctate.

Length 5 lin.

One example from Tette (Mozambique). Similar to A. vetula,
Wiedem., from the Cape, but smaller and relatively narrower. The
colour is a tolerably bright brown-red, not without metallic glance on
the head and prothorax which are furnished with fine scattered
punctures ; the head is marginate, the margin not reflexed; the
elytra have rows of punctures, the interspaces being flat, provided
here and there, but always sparely, with impressed punctures; the
under side and the legs are like the upper side brown-red, only
somewhat darker. The tibie of the fore-legs are bi-dentate, the
external broader claw is cleft.’

ANOMALA SEBAKUANA, D. spec.

Very pale straw-colour with the head reddish or brownish red; prothorax with
two discoidal black patches, suture of elytra black; pygidium with a broad,
triangular fuscous, or black, basal patch; clypeus parallel, truncate in front,
closely punctured like the frontal part; prothorax plainly finely and closely
punctured ; elytra with the same sculpture as A. prebativa, with which it is closely
connected, the genital armature being very, yet not quite similar, apart from its
smaller size it is also distinguished from the latter by the foveolato-punctate

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ANOMALA LUucIDA, Klug,
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659; Peter’s Reis., p. 259.

‘“‘Obscurely ferruginous, with an eneous sheen on the upper side ;
head, thorax, and scutellum with punctate impressions ; elytra striato-
punctate.

Length 44 lin.

One example from Sena (Mozambique). Somewhat smaller than
A. brunnea, but otherwise similarly shaped. Dark brown, metallic
above; head, prothorax, and scutellum more strongly and more
densely punctate; the elytra with rows of punctures, the inter-
spaces scarcely raised and smooth ; anterior tibiz bi-dentate ; claws
as in A. brunnea.”’

ANOMALA LUTEA, Klug,
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1885, p. 659; Peter’s Reis., p. 258.

“Ovate, yellowish testaceous, head, margin of prothorax, suture
of elytra and tarsi ferruginous.

Length 9 lin.

Very like A. pallida, Fabr., only a little larger. The yellow
colouration extends over almost the whole body, only the head,
with the exception of the antenne, the dorsal surface of the
prothorax, the suture of the elytra, their apical margin, and the
tarsi are brown ; the area between the eyes is a little more deeply
impressed, and the prothorax more deeply punctured than in the
case of A. pallida; the elytra are more frequently and more irre-
eularly punctured, especially in the intervals ; the brown colouration
of the suture is only feebly indicated; and that of the margin is
limited to the apex of the elytra; anterior tibiz bi-dentate. This
species belong to the Sub-genus Heteroplia of Burmeister. Several
examples from Tette (Mozambique).”

ANOMALA PLAGIATA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 496.

‘““Testaceous, shining, with the head, the disk of the prothorax, and
a broad sutural patch on the elytra black; margin fuscous, tarsi
infuscate.

Length 6mm. ¢.

From Kaffirland. Collection. of Mr. Germar. Shorter than
A. vetula, but with the same shape ; the head is somewhat broader,
and the anterior margin less reflexed; club of the antenne very
thick and broad; head and prothorax finely punctate, the former

pygidium, which is only aciculate in comparison, especially in the median part, in
A. probativa ; inner claw of anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft in both sexes.
Length 113-113 mm.; width 53-6 mm.
Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).
ANOMALA OPACICOLLIS, n. spec.
This species is also very closely allied to A. probativa, and the shape of the

genital armature of both species is the same, but the colour is paler and the body is
a little more elongate in proportion to the size; the prothorax, which is somewhat

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somewhat roughly; elytra finely striate ; ground colour, brownish
yellow, the head, the middle of the prothorax, the region of the
suture and the outer margin, the outside of the tibia and the tarsi
blackish ; anterior tibiz bi-dentate.”’

This species, which I have not been able to identify, should come
in the same group (Hoplopus) as A. vetula, which group comprises
all the species, the male of which has the claws of the anterior and
intermediate tarsi simple.

ANOMALA RUSSATICEPS, Fairm.,
Annal. Soc. Entom. d. France, 1888, p. 179.

‘“Ovate, convex, slightly ampliate behind, pale fulvous, shining,
head and tarsi somewhat light chestnut, outer teeth of anterior tibie
fuscous, suture and outer margin of elytra, posterior margin of the
prothorax, whole sides of the scutellum very narrowly infuscate.
Ovambo.

Length 13 mm.

This Anomala resembles very closely A. pallida, Fabr., but it is a
little smaller, the head is more convex, less rugose, more narrowly
emarginate in the anterior part; the prothorax is almost opaque ;
the striz of the elytra are more finely and more densely punctured;
and are geminate ; lastly, the claws of the anterior tarsi are much
less unequal, and the larger one is more sharply cleft at the tip.”

ANOMALA DISTANTI, Arrow,
Transact. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1899, p. 258.

‘« A close ally to the preceding species (A. transvalensis), but less
distinctly punctate, prothorax very finely punctate, strongly con-
stricted in front and with the emargination of the anterior margin
narrow; elytra not very deeply lineato-punctate; under side
sparingly hairy, hind tibiz and tarsi of all the legs rufous.

Length 18 mm.

gf. Outer claws of anterior legs unequally cleft, basal teeth of the
anterior tibiz short and curved.

?. A little larger; outer claws of anterior and intermediate tibiz
equally cleft, basal tooth of the anterior tibize long and straight.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria).

This species exactly resembles the preceding one in size and
colouration, but it is distinguished by its less distinct puncturation,
the narrower emargination of the prothorax, the paler colour of the
middle tibiz, and the less abundant pubescence upon the sternum.

of a fleshy colour in the centre, is opaque, and so is the scutellum ; the punctures.
on the elytra are less deep; the female only has all round the pygidium a
conspicuously dense fringe of very long, pallid hairs, and the propygidium is also
densely but briefly pubescent ; inner claw of anterior tarsi cleft in both sexes. In
one example only among the nine which I examined was the fuscous sutural band
of the elytra obliterated. Length 14-144 mm. ; width 7-74 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe).

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I have separated them only after a careful comparison of many
specimens from various collections.”’

NONGOMA, n. gen.

Mentum ovate laterally and with the apical part a little more
attenuate than in Anomala, but similarly impressed in the outer
face; palpi also similar in shape; maxille not dentaté but produced
into an inflexed transverse lobe emarginate in the middle; the shape
and sculpture of the body are similar to those of Anomala, but the
hind tibiz are gradually ampliated triangularly from the base to the
apex, and the two apical spurs are more laminate, more parallel and
longer ; the club of the antenne, which are nine-jointed, is in the
male as long as all the other joints taken together, the inner claw
of the anterior and intermediate tarsi is simple in both sexes, and
all the claws are of nearly equal length. |

NONGOMA CALCARATA, Arr.,
Trans. Entom. Soc., 1899, p. 259.

Hither pale testaceous with two slightly fuscous supra-lateral
longitudinal patches on the prothorax, or totally testaceous, but with
the head infuscate, or having two large longitudinal fuscous patches
on the prothorax and a very broad discoidal one extending from the
suture of the elytra to about the median dorsal part, as well as one
or two narrow ones above the outer margin; head deeply but not
roughly punctured, scutellum straight laterally, arcuate in front and
with the margin distinctly reflexed, it is covered with round not
closely set punctures, and is not at all shagreened ; in some examples
the punctures are almost indistinct on the head and on the clypeus ;
prothorax punctulate with the punctures set more closely on the
sides, and having occasionally a median longitudinal impressed line ;
scutellum punctulate; elytra deeply punctato-striate, with the
intervals costulate in the dorsal part and with the irregularly
pluri-seriate punctures on the third interval reaching to a very short
distance; pygidium densely cicatricoso-punctate; pectus very
densely hairy; anterior tibiz bi-dentate outwardly, apical tooth
very long and nearly straight.

This species is very variable not only in colouration but also in the
sculpture of the head, prothorax, and scutellum, which, in some
examples, are hardly distinctly punctulate.

Length 124-144 mm. ; width 7-8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie, Port St. John), Natal (Durban),
Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez).

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Gen. PERIPOPILLIA, Kolb.,
Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1894, p. 208.

Mentum and palpi of Popiliza, but the apical joint of the labial
palpi is a little elongato-ovate, and distinctly impressed outwardly ;
the maxille are armed with five sharp robust teeth, the shape of the
clypeus is that of Popillia, but the prothorax is that of Anomala,
and is likewise marginate all round, the scutellum is also short, but
broader than in the last-mentioned genus; the elytra are shaped
more like those of Popzllca, but they are distinctly costate and less
plane; the pygidium is more declivous, and is glabrous; the
abdominal segments have no bands of appressed hairs and the
mesosternum is simple; inner claw of anterior and intermediate
tarsi cleft in both sexes, that of the anterior ones conspicuously
broad in the male; legs short and massive as in Popillia, but with
the intermediate and posterior tarsi more slender and like those of
the metallic species of Anomala. |

This genus is a good form of transition between Anomala and
Popillia.

PERIPOPILLIA BASALIS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entomol., 1850, p. 191.

? P. mtrdicollis, Klug, Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659 ; Peter’s
Reis., p. 259, pl. xv., fig. 6.
P. Oberthiinr, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1892, p. 184.

Head, prothorax, and scutellum bronze green, shining ; under side
and legs dark blue; the elytra are almost completely dark blue with
the exception of a very narrow basal reddish testaceous line, or they
have a very broad testaceous yellow basal band reaching to beyond one-
third of the whole length, but not invading the suture ; in some species
they are violaceous or testaceous yellow with the exception of the
suture and of a supra-marginal dark blue band beginning at about
one-third of the length; clypeus roughly punctured, somewhat blunt
in the anterior part, and slightly emarginate in the middle of it,
broadly rounded laterally, and with the margin moderately reflexed ;
prothorax finely and somewhat closely punctulate on the sides and
along the anterior margin, but very slightly, and sometimes not at
all, on the median dorsal part; scutellum broader than long and
sparsely punctate; elytra very plainly costate, with the intervals
narrowly but deeply punctato-striate, the eight dorsal costs, which
include the sutural one, are tectiform and smooth, except that the fifth
has a series of deep punctures extending from past the median part to
the apex, and the seventh a similar row beginning near the humeral

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callus and reaching to the median part; pygidium deeply and closely
punctured, glabrous except for three or four setulose hairs set in an
oblique depression on each side; the propygidium and the exposed
area of the dorsal part of the abdominal segments are closely and
deeply punctured, and the ventral segments have shallow, somewhat
indistinct cicatricose imprints; legs short, robust, and distinctly
punctate except the upper side of the anterior tibie.

Length 94-10 mm. ; width 54-6 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Buluwayo, Salisbury). Occurs also in
German East Africa and in Zanzibar.

The clasps of the genital armature of the male are very different in
shape from those of Popillia bupunctata and P. major, and very closely
resemble those of Anomala dorsata, Fahr.

P. mtidicollis, Klug, is perhaps a varietal form in which the whole
of the elytra is suffused with testaceous yellow.

Gen. POPILLIA, Serv.,
Encyclop. Méthod. x., 1825, p. 367.

Mentum ovoid laterally from the base to three-quarters of the
length, incised there and narrower and sub-parallel thence to the
apex the angles of which are rounded, the anterior part is
broadly and deeply scooped in the middle, in the outer face it is
somewhat convex from the base to the median part, and deeply
impressed thence to the apex, labial palpi short, somewhat massive,
intermediate one nodose, the apical one nearly as long as the other
two taken together, and deeply impressed laterally ; mandibles very
robust, and provided with three strong arcuate teeth, the two lower
ones of which are double and connate at the base; maxillary palpi
moderately long, apical joint sub-cylindrical and tapering a little
towards the apex where it is truncate ; labrum very short, emarginate
in the centre, mandibles laminiform, projecting a little beyond the
labrum with the inner edge incised, and the upper outer one emargi-
nate; clypeus broader than long, being about half the length of
the head, truncate at apex with the angles slightly rounded;
eyes somewhat prominent, divided into equal parts in the anterior
part by the canthus of the genz; prothorax very little convex,
very attenuate obliquely laterally from the median part to the
apex, sub-parallel from the median part to the basal angle which is
sharp, obliquely sinuate thence along the base toa short distance from
the scutellum where the median basal part is completely emarginate-
and arcuate; scutellum elongate, sharply ogival ; elytra as broad as

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long, very little attenuate towards the apical part, plane or nearly so
in the dorsal part, and very little sloping on the sides, punctato-striate
in the dorsal part and oftener than not punctate only on the sides,
intervals plane or moderately costate; the greatest part of the pro-
pygidium is hidden by the elytra, the pygidium is very sloping; the
legs are short, robust, the posterior coxe are sharply carinate semi-
circularly on the outer part and project distinctly beyond the elytra ;
anterior tibize bi-dentate, but with the basal tooth very blunt or
merely angular ; they are carinate on the upper side and have an
inner apical spur; the joints of the tarsi are compressed, strongly
bristly underneath, the fifth joint is as long as the four preceding
joints taken together ; the claws are hinged, double and parallel, the
outer one is nearly as long as the inner but a little more slender, and
the latter is incised in both the anterior and intermediate tarsi in both
sexes, although in the male the incision is very slight or often
invisible ; the pygidium has two patches of white hairs or is some-
times completely hairy, and so are the sides of the abdomen; the
prosternum is produced into a compressed aculeate process con-
spicuous or not; antenne nine-jointed.

The two sexes are very much alike, but the male is easily identified
by the broader inner claw of the anterior tarsi.

This genus has only one representative in South Africa, but is
numerously represented in the rest of Africa.

Herr A. J. Kolbe has divided the genus into several sub-genera
(Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1894, p. 207). One of them, Perzpopillia, has, I
think, a generic value, and is retained as such; but the only dis-
tinction between Popillia and the genus Nannopopillia created for
Popiullia minuscula, Har., are the shape of the clypeus, the absence of
a very projecting mesosternal process, and the fissured inner claw of
the intermediate tarsi in the male; the basal part of the pygidium is
hairy transversely. Mr. Arrow has included in this genus another
South African species which certainly belongs to Popillia, and in
which the mesosternum does project, although not quite as much as
in the species of the Sub-genus Popzllia, which has the inner claw of
the intermediate tarsi also incised in the male. This last character
is found in Popillia biguttata, although it is not conspicuously
shown, and I have also met with it in some species from the Gold
Coast, P. femoralis among others; the buccal organs are similar to
those of Popillia, and so, for that matter, are those of Nannopopillia,
so that the latter’s distinctive characters are after all reduced to the
slope of the clypeus and the sharper outer teeth of the anterior tibie.

The species of Popiliia are found in and on flowers, and also on
the trees in daytime.

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Key to the Species.

Mesosternal process very long, compressed, with a sharp upper edge ;
geneous on the upper side with the elytra reddish yellow or pale
testaceous with a very broad discoidal black band ; intervals of elytra
DiGnew atte Nc cs ae ee am de ese | Ot-ptnctata.

Mesosternal process moderately long, compressed, bluntly triangular ;
coppery on the upper side with the elytra flavous; intervals of elytra

CONVEX oc ee laetans.

Mesosternal process short, cuneiform ; «neous on the upper side
with the elytra pale testaceous in the anterior part, and black im the
WOSUCHIGI AMER EMM Se ain oi tae pele Se ele le te, MAZON.

POPILLIA BIPUNCTATA, F'abr,,
Mantiss., Insect., i., 1787, p. 25.

P. limbata, Boh., Insect. Caffr., i1., p. 59.
P. apicalis, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1892, p. 190.

Glabrous on the upper side; head, prothorax, and scutellum
coppery red, or neous, elytra completely yellowish red, or
testaceous yellow with the median discoidal part slightly infuscate,
or distinctly black, leaving only a somewhat narrow marginal
yellowish band along the outer and posterior margins, along the
base and also along the suture up to about the median part ;
pygidium with two patches of whitish appressed hairs, the abdo-
minal segments are banded with similar hairs, the mesosternum is
entirely covered with them, and the posterior femora have a similar
band; under side and legs bronze, or bronze-black ; clypeus broader
than long, truncate at the tip and with the outer angles rounded,
closely shagreened, head very closely punctured, but not rugose ;
prothorax distinctly attenuate laterally in front from the median
part, a little slightly obliquely amplate from the middle to the
sharp basal angle, conspicuously tri-simuate along the base, the
sinuations of equal depth, marginate in front and laterally, but only
for a third of the length along the base, not very convex and
covered with very closely set round punctures on the sides and on
the anterior part, but impunctate in the posterior median part;
scutellum longer than broad and sharp at tip, impunctate; elytra as
broad as long, plane with the humeral and apical calluses not much
developed, deeply punctato-striate except on the three or four first
dorsal striz, intervals plane or nearly so, and impunctate; propy-
gidium partly covered by the elytra, closely punctate; pygidium
sub-scabroso-punctate ; femora hardly punctate, tibiee more so.

Length 114-13 mm.; width 64-8 mm.

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This species varies much in the coloration of the elytra, but it is
not difficult to find intermediate forms between those with concolorous
wing covers and those with a very broad black discoidal band ; this
latter is the P. limbata, Bohem., and any doubt as to its being
identical with P. bipunctata is at once removed by the examination
of the genital armatures of the male, which are absolutely similar.

Hab. Cape Colony (Knysna, Graham’s Town, Uitenhage,
Kimberley, Bedford, Somerset East, King William’s Town, Fort
Beaufort, Hast London, Port St. John’s); Natal (everywhere) ;
Orange River Colony and Transvaal (the whole territory), Mozam-
bique; probably the whole of Eastern Africa; occurs also on the
West Coast, teste Kolbe.

POPILLIA LAETANS, N. spec.

Head, prothorax, scutellum, and legs coppery, under side darker
bronze ; elytra flavous with the suture, and a narrow marginal line
bronze ; pygidium with two transverse patches of appressed white
hairs, abdominal segments with a lateral band of similar hairs; this
species is very much like Popillca bupunctata, the clypeus is, how-
ever, more rounded laterally, the shape and sculpture of the
prothorax is the same, but the scutellum is shorter, more triangular
and closely punctured; the elytra are more roundly ampliated
laterally at about the median part, and have a deep, long, and broad
impression reaching from the seventh stria to the outer margin, the
striz are deeper and more deeply punctured, the intervals are plainly
costate; the basal outer tooth of the anterior tibiz is short and
moderately sharp, but the apical one is very long and sub-horizontal,
and the outer claw of the intermediate tarsi is slightly cleft; the
mesosternum is produced into a compressed obtusely triangular
process, as broad at the base as long; pygidium closely punctate in
the centre, strigose laterally, and not quite so horizontal as in P.
bipunctata.

Length 94 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Manica).

PopruuiIA MAJOR, Arr.,
Annals and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1899, vol. vi., 7th ser., p. 120.

Head and prothorax coppery, under side and legs bronze-black with
the tarsi piceous red; elytra testaceous yellow with the whole of the
posterior part bronze-black, and having also a narrow sutural bronze
line, glabrous on the upper side, and with two transverse patches of

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greyish-white hairs on the basal part of the pygidium, the pectus is
very hairy, and the sides of the abdomen only moderately so; head
rugose ; clypeus very closely shagreened, broader than long, sub-
truncate at apex with the angles slightly rounded ; prothorax closely
punctured, the punctures are nearly equi-distant, a little denser.
along the anterior margin, and slightly confluent on the sides, the
base is not marginate; scutellum very closely punctured; elytra
plane, deeply striate, the striza somewhat deeply punctured except on
the two juxta-sutural ones, intervals costate and tectiform in the
dorsal part, and impunctate, apical callus very conspicuous ; pygidium
covered with nearly confluent punctures; legs somewhat villose ;
mesosternal process short.

Length 9 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Pretoria, teste Arrow).

In one of my examples the whole of the posterior half of the elytra
is black, and there is also a humeral black patch on each side.

Gren. PHARAONUS, Blanch.,
Cat. Collect. Entom., 1850, p. 201.

Mentum elongate gradually narrowed from the base towards the
apex, but a little ampliate towards the base, straight at the tip with
the outer angles slightly sloping obliquely, not very convex nor
impressed towards the apex on the outer face and clothed with a
very long pubescence, palpi as in Popillia ; maxille robust, hairy,
not dentate, but with the upper part transverse and bi-incised with
the intervals between the two incisions rounded, except the inner
one which is sharper; bead with the canthus of the gene greatly
developed and the eyes very large, clypeus hollow, with very highly
raised margins and very broadly rounded laterally; prothorax as in
Popillia, but not at all marginate along the base, scutellum as broad
as long, and not sharp at apex; elytra and legs as in Popuillia ;
pygidium declivous and a little convex and with the white hairs not
divided into two patches in the male; prosternum slightly knobby
between the femora, but not projecting ; club of the antenne curved
and longer than all the other joints taken together. The distinctive
characters of this genus are the hollowed clypeus with a very reflexed
margin, the non-marginate base, and the absence of an elongate
mesosternal process; the two outer teeth of the anterior tarsi are
longer and sharper than in Popillia.

The genus is represented also in Egypt and in Mesopotamia.

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PHARAONUS SUBVITTATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1., 1844, p. 307.

Head and prothorax bronze-green, moderately shining, under side
and legs metallic black, antenna black ; scutellum bottle-green, elytra
pale testaceous with the suture and outer margin narrowly edged
with fuscous bronze, and having in the posterior part either a very
broad bronze black band reaching to the apex and emitting two or
three longitudinal bands reaching to about the median part, or
having only these three bands and no transverse patch; the upper
side is glabrous, but the upper half of the pygidium is clothed with
dense appressed greyish white hairs, and the abdominal segments
and also the pectus are sparingly pubescent; clypeus a little broader
than long, obtuse in front and with the angles very broadly rounded
and the margins strongly reflexed, it is darker than the head and very
closely shagreened like the latter, but the granules are smaller
still ; prothorax somewhat convex and not marginate along the base ;
covered with deep, round punctures very closely set; scutellum as
wide as long, broadly ogival, rounded at the tip, and deeply and
closely punctured ; elytra as broad as long, distinctly sinuate laterally
at about one-fourth of the length, broader from there and only very
slightly ampliate in the median part, plane with the humeral callus
only conspicuous, not very deeply punctato-striate on the dorsal
part, but more so on the sides, and with the intervals plane on the
dorsal part, but somewhat costulate laterally ; legs somewhat deeply
punctured outwardly, femora sparingly pubescent ; tarsi piceous.

The shape and size of the posterior black transverse patch on the
elytra varies in almost every example which I have seen; it even
disappears altogether, leaving only a faint trace of two longitudinal
slightly infuscate lines.

Length 7-74 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Natal (Estcourt, Frere), Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury),
Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

Gren. GNATHOLABIS, Ericks.,
Naturgesch. Ins. Deutsch. iii., 1847, p. 615.
Kraatz, Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1892, p. 298.

Mentum quadrangular from the base to about the median part,
incised laterally there and slightly narrower thence to the apex,
which is very deeply scooped in the shape of a crescent, and edged
with stiff bristles ; the palpi are like those of Popillia, but the apical

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one of the labial is a little longer; the maxilla are robust and
produced at the apex into a laminate, somewhat hollow process,
curving and rounded at the top and having at its base three sharp
horizontal teeth ; clypeus nearly as long as the head, sub-parallel,
truncate at the tip; prothorax longer than in Popillia and also
narrower, a little ampliate laterally in the middle, sinuate past the
median part and marginate all round ; scutellum somewhat rounded
at the apex; elytra a little more elongate than in Popillia, pygidium
and legs similar; mesosternum without a projecting process.

This genus was indicated rather than characterised by Erikson for
a Senegal species, owing to the curious form of its maxilla. Dr. G.
Kraatz, in his Monographie Revision of the Rutelid Genus Popillia,
has given a fuller description of the generic difference.

Another species is known from the Gold Coast.

GNATHOLABIS BREVIS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom., 1850, p. 178.

Head and prothorax metallic green, shining; elytra straw-colour,
with a narrow sutural and marginal bronze band, as well as a
humeral patch, and a somewhat dark but not infuscate median band
on each side, this band is at times partly obliterated, under side dark
bronze, antenne, with the exception of the club which is black, palpi,
and legs ferruginous; the elytra only are glabrous, the rest of the
body, including the legs and the whole pygidium, is covered with a
dense, flavescent villose pubescence; head very rugose, clypeus as
long as broad, truncate in front, with the angles slightly rounded,
and slightly ampliated in the median part of the sides; prothorax
finely marginate except in the median part of the base, which is
emarginate above the scutellum, covered with deep, closely set
punctures, and having a very distinct median longitudinal sulcus
interrupted in the centre; elytra slightly longer than broad, sinuate
laterally in the anterior part, and ampliated for a short distance at
about the median part, impressed transversely below the scutellum,
the humeral and the apical callus are very distinct, the stria are
deeply punctured and the intervals are plane in the dorsal part, and
impunctate ; pygidium scabroso-punctate and completely covered
with the appressed hairs (¢@ ).

Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

Tn this species the infuscate bands on the elytra varies very much;
nearly wanting in some examples, they are very conspicuous in
others, and reach from base to apex.

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TABORA, n. gen.

Mentum ovate laterally for two-thirds of the length, constricted
and triangularly ampliated thence to the apex, where it is broadly
and somewhat deeply emarginate in the centre, the outer angles
are slightly rounded ; the palpi are as in Popzllia, but the maxille
have at the upper end two long, falcate teeth, the outer one of which
is very deeply bifid, and three other equally sharp, but horizontal at
the base of the galea. The presence and the disposition of these teeth
are the distinctive characters separating this genus from Gnatholabis,
which has the clypeus and the prothorax similarly shaped and
clothed also with long, appressed hairs. Kraatz (Deutsch. Entom.
Zeit., 1892, p. 390), included the only species known among
Gnatholabis, having not examined the mouth parts. Dr. Ohaus
includes it in Nannopopilia, Kolb. (Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1897, p. 354),
but the shape, the disposition, and number of the teeth of the maxilla
are different in N. mnuscula, the only other species belonging to
Nannopopilia, and so is the shape of the clypeus.

TABORA LUDIFICANS, Ancey.,
Natural. Sicilian, i1., 1883, p. 96.

Shining, head and prothorax brassy green ; elytra flavous with an
elongato-quadrate patch under the scutellum, the suture and a broad
outer marginal band bottle-green or very nearly black; under side
black, antenne and legs brownish red ; clypeus very slightly broader
than long, straight laterally, nearly sub-parallel, truncate at the tip
with the outer angles very little rounded, and the anterior margin
reflexed, it is, like the head, finely rugose and plicate transversely ;
prothorax a little longer than broad, attenuated laterally in the
anterior part for about one-third of the length, slightly emarginate
thence to the outer angle which is sharp, marginate all round,
the median part of the base is slightly sinuate, it is conspicuously
plicate transversely with the folds very closely set, and is clothed
with long, dense, decumbent yellowish hairs; scutellum broadly
ogival, transversely plicate; elytra not broader in the median part
than at the base, but plainly emarginate laterally between these two
parts, not much narrowed from the median to the posterior part,
plane in the anterior, but somewhat convex at about the median,
deeply and regularly punctato-striate with the intervals convex,
glabrous except for a few short hairs along the outer margin in the
anterior part; propygidium partly uncovered, glabrous, pygidium a
little convex, scabroso-punctate but completely covered with
flavescent, very dense appressed hairs; all the segments of the

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abdomen are covered all over with similar hairs, the pectus and
thighs are very villose, but not the tibia which have a metallic
sheen ; anterior tibize bi-dentate ; larger claw of intermediate tarsi of
the male not cleft.

Length 7-74 mm.; width 3$-4 mm.

This pretty species is said to have originally come from the
Zambesi River. I have not seen any examples from the South
African area, and this description is made from Central African ones.

Trips PHANOMERIINI.

Gren. PHAXNOMERIS, Hope,
Trans. Zoolog. Soc., 1825, p. 97.

Hupyga, Mannerh.

Mentum with a horny, briefly ciliate ligula edging the sides of the
anterior part of the mentum, which is semicircular, with the outer
face deeply impressed, almost excavate, it is ovate laterally from the
base to past the median part; labial and maxillary palpi short, basal
joint of the latter very small, apical one with a deep, narrow, longi-
tudinal groove outwardly ; maxilla compressed narrowly, hollow at
the tip and armed with a sharp, curved tooth at the apex, and three
more on each side of the hollow part; labrum projecting, broadly
emarginate in the centre; head somewhat small, clypeus broader
than long, semicircular and marginate ; eyes moderately large, sht
by the short canthus of the genz above the median part; antennz
ten-jointed, club as long as the five preceding joints taken together ;
prothorax conspicuously narrowed laterally from about the median
part to the apex, sinuate from the middle to the outer angle, where
it is wider than across the middle, marginate all round except in the
median part of the base, which is a little less smuate there than on

each side of it; scutellum very long, triangular; elytra wider at the

Shoulders than the base of the prothorax, and greatly narrowed
laterally thence to the apical part, depressed, costate and striate and
having the humeral callus prolonged for a third of the length into a
triangular, raised smooth area, dividing conspicuously the dorsal
cost and strize from the lateral ones ; propygidium covered only at
the base by the elytra, pygidium horizontal; abdominal segments
fused together ; prosternum with a long aculeate process projecting
between the intermediate cox; hind femora thickened, anterior
tibiz with only one long, straight apical tooth, and having a slender
but long inner spur; intermediate and hind femora without diagonal

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ridges or rows of bristles outwardly; tarsi a lttle compressed,
moderately long, and somewhat robust, claws diverging, equal in
length, and having underneath in the anterior and intermediate tarsi
a tooth not as long, but nearly as much curved as the claw itself, but
simple, slender, and not diverging, and of equal length in the
posterior tarsi; hind tibiz gradually dilated from base to apex,
strongly ciliate there, almost lobate inwardly at the apex, and having
a dense, inner fringe of hairs in the male, and provided with two
long apical inner spurs in both sexes.

This aberrant genus of the Ruteline is the only one in which the
claws of the anterior and intermediate tarsi are diverging and have
underneath a strong tooth, much in the manner of the Melolonthine.

The genus includes three species, two of which are from the
Sudan; one of these is also met with in South Africa.

Key to the Species.

Colour of the upper side cwrulean, seldom green; prothorax and
scutellum impunctate but for a few punctures along the outer
margin of the prothorax, coste of elytra impunctate .. .. .. bescket.

Colour of the upper side green, or golden green, elytra and
pygidium hyacinthine or violaceous; prothorax and scutellum
closely punctulate ; coste of elytra plainly punctured .. .. .. magnifica.

PHMNOMERIS BESCKEI, Mannerh.,
Bull. Mose., 1838, 1., p. 35.
Lacord. Gener. Atl., pl. xxxiii., fig. 4.
P. cyanea, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., i1., p. 203.

Shining metallic green or dark blue with the femora violaceous,
and occasionally reddish; antenne black, with the exception of the
first joint, very shining, glabrous on the upper side; head small,
clypeus much rounded in front, sharply marginate all round, very
rugose, posterior part of the head less rugose than the anterior ;
prothorax conspicuously narrowed in the anterior part, sinuate
laterally past the median, and broader at the base than across the
middle, marginate all round but not in the centre of the base, and
impunctate except along the outer margin; scutellum impunctate ;
elytra elongate, very attenuate laterally towards the apical part,
narrowly striate with the strie closely but not deeply punctate, the
costate intervals are not very sharp in the dorsal part, but are more
carinate laterally; propygidium and pygidium impunctate in the
median part, but with scattered foveate punctures on the sides;

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abdominal segments shining, glabrous except for a transverse row
of setigerous punctures; mesosternum closely foveolato-punctate,
slightly hairy, and produced into a very long, aculeate process ;
claws of anterior and intermediate tarsi with a tooth underneath.

Length 174-194 mm. ; width 81-9 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg, Lydenburg), Natal (Durban), also
German East Africa and Zanzibar.

The examples from Durban, Natal, have red femora. The colour
of this handsome insect is very variable. Herr FI’. Ohaus (Stett. Ent.
Zeit., 1898, p. 3), admits even of varieties which he names respec-
tively, nigrocyanea for examples from Loangwa River (Barotse-
land), rufipennis from Mashonaland, and opalina from Usambara.
He retains the variety cyanea, Blanch., for examples from Dar es
Salam. But some examples from there and also from Zanzibar,
which I saw, or I own, are much greener than those from the
Transvaal or Natal.

PHHENOMERIS MAGNIFICA, Hope,
Plate XLIII., fig. 33.
Trans. Zoolog. Soc., 1825, p. 98, pl. xii., fig. 6.
2 P. rufipenms, Brancs. Jahr. Ver. Trenes., xix., 1897, p. 117.

Similar in shape to P. bescket, and very much rarer in South Africa
than this species, but differing in the following characters: head and
clypeus golden bronze, much more roughly scabrose, the former is
much less rounded in the anterior part, and the anterior margin is
more reflexed ; the punctures cover the whole of the prothorax, but
are more scattered and finer in the discoidal part, instead of being
restricted to a narrow longitudinal space along the outer margin ;
the scutellum is plainly punctulate, and is only very slightly emarginate
laterally near the base, whereas in P. besckei the sinuation there is
conspicuous ; on the elytra the sharp, tectiform cost are deeply and
somewhat closely punctured; in the examples that I have seen the
elytra are hyacinthine pink, and the pygidium also, but the suture
and the sides of the pygidium are either more violaceous or iridescent
pale blue, and the punctures on the sides of the latter are much
more scattered and less numerous ; the apical abdominal segments
have the same hue as the elytra. The shape of the genital armature
differs very little from that of P. besckez.

Length 18 mm.; width 8 mm.

Hope’s description, as amended by Burmeister, applies very well
to this species, the metallic colour of the upper side being, however,
less glowing than in the type.

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Tre ISOPLIINI.

Gen. ISOPLIA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, 1855, p. 487.

Mentum ovate laterally from the base to two-thirds of the length,
constricted near the point of insertion of the palpi, thence sub-
obliquely ampliated towards the apical part, which is broadly but
not deeply emarginate, and fringed with dense somewhat bristly
hairs, the outer face is deeply and broadly foveate, and has very long
and very stiff black bristles, it 1s impressed in the anterior part and
convex thence towards the base; the maxille are long, robust, the
upper lobe is produced into three long, sharply falcate teeth on each
side, and has a pencil of long hairs at the tip, the last joint of the
palpi is fusiform, slightly truncate at the tip; the mandibles are
long, flat, truncate at the tip, very densely ciliate inwardly, and
project slightly beyond the labrum which is horizontal, a little
shorter than the clypeus, transverse, a little attenuated towards the
apex, where it is slightly emarginate; clypeus a little more than
twice as broad as long, straight in front, slightly rounded laterally,
head twice as long as broad not separated from the clypeus by a
suture, eyes moderately large, not quite evenly divided by the
canthus of the gene ; antenne short, nine-jointed, club as long as all
the other joints taken together; prothorax narrowly marginate all
round, longer than broad, very little sinuate in front, rounded
laterally and also ampliate in the anterior part, and deeply emarginate
from about one-third of the length to the basal angle which is
shghtly rounded, basal part obliquely prolonged towards the
scutellum, but not angular in the centre, and narrower than the
elytra; scutellum broad at the base, thence narrowed, long, sharply
acuminate at the tip; elytra as broad as long, but short and barely
reaching the propygidium which is very broad, plane on the disk, but
with a conspicuous basal humeral callus, and a deep impression
between it and the outer margin which is somewhat rounded
laterally and more ampliated above the mesothoracic epimera; the
latter are greatly developed, but do not project much beyond the
outer margin; pygidium long, ovoid, sub-vertical, convex in the
apical part; abdomen compressed laterally, the first five basal
segments fused, penultimate one as broad as the four preceding and
a little broader than the apical one; metasternum moderately broad,
mesosternum very small; legs moderately long, posterior femora and
tibiz robust, somewhat short, the intermediate and posterior tibie
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on the outer side; anterior tibize also short and dilated, tri-dentate
outwardly and with a long, terminal inner spur; claws of all the
tarsi somewhat long, unequal, but simple, the more robust one a
little longer than the other.

The singular insect included in this genus might, but for the
presence of two apical spurs to the posterior tibiz, be included in the
Hoplinie. It is remarkable for the shape of the horizontal labrum, of
the mandibles and of the compressed abdomen, as well as for the
great development of the uncovered propygidium and pygidium. It,
is on that account not unlike some species of Heterochelus.

IsoPLIA LASIOSOMA, Burm..,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 488.

Black, moderately shining, elytra more or less pale, testaceous.
yellow, and having a black patch on the humeral part and on each
side of the scutellum, an arcuate transverse band in the centre, and
an apical one connected along the outer margin with the median one ;
the head, prothorax, scutellum, margins of the pygidial part and the
whole under side are covered with long‘hairs, greyish in the male,
yellow in the female, the elytra are clothed with upright and shorter
ones; clypeus and head closely granulose ; antennez with the basal
joint and the club black, the other joints testaceous red; prothorax
very closely cicatricoso-punctate, with the punctures nearly confluent
and setigerous; scutellum with similar but finer punctures ; elytra.
somewhat depressed in the middle on each side of the suture, not
striate but having series of punctures somewhat geminate in the
dorsal part and more irregular on the sides, the humeral callus is
greatly developed, the apical one nearly forms the outer angle of the
apical part which is obliquely truncated on each side of the suture,
the latter is plainly raised ; propygidium and pygidium covered with
elongate, somewhat oblong punctures separated from one another by
a space equal to their width, the propygidium has a long basal fringe
of hairs, and so has the pygidium which is distinctly convex in the
posterior part, somewhat knobby there in the female, and is densely
hairy ; the under side is also very densely hairy and deeply and
closely punctured ; the punctures are elongate; all the femora are
deeply grooved at the apex ; the tibize are short, very compressed, very
obliquely truncate inwardly, sharply tridentate outwardly ; claws.
long, slender, simple.

Length 84-84 mm.; width 44 mm.

In general facies this species resembles a hirtose Valgus

Hab. Natal (Durban).

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Burmeister in his description says that the elytra are concolorous.
In the two female examples which I have seen the black patches and
bands on the elytra are nearly obliterated.

Susp-Faminy HOPLINIIN A.

Body partly or entirely clothed with scales, squamose hairs,
seldom with simple hairs; labrum sub-horizontal or vertical, ligula
bi-lobate and projecting freely beyond the mentum (Pachycnemint) .
or fused with the mentum (Hoplinz), maxille dentate or simple,
often with a broad membranaceous border; antennez nine- or ten-
jointed, club never very long, tri-jointed, the joints fitting against each
other; elytra seldom convex, never covering the pygidium, which is
either vertical or strongly sloping in a forward direction ; abdomen
sometimes very compressed laterally; spiracles similar to those of the
MELOLONTHIN#E ; hind tibize without spurs or with one spur only ;
claws single or double, unequal except in the genus Dichelus, cleft
or simple, the smaller one usually pressed against the larger which
is articulated as in the Sub-Family Rureninz ; hind femora without
oblique rows of bristles on the outer face.

This Sub-Family can be divided into two distinct Tribes owing to
the shape of the ligula.

Ligula free, membranaceous, bi-lobate .. .. .. .. .. .. PACHYCNEMINI.

Ligula horny, fused with the mentum sis. bal ee) y Sle ce | Aa ERO RiabEN

The last-named Tribe can be also divided into three groups owing
to the shape of the labrum and of the abdomen, or of both of them
combined.

A3, Labrum not vertical.
B3. Abdomen very compressed laterally in the male.

C3. Anterior tibise tri- or quadri-dentate outwardly, the
basal teeth set at right angles with the tibia, and the
apical tooth not oblique... .. .. .. .. .. .. Heterochelides.

A’, Labrum vertical or not.
B?. Abdomen compressed laterally in the male.

C?, Anterior tibiz bi- or tri-dentate outwardly, the outer
teeth seldom set at right angles, and the apical one
always slanting.. .'.2 22). oes ee) een SCClopnm cinta:

A’. Labrum vertical or not.
Bt. Abdomen not compressed laterally in the male.

C*. Anterior tibiz with three slanting outer teeth .. .. .. Hoplides.

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The number of genera and species of Hopuiin# occurring in South
Africa is the most striking feature of the Coleopterous: Fauna of this
part of the world.

In the distri¢ts of the Cape Colony where the winter rains prevail
(May—September) it may almost be said that on a bright day in the
spring (August—October) no flower is without a tenant. Although
less abundant where the summer rains (November—March) occur,
they are, however, numerous and varied.

The insects included in the Tribe PAacHYcNEMINI are. characterised
by very long and slender maxille, often without inner teeth, and
having a bi-lobate membranaceous ligula. The shape of these mouth-
parts implies a suctorial diet. Few insects are better adapted for fer-
tilisation than the species of Amisonyx, Peritrichia, Lepitrix. Covered
with dense, long hairs, and provided with a very narrow and elongate
clypeus, they penetrate deep into the corolla of the flowers and emerge
covered with pollen. The species of Pachycnema which, like those
of the genera above-mentioned, have no toothed maxillz and possess
a sharply acuminate clypeus, are heavier insects, in many cases
scantily clothed with hairs ; they also are, however, important agents
of fertilisation. Hriesthis, Stenocnema, and Korisaba have strongly
dentate maxilla and a shorter and broader ligula; they are no
longer suctorial insects only, and they, like the Heterochelides with
which they are connected by the shape of the buccal organs, live at
the expense of the corolla and pistils.

The species of the group Heterocheltdes are much less hairy,
the clypeus is not acuminate, the ligula is fused with the mentum
as in all the other genera of the MELOLONTHIN#, the maxille are
dentate, sometimes feebly, sometimes strongly; in one instance
only (Nanniscus) are they simple. They are perhaps more
numerous than the PACHYCNEMINI in kind, and certainly so
in species and genera. The female retains somewhat the
general appearance of the MEnoLontTHinm, but the male has a
facies of his own, owing to the greatly compressed abdomen ;
the pygidium is strongly declivous in a forward direction, and the
hind legs are absurdly large. These features are not, however,
restricted to this group, they are also common to the species of the
genus Monochelus, &c., of the group Scelophysides. Among the
PACHYCNEMINI they have reached their highest point in the genera
Pachycnema and Hoplocnemis in which the hind tibie especially are
enormously developed, and the joints of the hind tarsi are sometimes
partially, or even entirely fused. This great development of the hind
legs is not intended for securing a better hold of the female. There
is nothing more ridiculous than to see half a dozen males with their

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long hind legs emerging from the pistils of a composite flower where
they are mobbing a female which is almost entirely buried head
foremost in the pistils, the sub-horizontal pygidium alone being
exposed to view. But it is when disentangling themselves that the
use of the long hind legs becomes apparent ; by means of his long,
hinged claw the male hooks himself out of the corolla. It is not
only amongst the flower-frequenting kinds that this extraordinary
development of the hind legs with their curiously serrate, dentate,
and mucronate tibia is met with, because the species of Hoplocnemis,
in which this development has become almost a monstrosity, do not
feed on flowers, or at least have not been observed doing so. Their
habits seem to be more those of certain DyNAsTINm#, and I suspect
them to live, while in the larval state, in the excrement deposits of
the subterranean white ant, Hodotermes viator, Latr. |

In the Scelophysides this great development of the hind limbs is.
less common. Certain kinds of Monochelus seem to be met with
on grasses. The males of one of the largest kind, M. spinipes, are
found in the western part of the Cape Colony flying in fields of
young oats or corn, and they seldom settle on flowers; the females
are seldom seen. Mr. H. Fry informs me that he captured the
not less large species M. natalensis on oat-sheaves carted from the
field in the Umvoti County in Natal. Most of the species of this.
group are, however, flower-loving insects, except perhaps Idutyna
collaris and its close ally, Platychelus hoplioides, which I never
found but on the ground. All the species of Plataychelus are very
hairy, and although living undoubtedly at the expense of the flower
they are certainly excellent instruments for its fertilisation. In one
genus (Outeniqua) the male of the only species known has the hind
legs as much swollen as a Pachycnema.

The true Hoplides are less numerous in kind and in number.
They are more closely allied to the Madagascar representatives of
the group than to the palearctic ones, for instance, and while some
are diurnal in their habits, others are probably crepuscular or come
out in the open when the sky is overcast (Blikana, Harpina,
Congella); Microplus and Rabula are known to be crepuscular.

The distribution of the Hopnuunm in South Africa is very
interesting. Being entirely dependent on flowers for their sub-
sistence, they appear suddenly after the rains have set in, and
disappear as quickly. This is best exemplified in the Cape Colony,
where there is a narrow strip of country from long. 24° HK. along
the south coast, bounded on the north by the Langebergen, and con-
tinuing northwards along the west coast, with the Drakenstein, the
Olifants River Mountains, the Cedearbergen and Khamiesbergen as

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the eastern limit, where the average rainfall in August and
September is from 3 to 4 inches. It is in this restricted locality
that the number and abundance of Hopuiin# are so characteristic.
Of the total number of 43 genera, and 359 species, 25 genera and
236 species occur in that area. It is especially in that part of the
country extending from Clanwilliam to Little Bushmanland, and
‘forming part of the Namaqualand District, that they are found
in incredible numbers and ever-varying species if the rains have
been, plentiful. When I visited that part of the Colony the rains
had not been heavy, the fields, nevertheless, were a mass of partly
withered marigolds and daisies containing only a few insects, mostly
females. I was one month too late. But when, profiting by my
experience, Mr. R. M. Lightfoot went over the same ground two
months earlier than I did, and after plentiful rains had fallen, the
whole country was a vast carpet of huge marigolds tenanted by num-
berless Hornunm. So plentiful indeed were they that they had to
be scooped by the hand from the flower into the killing bottle. No
less than 10 species of Pachycnema seem to be restricted to that
locality, but Amisonyx is not represented there, and the species of
this genus seem to be met with especially where the Heaths
(Hricacee) abound. They are more numerous and more varied in
the Caledon and Riversdale, but they are plentiful also in the
Cape, Stellenbosch, and Ceres, Districts. Two species are found,
however, near Graham’s Town and Port Elizabeth respectively.
These localities seem to be their eastern limit of distribution.
Proceeding eastwards from the 24° long. we find the Pachycne-
mune especially represented by the genus Hiesthis ; Pachycnema has
one representative in the neighbourhood of Graham’s Town, but on
the whole the suctorial Hopuimna are rare, or never very numerous
beyond the area mentioned, but in the last-named locality we find a
very singular species of Hoplocnenus differing much from the other
species of the genus, which generally occur in the so-called ‘‘ Karroo,’’
where rains are scarce and the vegetation is very scanty. Heteroche-
lides are fairly common from the 24° to the 27° Hast, they, however,
grow scarcer aS we near Natal, and the most northern species is
recorded from Eshowe in Zululand. So far they have not been met
with, to my knowledge, in the Hastern or Athiopian region of South
Africa. None are recorded from the Orange River Colony, but in
the Transvaal we meet with three species, one of which occurs
also in Natal and another, the two congeners of which are found
only in the Cape Colony, in the calyx of the so-called ‘Sugar bush.”
It is worthy of note that I have received a female of one of these
two congeneric species (Dzaplochelus longipes) from Kanye in

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British Bechuanaland. This is the widest range known of any of
the South African Hopnrina.

If we follow the 30th parallel and compare the Hopniina found
in the west with those met with in the east we are immediately 7
struck by the absence of Pachycnemim, except Hriesthis, the paucity |
ot Heterochelides, and the great number of Scelophysides represented
by the species of the genus Monochelus. Not that the latter genus
is not represented in the west, but the number of the western
species is less, and their facies is different. This also holds good
in the Transvaal, where, however, the species, with a few excep-
tions, are the same as those found in Natal, but, I am told, in smaller
numbers. One genus with only one species (Ouwteniqua festiva) is
the only Scelophysid known to occur in Mashunaland. It seems,
however, to have a wide range, for it has been found at Lourengo-
Marquez, in the Transvaal, and British Bechuanaland.

The species of the group Hoplides seem to be much rarer in the
western than in the eastern part; out of 12 genera and 29 species
3 genera and 7 species only are restricted to the south-western
part of the Cape Colony.

The sexual characters of the male are the only ones which permit
of the identification of the species, owing to the extraordinary simi-
larity of the females among themselves in the group Heterochelides
especially. The shape of the genital armature of the male varies as
greatly as in other divisions of the Family. I have not, however,
made use of them because the species can be somewhat easily
distinguished by other outward characters. As stated before, the
affinities of the group Hoplides lies with the Madagascar fauna, but
the PacnycnemiIni, Heterochelides, and Scelophysides are South
African. On the West Coast of Africa one species of Pachycnema
has, however, been described from Angola * as well as one Dichelus
from Pungo Andongo, and in Eastern Africa one Hriesthis and a
Dichelus from Tabora, and also one Monochelus from the Ugueno
Mountains.

Trine PACHYCNEMINI.
Key to the Genera.

A3. Hind legs slender, similar in both sexes.
B?. Mentum very long and narrow.

C*. Scutellum moderately rounded at the apex.

* IT have so far seen two species of Pacnycneminrt from Damaraland. One
(Peritrichia ditissima) differs in colouring from the other species of the genus. |
Boheman records also a species of Heterochilides (Dichelus suspectus) from the
same part of South Africa.

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a2. Maxille serrate.

Clypeus sub-rectangular, maxille serrate, elytra
Parallel c<: Wee ae) en Se es

~ Ct. Scutellum sharply triangular. 4
at. . .. Maxille without teeth.

Clypeus very long, attenuate, claws of anterior
and intermediate legs double, unequal and cleft,
of posterior single and simple; elytra elongate,
parallel, not much broader than the prothorax..

Clypeus very long, acuminate, bi-dentate and
reflexed at the tip; claws of anterior and inter-
mediate legs double, unequal, and cleft, of the
posterior single or dotble; elytra broader than the
prothorax at the base, and more or less plainly
narrowed behind..

B'. Mentum short and broad.

Clypeus broad, horizontal, sub-parallel with the margins
raised, emarginate in the centre ; anterior and intermediate
claws double, unequal, posterior ones single or double

Clypeus broad, declivous, rounded in front, hind claws
single ..

A?. Hind legs of male slightly more robust than the female’s.
at. Maxille with teeth.

Clypeus a little narrowed laterally; elytra not much broader
than the prothorax owing to the sloping shoulders; outer
teeth of anterior legs equi-distant ; scutellum moderately
long

Clypeus a little narrowed, sharply tri-dentate, scutellum
long, sharp; the two basal teeth of the anterior tibis con-
nate and set at right angles

Clypeus sharply acuminate and incised at the tip; elytra
broader than the prothorax at the base and plainly nar-
rowed behind; outer teeth of anterior tibiz nearly con-
nate and set at right angles with the tibie, scutellum very
long and narrow

At. Hind legs of male much more robust than the female’s.
Clypeus acuminate, seldom angular laterally at the base,
incised at the tip; scutellum very long and very sharp; body
of the male very plainly narrowed behind.

at, Maxille not toothed ..
a’. Maxille toothed. .

Clypeus acuminate and having laterally three tubercles,
scutellum long, broad at the base, very sharp at the tip;
claws of fore-legs double, the others single and simple; head
of male with a tubercle...

Chasme.

Anisonyx.

Peritrichia.

Lepitriz.

Kchoina.

Eriesthis.

Korisaba.

Stenocnema.

Pachycnema.

Pachycnemida.

Hoplocnemts.

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Gen. CHASMEH, Serv.,
Encyclop. Méthod. 1825, x., p. 378.

Mentum elongato-quadrate, but a little attenuate laterally close
to the apex, lobes of ligula somewhat broad, very diverging and
ciliate inwardly, last joint of labial palpi a little bent inwardly,
sub-cylindrical, and a little longer than the preceding one ; upper
lobe of maxilla horny, strongly serrate inwardly and having a thick
bunch of long hairs at the apex, apical joint of the maxillary palpi
curved inwardly, sub-cylindrical, not very acuminate at tip, and
nearly as long as the two preceding joints; clypeus broader than
long, sub-parallel laterally with the outer angles slightly rounded ;
prothorax very slightly attenuate laterally in front and a little
ampliate on the sides, base not much arcuate; scutellum ogival,
not sharp at apex; elytra parallel, or nearly so, and with a humeral
callus but no distinct apical one, plane, covered with contiguous
bright-yellow minute scales, and reaching nearly to the apex of the
propygidium ; pygidium vertical in the male, a little sloping in the
female, densely scaly ; abdomen scaly; legs similar in both sexes ;
anterior tibie with an inner apical spur and two or one very
obliquely produced outer teeth ; posterior tibize not much thickened ;
all the claws are double and unequal, the inner one in the anterior
legs is longer and more robust than the outer, and both of them are
deeply cleft; this arrangement of the claws is reversed in the inter-
mediate and posterior legs, in which the outer claw is the longer and
more robust of the two, but while in the intermediate legs both
claws are cleft, in the posterior only the smaller and shorter claw,
which is nearly as long as the outer, is cleft.

Key to the Species.

A?. Anterior tibix bi-dentate outwardly.
Elytra parallel, entirely clothed with golden yellow scales and
short black erect hairs in both sexes .. .. .. «. ©. «. «- decora.
Elytra parallel, and having on each side three distinct bands of
yellow scales and a few short black erect hairs .. .. .. .. jucunda.

-

A’. Anterior tibie uni-dentate outwardly.

Elytra sub-parallel, entirely clothed with yellow scales in the ¢,
_ paler in the ¢, and hardly hairy .. .. .. «. «. «. «. nobilitata.

CHASME DECORA, Wiedem.,
Zoolog. Magaz., 11. 1, p. 94.
Cuvier’s Régn. Anim. Insect., pl. xliv., fig. 8.

Head and prothorax black, elytra and abdomen testaceous
brown ; head punctulate, clothed with black villose hairs except

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on the clypeus which is as long as the head, broad, parallel
laterally, but with the anterior angles rounded, straight and not
emarginate at tip and with the margins reflexed, gene prominent ;
prothorax clothed with dense villose -hairs and covered with some-
what closely set orange-yellow minute scales; scutellum densely
squamose; elytra sub-parallel, having two shallow dorsal longi-
tudinal sulci clothed with minute orange scales which cover also
the slightly raised costee, but the humeral angle is often denuded,
along the suture amd the outer margin there is a series of long,
bristle-like hairs, but the whole dorsal part is hairy, the hairs on
the two coste being a little longer, stiffer, and more seriate ;
propygidium covered with yellow scales and also densely hairy ;
abdomen clothed with whitish scales, and the pectus with greyish
hairs; legs black, clothed with a not very dense, flavescent
pubescence; anterior tibie sharply bi-dentate outwardly.

Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester).

CHASME JUCUNDA, Ni. spec.

Narrower than the preceding species; the scales with which it
is clothed are paler, the head and prothorax are similarly shaped,
but the hairs, instead of being villose, are very short and appressed ;
the elytra have only a few sub-appressed black, bristle-like hairs,
and those along the suture and the outer margins are also shorter ;
instead of being entirely clothed with the yellow scales, each elytron
has one broad sutural and one marginal band, and a median one
which stops at some distance from the apex; pygidium densely
squamose and somewhat hairy, the scales are yellow, but turn to
white on the abdomen; legs black, hind tibize clothed sparingly with
flavescent hairs; anterior tibie sharply bi-dentate outwardly.

Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam).

_ I have seen the female only of this species, and the scales of the
male may be deeper orange-yellow.

CHASME NOBILITATA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, 1844, p. 37.

Broader, and therefore a little more massive than C. decora ; it
is easily distinguished by the unidentate fore tibiee; the head and
prothorax are similar in shape, and also clothed with villose black
hairs and flavescent scales; the elytra are distinctly broader than

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the prothorax and more ampliated laterally ; they are entirely covered
with yellow or flavescent scales according to the sex, and are almost
hairless even along the suture and the outer margins; the pygidium
is covered with yellow scales, turning to white on the abdomen; and
the pectus is clothed with white hairs.

Length 64-7 mm.; width 4-42 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Nolloth).

Gren. ANISONYX, Latr.,
Gen. Crust. et Ins., ii., p. 119.

Mentum very elongate, sub-parallel, or elongato-ovate for more
than half the length, then much narrowed, parallel, rounded at tip,
more or less sharply carinate in the middle of the outer face, ligula
divided into two parallel long membranaceous narrow lobes, labial
palpi inserted in two broad but nearly contiguous cavities divided
only by a narrow interval, the basal joint is short, the second is
slightly longer, the third is a little longer than these two put together,
and is sub-cylindrical and moderately blunt at tip; maxille very long
and slender, upper lobe narrowly horny outwardly, very long, and
fringed inwardly and on the upper side with a very thick, somewhat
long fulvous pubescence; maxillary palpi moderately long, apical
joint shaped like the labial one, but longer; head carinate laterally,
clypeus as long as the head, nearly sub-parallel, deeply emarginate
in the centre at tip, and slightly grooved longitudinally in the median
part; antenne ten-jointed, club as long as all the other joints;
prothorax attenuate laterally in front and with the base arcuate ;
scutellum triangular and as broad as long; elytra sub-parallel, not
covering the whole of the propygidium, pygidium vertical and
somewhat convex in the male, more sharply triangular and sloping
in the female; anterior tibize with an inner slender spur, tri-dentate
outwardly with the apical teeth curved and the basal one much
smaller than the intermediate and nearly obsolete; hind legs
similar in both sexes, tarsi long, anterior and posterior tarsi with
a double unequal claw each branch of which is cleft at the tip, but
the inner one is stronger than the outer, posterior claw single and
simple. :

The insects included in this genus are very hairy and covered on
the upper side, abdomen, and legs with glittering scales more or
less densely set. They are very abundant at the beginning of the
spring, especially on heaths. Their habitat does not seem to extend
as far as Namaqualand, where the kindred flower beetles are so
numerous and varied, but they are met with in the Karroo as far

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633.

as Beaufort West and Carnarvon. Two species only are found in the

eastern parts of the Cape Colony.

Key to the Srectes.

Upper side black, no scales on the prothorax ; elytra occasionally
with two narrow, elongate patches of whitish scales on each side

Prothorax with a supra-lateral narrow band of glowing red scales
on each side; posterior part of elytra and sides covered with similar
scales

Prothorax with three greenish or greenish blue narrow bands of
scales; elytra and pygidium black, clothed with dense but not
contiguous scales, abdomen without scales BPI Sclyo Nac

Head, prothorax, and élytra covered with contiguous bright green
scales, the former with two narrow, longitudinal black median lines
elytra black, abdomen, pygidium, and hind femora clothed with
greenish golden scales

Prothorax with a faint lateral marginal patch of bluish scales ;
elytra black with the posterior part, the pygidium and abdomen
sprinkled over with blue scales; the erect bristles on the elytra white

Prothorax without any scale; the elytra alone are sprinkled with
blue scales, and the erect bristles are black ..

Prothorax covered with contiguous emerald-green scales except
for a median, moderately broad, longitudinal space; elytra black,
sprinkled with patches of closely set scales of the same colour ;
pygidium and abdomen covered with contiguous scales. .

Prothorax with three, not well-defined bands of greenish scales;
elytra and pygidium sprinkled more or less thickly with greenish
blue scales; abdomen and hind femora clothed with a long
pubescence ..

Prothorax without scales; elytra set with a few opaline scales;
pygidium and abdomen with a few greenish scales; hind femora
clothed with a long black pubescence

Prothorax with three narrow median bands and a small lateral
patch of slightly greenish opaline scales ; prothorax with a narrow
marginal and sutural band of similar scales; pygidium and abdomen
clothed with opaline seales .. .. «.. «.. -@.

Prothorax without scales; elytra chocolate-brown and with a
conspicuous outer marginal band of opaline golden scales

Prothorax black, without scales; elytra pale fulvous, edged with
black, and having a few opaline scales on the outer margin;
pygidium and abdomen clothed with similar scales

Prothorax black; elytra pale fulvous, narrowly infuscate laterally,
but without any scales on the upper or under side

Prothorax black; elytra testaceous red ; no scales ..

Ursus.
ignitus.

longipes.

ditus.
pauperatus,
elizabetha.

smaragdinus .

lepidotis.
hilaris.
gemmatus.
lynx.

senilis.

nasutus.

proletarius.

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ANISONYX URSUS, F'abr.,
Syst. Entom. Append., p. 184.

Black, with the antenne and anterior and intermediate legs testa-
ceous red; clypeus very narrow and as long as the head, very little
acuminate laterally, deeply emarginate at apex, rugose; head three
times as broad as the clypeus and clothed with very long and very
dense black hairs; prothorax as densely clothed with black hairs as
the head, attenuate laterally in front, and having a median, not very
distinct longitudinal groove; scutellum sharply ogival, a little longer
than broad at the base, hairy; elytra sub-parallel, plane, and having
on each side two rounded, not much raised cost the outer of which
is the prolongation of the humeral callus which is very developed and
sharp, they are clothed with long, greyish and black hairs somewhat
seriate but not as dense as on the head and prothorax, and are bristly
along the suture, as often as not there are in the median parts two
narrow longitudinal bands of somewhat opaline scales which do
not extend as far as the apex; propygidium, pygidium, abdomen,
and pectus densely villose and without scales; hind tibize clothed
with long and dense black hairs; hind tarsi testaceous red; anterior
tibize with a very indistinct third basal outer tooth.

This species is the harbinger of the spring in the neighbourhood of
Cape Town. It is found in incredible quantities on the heaths or any
flower in bloom at the time. The larva makes no cocoon. The short
bands of opaline scales on the elytra are not a specific or a sexual
character, but so far as I know these bands are not present in
examples found outside the Cape District.

Length 94-11 mm.; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury,
Caledon).

ANISONYX IGNITUS, Casteln.,
Plate XLIV., fig. 2.
Histy Nate ds Ins: iio. lof.

Black, clothed along the sides of the head and on the prothorax
with long, dense black villose hairs, and having on the prothorax
two lateral bands of glowing, coppery red, minute scales often
coalescing ; the elytra, except an elongato-quadrate median patch
reaching from the base to past the middle, and the propygidium,
pygidium, and abdomen, are clothed with similar scales ; the antenne
and legs are black, and the basal outer tooth of the anterior tibize is
as distinct as in A. wrsws, but the clypeus, instead of being parallel,
is a little ampliated laterally in the middle, somewhat sharply

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acuminate from there, and deeply emarginate at tip; the elytra have
a dense seriate row of black, somewhat bristly hairs along the suture
and the outer margins, and also three dorsal rows of more remote
hairs on each side; the hind tibize are clothed with very long and
very dense black hairs, and there is only one humeral costa on each
elytron. 7

Length 10-104 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

ANISONYX LONGIPES,' Linn.,
Syst. Nat., 1., 2, p. 505.
A, crinitus, Fabr., Mant. Insect., i., p. 24; Blanch., Cuvier’s Régne
Animal. Atl. Ins., vol. 25 bis, fig. 9.
A. gucundus, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Par. Mus. Ent., 1850, p. 58.

Black; head and prothorax clothed with very dense, black, villose
hairs, and having on the prothorax fine, narrow, longitudinal bands
of small, elongate, emerald green scales; elytra, propygidium, and
pygidium clothed with closely set but not contiguous, small, elongated
emerald green scales, abdomen without scales; antennze and legs
black; clypeus sub-parallel for two-thirds of the length, then a little
rounded and attenuate towards the apex, which is incised at tip; the
black villose hairs on the head and prothorax are very long and very
dense; the scutellum is sharply triangular, and very little longer
than broad at the base; elytra parallel and densely hairy, the hairs
black and as long on the dorsal part as along the suture and the
margin; under side clothed with long blackish hairs, and occasionally
with a narrow band of greenish, not closely set scales along the edge
of the abdominal segments; hind legs clothed with long hairs ;
anterior tibiz with the basal outer tooth very minute.

The scales, though generally green, are occasionally blue. It is
this variety that Blanchard has described under the name of
A. yucundus.

Length 94-10 mm.; width 43-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury).

ANISONYX DITUS, n. spec.

This species resembles A. longipes very closely, and is also covered
with green scales, but these scales have a golden sheen ; the elytra
are testaceous, and are often so closely clothed with green scales
that the background is not visible; the clypeus is very elongate,
narrow, and more sharply acuminate than in A. longipes ; the head
is covered with scales; instead of five narrow bands of green scales

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on the prothorax, there is a very broad lateral band, divided obliquely
at the base by a narrow black band, and a median narrow one; the
scales on the elytra are almost contiguous, and the pygidium, the
abdomen, the hind femora, and the sides of the metasternum are
entirely covered with golden green scales; the anterior legs have no
basal outer tooth ; the hind tibiee are densely hairy, but the hairs are
slightly light fulvous in the inner part.

Length 8-94 mm.; width 4-41 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Ceres).

ANISONYX PAUPERATUS, Nn. spec.

Black; head and prothorax clothed with dense, long, villose black
hairs; the prothorax is sprinkled over with a few greenish blue
scales; the elytra are clothed with long, greyish black hairs inter-
mingled with a few white, bristly ones, and have here and there
scattered bluish scales which, however, are denser along the outer
margin, and also in the depression between the suture and the
humeral costa; the propygidium, the pygidium, and the abdomen
are clothed with similar scales which are not, however, quite
contiguous on the pygidium, which is clothed with black and white
long hairs; the species is allied to A. wrsus, but it is smaller, the
clypeus is narrower, but equally long and also incised at tip; the
villosity is similar, and the anterior tibia are more distinctly tri-
dentate.

Length 8-94 mm.; width 4-42 mm.

flab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon, Beaufort West, Willowmotre,
Graham’s Town.) ;

ANISONYX ELIZABETHA, ni. spec.,

Resembles much 4. pawperatus, but the whole body is clothed with
black hairs, and the elytra alone are sprinkled with blue scales; in
shape it is slightly shorter than A. pawperatus.

Length 74 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

ANISONYX SMARAGDINUS, h. spec.

Black, tarsi piceous; head and prothorax covered with long, villose
black hairs interspersed on the prothorax with a few longer, white,
bristly ones; the sides of the prothorax are clothed with densely set
gem-like, shining, emerald green scales leaving only a somewhat
narrow median band of the background uncovered ; elytra covered
laterally with similar not quite contiguous scales which are thickly

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set also on the median and posterior part of the space between the
suture and the humeral costa; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen
thickly clothed with similar scales; anterior tibiz piceous red and
with the basal outer tooth distinct ; clypeus very long, narrow, deeply
incised at tip.

This species is remarkable by the brilliancy of the green scales,
which, however, have no golden sheen.

Length 9-10 mm.; width 44-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale).

ANISONYX LEPIDOTUS, Wiedem.,
Germ. Magaz., iv., p. 189.

Black, or as often as not with the elytra fulvous; head and
prothorax very densely villose with the hairs black or fulvous; the
prothorax has three median lines of green scales, and on each side
an elongate, broad band or patch; the elytra, which are densely
clothed at the base with long hairs, fuscous or fulvous, according to
the colour of the elytra, have a few scattered green scales, which are
also remote on the propygidium and pygidium; the abdomen is
without scales, but it is, like the pectus and the hind tibia, clothed
with very long and dense fulvous hairs ; clypeus very long, somewhat
slender, acuminate laterally towards the apex, and triangularly emar-
ginate at tip; anterior tibiae with a somewhat distinct third, basal
tooth.

Length 81-9 mm.; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury).

Found in great numbers on the flowers of gladiolus and the corolla
of Richardia ethiopica.

ANISONYX HILARIS, n. spec.

Head and prothorax black, elytra and legs light brick-red, antennee
and palpi black; head and prothorax densely villose, the hairs black;
the prothorax has two broad bands of bluish opaline scales on each
side, and a narrow, median one; the two lateral bands often coalesce,
but the scales are very often rubbed off; the scutellum has no scales,
but on the elytra there are some sapphyrine ones somewhat scat-
tered, but denser in the juxta-sutural and the supra-marginal
longitudinal depressions on each side; propygidium and pygidium
clothed with more or less closely set sapphyrine ovate scales and
villose, the hairs greyish; abdominal segments sprinkled with a few
sapphyrine scales; pectus clothed with a black villosity; clypeus
very long, attenuated laterally from about the median part, slightly

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incised at tip, and with the outer angles slightly reflexed; anterior
tibiae tri-dentate, basal tooth very small, yet distinct; posterior tibise
villose inwardly, the villosity black.

Length 9-10 mm.; width 44-52 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Worcester).

The examples from Riversdale are smaller than those from
Worcester, and the intermediate and posterior tibise are black; but
in some of the examples from Worcester the basal part of all the
tibize is black or darkly infuscate.

ANISONYX GEMMEUS, Nn. spec.

Black, with the elytra pale testaceous; shape and vestiture of the
preceding species, but the prothorax is less densely villose, and the
black hairs are mixed in the dorsal part with white ones; the five
bands, instead of being sapphyrine, are opaline with a golden sheen ;
the scutellum has no scales; the elytra, in addition to the fuscous-
black decumbent hairs, bear a few seriate, erect, white ones longer
but as numerous as the black erect ones, and there is along the
suture a narrow band of golden, opaline scales, a very much broader
one along the outer margin, and a few scales along the base; the
propygidium and pygidium are clothed with long, villose, black and
white hairs, and are set with numerous scales which are also
somewhat abundant on the abdomen; pectus clothed with greyish
hairs ; anterior and intermediate tibiz rufescent, the anterior ones
with a very short basal tooth; clypeus not slender, incised at tip.

Length 9-10 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon).

ANISONYX LYNX, Fabr.,
Gen. “EE Mant., p. 210.
Oliv., Entom., i, 5, p. 58, pl. ix., fig. 101.

Black, with the elytra dark chocolate colour; the head and
prothorax are clothed with very dense and very long black villose
hairs; the clypeus is slender and not much narrowed laterally
towards the tip; there are no scales on the prothorax, pygidium,
or abdomen, but on the elytra there is a well-defined outer marginal
band of opaline golden scales which do not extend round the apex ;
the pygidium, abdomen, pectus, and hind legs are clothed with black
or greyish black villose hairs.

Length 9-94 mm. ; width 4-43 mm.

Hab. This species has, so far as I know, been found Goa on the
slopes of Table Mountain.

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ANISONYX SENILIS, Burm., »
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 43.

Black, with the elytra light fulvous, and distinctly edged laterally
with black; the sides of the head are clothed with black hairs, but
the villose hairs on the head and the prothorax are whitish; there
are no scales on the head, prothorax or scutellum, but the elytra
which are somewhat densely clothed with greyish hairs, and have
a sutural series of not closely set black bristles, have a border of not
very closely set sub-opaline golden scales along the margin, and also
a strip of them along the suture which is very narrowly infuscate ;
propygidium and pygidium densely scaly ; abdomen and hind femora
densely scaly, and clothed, like the pectus, with greyish hairs ;
clypeus very elongated and narrow; legs black; basal outer tooth
of anterior tibize very small.

This species is evidently allied to A. gemmeus, but the elytra are
more depressed, and the clypeus is more slender in the basal part
and more parallel. I know only the male.

Length 94 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

ANISONYX NASUUS, Wiedem.,
Germ. Magaz., iv., p. 140.
Guér., Ménev., Icon. Régn. Anim. Ins., pl. xxv. bis, fig. 9.

Similar in shape and colour to the preceding species; the elytra
are very light fulvous with the outer margins more or less distinctly
infuscate laterally, but there are no scales either on the prothorax,
elytra, pygidium, or abdomen, and the villose hairs covering the head
and prothorax, elytra, pygidium, and abdomen are black ; legs black ;
the clypeus is a little ampliated laterally near the base.

Length 8-84 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

ANISONYX PROLETARIUS, 0. spec.

Similar in shape, although a little more robust, to A. nasuus ; it is
also sealeless, but the elytra are brick-red and not infuscate laterally,
the villosity on the head and prothorax is denser and darker, and the
hairs on the elytra are more erect.

Length 8-9 mm.; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Caledon, Swellendam).

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(I have not been able to identify the following species.)

ANISONYX FASCIATUS, Burm.
Handb. d. Entom. iv. 1, p. 44.

“Black, hairy; elytra reddish at base and having two posterior
bands which, like the margins of the prothorax, consist of white
scales.

Length 32 lin. Male.

“Somewhat shorter than A. (Pachyenema) abdominalis, narrower
behind, and with the legs long and thick. Head black, clypeus
moderately long, both punctate and clothed with a black pubescence;
antennal club not elongate ; prothorax quadrate, covered with a scat-
tered punctuation and some black pubescence, lateral margin set with
white scales, the angles of this margin extending inwardly ; scutellum
black, with whitish scales; elytra red at the base, black from there,
and having at some distance from the base two transverse bands of
white scales, and some similar spots disposed in a transverse row in
the basal part, while in the apex there is a single, similar marginal
spot; penultimate abdominal segment clothed with white scales,
everything else pure black and hairy, only the median tibise some-
what scaly; anterior tibie tri-dentate, the basal tooth very small;
hind tibie tolerably thick, sharply edged above and below.”’

Burmeister gives the habitat of this species as ‘“ South-Hastern
Africa.”’ This is doubtless a mistake, because all the other species
to which he affixes this habitat are from the western part of the
Cape Colony.

GEN. PERITRICHIA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, 1844, p. 46.
Pherocoma, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Mus. Par. 1, p. 59, 1850.

Mentum of Anisonyx, but more gradually attenuate laterally, lobes
of ligula a little broader, apical joint of the labial and maxillary palpi
a little ampliated outwardly, but straight inwardly, and as long as
the two preceding joints together; maxille with the upper lobe
horny, very small or elongate and having at tip a long pencil of
hairs; clypeus elongate, more or less sharply acuminate, often
reflexed at tip; prothorax narrower than the elytra, densely pilose.
elytra sub-parallel, or gradually attenuate laterally from the humeral
angle towards the apex, not entirely covering the propygidium ;
pygidium obtusely triangular ; abdomen completely or partly covered
with scales or squamose hairs; anterior tibise sharply tri-dentate,
apical tooth longer than the second, and likewise curved outwardly,
basal tooth smaller than either of the other two, but sharp and

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straight, and having an inner spur; anterior claws double; the inner
one is not deeply cleft at about the median part, and the outer is
more slender, half the length of the inner, and cleft at the tip; the
outer claw of the intermediate legs is similar to the inner one of the
anterior legs, and the inner is slender and bifid at tip, in the
hind legs the outer claw is very robust and single (Peritrichia), or
there is a thin and simple inner one half the length of the outer and
set against it (Pherocoma).

The facies of the insects included in this genus varies a little.
Peritrichia tristis resembles Anisonyx, while the facies of P. capicola
approximates to that of Lepitriz. The species of Pherocoma are
more parallel than the true Peritrichia, the clypeus is less elongate
and less narrowed, and in the hind tarsi the inner claw is simple
and there is a small outer one pressed against the inner, while in
Peritrichia this claw is simple and single; there are, however,
numerous variations between these two forms; for instance, P. hirtipes
is a Pherocoma because of the double claw of the hind tarsi, and a
true Peritrichia because of the acuminate clypeus and of the elytra
being attenuate behind.

Key to the Species.

A?. Claw of hind tarsi double, the inner one strong and simple,
the outer one thin, pressed against the inner, and only half its
lenesbhibeere Meme cc cE ea, fey, oo. fees on. +) (RP HEROCOMA.)

B?. Elytra sub-parallel.

Black, elytra light testaceous or ferruginous and without
scales; the two basal abdominal segments only clothed
Wit WOULE SCALES vnc Gite k vias os cee, on jee oe trestis.

Prothorax with an all-round margin of flavous scales and
two median patches of the same on the disk; elytra
testaceous-brown, and having round the apical part a
narrow band of opaline scales ascending the suture;
pygidium and abdomen clothed with greenish scales .. grata.

Black; abdominal segments edged with scales, but the
two basal ones entirely scaly in the male, female black
with the elytra darkly ferruginous or somewhat piceous red,
and having irregular, elongate patches of flavescent scales abdominalis.

Prothorax faintly marginate with scales, and having on

the disk four little patches of scales; elytra with three

transversely set white scaly spots near the base, and an ( guttata.
apicabmarciialband .; 12, |... se 26 s+ «» ( Saga.
Prothorax with two median round black patches; elytra red-

dish brown and having on each side seven black,roundspots nigro-maculata.

B*. Elytra attenuate laterally from the shoulder to the apex.
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Prothorax with a margin of round, white scales; elytra
with a margin of white scales and with two transverse
white bands extending nearly from side to side; clypeus
very sharply acuminate and reflexed at the tip..

Prothorax with a margin of scales and having on the
disk two arcuate ones; elytra with two arcuate bands or

[VOL.

hirtipes.

spots; clypeus not sharply acuminate at the tip, posterior | ditissima.

tibize not densely villose. .

At. Claw of hind tarsi single, not cleft

B?. Elytra not much narrowed towards the apex.

C?. Body not very hairy.

Black, prothorax, elytra and legs not densely hairy ; pro-
thorax with two discoidal scaly patches ; elytra with a few
flavous patches in the male

Ct. Body densely hairy especially the sides and hind legs.

Black, elytra fulvous-brown; abdomen clothed with
dense whitish hairs; hairs on the sides and hind legs
black ..

Male black and entirely clothed with black hairs,
the hairs light-fulvous on the female ; upper side not
deeply punctate

Male black and entirely clothed with black hairs ;
upper side very deeply punctate

Black, with the elytra fulvous or chestnut-brown in
both sexes, clothed on the upper side with flavous
and black hairs, and fulvous hairs beneath

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, and clothed all
over with black hairs

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, and having on
each side a ring of whitish scales, body clothed with
dense greyish black hairs silly Walugi lav goer tbe:

Bt. Elytra distinctly attenuate towards the apex.

Black, with the elytra fulvous or light brown, broadly
infuscate on the outer margins, and having there a faint
band of greyish white scales; hairs on the sides and on
the upper edge of hind legs white; pygidium scaly. .

Black, with the elytra brown in the male, or brownish-
red in the female; prothorax with two discoidal patches
of decumbent hairs; upper side clothed with hairs, black
and white in the male, yellowish in the female; pygi- {
dium hairy

.
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Black and clothed with black hairs

Black, with two white patches on prothorax ; elytra light
fulvous, narrowly infuscate laterally and behind, outer
margins with a narrow band of white scales; pygidium
and abdomen scaly..

. (dita.

XII.

(PERITRICHIA).

plebeia.

UrSUS.

nigrita.

nigrovillosa.

nitidipennis.

cognata.

tulbaghina.

dimidiata.

capicola.
spuria.

pulchella.

puberula.

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Black, without patches on the prothorax ; elytra chestnut-
brown, broadly edged along the suture and the. outer
margins with black; pygidium clothed with black hairs
and having in the centre a broad longitudinal band of
appressed, white, lanuginose hairs .. .. .. .. .. pygidialis.

Male black, with the prothorax edged with white squamose
hairs, and having two patches of the same in the centre;
elytra, pygidium and under side with dense white scales;
female with the elytra reddish brown and scaly along the
outer margins and the suture .. .. .. .. .. .. pistrinaria.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-red; prothorax edged all
round with squamose yellow hairs, and having two
patches in the centre; elytra, pygidium, and under side
clothed! withsyellow hairs... (.. 2) «5 ts wc es hybrida.

PERITRICHIA (PHEROCOMA) TRISTIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 46.

Black, with the elytra testaceous-red or light testaceous; there is
no trace of scales except on the two basal segments of the abdomen,
which are clothed with whitish ones; clypeus in the shape of a
truncate cone, deeply and almost triangularly emarginate at tip, and
with the outer angles sharply reflexed, it is rugose and slightly
shorter than the head which is also rugose and clothed, like the
prothorax, with long, dense, villose black hairs; prothorax slightly
ampliate laterally; scutellum ogival, a little longer than broad,
punctulate and hairy; elytra sub-parallel, but not much elongated,
being nearly as broad as long, they are not very distinctly sulcate in
the dorsal part, but there is a distinct sulcus above the outer margin
from below the humeral angle to near the apex, and also a depression
under the scutellum, they are covered with decumbent, short, not
very dense black hairs, and have seriate, erect, bristly hairs more
abundant in the basal part, and nearly as long, but not so densely set
as those along the suture ; propygidium and pygidium closely punc-
tured, villose; abdomen clothed with greyish hairs, pectus with
black ones; legs piceous, anterior tibize sub-rufescent, tri-dentate
outwardly but with the intermediate and basal teeth set close to one
another, and occasionally sub-connate.

Length 84-9 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon).

PERITRICHIA (PHEROCOMA) GRATA, Nn. spec.

Female: Black, with two small round patches of greenish opaline
scales on the prothorax; elytra chestnut-brown and having a supra-

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marginal band of elongate opaline scales denser on the apical part,
and ascending the suture for a short distance ; pygidium and sides of
abdomen clothed with opaline scales having a greenish sheen;
abdomen and pectus covered with long, villose, greyish hairs; the
head and prothorax are clothed with long, black villose hairs, and the
shape of the clypeus is similar to that of P. abdominalis, but the
elytra are slightly more parallel; legs as in the preceding species.

Male unknown.

Length 9 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale).

PERITRICHIA (PHEROCOMA) ABDOMINALIS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., 1850, p. 59.

Black, with the anterior tibie and the tarsi reddish; head and
prothorax clothed with dense, villose black hairs; elytra black, but
occasionally piceous-brown laterally, not scaly in the male, but
generally having in the female a narrow basal band of slightly
flavescent scales on the prothorax, and on each side of the elytra ill-
defined longitudinal bands of similar scales in the two dorsal and the
supra-marginal intervals ; clypeus a little attenuate obliquely laterally,
slightly emarginate in the middle of the apex, with the angles
slightly curved; scutellum sharply ogival, villose; elytra somewhat
distinctly bi-costate on each side, and having three distinct intervals
on each side, they are closely punctate and clothed with black hairs
which are dense in the basal part but shorter, less dense and some-
what seriate in the posterior, while those along the suture are more
closely set and more bristly ; pygidium villose, the hairs are black
and not squamose, but the female is entirely clothed with squami-
form greyish ones, shorter than, but resembling those with which the
abdomen is clothed ; in the male the two basal segments are covered
with thick greyish-white scales; posterior tibize not very densely
villose; claws of hind legs double.

I have not seen a single female example that has not some traces
of the scaly bands left on the elytra.

Length 94-10 mm.; width 53-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, Paarl, Tulbagh). »

PERITRICHIA (PHEROCOMA) SAGA, Nn. spec.

Black, with the elytra light chestnut-brown, turning sometimes to
piceous ; prothorax with a narrow band of flavescent scales on the
anterior and posterior margins, the latter more distinct, but often
nearly obliterated in the male, in the centre of the disk are two

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small patches of scales often also obliterated in the male, and on the
elytra, of which the humeral longitudinal costa is very distinct, there
is a sub-basal transverse row of three, and a post-median of two
moderately large patches of flavescent scales, and the apical part is
edged with a narrow band which occasionally coalesces along the
hind part of the suture with the inner of these patches; the clypeus
is acuminate, more so in the female than in the male; the hairs on
the head and prothorax are long, villose and black, and the shape
and vestiture of the elytra are similar to that of P. abdominalis, but
the whole abdomen of the male is clothed with appressed squamiform
hairs ; legs as in the preceding species.

Length 74-10 mm.; width 44-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Wellington, Tulbagh,
Worcester).

PERITRICHIA GUTTATA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 45.

This species is closely allied to P. saga, but the elytra are a little
shorter, and a little broader in proportion; the clypeus is a little
more acuminate; the villose hairs on the head and prothorax are
similar; the latter part has a very narrow marginal border of scales
along the base, and now and then a few scattered about on the dis-
coidal part, but at the anterior angle, and also in the median part of
the outer margin there is always a small, but distinct patch; the
scales are white in the male, yellow in the female; the basal part of
the scutellum is often squamose; the five scaly patches and the
apical margin on each elytron are similar; the propygidium,
pygidium, and abdomen are entirely covered with scales in both
sexes, and the hind femora are distinctly scaly; the elytra are chest-
nut-brown and infuscate laterally in the male, redder and less
infuscate on the sides in the female, and the pectus is clothed with
long, villose white hairs ; hind claws double.

Length 74 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

PERITRICHIA NIGRO-MACULATA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 45.

Black, with the elytra light chocolate-brown; the head and pro-
thorax are similar in shape and vestiture to those of the preceding
species, but in the centre of the discoidal part of the prothorax there
are two round, small, velvety black patches, and no scales;
scutellum hairy; elytra clothed with the customary decumbent short

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black hairs, and having on each side seven small, velvety patches, of
these four are disposed longitudinally above the outer margin, the
apical not being always very distinct, and three on the dorsal part, the
median one being situate closer to the suture than the other two ;
in one of my examples there is a faint trace of a few slightly flaves-
cent, hair-like scales ; propygidium only clothed with yellow scales,
abdomen and hind tibiz with squamose appressed white hairs in
both sexes; legs black, hind claws double.

Length 64-7 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

PERITRICHIA HIRTIPES, Péring.,
Trans. 8. Afric. Phil. Soc., vol. iii., pt. ii., 1885, p. 92.

Black, with the elytra piceous, or sometimes piceous-red ; clypeus
very sharply acuminate, bi-dentate at tip ; head and prothorax clothed
with black, villose hairs, the latter has a faint basal margin of
squamiform hairs and a few scales, a lateral, median marginal
somewhat distinct patch of white scales, and a smaller one in the
anterior angle ; scutellum slightly scaly ; elytra distinctly narrowed
towards the apex, somewhat densely covered with erect black hairs,
narrowly marginate with white scales which also ascend the posterior
part of the suture, and they have two transverse, somewhat arcuate.
bands of similar scales extending across the dorsal part; the pro-
pygidium, pygidium, and abdomen are entirely clothed with white
scales, and the pectus with a greyish-white villosity; legs black,
posterior tibise and tarsi very densely villose, the villosity black ;
hind claws double.

Length 6 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

I am not sure, now, that the female of my original description is
that of the present species.

PERITRICHIA DITISSIMA, Nn. spec.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown or chestnut-red ; clypeus
moderately acuminate and bi-dentate at tip, the teeth not set close
together; head and prothorax very briefly pubescent, the latter in
the male has a broad basal band of deep orange-yellow scales, a nar-
rower lateral and apical one of flavescent scales, and in the discoidal
part an arcuate one reaching on each side from near the median part
of the base to the median part of the outer margin; scutellum densely
scaly; elytra a little ampliated in the middle and narrowed from

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there towards the apex, clothed with non-contiguous, squamiform sub-
flavescent appressed hairs, and having on ‘each side five somewhat
broad, saffron-yellow scaly patches, the two lower of which coalesce ;
the apical part has a band of similar.scales which ascend the posterior
part of the suture and coalesce sometimes with the inner, lower
dorsal patches ; in the female the bands of scales on the prothorax
are similar but narrower, and white, the patches on the elytra are
smaller and have a greater tendency to form two bands; the propy-
gidium, which is very broad, the pygidium and the abdomen are
entirely clothed with scales saffron-yellow in the male, white in the
female; the hind legs are not scaly and not very villose, and all of
them are piceous ; hind claws double.

Length 6-74 mm. ; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Damaraland.

This species, of which I have seen only three examples, is easily
recognised by the arcuate scaly band on each side of the prothorax.

PERITRICHIA DITA, N. spec.

Allied to P. ditissema, but smaller; the prothorax has arcuate
bands of scales in the discoidal part in the female only, the short
hairs covering it and also the scales forming the basal band are
white, and on the elytra, which have a border of white scales, are
two transverse, non-interrupted bands of whitish scales; pygidium
and abdomen scaly-white.

Length 6 mm.; width 34-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon), Damaraland.

PERITRICHIA PLEBEIA, 0. spec.

Black, with the anterior and intermediate legs rufescent; clypeus
moderately acuminate obliquely and with the apical part dentate ;
head and prothorax clothed with long, but not very dense erect black
hairs, the latter part shows no trace of scales along the margins, but
there are two small median patches of flavescent scales in the male
only; scutellum non-scaly ; elytra sub-parallel, not much longer than
broad, and with the humeral costa well defined, they are clothed
with very short, appressed black hairs, and in the male there are on
each side four indistinct macule of flavescent scales, and a nearly
obliterated narrow, marginal apical band of similar ones; propy-
gidium and pygidium scaleless in the male, but with a slight fringe
of them in the female; abdomen without scales except on the two
basal segments in the male; anterior tibize bi-dentate in the male,
tri-dentate in the female; hind claws single, simple.

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This species, of which I have seen a small number of examples
only, resembles closely P. abdonunalis, but is easily distinguished by
having only one simple claw on the posterior legs. Unlike P. abdo-
minalis, it is the male which in this case has scales.

Length 84-94 mm.; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam).

PERITRICHIA URSUS, Oliv.,
Entom., 1., 5, p. 58, pl. viii., fig. 88.

Black, with the elytra infuscate, dark brownish red, or chocolate-
brown ; clypeus very sharply acuminate, incised or bi-dentate at tip; .
head and prothorax clothed with very long, villose hairs, black but
mixed occasionally with a few greyish ones occurring laterally in
both sexes, there is no trace of scales; scutellum very long and
sharp, villose ; elytra attenuate laterally from the shoulders to the
apex where they are only half the width of the base, humeral costa
distinct, they are clothed with moderately short, villose black hairs
which are longer and denser along the suture; scutellum clothed
with long, black hairs in the male, greyish in the female ; abdomen
densely villose in both sexes, the villosity greyish white; pectus,
femora and tibiz, except the anterior ones, very densely villose ; legs
piceous-red, posterior tibize black; there is very little difference
between the sexes, but the hind tibiz of the female are a little less
densely villose than those of the male, and the hairs are more greyish.

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Tulbagh, Paarl).

PERITRICHIA NIGRITA, Blanch.,
Catal. voll Entom. Mus. Par., p. 60.

P. cinerea, Oliv., Ent., i., 5, p. 57, pl. iv., fig. 30.

Black, clothed in the male with black villose hairs and light fulvous
ones in the female. Smaller than the preceding species, and with
the elytra more attenuated towards the apex, the shape of the
clypeus is similar, the villose hairs are as abundant, but they are
denser and longer on the elytra which show no trace of scales, and
the villose hairs on the abdomen of the male are black ; in the female
the four abdominal segments have, besides the villose hairs, a cover-
ing of squamose appressed greyish hairs; the hind legs are very
villose in both sexes.

Length 8 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

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PERITRICHIA NIGROVILLOSA, n. spec.

Male: A little smaller than P. nigrita, Blanch., but clothed with
equally long and equally dense upright black hairs on the upper
side ; the clypeus is also greatly elongate and acuminate, but instead
of curving upwards from a short distance from the median parts, it
is reflexed at the apex only; the hind femora are not so densely
villose, and the main distinctive character is the much deeper,
_ broader, and altogether more conspicuous punctuation on the head,
prothorax, and elytra.

Female unknown.

Length 6 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore).

PERITRICHIA NITIDIPENNIS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., 1850, p. 60.

Black, with the elytra reddish brown or flavescent; clypeus
sharply acuminate and bi-dentate at tip ; head and prothorax clothed
with very long villose flavous or yellow hairs mixed with occasional
black ones, but with the latter less numerous; scutellum long, sharp,
villose; elytra a little ampliate laterally, and attenuate towards
the apex, but somewhat short, covered with very long villose yellow
or flavescent hairs, mixed also with a fewer dark ones, they have no
vestige of scales; the pygidial part, the abdomen, and pectus are
clothed with very long hairs similar in colour to those on the upper
side; hind tibiz very villose; claws of posterior legs single and
simple.

Length 74-81 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl).

PERITRICHIA COGNATA, Nn. spec.

This species is very similar in shape and vestiture to the pre-
ceding, but the elytra are darker brown, and the villose hairs are
shorter and entirely black on the upper sides, and also on the sides
of the abdomen and on the legs, but in the central part of the
abdomen they are slightly greyish in both sexes; claws of posterior
legs single and simple.

Length 8 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon).

PERITRICHIA TULBAGHINA, N. spec.

Facies of preceding species; it is also black with the elytra
brownish red and occasionally infuscate along the apical margin ;

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clypeus sharply acuminate but not incised at tip; head and pro-
thorax clothed with whitish flavescent, very dense villose hairs
mixed with an equal quantity of black ones; no scales on the
prothorax ; scutellum hairy ; elytra a little ampliate laterally towards
the middle, attenuate from there to the apex, and very deeply pitted ;
they are clothed with moderately dense, decumbent greyish hairs
mixed with a few erect black ones near the base, and each has a
narrow marginal band of white scales ascending the posterior part of
the suture, and connected there with an arcuate narrow band of
similar ones enclosing the posterior part above the apical callus ;
pygidial part, abdomen and pectus clothed with very long, greyish
villose hairs, and without scales ; posterior femora somewhat swollen,
not very villose; claws of posterior legs single and simple.

Length 8-84 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Tulbagh, Riversdale).

PERITRICHIA DIMIDIATA, N. Spec.

Black, with the elytra slightly testaceous and very broadly
infuscate laterally in both sexes; clypeus very sharply acuminate,
and with the apical part strongly reflexed and emarginate at tip; the
head and prothorax are clothed with very long, greyish and black
villose hairs, quite white, however, along the margin of the prothorax,
and without any trace of scales; the elytra, which are obliquely
attenuate from the shoulder to the apex, are clothed with hairs as
long and as villose as on the prothorax but with the greyish-
white ones more numerous, and they have a marginal band of
small white scales, which cannot be said to be dense, along the
outer margin, and forming a more distinct band along the apical part,
and sometimes ascending along the posterior part of the suture ;
pygidium clothed with long black hairs and appressed squamose
ones in the male, the abdomen and pectus of which has a long
whitish villosity, but with sub-flavescent or ashy-grey ones and also
some appressed flavescent hairs in the female; in the male the hind
legs are very densely villose, the hairs are black, but on the upper
side of the femora there is a very distinct bunch of white ones; this
villosity, however, is concolorous in the female; claws of hind legs
single, simple.

Length 6-84 mm. ; width 34-42 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester).

PERITRICHIA PULCHELLA, Nn. spec.

This species, of which I have seen only a few examples, resembles
P. dimidiata ; and in general facies P. capicola ; but there is no

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trace of discoidal hairy spots on the prothorax ; the elytra are quite
black, the greyish villosity is darker in the male, and they have a
faint outer marginal band of elongate scales, less dense or less con-
spicuous than in P. dimidiata; the pygidium is hairy and scaly
only in the female; the villose hairs beneath, laterally, and on the
hind femora have no admixture of fasciculate white ones in the
male ; and those of the female are sub-flavescent ; hind claws single,
sunple.

Length 74-8 mm. ; width 44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

PERITRICHIA CAPICOLA, E'abr.,
Syst. Eleuth., ., p. 179.

P. lurta, Fabr., Syst. Hleuth., i1., p. 134.

P. pilosa, Fabr., Syst. Hleuth., i., p. 134.

P. proboscidea, Oliv., Mimts is, o,99..09, pl. vill, fie. 96.

P. distincta, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Ent. Mus. Par., p. 60.

Black, with the elytra testaceous red, broadly marginate with black
outwardly and along the suture in the male, redder and not infuscate
in the female ; the clypeus is sharply acuminate and reflexed at tip;
the villosity, which is long and dense, is greyish in the male and
slightly flavescent in the female ; along the margins of the prothorax
there is a narrow band of short, sub-squamose hairs, and as often as
not there are on the disk two minute patches of similar ones; the
elytra are obliquely attenuate from the shoulders to the apex, and
are clothed with long greyish and black hairs, the former pre-
dominating in the male, and flavescent in the female; the
pygidial part and the whole of the under side are very densely
villose; legs piceous, hind legs villose; claws of hind legs single,
simple ; there are no scales on the elytra, but in the male especially
the white hairs are shorter and denser at the rounded, apical part.

Length 74-94 mm. ; width 44-54 mm.

_ Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester,
Uniondale).

PERITRICHIA SPURIA, Nl. Spec.

Intermediate in shape between P.capicola and P. pistrinaria, it is,
however, more closely related to the former, from which it differs by
the deeper and much less closely set punctuation of the prothorax,
and also by the two longitudinal impressions on each side of elytra
which are divided by a more costate interval; the colour is black in
the male, with the elytra chestnut-red in the female, and the

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pubescence round the head and thorax is white, but black on the
dorsal part, and the erect hairs on the elytra are interspersed with
appressed white squamose ones as thick as in P. pistrinaria, but not
quite so closely set; the rest is as in P. capicola, and in well-
preserved examples the prothorax has also two small discoidal scaly
patches, and occasionally some scales along the anterior margin; in
some females the pubescence is yellowish instead of being white.

Length 74-8 mm. ; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore, Port Elizabeth, Graham’s
Town, Knysna).

PERITRICHIA PUBERULA, Nn. spec.

Black, with the elytra light fulvous and the suture and the outer
margins slightly infuseate ; they have a marginal band of not closely
set greyish-white scales ; the shape of the clypeus, the colour and
disposition of the villose hairs covering the upper and outer side in
both sexes is similar to those of P. capicola, and it has also two
discoidal small hairy spots; it is very much smaller, the elytra
are more acuminate in proportion to the size, and the pygidial area
and the abdomen are distinctly scaly in both sexes.

Length 6 mm. ; width 33 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (neighbourhood of Cape Town).

PERITRICHIA PYGIDIALIS, N. spec.

Black, with the elytra light testaceous and very broadly infuscate
laterally ; clypeus sharply acuminate and reflexed; head and
prothorax clothed with very long villose hairs, which in the male
are white along the apical margin of the prothorax and on the
sides, but are mixed with greyish-black ones in the discoidal part,
and have also there a transverse median band of white hairs, in
the female these hairs are flavescent, there are no scales, nor are
there any on the elytra which are strongly attenuate laterally
towards the apex, they are clothed with whitish or slightly
flavescent hairs, and have on each side at tip a small outer hairy
white patch ; the propygidium and pygidium are clothed with black
hairs, and in the central part there is in both sexes a broad white
band consisting of lanuginose sub-squamose appressed ones; the
prosternum and mesosternum are clothed with dense, villose, yellow
hairs in both sexes, and the metasternum with white ones; the
abdominal segments have a fringe of squamose white hairs, but the
two apical segments and the upper side of the others have orange-
yellow villose hairs in both sexes ; claw of hind legs single, simple.

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Length 84-10 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorn, Willowmore).

PERITRICHIA PISTRINARIA, Péring., °
Trans..6. auric, Philos: Soc., vol. 1v., pt. u:, 1888, p. 100:

Totally black, but with the elytra of the female fulvous, or.
occasionally reddish brown ; clypeus very sharply acuminate, bifid
and reflexed ; head clothed with greyish hairs in the male; pro-
thorax clothed with somewhat short hairs which in the discoidal
part are partly black and partly grey, but are white, denser, and
lanuginose all round the margins, in the central part of the disk
are two distinct but small squamulose white patches; scutellum
squamose ; elytra less attenuated towards the apex than the five pre-
ceding species, covered with non-contiguous, elongate white scales
intermingled with erect or sub-erect, black, somewhat bristly hairs
which are longer and stiffer along the suture; pygidial part and
abdomen entirely covered with white appressed squamose hairs;
pectus clothed with white villose hairs; legs piceous, the hind ones
villose on the upper side; in the female the marginal band on the
prothorax is more lanuginose laterally and in front, more squamose
along the base, and yellowish instead of white; the elytra have
along the outer margins a more or less distinct broad band of
whitish scales which also ascends the suture for some distance,
and there are a few more scattered on the surface, but not as
numerously as in the male; the abdomen is more hairy than scaly,
and the legs are rufescent ; claws of hind legs simple, single.

Length 8-94 mm.; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam, Namaqualand).

PERITRICHIA HYBRIDA, 0. spec.

Black, with the elytra light testaceous; clypeus sharply acu-
minate, bifid and reflexed; head covered with yellow villose hairs ;
prothorax edged all round with villose, slightly lanuginose yellow
hairs and with black ones mixed with a few yellow ones on the disk
in the median part of which are two small, very distinct flavous,
squamulose patches ; in the female the hairs along the base are more
squamose ; scutellum clothed with yellow, appressed hairs; elytra
attenuate laterally from the humeral part to the apex, and clothed
with very long and very dense villose yellow hairs, among which are
a few black ones more numerous near the base; propygidium and
pygidium densely hairy, the hairs yellow; abdomen also densely

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hairy, the hairs yellow on the sides, but whitish in the middle ; legs
piceous, briefly villose ; claws of hind legs simple, single.

Length 64-7 mm.; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Graham’s Town).

Gen. LEPITRIX, Serv.,
Encyclop. Méth., 1825, x., p. 381.

Mentum comparatively short and broad, broader than long, lobes
of ligula very long and moderately wide, membranaceous, setulose
inwardly ; apical joint of labial and maxillary palpi longer than the
two preceding, sub-fusiform outwardly but somewhat curved in-
wardly ; upper lobe of maxillz simple, broadly triangular inwardly
and fasciculate, but produced at apex into a narrow, elongate, mem-
branaceous process which is densely fasciculate at tip; clypeus as
long as the head, nearly parallel or slightly ampliate laterally in the
median part, depressed in the centre, more or less deeply emarginate
at tip, sharply carinate laterally, and horizontal, or nearly so ; pro-
thorax slightly longer than broad, not much attenuated laterally in
the anterior part, emarginate in the posterior, base moderately
arcuate; scutellum long, or very long, sharply triangular; elytra
plane, much broader than the prothorax, distinctly narrowed
obliquely from the shoulders to the apex, and covering only the
base of the propygidium, which is as wide as the pygidium, the
latter is triangular, vertical in the male, sloping in the female; the
legs are slender, the tarsi long; the anterior tibiz are tri-dentate
outwardly, the teeth are equidistant, but the basal tooth is very
small, and the apical one is slanting outwardly ; the claws of the
anterior and intermediate legs are double, the inner one is cleft at
about the middle, and the outer one is much shorter there and
slightly bifid at tip, in the posterior legs the claw is either simple and
single, or there are two, the inner one being thin and half the length
of the outer.

Many of the insects included in this genus have on the prothorax
a marginal band and spots formed by fine, closely set scales, and on
the elytra sutural or apical bands of similar scales ; the propygidium
and the pygidium are scaly, but not the abdomen.

Key to the Species.

A?, Claw of hind tarsi simple.

Prothorax with a marginal and two discoidal bands of yellow
scales; elytra with a non-interrupted juxta-sutural band of
similar scales beginning at the base and continued round the
1) i sr er eS a aA Mes hs CMGEIE,

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A’,

Prothorax with a narrow marginal and two discoidal bands of
flavescent scales; elytra with a narrow marginal band round
the apical part ..

Prothorax with a narrow marginal band of appressed yellow
hairs, but without discoidal bands ; elytra without scaly band..

Prothorax with a marginal band of flavescent scales, disk
clothed with long black villose hairs; elytra with a sutural
band of yellowish scales encircling the posterior part from the
median part of the suture to the median part of the outer
margin

Prothorax without marginal band of scales and clothed with
rufous villose hairs; posterior band of elytra as in the pre-
ceding species

Prothorax without marginal band of scales; elytra fulvous and
with an arcuate sub-longitudinal band of flavescent squamose
hairs, and a post-median patch or band..

Prothorax without marginal band of scales, and clothed with
densely villose greyish-white hairs; elytra light fulvous and
with a narrow but distinct marginal and sutural fuscous band..

Claw of hind tarsi double.

Prothorax with a marginal band and two discoidal patches of
yellow scales; elytra with a sutural band of yellow scales,
beginning at the base, rounding the apex, and ascending a
little above the outer margin..

Prothorax with a marginal band and two discoidal patches of
flavescent scales; elytra with a semicircular transverse band
extending on both sides, an arcuate longitudinal one on
each side of the posterior part along the suture, and two
elongate ones along the outer margin

Prothorax and elytra without scales, except for a few remote
ones at the apex of the latter; pygidium scaly

Prothorax without scales; elytra with a juxta-sutural band of
not closely set black scales; pygidium without scales

LEPITRIX LINEATA, Fabric.,

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modesta.

NaMaqua.

stigma.
hilaris.
setosa.

pilosa.

ornatella.

gentilis.
xanthoptera.

dichropus.

Syst. Entom. Append., p. 830; Oliv., Entom., 1, 6, p. 66, pl. vii., fig. 63.

L. quadrata, de Geer., Mém. Ins., vii., p. 645, pl. xlvii., fig. 10.
L. thoracica, Thunb., Mém. Acad. Pétersb., 1818, vi., p. 444.

Black, with the elytra light chestnut; prothorax with a broad
margin all round of yellow scales and two discoidal lines of similar
scales reaching from the base to past the median part; scutellum
with yellow scales in the basal part; elytra with a moderately
broad, juxta-sutural band of yellow scales reaching from near the

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base to the apex, and continued round the apical part; pro-
pygidium and pygidium densely scaly; the scales are yellow, but
turn to white on the abdomen, which is also clothed with white,
villose hairs; the legs and antenne are rufescent, and the colour of
the scales is deeper yellow in the male than in the female; head
villose but not on the clypeus which is broad, sub-parallel, but
slightly sinuate laterally at base with the outer angles rounded, and
very slightly sinuate at apex; the margins are sharply reflexed, the
anterior part is somewhat excavate and smooth and the posterior as
well as the head is very rugose; prothorax a little obliquely
attenuated laterally in the anterior part, then straight, but emar-
ginate from there to the base, rugulose, clothed with long, dense,
slightly flavescent villose hairs, and having a faint post-median
longitudinal impressed line; scutellum very long and acutely
triangular; elytra much broader than the prothorax, and with
the shoulders rounded, bluntly triangular and covering the base
of the propygidium, plane, not costate, but a little depressed along
the suture; pygidium vertical in the male, sloping in the female ;
anterior tibiz distinctly tri-dentate outwardly, hind tibize similar in
both sexes; hind claws single, simple.

Length 9-94 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmes-
bury).

LEPITRIX MODESTA, 0. spec.

Shape of L. lineata but a little smaller, and with the elytra paler
and the legs redder ; the prothorax has a narrow band of flavescent
scales denser along the anterior and posterior part than on the
sides, and is sprinkled on the discoidal part with minute scales
forming usually two short longitudinal bands, one on each side of
the median part, and there is only a faint trace of some pallid scales
round the apical part of each elytron ; the sculpture and vestiture of
the head are similar to those of LD. lineata and L. stigma, but the
clypeus is more deeply emarginate than in L. stigma; the elytra
are sprinkled with semi-erect black bristly hairs; and the hairs and
scales on the pygidial part, abdomen, and pectus are similar.

Length 8-81 mm.; width 44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Tulbagh, Worcester).

LEPITRIX NAMAQUA, 0. spec.
Quite similar in shape, size, and sculpture to L. modesta; the
clypeus is still more deeply incised at apex; the prothorax, instead
of scales, has the outer margins clothed with appressed squamose

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yellow or yellowish hairs according to the sexes, and there is no
trace of scales either on the prothorax, the scutellum, or the elytra,
but the pygidial part and the abdomen are clothed with dense
yellowish white ones.

Length 8-84 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Nolloth).

LEPITRIX STIGMA, de Geer,
Mém. Insect., vii., p. 645, pl. Ixxxiv., fig. 9.

? L. fuscwpes, Thunb., Mém. Acad. Petersb., 1818, vi., p. 445.

Lh. ngripes, Fabr., Spec. Ins., 1., p. 49; Oliv., Ent., 1, 6, p. 67,
fienixe eGo).

~Black, with the elytra a little darker chestnut-brown than in
L. lineata. The elytra are not quite so elongate and are not therefore
quite as triangular, and each elytron is separately rounded at apex ;
the prothorax has a narrow margin of yellow scales, but no discoidal
bands, the scutellum is covered with scales, and on the elytra there
is a moderately broad sutural band of flavescent scales beginning
past the median part and continuing round the posterior margin ;
head as in A. lineata, but the clypeus is slightly obliquely narrowed
laterally from about the median part, the outer angles are not
rounded, and it is somewhat deeply emarginate at apex; elytra
rugulose and clothed with erect black hairs not very closely set;
pygidium, under side and legs as in the preceding species.

Length 8-9 mm.; width 44-5} mm.

Hab. Cape Colony Cie, Town, Caledon, Meee George,
Worcester).

LEPITRIX HILARIS, b. spec.

Facies, sculpture and vestiture of LZ. stegma, but the clypeus is
more obliquely attenuated laterally from the median part to the outer
angle which is distinctly sharp, whereas it is rounded in ZL. stigma,
and the emargination of the apical part is therefore more distinct,
although not deeper; there is no trace of scales or appressed hairs
on the margins of the prothorax, but the villose hairs instead of being
black, or fuscous, are fulvous; the elytra are a little redder, but also
clothed with black hairs, and the sutural and posterior marginal
band of scales are similar, but the scales are more orange-yellow ;
pygidium and under side similar; the elytra of the female are very
distinctly punctured.

Length 9 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uniondale, Port Elizabeth).

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LEPITRIX SETOSA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 41.

Black, with the elytra testaceous-yellow, legs piceous ; clypeus a
little ampliated laterally and with the outer angles rounded, not
acuminate and very slightly emarginate at tip; head and prothorax
densely hairy, the hairs greyish orslightly flavescent, but mixed with
appressed sub-squamose ones which are a little more squamose along
the base; scutellum clothed with squamose hairs; elytra attenuated
laterally towards the apex, clothed with short, decumbent black
hairs and a few erect ones which are more numerous and longer in
the basal part, and having on each side of the scutellum, and reach-
ing to about the median part, an arcuate band of sub-flavescent
squamose hairs as well as a transverse, arcuate, ill-defined post-
median patch of similar scales, the suture and the outer margins of
the elytra are infuscate; basal part of propygidium and pygidium
with a band of scales similar to those on the elytra; abdomen and
pectus moderately hairy; the pubescence is greyish, but on the
abdomen there are some appressed, sub-squamiform hairs.

I do not know the male of this species which Burmeister included
in Amisonyx, but which, I think, is only a form of transition of Lepitrix
with Peritrichia ; claws of hind legs simple, single.

Length 54-6 mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

LEPITRIX PILOSA, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 144.
(Amsonyx) lanata, Bohem., |. c., p. 148.

Black, with the elytra very pale testaceous edged all round with a
fuscous band and having also the suture infuscate ; it is clothed with
very long greyish or fuscous hairs above and under, and is entirely
without scales; clypeus much narrower than the head, quite parallel,
but slightly rounded laterally at apex and very little emarginate ; the
hairs on the elytra are partly recumbent, but in the anterior part they
are very villose; the legs are piceous-black, but the anterior tibia are
rufescent. In the examples in which the hairs on the upper side are
whitish grey, the elytra have no marginal or sutural infuscate band.

Length 5-54 mm. ; width 23-3 mm.

This pretty little species is as much an Anisonyx as a Lepitriz,
but the shape of the elytra is not sub-parallel as in the former. It
somewhat resembles Pachycnema abdominalis, but is very much
smaller.

Hab. Natal (Durban); Transvaal (Klerksdorp).

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LEPITRIX ORNATELLA, nN. spec.

Black, prothorax distinctly marginate all round with scales ae
squamose bright yellow hairs, and having two more or less distinct
patches of the same colour in’the discoidal part; scutellum squa-
mose; elytra with a sutural band of yellow scales beginning at a
short distance from the base, rounding the apical part, and ascending
above the lateral margin in a band which is distinct for half the
length, then obliterated, but there are still near the humeral angle
a few scales situated in the same line, the outer margin has a very
narrow, partly obliterated band of similar scales ; pygidium and propy-
gidium clothed with yellow scales and bristly black hairs; abdomen
clothed with light fulvous hairs, but having no scales; the clypeus
is slightly attenuate obliauely laterally towards the tip the angles of
which are sharp, and it is distinctly emarginate at tip; the hairs on
the head and prothorax are black and dense, and the elytra are also
clothed with somewhat dense bristly black hairs longer on the
suture ; legs black, anterior tibiz and tarsi piceous-red ; claw of hind
tarsi double, the outer one half the length of the inner.

Length 8-9 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, Paarl, Tulbagh).

LEPITRIX GENTILIS, n. spec.

Black, with the elytra brownish red, sometimes slightly infuscate
laterally ; prothorax marginate all round with flavescent scales, and
having in the discoidal part two small patches of similar ones ;
scutellum not densely scaly ; elytra impressed longitudinally on each
side of the humeral callus, and having near the base a semicircular
band of flavescent scales formed by two coalescing patches on each
side and extending from the inner part of one humeral angle to the
other, in the posterior part there is a longitudinal crescent-shaped
band along the suture and the rounded apical part, and above the
outer margin are two elongate patches of similar scales; these
patches and bands are sometimes partly obliterated, especially when
the impressions on which they are situated are shallow, for they vary
in depth, being more shallow in examples from the neighbourhood of
the Cape District than further north-west; the pygidium and pro-
pygidium are clothed with scales and short, squamulose hairs, and the
abdomen with whitish squamose hairs and a greyish pubescence ;
the clypeus is very deeply emarginate, almost incised, and the
prothorax and elytra are clothed with black sub-villose hairs; legs
black, anterior tibiz piceous-red, third basal outer tooth hardly dis-
tinct; hind claw double.

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In the examples from Worcester the bands and patches of scales
are not so well defined in the anterior part as in those from Namaqua-
land and Clanwilliam, nor are the impressions on the elytra quite so
deep, and in the male there are two slightly denuded small patches
on each side of the pygidium. |

Length 74-9 mm.; width 44-43 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Paarl, Worcester, Clanwilliam, Namaqua-
land).

LEPITRIX XANTHOPTERA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entmol., iv., 1, p. 39.

Black, with the elytra somewhat brick-red in the male, paler in
the female ; prothorax with only a few whitish scales along the outer
margins ; elytra also with only a few scales which are even very
often obliterated in the rounded apical part; pygidium and pro-
pygidium covered with somewhat flavescent scales ; under side
clothed with squamulose white hairs and a greyish-white pubescence ;.
pectus densely villose, the hairs white ; clypeus deeply incised semi-
circularly at tip, sub-parallel and with the angles sharp; head and
prothorax clothed with long black hairs ; elytra sprinkled with some-
what seriate black hairs longer and bristly along the suture ; anterior:
tibiae tri-dentate outwardly ; hind claws double.

Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

LEPITRIX DICHROPUS, Blanch.,
Cat. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., 1850, p. 60.

Black, with the elytra mahogany colour ; the head and prothorax
are clothed with very dense villose black hairs; the clypeus is
shghtly attenuated obliquely laterally from a short distance from the
apex which is semicircularly emarginate ; the scutellum is villose ;
the elytra are broadly but shallowy sulcate along the suture and have.
this sulcus filled with black not closely set scales which also form
occasionally a narrow band in the posterior part above the outer:
margin, the suture is bristly’and the whole surface bears seriate,
black, erect hairs; pygidium and abdomen closely punctured and
clothed with black hairs mixed with a few greyish ones; legs black,
anterior tibee sub-rufescent, distinctly tri-dentate ; hind claws double.

Length 8-9 mm.; with 43-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

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KHOINA, n. gen.

Buecal organs of Lepitrix, the lobes of the ligula are also long,
but broader and spatulate, the anterior tibiae have no trace of a third
basal tooth, but the shape of the clypeus is very different being
declivous, rounded in front, and with the margins highly raised all
round ; the hind tarsi are long, and the joints are clothed with very
long feathery hairs in one species, but not in the other, the whole
propygidium is left uncovered by the elytra; the anterior tibia are
bi-dentate, and have an inner spur.

Key to the Species.

Black, with the elytra piceous-brown in the discoidal part; pro-
thorax with an anterior and a posterior band of squamulose hairs ;
elytra with a few scattered white scales, pygidium non-scaly but edged
along the base of the propygidium and also along the abdominal
seement with white appressed hairs ; posterior tarsi simple ps UL-Labenales.

Black, with the elytra testaceous ; anterior and posterior margin of
prothorax edged with yellow scales; elytra with a posterior sutural
band of similar scales; propygidium and pygidium densely scaly,
tarsi with fascicles of very long, black feather-like hairs .. .. .. plumipes.

KHOINA suse Wuoiny uniey Thunb.,
Mém. Acad. Pétersb., 1818, vi., p. 446.

K. abbreviata, Guér., Icon. Régn. Anim. Ins., pl. xxv. bis, fig. 7.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, or fuscous, and piceous-red
in the central part of the disk ; head and prothorax clothed with long
villose greyish and flavescent hairs, and shorter appressed fulvescent
or whitish hairs along the anterior and posterior margins, in the
female these hairs are replaced by scales; scutellum clothed with
appressed hairs; elytra very much narrowed laterally from the
ampliated humeral part, deeply punctured, clothed with seriate, black
and greyish hairs, and having a narrow, marginal band of whitish
scales ascending also along the suture to about the median part, as
well as a few elongate whitish scales scattered here and there on
each side of the suture, and sometimes fairly numerous but not
closely set; propygidium and pygidium deeply and closely punc-
tured, clothed with long, villose black, or black and grey hairs, but
with the apical margin of the propygidium fringed with appressed
white hairs; the abdominal segments have a narrow fringe of similar
hairs, and the pectus is clothed with long, dense, greyish or whitish
villose ones ; the head and clypeus are closely and deeply punctured,
the latter is strongly declivous, very sharply and highly marginate

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and much rounded laterally ; legs piceous or piceous-red, anterior
tibiae bi-dentate, posterior normal.

Length 6-64 mm. ; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, HGTeaSEr,
Port Elizabeth).

The examples with fuscous elytra have only been found, to my
knowledge, in the Hex River Valley of the Worcester District.

KHOINA PLUMIPES, n. spec.

Black, with the elytra livid brown; prothorax with the anterior
and posterior margins having a narrow band of orange-yellow scales,
suture of the elytra with a similar band reaching from the median
part to the apex, propygidium and pygidium clothed with yellow
scales ; abdomen with appressed, squamiform white hairs, pectus
briefly villose ; clypeus bluntly ogival and very declivous, hollowed,
smooth in the anterior part; head deeply punctured and villose ;
prothorax also punctured and clothed with black, villose hairs ;
scutellum not scaly; elytra very elongated and much attenuated
laterally from the humeral part to the apex, deeply punctured and
having some seriate black bristly hairs a little longer along the
suture; legs piceous, anterior tibize with two long outer teeth,
posterior tarsi set all round with long brushes of dense black hairs.

Length 8 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Golenr (Clanwilliam).

I have not seen the female of this interesting species, which is
most probably the one alluded to by Lacordaire in his ‘“‘ Genera des
Coléoptéres,”’ vol. ii., p. 181.

GEN. ERIESTHIS, Burm.,
Handb. d.. Entom., iv., 1, p. 50.

Mentum long, ampliated laterally from the base which is not broad,
suddenly narrowed at some distance from the apex, and straight
from there, lobes of ligula broad, very divaricating, and fringed
inwardly with hairs, labial palpi somewhat short, apical joint quite
cylindrical and longer than the preceding one which is swollen ;
maxillze wholly or partly horny, armed inwardly with long claw-like
teeth, in which case the upper lobe is short, with only one basal
tooth when the lobe is longer, and fasciculate with long hairs, even
in one species (H. pusilla) there is no tooth at all, last joint of labial
palpi slightly fusiform and truncate at tip ; clypeus nearly as long as
the head, a little strangulate laterally near the base, not narrower

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at apex than at the base and reflexed at the tip in the male and the
female, but occasionally acuminate and more sharply dentate, and
more deeply emarginate at tip in the female (vulpina, vestta, fallax) ;
prothorax rounded laterally, a little attenuated in the anterior part ;
scutellum triangular, longer than broad; elytra plane, covering only
the edge of the propygidium ; pygidium vertical in the male, sloping
a little in the female; all claws double with the exception of
E. stigmatica, in which the hind ones are single; the inner claw is
robust and cleft at tip and the outer one is slender but nearly as long
as the outer and deeply cleft at tip in the anterior legs, while in the
intermediate and posterior ones the outer claw is robust, and the
inner very slender, both the hind ones are simple; the body is
covered with sub-lanuginose and squamose yellow hairs and scales,
except H. vulpina, and the hind tibiz of the male are hardly thicker
than those of the female; the apical inner spur of the anterior tibia is
only found in the species the maxille of which are not pluridentate.

In all the species but one, H. vulpima, which is a transition form
between Lepitriz and Hriesthis, the anterior part of the prothorax is
more or less densely hairy, but there is always a somewhat broad
basal margin of yellow scales and squamose hairs.

The variation in the number of teeth in the maxilla, which might
in other cases be considered sufficiently important to form generic
sections, would in the case of Hresthis be greatly misleading,
because, with the exception of H. vulpina, all the species are plainly
closely allied and have a somewhat similar livery, which makes the
identification of the species a rather difficult task.

The genus is South African, with one exception from German East
Africa, and is poorly represented in the South-Western and Western
part of Cape Colony, Calitzdorp being its most Western habitat, but
it has numerous representatives in the Eastern and South-Kastern
parts of the Colony, in Natal, and in the Transvaal. I have seen
an example alleged to have been collected on the Zambezi River by
Dr. Bradshaw, but this habitat requires confirmation.

Key to the Species.
AS. Maxille without tooth.

Head, prothorax and elytra clothed with dense, erect, greyish hairs;
elytra with interspersed and contiguous, thick, squamose flavous
Pee CARIIIECME rE ne fi Gs ee et ee ce le «| USilla.

A?. Maxillz with one basal tooth.

Maxille with a single basal tooth, body without scales; elytra
testaceous ; covered with greyish and black hairs .. .. .. .. vulpina.

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Maxille with a very briefly trifid basal tooth, elytra clothed with
appressed, sub-squamiform yellow hairs... .. .. .. .. .. —vestita.

Maxille with a simple, basal tooth ; elytra with a marginal band
and two transverse discoidal ones formed by small, yellow
BGalese La iikiei ypawndy | eR MERU gel cot iis oh es a Reo am mu CLL COLE

Maxille with a trifid basal tooth but having numerous hooked
cilis above it; elytra covered with orange-yellow scales and
having two transverse rows of brown spots on each side .. .. stigmatica.

At. Maxillee pluri-dentate.

Maxille with three long, claw-like teeth, the basal one non-bifid ;
elytra clothed with short black hairs and having two transverse
bands! of yellow scales. ))2 74) nse) Wao, iete eye) Wi isye ase Wes gecec@ ta

Maxillee with three short, briefly bifid teeth ; elytra covered with
appressed sub-squamose yellow hairs interspersed with black
hairs; but forming no design)" iene) ees eee) ee em LOtOsan

Maxille with three long, claw-like teeth the basal one of which is
slightly bifid; elytra clothed with very dense flavous squamose
hairs having on each side two somewhat denuded patches .. .. hypocrita.

Maxille with slender, long, claw-like teeth ; elytra clothed with very
dense orange-yellow ovate scales leaving on each side a sub-basal,
a median, and a supra-apical denuded space .. .. .. .. .. semithirta.

Maxille with four short teeth, the apical and basal ones of which
are bifid; elytra with a supra-marginal band of yellow scales
ascending the suture, and two similar arcuate bands bi-interrupted
om: each Side’ oe gas SU ar hace ues) hou a Meccan Ps soynlanr Gag MCLCCO RG

ERIESTHIS PUSILLA, n. spec.

Black, with the head and the prothorax clothed with very dense
erect greyish flavescent hairs, and having along the posterior margin
a band of short, squamose, more plainly flavescent appressed ones ;
scutellum clothed with yellow, not contiguous yellowish scales,
elytra testaceous, not costate but with the apical callus well developed,
clothed with dense erect greyish hairs, but sprinkled with appressed,
yellowish, elongate scales somewhat hair-like but not hiding the
testaceous ground colour; pygidial part clothed with dense sub-
lanuginose appressed hairs flavescent in the male, greyish in the
female ; head very scabrose, clypeus as broad as long, plainly
narrowed laterally towards the apex, and narrower and more
sharply acuminate than in the other species of the genus, emarginate
in the centre and with the outer angles sharp; prothorax covered
with contiguous cicatricose punctures enclosing a smaller, round,
setigerous one ; anterior tibie tri-dentate.

This species is intermediate in form between Hriesthis and

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Peritrichia. It has the maxille of the latter and the clypeus is also
a little more acuminate than in Hriesthis, but the cicatricose punc-
tures of the prothorax are those of Hriesthis.

Length 54-6 mm. ; width 33-4 mm.

Hab. Orange River Colony (Bothaville).

ERIESTHIS VULPINA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 50.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown ; clypeus hardly obliquely
attenuate, truncate at tip and angular laterally in the male, or very dis-
tinctly acuminate, bi-dentate and deeply incised in the female; head
and prothorax clothed with long, villose, sub-flavescent, or sometimes
greyish hairs which are usually erect, there is no trace of scales,
and even along the base the hairs are not squamose; scutellum
clothed with hairs; elytra without any trace of scale or squamulose
hairs, but clothed with sub-erect black and greyish, or sub-flavescent
hairs, the latter being more numerous; pygidium and propygidium
clothed with long, dense, fulvous hairs turning to greyish or white on
the abdomen and the pectus; legs thick, villose; anterior tibiz bi-
dentate, but with the basal tooth often nearly obliterated in the
female.

Length 6-74 mm. ; width 32-44 mm.

This species is easily recognised by the absence of scales.

Hab. Cape Colony (Seymour) ; Natal (Umvoti County, Frere).

ERISTHIS VESTITA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom, iv., 1, p. 51.

Black, with the elytra light fulvous; clypeus very little acuminate
laterally and having the outer angles slightly rounded and a little
emarginate at tip in the male, more acuminate, sharply dentate and
incised in the middle in the female; head clothed with short,
flavescent villose hairs; prothorax covered with flavescent hairs
which are somewhat long and villose laterally, but which in the
discoidal part are appressed, become somewhat squamiform towards
the posterior part, and turn to scales along the base, these hairs and
scales are not dense enough to hide the black background ; scutellum
densely scaly, the scales rich yellow; elytra covered with sub-
squamiform yellow hairs, appressed and not closely set; the pro-
pygidium and pygidium are clothed with squamose, short hairs
covering the whole surface, but the abdomen and the legs are villose,
and the hairs turn to white on the abdomen; basal outer tooth of

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anterior tibie very small in the male, more distinct in the female ;
legs piceous, tarsi piceous-red.

Length 64-7 mm. ; width 4~44 mm.

Hab, Cape Colony (Hast London); Natal (Maritzburg, New-
castle) ; Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

ERIESTHIS FALLAX, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 50.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown ; clypeus sub-parallel in
the male and with the outer angle slightly rounded and the apical
part slightly sinuated; it is more acuminate in the female, with the
outer angle sharper and recurved and the apical part incised; the
head and the sides of the prothorax are clothed with somewhat
villose, light flavescent hairs which are not so long and are appressed
in the discoidal part, while along the base there is a very narrow
band of light yellow scales ; scutellum scaly ; elytra chestnut-brown,
clothed with sub-erect, short, black hairs, and having a supra-
marginal band of not very dense flavescent scales ascending the
posterior part of the suture, and two transverse similar bands ex-
tending across the elytra, while along the base there is also a more
or less distinct band of scales; propygidium and pygidium clothed
with lemon or orange-yellow squamose hairs, which turn to white
and are not so squamose on the abdomen.

This species resembles very much H. guttata, but it is much
smaller, the hairs on the prothorax are not so villose on the disk, and
reach the basal scaly part, which they do not in H. guttata, and the
maxille are very different.

Length 6-64 mm.; width 4 mm.

I have seen some examples in which the scales on the elytra and
the villosity on the prothorax are denser and more yellow.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

ERIESTHIS STIGMATICA, Billb.,
Schonh. Syn. Insect., i., 3, Append., p. 44.

Black, covered on the head and prothorax with a very dense, short,
decumbent pubescence, but having along the base of the latter a
somewhat narrow band of golden-yellow scales; scutellum densely
scaly ; elytra dark brown, distinctly ampliated laterally, clothed with
contiguous small yellow scales, and having on each side two round
black or brown spots, and past the median part three more set
transversely, and coalescing sometimes so as to form a band;

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propygidium, pygidium, and upper side of abdominal segments
covered with very closely set yellow scales; the pygidium has a
median longitudinal whitish band and a round patch of the same
colour on each side, and from between the scales spring some short
black bristles; abdomen scaly in the male, hairy in the female ;
anterior tibize very strongly tri-dentate outwardly ; claws of hind leg
single ; clypeus slightly attenuate obliquely, more deeply emarginate
in the female than in the male, and reflexed at tip; maxille with a
trifid basal tooth, but having numerous hooked bristles above it.

Length 8-94 mm.; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Calitzdorp, Port Hlizabeth, Uitenhage
Graham’s Town, Seymour).

ERIESTHIS GUTTATA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entony, iv., 1, p. dl.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown; head and _ prothorax
clothed with greyish villose hairs, posterior part of the prothorax not
villose but having along the margin a band of sub-appressed rich
yellow, somewhat squamiform hairs interspersed with a few yellow
scales; scutellum covered with similar hairs; elytra somewhat
infuscate laterally, clothed with very short, sub-decumbent black
hairs, and having two transverse bands of greyish squamiform ones
reaching from one side to another, but twice or three times inter-
rupted, thus resembling spots; posterior part of the suture and
apical part with a band of similar squamiform hairs; propygidium
and pygidium clothed with orange-yellow squamiform hairs; under
side clothed with greyish hairs, appressed on the abdomen, villose
on the pectus; anterior tibie strongly tridentate; claws of hind
legs double; clypeus not acuminate and hardly sinuate at tip.

Length 7-84 mm.; width 44-5 mm.

Hab. Natal (Umvoti, Durban); Cape Colony (Pondoland) ;
Southern Rhodesia (Victoria Falls).

HRIESTHIS DUBIOSA, N. spec.

Black, with the elytra reddish ; shape of clypeus and also vestiture
of the head and prothorax similar to that of the preceding species,
but the hairs and scales are not such a bright yellow; the scutellum
is squamose, and the elytra are covered with appressed hairs which
can hardly be called squamose; anterior tibiae with a very minute
basal outer tooth; maxilla armed with three short, briefly bifid teeth.

In shape, size, and vestiture this species resembles so much £.
vulpina that it is difficult to distinguish the two, but in HL. dubiosa

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the clypeus is not narrowed laterally in front, and the maxille are
pluri-dentate.

Length 6-7 mm. ; width 33-41 mm.

Hab. ? Natal (exact locality unknown).

ERIESTHIS HYPOCRITA, Nn. spec.

Black, with the elytra somewhat rufescent, covered on the head
and prothorax with pale yellow hairs which are dense, but not long,
the posterior part of the prothorax is covered with closely set scales ;
scutellum squamose; elytra clothed with scales mixed with very
short erect hairs of the same flavescent colour as the scales, and
mixed with equally short brownish hairs which are more numerous
or are better seen on two dorsal, partly denuded patches showing
more or less clearly on each side; propygidium and pygidium
densely squamose ; abdomen clothed with appressed hairs; legs and
pectus villose ; clypeus as broad as long, a little constricted at the
base, slightly ampliated in the middle, and with the apical margin,
which is only very slightly sinuate, reflexed and angular on each
side; maxillze with three long, claw-like teeth, the basal one of which
is iti: anterior tibiz tri-dentate.

In some examples from Rustenburg, in the Transvaal, the scales
and hairs on the elytra are paler and the two brownish patches on
each side are almost hidden.

Length 7-9 mm.; width 4-5 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Newcastle); Transvaal (Potchefstroom,
Johannesburg, Rustenburg).

ERIESTHIS SEMIHIRTA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom. iv., 1, p. 52.

Black, with the elytra dark chestnut-brown ; head and anterior
part of prothorax covered with yellow, villose hairs, posterior part of
prothorax with dense, squamose orange-yellow ones; scutellum
densely squamose; elytra clothed with contiguous orange-yellow,
appressed, squamose hairs leaving on the dorsal part on each side
three transverse denuded patches ; pygidium and upper sides of the
abdomen clothed with appressed squamiform hairs bright orange,
except on the lower side of abdomen, where they are grey; clypeus
emarginate at tip and with the outer angles sharp, but nearly
parallel; anterior tibie tri-dentate ; maxille armed with five claw-
like teeth ; claws of hind legs double.

Length 8 mm.; width 44 mm.

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Hab. Cape Colony (Bathurst, Graham’s Town, Port Elizabeth,
King William’s Town, Somerset East).

ERIESTHIS DECORA, N. spec.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-red; head and prothorax clothed
with comparatively short villose orange-yellow hairs covering the
greatest part of the surface, but along the margin there is a moderately
broad band of small yellow scales ; scutellum densely scaly; elytra
very briefly and closely hairy and having a supra-marginal band of
very closely set, small orange scales continued along the apical part
and ascending along the suture where it unites with the lower of
two transverse bands of similar scales which are bi-interrupted on
each side, the basal part is also more or less densely scaly; pro-
pygidium and pygidium clothed with yellow squamose hairs which
are less squamose and turn to greyish on the abdomen; clypeus a
little obliquely attenuate laterally, more deeply emarginate and more
distinctly dentate laterally in the female than in the male, ‘being
straight and reflexed in the latter; maxille armed with four short
teeth, the apical and basal of which are bifid; inner claw of hind
legs small.

This species can be distinguished from the other allied species by
the disposition on the elytra of the scales, which form a distinct
marginal band.

Length 84-94 mm.; width 5-51 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Burghersdorp); Transvaal (Potchefstroom,
Boksburg).

KORISABA, n. gen.

Mentum narrow, elongate, oblong in the posterior part, a little
narrowed in the anterior, slightly emarginate at tip, lobes of ligula
broad; upper lobe of maxillaee robust, horny, rounded outwardly,
oblique inwardly, concave and armed with four strong teeth set
opposite each other; inner lobe sharply dentate at the tip, apical
joint of labial palpi thick, swollen, pyriform, apical point of maxillary
palpi elongate, fusiform ; clypeus broader than long at the base, and
sub-dentate there laterally, slightly attenuate towards the apex,
where it is sharply tri-dentate; prothorax diagonally narrowed
laterally from the apex to the median part, straight thence to the
base where it is broadly triangular; scutellum moderately narrow,
elongate and sharply triangular; elytra much broader than the
prothorax owing to the great ampliation of the humeral parts,
gradually and strongly narrowed from there towards the apex;

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pygidium broad, vertical; anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly with
the two basal teeth connate and set at right angles with the tibia, the
apical tooth is directed obliquely forward; the claws of the anterior
and intermediate legs are double and both cleft, that of the posterior
is single and simple; the hind tibize of the male are moderately
robust but not thicker than the thigh.

KORISABA AMABILIS, n. spec.

Black, densely clothed with long, villose greyish and black hairs on
the upper, and with greyish-white ones on the under sides, hind legs
villose, hind tarsi also villose and bristly ; clypeus attenuate laterally,
very sharply tridentate at the apex, the three teeth of equal size and
reflexed ; prothorax deeply and somewhat closely punctured, the
punctures not scabrose; scutellum clothed with white hairs ; elytra
broadly ampliated at the humeral part which is rounded, and
gradually narrowed from there to the apex, not costate on the
discoidal part, but having a somewhat broad, longitudinal impression
along the suture; pygidium broad, moderately slanting forwards,
nude and shiny.

Length 54 mm.; width 3} mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

The only example of this species which I have seen, is a male
which was sent to me by the late C. A. Dohrn, who had received it
from Drége.

GEN. STENOCNEMA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 66.

Mentum moderately ampliated laterally in the median part, a little
attenuated but not much constricted towards the apex which is
straight, ligula very short, the lobes quite lateral; lobe of maxille
glabrous, not penicillate at the top, armed inwardly with five very
strong teeth and five or six hooked stiff ciliz ; apical joints of labial
and maxillary palpi sub-cylindrical ; head triangular and with the
clypeus deeply emarginated in front and the angles dentiform and
rveflexed ; prothorax obliquely attenuate in the anterior part for one-
third of the length, straight from there and with the base arcuate ;
scutellum very long and narrow ; elytra ampliated near the humeral
part, attenuated from there towards the apex; propygidium wide,
pygidium vertical ; anterior legs without apical spur, anterior tibiz
strongly tri-dentate, the three teeth are set at right angles, but the
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broad at the base and slightly connate there; intermediate and
posterior tibize with a distinct apical spur; hind femora and hind
tibiz somewhat swollen in the male and less so in the female ;
claws of anterior legs double and both cleft, of the intermediate
single and cleft, of the posterior single and simple.

An intermediate form between Pachycnema and Eriesthis. The
shape of the outer teeth of the anterior tibiz is similar to that of
some species of the former, but the hind legs are as in Hmesthis.

Only one species is known.

STENOCNEMA PUDIBUNDA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 67.

Chocolate-brown, with the head and prothorax fuscous ; clypeus
triangular, deeply emarginate at tip and with the outer angles
sharply dentate; the head and the prothorax are very closely
punctured and the punctures are filled -with slightly flavescent
scales, but they are also densely hairy, the hairs are somewhat
villose and flavescent in the anterior part of the prothorax, and
shorter and black in the posterior where there is also a narrow band
of small scales ; scutellum scaly ; elytra impressed along the raised
suture and having a rounded costule as a prolongation of the
humeral callus, the juxta-sutural depression is filled with a band
of minute yellowish contiguous scales beginning at a short distance
from the base and merged in the rounded apical part with a similar
supra-marginal band reaching very nearly to the base, there is
along the costule another discoidal band which does not reach much
beyond the median part, and on each side are three discoidal distinct
rows of short, stiff black bristles, the sides are also closely bristly ;
under side and pygidial part clothed with contiguous flavescent
scales ; pectus villose, the hairs greyish ; legs covered with dense,
appressed white squamiform hairs. The female is like the male.

Length 7-84 mm. ; width 43-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Graham’s Town).

Gen. PACH YCNEMA, Serville,
Encyclop. Méthod., x., 1825, p. 375.
Physocnema, Burm.

Mentum very long, oblongo-ovate but attenuated towards the tip
which is rounded, ligula long, bi-lobate, lobes very diverging; upper
lobe of maxille densely penicillate, horny at the base, apical joint of
labial palpi sub-cylindrical and slightly bent inwardly, apical joint of

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maxillary palpi dilated in the inner side, where it is fusiform, and
curving slightly inwards on the outer part; clypeus a little shorter
than the head, attenuate laterally towards the tip which is truncate,
and with the angles sharp or reflexed ; prothorax attenuate laterally
in front, base marginate, somewhat arcuate, basal angles sharp;
scutellum triangular, moderately long, or long; elytra broader than
the prothorax, attenuate from the base towards the posterior part,
strongly sinuate laterally, and having a strongly developed callus
on the humeral part, somewhat plane and having on each side
three or four shallow longitudinal depressions filled occasionally
with white or flavescent scales; pygidium triangular, vertical or
inclined forwards in the male; anterior tibiz with a very short
inner spur which is, however, obliterated in some species, quadri-
dentate or tri-dentate outwardly, the teeth sometimes connate, inner
claw of the four anterior tarsi twice as long as the outer, and both of
them cleft; posterior femora and tibiz greatly developed, especially
in the male; apex of posterior tibiz dilated, semicircular outwardly,
hollowed and stiffly bristly all round, apical spur of the male strong
and often displaced or produced into a spine or tooth ; posterior tarsi
partly or entirely fused and with the fifth joint always longer than
the first four put together, claw simple, very long, equal in length to
the apical joint; abdomen very compressed laterally ; metasternum
very broad; trochanters of posterior legs strongly developed and
occasionally spinose.

The genus can be divided into two groups.

Tn the first, the posterior legs of the male, especially the femora,
are very strongly dilated or ampliated, and the joints of the hind
tarsi are more or less distinctly fused, sometimes even reduced to a
single one (P. calcaratus).* The habitat seems to be restricted to the
' South-Western and Western districts of the Cape Colony, where
rains occur periodically in winter.

In the second, the elytra are more depressed, the posterior tibia
in the male are a little thickened, but not inflated, the joints of
the hind tarsi are normal, and the apical joint of the maxillary palpiis
cylindrical and curves outwardly from the base to the median part.

Some species of this second group occur in the Hastern Provinces
of the Cape Colony.

Key to the Species.

A. Posterior tibise of males very much ampliated ; joints of tarsi
short, fused.

B?. Anterior tibize quadri-dentate outwardly.

* In plate xlii., figures 1 to 22 inclusive are those of the outer face of the hind
leg; all the others represent the inner face.

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Posterior tibise of the male scooped inwardly and having
a broad, sub-triangular inner median lamina, apical
part produced inwardly and outwardly into a sharp
spine the outer of which is very long; elytra with the
suture, and on each side four distinct denuded coste,
intervals filled with closely set sub-flavescent scales ..

. Anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly.

C+. The three teeth quite apical and strongly connate.

C3.

Elytra clothed with dense cinerous scales, but having
on each side three small denuded patches. .

The three teeth long and sharp, nearly equidistant
but with the two apical ones slightly carinate at the
base.

D?,

Dp,

Posterior tibise somewhat scooped and dentate
inwardly, produced on each side of the apex
into a distinct dentate process ; clypeus dentate
laterally.

Elytra with somewhat closely set whitish
scales; coste and intervals set with short
decumbent bristles; fifth joint of hind tarsi
with a strong median tooth ay Dera

Elytra covered with minute, contiguous, ashy-
grey scales, and having one sutural and four
dorsal rows of widely separated, denuded, seti-
gerous granules; fifth joint of hind tarsi as in
the previous species -..

Posterior tibize broadly dilated inwardly ; clypeus
not dentate laterally.

. The two apical teeth connate at base and set at a

great distance from the basal one.

D?. Hind tibie very swollen, dentate inwardly.

Elytra red and with a juxta-sutural and a
marginal white band; hind tibie very swollen
and having an inner spine opposite the long
apical spur, joints of tarsi fused without a
visible suture, but having a long, recurved tooth
at the base and a short one at the middle;
pygidium with a longitudinal interrupted black
band ..

Elytra brown and with three distinct white
or yellow bands on each side; pygidium with-
out any black band; hind tibize of male very
swollen and produced inwardly into a sub-
apical, strong, dentate process, apical spur
obliterated ; joints fused and with the sutures
nearly obliterated, dentate underneath, fifth
joint with a sub-median tooth on the under side

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striata.

melanospila.

squamosa.

norbillosa.

calcarata.

Jlavolineata.

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Elytra black, sprinkled with elongated, not
dense, white scales; posterior tibise of the male
broadly dilated triangularly on the inner part,
armed there with a sharp tooth, and at apex
with a similar but shorter one set close to the
PICA SPUE’ Tear) Veena ne) ose ele ee CmSUIUORULOLIS®

D*. Posterior tibize of the male broadly dilated, not
dentate inwardly ; apical tarsal joint tri-dentate
beneath.

Elytra ferruginous brown, sprinkled with
whitish scales, and having on each side three
impressions filled with dark scales .. .. .. murina.

Ct. The two apical teeth not connate at base.

Elytra black in the male, red in the female and
having on each side two round, scaly small patches
along the base, three elongated ones in the first
interval, two in the second, and an uninterrupted
band in the third; tibie black in the male... .. obscurepurpurea..

Elytra red in the male, and having on each side
three non-interrupted white bands hardly reaching
as far as the apex; tibiae red inthe male.. .. .. alternans.

Elytra reddish brown, sprinkled irregularly with
somewhat dense whitish scales; tibiz black in
theyimale ci55 9 cue teh ec ctgc Anyi iia) ee unease LLL CIEL ET CGR

At. Posterior tibize of male not much ampliated, joints of tarsi
normal.

B3. Pygidium entirely covered with scales.

Elytra brownish red, each with a small humeral
yellow spot; prothorax with a narrow border of orange-
yellow scales all round, and four small spots on the
disk; pygidium covered with yellow scales .. .. .. marginella.

Upper side completely black; elytra with long, black
sete along the suture; pygidium covered with white
Stales © asi oles MaSeke RE oe aoe aM GRITLOC TENG:

Elytra light fulvous or reddish brown, densely hairy,
pygidium covered with white or flavescent scales .. .. tibialis.

Elytra black in the male, reddish in the female, and
having on each side nine plain, round, scaly, white or
yellowish spots... “Gna tga er | Cn eemeontnatas

Elytra pale testaceous and having a marginal and a
sutural black band, and a narrow line of white scales on
the rounded, apical margin vi weet Me Ga ie eeliabdomingien

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B*. Pygidium with a basal line or band.

Prothorax with a narrow marginal band of scales and a
small patch on each side; elytra red, bristly along the
suture and the outer margin; pygidium with a broad,
basal transverse velvety black patch... .. .. .. .. namaqua.

Prothorax with the scaly outer border, but not the
small patch; elytra pale testaceous, bristly all over ;
propygidium with a narrow, but distinct transverse,
apical black band Seba hsn hos, pose! tnooa aie. Savon SSO

B'. Pygidium with a longitudinal denuded median band.

Prothorax with a flavous scaly margin ; elytra reddish
brown, bristly along the suture and on the sides;
propygidium with a narrow, velvety, apical line,
pygidium covered with whitish flavescent scales, and
having in the centre a distinct, longitudinal black
band EERE Sa Ss SE Ge cs pha ove LINCO.

PACHYCNEMA STRIATA, Burm.,
Plate XLII, fig. 8; Plate XLIV., figs. 4, 4a.
Hiandb. d:.Entom., 1v., 1, p. 57.

Head and prothorax black ; elytra reddish-brown and having on
each side five broad uninterrupted bands of white scales; legs
brownish red; head deeply scrobiculate, hairy laterally, clypeus
elongate, slightly attenuate towards the apex, little emarginate at tip,
and with the outer angles sharply recurved; prothorax greatly
attenuated laterally in the anterior part and not sinuate, the base is
arcuate and marginate, and the whole surface is covered with
closely set, lanceolate scales interspersed with long, flavescent hairs
which are denser on the sides ; scutellum a little longer than broad,
covered with dense, large, elongate scales ; elytra ampliated laterally
at a short distance from the shoulder in both sexes, and with the
humeral callus very pronounced, somewhat depressed in the
centre below the scutellum, and having on each side four slightly
raised cost, smooth and denuded in the male, but bearing a row
of remote black bristles, they are punctate and partly clothed with
flavous hair-like appressed scales, while the five intervals are
covered with small, nearly contiguous scales, white in the male,
yellowish in the female ; pygidium entirely covered with yellowish-
white scales ; abdomen and under side densely hairy; anterior tibize
with four strong outer teeth the two anterior of which are connate
at base, but are nearer to the third than the basal one, which is a
little less sharp than the other three, but broader and a little
shorter; trochanters of posterior legs produced in the male into

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a long, sharp spine, femora broad and thick, deeply emarginate
beneath ; inner part of tibiz: produced inwardly at the tip into a
compressed lamina dented at each end and with the apical upper
part developed inwardly into a sharp spine reaching as far as the
base of the fifth joint of the tarsi the four basal joints of which are
distinct, but apparently soldered, the fifth joint is as long as the
other four, and has three not very distinct denticulations beneath,
the claw is as long as the fifth joint, and is very bluntly dentate
underneath ; in the female the trochanters are also spinose, but the
tibiz are not much inflated, the apical spur is distinct, whereas in
the male it has disappeared altogether; the four joints of the tarsi
are elongate, but the fifth is as long as the other four, tri-dentate
beneath as in the male, and the claw is as long as the fifth joint, but
is not bluntly dentate beneath.

Length 104-114 mm.; width 7-8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

PACHYCNEMA MELANOSPILA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 59.

Head and prothorax black and covered with dense fuscous hairs
interspersed with moderately dense somewhat flavescent hair-like
appressed scales ; elytra dark chestnut almost bordering on fuscous-
brown, covered with ashy-grey scales, and having on each side one
distinct median blackish round spot and another one somewhat in-
distinct ; legs piceous, pygidium covered with yellow scales ; clypeus
very acuminate, bi-dentate at tip; prothorax very much attenuated
laterally in front, not sinuate; scutellum very long and sharp,
twice as long as broad, covered with greyish-white scales; elytra
ampliated laterally, humeral callus much developed and produced
as far as the median part of the disk, there are two elongate
depressions on each side of the base, and a smaller and rounded one
near the suture at about the middle, this round depression is
blackish, while the rest of the surface is covered with lanceolate
greyish-white scales not set close to each other, in a line with this
median depression there is a smaller one, distinctly punctate, which
is also blackish, but is somewhat indistinct ; abdomen clothed with
yellowish scales and greyish hairs; pectus very hairy, legs strongly
bristly, anterior tibie with three apical connate outer teeth ;
posterior femora of male thick, tibiae simple, much thickened close to
the base, sub-parallel, slightly sinuate on each side at the apex, stiffly
bristly, and with the apical spur distinct, basal joint of tarsi nearly
obliterated, fifth jot longer than the three preceding, tri-denticu-

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late beneath, claw a little shorter than the fifth joint, simple
beneath.

Length 9 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Female unknown.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

PACHYCNEMA SQUAMOSA, Burm.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 9.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 58.

Head and prothorax black, the latter is clothed with dense black
hairs interspersed with white, lanceolate not very dense scales ;
elytra reddish brown, clothed with a dense but short black pubes-
cence, and with somewhat closely set, and rather large ovate scales,
white in the male, flavescent in the female ; head rugose, clypeus not
much attenuated laterally towards the tip where it is strongly bi-den-
tate ; prothorax rugulose, but having the same shape as the preceding
species ; scutellum as broad as long, not scaly, but pilose; elytra
broadly ampliated laterally, humeral callus strongly developed and
prolonged longitudinally as far as the median part of the elytra,
there are on each side two deep, broad, longitudinal impressions
divided by a costate interval near the base ; the propygidium has a
transverse band of whitish squamose hairs, but the pygidium has no
scales in the male ; in the female, however, it has two patches of yellow
scales ; in the male the pygidium slants forwards and the abdominal
segments are strongly constricted; the sides of these abdominal
segments are fringed with dense white hairs ; the hind legs are red in
both sexes; the anterior tibize have three very sharp outer teeth
which are quite straight, the two apical ones are nearly connate at
base, and the third is equally long and sharp, but very much broader
at the base; in the male the hind femora are very swollen and
the trochanters are not spinose; the tibiz are compressed, nearly
straight inwardly and swollen and emarginate on the outer face
near the apex, the upper angle of the emargination being dentate,
in the inner face it is somewhat shallowly scooped and has a
distinct median tooth, and the two apices of the tibia are produced
into a sharp tooth, the one on the upper side is very long and much
longer than the upper which is shorter but much broader than the
apical spur; the latter is situated close to it and is very distinct ;
the four basal joints of the hind tarsi are equal in length but very
short and plainly soldered, the fifth is nearly twice as long as all
the four together, and is armed with a broad, sharply triangular
tooth beneath, the claw is as long as the apical joint, slightly sinuate,

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but simple beneath, and somewhat slender. In the female the hind
legs are swollen, but much less so than in the male, and simple,
and the body is much more parallel.

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 6-7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand, Clanwilliam).

PACHYCNEMA MORBILLOSA, Burm.,
Plate XLIT., fig 10.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 58.

Head and prothorax black, clothed with dense, long black hairs
and having white scales along the margin of the base only; elytra
red, covered with contiguous, round, white scales, and having on each
side one sutural, three discoidal and one supra-marginal rows of remote,
scar-like denuded spots, each bearing a stiff, stout bristle ; legs red ;
in the female the elytra are flavescent, covered with yellowish scales ;
the series of denuded setiferous spots are less conspicuous, and they
are disposed on more distinctly costate elevations; pygidium not
scaly in either sex, but the propygidium is clothed with white scales
and hairs in the female; head rugose, clypeus not much elongate,
sub-parallel, emarginate at tip, and with the angles distinctly
dentate ; prothorax very rugose, and of the normal shape; elytra
strongly ampliated latterly and with the humeral callus strongly
developed but not much elongated on the discoidal part in the male,
more parallel in the female, and having along the margin a series of
stiff bristles similar to those on the disk; in the male the pygidium
is vertical, and the abdominal segments are much compressed ; the
anterior tibize have three outer teeth exactly like those of P.
squamosa, and the posterior legs are nearly similar in shape, but
have no angular tooth on the outer face, and inwardly the two edges
of the scooped part are distinctly dentate, instead of having a tooth in
the hollowed inner part. In the female the legsare simple and normal.

Length 8-10 mm.; width 54-7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

PACHYCNEMA (PHYSOCNEMA) CALCARATA, Burm.,
Plate XLII., fig. 12.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 68.

Head and prothorax black; the latter has an all round border of
white scales, somewhat flavescent in the female, and six small scaly
white patches on the disk ; elytra red in the male, flavescent in the
female, and having on each side a juxta-sutural broad white band
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marginal, slightly longer but a little narrower one, as well as a
third rudimentary and basal, often, however, obliterated; in the
female these bands are somewhat flavescent ; propygidium clothed
with white scales, but having a broadly triangular black apical patch,
pygidium clothed laterally and along the base with white scales, the
denuded interval broad; legs black, pectus hairy, abdominal seg-
ments greatly constricted and covered with white scales; in the
female the parts of the propygidium and pygidium, which in the
male are black or denuded, are brown, turning to yellow; head very
hairy, clypeus short, slightly sinuate laterally and with the two apical
teeth very long ; prothorax rugose like the head, also densely hairy,
very obliquely attenuated latterly in the anterior part, and slightly
sinuated past the median part; scutellum very elongate and sharp,
but somewhat broad at the base, sparingly scaly and slightly
canaliculate longitudinally in the middle; elytra strongly ampliated
laterally past the humeral part, and diagonally attenuated from there,
the humeral callus is strongly developed, but there is a slight depres-
sion only on each side of it ; the discoidal part is glabrous, but along
the suture and the outer margin there is a series of somewhat closely
set, very long and very stiff black bristles ; in the female these bristles
are finer, denser, shorter and flavescent, and the intervals between
the scaly patches are briefly but densely pubescent; anterior tibice
tri-dentate outwardly, the two apical teeth are sub-connate, and the
basal one is situate far from them ; in the male the trochanters of the
posterior legs are simple, the femora are strong, the tibie are
enormously swollen and have inwardly a sub-apical short tooth
situated close to and connate with the apical spur which is very
long and sharp ; the four basal joints of the tarsi are fused with the
fifth without any trace of a suture, and this unique joint has beneath
a strong hamate tooth and a much smaller one following it, the claw
is much longer than the joint, and bi-dentate beneath near the base ;
in the female the hind legs are normal and simple.

Length 83-94 mm. ; width 54-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

In certain parts of this locality the males are uniformly without
the two white bands on the elytra, but a few white scales are always
visible near the base.

PACHYCNEMA (PHYSOCNEMA) FLAVOLINEATA, Burm.,
Plate XLII., fig. 13.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 65.

Head and prothorax black, clothed with long black hairs, narrowly
marginate all round with white scales in the male and yellow ones in

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the female, and having in the median part of the disk four equi-
distant patches of appressed scales disposed transversely ; elytra
livid brown in the male, sub-ochraceous in the female, having on
each side a sutural and a supra-marginal band connecting along the
apical part, and a discoidal one reaching from the base to past the
middle and composed of appressed, lanceolate scales, white in the
male, yellow in the female; propygidium and pygidium entirely
covered with dense round scales ; abdominal segments covered with
scales ; legs black, scaly ; the head is narrowed laterally, sub-acumi-
nate, slightly emarginate at tip and with the two angles of the
clypeus not highly dentate ; the prothorax is deeply punctate, and is
gradually narrowed laterally from the base to the apex and not
sinuate, the two median scaly patches are sometimes obliterated, but
the angles of the anterior part are more broadly scaly than the
centre of the anterior margin; in the male the elytra are more
parallel than in the previous species, the humeral callus is strong,
but short, and there are on each side three longitudinal very shallow
lines which are filled with the appressed scales, they are rugulose
and glabrous except for a row of closely set black bristles along the
suture and the outer margin ; the pygidium is vertical, the abdominal
segments are not constricted in the centre ; the anterior tibiz are tri-
dentate outwardly, the two anterior teeth are almost connate at the
base, and the basal tooth, which is more robust, is situated at a long
distance from the two apical ones; the hind trochanters are simple
and the femora thick and swollen ; the tibiz are very swollen, and
are produced inwardly at a short distance from the apex into a
triangular dentate process scooped beneath, and there is no trace
left of the inner spur; the four basal joints are fused into a short
one, but the suture is still indicated by a row of scales, and under-
neath there is a sharp spur; the fifth joint is long, very robust,
strongly dentate beneath, and the claw, which is longer than all the
joints of the tarsi put together, is siuate and has a distinct tooth
underneath ; the female is much smaller than the male, and the hind
legs are slender in comparison, and simple.
Length 9-10 mm. ; width 54-7 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

PACHYCNEMA SINGULARIS, nN. spec.,
Plate XLII., fig. 14.
Head and prothorax black, elytra dark piceous red, nearly black,

prothorax and elytra sprinkled with not closely set, elongate white
scales; head rugose, parallel for the greater part of the length, then

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distinctly emarginate and angular, and with the apical teeth broad
and strongly reflexed ; prothorax gradually narrowed from the base
to the apex, but more distinctly so in the anterior part; deeply
and closely punctate, and densely hairy like the head, the scales
form a not very distinct margin all round, but those on the disk are
few, and very remote; scutellum moderately elongate, non-scaly ;
elytra not much ampliated below the humeral part, but distinctly
narrowed towards the apex, faintly sulcate longitudinally on each
side of the humeral angle which is well developed, and narrowly
striate along the suture, breadly, not deeply, and very irregularly
punctate, glabrous except for the usual sutural and outer marginal
row of bristles, and the white scales with which it is sprinkled
although numerous, are not at all closely set; the propygidium is
covered with closely set white scales, but the pygidium, which is
vertical, is bare ; the abdominal segments are not much constricted in
the centre and are scaly, and the pectus is very pubescent; the
anterior tibiz are tri-dentate, the two anterior teeth are closely set,
but not connate, and the basal one is stronger and set at some
distance from the apical ones; the hind trochanters are somewhat
dentate, the femora are thick, but not equal in proportion to the
size of the tibiz which are extremely swollen and broadly triangular
inwardly, the apex of the triangle having a hamate tooth, and at the
tip there is, next to the inner spur which is long and slender, a short
but distinct tooth; the four basal joints of the tibiae are short but
broad, soldered, and nearly as wide as the fifth joint which is broad
but not swollen, the apical claw has a very sharp triangular tooth
beneath, and is distinctly curved.

Female black, with the elytra very dark brown, almost piceous
or testaceous red; prothorax without scales except in the anterior
angles of the front margin; elytra scaleless but deeply punctured,
each puncture having a short, greyish or dark seta; pygidium not
scaly as in the male, hind tibiz not swollen and simple.

Length 83 mm.; width 5-52 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon).

PACHYCNEMA MURINA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 59.

Head and prothorax black, the latter has a distinct marginal band
of white scales and is covered with others arranged somewhat in the
Shape of a cross and having a scaly patch above and below the
transverse arms of the cross on each side; elytra dull red, covered
with not very closely set whitish-yellow scales, and having in addition

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five patches of dark ones on each side; posterior legs reddish; head very
rugose, clothed with greyish hairs, clypeus sub-parallel and with the
angles of the apex sharp, but not dentate ; prothorax very distinctly
oblique laterally in the anterior part, and sub-parallel from there to
the base, deeply and closely punctate and having past the median
part two slight depressions filled by scales; scutellum sharply
triangular, longer than broad and covered with rounder and broader
scales ; elytra ampliated laterally at about the median part, and having
a very strong humeral callus prolonged far towards the median part
of the elytra, the space alongside this humeral callus is depressed,
and across the suture there are two equi-distant transverse impres-
sions, and a supramarginal one beneath the apical part of the costate
prolongation of the humeral callus and in a transverse line with the
lower impression situated next to the suture, these three impressions,
and also a sulcate one on each side of the humeral callus, are filled
with a very short, appressed black tomentum; pygidium and abdomen
clothed with yellow scales ; anterior tibiew tri-dentate, the two apical
teeth connate at base, the basal one stronger and somewhat remote ;
posterior femora swollen, simple, hind tibize also simple, equally
swollen, and a little constricted at apex, inner spur distinct; the four
basal joints of anterior tibie sub-triangular, very closely set, basal
one almost obliterated, fifth joint twice as long as the four basal
joints put together, moderately swollen, and tri-dentate beneath,
claw shorter than the apical joint, curved and simple.

Female not known with certainty.

The two examples I have at my disposal are one captured by
Drége and from which the description is made, and another in which
the prothorax is entirely covered with elongate white scales and has
two post-median elongate patches on each side of the posterior part
formed by more closely set scales. This is probably the normal form,
because the second example is fresher than the one from Drége’s
collection.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

PACHYCNEMA ALTERNANS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 61, 1844.

Head and prothorax black, elytra and hind tibiz reddish in both
sexes ; prothorax with a marginal band of yellowish white scales, a
median longitudinal line and three spots on each side of it; elytra
with three longitudinal bands of similar scales; propygidium and
pygidium clothed with yellow scales ; head very rugose, clothed with
black hairs, clypeus very little narrowed towards the apex, long, sub-

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parallel, strongly dentate at apex ; prothorax distinctly narrowed
diagonally in the anterior part, thence sub-parallel for three-fourths of
the length, deeply pitted, clothed with slightly flavescent hairs ;
scutellum long, sharp, longer than broad and set with dense scales ;
elytra very well developed at the shoulders and gradually attenuated
- laterally from there to the apex where they are less than half the
width of the basal part, they have on each side three somewhat
deep longitudinal furrows which reach barely to two-thirds of the
length and are filled with the appressed scales ; pygidium vertical,
abdominal segments not constricted in the centre and covered
with yellow scales; pectus clothed with flavescent hairs ; anterior
tibia tri-dentate, the two apical teeth are slightly connate at the
base and the basal tooth is as strong as the other two, but is set
somewhat far from them ; the hind femora are greatly developed and
simple, the tibie are very swollen but narrower at the apex than at
the base, simple, with the apical spur very distinct; the four basal
joints of the tarsi are distinct but fused, transverse and angular
inwardly, the fifth joint is very massive, curved and uni-dentate
near the base, the claw is as long as the fifth joint, and simple; the
female is like the male, but less robust, the scales are a deeper
yellow, and the legs are red.

Length 9-104 mm. ; width 64-74 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony—locality unknown.

My examples were collected by Drége.

PACHYCNEMA OBSCUREPURPUREA, De Geer,
Mem. Ins., vii., p. 646, pl. xlviii., fig. 12.
. maculata, Fab., Syst. Entom., 1., 2, p. 123.
. crassipes, Fab., Syst. Entom. Append., p. 813.
menassipes, Oliv. Timnt., 1., 6, p. 68, pl. vil.,, fig:-62;
. crasstpes, Lacord., Atlas, pl. xxix., fig. 1.

Sel hel leh las

The description of P. alternans applies very nearly to this species
which is, however, smaller, and is therefore comparatively less robust ;
the colour, including that of the hind legs, is entirely black in the
male, but the elytra and also the hind legs are red in the female, and
the basal tooth of the anterior tibiw is not quite so remote; the
scales are white in the male and yellow in the female, the median
longitudinal band of the prothorax and the four small spots are
similar, but at the base of the elytra there are on each side two small
scaly patches ; the supra-marginal sulcus alone is filled with an
uninterrupted band of scales, white or yellow according to the sex,
and the juxta-sutural and discoidal ones are twice or thrice interrupted ;

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in the male the hind femora and tibia are similar, but the fifth joint
is tri-dentate underneath.

Length 84-9 mm.; 54-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Clanwilliam).

The habitat of this species does not seem to extend much beyond
the Cape District, but I have received it also from Clanwilliam.

PACHYCNEMA PULVERULENTA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 60.

This species is very closely allied to the preceding one, being very
similar in shape and structure, but the elytra are reddish brown in
both sexes, and the hind legs of the male are, asa rule, black, but I have
occasionally seen some small males with red legs ; there are no scales
on the prothorax, along the outer margin, or on the disk which has a
much deeper median furrow than in P. obscurepurpurea ; the scu-
tellum is slightly shorter, the sulcate parts of the elytra are almost
identical, but the scales which are also white in the male and yellow
in the female are not so closely set, and do not form a band, except
at the rounded apical part; under side and legs as in P. obscure-
purpurea.

Length 84-9 mm. ; width 54-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Malmesbury, Cape, Stellenbosch, Worcester,
Paarl).

PACHYCNEMA MARGINELLA, Fabric.,
Syst. Entom., i., 2, p. 178.

Head and prothorax black; the latter has a margin of yellow scales
all round, and on the disk four round scaly spots ; scutellum covered
with yellow scales; elytra brownish red, opaque, and having a small
patch of yellow scales under the humeral callus, near the outer
margin; propygidium, abdomen, and pygidium clothed with yellow
scales, whitish on the abdomen; legs black; clypeus sharply
acuminate and with the two apical teeth reflexed ; head and prothorax
rugose, clothed with somewhat long and dense flavescent hairs and
somewhat distinctly grooved longitudinally in the middle, the latter
very obliquely attenuated laterally in the anterior part, and nearly
parallel from there; scutellum very long and sharp, and clothed,
except at the base, with dense yellow scales ; elytra a little ampliated
laterally past the humeral part, and attenuated from there towards
the apex; humeral callus strongly developed, scarcely sulcate
except near the base, but not prolonged into a rounded costa,

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posterior callus distinct, the surface is covered with very short black
bristles somewhat seriate and longer and stiffer along the suture and
the outer margins; the two apical outer teeth of the anterior tibiez are
not connate, and the three are nearly equi-distant; in the male the
hind tibiae are only moderately thickened in comparison with the
previously described species, not being thicker than the thighs, they
are somewhat strangulate at apex, and simple; basal joints of tarsi
triangular, fifth joint as long as the four preceding, and slightly tri-
dentate beneath ; claw a little shorter than the fifth joint.

Female very much like the male. ©

Length 9-104 mm. ; width 6-64 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town, Port Elizabeth).

PACHYCNEMA MOERENS, 0. spec.

This species greatly resembles P. marginella, but differs in the
colour which is opaque black in the male with the propygidium,
pygidium and abdomen clothed with white scales, and reddish brown
on the elytra in the female with the pygidium and abdomen yellow ;
there is a faint trace of a scaly band in the anterior part of the sides
of the prothorax, but no scaly patches or spots on the disk, and in the
elytra the bristles of the sutural and marginal rows are much longer ;
in the female the elytra are more distinctly tri-sulcate longitudinally
on each side ; hind legs similar in both sexes.

Length 9 mm.; width 6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Riversdale).

PACHYCNEMA TIBIALIS, Oliv.,
Entom., 1., 5, p. 83, pl. x., fig. 118.

Shape and sculpture of P. marginella and P. moerens from which
it differs in the colour of the elytra, which are lighter brick-
red, and occasionally narrowly infuscate along the outer margin, and
in the scales on the propygidium and pygidium being whiter in the
male, there is no trace of scales on the discoidal part of the prothorax,
and they are even as often as not obliterated along the outer margins
in both sexes, but the distinctive character consists in the very long
and dense villosity covering the prothorax, and the longer but less
dense black or flavescent bristly hairs clothing the elytra; in most
females there are on the elytra some very fine, appressed yellowish
but closely set scales.

Length 8-9 mm.; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (George, Port Elizabeth).

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PACHYCNEMA ROSTRATA, Burm.,
Handb: d: Hntom; iv. 1, p: Gilt

Black in the male, dark brown in the female, prothorax with a
scaly outer margin and two patches of scales on each side of the
median longitudinal groove; elytra with three transverse rows of
four, three, and two scaly patches on each side, these scales are
white in the male, yellow in the female; head deeply punctate,
clypeus very elongate, sulcate in the middle and with the two apical
teeth set close to one another and much reflexed ; prothorax slightly
attenuated laterally in front, somewhat rounded and emarginate
towards the base, distinctly convex, very deeply punctured, somewhat
deeply sulcate longitudinally in the posterior part, and clothed with
dense, long, erect black hairs, in the male there is only a marginal
band of white scales all round and a supra-lateral impression on each
side of the disk, probably filled with white scales at an early stage,
but in the female the marginal scaly band is broader and the scales
bright orange-yellow, the disk is sprinkled with similar scales, not, as
a rule, closely set, but forming two irregular patches on each side ;
scutellum long, sharp and scaly ; elytra distinctly ampliated
laterally in both sexes, and with the humeral callus almost forming
the angle of the shoulder, they are set with series of long, black
bristly hairs which are as long on the disk as along the suture, they
have on each side a sub-basal transverse row of four round scaly
patches, a post-median of three, and an apical one of two, which
latter do occasionally coalesce, and as often as not are united along
the suture in the female with the juxta-sutural patch of the second
row ; abdomen and pygidium covered with white or yellow scales
according to the sex, and set with long, bristly hairs; pectus very
densely pubescent; posterior tibize very slender, but slightly more
swollen in the male than in the female, the four basal joints of tarsi
elongate in both sexes, fifth not quite as long as all the first three
taken together, claw simple.

Length 8-9 mm.; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Worcester).

PACHYCNEMA NAMAQUA, N. spec.

Head and prothorax black, the latter with an ill-defined marginal
band of white scales, and with four, somewhat indistinct, and often
obliterated small round patches; elytra red, shining; legs black;
in the female there is a broadly interrupted supra-marginal band,
and a small patch along the suture of yellow scales, while in the
male there are only a few white scales here and there; pygidium

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white in the male and having a broad, basal, transverse black
band, yellow in the female and without trace of a black transverse
band; propygidium and abdomen clothed with scales ; head deeply
punctured, setulose, clypeus acuminate, somewhat sharply bi-dentate
at apex; prothorax diagonally attenuate laterally in the anterior
part, emarginate from the median part towards the base, not much
convex, not sulcate longitudinally at middle, very closely punctate
and clothed with dense, long black hairs; scutellum long, sharp,
punctulate and without scales; elytra elongate, gradually attenuate
from the shoulder towards the apex, depressed on each side of the
suture before the median part, humeral angle distinct and very
lateral, and continued as far as the apex in a rounded, not highly
raised costa, feebly punctate and slightly bristly but with the
sutural and marginal row of bristles longer and stiffer than those
on the discoidal part; pygidium vertical in the male; outer teeth of
anterior tibize nearly equi-distant but with the apical one smaller
than the intermediate and the basal ones; hind femora not much
thickened in the male; tibia as long as the thighs, slightly swollen
at about the median part, simple, apical spur moderately long; basal
joints of tarsi short, transverse, somewhat triangular, fifth joint longer
by one-half than all the others taken together, slightly tri-dentate
beneath, claw nearly as long as the fifth joint, curved and emarginate
at the base beneath ; in the female the hind legs are hardly swollen,
but in both sexes they are sprinkled with scales and are bristly and
hairy.
Length 8-10 mm.; width 54-6 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

PACHYCNEMA LINEOLA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1; p. 63.

Similar in shape to P. namaqua; the head and prothorax are
black, the latter has a very distinct lateral margin of white scales
in both sexes, but the anterior margin has none, and in the
basal one there is a short median band of them above the scutellum
which is densely scaly ; elytra reddish brown, opaque; the
abdomen and pygidium are clothed with white or flavous scales,
but the edges of the pygidium are narrowly denuded all round,
and in the centre there is a longitudinal denuded line reaching
from base to apex in both sexes, as a rule, but in some female
examples this band is hardly distinct; the sculpture and vestiture
of the head and prothorax are similar to that of P. namaqua, but
the elytra are not so depressed across the sutural part at about.

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the median part, and in the male only the suture and the outer
margin are bristly, in the female, however, the whole surface is
covered with bristly hairs; hind legs as in the preceding species,
but the fifth jomt of the tarsi is more serrulate beneath in the
male.

Length 10-11 mm. ; width 6-64 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

PACHYCNEMA SAGA, n. spec.

Intermediate in form between P. namaqua and P. lineola; itis a
little more elongated, the humeral callus on the elytra is very little
developed, and there is on each side two not much raised but
distinct costa; the head and prothorax are similar in shape and
sculpture, but there is a distinct longitudinal groove in the middle,
and as often as not a marginal band all round of flavescent
scales in both sexes; the scutellum, which is narrower and slightly
shorter than in the other two species, is covered with scales,
but the elytra, which are ochraceous yellow, are without any in
both sexes, and have on each side three discoidal as well as a
sutural and an outer marginal row of long, black bristles; the
pygidium is vertical and covered with white scales in the male,
yellow in the female, and the propygidium has a distinct apical,
transverse, fuscous or black band; hind legs as in the two preceding
species, fifth joint of tarsi slightly tri-dentate beneath.

Length 9-10 mm.; width 54-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

PACHYCNEMA ABDOMINALIS, Burm.,
Handb. d: Entom.., iv., 1, p. 1099.

Amsonyx abdominalis, loc. cit.
P. mgro-limbata, Péring., Trans. S. A. Philos. Soc., vol. iv., 1888,
pe 2, p, LO2:

Black, clothed on the head, prothorax, and scutellum with long,
black hairs interspersed in the male with greyish-white ones;
abdomen and pygidium clothed with white scales; elytra light
testaceous brown, edged all round, and also along the suture, with
a fuscous band, along the posterior part of the suture there is a
narrow line of silvery-white scales; legs black; head rugose ;
clypeus elongated, a little narrowed, emarginate at apex, and with
the two apical teeth distinctly reflexed ; prothorax obliquely attenuate
laterally in the anterior part, distinctly emarginate towards the base,

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and with the posterior angle sharply projecting, it is deeply and
closely punctured; scutellum triangular, not elongate, as long as
broad, not scaly; elytra elongato-quadrate, rounded singly at apex,
plane with the humeral callus conspicuous and elongate longi-
tudinally, moderately punctulate, each puncture bearing a very
- short, black bristle, decumbent but erect, however, in the basal part,
suture and outer margin with seriate black bristles; propygidium
clothed along the margin only with white scales in both sexes ;
pectus clothed with dense greyish hairs; anterior tibiw strongly
tri-dentate ; the teeth are equi-distant, the apical one is longer than
the intermediate ; the anterior tibia have a distinct, Inner spur ;
the hind ones are longer than the thigh, moderately swollen in
the male, less so in the female; the hind tarsi are of nearly equal
length in both sexes, but more broadly triangular in the male; the
fifth joint is as long as the four preceding ones taken together, and
tri-denticulate beneath.

Length 8-9 mm.; width 44-5 mm.

This species is intermediate between Pachycnema and Pherocoma,
and it is difficult to decide where to place it; but the hind claw is
simple, and it is therefore a Pachycnema. Burmeister included it
among his Anisonyx ; but the facies is very different.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand),

PACHYCNEMIDA, n. gen

Shape and facies of Pachycnema, but the upper lobe of the
maxille is very slender and penicillate ; the maxilla is armed on
each side with four falcate teeth facing each other, but gradually
decreasing in size from the uppermost, the apical joint of the
maxillary palpi is nearly sub-oblong and compressed ; the clypeus,
however, is not acuminate; the other generic characters are as in
Pachycnema.

PACHYCNEMIDA SIGNATIPENNIS, Burm.,
Plate XLII, fig. 4.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 66.

. Pachycnema farinosa, Péring., Trans, 8. Afric. Phil. Soc.

Light chestnut, densely clothed with lanceolate white appressed
scales, and a very brief, greyish pubescence on the head and
prothorax ; scutellum scaly, elytra covered! with white scales,
denser and more closely set in parts, and thus forming on each side
three narrow, elongate patches on the anterior part and two long,

Lb

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broad ones on the posterior; abdomen clothed with white scales ;
under side and legs clothed with very dense white hairs, which are
appressed and squamiform on the hind legs; head rugose, clypeus
short, parallel, dentate on each side at tip; prothorax gradually
attenuate laterally from the base to the anterior angle, not grooved
longitudinally ; scutellum very long and very sharp ; elytra ampliate
and rounded from the humeral angle to about the median part,
gradually narrowed from there to the apex ; the humeral angle is very
distinct, and there is on each side three broad but very shallow
longitudinal furrows, in which the ovate scales are denser; the
pygidium is slightly inclined forward, but the abdominal segments
are not compressed in the centre; the three outer teeth of the
anterior tibiae are set close to one another, but are not connate, and
the basal one is shorter than the other two; the hind tibiz are very
swollen, longer and somewhat thicker than the femora, simple, but
somewhat deeply excavate inwardly at apex under the apical spur ;
basal joint of hind tibize obliterated, the other three fused, but with
three short teeth underneath, last jot three times as long as all the
preceding taken together, and armed underneath with a strongly
triangular tooth, claw as long as the apical joint, dentate underneath
at the middle.

Female unknown.

Length 10-104 mm. ; width 6-64 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

I found my examples on grasses, not in flowers like the other
species of Pachycnema.

Gren. HOPLOCNEMIS, Har.,
Coleopt., Heft. v., p. 123, 1869.

Hoploscelis, Burm.

Mentum very elongate, straight laterally, and strongly acuminate,
deeply foveate, labial palpi thick, lobe of maxilla densely hairy at
the tip, but not inwardly ; no inner tooth ; apical joint of maxillary
palpi long, swollen inwardly, emarginate outwardly ; head carinate
on each side above the eye, clypeus long, sharply attenuate laterally,
truncate at tip and having on each side three sharp, vertical teeth ;
head with a frontal tubercle or not; prothorax longer than broad,
or vice versd, slightly rounded laterally, narrower than the elytra
which are somewhat ampliate laterally below the humeral part,
cradually attenuated towards the apex where they do not quite
cover the propygidium, nearly plane, but having a more or less

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strongly pronounced diagonal round costa reaching from the
humeral to the apical callus; the pygidium is vertical or slightly
flexed forwards; the abdominal segments are much compressed
laterally ; the pectus is very hairy, and the propygidium and the
abdominal segments are completely or partly scaly ; inner claw of
the anterior tarsi cleft in the middle, outer claw basal and quite
rudimentary, claws of the intermediate and posterior legs simple
and single; anterior tibiz strongly tri-dentate, the teeth about equi-
distant ; posterior femora and tibize enormously developed in the
male, and with the inner angle, and sometimes the outer (crassipes)
produced into a long, acute, or pluri-dentate process ; in this sex the
joints of the hind tarsi are very short and not free.

The insects included in this genus are far from common. They
are, I believe, as a rule, crepuscular or nocturnal, although I am
informed that H. armata has been caught on the wing in the
afternoon. I have found it, and also H. crassipes, on a sultry
morning, crawling on the ground. H. auriventris I have never
caught flying in the daytime, and most of my examples were found
by me, either dead or nearly so, but still imp, and in the act of
being dragged by ants to their nests.

The genus is strictly South African, and seems to be restricted to
the Cape Colony ; it includes eight species.

Key to the Species.
A’. Posterior tibise of the male with a terminal spur.
B?. Prothorax very deeply grooved in the centre.

Apical inner part of posterior femora produced into a very
long, sharp, arcuate process :

Head with a bifid frontal tubercle in the male Dene na ane
Head with a non-bifid frontal tubercle .. .. .. .. spectabilis.
Head without a frontal tubercle.. .. .. .. .. «.. kotkoina.

B'. Prothorax not deeply grooved in the centre.
a’, Head with a small tubercle.

Apical inner part of posterior tibiw slightly produced into
a short process tri-dentate at tip, hind femora simple .. auriventris.

Apical inner part of posterior tibie produced into a long
process tri-dentate at tip, hind femora dentate.. .. .. armata.

a’, Head without tubercle.

Apical inner part of posterior tibiz moderately long,
bifid at tip and strongly tri-dentate on each side.. .. mutica.

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A*. Posterior tibize without a terminal spur.

Prothorax with a tubercle on the anterior margin; posterior tibiee
very convex and produced on each side into a very long process,
the upper sharply spinose and the other blunt, quadri-dentate .. crassipes.

Prothorax without tubercle; posterior tibia scooped out hori-
zontally at the tip, bi-spinose inwardly and with a bifid process
trongly serrate outwardly. "09... 9-5. 2 eee ee emuliganosas

HopLocNEMIS HYLAX, E'abric.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 2.
Syst. Entom. Append., p. 817.
Oliv., Entomol., 1., 3, p. 50, pl. xi., fig. 95 a-b.
Lacordaire, Atlas, pl. xxix., fig. 4a.

Male: Head, prothorax, and legs piceous brown ; elytra cherry-
red; head very rugose, sharply carinate laterally, clypeus strongly
acuminate and sharply tri-dentate on each side; in the centre there
is a greatly compressed, very high longitudinal carina strongly
bifid at tip, it is pubescent on the anterior part and fringed laterally
with long, black hairs; prothorax one-third broader than long, a
little ampliate laterally in the middle, not much attenuated in front,
declivous in the anterior part, but not convex on the disk which is
very deeply sulcate longitudinally from the anterior declivity to the
base which is marginate, it is glabrous on the upper side, and
covered with deep, round punctures, somewhat scattered, and
fringed laterally with dense, black hairs; scutellum long, narrow,
moderately sharp at tip, and deeply punctate; elytra broader at the
base than the prothorax, obliquely attenuated from the humeral part to
the apex where they become gradually rounded, somewhat depressed
on the upper side, but having a very broad, somewhat rounded
costa extending diagonally from the shoulder and ending at the
posterior callus; the margin is slightly raised and has a series of
short, black bristles, and the surface is covered with non-contiguous,
but nevertheless somewhat closely set punctures bearing each a
very short, black bristle; propygidium and abdomen covered with
contiguous yellowish scales interspersed with hairs, pygidium vertical,
free from scales and irregularly punctured ; pectus very hairy ; hind
femora very thick, hind tibie shorter than the thigh and with the
inner apical part produced into a long, sub-triangular process sharp
at tip, with the outer face somewhat deeply scooped out, and the
inner bluntly serrate; first basal joint of hind tarsi nearly obliterated,
the two following short, somewhat transverse, plainly soldered,
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as long as the first four put together, curved, and as long as the
claw.

Female: Smaller than the male. The teeth of the clypeus are
much smaller, the frontal carina is reduced to a small, rounded
tubercle ; the punctures on the prothorax are equally deep but set
close to one another ; the shape and sculpture of the elytra and the
vestiture of the propygidium and abdomen are similar; the femora
are also thick, the tibie are thickened, moderately deeply scooped
out at apex but simple, and the basal joints of the tarsi are longer,
and apparently free.

Length 13-16 mm. ; width 8-10 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Beaufort West, George, Worcester).

HOPLOCNEMIS SPECTABILIS, Nn. spec.

i wcrassipes, luacord., Atl.; pl. xxix, fig, 1; nec, Oliv.

Male: The description of H. hylax applies in most points to this
species, but it differs in colour and in the shape of the cephalic horn
and of the posterior tibize ; the colour is dull black on the upper
side, the hind legs are also piceous black; the club of the antenne
is rufescent; the shape of the head and clypeus is similar but the
cephalic horn is compressed laterally and sharply triangular; the
prothorax is a little more pubescent on the discoidal part, and the
median sulcus is broader ; the anterior tibiz are not quite so robust,
the inner part of the posterior tibiz is more sharply prolonged, and
the inner edge of the process is somewhat sharply quadri-dentate ;
tarsi as in HZ. hylazx. |

Female unknown.

Length 15 mm.; width 94 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Ladismith).

HOoPLOCNEMIS KOIKOINA, N. spec.,
Plate Miu, fig. 1.

Very similar to H. spectabilis in shape and build, but the elytra
are occasionally rufescent brown, the hairs clothing the prothorax
are denser, there is no cephalic tubercle in either sex, the
propygidium and the abdominal segments are not scaly, but fringed
with long fulvous hairs, and the apical inner process of the hind
tibiae, which is as long as in H. spectabilis, is bluntly serrate on each
side. The female is distinguished from the male only by the simple
and more slender hind tibie.

Length 13-15 mm. ; width 74-94 mm.

Apart from the outward characters distinguishing H. kotkoina

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from H. spectabilis, the shape of the genital armature of the male
differs also; the forceps being spatulate at apex in kozkowma and
straight in spectabilis.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

HOoPLOCNEMIS AURIVENTRIS, Burm.,
Plate XLII, fig. 4.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 55.

Head, prothorax, and legs piceous black, elytra piceous red,
propygidium and abdominal segments clothed with yellow scales ;
head very rugose, villose, and having in the centre a sharp, conical,
not compressed tubercle equally developed in both sexes; clypeus
sharply six-dentate on each side; prothorax obliquely ampliate
laterally from the anterior angle to about one-third of the length
whence it is slightly and roundly attenuate up to the base, it is
deeply and closely punctured, has a shallow median groove, is
briefly pubescent, and fringed with longish black hairs; the
scutellum is somewhat narrow, moderately long, and deeply pitted ;
the elytra are gradually ampliated from the shoulder to the median
part where they are broadest, and moderately attenuate from there
towards the apex ; the diagonal costa on each side is distinct in the
male, but less soin the female, in which, moreover, the elytra are also
a little less ampliate laterally in the middle, they are somewhat
closely and deeply punctured, each puncture bearing a short, black
bristle, and in specimens which have not been rubbed, there are also
in the median discoidal part, from the base to past the middle, some
appressed, slender, flavescent scales not at all closely set; pygidium
vertical, slightly convex, and without scales; in the male the hind
femora are thickened; the hind tibiw are as broad but shorter,
somewhat deeply excavated inwardly at apex, and they have on the
inner side of the excavate part a short, sharp spine set next to the
apical spur, and below it a short, blunt process serrate outwardly in
the male ; in the female the hind tibiew are thick but simple.

Length 10-114 mm.; width 64-8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Caledon,
Malmesbury).

HoPLOCNEMIS ARMATA, Burm.,
Plate XLII., fig. 5.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 54.

This species greatly resembles H. awriventris, the facies, size, and
sculpture being similar; some of my examples, however, have

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testaceous red elytra; the propygidium and abdomen are clothed also
with appressed flavous scales, but the hind legs, which are reddish
brown, differ. The hind femora have beneath a sharp tooth at about
the median part, and connected with a sharp carina reaching to the
apex ; the tibiz are also strongly carinate inwardly, the carina being
strongly serrate, and the apical inner process is very elongate,
strongly but bluntly dentate outwardly and is five-dentate at tip, the
upper apical tooth is small but very distinct, and the apical spur
which is set close to it is long and sharp; the shape of the genital
armature is also different from that of H. auriventris, but the female
is not distinguishable from that of the latter.

Length 103-12 mm.; width 64-9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

HoOPLOCNEMIS MUTICA, Burm.,
Plate XLII, fig. 6.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 55.

This species also resembles H. awriventris, and more especially the
red-winged examples of H. armata, but it is only on the propygidium
that there are a few scattered flavescent scales, the abdomen having
none. In the male the frontal tubercle is obliterated ; the colour is
black, the elytra only being brick-red, the sculpture and vestiture,
with the exception of the scales on the abdomen, are asin H. armata,
but in the hind legs, the trochanters of which are sub-spinose, there
is no tooth beneath, and the inner apical process of the hind tibia is
nearly as much developed as in H. armata, but broader, strongly tri-
dentate inwardly, bi-dentate at tip, and having four smaller but
distinct teeth outwardly ; the forcipate clasps of the genital armature
are somewhat different from those of the two preceding species.

Female unknown.

Length 124 mm.; width 8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Victoria West).

HoPpLoOcNEMIS FULIGINOSA, Burm.,
Plate XLILI., fig. 7.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 56.

Head and prothorax fuscous black, elytra and legs reddish brown ;
abdomen and pygidium covered with yellowish scales ; head rugose,
not tuberculate in either sex, clypeus acuminate, the two lateral
apical teeth set very close to one another, it is densely hairy, the
hairs being black; prothorax obliquely attenuate laterally in the

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anterior part for half the length, and slightly rounded in the
posterior, slightly convex, deeply and closely punctured, densely
hairy, and fringed with longer hairs laterally ; scutellum long, sharp
at tip, impressed longitudinally in the middle which is bare, but the
sides are covered with slightly flavescent scales; elytra gradually
and moderately ampliate laterally in the middle, the humeral callus
is not as strongly developed as in the other species of Hoplocnemis,
and the oblique, rounded dorsal costa is not very distinct, they are
covered with small, elongate, flavescent scales not closely set, and
have, in addition to the sutural and marginal rows of black bristles,
several series of equally long, black bristles on each side; the elytra
barely reach to the basal margin of the propygidium which is covered
with very closely set scales, while on the pygidium the scales are not
contiguous ; the latter is vertical in the male, and the two apical
abdominal segments are not scaly ; posterior femora of the male very
much thickened and convex on the outer face, tibiz a little shorter
than the thigh, not very swollen but dilated at apex, horizontally
scooped out there; the inner apical part is produced into two linear
spines, and the outer is bifid at tip and serrate along the outer
margin ; the four basal joints of the tarsi are very short, and nearly
fused, the fifth is more than twice as long as the four basal ones
taken together, and is somewhat compressed, the claw is curved,
compressed, and sharp inwardly, but the apical tectiform part is
scooped outwardly beneath. ,

The female is like the male but usually smaller, the femora and
tibiz are normal, and the claw of the hind tarsi is simple.

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 5-64 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town, Uitenhage, Port Elizabeth).

HOPLOCNEMIS CRASSIPES, Oliv.,
Plate XLII., fig. 3; Plate XLIV., fig. 3.
Entom., i., 3, p. d1, pl. xxiii. fig. 200 a-c.

Head, prothorax, and scutellum black, elytra and legs cherry-red ;
head very rugose and having in the centre a slight transverse
impression abutting on a transverse, very slightly raised ridge sepa-
rating the head from the clypeus which is sharply acuminate, and
the two anterior lateral teeth of which are set very closely together ;
the head and clypeus are fringed with fulvous hairs; prothorax
attenuate laterally in front for rather more than one-third of the
length and sub-parallel from there, fringed with dense black or light
fulvous hairs, not very convex, not grooved longitudinally, but
slightly impressed near the base, and having in the anterior part a

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median, shallow impression with the anterior margin tuberculate in
front in both sexes; scutellum with a double row of punctures nearly
obliterated at the base; elytra moderately obliquely ampliated
laterally from the shoulder to a short distance from the middle, and
obliquely attenuated from there to the apical part; the humeral
callus is distinct, but only slightly prolonged towards the median
part of the disk which is not costate, the supra-apical callus is
distinct, the surface is deeply but not closely punctured, each
puncture bearing a very small bristle ; propygidium and upper sides
of abdomen clothed with yellow scales; pectus and legs clothed
with black, or fulvous dense hairs; pygidium sloping forward and
abdominal segments constricted in the male, the hind femora being
greatly thickened and the tibiae convex, tectiform, broadly scooped
beneath, and with the apices greatly produced, the inner one into a
very long, broadly spiniform process, and the outer into a blunter
but also long process, scooped inwardly and tri-dentate at tip; there
is no trace of an apical spur; the four basal joints of the tarsi are set
very closely to one another, the fifth has a small but distinct tooth
beneath, and the claw which is as long as the five joints taken
together is strongly sinuate at tip and somewhat slender. In the
female the elytra are slightly more parallel, and the hairs on the sides
of the abdomen are very dense and very long.
Length 11-13 mm. ; width 7-8 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

Trine HOPLIINI.

Group HETEROCHELIDES.
A?. Clypeus straight at the tip, seldom with slightly rounded
angles.

Anterior tibiz tri-dentate, all three teeth somewhat connate
at the base, all claws double, equal, diverging... .. .. .. Dichelus.

Anterior tibiz tri- or four-dentate, all the teeth somewhat
connate at the base, hind claws double but unequal and
appressed, or single and simple see Pl bos peel) na: eeketerochelus.

Anterior tibiz bi- or tri-dentate, apical tooth not connate.
Scutellum very long, sharply triangular .. .. .. .. .. Omocrates.

Scutellum rectangular, broad and triangular at the apex .. Goniaspidius.

Anterior tibize bi-dentate, but with the apical tooth bifid and
broadly separated from the basal one:

Lobe of maxillee armed with teeth; prothorax very convex Dicranocnemus.
Lobe of maxille without teeth; prothorax plane eal mes CUS

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At. Clypeus parabolic.

Body elongate, elytra very little sinuate laterally, claws of the
intermediate legs simple underneath inthemale .. .. .. Diaplochelus.

Body not elongate, elytra strongly sinuate laterally, claw of
the intermediate legs with a robust sub-lateral tooth in the
TMA ii Peay co Pe ore eet Mere umpc nets iD hak, Mea en rem Ce CTT RES

Gren. DICHELUS, Serv.,
Encyclop. Méth., x., 1825, p. 373.
Guér., Iconogr. d. Régn. Anim. Insect., pl. xxv., figs. 8, 8a, 80.

Mentum elongate, a little ampliated laterally at a short distance
from the base, or occasionally towards the median part, not deeply
constricted towards the apex, but more or less deeply emarginated
there at the point of insertion of the labial palpi, apical part trans-
verse with the angles sharp and penicillate, but occasionally only
with a few hairs; upper lobe of maxille strongly dentate inwardly
and penicillate or not at the tip, the number of the sharp hooked
teeth is five (D. villosus) or four, but with the basal one bifid
(dentepes), or three (latecollis, &c.) ; last joint of labial and maxillary
palpi more or less strongly fusiform and truncate at the tip; clypeus
sub-parallel, truncate, and straight at apex, but with the angles
sharply dentate and reflexed, and with two smaller teeth in the
middle; the clypeus is separated from the head by an impressed,
transverse line, and is angular laterally at the base; antenne nine-
jointed, club nearly as long as all the four preceding joints taken
together; prothorax attenuate sub-obliquely laterally from the
median to the apical part, not very convex, sulcate in the middle
only towards the basal part; scutellum sub-ogival, rounded at tip;
elytra ampliate laterally at the humeral part, more or less deeply
sinuate laterally, distinctly narrowed from below the humeral part
towards the apex where they leave the greatest part of the pro-
pygidium exposed, as well as the edge of the dorsal part of the
abdominal segments; pygidium declivous and sloping forward in
the male, sub-horizontal in the female, abdomen strongly com-
pressed laterally in the male, but much less so in the female ;
metasternum very broad; hind legs of the male very strongly
developed, hind coxe almost transverse, with the hind margin
sharply carinate and angular, and when the femora are greatly
developed projecting much beyond the abdominal segments ;
anterior tibie with three outer teeth curving slightly downwards,
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angles and the apical one is slightly oblique, there is no inner
apical tooth and the claws of all the legs are double, strongly
divaricating, and cleft at the tip.

hind legs only, the claws especially, are correct.

Key to the Species.

MALE.

A?. Trochanters of hind femora produced into a long spine.

AY.

Elytra without any scales; hind tibise grooved underneath from
the large median minor tooth, and having another acute inner
tooth near the knee (pl. xlii., fig. 23)

Elytra without any scales; hind tibize with a small inner tooth
near the knee and a large median one grooved from apex to
base (pl. xlii. fig. 24)

Elytra with a juxta-sutural line of whitish scales ; hind tibize not
grooved underneath, and having a small inner tooth near the
knee and a conspicuous median one (pl. xlii., fig. 26) ..

Similar to the preceding species, but elytra with three bands of
whitish scales

Elytra with three broad bands of dense ashy-grey pealen ; pro-
thorax scaly ; hind tibie as in D. acanthopus : :

Elytra with a juxta-sutural line of white scales; pygidium not
scaly ; hind tibiz short, very curved, grooved beneath, and with
only a small inner tooth near the knee ..

Elytra with a discoidal and a juxta-sutural interrupted line of
white scales; hind trochanters slender and very sharp; hind
tibize not curved, compressed, grooved underneath, and simple
(pl. xlii., fig. 28)

Elytra with a discoidal and a juxta-sutural interrupted line of
scales; hind tibisze curved, grooved, dentate on each side of the
basal part of the groove only; trochanters strongly dentate,
femur with a short basal spine; pygidium non-scaly

Trochanters of hind femora with a very short but sharp spine.

Body black, elytra testaceous and with three lines of flavescent
scales; hind tibiz carinate underneath, deeply emarginate near
the knee, and with the angles of the emargination sharp

Body without scales, black; hind femora simple; tibie short,
very curved, carinate underneath, sharply dentate inwardly,
and produced at apex into a very strong mucro (pl. xlii., fig. 32)

In the figure and details given by Guérin-Méneville, loc. czt., the

dentipes.

expansus.

2

acanthopus.

villosus.

vittatus.

luctuosus.

simplicipes.

holosericeus.

lucidus.

laticollis.

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Body without scales; elytra brownish-red ; hind femora with the
inner tooth of the knee longer and sharper than the outer one ;
hind tibiz short, broadly dilated towards the apex, deeply
grooved underneath, and with the inner margin of the excava-
tion dentate near the knee and aiso at the apex (pl. xlii., fig. 25) denticeps.

Body without scales; elytra flavous; hind legs simple .. .. pallidipennis.

FEMALE.

Elytra without any scale, costulate, and very rugose; pygidium
clothed with greyish appressed hairs .. .. .. .. .. «.. guluanus.

DICHELUS DENTIPES, Fabric.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 23.
Spec. Insect., i., p. 44.
Oliv., Entomol., i., 5, p. 74, pl. vi., fig. 66.

Black, with the elytra testaceous red or with the basal part only
broadly testaceous red, and the rest fuscous or entirely black, tarsi
and claws piceous red; head briefly but densely hairy and bristly
laterally ; prothorax very closely scabroso-punctate, briefly hairy,
the hairs are black and longer on the sides than on the disk, along
the base there is a narrow fringe of not closely set appressed,
yellowish hairs ; scutellum clothed with small, contiguous, yellow
scales; elytra broadly ampliated at the base and obliquely nar-
rowed laterally from the humeral part to the apex, distinctly
bi-costate on each side, but with only the first costa reaching past
the median part, very closely and deeply punctured, shining, but
clothed with minute greyish appressed hairs; apical part of pro-
pygidium and the whole of the pygidium clothed with small,
contiguous, bright yellow scales; abdominal segments with a
small yellowish patch on the upper side; pectus clothed with a
black pubescence; hind femora greatly developed, villose like the
tibie, simple but sharply bi-dentate on each side of the articula-
tion of the knee, and having the trochanters produced into a very
long, sub-vertical spine; hind tibiz broadly but not very deeply
grooved underneath, dentate on the inner side near the knee
having a strong, nearly median spine on the outer, and also very
strongly mucronate inwardly at apex; all the claws are double,
equally long, and slightly cleft at the apex.

Female: Black, with the elytra light testaceous, clothed with
dense villose, greyish hairs except on the elytra and the pygidium,
the latter and also the apical part of the propygidium are entirely
clothed with bright yellow scales.

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Length 64-74 mm.; width 4-43 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester,
Malmesbury).

DICHELUS EXPANSUS, N. spec.,
Plate XLII, fig. 24.

Male: Resembles D. dentipes in general build and also in the
shape of the hind legs, but it is differentiated by the colour of the
body which is black, but has a greenish, metallic tinge, the elytra
are redder and opaque, but clothed with the same greyish, appressed
pubescence, and the legs are of the same colour as the elytra.

Female: Like the female of D. dentipes, but it has two distinct
denuded patches on each side of the pygidium.

Although very closely allied to D. dentipes this species is different.
It appears also later in the spring.

Length 6-7 mm.; width 4-43 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Malmesbury, Stellenbosch,
Paarl).

DICHELUS ACANTHOPUS, Burm.,
Plate XLII., figs. 26, 48.*
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 108.

The description of D. dentipes suits also this species, but the
facies is not so robust, the colour of the prothorax is slightly
greenish black, that of the elytra varies also from red-brown to
fuscous, but instead of having appressed hairs only they have a
juxta-sutural band of greyish-white ones not closely set and often
partly obliterated; the pygidium of the female has two denuded
lateral patches like the female of D. expansus; the hind tibie of
the male are sharply carinate underneath and not grooved, but
the median inner tooth and the apical mucro are similar to those
of the two preceding species.

Length 5-64 mm.; width 3-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

DICHELUS VILLOSUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Etomol., iv., 1, p. 109.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, but occasionally black ;
legs piceous red and occasionally reddish brown; the head and
prothorax are as in D. dentipes, but the elytra are narrower though
equal in length, distinctly bi-costulate on each side, and they have.

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each three bands of elongate, somewhat hair-like, greyish-white or
slightly flavescent scales, often partly obliterated, but with the
broader juxta-sutural band always more distinct; hind femora
simple but with the spine of the trochanters greatly developed ;
hind tibiz also as in D. dentipes, but not at all grooved or concave
underneath, and therefore not carinate inwardly. The shape of the
tibiz is nearly the same as that of D. acanthopus, from which
species it is at once distinguished by the more elongate facies; the
female is like that of D. dentipes, and the pygidium has no denuded.
patches.

Length 7-74 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

DICHELUS LUCTUOSUS, n. spec.

Male: Black, shining, head and prothorax clothed with black
villose hairs, prothorax with an interrupted narrow band of white
scales; scutellum scaly, elytra with a post-median juxta-sutural
narrow band of white scales, pygidium not scaly; the two median
teeth of the clypeus are very small, yet distinct; the elytra are a
little convex, not costulate, and are strongly callose at the apex, they
are sparsely punctate, the punctures of the sides and in the pos-
terior part bearing a somewhat thick short decumbent hair; hind
femora simple, but with the trochanters produced into a long, sub-
horizontal spine; hind tibiz compressed, grooved underneath, but
with the edges of the groove simple and the inner apical parts
strongly mucronate; under side briefly villose, the hairs black,
upper side of abdominal segments with a small patch of white
elongate scales.

Female unknown.

Length 6 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

This species seems to be very rare. It very much resembles
D. denticeps in general form, but is at once distinguished from it by
the long spine of the trochanters, which is absent in the latter,
and also by the colour of the elytra and the shape of the hind
tibiee.

MonocHELUS virTatus, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 95.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, and the legs chestnut-brown
or chestnut-red ; head and prothorax sub-villose, but clothed also
under the hairs with greyish or slightly flavescent scales which
become much denser in the posterior part ; scutellum densely scaly ;

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elytra with three longitudinal bands of sub-flavescent scales ; pygi-
dium scaly; clypeus with four, distinct, nearly equal teeth;
longitudinal basal sulcus of prothorax not distinct; elytra attenuate
laterally towards the apex, costate with the intervals filled with
round, closely set scales, the outer band is divided at the base by
the non-scaly humeral callus; edge of propygidium densely scaly ;
trochanters produced into a very long, sharp, sub-horizontal spine,
hind femora dentate on each side of the knee; hind tibiz like those
of D. dentipes, but not grooved underneath ; no apical spur; joints of
hind tarsi sub-triangular, somewhat compressed; all the claws
double, of very equal length, and very slightly cleft.

Female not known with certainty.

Length 7-74 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (? Worcester).

DIcHELUS sIMPLIciPEs, Burm.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 28.
land: d. Emtemels, ive, 5p. 119:

Male: Black, with the elytra dark chestnut-brown or reddish
brown, legs of the same colour as the elytra; upper surface with
a slight metallic tinge; elytra with two interrupted bands of white
scales on each side; head and prothorax densely villose with the
hairs black ; along the base of the latter there is a faint trace. of a
narrow band of appressed whitish squamose hairs ; scutellum densely
scaly, the scales elongate ; elytra somewhat convex in the anterior
part, and having longitudinal, shallow depressions on each side
separated by a slightly raised, scarcely costulate space, in the juxta-
sutural depression there is a band of moderately closely set elongate
white scales beginning at about the median part and reaching to the
apex, while the discoidal band begins at the base of the second
depression, and reaches to past the median part; the hind femora,
although robust, are not as much developed as in the preceding
species, and the spine of the trochanters is very slender, but long,
the tibizee are compressed, moderately dilated gradually towards the
apex, simple but a little emarginate near the knee and end in a
moderately long apical inner mucro ; the propygidium is edged with
whitish scales, and the ventral segments and the metasternum have
a patch of white scales, the pygidium has none, but occasionally there
are a few remote flavescent squamose hairs at the apex.

Female unknown with certainty.

Length 5 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Malmesbury, Paarl, Caledon).

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DICHELUS HOLOSERICEUS, Burm.,
Plate knit figs 217,
Handb. d. Entomol. iv., 1, p. 111.

Male: Shape, size, and sculpture of D. simplicipes ; the elytra,
however, are redder, although they are also occasionally infuscate,
or even black; the two white bands of scales are similar, and they
are faintly punctured, with the punctures somewhat seriate; the
scutellum has no scales, but it has often some flavescent, some-
what remote appressed hairs; the hind legs are, however, very
different and approximate to those of D. luctwosus ; the hind femora
are very robust and have the spine of the trochanters strong, sub-
horizontal but not very long, and above the point of the spine there
is a short but very distinct femoral tooth ; the hind tibie are arcuate,
shallowly grooved underneath with the two edges simple, equal, and
projecting at the apex in a very long, arcuate inner mucro, thus
resembling entirely those of D. luctuosus.

Female: Black, with the elytra testaceous, the pygidium, abdomen,
and legs reddish; elytra deeply and broadly punctate, sparsely
pubescent.

Length 5-54 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Oudtshoorn, Clanwilliam, Port
Elizabeth).

DICHELUS LUCIDUS, n. spec.

Black, not distinctly metallic, shining, elytra testaceous and having
some traces left on each side of the bands of obliquely disposed
greyish-white scales, pygidium clothed with yellow scales, anterior
legs reddish; head and prothorax clothed with fulvous hairs, scutellum
without scales; elytra with two faint costules on each side separating
the three bands of scales, the juxta-sutural of which is the broadest
and the most distinct, they are punctulate, not convex at the base,
normally narrowed laterally towards the apex; propygidium scaly at
apex, abdominal segments with a patch of flavescent scales; hind
femora robust, but not very swollen, simple, but the two teeth of the
articulation of the knee are very sharp, and the trochanters have a
very short spine; the hind tibia are conspicuously emarginate at the
base for a third of the length, compressed and laminate underneath
with the upper angle of the lamina very sharp, and the apical one
produced into a moderately long inner mucro; the bristles of the hind
tarsi are fulvous.

Female unknown.

Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon).

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DICHELUS LATICOLLIS, Burm.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 32.
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 111.

Black, opaque, with the anterior tibize and the antennz except the
club reddish, the propygidium and pygidium are nude, and the
abdominal segments have an upper patch of similar scales; head
briefly bristly, the two median teeth of the clypeus are set close to
one another, the prothorax is almost glabrous on the upper side but
bristly laterally, hardly punctate in the posterior part, not densely so
in the anterior, and it is less narrowed laterally in the anterior part
than the other species of the genus; scutellum not scaly; elytra not
conspicuously narrowed laterally towards the apex owing to their not
being strongly sinuate below the humeral part, somewhat convex, and
callose at the apex, deeply but not closely seriate, punctate and
glabrous ; the three outer teeth of the anterior tibiee are less connate
at the base than in the other species of the genus, and the two upper
ones are a little more oblique; the hind femora are very robust,
simple, with a distinct spine to the trochanters, the hind tibiz are
deeply emarginate at the base for one-third of the length and
developed from there into a broad lamina, dentate on each side
at the base and produced at apex into a very long, sub-transverse
inner mucro.

Female: Like the male but still more glabrous on the prothorax ;
hind tibize with a very distinct apical spur.

Length 54-7 mm.; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Caledon, Heidel-
berg, Malmesbury, Clanwilliam). :

DICHELUS DENTICEPS, Wiedem.,
Plate XLII, fig. 25.
Germ. Magaz., iv., 142.

Black, with the elytra and legs brick-red, scaleless except on the
scutellum, and having a narrow band of yellowish scales on the edge
of the propygidium and on the sides of the abdomen; head very
rugose and clothed with fulvous hairs somewhat bristly and not
dense, the two median teeth of the clypeus are nearly obliterated,
and the outer angles are proportionately sharper and more recurved ;
prothorax only slightly narrowed laterally towards the anterior part,
scabroso-punctate but not along the base, the punctures bear each a
flavescent, erect hair but are not very dense; scutellum somewhat
ogival ; elytra a little convex, normally attenuate laterally below the

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shoulder, but short, and leaving nearly the whole propygidium
uncovered; the pygidium slants very obliquely forwards; the hind
femora are very robust and simple, but the inner part of the
articulation of the knee is sharper than the outer; the trochanters
are not spinose, the hind tibize are short, curved, broadly dilated
inwardly from near the knee, grooved underneath with the two edges
of the groove equal, but the inner one is slightly dentate near the
inner apical mucro which is moderately long, sharp, and strong; the
claws are double, but they are not as divaricating as in the other
species of the genus, and the inner one is not quite as long as the
outer, but the affinities of this species are undoubtedly more with
species of the genus Dichelus, D. laticollis especially, than with any
species of Heterochelus.

Female: Like the male, but with a few flavescent, slightly
squamiform hairs on the elytra; hind tibiz with a distinct apical .
spur.

Length 5-54 mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

DICHELUS PALLIDIPENNIS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 63.

Male: Black, with the elytra flavous, pygidium squamoso-villose,
and having two denuded patches at the base; clypeus briefly quadri-
dentate but with the two median teeth smaller than the outer; head
and prothorax densely villose, the hairs greyish ; the elytra have a few
appressed hairs ; the hind legs are moderately robust, simple, and
the hind tibiz have an apical spur, the hind claws are double, equal
in length, divaricating, and both cleft.

Female like the male, but the pygidium is covered with greyish-
white appressed hairs and has no denuded space.

Length 5 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality, but probably Malmes-
bury).

The only male example I have seen is the type.

DICHELUS ZULUANUS, N. spec.

Female: Black, with the elytra and legs piceous, scutellum, pro-
pygidium and upper side of abdomen with sub-flavescent elongate
scales; head and prothorax scabroso-punctate, somewhat densely
pubescent, the pubescence flavescent, the clypeus is quadri-dentate,

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the teeth distinct and equal; posterior longitudinal impression of
prothorax somewhat deep; elytra costulate, roughly punctured,
clothed with an appressed greyish pubescence, not much ampliated
laterally near the base, but normally attenuated towards the apex;
pygidium vertical, clothed with greyish appressed hairs ; intermediate
claws cleft inwardly at about the median part; hind tibize densely
bristly on each side.

Male unknown.

Length 62 mm.; width 32 mm.

Differs from the females of the other species by the much more
distinctly costate and more roughly punctate elytra, and also by the
pygidium covered with greyish hairs.

Hab. Natal (Kshowe).

(Species which I have not seen or been able to identrfy.)

DICHELUS FLAVIMANUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 497.

‘Black, silky, opaque; clypeus quadri-dentate; antenne, palpi,
and anterior legs testaceous; sides of the abdomen scaly here and
there. |

Length 23 lin. ¢.

From Caffraria. Nearest to D. holosericeus, but differing some-
what from all the species by the slender, thin legs, the teeth on
the anterior tibie of which are not set so close together, and
by the non-dentate legs of the male. Clypeus with four marginal
teeth, and rugose, like the head which is stiffly ciliate ; prothorax
rather flat than convex, having a finely raised outer margin ciliate
with stiff bristles, opaquely silky in appearance, and with coarse,
scattered punctures in which stiff bristles stand; scutellum with
white scales; elytra broadly cordate, somewhat narrowed posteriorly,
flatly convex, silky in appearance, indistinctly striate, and having
some spare scabrose punctures in which are short, appressed hairs,
colour black greenish ; pygidium not shiny, black, ventral surface of
abdomen and also the pectus dull shiny, clothed at the sides with
scattered white scales; legs long, thin, nowhere remarkably thick-
ened, shiny, black-brown, the anterior ones only light reddish yellow,
the three teeth of the interior tibiz finer, more separated ; all the
tarsi with two equal, cleft claws; antenne and palpi testaceous,
apex of the antennal club brown.”

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DICHELUS PLATYNOTUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 112.

‘Black, opaque, pilose, antennz elytra and legs rufous; pygi-
dium of the male with flavous scales.

Length 23 ln. ¢.

Communicated by Herr von Winthem. This species resembles.
closely D. holosericeus, but it is a little larger, everywhere punctate,
and more densely hairy ; the distinctive character is the much more
depressed elytra, in every other respect it is similar, but the hairs
and the scales are yellow instead of white, and the whole pygidium
is covered with scales ; the anterior legs are light red; in the male.
the hind thighs have the trochanter spinose, but are otherwise simple,
but the articulation of the knee is aculeate on each side, the hind
tibiz are curved and have a basal tooth underneath near the knee,.
there is no apical spur. ”

DICHELUS NITIDISSIMUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 113.

‘ Black, shining, elytra and legs red; prothorax sulcate, squamose:
behind ; scutellum, scapulze, and abdomen squamose.

Length 3ln. ¢.

This species is closely allied to the preceding one (D. dentuceps),
but the extremely conspicuous sheen makes it resemble more closely
still D. bivittatus. Head, anterior part of the prothorax, and
body black, the apical margin of the clypeus is quadri-dentate, but.
the two median teeth are very feeble and set close to each other ;
the anterior part of the prothorax is shining, somewhat thickly
punctulate as on the vertex of the head, and each puncture bears.
a hair, all of them being somewhat scattered; there is in the:
posterior part a furrow set with yellow scales which are also
spread on the posterior part. Similar scales are to be seen on the.
scutellum, the scapule, the sides of the pectus, the propygidium and
pygidium, the latter having two black patches; the elytra are very
shiny and have some short, bristly hairs only on the sides and at the
apex, they are entirely red, as are also the legs, the antenne, and the
palpi; in the male the long hind legs have the trochanters strongly
spinose, and the thighs with a spine in the inner part of the.
articulation of the knee; the hind tibize are curved and simple but,
mucronate at the apex, and without apical spur; the hind tarsi are.
setose with the sete long, and have two unequal claws, one of which
is simple, long and thick, and a shorter cleft one; the claws of the.

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anterior and intermediate legs are double and each one equally
deeply cleft.”’

Gen. HETEROCHELUS, Burm.,
Handbsd, Emtomol.; 1v:, 1, p: 87.
Ischnochelus, Burm., loc. cit., p. 129.

Mentum and palpi as in Dichelus ; lobe of maxille strongly dentate
inwardly and having at the tip a small pencil of hairs which is often
wanting, or is quite rudimentary, the number of teeth varies from
seven to five, if the lobe is concave the teeth are strong, set opposite
each other (D. sulphureus, elegans, &c.), if the lobe is not concave the
number of teeth is reduced to five, set in a line (coccineus, dissidens,
&c.), but in a few cases the lobe, although not concave, has seven ; the
clypeus, which is slightly attenuate laterally, assumes three shapes :
it is straight transversely at apex with the margin reflexed, and is
more or less plainly quadri-dentate, and slightly angular laterally at _
the base (except in H. egenus), or more distinctly narrowed laterally
and tri-dentate, in which case the lateral basal angle is more dis-
tinctly toothed, or again bi-dentate, but then the lateral angle has
become as conspicuous a tooth as the median one, which, however,
projects much more (H. dissidens, vittiger, controversus) ; the pro-
thorax is similar to that of Duchelus, and not always grooved
longitudinally in the posterior half, it is, like the head, very scabrose
or scabroso-punctate, and never glabrous; the scutellum is of moderate
size, sub-ogival but rounded at the tip ; the elytra are slightly convex
or nearly plane, covered entirely with round or elongate scales, or
with appressed hairs, or they have bands of scales, deeply and
irregularly punctured and always more rugose on the sides, costulate,
or having on each side two longitudinal impressions generally filled
with scales or a very short erect pubescence, laterally they are
distinctly narrowed towards the apex from under the humeral part,
and the sides of the dorsal abdominal segments are sometimes broadly
uncovered ; the propygidium is always partly uncovered and usually
fringed or banded with scales or squamose hairs similar to those
clothing entirely the abdomen, or edging the ventral segments; the
pygidium in the male is usually plane, and declivous or sloping
forwards in most of the species, but it is sometimes convex at the
base (gonager), or very convex (oreopygus), or can project in an ovate
form (pygtdialis), and is either tomentose, covered with scales,
glabrous, or pubescent; in the female it is sub-horizontal ; the meta-
sternum is very large, scaly or tomentose, and the abdomen is very
compressed laterally in the male, and owing to the great development

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of the pygidium, the segments are very compressed underneath and
soldered, in the female the abdomen is convex; the anterior tibiz are
tri-dentate (Heterochelus) or quadri-dentate (Ischnochelus); in the
first group the two basal teeth are either connate at the base or set
very close to each other, at right angles to the tibia, very sharp,
long, and almost always distinctly bending downwards, and the
apical tooth is more oblique than the other two and assumes the
same shape, there is occasionally a distinct angle above the basal
tooth, and in Ischnochelus this angle has been developed into a tooth
often nearly the same shape and size as the basal one, but in
I. bi-partitus this tooth, although very distinct, is broader and more
triangular than the one following, there is no inner spur in either
sex ; the claws of the fore legs are double, unequal, and the longer
one is always cleft, that of the intermediate legs is in most cases
double and both sides are cleft, but in several cases the smaller
inner one has disappeared (H. lugens, &c.), those of the hind legs
are either double with the inner claw always smaller than the
outer, pressed against it, and cleft, the larger one being cleft or not,
or single and simple, or cleft; the difference in the shape of the
claws has no generic value whatever, but is very useful in discrimi-
nating between many species ; the intermediate tibize have an apical
spur, and the posterior ones have one or are without; when the
mucronate part of the hind tibiz of the male is very greatly
developed, this spur disappears completely, but there are exceptions
(H. femoralis, unguculatus, chiragricus, padagricus, msigms, &c.) ;
in the female this spur is always present; in the male the hind
femora are very robust, or robust, seldom slender (nwbilus, dissidens),
in some species of the division Ischnochelus armed with a long spine on
the trochanters or not, and sometimes with an inward tooth near the
knee, the tibiae are generally curved, hollowed underneath, carinate
or compressed, in most cases serrate or dentate, strongly mucronate
at apex or not, the articulation of the knee of the femur may be
developed into an angular process turning sometimes into a spine, in
this case the basal part of the tibiz is more or less deeply emarginate
or incised inwardly, and when it is scooped underneath, there is close
to that emargination or semicircular impression, a more or less sharp
tooth either on each side or on one side only. The female has a
more modest livery than the male, the hind legs are simple or not
unduly thickened; whenever they have scales these are more like
squamose hairs, but there are some exceptions.

The genus, as now restricted, includes 94 species, 10 of which I
have not been able to identify; of these one does probably not
belong to the genus.

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Anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly (HETEROCHELUS).

Key to the Species.

First Division.

A3, Clypeus straight at the tip, more or less sharply quadri-dentate.
B’. Elytra covered with contiguous scales.
C*. Hind tibie without an apical spur.
D3, Clypeus with the two median teeth hardly distinct.
K?. Elytra distinctly costate.
F?. Hind claws double, unequal.
a4, Pygidium clothed with a velvety black tomen-

as.

tum.

Hind tibiw of the male not grooved under-
neath, but with the lower edge serrate, and
the inner with a small tooth near the knee
(pl. xlit., fig. 29)

Hind tibize moderately grooved underneath,
but with both edges serrate and both strongly
dentate on each side of the knee (pl. xlii., fig.
44).. Soleil ehh tom BAY BP oea) Loic, fie
Hind femora with the inner claw of the
femora near the knee greatly developed ; hind
tibia broadly laminate, sharply bi-dentate
inwardly near the knee, and with the apical
mucro long and transverse (pl. xlii., fig. 37)

Pygidium scaly but with two velvety black
patches.

f

Hind tibis somewhat grooved underneath,
but with the outer edges serrate and the inner
one slightly dentate near the knee (pl. xlii.,

Hind tibize broadly and deeply scooped under-
neath near the base, and strongly bi-dentate
there, the inner spine being almost always
truncate, inner mucro very robust, upper
apical part produced into a distinct angular
process (pl. xlii., fig. 30)

Hind tibiz scooped underneath in the base
only, triangularly dilated inwardly into a strong
tooth at the apex of the excavation, and
strongly serrate from there, upper apical part
strongly developed

Hind tibiz not scooped underneath near the
base, but having there a distinctly truncate
inner tooth, upper apical angle normal

vulpinus.

sexlineatus.

natalensis.

multidentatus.

armipes.

mimus.

concinnus.

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Hind tibiz not scooped underneath, but
having a conspicuous inner sub-median tooth,
upper angle strongly developed

a’, Pygidium uniformly clothed with scales of

the same colour.

Hind tibiz strongly dentate on each side near
the knee, outer edge with a conspicuous, sub-
median sharp spine

Hind tibie strongly dilated at apex and with a
broad triangular inner tooth set close to the
long, curved mucro

a’, Pygidium denuded, shining.

Hind femora with the inner tooth of the
knee conspicuously developed; hind tibise with
a sub-median, well-developed inner tooth,
apices produced on each side into a long,
curved mucro of equal length

E'. Elytra non-costate.

a3,

a’.

a‘.

Pygidium with two velvety dark brown patches.

Hind tibize scooped underneath at the base and
having there a small tooth on each side of the
groove, inner margin serrate

Pygidium entirely covered with scales of uniform
colour.

Hind femora with an inner tooth near the knee;
hind tibize with a sharp triangular inner tooth
near that of the knee, outer edge strongly serrate,
mucro long and curved, upper apical angle
normal

Hind femora with an inner tooth near the knee,
hind tibiew with a sharp triangular tooth near
that of the knee in the inner margin, and a
longer and more robust in the outer edge which
is also strongly serrate from there to the apex
the upper apical part of which is truncate (pl.
xlii., fig. 43) Ur ROO Maps: Bb somecre-ens Oats

Hind femora with the trochanters produced into
a long, laminate spine, obliquely truncate at the
tip and dentate above the spine; hind tibix
curved, grooved beneath, simple, and with a
strong apical mucro bearing an apical spur

Pygidium covered with a velvety dark brown
tomentum.

sulphureus.

consanguineus.

furoninus.

consors

contractus.

ictericus.

placatus.

femoralis.

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Femora with a well-developed inner tooth near
the knee; hind tibie moderately deeply grooved
underneath in the base only, and slightly dentate
there on each side, inner margin crenulate :

Pygidium entirely covered with a dark brown
tomentum .. Semis! pisiey) ice apete eae ©
Pygidium with the basal part only covered with a
dark brown tomentum

F'. Hind claws single, simple.

a?

b4.
Ca

(Ox,

a‘..
b3,

w

bz

by

d?.

Femora very long; hind tibiw dilated,
strongly emarginate inwardly near the base,
grooved underneath.

Trochanters conical at the base.

Pygidium glabrous.

Elytra with four bands of greyish scales

Elytra clothed with closely set, but not con-
tiguous, lanceolate greyish scales; legs red;
pygidium very convex..

Elytra clothed with closely set ovate scales ;
legs black; pygidium moderately convex

Pygidium glabrous in the lower part only.

Elytra clothed with contiguous ochreous scales
(pl. xlil., fig, 35) ..

Femora long, hind tibie differently shaped.
Trochanters produced into a spine of mode-
rate size.

Clypeus sharply 4-dentate; hind tibise deeply
grooved underneath, with both edges denticu-
late

Trochanters produced into a long spine.

Hind tibiz compressed inwardly and sharply
dentate on the median inner part, pygidium
convex at the base, spine of trochanters
vertical ..

Hind tibiee very swollen inwardly at the base,
excavate towards the apex, and with the two
angles of the apex dentate; pygidium not
convex, spine of trochanters horizontal and
hamate at tip (pl. xlii., fig. 47)..

Trochanters not spinose.
Pygidium completely covered witl scales.

gonager.

citrus.

parilis.

murinus.

adspersus.

longipes.

venustus.

vulpecula.

pachyglutus.

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Oke

Hind femora not dentate inwardly near the
knee; hind tibiew obliquely emarginate under-
neath at the base, and then dilated, com-
pressed, and having a median tooth in the
centre of the inner face .

Hind femora with a strong, long, inner spine
near the knee; hind tibie very broadly dilated
at apex, concave there, and with the apical
outer margin obliquely truncate above the
mucro which is bifid (pl. xlii., fig. 45)

Pygidium without scales.

Hind tibiz robust, very deeply and broadly
scooped underneath, the edges sharply dentate
on each side near the base, and the inner
continued at the apex into a sub-transverse
mucro, a short apical spur

Hind femora with a small outer tooth near
the knee ; hind tibize compressed inwardly and
with the lower edge sub-circularly incised
above the short, apical mucro; pygidium very
convex at the base, propygidium very broad ..

Hind femora simple ; hind tibie with a slight
inner tooth near the knee, and not mucronate
at apex; pygidium projecting as an horizontal
ovate process

C'. Hind tibiz with an apical spur.

D*. Clypeus with the two median teeth as sharp as the
lateral.
a’, Hind claws single, simple.
b?. Trochanters with a long spine.

Abdomen very broadly ampliated; spine of
trochanters as long as the femora, sub-
horizontal and arcuate inwardly

. Trochanters not spinose.

Elytrasub-costulate, covered with yellow scales,
but having a juxta-sutural band and a discoidal
one of lighter scales; pygidium with a median
and two lateral bands of similar lighter scales ;
hind tibie a little dilated

Elytra costulate, juxta-sutural interval con-
spicuously deep, whole upper surface and
pygidium clothed with minute, flavescent
contiguous scales; hind tibiz not dilated

aurantiacus.

arnatus.

bimaculatus.

oreopygus.

pygidialis.

hospes.

sub-vittatus.

egens.

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ax.

Elytra costulate, juxta-sutural interval not
conspicuously deep, whole upper surface and
pygidium clothed with minute, flavescent
contiguous scales; hind tibie very little dilated

Prothorax and elytra covered with minute
ochre-yellow scales, scales of pygidium con-
colorous; hind femora distinctly dilated ;
median teeth of clypeus not quite as much
developed as the outer ones

Hind claws double.

Elytra covered with ochreous scales ; femora
very robust; hind tibiw short, very broadly
dilated outwardly into a sub-quadrate lamina,
deeply hollowed underneath, and with the
inner edge produced into a long median
transverse tooth (pl. xlii., fig. 42)

D'. Clypeus quite straight and not dentate in the
middle.

Hind claws simple.

Entirely covered with thick hair-like yellowish
scales; hind legs simple; hind tibie not mu-
cronate..

Bt. Elytra clothed with hairs or bands of scales, but not with

contiguous scales.

c

C?. Hind tibie without an apical spur.

D?. Hind claws double.

a’,
b2

Clypeus with the two median teeth distinct.
Trochanters with a spine.

Prothorax dark metallic green, elytra chestnut;
scutellum, pygidium, and abdomen clothed
with yellow scales ; hind tibie grooved under-
neath, dentate on each side of the base, and
serrate or even dentate from there to the apex,
apical mucro truncate at tip

. Trochanters not spinose.

Black, elytra chestnut-brown ; scutellum, pro-
pygidium, and abdomen clothed with yellow
scales, elytra with a sutural and apical band of
scales; pygidium glabrous; hind tibize short,
curved, ampliate, grooved underneath and
strongly dentate on each side of the base, but
with the outer tooth further from the base
than the inner, and the inner mucro long and
curved :

amenulus.

sobrinus.

coccineus.

egenus.

viridicollis.

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Prothorax not grooved, closely scabroso-
PUNCTALC” | ewe eh ela bude eo esky eg
Prothorax grooved, and with scattered non-
Scabrose pumctuces is. a. oa We) ees pensymucts.

promontorit.

a’, Clypeus with the two median teeth indistinct.
Trochanters spinose.

Entirely black; hind femora with a hamate
inner tooth near the knee; hind tibiz com-
pressed, laminate and strongly bi-dentate
underneath, and with the mucro produced in
CHedovagolmeiyaveallweo ool 44 95h ao 65 oa ASS

D'. Hind claws single.
a’. Trochanters non-spinose.

Black, elytra and hind tibie red; prothorax
with a median line of white scales, and a
similar one on each elytron; scutellum,
pygidial part, and abdomen clothed with
dense white scales) es.09 0 G0 =e.) es SeUL-ueetarus:

Black, with the fore legs red and the elytra
occasionally chestnut-red, the scutellum, a
narrow ledge of the propygidium, and the
abdomen scaly ; elytra very roughly punctured ;
hind femora with the inner tooth of the knee
well developed; hind tibize swollen on each side
near the base, grooved underneath, equally
dentate on each side, and having a hooked,
robust, and sharp mucro (pl. xlii., fig. 38) .. rujimanus.

Black, with the elytra piceous brown, scutellum,
apical margins of the elytra, propygidium,
abdomen, and pygidium clothed with bright
yellow scales; hind femora simple but with the
two teeth of the knee greatly developed ; hind
tibis curved, compressed, semicircularly
emarginate underneath from the base for half
the length, then ampliated and ending in a
CULVEd MUCHO G eat ext beled isis code | emt -ROLAE Ss

Black, with the fore legs reddish; clypeus
emarginate at tip and not denticulate in the
middle, scutellum and apical edge of elytra, of
propygidium, and of abdominal segments
narrowly scaly; hind femora with two very
conspicuous teeth on each side of the knee and
with the inner one produced into a curved spine;
hind tibiz arcuate, compressed, dilated towards
the apex and with the lower edge sharply
angular immediately above the.curved, sharp
and long mucro (pl. xlii., fig. 46) .. .. .. foreipatus.

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C:. Hind tibie with an apical spur.
. Trochanters spinose.

a?

a‘

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at. Trochanters spinose.

Black, with the elytra light brown; clypeus
very sharply quadri-dentate; elytra elongate,
and with three bands of tlavescent scales; hind
femora with a tooth on each side at about
two-thirds of the length; hind tibize dilated,
compressed, lower margin deeply hacked and
bi-dentate near the base; pygidium glabrous
(pl. xlii., fig. 50) ..

Black, with the elytra testaceous and the legs
reddish ; head, prothorax, and pectus densely
villose, pygidium scaly on the upper side,
villose underneath; hind femora with a con-
Spicuous inner tooth near the knee; hind tibix
compressed inwardly, slightly grooved under-
neath, and dentate on each side of the groove,

inner mucro long, distinctly curved (pl. xlii.,
fig. 41)...

Black, with the elytra very dark brown, elytra
with two longitudinal bands of squamose
hairs ; pygidial part with golden-yellow scales;
hind femora massive and having the trochan-
ters produced into a long, horizontal spine
reaching further than the knee, and armed
with an inner apical tooth; hind tibiae some-
what concave inwardly, armed with a strong,
inner basal tooth and mucronate on each side
at apex ..

¢

Black, with the elytra light testaceous and the legs
somewhat reddish ; scutellum, pygidial part, and
abdomen scaly; hind femora very massive ;
trochanters projecting as a spine in the median
part of the thigh ; hind tibize concave inwardly and
with the lower edge emarginate at the base and
nearly equally sub-mucronate on each side at apex

Trochanters not spinose.
Clypeus sharply quadri-dentate, teeth equal.

Black, with the elytra testaceous red; scutellum,
apical margin of elytra, pygidial part, and abdomen
clothed with sub-lanuginose scales; hind femora
robust, simple ; hind tibise very deeply hollowed in
the median part and having a small, median tooth
on the upper margin ..

Clypeus with the two median teeth not quite as long
as the outer, which are very sharp and set close to
each other.

elegans.

leoninus.

mucronatus.

inornatus.

comosus.

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Black, with the elytra light testaceous, shining,
and having a fuscous lateral band; hind margin
of elytra, pygidial part, and abdomen scaly ; hind
femora and tibiw simple, the latter a little swollen
inwardly near the base, and slightly compressed
towards the apex, where it is distinctly mucronate
imwardly "U209 Bie gee eam toc. 2) y ycye cece Meee eRLILISE

Black, with the elytra dark brown, opaque; pygi-
dium clothed with orange scales, but having two
lateral darker spaces ; hind femora robust, equally
sub-dentate on each side of the knee; hind tibiz
as in the preceding species, but the apical mucro is
shorter’s2) (s0 cs. wees nk, ts PG ete ALLL ISS

Black, elytra with three conspicuous bands of
yellow scales, scutellum, pygidial part, and
abdomen scaly; hind legs as in the preceding
species! (pl xii ie 3). Ui fe en it ee matenntLs:

bt. Clypeus with the two median teeth hardly
projecting.
c?, Elytra non-costate.

Black, with the elytra dark chocolate-brown ; pro-
thorax and pectus villose; scutellum, apical margin
of elytra, pygidial part, and abdomen with
flavescent scales; hind femora simple, hind tibiz
concave inwardly, not mucronate at apex (pl. xlii.,
sy OGG e OOM OGm G6 G5 69 958) “45 Ga | Garcon

c‘. Elytra costate.

Black, elytra tri-costate, intervals with fulvous
scales, pygidium scaly and with two fuscous
patches; femora and tibie simple, the latter
pie EW OPIN ENS do Go. 6a 66 oon aa soe ne UESKOROANIS.

Black, shining, with the legs reddish; elytra with
the intervals filled with bands of squamose hairs
turning to scales in the posterior margin; scutellum,
pygidium, and abdomen scaly, hind legs simple,
posterior tibiz compressed on each side, gradually
ampliate, not mucronate at apex .. .. .. .. minutus.

A*®. Clypeus sharply tri-dentate at tip.

B2. Joints of hind tarsi triangular and compressed.
a’, Hind tibize without apical spur.

Body without scales ; hind femora with two spines set
longitudinally ; hind tibie greatly dilated towards the
apex, bi-dentate on each side, and strongly mucronate,
joints of hind tibie strongly dilated outwardly

(pl. xlii., fig. 20).. detritus.

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Hind tibize with an apical spur.
Tooth under the femur nearly apical, broad and short.

Elytra without scales, hairy, hind tibize very short,
mucronate part strongly curved (pl. xlii., fig. 22)

Tooth under the femur sub-median, long and sharp.
Elytra covered with flavescent scales and having an
elongate velvety brown patch on each side of the

posterior part (pl. xlii., fig. 21)

Elytra having a broad sutural band and a narrower
marginal one of yellowish scales (pl. xlii., fig. 19)

B'. Joints of hind tarsi not compressed.

C2;

Cr.

Elytra clothed with contiguous scales.

Prothorax with squamulose, sub-appressed hairs; elytra
clothed with contiguous flavescent scales; pygidium
scaly; hind femora with a strong spine on the
trochanters; hind tibiz grooved, distinctly dentate
outwardly on each side of the base, and sharply
mucronate at the apex

Elytra with bands of scales, or clothed with appressed
hairs.

D?. Hind tibize without apical spur.
a?. Trochanters sharply spinose:

Elytra chestnut-brown, and with a few scales
along the suture; pygidium scaly, hind femora
robust, simple; hind tibiz compressed and
connate underneath, briefly sub-dentate near
the knee, and with the apical mucro long and
curved

Elytra chestnut-brown and having three more
or less regular bands of yellow scales; pygidium
scaly ; hind femora with a conspicuous inner
tooth near the knee; hind tibiz a little swollen
in the basal part, where it is grooved under-
neath, and sharply dentate on the inner side,
mucro long, arcuate and somewhat slender
(pl. xlii., fig. 40)

Elytra black, covered with greyish appressed
hairs, scutellum and pygidium covered with
yellow scales; hind femora moderately robust,
simple; tibize also simple, moderately ampliate,
not mucronate at apex

a’. Trochanters not spinose. .

unguiculatus.

podagricus.

chiragricus.

optivus.

anomalus.

miserabilis.

estcourtianus.

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Elytra fuscous-brown, very briefly pubescent,
pygidium without any scales; hind femora
very massive and simple; hind tibize very
swollen in the middle and having a sharp,
spine-like mucro on each side of the apex,
hind tarsi very short, massive, fifth joint
strongly dentate underneath (pl. xlii., fig. 34) arthriticus.

Elytra entirely covered with ochraceous ap-
pressed hairs, scutellum and pygidium densely
scaly; hind femora moderately robust, hind
tibie very swollen inwardly, simple, not mucro-
nate at apex (pl. xlii., fig. 39) .. .. .. «+. ditus.

D. Hind tibize with an apical spur.
b?. Hind claw single, simple.

Elytra reddish brown, clothed with yellowish
scales forming three bands on each side:
pygidium without scales; hind femora simple,
hind tibiz more massive than the femora, very
swollen in the middle, and with the apical part
sharp but not mucronate; hind tarsi very short
and massive, fifth joint bi-dentate underneath.. insignis.

Similar to the preceding species, but with the
elytra black and without scales, and the hind
‘femora less swollen .. .. .. .. ° .. «. exactor.

Elytra black, briefly pilose, apical margin with
some yellow scales, pygidium without scales ;
hind femora with a conspicuous inner tooth
near the knee; hind tibiz broad, deeply scooped
inwardly, and having a median triangular tooth
on the inner margin of the excavation, apical
mucro distinct, but not very long .. .. .. pulverosus.

Elytra dark chestnut-brown, and having a few
scales along the hind part of the suture and on
the outer margins; pygidium without scales;
hind femora robust and with an inner tooth
near the knee; hind tibiewe bi-carinate under-
neath, inner carina very bluntly toothed, apical
part motmucromate i. ..) ss, 2. ate es ages.

Elytra testaceous, briefly pilose, apical margins
with some yellow scales; pygidium scaly; hind
femora robust, simple, but with the outer part of
the articulation of the knee sharply angular;
hind tibize strongly emarginate near the knee,
deeply scooped inwardly, bluntly dentate on the
inner edge near the base, and nearly equally
mucronate on each side at apex.. .. .. .. connatus.

Elytra piceous black, body without any scales,
hind tibie a little ampliate, no apical mucro .. incongruens.

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Elytra black, sub-costate, and having on each
side two bands of greyish elongated scales ;
pygidium scaly but with two large round
denuded patches; hind femora and tibix
Simmplessslendere 3, 6. 22 war, ss as oe newbilus.

b'. Hind claws double.
c?. Trochanters spinose.

Elytra chestnut-red and having three lines of
round white scales on each side; pygidial part
scaly ; hind femora simple, hind tibiz grooved,
the groove sharply carinate and dentate on each
side near the knee, inner mucro long, somewhat
CU CUME Wren acuemet is Pasit Yr Ley Gates, Mitel pTLA ULLeENtUse

c'. Trochanters not spinose.

Body red; elytra scaly but with a denuded
patch on each side in the posterior part; hind
femora angular near the knee; hind tibie
hollowed and dentate on each side underneath
near the base, apical mucro strongand curved.. serripes.

At. Clypeus bi-dentate in front and having a sharp lateral tooth.

B?, Hind tibiz with an apical spur.
a*, Hind claw double.

‘

Prothorax clothed with a black villose pubescence,
scutellum, elytra, and abdomen covered with deep
orange-red scales, pygidium without scales .. .. .. dissidens.

a‘. Hind claw simple.

Prothorax with a thick, dense, yellow pubescence,
elytra, pygidial part, and abdomen covered with con-
tiguous deep yellow scales; hind legs conspicuously
villosecxoubwardiyy Only). 4. 1s: 16. 2+ a.) controversus.

Bt. Hind tibize without apical spur.

Prothorax with five bands of greyish squamose hairs,
elytra with two bands of greyish scales .. .. .. ... vittiferus.

Srconp Division.
s

Anterior tibiz quadri-dentate outwardly (IscHNocHELUS).
A?, Elytra bi-costulate on each side.

Intervals of elytra and posterior margin filled with round scales,
pygidial part scaly in the male; basal tooth of anterior tibix as
long as the other three ; clypeus not dentate in the centre:

Prothorax with broad, scattered punctures .. .. .. sulcatus.
Prothorax closely and finely punctured .. .. .. .. prestabilis.

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At. Elytra not costulate.

Black, elytra pale testaceous and without any scales along the
suture, clypeus quadri-dentate: {2 2) AR 25 12. Se sonentiiss

Black, with the elytra pale testaceous and with a distinct broad
band of scales along the suture, and also an outer one in the male:

Clypeus not dentate in the middle .. .. .. .. .. timidus.
Clypeus slightly bi-dentate in the middle... .. .. .. parentalis.

Black, with a narrow basal band of yellow scales on the prothorax
and the elytra, pygidial part and abdomen clothed with round
yellow scales; clypeus quadri-dentate .. .. .. .. .. bi-partitus.

Black, with the elytra testaceous and clothed with ge
hairs; clypeus tri-dentate .. .. .. .. 5 ve oe .. pawperatus,

Black, with the elytra pale testaceous in the anterior discoidal
part and having a sutural band of yellow scales beginning at the
middle and continued on the apical margins; clypeus bi-dentate
andistronglywetlexed =... ise ee ere ee CTI ICT Se

HETEROCHELUS VULPINUS, Burm.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 29.

Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, 1844, p. 93.

Male: Black, with the prothorax greenish bronze; elytra and legs
occasionally reddish brown, scutellum clothed with yellow or flaves-
cent scales; elytra with four longitudinal bands of scales of the same
hue situated in the intervals and the two lateral ones coalescing
a little past the median part; edge of propygidium clothed with
yellow, round scales; pygidium with a velvety black coating, and a
fine line of yellow scales at the apex, abdomen densely scaly; clypeus
with the angles dentate and with two very little distinct median
teeth; head and prothorax clothed with a dense flavous, or quite
yellow villose pubescence; on the prothorax the median basal groove
is very distinct; scutellum sub-ogival; elytra plainly attenuate
laterally towards the apex, distinctly costate, and with the first two
scaly intervals broader than the other two, the scales are nearly
round, and set close to one another; hind legs greenish black; tro-
chanters produced into a very long, horizontal spine, hind femora very
swollen, dentate only on each side of the knee, with the inner tooth
longer and more conspicuous than the outer; hind tibize also with a
tooth on each side of the base, not deeply grooved longitudinally,
slightly serrulate on each side of the shallow groove and with a long
curved, compressed inner mucro, no apical spur, inner hind claw
only half the size of the outer, and cleft.

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Female: Clypeus as in the male, but a little more sharply dentate ;
prothorax equally villose; scutellum clothed with yellow scales ;
elytra also with four longitudinal bands of scales which are, however,
lanceolate and hair-like; pygidium clothed with small yellow round
scales, propygidium and abdomen with squamose flavescent, ap-
pressed hairs.

Length 63-74 mm.; width 4-41 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port St. John), Natal (Durban).

HETEROCHELUS SEX-LINEATUS, Thunb.,
Plate XLII., fig. 44.

Mém. Acad. St. Pétersb., 1818, vi., p. 443.

Male: This species is so closely allied to H. vulpinus, that it is
sometimes difficult to differentiate the two. The shape, vestiture,
and disposition of the scales are similar, the colour of the elytra and
legs is often metallic black, the scales are often whitish, but the
distinctive character consists in the presence of a distinct spinose
tooth in the inner part of the knee, and of two distinct ones, facing
each other at the basal part of the tibie, at the beginning of the
grooved part.

Female similar to that of H. vulpimus.

Length 7-8 mm; width 34-43 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Riversdale, Caledon, George,
Knysna, Port Elizabeth).

HETEROCHELUS NATALENSIS, n. spec.,
Plate XLIT., fig. 37.

Male: Black, with a faint metallic tinge on the prothorax; elytra
chestnut-brown, and having on each side four bands of flavescent,
round scales; scutellum scaly; pygidium covered with a black, sub-
velvety coating; clypeus with the angles dentate, but having almost
no trace of median teeth; the head and prothorax are covered with
villose flavescent hairs, and the latter has a narrow band of not very
dense appressed squamose hairs; scutellum densely scaly; elytra
distinctly costate, and with the intervals filled with dense, round
scales ; hind femora thick, and having beneath, at about the median
part, a sub-vertical tooth, which is not connected with the trochanters,
and a sub-transverse one close to the knee, the articulation of. which
is not dentate; the hind tibiz are broadly laminate inwardly from a

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very short distance from the curved base, the upper part of the
laminate process is strongly and broadly bifid, and there is a very
long transverse mucro, no apical spur; joints of hind tarsi elongate,
very little compressed ; inner claw not half the length of the outer,
both slightly cleft.

Female unknown.

Length 6-64 mm.; width 34-32 mm.

Hab. Natal (Kstcourt, Durban).

HETEROCHELUS MULTIDENTATUS, Burm.,
Plate XLII., fig. 31.

Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 94.

Male: Greenish metallic black, palpi, antenne, except the club,
and the fore tarsi reddish; elytra with three bands of whitish or
slightly flavescent scales on each side; head and prothorax closely
scabroso-punctate and clothed with greyish and black erect villose
hairs, along the base of the prothorax are a few whitish grey, remote,
squamose appressed hairs; the clypeus is not emarginate in the
middle at the tip; scutellum clothed with greyish scales; elytra bi-
costate on each side, with the three spaces intervening between
the suture and the two costz filled with a band of dense, ovate
whitish scales, the juxta-sutural band is the longest and goes.
round the apical margin in some examples, the discoidal one is
obliterated past the middle and the outer one is oblique and hardly
reaches the apex of the discoidal one, or is entirely absent, the surface
is roughly punctured, and the sides are clothed with a short but
dense greyish pubescence; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen
covered with contiguous yellowish scales which are occasionally
deep orange at the base, and being slightly less dense there form
with the background two darker patches separated by a fine line of
scales similar in colour to those of the lower part; hind femora very
robust and having in the inner part of the knee a somewhat short
spine; the spine of the trochanters is moderately long and sharp,
the hind tibize are curved, not concave inwardly, but the lower
edge is strongly serrate, and ends in a long mucro curved sub-
obliquely, the upper apical part is sharply angular; inner claw of
hind legs half the length of the outer.

Female unknown.

Length 64-74 mm.; width 34-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

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HETEROCHELUS ARMIPES, Bohem.,
Plate XLILI., fig. 30.
Insect. Caffrar., i1., p. 154.

Male: Head and pectus black, prothorax geneous black, or reddish
with a faint metallic tinge; elytra reddish testaceous, and having
three distinct dorsal bands of yellowish or sub-flavescent scales, and
an indistinct one along the outer margin; legs reddish; pygidium
scaly and with a brown, velvety patch on each side of the base;
clypeus sharply bi-dentate on each side at tip, and with two some-
what indistinct teeth in the middle; head granulose, pubescent ;
prothorax clothed with dense sub-villose flavescent erect hairs which
are somewhat appressed along the basal margin; scutellum clothed
with closely set elongate scales; elytra distinctly attenuate laterally
towards the apex, costate, with the intervals filled on each side with
a band of elongated flavescent scales turning sometimes to grey, the
juxta-sutural band is broader than the other two, and the rounded
coste are briefly but densely setulose, the scales on the pygidium
are deep yellow and very minute, and the two basal velvety patches
are longitudinal and reach to half the length, the propygidium has a
broad border of scales similar to those of the pygidium; the hind
femora are large and have inwardly at the base a sharp median
spine, this being really the apex of the trochanter which is quite fused
with the femur, and an inner, strong, sub-hamate one set near the
knee which is only slightly dentate on each side; the hind tibie are
somewhat long, moderately scooped inwardly, and have a transverse
graduated process on the upper edge, near the knee, and on the lower
edge a strong triangular tooth situated a little lower down, the
mucronate apical process is arcuate and sharp, the lower edge
between the triangular tooth and the apical mucro is pluri-serrate,
the upper edge is also denticulate in the posterior part and ends in a
truncate projecting process, there is no apical spur, and the incised
inner claw of the hind legs is half the length of the outer which is
simple. In the small examples the truncate transverse process on
the upper margin of the hind tibize is not strongly developed.

Female: The female has the head, thorax, and under side black ;
the teeth of the clypeus are similar; the elytra have also the scaly
bands, and the pygidium has only a very faint trace of the two black
patches, but is as scaly as in the male.

Length 6-8 mm.; width 34-44 mm. ‘

Hab. Natal (Durban, Estcourt); Transvaal (Johannesburg).

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from Natal, the two black patches on the pygidium have spread over
half the surface.

HETEROCHELUS MIMUS, N. spec.

Male: Very closely allied to H. consanguineus ; the colour is the
same but a little more metallic, and the scales are paler; the elytra
are distinctly costate; the hind femora are similar, and the hind
tibize also, but the pygidium which in D. consangwineus is entirely
covered with scales has in the present species two brown basal
patches.

Female unknown.

Length 54-7 mm.; width 3-4 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Frere).

HETEROCHELUS CONCINNUS, N. spec.

Male: Head only black, the body light testaceous red, the hind
legs with a metallic tinge; it is closely allied to the preceding species,
and is likewise clothed with yellow scales which are, however, a little
paler ; the vestiture of the head and prothorax is similar; the elytra
are also costate with the costs very briefly setulose, but the pygidium
has two very distinct basal brown patches which are entirely absent
in H. mumus; the hind femora are similar, but in the hind tibize
there is below the knee a distinctly truncate tooth in the upper
margin of the shallow groove, and none in the lower.

Female unknown.

Length 64 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

HETEROCHELUS SULPHUREUS, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffrar., u., p. 103.

Male: Very dark brown or fuscous and with a metallic tinge very
noticeable on the hind legs ; head and prothorax clothed with a very
short, but dense yellowish-green pubescence ; elytra entirely covered
with yellowish-green scales ; pygidium scaly and having two basal,
brownish, velvety patches; clypeus very feebly dentate in the middle;
the hairs covering the head and prothorax are very short and partly
sub-appressed, but along the base of the prothorax there is a band of
small scales ; scutellum densely scaly ; elytra distinctly costate ; the
whole surface is covered with small, round scales, but along the
suture and on the costé there is a double row of very short bristles;
the propygidium and sides of the abdomen are clothed with greenish

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yellow scales similar to those on the elytra; the pygidium is also
scaly, but in the base of the latter there are two distinct dark brownish
patches which nearly coalesce and reach to the median part ; trochan-
ters of hind legs very long and sharp, femora swollen and having a
_ well-developed inner tooth at the knee, but none outwardly ; the
hind tibiz are grooved beneath in the anterior part, and have a
greatly developed triangular, sub-median inner tooth; the apical
part is strongly mucronate sub-horizontally, and the inner margin
between the tooth and the mucro is not serrate ; inner claw of the
nind legs only half the length of the outer.

Female: Much smaller than the male; elytra chestnut-brown,
and having on each side four bands of yellowish lanceolate hairs ;
pygidium covered with yellowish scales, and having two basal,
dark brown spots.

Length 64-8 mm.; width 4-53 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban), Cape Colony (Pondoland).

HETEROCHELUS CONSANGUINEUS, Nn. Spec.

Male: Reddish brown with the clypeus black; closely allied to
the preceding species, but the hairs and the scales are orange-yellow
without any greenish tinge; the elytra are distinctly costate, the
costz are bristly and have no scales, while the intervals are thickly
covered with them; the pygidium is entirely clothed with yellow
scales, and has no dark brown patch; the trochanters and hind
femora are alike, and the hind tibiz are nearly similar, but the upper
edge of the groove beneath is more strongly dentate at the base, and
the inner median tooth is often bifid; inner claw of hind legs half
the length of the outer which is simple. The hind legs very much
resemble those of H. placatus.

In very fresh examples the coste on the elytra are as much
covered with scales as the intervals.

Female unknown.

Length 53-63 mm.; width 34-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

HETEROCHELUS FURONINUS, Burm.,
iandbyds Hmtonol:iw., 1p. 98.

Male: Closely allied to H. gonager, but the colour of the back-
ground is redder brown, the head only being black ; the squamose,
lanciform hairs are not set very close to each other on the prothorax ;
the elytra are feebly costate, the coste being set with short lanciform,
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are filled with round scales a little lighter in the intervals; the pygi-
dium is clothed with yellow-ochre scales ; the hind femora are very
thick, the trochanter is spinose and the inner tooth of the knee is
conspicuous, the hind tibie are curved and crenulate beneath on
each side, but have a strong ante-apical tooth; the inner claw of the
hind legs is nearly as long as the outer, and is very deeply incised.

Female: The female is like the male in colour and shape; the
median teeth of the clypeus are likewise almost obliterated; the
shape of the claws is similar, but it is clothed with hairs instead of
scales except on the posterior part of the elytra.

Hab. Cape Colony (? Graham’s Town).

Length 54 mm.; width 3 mm.

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HETEROCHELUS CONSORS, Nn. Spec.

Male: Greenish black, shining ; elytra with two interrupted bands
of sub-flavescent scales on each side ; size, shape, and vestiture of H.
nultidentatus, but the elytra are more rugose, while the two dorsal
impressed intervals are deeper, and the pubescence more fulvous and
longer ; the pygidium is denuded, shining and impunctate; the clypeus
has a median emargination between the two median teeth, and is not
at all attenuate laterally ; the juxta-sutural band on the elytra begins
only in the median part, and also rounds the apex, the dorsal one
reaches from the base to about the median part, and the supra-
marginal one is obliterated; the hind femora are very robust and
have a conspicuously long inner tooth close to the knee, the hind
tibiz are slightly dentate inwardly close to the knee on the upper
margin, while the lower margin is conspicuously dentate at the
base, the tibia itself is flattened inwardly, scarcely concave at the
apex the two angles of which are produced into two long, but not
very robust hooked mucros of equal size.

Female unknown.

Length 64 mm.; width 3+ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam).

HETEROCHELUS CONTRACTUS, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffrar., 11., p. 156.
H. pruinosus, Boh., loc. cit., p. 157.
Male: Head black, prothorax and elytra fuscous or dark chestnut-
brown, legs and under side reddish; prothorax and elytra clothed

with contiguous, round, yellowish-green scales, the latter non-costate,
and having on each side a diagonal band of whiter scales reaching

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from the base to the median part of the disk, and another along the
posterior part of the suture ; pygidium with two basal brown patches ;
clypeus with the two median teeth nearly obliterated, the head is
pubescent, and the prothorax has, besides the coating of green scales,
a flavescent pubescence more distinct in the anterior part; the
‘scutellum is clothed with slightly lanceolate scales which are of
the same colour, that is to say, paler than those forming the two
bands of the elytra; hind trochanters sharply spinose, hind thighs
swollen and having a sharp tooth in the inner part of the knee, hind
tibize deeply grooved beneath at the base and with the edges of the
groove slightly dentate there, the inner edge being strongly serrate ;
they are strongly mucronate at tip, and are without an apical spur ;
inner claw of hind legs half the size of the outer, which is simple.

Female: The vestiture is like that of the male, but instead of
having two brown patches on the pygidium, the scales on each side
of the base are somewhat orange.

Length 44-6 mm.; width 24-34 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Estcourt).

This species might be taken for a small example of H. sulphureus,
but the elytra are not costate, the hind tibiz in the male have not
the conspicuous median inner tooth, and the elytra of the female are
uniformly covered with scales instead of having bands of squamiform
hairs.

HETEROCHELUS ICTERICUS, n. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra and legs rufescent; the latter are
clothed with greenish-yellow scales ; clypeus with the two median
teeth small but distinct ; head and prothorax clothed with flavous or
yellow hairs; the latter has along the base a narrow band of elongate
yellow scales, which fill also the posterior part of the median groove;
scutellum densely scaly; elytra entirely clothed with contiguous
round yellow scales, and having on each side two very feebly raised
coste having each a series of remote, somewhat squamulose, very
short, whitish bristles; propygidium, pygidium and sides of abdomen
clothed with closely set, round, yellow scales; hind femora with the
trochanters long and spinose, and having the inner tooth of the knee
well developed; hind tibiz bent, scooped beneath at the base and
having a small tooth near the knee on each side of the excavation,
and close to it a strong, triangular tooth on the upper edge of the
groove, while the lower edge is very strongly serrate as far as the
strongly incurved apical mucro; no apical spur; inner claw of hind
tarsi half the length of the outer, which is simple.

Female unknown.

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Length 6 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay).

This species is especially distinguished from H. furoninus by the
absence of an inner tooth at the apex of the hind tibia.

HETEROCHELUS PLACATUS, nN. spec.,
Plate XLII. fig. 43.

Male: Very closely allied to H. ictericus ; the shape, sculpture,
and disposition of the scales and hairs are similar, but the scales are
more yellow or even deep ochre, and the elytra are very slightly bi-
costate, but the shape of the hind tibie is different; the trochanters
of the hind femora are long and sharp, and the tooth in the inner part
of the knee is strong, but the hind tibiz are only moderately deeply
grooved at the base underneata, and feebly dentate near the knee,
there is a stronger sub-basal tooth on the upper margin, and a
strongly developed triangular one on the lower margin, at about the
middle of the length, and the tibia is very lttle scooped from there to
the apex; the lower margin is moderately serrate, and the apical
mucro is strong and curved; no apical spur; inner claw half the
length of the outer which is simple.

Female: Black, with the elytra testaceous, clothed with appressed,
not dense, flavescent hairs, and having a few round, yellow scales on
the posterior edge of the elytra; pygidium clothed with yellow
scales.

Length 54-6 mm. ; width 23-32 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

HETEROCHELUS FEMORALIS, nN. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra and legs brownish red ; elytra clothed
with small, round yellow scales, scutellum and pygidium scaly ;
clypeus very indistinctly bi-dentate in the centre, but with the angles
sharp; head and prothorax scabroso-punctate, clothed with partly
appressed, partly erect flavous hairs, and having a more or less
distinct basal band of elongate scales, which also fill partly the
posterior part of the longitudinal median groove; scutellum clothed
with lanceolate scales; elytra non-costate, having only a_ basal
depression in the inner part of the humeral callus, and clothed with
round scales ; propygidium and pygidium covered with very minute
contiguous scales ; hind femora strongly amplate and having beneath
a long, somewhat thick, horizontal spine beginning at about the
median part of the thigh, the spine being the prolongation of the
trochanter which is fused with the thigh, at a short distance from

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this spine there is a short tooth, and also another a little below the
knee which is not dentate on either side; the hind tibiz are very
much curved, have a sharp inner tooth below the knee, are strongly
mucronate at apex, and have a distinct apical spur; the inner hind
claw is half the size of the outer and both are cleft.
_ This species is easily recognised by the great development of the
hind femora, the horizontal spine of which reaches underneath as tar
as the knee; in the small development the trochanters are not as
much fused with the thigh as in the large examples.

Female unknown.

Length 5-64 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

HETEROCHELUS GONAGER, Fabric.,
Spec. Insect., 1., p. 45.
Oliv:, Entom., 1., p. 74, pl. vi., fig. 68.

Male: Head, prothorax and pectus fuscous; antenna, legs, and
elytra rufescent, the latter 1s covered with contiguous yellow scales
but the whole of the pygidium has a black, velvety coating ; clypeus
with the two median teeth very little distinct ; prothorax covered
with a very short, dense pubescence, partly appressed, and some
slightly elongate yellow scales; scutellum scaly; elytra slightly bi-
costate on each side, the two cost unite at the apex in a distinct
callus, and are very briefly setigerous, the whole surface is covered
with small, contiguous scales ; edge of the propygidium and sides of
abdomen covered with yellow scales a little paler than those on the
upper surface; trochanters of hind legs very long and sharp, hind
thighs with a well-developed tooth close to the inner part of the
knee which is not dentate outwardly, hind tibiz moderately curved,
grooved beneath, with avery small tooth on each side of the basal
part of the groove and with both edges distinctly serrate, mucro
curved, sharp but short, no apical spur; inner claw of hind legs not
half the length of the outer, and not cleft.

Female unknown with certainty.

Length 54-6 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

HETEROCHELUS CITRINUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 98.

Male: Very closely allied to the preceding species, but the colour
is dark brown, and the scales have a more greenish tinge; the

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pygidium is black from the base to the median part and covered with
scales from there to the apex; the hind femora are similar, but the
hind tibize are thicker at the base, and the mucro is more developed ;
the inner claw of the hind legs is about half the length of the other
and is distinctly cleft.

Length 54 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

HETEROCHELUS PARILIS, nN. spec.

Male: Black, with the anterior legs, and also the antenne, with
the exception of the club, reddish; scutellum densely scaly; elytra
with three dorsal bands of greyish scales reaching to the apex
and a somewhat indistinct marginal one on each side; pygidium
nude, shining; clypeus not visibly dentate in the middle, but
with the angles sharp and acute; head granulose, clothed with
a greyish pubescence; prothorax slightly scabroso-punctate and
having the median posterior groove very distinct, clothed with
long, not very dense, greyish-black erect hairs interspersed with a
few greyish scales which form a distinct basal band; scutellum
somewhat sharp at tip; elytra not much ampliated laterally in the
anterior part and narrowed towards the apex, costate and with the
three intervals filled with small, round, greyish scales, which form
also a band along the apex; propygidium with a broad border of
similar scales, which are also to be found on the sides of the
abdomen ; hind femora strong but not very swollen; the trochanters
are developed into a very short, triangular tooth, and at the apex of
the femora the inner tooth of the knee is much more greatly
developed than the outer, and is set more inwardly; the hind tibize
are somewhat swollen but the edges are compressed, grooved
beneath in the anterior part, they have a small basal tooth, and
the angle of the inner wall of the groove is distinctly dentate close
to the basal minor tooth, the apical mucro is long and sharp, and
there is no apical spur; the hind claws are long, single and
simple.

Female: Black, with the elytra pale testaceous, and the legs
rufescent ; the prothorax is hairy, not scaly; the scutellum is scaly,
but not the elytra, and the pygidium and sides of the abdomen are
clothed with small flavescent scales.

Length 5-6 mm.; width 3-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester),
? Natal (Durban).

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HETEROCHELUS LONGIPES, Burm.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 35.
Eandb. ce Eimtom., iv. 1;)p. 10:

H, testacetpennis ° , Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 65.
H. gonager, Guér., Icon. Régn. Anim. Insectes, pl. xxiv., fig. 3.

- Male: Black, with the legs red and the hind tarsi sometimes
piceous red; clypeus quadri-dentate but with the median tooth
shorter than the outer ones, and not very sharp; head covered
with a very short, erect flavescent pubescence ; prothorax distinctly
grooved longitudinally in the posterior part and entirely covered
with dense, although not quite contiguous, round flavescent scales
and having a few squamose hairs on the anterior part; scutellum
densely scaly; elytra elongate, distinctly attenuate laterally from
near the humeral part to the apex, clothed with nearly contiguous
round scales, and although not distinctly costulate, having on each
side three faint series of remote greyish squamiform setzx, as well as
one along the suture ; propygidium and sides of abdomen clothed with
small, yellow scales, pygidium not distinctly convex, and clothed with
similar scales from the base to past the median part, thence denuded
and shining; hind trochanters very slightly spinose, hind femora
large and having the inner tooth of the knee sharper and more
developed than the outer; hind tibia half the length of the thigh,
not much arcuate, broad, compressed, grooved underneath and
emarginate near the base, straight from there and having the basal
part of the groove dentate on each side, and the apical mucro
moderately long, nearly transverse, and very sharp ; no apical spur,
hind claw simple, single; intermediate tibiz dilated and strongly
compressed. |

Female: Black, with the elytra ight testaceous, and covered with
appressed squamose flavescent hairs turning to scales along the
extreme edge of the posterior part; scutellum, pygidium, pro-
pygidium and sides of abdomen clothed with yellow hairs.

Length 54-6 mm.; width 24-3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester,
Malmesbury, Port Elizabeth, Graham’s Town).

HETEROCHELUS MURINUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 102.
H. castanewpenms ¢ , Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 66.
Male: This species is closely allied to H. longipes ; it is also black
and the legs red; the shape of the elytra and hind legs is similar,
but instead of being flavescent or yellow, the scales covering the

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prothorax, scutellum, elytra, propygidium, and sides of abdomen are
greyish white or slightly flavescent; the scales on the elytra are
very small, very elongate, somewhat in the shape of a squamose hair,
and the whole pygidium, which is very strongly convex in the centre,
is glabrous and shining black.

The female is like that of H. longipes, but the elytra are dark
chestnut-brown.

Length 5-6 mm.; width 24-3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmes-
bury).

HETEROCHELUS ADSPERSUS, N. spec.

Male: This species is very closely allied to H. murmus; the
shape, size, and sculpture are similar, but the scales with which the
elytra are very abundantly sprinkled are rounder and broader, the
hind legs are black, and the pygidium is much less convex in
the male than in H. murinus, where it is conspicuously so. The
females of the two species cannot be distinguished from each other.

Length 6 mm.; width 34-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam).

HETEROCHELUS VULPECULA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 102.

Male: Black, with the elytra and legs reddish; clypeus very
shghtly bi-dentate in the median part; head and prothorax covered
with a short flavescent pubescence and small yellow scales; scu-
tellum and elytra also covered with contiguous yellow scales; the
elytra are not very elongate; the propygidium, the whole of the
pygidium and the sides of the abdomen are covered with yellow
scales ; the pygidium is very convex at the base; the hind femora
are very swollen, like those of H. longipes and H. murinus, but the
trochanters are produced into a very long spine; the hind tibiz are
not deeply grooved underneath, and the inner edge of the groove has a
sharp, median tooth, equi-distant from the apical curved mucro, and
from the base; the outer margin of the groove is not well defined,
and is not toothed ; hind claw single, simple.

Length 5 mm.; width 23 mm.

Female not known with certainty.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

HETEROCHELUS VENUSTUS, Nn. Spec.

Male: Black, but entirely covered on the upper side, pygidia!
area, abdomen, and sides of the metasternum with minute bright

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yellow scales forming a nearly non-interrupted coating, legs reddish ;
head scabrose, hairy, clypeus very sharply quadri-dentate, median
teeth as long as the outer and all distinctly reflexed; prothorax
fringed along the anterior and lateral margins with long, flavescent
bristles, and distinctly grooved longitudinally in the centre; elytra
not distinctly costulate, attenuate laterally towards the apex; hind
femora with a short trochanterine spine and more distinctly dentate
inwardly at the knee than outwardly, hind tibize a little curved, deeply
scooped underneath from base to apex, and having a short tooth near
the knee at the base of the inner margin, both margins are serrate,
and the mucro is a little slanting, but not very developed, no apical
spur, hind claw single, simple.

Female unknown.

Length 54-53 mm.; width 3 mm.

This species is easily recognised by its bright yellow coating and
the four sharp teeth of the clypeus.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town, Port Elizabeth).

HETEROCHELUS PACHYGLUTUS, Wiedem.,
Plate XLIL, fig. 47.
ZOO WAS. ie De Od:
M. hybridus, Burm.., loc. cit., p. 24.

Male: Black, with the prothorax and elytra clothed with yellow
scales turning sometimes to orange on the elytra, but having there
a sutural and a marginal band of paler scales; the pygidium is
denuded at the apex only, and the rest of the surface is clothed with
yellow scales, but it has a lateral orange patch on each side, and
there is a transverse one of the same colour on the propygidium ;
the legs are reddish brown; the clypeus is feebly bi-dentate in the
middle; the prothorax is nearly as densely scaly as the elytra, and
the scales are nearly round; those on the scutellum are a little paler
than on the elytra, but are of the same hue as those which are set
along the suture; the hind femora are very thick and the trochanters
are very long and project at about the median part of the thigh into a
sharp horizontal spine distinctly bent inwardly at tip, the teeth on
each side of the knee are distinct, but not much developed; the hind
tibize are very swollen in the anterior part where the inner angle is
developed into a tooth, scooped inwardly in the apical part where
both the inner and outer angles are distinctly mucronate ; no apical
spur; hind claws single, simple.

Female: Black with the elytra chestnut-brown ; prothorax hairy ;
elytra sparsely covered with appressed squamose greyish hairs, but

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having a few scales along the posterior margin; scales on the pro-
pygidium, pygidium, and abdomen as in the male.

Length 4-44 mm.; width 21 mm.

AZ. hybridus, Burm., which I have received from Graham’s Town,
is the same species as H. pachyglutus, but the trochanters of the
hind legs are not quite so elongate, and the inner angular tooth of
the base of the hind tibiz is not very distinct.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmes-
bury, Clanwilliam, Graham’s Town).

HETEROCHELUS AURANTIACUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol.,; iv., 1, p. 104.

Male: Black, covered with light golden-yellow scales, legs red;
clypeus with four teeth, the two median ones of which are very small;
head briefly pubescent ; prothorax clothed with yellow scales slightly
more elongate than those on the scutellum and elytra, which are
rounder and a little denser; the elytra are non-costate; the pro-
pygidium, pygidium, and sides of the abdomen are densely scaly,
the scales being of the same colour as those on the elytra; the
trochanters of the hind legs are almost non-spinose, the hind femora
are swollen, and the teeth on each side of the knee are of equal size ;
the hind tibiz are obliquely emarginate inwardly for some distance
from the base, compressed, not grooved beneath, and have a nearly
median short but sharp tooth in the inner face; there is no apical
mucro or apical spur and the hind claws are single and simple.

Female: Elytra chestnut-red, partially squamose along the suture
of the elytra.

Length 4 mm.; width 2+ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

HETEROCHELUS ARMATUS, Burm.,
Plate XLII, fig. 45.
Handbs de iimtomol ive pal O re

Male: Black, with the elytra and legs reddish; the head and
prothorax are briefly but moderately densely pubescent, and have
very few flavescent scales which can, however, be traced along the
base ; scutellum, elytra, propygidium, pygidium, and sides of the
abdomen clothed with ochraceous-yellow, contiguous scales ; clypeus
quadri-dentate, but the two median teeth very small; elytra without
cost; hind femora thick, long and having at some distance from
the knee a conspicuous spine curving somewhat downwards, the

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outer tooth of the knee is strongly developed, and the trochanters
are not spinose; the hind tibiz are curved, dilated towards the apex,
concave inwardly with the inner apical part obliquely truncate
towards the mucro which is long, curved, and strongly bifid; no
apical spur; hind claws single, simple.
- Female: Elytra darker; sparsely clothed on the upper side with
greyish hairs, which are more squamose on the elytra than on the
prothorax; scales on pygidium and abdomen similar to those of the
male.

Length 4-44 mm.; width 2-24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town, Port Hlizabeth).

H&ETEROCHELUS BIMACULATUS, Burm.,
Handb. b. Entomol.,iv., 1, p. 103.

Male: Black, with the elytra clothed with yellow scales but
having on each side of the posterior part an oblique, elongate, sub-
parallel black or dark brown patch; legs reddish brown; clypeus
indistinctly bi-dentate in the median part; prothorax covered with
lanciform yellow scales moderately dense but looking more like
strongly squamiform hairs; scutellum densely scaly; the scales on
the elytra, which are not costate, are small and very dense, and the
postical brown patch reaches from the apical callosity to about one-
fifth of the whole length ; the propygidium and sides of the abdomen
have yellow scales, but the pygidium is piceous red, and not scaly ;
the hind legs are robust, the trochanters are very briefly spinose,
and the knees are briefly and equally dentate on each side; the
hind tibiz are broadly and somewhat deeply excavated underneath
for nearly all the length, but the angle of the inner margin is more
strongly dentate than the outer, and the mucro is much curved and
long; hind claws simple, single.

Female: According to Burmeister, the female, which I have not
been able to obtain, is sub-squamose, and the pygidium is clothed
with squamiform scales.

Length 5 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown).

H&ETEROCHELUS OREOPYGUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 107.

Male: This species is closely allied to H. armatus ; but it is a little
smaller ; the two median teeth of the clypeus are stronger and equal
in height to the lateral ones ; the vestiture and the disposition of the
yellow scales are similar, but the pygidium is nude and shining,

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strongly gibbose at the base and nearly horizontal; the trochanters
are not spinose, the hind thighs are swollen and have a short but
sharp spine underneath at a short distance from the knee, the two
teeth of which are equal and not very distinct; the hind tibiz are
scooped underneath, although not deeply, for half the length,
carinate from the median part to the apex, but the inner face is a
little concave, and the upper inner edge has above the mucro, which
is not greatly developed, a small tooth not projecting further than
the mucro itself; no apical spur; hind claws simple, single.

Length 4 mm.; width 1$ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town, Somerset East).

HEFEROCHELUS PYGIDIALIS, nN. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra light chocolate-brown, and sprinkled on
the upper side with small, elongate whitish grey scales which are not
contiguous but equi-distant and do not hide the colour of the integu-
ments, while underneath the whole of the abdomen and the pectus
are covered with contiguous longer scales, the edge of the propygidium
has a very narrow band of similar scales, but the pygidium is quite
smooth and impunctate, and projects horizontally in the shape of an
ovate protuberance as long as the whole of the abdomen ; the head
and prothorax are scabroso-punctate, especially the former, the
clypeus of which is slightly emarginate at the tip while the two
median teeth are almost obliterated, in the median part of the
prothorax the basal furrow is very distinct, and the anterior and
lateral margins have a fringe of greyish not dense sete; scutellum ~
somewhat long and as scaly as the elytra; the latter are not costate,
but they have two slight longitudinal impressions ; the hind femora
are moderately robust, simple, without any spine to the trochanters ;
the hind tibie are equally convex inwardly and outwardly in the
basal part, but more compressed inwardly towards the apex,
sub-carinate underneath and very slightly dentate inwardly at the
top of the carina, near the knee, the inner apical part is sharply
angular but not mucronate, and there is no apical spur; hind claws
simple, single.

Female unknown.

This species is evidently allied to H. oreopygus ; in which the
pygidium affects also an ovoid shape, which is, however, restricted
to the basal part only, whereas in H. pygidialis this development is
quite symmetrical, and while in the first-named species the pro-
pygidium is very broad, it is greatly reduced in width in H. pygidialis.

Length 54-54 mm. ; width 24-22 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

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HETEROCHELUS HOSPES, Nn. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra covered with ochre-yellow or orange
scales ; prothorax non-scaly, pygidium and sides of abdomen clothed
with orange-yellow scales; the body has a massive look on account
of the very ampliated metasternum and abdomen; clypeus distinctly
quadri-dentate, the four teeth being of equal height; prothorax
clothed with sparse, decumbent, very short greyish hairs; scutellum
densely scaly ; elytra non-costate, but with the impression on each
side of the humeral callus somewhat distinct, diagonally attenuate
from near the shoulder to the apex, the scales are round and
contiguous; hind femora thickened, trochanters produced into
a long, falciform spine, curved inwardly but reaching as far as,
or further than the knee, the inner tooth of which is_ slightly
prominent; hind tibiz nearly straight, a little attenuate inwardly
at base, moderately thick for half the length, somewhat compressed
inwardly from the median part to the apex which is not mucronate
inwardly, and has a very distinct apical spur; hind claws simple,
single.

Female: Like the male but with the elytra redder-brown and
clothed with squamose hairs.

Length 4mm. ; width 23 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Tulbagh).

HETEROCHELUS SUB-VITTATUS, Burm.,
Handb.d) Hitoniol viv. 1, p99:

Black, with the prothorax clothed with squamose hairs turning to
yellow scales in the posterior part, and in the basal, longitudinal
groove ; elytra covered with closely set round yellow scales which
are paler along the suture and between the first and second slightly
raised coste ; pygidium covered with yellow scales, but having two
longitudinal orange bands; legs reddish; head sharply quadri-
dentate, the teeth of equal height, but the two median ones set some-
what closer to one another than to the lateral ones ; elytra not highly
costate, but the costze are nevertheless distinct; the scales on the
propygidium are of the same orange colour as the two lateral bands
on the pygidium; spine of the trochanters of the hind femora
indistinct or projecting very slightly only, femora simple and very
little dentate on each side of the knee; hind tibiz simple, com-
pressed inwardly towards the apical part which is only slightly
mucronate inwardly and has a very distinct apical spur adjoining
the mucro.

Female: Clypeus also sharply quadri-dentate ; elytra with three

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not very well-defined bands of hairs and paler elongate scales on
each side; scales of pygidium as in the male.

Length 44-5 mm.; width 23-3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage).

HETEROCHELUS EGENS, nN. spec.

Male: Black, covered with greyish scales having sometimes a
slight flavescent tinge on the whole surface as well as on the
pygidium and the sides of the abdomen; legs rufescent; clypeus
sharply quadri-dentate, all the teeth equal, but not long; head and
prothorax densely squamose, the scales being similar to those of the
elytra, but not so closely set ; scutellum scaly ; elytra having between
the suture and a distinct dorsal costa a depressed interval reaching
from the base to the apex, but on the other side of the costa, the
interval is only distinct from the base to the median part; hind
femora moderately swollen and simple, trochanters non-spinose ;
hind tibize not curved, concave inwardly towards the apex which is,
slightly mucronate and has an apical spur; hind claws single,
sunple.

Female unknown.

Length 4-44 mm. ; width 2+ mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

HETEROCHELUS AMGNULUS, n. spec.

Male: Very closely allied to H. egens ; it is black with the legs
rufescent, and the prothorax and elytra are covered with slightly
elongate flavescent scales so closely set that the colour of the
background is not visible ; the whole pygidial part, the sides of the
abdomen and also the hind femora are clothed with closely set scales
which are light lemon-colour like those on the elytra; the elytra,
however, have only a slight costa on each side, and the interval
between the costa and the suture is shallow in comparison with that
of H. egens, from which species it would be difficult to separate it
but for this character; the shape of the clypeus and that of the hind
legs are similar.

Female unknown.

Length 4-44 mm. ; width 24-25 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska).

HETEROCHELUS INOPS, 0. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra, the pygidium, and sides of abdomen
clothed with pale, sub-flavescent scales; legs red; clypeus quadri-

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dentate but with the two median teeth very small ; prothorax clothed
with a few appressed squamulose hairs and a few scales in the
posterior part; scutellum covered with scales which are similar to
those covering the elytra; hind femora moderately swollen and
without spinose trochanters, angles of the knee distinctly rounded,
hind tibiz very little curved, flattened inwardly for a_ short
distance from the base, slightly mucronate at apex, and having
close to the mucro a very distinct apical spur; hind claws simple,
single.

Female: Black, with the elytra dark chestnut-brown or testaceous
red, and clothed with appressed, not dense hairs, and having at the
apex a narrow band of flavescent scales ; pygidium densely scaly.

Length 3-4 mm. ; width 2-25 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

HETEROCHELUS COCCINEUS, Burm.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 42.
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 106.

Black, with the scutellum, the elytra, the pygidium and the sides
of the abdomen clothed with orange scales ; clypeus sharply quadri-
dentate, the four teeth equal; head and prothorax clothed with a
not dense but somewhat long, greyish pubescence, but in the
deep basal longitudinal groove of the prothorax there are a few
orange scales; elytra non-costate; hind femora thick and with the
trochanters non-spinose, deeply and broadly excavated underneath at
apex, the knee being very strongly dentate on each side; hind femora
very short, strongly dilated, very deeply and broadly excavated
underneath, and the upper margin produced into a broad, somewhat
triangular sharp tooth in the inner part near the knee, but the
outer margin is straight, there is no mucro, and the apical spur is
very distinct; hind claws double, the inner one is cleft and nearly
three-quarters of the length of the outer which is simple.

Female: Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, and covered with
sub-appressed, flavescent hairs, but having only a few yellowish
scales along the apical edge as well as on the scutellum ; clypeus not
strongly bi-dentate in the median part.

Length 4-6 mm.; width 24-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

HETEROCHELUS EGENUS, Nl. Spec.

Male: Reddish brown, with the head dark fuscous, completely
clothed with elongate, somewhat hair-like flavescent scales which

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are aS numerous on the prothorax as on the elytra or the pygidial
part; the clypeus is quite straight, and on the clypeus and the
frontal part there are three transverse rows of stiff, short bristles ; the
prothorax has no median impression, and the elytra are normally
attenuate laterally and not costate ; the pygidium is strongly directed
forward and covered with concolorous hair-like scales, the hind
femora are robust and simple, the hind tibie are also simple,
somewhat gradually dilated towards the apex, compressed inwardly
and not mucronate, the apical spur is distinct and the single hind
claw is simple.

Female: Like the male, but the prothorax is more pubescent, and
the scales on the elytra and pygidial part are more like sub-squamose
hairs and are not so dense.

Length 43 mm.; width 32 mm.

Hab. Natal (Estcourt, Durban).

This species can easily be recognised by the straight apical part of
the clypeus as well as by the thick and very elongate scales covering
the body.

HETEROCHELUS VIRIDICOLLIS, Blanch.,
Catal. Collect. Entom., 1850, p. 63.

Male: Bronze-black, with the prothorax having a greenish tinge ;
elytra chestnut-red, scutellum, pygidial part and abdomen clothed
with slightly flavescent scales; clypeus slightly di-dentate in the
centre, head granulose; prothorax scabroso-punctate, clothed with a
short and not very dense flavescent pubescence, and without any trace
of scales, elytra narrowed laterally towards the apex, but not deeply
emarginate below the humeral part, bi-costulate on each side, very
rugosely punctulate, and clothed with «a very fine appressed
pubescence, hind femora with a short trochanterine spine and with
the inner tooth of the knee more developed than the outer, hind
tibize a little swollen inwardly at the base, and somewhat compressed
towards the apex, sharply dentate on each side underneath at the
base where it is grooved, serrate, or even toothed from there to
the apex where it is sharply mucronate ; intermediate and posterior
inner claws half the length of the quter, and cleft, the outer posterior
one is simple.

Female: Same colour as the male, but the elytra have on each
side three or four bands of slightly flavescent appressed hairs which
are denser on the rounded apical part.

Length 5-7 mm.; width 3-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Riversdale, Stellenbosch, Paarl).

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HETEROCHELUS PROMONTORII, 0. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra chestnut-red or dark bronze; the
scutellum, the propygidium, and the abdomen are clothed with dense
yellowish scales, but the pygidium is glabrous and shining, and the
elytra have a sutural band of similar scales beginning at about
the median part and continued on the apical, and a discoidal one
reaching from the base to the middle; head and prothorax scabrose,
very briefly pubescent and not scaly, clypeus dentate on each side
but not denticulate in the centre; elytra distinctly bi-costulate on
each side, second costa disappearing at about the median part, the
intervening space is filled with the scales, which are not very dense on
the discoidal one or along the outer margin ; hind femora very robust,
the trochanters are simple, but the inner tooth of the knee is
developed into a distinct spine, the short hind tibiw are curved,
ampliated, grooved underneath and strongly dentate on each side of
the base, but have the outer tooth set further from the base than the
inner, the inner mucro is long and curved, almost hamate; claws as
in H. viridicollis.

Female: Like the male, and also with the pygidium without scales
and sub-glabrous; the scales on the elytra are replaced by sub-
squamose hairs which are not conspicuous.

This species is not unlike H. rufimanus, which has also the
denuded pygidium, but it differs in the sculpture of the elytra and
in the shape of the hind tibiez.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

HETEROCHELUS TRISTIS, N. spec.

Male: Black, somewhat shining but clothed with a black pubes-
cence, shorter on the elytra than on the prothorax where it is
somewhat villose; pygidium very convex at the base and covered
with a velvety black tomentum ; head and prothorax closely scabroso-
‘punctate, clypeus straight, angular on each side, but with the angles
not reflexed ; prothorax without scales ; scutellum occasionally scaly,
the scales flavescent ; elytra very slightly bi-costulate on each side,
closely and somewhat roughly punctured, covered with a fuscous
pubescence but having in the juxta-sutural, and also on the discoidal
intervals a few slightly flavescent sub-squamose hairs disposed
obliquely ; propygidium not distinctly scaly, but sides of the abdomen
with distinct orange squamose hairs; hind femora robust, spine of
trochanters fused with the thigh but projecting a little towards the
median part, and at a short distance from it there is a sub-hamate,
distinct spine; hind tibize compressed, having underneath a sub-

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quadrate vertical lamina strongly bi-dentate and a horizontal, sharp
apical mucro almost in a line with the two teeth ; inner claw of hind
tarsi not quite half the length of the outer, the latter is cleft.

Female unknown.

Length 6-64 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Natal (Newcastle), Transvaal (Johannesburg).

HETEROCHELUS PERSIMILIS, nN. Spec.

Male: Very similar to H. promontorw ; the hind femora and
tibiz have the same shape, but the body is a little more elongate,
owing to the base of the elytra not being broader than that of
the prothorax; the clypeus is not dentate laterally, the prothorax
is distinctly grooved in the posterior part, the punctures are much
more scattered, deeper and not scabrose; the elytra have on each
side four narrow bands of white scales and are redder than in
H. promontorw but the punctuation is the same ; pygidium black, not
scaly; scutellum densely scaly ; legs black.

Female: Head and prothorax as in the male, and similarly
sculptured ; elytra and pygidium redder than in H. promontorw @ .

Length 5 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore).

HETEROCHELUS BI-VITTATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 114.

Male: Black, with the elytra and the hind legs shining red;
prothorax villose and having a median longitudinal line of white
scales; elytra with a discoidal line of similar scales; scutellum,
abdomen and pygidium clothed with contiguous white scales, but the
latter has a median longitudinal dénuded line which does not reach to
the apex; clypeus sharply quadri-dentate, the teeth equal; head and
prothorax very closely scabroso-punctate, the pubescence is very long
and greyish and along the lateral and basal margins there 1s a narrow
line of white scales; elytra elongate, attenuate towards the apex,
but not deeply sinuate below the shoulder, they are cicatricose and
roughly punctate, and have a narrow discoidal impressed interval
filled with the white scales, but they are not costulate; the hind
femora are only moderately robust and simple, the hind tibiew are
long, strongly swollen inwardly, sharply but briefly mucronate in the
inner apical part, and quite similar to those of H. ditus (pl. xlu.,
fig. 39); apical joint of hind tarsi and claw very long. The shape of
the hind tibie is nearly similar to that of H. ditus (pl. xlii., fig. 39).

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Female : Like the male, but the elytra are more distinctly costulate,
the median line on the prothorax and the discoidal one on the elytra
are white as in the male, and so is the scutellum, but the scales on
the abdomen and pygidium are yellow, and the latter has three
elongate, dark patches, the median of which is more elongate than
the others.

Length 74-84 mm.; width 4-43 mm.

A very distinct species.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

HETEROCHELUS RUFIMANUS, Casteln.,
Plate XLILI., fig. 38.
Hist. Natur., 1i., p. 145.
H. longulus, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., p. 114.

Male: Body black, with the fore legs reddish, or as often as not
with the elytra chestnut-brown, or chestnut-red; the elytra have a
narrow apical margin of flavescent or yellow scales, the scutellum
and abdomen are densely scaly, but the pygidium is glabrous and
shining, and there is only a very narrow band of scales on the
propygidium ; clypeus quadri-dentate, head and prothorax scabroso-
punctate, clothed with long, villose greyish hairs, the median
posterior groove of the prothorax somewhat deep; elytra distinctly
attenuate laterally towards the apex, densely but very briefly
pubescent with the pubescence erect, hardly costulate and covered
with deep, contiguous strongly scabrose punctures; hind femora
long, robust, and having the inner tooth of the knee somewhat
strongly developed, hind tibia somewhat short, curved, grooved
underneath, bi-dentate on each side at the base, and having an inner
strongly developed somewhat arcuate mucro; they are almost
similar to those of H. longipes (pl. xli., fig. 38).

Female: Like the male, but the elytra are covered with appressed,
somewhat remote hairs, and have a few somewhat squamose ones
along the suture.

Length 5-7 mm.; width 23-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury,
Worcester, Ceres, Caledon).

HETEROCHELUS BINOTATUS, Thunb.,
Mém. Acad. St. Pétersb., 1818, vi., p. 448.

Male: Black, with the elytra piceous, fore legs reddish, scutellum,
apical margin of elytra, abdomen, propygidium, and pygidium clothed

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with golden-yellow scales; the latter has two sub-denuded, basal
patches; clypeus quadri-dentate, the two median teeth a little
smaller than the outer; head and prothorax closely scabroso-punctate,
and covered with a comparatively short, sub-flavescent, erect
pubescence, posterior median groove short but deep; elytra slightly
costulate, slightly pubescent, the appressed pubescence somewhat
seriate ; hind femora very robust, simple but having the outer tooth
of the knee very much more sharply developed than the inner which
is also very distinct ; hind tibizw short, curved in the upper side, deeply
emarginate underneath from the base for about half the length, sub-
angular there, then ampliated, somewhat compressed, and produced
into a strong, slightly curved mucro.

Female: Like the male, but the elytra are testaceous, and there is
a sutural band of squamose hairs; the pygidium is entirely covered
with flavescent scales, but there is on each side of the base an orange
patch; the legs are reddish.

Length 33-5 mm.; width 2-24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl).

HETEROCHELUS FORCIPATUS, Burm.,
Plate XLL., fig. 46.
Handb..d. Entomol., iv., 1, p..119.

A. wneinatus, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 65.
Hf. dentifrons, Blanch., loc. cit., p. 65.

Male: Black, with the fore legs reddish, elytra fuscous brown,
covered with greyish appressed hairs and having a few minute
greyish scales along the apical margin; the propygidium and the
abdominal segments have narrow bands of similar scales, the
pygidium, is not scaly; head rugose, briefly pubescent, clypeus not
dentate in the middle and deeply emarginate there, outer angles very
sharp and reflexed; prothorax clothed with dark villose hairs; elytra
hardly costulate, closely punctured, narrowed laterally towards the
apex; hind femora very large and having on each side of the knee
two greatly developed teeth the inner of which is longer, more
curved and more spinose than the outer, the trochanters are not
spinose, the hind tibie are very curved, compressed, dilated towards
the tip and with the lower edge very deeply emarginate above the
inner mucro which is compressed and bifid at the tip.

Female: Elytra light testaceous and not very hairy; pygidium
clothed with scales and having on each side a darker patch.

Length 34-44 mm.; width 24 mm.

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Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Tulbagh),
H, dentifrons, Blanch., is a variety with reddish elytra.

HETEROCHELUS SIMULANS, Nn. spec.

Male: This species might be mistaken for H. forcipatus ; the size
and shape of the hind legs are the same, but the head is quadri-
dentate and the outer teeth are not so developed nor so reflexed ; the
elytra are somewhat bi-costulate on each side and have three or
four bands of orange-yellow nearly contiguous scales, and the
propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen are clothed with similar scales,
but the pygidium has two basal dark patches.

Female : Like that of H. forcipatus.

Length 3-44 mm.; width 2-24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

HETEROCHELUS SPURIUS, N. spec.,

Male: This species is still more closely allied to H. forcipatus
than H. nuns ; the elytra are covered with greyish, dense appressed
hairs, like in H. forcipatus, but the clypeus is quadri-dentate and
similar in shape to that of H. mimus; the pygidium has no scales,
and the hind legs are similar to those of the two preceding species.

Female unknown.

Length 5 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Riversdale).

HETEROCHELUS ELEGANS, N. spec.,
Plate XLILI., fig. 50.

Male: Black, with the elytra light testaceous, and the legs reddish,
or occasionally black; prothorax with a median longitudinal band of
yellowish scales and a less distinct outer marginal and basal one,
elytra with three longitudinal bands of similar scales on each side,
pygidium without scales, propygidium and abdomen scaly, upper
edge of hind tibie fringed with long hairs, joints of hind tarsi
fasciculate; head and prothorax very closely scabroso-punctate,
clypeus quadri-dentate, the two median teeth very sharp, but smaller
than the outer ones which are strongly developed; prothorax covered
with a short black pubescence, fringed with short bristles laterally,
deeply grooved longitudinally in the middle from base to apex, the
groove filled with the yellow scales which are denser there than along
the base or the lateral margins; scutellum scaly; elytra elongate, some-
what strongly attenuate laterally towards the apex but not very

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deeply sinuate below the humeral part, hardly costulate but having
on each side two discoidal and one lateral depression filled with very
short, erect, blackish hairs, the three intervals are impunctate and
scaly, the two discoidal bands are entire, but the outer one reaches
from the base to the median part only; pygidium glabrous, shining ;
hind femora with the trochanters produced into a short but sharp
spine, somewhat excavated under the knee, and dentate on each side
of the excavation, the articulation of the knee is rounded on each
side, hind tibize dilated, compressed, laminate underneath and having
in the basal part three sharp, short teeth set in a line, apical mucro
not much longer than the upper part of the apex which is somewhat
truncate ; hind claw single but slightly cleft inwardly.

Female unknown.

Length 64-64 mm.; width 3 mm.

This pretty species has no ally. Owing to its more elongate facies
it somewhat resembles a Gynmoloma.

HETEROCHELUS LEONINUS, N. spec.,
Plate XLII., fig. 41.

Male: Black, with the elytra light fulvous and the legs reddish,
but occasionally with the hind ones black, head, prothorax and the
whole under side very densely villose, scutellum, propygidium, and
abdomen clothed with yellow scales, pygidium scaly only on the
upper half and villose on the lower, the elytra have in very fresh
examples a band of yellow scales edging the suture on the posterior
part, and extending along the apical margin ; head and prothorax very
scabrose, clypeus quadri-dentate, but with the two median teeth very
small and the outer ones not very highly reflexed, the long and dense
villosity clothing the head and prothorax is light fulvous; the elytra
are very distinctly narrowed towards the apex, strongly sinuate
below the shoulder, not costulate but distinctly impressed longi-
tudinally close to the humeral callus, very closely punctulate all over
and very briefly pubescent; hind femora robust, elongate, having a
very short spine in the trochanter, and a strong inner one under-
neath close to the articulation of the knee, the hind tibiz are
compressed inwardly, slightly grooved underneath, dentate on each
side of the groove, the inner tooth being the more developed of the
two, and the inner mucro is long and curved; hind claw single,
simple; the villose hairs on the pectus are white.

Female: Like the male, but the villose hairs on the upper and
under side are whitish, the whole pygidial part is densely scaly and
also villose.

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Length 6-74 mm.; width 3-4 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Tulbagh).

HETEROCHELUS MUCRONATUS, Burm.,
Fiandb., dh Entomol? iv. 1p. Ly.

Male: Totally black, somewhat shining; elytra with a juxta-
sutural narrow and somewhat indistinct band of squamose greyish
hairs, apical margin of elytra with a few golden-yellow scales,
propygidium and abdominal segments with dense golden-yellow
scales, pygidium also scaly but having a denuded, median longi-
tudinal space, head and prothorax clothed with a dense, somewhat
long, dark pubescence, clypeus sharply quadri-dentate but with the
two median teeth a little smaller than the outer ones, and set close
to one another; prothorax with a distinct, median furrow reaching
from base to apex; scutellum hairy, without scales on the five
examples which I have examined; elytra costulate with the three
intervals on each side punctate and pubescent; hind legs robust,
hairy, hind femora with the trochanters produced into a long
horizontal spine reaching further than the knee, and between the
basal part of this spine and the articulation of the knee there is a
robust, sharp tooth, the hind tibize are broadly but not deeply
scooped inwardly from base to apex, they have an inner tooth near
the base and the apices are produced into two long, curved mucros
of nearly the same length; hind claw single, simple, pectus and
hind legs clothed with greyish villose hairs.

Female not known with certainty.

Length 5 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown).

HETEROCHELUS INORNATUS, Nl. Spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra ight testaceous and the legs reddish ;
scutellum, apical margin of the elytra, pygidial part and abdomen
clothed with dense yellow scales intermixed along the edge of the
propygidium and the abdomen with white scales forming there a
narrow band or line; head very granulose, clypeus hardly quadri-
dentate, the two median teeth being almost obliterated, it 1s covered
with a flavescent, dense, moderately long pubescence, and the pro-
thorax, which has a distinct median furrow reaching from the base to
the middle only, is clothed with a similar pubescence, and bears no
traces of scale; elytra distinctly attenuate laterally towards the apex,
not costulate, covered with remotely scattered, appressed whitish
hairs turning to denser, scale-like ones along the posterior part of the

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suture, and occasionally along the outer margins; hind femora very
robust, concave inwardly, the trochanter is fused with the thigh
and projects as a sharp, long, slightly hooked spine at about the
median part, the articulation of the knee is not dentate but is
sharply angular in the outer part, hind tibis compressed inwardly,
moderately dilated, not grooved, simple and ending at apex in two
moderately long, nearly equal mucros, the outer of which bears a
distinct apical spur; hind claw single, simple.

Female unknown.

Length 5-64 mm. ; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon).

HETEROCHELUS COMOSUS, N. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra testaceous red, hind legs reddish brown ;
scutellum, pygidial part and abdomen, as well as the apical margin
of the elytra covered with yellow scales somewhat lanuginose and
resembling hairs on the propygidium and abdomen ; head granulose,
hairy, clypeus with four equal very distinct teeth ; prothorax with a
villose, sub-flavescent pubescence, and having a shallow groove in the
middle in the posterior part of the disk; elytra very distinctly
attenuate laterally towards the apex, strongly sinuate below the
shoulders, and leaving a broad part of the upper side of the
abdominal segments uncovered ; hind legs robust, villose, hind femora
simple and with the trochanters not spinose, but the outer part of
the articulation of the knee is distinctly dentate, the hind tibize
are dilated in the middle, have an inner, deep excavation with
a triangular tooth above it on the upper margin and end in a
curved, robust and sharp mucyro bearing a very distinct apical spur,
the upper part of the apex is also mucronate but the mucyro is
shorter; hind claw single, simple.

Female unknown.

Length 8 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown).

HETEROCHELUS SENILIS, n. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra light testaceous but infuscate
laterally, scutellum, apical margin of the elytra, pygidial part and
abdomen clothed with yellowish scales, under side densely pubescent,
clypeus quadri-dentate, but with the two median teeth not as much
developed as the outer and set very close to each other; prothorax
clothed as in the preceding species with a long greyish pubescence,
and having a few appressed hairs of the same colour along the base ;

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elytra non-costulate, very shining, sprinkled with appressed, remote,
flavescent hairs, and having along the posterior part of the suture,
and round the apical margins a not very distinct band of yellow
scales; pygidial part and abdomen villose; legs also villose, robust,
hind femora simple, but with the outer part of the articulation of
‘the knee dentate, the hind tibia are simple, thickened at the
base, and slightly compressed in the inner part as far as the apex,
where they are sub-mucronate on either side, the inner mucro
bearing the apical spur, hind claw single, simple.

Female: Like the male, but the legs are reddish, and the scales
on the elytra occur along the apical margin only; the median teeth
of the clypeus are more obliterated than in the male.

Length 5-54 mm.; width 22? mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

HETEROCHELUS CAPICOLA, E'abric.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 36.
Spec. Insect., 1., p. 46.
Oliv. Muatom: id, p. 76, ple v., He. 00 a.d.

Male: Black, with the elytra chocolate-brown ;_ scutellum,
abdomen, and propygidium clothed with dense flavescent scales,
pygidium also scaly but having a triangular tomentose patch
denuded of scales in the median part of the base; elytra covered
with dense appressed greyish hairs; head very granulose, clothed
with a dense erect pubescence, clypeus having only a slight sinuation
in the middle, where the median teeth should be, outer angles very
sharply dentate; prothorax clothed with a moderately long, very
dense pubescence, scabroso-punctate all over and with a median
furrow in the posterior part only; elytra conspicuously attenuate
laterally towards the apex, not costulate, very closely punctured,
in some examples the band of scales of the apical margins ascends
a little along the suture; hind legs robust, villose, trochanters
simple, hind femora also simple, and with the articulations of the
knee rounded on each side, hind tibiz simple, convex inwardly at
the base, a little compressed towards the apex where it is sub-
mucronate on each side, the apical spur is long, and the hind claw
single and simple.

Female: The female is unknown to me, but Burmeister says that
the elytra are testaceous and the legs fuscous, and that the clypeus
is somewhat rounded, while the pygidium instead of being scaly
is hairy.

Length 6-64 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

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HETEROCHELUS FRATERNUS, N. spec.,
Plate XLL., fig. 33.

Male: Very closely allied to H. analis ; the shape, size, and hind
legs of the male are also similar, but the vestiture is different; the
clypeus is also quadri-dentate, but the two median teeth are
distinctly smaller than the outer ones; the median groove of the
prothorax and the base have a band of flavescent or golden-yellow
scales; the scutellum is scaly; the elytra have two moderately
raised, yet distinct coste on each side, and four somewhat broad
bands of rounded, dense, yellow or yellowish scales, the second band
does not reach quite to the apex, and the fourth coalesces with the
third at about half the length; the propygidium and sides of the
abdomen are very densely scaly and so is the pygidium, the scales
of which are, however, of a uniform tint.

Female: Densely hairy on the prothorax; elytra pale testaceous,
clothed with dense greyish hairs, and having an apical band of
yellow scales; pygidium and sides of abdomen covered with light
orange-yellow scales.

Length 43-5 mm. ; width 24-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Riversdale, Namaqualand).

In the examples from Namaqualand the scales are orange-yellow,
but much paler in those from other localities.

HETEROCHELUS ANALIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 116.

Male: Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown and the legs either
dark brown or black; clypeus sharply quadri-dentate and with the
two median teeth only slightly smaller than the outer; prothorax
deeply grooved from the median part to the base, densely but some-
what briefly hairy, the hairs are slightly flavescent and there is
no basal band of scales in my examples; scutellum clothed with
appressed, squamose hairs ; elytra covered with appressed, slightly
flavescent and squamose hairs which do not hide the colour of the
background, and having occasionally a narrow apical band of yellow
scales; apical part of the propygidium and pygidium with contiguous
golden-yellow scales, the latter with two darker yellow longitudinal
patches; hind legs somewhat robust, trochanters non-spinose, hind
femora simple, but with the knee somewhat sharply angular on each
side; hind tibiz simple, a little compressed inwardly towards the
apex, and slightly concave there, sharply angular, almost sub-
mucronate on each side at tip, and with a distinct but short apical
spur; hind claws simple, single.

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Female: Elytra testaceous and with the suture sometimes black.
Length 4-44 mm. ; width 24-34 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Riversdale).

HETEROCHELUS BISIGNATUS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 65.

Male: “Size of H. binotatus but a little larger, under side with white
hairs, clypeus with four strongly prominent teeth, the two median
ones being set close to each other ; prothorax punctate, setose, deeply
sulcate behind in the centre; scutellum clothed with yellow scales ;
elytra plane, slightly tri-costate, with the intervals filled with
fulvous scales, pygidium flavescent and having two fuscous patches ;
legs piceous, posterior ones moderately inflated, femora simple, tibiae
not dentate, angular at apex.

Length hardly 5 mm.”’

The type has unfortunately lost its hind legs, but from the
description given by Blanchard one can assume that it belongs to
the group of H. analis fraternus, &c., and has an apical spur in the
posterior tibiae. The two fuscous patches on the pygidium are very
noticeable.

Hab. Cape Colony.

HETEROCHELUS MINUTUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 180.
Ischnochelus vittiger, Blanch., Catal. Collect. Entom., p. 66.

Male: Black, shining; head scabroso-punctate, very briefly
pubescent; prothorax closely scabroso-punctate, but with the punc-
tures deeper and simple in the posterior part, clothed with short,
sparse, sub-appressed slightly flavescent hairs, it is distinctly convex
and the median groove is deep and disappears only at a short
distance from the apical margin; scutellum clothed with squamulose
greyish-white hairs; elytra a little attenuate laterally towards the
apex, but not strongly sinuate below the humeral part, each one has
two coste on the disk, the inner one being the more distinct, and the
humeral callus is also costate, the three intervals are more or less
densely filled with appressed whitish or slightly flavescent hairs
which are more numerous on the juxta-sutural interval, but which
in the posterior part and along the apical margin turn into flavescent,
somewhat rounded scales, in the fresh examples the lateral margin
has also a line or narrow band of squamiform hairs, but these hairs
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deeply punctate; propygidium and pygidium clothed with dense,
contiguous yellow scales somewhat deeper orange on the pygidium,
abdominal segments clothed with somewhat lighter and more
elongate scales; legs black with the tarsi piceous red, hind femora
somewhat robust, simple, hind tibie somewhat compressed inwardly,
gradually ampliated obliquely underneath, simple, and having a
very long apical spur; the basal outer tooth of the anterior tibia
is in both sexes angular instead of being as sharp as the other three.

Female : Like the male; the scales on the elytra and pygidium are
similar, but those on the pygidial part are lighter, and the tibixe are
redder.

Length 34-4 mm. ; width 2-24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Oudtshoorn,
Clanwilliam, Uitenhage).

HETEROCHELUS DETRITUS, Burm.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 20.
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 89.

Male: Black, with the elytra sienna-brown and the hind legs,
including the tarsi, reddish ; anterior and intermediate legs piceous ;
head and prothorax finely and very densely scabrose and clothed with
a short but erect pubescence, flavescent on the head, black on the
disk, but turning to greyish above that part of the base which
adjoins the scutellum, clypeus very sharply and strongly tri-dentate
at tip, the teeth equal; prothorax very diagonally attenuate late-
rally in the anterior part, distinctly sinuate past the middle, and
having on each side of the base a transverse, narrow impression with
a sharp ledge; scutellum broadly rounded at tip and clothed with
dense greyish hairs; elytra deeply sinuate laterally and strongly
narrowed from there towards the apex, indistinctly multi-striate, and
having, in addition to a single row along the suture, three duplicate
series of very short, dark brown bristles; propygidium and pygidium
glabrous, piceous brown; pectus and sides of abdomen slightly
villose, the villose hairs greyish; hind femora very swollen with the
trochanters non-spinose, and having a very distinct median and a
supra-apical sharp tooth set in line on the under side; hind tibie
triangularly dilated from the base, sharply pluri-dentate on the upper
and having two distinct teeth on the inner edge, the apical part of
which is produced into a long, slightly curved mucro ; posterior tarsi
laminate transversely outwardly ; hind claws double, each one bifid,
inner one half the length of the outer.

Female: The head, prothorax, scutellum and pectus are covered

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with a sub-flavescent pubescence denser and longer than in the
male; the clypeus is sharply tri-dentate, and the elytra and abdomen
are very light testaceous; the hind legs are slightly rufescent, and
the hind inner claw is much smaller than the outer.

Length 84-10 mm.; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape, Malmesbury, Namaqualand).

HETEROCHELUS UNGUICULATUS, Burm.,
Plate XLITI., fig. 22.
iElamdbad= Emtom,, ive, 1, ps 92.

Male: Black, with the elytra burnt sienna-brown, all the legs
ferruginous red; clypeus short, very sharply and equally tri-
dentate, head and prothorax closely and densely scabroso-punctate,
and clothed with short, dense, greyish and brown sub-villose - hairs ;
the prothorax is regularly amplated and rounded laterally, and the
transverse impression on each side of the basal margin has no carinate
upper edge; scutellum much rounded at tip and clothed with short
hairs similar in colour and density to the very short sub-erect ones
which run along the suture; the elytra are clothed with appressed,
very dense and not squamulose brown hairs, and they are not very
sinuate laterally, very little attenuate behind, and cover the greatest
part of the propygidium which, like the pygidium, is clothed with
dense black, setulose hairs ; the pectus is somewhat villose; the hind
femora are very thick and broad, but short, and have past the middle
a Sharp, curved tooth which forms with the knee-spine a deep
crescent, hind tibia short, curved, and having below the knee a
triangular tooth, the apical mucronate inner part is produced into a
very long and strongly curved tooth ; joints of hind tibia compressed
and with the four basal ones regularly triangular.

Female unknown.

This species, like the one preceding, has no ally.

Length 64-7 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Cape Town).

HETEROCHELUS PODAGRICUS, Fabric.,
Plate XLII, fig. 21.
Spec. Insect., i., p. 44.
Oliv., Entomol., i., 5, p. 73, pl. v., fig. 51.
Male: Black, elytra with a broad discoidal patch of slightly
flavescent, small, contiguous scales extending over the greater part
of the discoidal part, but bi-sinuate on each side past the median

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part, and an apical band of similar scales ascending the posterior part
of the outer margin; legs piceous, hind femora occasionally red ;
antennal joints, except the club, rufescent ; clypeus with three sharp,
equal teeth ; head and prothorax scabroso-punctate and clothed with
a short, erect, greyish-black pubescence ; prothorax shaped as in Hf.
detritus, but with the basal transverse impressions without a sharp
ledge; scutellum briefly but densely pilose; elytra turning sometimes
to dark chocolate-brown, very closely sub-scabroso-punctate, and with
the space between the discoidal patch and the apical band clothed
with a somewhat velvety fuscous tomentum; propygidium and
pygidium without scales, glabrous; pectus and abdomen with a fine,
short, greyish pubescence ; hind femora with a sub-apical horizontal
spine beneath, knees not dentate; hind tibie short, compressed,
produced inwardly into a very long, curved process, and having near
the knee a triangular tooth; the apical spur is situated at the base
of the hooked inner process and is distinct; the four basal joints of
elytra are regularly triangular and very compressed; inner claw more
than half the length of the outer and both slightly cleft.

Female: The clypeus is similar to that of the male, and the legs
and abdomen are more rufescent; the prothorax is clothed with
longer hairs which are also more flavescent, and nearly the whole
surface of the elytra is covered with flavescent scales except the
humeral callus, and two discoidal longitudinal bands which are
somewhat denuded.

Length 7-8 mm.; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Knysna, Port Elizabeth,
Humansdorp). |

HETEROcHELUS CHIRAGRICUS, Thunb.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 19.
Mém. Acad. St. Pétersb., vi., 1818, p. 439.

Male: Allied to the preceding species, and having likewise the
clypeus sharply tri-dentate at tip; the shape, sculpture, and colour
of the prothorax are similar, but the basal transverse impressions
are a little deeper; the scutellum is non-scaly; the elytra are more ~
attenuate laterally towards the apex, and they have a broad juxta-
sutural band of yellow scales reaching from the base to the apex
where it unites with a marginal one of nearly the same width; the
propygidium and pygidium are glabrous; the hind femora are
very large, sprinkled with numerous scar-like punctures, and are
shaped as in H. podagricus, but the hind tibie are a little longer, less
curved, less dilated inwardly at apex, with the apical process longer

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and less broad at base, and besides the basal inner tooth near the knee,
there is also an inner moderately raised carina somewhat dentate in
the middle.

Female: I do not know the female of this species which, according
to Burmeister, has only a few scales sprinkled on the elytra.

Length 94 mm.; width 64 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

HETEROCHELUS OPTIVUS, n. spec.

Male: Black, with the scutellum, elytra, pygidium, and sides of the
abdomen covered with bright yellow scales, anterior legs rufescent ;
clypeus a little acuminate and very sharply tri-dentate at the apex,
the three teeth being equal in size; head strongly scabrose ;
prothorax with a distinct longitudinal median impression reaching
from the middle to the base, and having only a few squamose
appressed yellow hairs which are greatly scattered ; scales on the
scutellum, elytra, and pygidial part very closely set; the elytra are
not costulate; hind trochanters very sharply spinose, hind femora
thick, simple but with the angles of the articulation of the knee
sharp ; hind tibize robust, but compressed at a short distance from
the basal part and with the inferior edge slightly bi-emarginate and
ending inwardly at apex in a conspicuous spine-like mucro, no
apical spur ; hind claws simple, single.

Female unknown.

Length 32 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam).

HETEROCHELUS ANOMALUS, Burm.,
Hand. d: Emiomol., iv., 1, p. 118.

Male: Black; head and prothorax with the normal sculpture and
vestiture ; scutellum with a few greyish scales; elytra dark
chestnut-brown, distinctly ampliated laterally in the sub-humeral
part, attenuate from there towards the apex, clothed with a very
short, appressed greyish pubescence, and having along the suture
a somewhat obliterated line of sub-flavescent hairs replaced by
scales on the apical margins ; pygidium and edges of abdominal
segments covered with yellow, contiguous scales; hind femora
robust, simple, but with the outer part of the articulation of the
knee developed into a strongly angular tooth, the spine of the
trochanters is long and sharp; the hind tibie are unicarinate
underneath, the carina being prolonged into a long, curved mucro,

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and close to the knee there is the customary inner tooth; hind claws
single, simple, intermediate ones double, the outer deeply cleft.

Female unknown.

Length 5 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (locality unknown). The only example of
this species which I have seen is one collected by Drége.

HETEROCHELUS LUGENS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 119.
H, miserabilis, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 66.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown or occasionally black, elypeus
sharply tri-dentate ; head and prothorax clothed with a short, erect,
black pubescence, the prothorax is deeply grooved from the base to
a short distance from the apex; scutellum covered with yellow
ovate scales ; elytra of the normal shape, faintly costulate on each
side on the disk, closely punctured and having on each side three
more or less obliterated bands of ovate yellow scales intermingled
with a very short, sub-appressed, blackish pubescence ; propygidium
and abdomen edged with yellow scales and thick squamose hairs,
pygidium deeply punctured and having a small squamose hair
in each puncture ; legs reddish, hind femora robust and having
a very distinct inner tooth near the knee, the spine of the
trochanters is long and sharp, hind tibie curved, swollen inwardly
at the base, and then compressed from there to the apex where it is
produced into a short but sharp mucro, and the inner edge of the
excavated part underneath has a distinct tooth not produced
inwardly ; hind claws single, simple, intermediate one single,
but cleft. |

Female: Similar in colour to the male, the prothorax is more
densely villose, and the hairs are lighter, the scales are replaced
by squamose hairs which cover the scutellum and the pygidial area,
and the elytra have only a sutural and a narrow outer marginal band
of these hairs.

Length 43-64 mm. ; width 23-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Ceres, Worcester).

Hf, nuserabilis, Bl., is a red variety.

H&ETEROCHELUS ESCOURTIANUS, N. spec.

Male: Totally black, scutellum, pygidial part, abdomen and
metasternum clothed with deep yellow scales; head and prothorax
densely villose, the hairs greyish, clypeus broadly and sharply

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tri-dentate, prothorax with a shallow median groove reaching from
the median part to the base; elytra distinctly bi-striate and slightly
bi-costulate on each side, coriaceous and clothed with a thick but
very short appressed greyish pubescence; propygidium, abdomen,
_ pectus and legs villose, the hairs flavescent; spine of trochanters
small, but distinct, hind femora somewhat robust, simple; hind
tibiz also simple, moderately ampliate, somewhat concave inwardly
at apex and not mucronate, hind claw robust, single, simple.

Female unknown.

Length 64 mm.; width 34 mm.

flab. Natal (Estcourt).

HETEROCHELUS ARTHRITICUS, Fabr.,
Plate XLIL., fig. 34.
Spec. Insect., 1., p. 44.
Oliv., Ent., 1., 5, p. 75, pl. v., fig. 44 a.b.

Male: Black, with the elytra fuscous brown ; the scutellum is
sparsely covered with greyish-white scales which narrowly edge
the propygidium and the segments of the abdomen; pygidium
without any scales; head and prothorax with the usual sculpture,
and clothed with a dense, moderately short, black pubescence,
clypeus sharply tri-dentate, prothorax with a short but deep basal
furrow ; elytra distinctly attenuate laterally towards the apex,
clothed with a dense appressed dark pubescence, and very slightly
costulate ; hind femora robust and simple, trochanters without
spine, hind tibiz very swollen in the middle, and ending at apex
in a spine-like mucro on each side, the lower one being a little
longer than the upper, hind tarsi contracted, very massive and
glabrous, the first four seem to be soldered and the second, third,
and fourth are sharply angular inwardly, the fifth is longer than all
the other four put together and has a conspicuous sub-bifid tooth
underneath, the hind claw is very robust and very long, single and
simple. The shape of the hind legs is similar to that of some species
of Pachycnema.

Female: Black, with the elytra hght testaceous; the pubescence
on the prothorax is longer and lighter, the scales are more like
squamose hairs on the propygidium and abdominal segments, and
the pygidium is without scales and pubescent.

Length 4-6 mm.; width 24-3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmes-
bury).

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HETEROCHELUS DITUS, Nn. spec.,
Plate XLII, fig. 39.

Male: Black, with the elytra ochraceous and completely covered
with very dense and closely set, appressed, short squamose ochraceous
hairs, scutellum, pygidial part and abdomen clothed with light
. yellow scales ; head and prothorax densely villose, the hairs
yellow, the clypeus is tri-dentate, and the prothorax has a short
basal furrow filled with appressed hairs which form also a band
along the whole margin; elytra elongate, bi-costate on each side,
normally attenuate laterally towards the apex; legs villose, hind
femora moderately robust, quite simple, trochanters not spinose,
hind tibize very swollen inwardly in the middle, and not mucronate
at apex, nor grooved underneath, the four basal joints of hind tarsi,
short, triangular, fourth one more or less distinctly bifid inwardly,
fifth longer than the four together, massive and conspicuously tyri-
dentate underneath, hind claw robust, simple, but not quite as long
as the fifth joint.

Female: Shape and vestiture of the male, the elytra also are
clothed with ochraceous appressed hairs, but they have each three
bands of greyish ones reaching from base to apex, and on the
pygidium are two apical patches of lighter scales.

Length 7-9 mm.; width 31-44 mm.

The shape of the hind tibize of the male greatly resembles that of
A, bwittatus.

Hab. Cape Colony (Paarl, Worcester).

HETEROCHELUS INSIGNIS, n. Spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra testaceous or reddish brown, often
a little infuscate, and almost entirely covered with round not
contiguous light yellow scales, or having three bands of scales
on each side, these are often obliterated but there are nearly
always traces of the juxta-sutural one left, legs reddish ; clypeus
sharply tri-dentate ; prothorax covered with a short, erect black
pubescence mixed occasionally with sub-villose flavescent hairs in
fresh examples, in which case half the posterior part of the disk
is covered with yellow or flavescent scales somewhat contiguous in
the basal part, the median groove reaches only to the median part ;
scutellum scaly ; elytra distinctly attenuate laterally towards the
apex, bi-striate but not costulate on each side; propygidium and
abdominal segments edged with yellowish or yellowish - whit
scales; pygidium deeply punctured, but without scales; hind
femora robust and simple, trochanters without spine, hind tibiz

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broader than the femora, very swollen on each side, and as broad
at the compressed apical part as at the middle, sharply spinose
on each side of the apex, but not mucronate, and having a distinct
apical spur, hind tarsi contracted, very massive and glabrous, the
fourth produced inwardly into a slightly bifid process, fifth longer
than the whole of the four, very massive and very distinctly
bi-dentate underneath, hind claw robust, simple. The shape of the
hind legs is almost similar to that of H. arthriticus, but there is an
apical spur wanting in the latter, and the fifth joint of the hind
tarsi is distinctly bi-dentate instead of having one bifid tooth.

Female: The female is exactly like that of H. arthriticus.

Length 6-74 mm.; width 3-4 mm.

Hab, Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury,
Paarl, Worcester, Caledon).

HETEROCHELUS EXACTOR, nN. Spec.

Very closely allied to H. insignis.

Male: Black, with only the abdomonial segments edged with
flavescent scales, a few of which are also seen on the sides of the
metasternum ; the elytra are very dark fuscous brown, densely but
very briefly pubescent, they have no trace of scales, and they are
neither striate nor costulate; the hind femora are similarly shaped,
but they are not quite as much swollen ; the apical spur is identical.

This insect may prove to be a varietal form of H. wsignis.

Length 6 mm. ; width 34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

H&TEROCHELUS PULVEROSUS, Burm.,
Handbs dy intomel., iv., 1, p. 120:

Male: Black, elytra briefly pilose and having along the suture a
somewhat interrupted band of yellow scales which borders also the
apical margin, propygidium and sides of the abdomen clothed with
yellow scales, pygidium denuded; clypeus distinctly but not very
sharply tri-dentate ; head and prothorax briefly pubescent, the pubes-
cence black; elytra not costulate, but slightly impressed longitudinally
along the suture and the humeral callus; hind femora robust, armed
with a conspicuous inner tooth near the knee, trochanters with a
very short spine; hind tibiz broadly and deeply scooped inwardly
and having a median triangular tooth in the inner margin of the
excavated part, the outer margin is sinuate, at the apex there is
a short but sharp mucro bearing an apical spur, hind claw single,
simple, intermediate one double but with the outer one very small.

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Female: I do not know the female, which, according to Bur-
meister, has the pygidium covered with greyish hairs.

Length 54 mm. ; width 34 mm.

This species somewhat resembles H. lugens ; the shape of the hind
femora is the same, but the hind tibia are much more broadly
scooped underneath, the inner tooth is set more in the middle, the
mucro is shorter, there is an apical spur which is wanting in
H. lugens, and the spine of the trochanters is much shorter.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

HETEROCHELUS CONNATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 123.

Male: Black, with the elytra light testaceous and infuscate laterally ;
scutellum, apical margin of the elytra, pygidial part and abdomen
clothed with thick flavescent scales; head and prothorax covered
with very dense sub-flavescent villose hairs, the clypeus is con-
spicuously tri-dentate, but the median tooth is blunter than the
lateral ones; elytra not distinctly costulate, clothed with appressed not
very closely set slightly flavescent hairs; pectus, abdomen, and legs
villose, the latter are red; the hind femora are robust; the hind tibiee
are dilated, broadly excavated underneath near the base, the inner
margin is bluntly dentate at a short distance from the knee, and the
outer is distinctly emarginate at the base, they are mucronate on
each side of the apex, the mucros are of nearly equal length, but not
very long, and the inner one bears an apical spur.

Female unknown. |

Length 6-7 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorn).

H&ETEROCHELUS INDIGENS, nh. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra and legs chocolate-brown, and the
anterior legs redder ; the facies and vestiture are similar to those of
H, pulverosus, but it is much smaller, and the shape of the hind.
tibize is different; the spine of the trochanters 1s hardly discernible,
the hind femora are moderately thickened, and have a sharp swelling
inwardly, but they are not scooped underneath, and not at all
mucronate at apex, the apical spur is small, but distinct ; the claw of
the intermediate legs is double, but the smaller one is extremely
small; the hind claws are missing in the only example that I have
seen.

Length 4 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality not known).

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HETEROCHELUS INCONGRUENS, Nn. spec.

Male: Black, without traces of scales, fore legs reddish ; clypeus
tri-dentate, but with the median tooth projecting more than the
lateral ones which are more angular than dentate, head and pro-
thorax very scabrose and clothed, especially the latter, with dense,
moderately long villose black hairs; elytra of the normal shape,
distinetly costulate on each side in the discoidal part, and clothed
with a short but dense fuscous pubescence; pygidium very closely
and somewhat roughly punctured, not pubescent or scaly, but fringed
all round with long seta, pectus pubescent, the pubescence of the
metasternum greyish white ; hind femora and hind tibize moderately
robust and simple; the latter is not mucronate, and has a very
distinct apical spur ; intermediate claw double, but with the longer
one not cleft ; hind claw single, simple.

Female: Like the male, and recognisable only by the shape of
the pygidium.

Length 4 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

HETEROCHELUS NUBILUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 119.

Male: Black, with two bands of white scales on the elytra and
the scutellum, propygidium and abdomen clothed with dense greyish-
white scales; clypeus sharply tri-dentate, head and prothorax scarcely
pubescent, the latter has a deep, post-median groove occasionally
filled with white scales, and has a lateral and anterior fringe of
setose hairs; elytra conspicuously attenuate laterally towards the
apex, sub-costate on each side of the disk, and with the two longi-
tudinal impressions, divided by the costule, filled with a band of
small white round scales not very closely set; the outer band
reaches to the median part only; legs with a few bristles, but
otherwise glabrous, hind femora and tibize long, slender, the latter
with a long apical spur; intermediate claw single but slightly cleft,
hind one single, simple.

Female: Like the male, but the elytra are covered with denser
and more elongate flavescent scales, and the pygidium is clothed
with yellowish scales.

Length 4-5 mm.; width 2-24 mm.

The species which I take to be H. nubilus, and which was labelled
under this name in Drége’s Collection, answers very well to Bur-

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meister’s description, but all my examples are smaller than the
measurements given by this author.
Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

H&ETEROCHELUS FRAUDULENTUS, Nn. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra and legs reddish brown, the scu-
tellum, the pygidial part, the abdomen and the metasternum are
clothed with contiguous flavescent scales, and the elytra have three
narrow bands of similar ones; head sharply tri-dentate, but with
the median tooth smaller than the lateral, head and prothorax
clothed with a long, villose sub-flavescent pubescence; elytra dis-
tinctly attenuate laterally towards the apex but not sinuate below
the humeral part; they are clothed with dense, greyish appressed
hairs, the three bands consist of round scales situate in two very
shallow longitudinal depressions, and the outer, which is the con-
tinuation of the apical marginal one, does not reach the humeral
angle; legs reddish, with the hind ones piceous red; the hind
femora are very robust, simple, but sharply angular on each side of
the knee; the hind tibie are distinctly grooved underneath for
the whole length, dentate on each side at the base and produced at
apex into a long, somewhat curved mucro, bearing an apical spur ;
hind and intermediate claws double and both cleft; the inner claw
is about half the length of the more robust one.

Female unknown.

Length 6 mm.; width 3$ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uniondale).

HETEROCHELUS SERRIPES, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 62.

Male: Totally red, elytra covered with elongate, not very closely
set, ashy scales, and have behind a fuscous patch on each side;
clypeus tri-dentate, head and prothorax pubescent, the latter with a
few squamose hairs along the base; elytra not much attenuated
laterally towards the apex, and somewhat costulate; the hind legs
are robust, there is no spine to the trochanter, but the femur is
distinctly angular near the knee; the hind tibia are somewhat
curved, slightly dentate on each side at the base underneath and
strongly mucronate inwardly at apex, there is an apical spur; the
propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen have elongate scales; hind
claws double, and both cleft; the inner is more than half the length
of the outer.

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Female unknown.

Length 7 mm.; width 34 mm.

The only example of this species which I have seen is one of
Blanchard’s type.

Hab. Cape Colony.

HETEROCHELUS VITTIFERUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 95.

Male: Black, prothorax with five longitudinal bands of ashy
grey squamose hairs, elytra with two bands on each side of scales
of the same colour, pygidial part and abdomen densely scaly ; head
pubescent, clypeus with the two median teeth separated by a very
narrow space, and projecting obliquely beyond the two lateral ones ;
prothorax very rugose and with the area not covered by the five
sub-squamose bands slightly pubescent ; scutellum densely scaly ;
elytra narrow, elongate, moderately attenuate laterally towards the
apex, having on each side two longitudinal impressions which are
filled with the round, thick scales; legs somewhat slender, the
hind femora and tibiz are simple, the latter has a notch on the
upper part, and is hardly mucronate inwardly; hind claws single,
simple.

Female: Like the male, the vestiture is the same, but the scales
are flavescent, the elytra have each three bands of scales, the juxta-
sutural one being the broadest of the three, and in the apical part
there is a distinct horizontal spine at a short distance from the
sutural angle.

Length 44 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown).

The female only is known to me. Burmeister says that next
to the simple hind claw there is a very small, sometimes hardly
discernible one. In my example this claw is simple.

HETEROCHELUS CONTROVERSUS, 0. spec.

Male: Bronze, covered on the prothorax with a thick somewhat
lanuginose golden yellow pubescence, and having thick contiguous
scales of the same colour on the elytra, pygidial part, and abdomen ;
the legs are red, with a metallic tinge; the hind tibize are thickly
and densely villose outwardly, the villose hairs golden-yellow ;
clypeus with the two anterior teeth somewhat broadly separated
and projecting very obliquely beyond the lateral ones; the pubes-
cence of the prothorax is very thick and moderately long, and forms
a pile; the elytra have a very faint costule on each side, the pygi-

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dium is very inflexed, the hind legs are moderately robust, the hind
femora and tibize are simple, the latter are a little emarginate under-
neath near the knee, not mucronate at apex, and have a distinct
apical spur ; hind claw single, simple.

Female unknown.

Length 4 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

HETEROCHELUS DISSIDENS, n. spec.

Male: Black, with only the elytra and the scutellum covered with
deep orange scales; head and prothorax very scabrose, and clothed
with a short but dense, erect, black pubescence, clypeus acuminate
and produced at apex into two sharp, triangular, reflexed teeth ; pro-
thorax with a median longitudinal furrow disappearing on the anterior
part ; scutellum covered with scales, which are brighter yellow
than those on the elytra, where they are very small and set very
close to each other, the suture, however, is without scales; the elytra
are elongate, sub-parallel, not distinctly costate, and have on each side
three longitudinal rows of very short, remote, black bristles, as well
as a similar row along the suture; the propygidium, pygidium, sides
of abdomen and legs are briefly and not densely setulose ; the tro-
chanters of the hind legs are non-spinose, the hind femora are not
very swollen and are simple, even on each side of the knee, the hind
tibia are nearly as long as the femora and also quite simple, gradually
dilated from base to apex, not concave inwardly, strongly angular on
each side of the apical part, but not mucronate, and there is a long,
apical spur; hind claws double, the inner slender, cleft and only half
the length of the other, which is very robust and simple.

Female : Clypeus also strongly bi-dentate, but not as sharply as
in the male; the prothorax is clothed with longer grey hairs; the
scales on the elytra are more lemon-colour, the two costs on each
side are quite distinct and usually denuded, and the pygidium and
abdomen are hairy.

Length 6-74 mm.; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

The shape of the clypeus resembles a little that of Mitrophorus
ateuchoides.

HETEROCHELUS (ISCHNOCHELUS) SULCATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, 1844, p. 129.

Allied to Heterochelus minutus, which it very much resembles ; the
colour and sculpture are identical, but the general facies is a little

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more elongate, and instead of squamose appressed hairs the intervals
on the elytra are filled with round bright yellow scales which form
also a narrow band on the apical margin; the apical part of the pro-
pygidium and the pygidium are clothed with nearly contiguous, round,
thick, yellow scales, while only the edges of the abdominal segments
are scaly, and the scales are white; hind legs as in Heterochelus
minutus, anterior tibia with the fourth basal tooth strongly
_ developed.

Female unknown.

Length 44-5 mm.; width 2-232 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

HETEROCHELUS (ISCHNOCHELUS) PR4STABILIS.

Male: Very closely allied to H. sulcatus; the shape is similar
and also that of the anterior and posterior tibiae; the elytra have
also each a juxta-sutural band of yellow or yellowish scales beginning
at a long distance from the base and rounding the apex, and another
dorsal one reaching from the base to the median part of the disk, and
the scutellum is also clothed with somewhat large, round scales, but
the prothorax is very finely and very closely scabroso-punctate, and
the median sulcus is less deep, especially in the anterior part.

Female: Black, with the elytra testaceous, but slightly infuscate
at the base ; the punctures on the prothorax are not so closely set as
in the male, especially along the median groove, and on the elytra
the two discoidal bands of scales are longer, and there is also an
outer marginal one round reaching from the apex to humeral part.

Length 43-5 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore).

HETEROCHELUS (ISCHNOCHELUS) PUERILIS, n. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra light testaceous, and the legs red; the
elytra are covered with small, seriate, not closely set, very short
appressed hairs, and only in the apical margin is there a narrow band
of scales, but the scutellum, the pygidial part, and the abdomen are
densely scaly ; clypeus a little attenuate laterally, quadri-dentate,
and with the lateral angular projection distinct ; prothorax closely
scabroso-punctate, clothed with a dense but short, erect greyish
pubescence, and having in the posterior part a somewhat broad but
very shallow longitudinal groove; elytra not costulate, not very
sinuate laterally, and not much elongated; hind legs simple, hind
tibia not very robust, very slightly ampliated underneath before

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the median part, flattened inwardly and ending in a short mucro
bearing the apical spur; hind claws single, simple; anterior tibie
quadri-dentate, the basal tooth is shorter than the other three, and
there are two or three serrate teeth above it.

Female: Like the male, but the scales on the pygidial part and
abdomen are whiter.

This species is a little less elongated than the other species of this
section, and is a good transition form.

Length 4 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage).

HETEROCHELUS (ISCHNOCHELUS) TIMIDUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, 1844, p. 130.

Male: Black, with the elytra light testaceous, but somewhat
infuscate in the anterior part, legs rufescent; head very briefly
pubescent, and very rugose, clypeus straight, sharply angular on each
side but not denticulate in the centre ; prothorax very closely
scabroso-punctate almost all over, very briefly pubescent, but having
along the base and also the outer margin a narrow band of slightly
flavescent, appressed, sub-squamose hairs, and a few similar ones in
the posterior part of the deep, median sulcus; scutellum densely
scaly ; elytra hardly distinctly costulate and having along the suture
a broad band of somewhat closely set, ovate, flavescent scales which is
continued round the apical part, and ascends along the outer margins
to the humeral part, the space between this sutural and outer
marginal band is filled with somewhat remote but similar scales
which do not, however, form bands ; the apical part of the propygi-
dium and the pygidium are densely covered with thick, sub-lanuginose
yellow scales, and the abdomen with elongate white ones resembling
appressed hairs but thicker ; hind tibie as in the preceding species,
apical spur long.

Female : Like the male, but the elytra are a little less infuscate
behind, and the scales are replaced by squamiform hairs.

Length 4-44 mm. ; width 2-24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

HETEROCHELUS (ISCHNOCHELUS) PARENTALIS, nh. spec.

Female : This species is very closely allied to H. tamidus, and it
might prove to be a large varietal form of the same. The male is
unknown to me, but in the female the straight clypeus is bi-denticu-
late in the centre at apex; the sculpture and vestiture of the head
and prothorax are the same, the elytra are redder but also slightly

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infuscate behind, very rugose, and have similar appressed sub-
squamiform hairs turning to yellow scales on the apical margin ;
propygidium and pygidium clothed with dense sub-lanuginose
scales.

Length 6 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon).

HETEROCHELUS (ISCHNOCHELUS) BIPARTITUS, Burnma.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, 1884, p. 130.

Male: Black, shining, elytra and scutellum clothed with dense,
contiguous, ovate yellow scales, prothorax with a narrow but very
distinct basal band of similar scales, edge of propygidium, pygidium,
and abdomen densely scaly, the scales yellow, intermediate and hind
legs reddish; head rugose, hardly pubescent, clypeus slightly
narrowed laterally, slightly bi-dentate in the centre at the apex and
with the outer angles strongly reflexed; prothorax nearly glabrous
except for the narrow basal line of yellow scales which, in well-
preserved examples, is continued on the outer margins, it is closely
scabroso-punctate in the anterior part, but simply punctate towards
the basal part, and the longitudinal median furrow is very deep ;
elytra not costulate, and entirely covered with the scales which are
comparatively large; basal tooth of anterior tibize broad and trian-
gular, but not as long as the one preceding it; hind tibiz as in the
other species.

Female : Like the male; the scales are similar and equally dense;
the pygidium is more convex and this character is the only one that
denotes the sex.

Length 54-6 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

HETEROCHELUS (ISCHNOCHELUS) EMERITUS, 0. spec.

Male: Black, shining, with the elytra having a basal light testa-
ceous patch in the shape of a truncate cone reaching from each
humeral angle to about the median part; legs reddish, head rugose
not very briefly pubescent, clypeus slightly narrowed laterally and
with the outer angles broadly and strongly reflexed and the anterior
part emarginate ; prothorax with the same sculpture as the preceding
species but more densely pubescent, the pubescence being black and
erect, there is no trace of scale or squamose hairs; scutellum partly
clothed with whitish squamose appressed hairs; elytra elongate,
narrowed laterally towards the apex, not costulate, punctured but

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very shining, and having a sutural band of yellow, elongato-ovate
scales beginning at about the median part, rounding the apex and
ascending the outer margin for about one-fourth of the length; pro-
pygidium, and pygidium, but not the abdomen, clothed with deep
yellow scales ; basal tooth of anterior tibia as long as the one pre-
ceding it; hind tibize as in the other species.

Female: Like the male, but the sutural and marginal bands of
scales are more like appressed hairs.

Length 54-6 mm.; width 2-23 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Worcester).

(Species which I have not seen or been able to identify.)

HETEROCHELUS AURICOLLIS, Burm.,
Handb. d Entomol., iv., 2, p. 477.

‘“Fuscous, head black, discoidal part of prothorax and legs rufous
and with ochraceous hairs ; elytra with four bands of scales ; Pye
with two black patches at the base.

Length 3 lin. ¢.

From Caffraria. Form, size, and appearance of 1. vulponus, which
is its nearest ally, but from which it differs in the following points:
the margin of the head has two small median tubercles, the prothorax
is light red like the legs, and its pubescence consists of broad, short
reddish-yellow, scale-like hairs ; the smooth costz of the elytra bear
stiff black bristles; the pygidium is reddish yellow with two black
spots at the base; the hind tibizw, but not the femora, have a thick
tooth at the knee-joint, and several smaller teeth below this on the
inner edge; the tarsi are more slender; the pubescence is shorter,
coarser, more scale-lke.”’

HETEROCHELUS BIDENTATUS, Burm.,
Handb, di Hmtomols, itv, 1). 107:

“Black, with the clypeus and the anterior tibiw bi-dentate ;
posterior margin of the prothorax, scutellum, elytra, and abdomen
clothed with fulvous scales.

Length 38lin. ¢.

Black everywhere except on the basal part of the elytra, which
are brown. Clypeus narrowed in the anterior part and bi-dentate at
the apex, front and vertex of the head scabroso-punctate ; anter1or
part of prothorax scabrose and having a longitudinal furrow, it 1s
covered with long soft greyish hairs and has a basal border of small
dull golden-yellow scales ; similar scales cover also the scutellum but

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they are not closely set there; the elytra and the pygidial part are
clothed with similar scales; pectus with a greyish pubescence ; legs
brown and with greyish yellow hairs, anterior tibiee with two sharp
teeth, hind legs of the male long, not thickened and simple; all the
claws are double, but the inner one is very small.”’

H&ETEROCHELUS LITURATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 96.

‘Black, clothed with ashy hairs; legs and elytra red, the latter
densely squamose and with ine Ga bands; pygidium shining,
sparsely squamose.

Length 3”. ¢.

South Africa, communicated by Mr. Winthem. Head black,
strongly punctured on the upper part, and covered with greyish
hairs, clypeus tri-dentate, palpi yellowish ‘red; anterior part of the
prothorax clothed with greyish-yellow scales thickly mingled with
villose hairs, the median sulcus is conspicuous, but not near the
base ; scutellum thickly scaly ; elytra also scaly, but the scales on the
costee are small, greyish brown, and the costx are bristling with hairs,
these scales are disposed in three narrow rows on each side, the outer
one ending in the centre, while the two inner ones broaden and
merge into one from the median part to the apex ; pygidium black or
brown, shining and clothed with non-contiguous scales; propygidium
densely scaly, sides of abdomen scaly; pectus hairy, episterna of
mesosternum with lighter hairs, epimera of metasternum partly
scaly and hairy; legs brown or reddish, sparsely bristly, posterior
ones very thick in the male, especially the tibize, and the tarsi very
short, tibize with a spur; hind claws single, simple.”’

HETEROCHELUS SENEX, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 123.

“Black, clothed with whitish hairs, elytra testaceous and covered
with appressed hairs ; pygidium flavous, clypeus quadri-dentate.

Length 38lin. ¢.

From South Africa. A species well characterised by its broad and
short corpulence, it is plane above, and the elytra are strongly
attenuate laterally towards the apex, being thus very unlike all the
preceding ones ; head and body quite black, thickly scabroso-punctate
and clothed with long greyish-white hairs, only on the tibia and on
the buccal organs are the hairs golden-yellow ; the clypeus is quadri-
dentate, and there are also two more, one on each side of the base,

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the antenne are yellow; the anterior part of the prothorax has a
very shallow longitudinal groove, the short scutellum is clothed with
a few greyish hairs, the elytra are light testaceous, transparent,
regularly punctured but with the punctures distant, each puncture
bearing an appressed greyish hair, they are at the humeral part as
broad as the under side, and they are thence attenuate, leaving the
edge of the dorsal part of the abdominal segments uncovered, on the
apical border they have a band of yellow scales, similar to those
which clothe the pygidium where they are mixed with hairs; legs
brown, thighs darker, clothed with long greyish hairs, the posterior
tibiz show distinctly to which sex the species belongs, in the male
the hind tibie have on the upper side a tooth or hook pointing
inwardly and set close to the knee, they are mucronate on each side
at the apex, but the inner mucro is the longest, there is no apical
spur; the tarsi are not long, and have a single, simple claw, but
those of the intermediate ones are double.”’

HETEROCHELUS OCHRACEUS, Burm.,
WINE, Ciliey FOs ILO),

‘Black, entirely covered with pale scales; elytra sub-costate and
ferruginous red, legs of the same colour as the elytra; prothorax
strongly convex.

Length 24 lin.

Male: Squamose, hind femora and tibiz simple underneath,
anterior margin of clypeus distinctly dentate. Female: Pilose and
squamose only on the abdomen, edge of clypeus obsoletely dentate.

South Africa.

This species has the compact facies of H. swbvittatus, and
differs from it, and also from H. longipes in having costate elytra.
The apical part of the clypeus has four raised teeth, the two outer
of which are united at the base by a part of the curved margin,
the head is black, the pygidial part and the femora are clothed with
light yellow hairs, the palpi and the antenne are light reddish yellow
with the exception of the club of the latter ; prothorax more convex
than in any other species, grooved longitudinally, clothed in the
male with small light yellow scales denser behind, and with greyish
hairs only in the female; the elytra are reddish brown with two
slight costee and covered with regular, thick, light yellow scales in the
male, and with hairs only in the female ; under side thickly hairy but
with the posterior part scaly; pygidium of a uniform yellow and
with long ciliz along the base ; legs reddish brown; in the male they
are strong, the trochanters are not spinose, the hind femora have an

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inner tooth at the knee, hind tibiz curved, not toothed, hardly
crenulate inwardly and mucronate at the apex, and without apical
spur; hind claw single, simple, and robust.”’

HETEROCHELUS PACHYMERUS, Wiedem.,
Germ. Mag., iv., p. 140.
Burma, loc. cit... LOG:

‘Black, covered with greyish scales, clypeus quadri-dentate ; pro-
thorax most densely pilose ; elytra and legs rufescent, the latter with
greyish hairs.

Length 34 lin. ¢.

Received from Herr v. Winthem. The type of Wiedeman’s
description. One of the largest species, and on that account less like
the series of the preceding species (pachyglutus, hybridus, auran-
tuacus, sobrinus, bumaculatus, &c.). Black, antenne, palpi, legs, and
elytra reddish brown; head and anterior part of prothorax thickly
punctulate ; apical margin of clypeus quadri-dentate, the two median
teeth smaller than the lateral ones, the punctures bear each a short
greyish-yellow hair recurved at tip, these hairs are not so dense in the
posterior part, and turn to scales ; scutellum, elytra and pygidial part
thickly clothed with scales of the same colour; the pygidial part is
also hairy as well as the pectus and the legs are sparingly scaly ; the
latter are strong and robust, the hind thighs of the male have the
trochanter produced into a short, blunt spine and an inner tooth
close to the knee, the hind femora have an inner tooth near the knee
but more developed than the one on the thigh above it, and another
and smaller one above the mucronate end, there is no apical spur;
hind claw very large, single, and simple.”’

HETEROCHELUS STRIATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 96.

‘‘ Black, abdomen and elytra clothed with flavous or whitish scales,
the latter with black bands.

Length 2’. 3.

From South Africa, communicated by Mr. Winthem. Allied to the
preceding species, but differs by the quadri-dentate clypeus, the two
median teeth of which are small and set close to each other; palpi
and antenne reddish brown ; posterior part of the head and anterior
part of the prothorax very dark, closely and finely punctate, opaque,
and with short, black sete, median groove and outer sides clothed
with scales; scutellum and epimera of mesosternum and meta-

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sternum with scales adjoining each other and which are sometimes
greyish white; scales on the elytra and the posterior part of the
body are either white or golden-yellow; the elytra have alternate
brown cost, the scales on which are clavate, and a little more ©
remote than on the intervals, on each side there are usually three
bands of lighter scales, the sutural one is connected at the apex with
the supra-marginal one, which becomes somewhat indistinct in the
anterior part, and divided longitudinally, the discoidal band is narrow
and short; legs black, almost glabrous, the hind ones are gradually
thickened, hind femora and tibiz simple, the latter with a spur,
tarsi as long or longer than the tibiae, hind claw single, simple.”

HETEROCHELUS (DIcHELUS) suBspPiLosus, Nonfr.,
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1891, p. 257.

‘Oblong, robust, brown, shining, densely fulvo-pilose on the
upper side, under side opaque, fuscous brown; clypeus sub-quadrate,
quadri-dentate, rugulose and shining, blackish brown, frontal part
hairy, the hairs fulvous; antenne reddish; prothorax somewhat
rounded, convex, black, shining, closely and roughly punctate,
clothed with flavous hairs; scutellum cordate, covered with flavous
hairs ; elytra shining, brown, sub-costate, densely punctate, briefly
setose, the setz flavous ; pygidium and abdomen completely covered
with whitish scales.

Length 7 mm.

Hab. Cape of Good Hope.’

The shape of the hind claws is not mentioned in the description,
but one may presume that they are unequal, in which case the
species, if a valid one, is a Heterochelus.

HETEROCHELUS (ISCHNOCHELUS) PARVULUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 181.

‘“ Clypeus sub-tridentate, black, antenne legs and elytra rufous,
the latter and the abdomen clothed with flavous scales.

Length 14 lin. ¢.

Collected by Mr. Drege. Clypeus with three blunt teeth; clypeus,
head, and prothorax roughly punctulate, glabrous, but the latter part
is ciliate laterally, and the posterior longitudinal groove is short; the
scutellum, the testaceous elytra, and the pygidium are clothed with
small, golden-yellow scales; pygidium spherical, regularly ciliate,
sparsely scaly at the tip; pectus glabrous; antenne, palpi, and legs
reddish brown, the hind ones a little thickened in the male, simple

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and having an apical spur; the smaller claw of the intermediate
legs very weak ; the species is easily recognised on that account.”’

HETEROCHELUS (ISCHNOCHELUS) PAUPERATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 1381.

“Black, covered with ashy-grey hairs ; elytra and legs rufescent,
clypeus tri-dentate.

Length lf lin. ¢@.

Hab. South Africa.

From Mr. Drége’s collection. Shape of the preceding species
(I. bi-partitus), but the clypeus is tri-dentate; the clypeus, head,
and prothorax are sparingly clothed with long, greyish-yellow hairs,
and the elytra, which are light testaceous, have similar but
appressed hairs; the scales are also wanting on the pectus, as
well as on the posterior (pygidial) part of the body, and are
replaced by hairs which become somewhat squamose round the
pygidium and on the edge of the propygidium; the legs and the
palpi are reddish brown.”

HETEROCHELUS (ISCHNOCHELUS) TRUNCULUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 478.

“Completely black, shining, clothed with greyish hairs; elytra
with greyish bands, abdomen very densely villose.

Length Id lin. ¢.

Caffraria. This species belongs to the group in which the posterior
angles of the prothorax are very sharp, but it possesses two claws on
the hind feet, which distinguishes it from all the others. The species
is shining black with grey hairs and is depressed, only the apices of
the tarsi are brownish; the clypeus is sharply angular, but not
toothed; the whole surface is evenly scabroso-punctate with an
erect hair in each puncture, most of the hairs are brown, but those
at the hind margin of the prothorax, on the scutellum, alongside the
suture, and a second row next to the latter, both forming stripes, are
coloured grey ; abdomen with a dense grey pubescence; the middle
of the pygidium is raised in a tuft; legs with longer grey hairs, the
anterior tibiz with three sharp, approximate teeth of which the
apical one is more divergent; all the tarsi with two unequal, cleft
claws.”’

Had this species red legs it would agree with Blanchard’s H. vittiger,
but the tooth on the femur is also absent.

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DIcHELUS LATIPES, Nontfr.,
Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitsch., 1891, p. 257.

“Black, opaque, covered with white sete. Body large, obovate,
robust ; clypeus marginate, broad, rugulose, blackish brown, opaque,
antennes brown; prothorax sub-rotund, blackish brown, opaque,
densely and roughly punctured, clothed with whitish sete; elytra
broad, plane, sub-costate, densely punctate, red, clothed with
whitish hairs; pygidium opaque, rugulose, covered with a whitish
tomentum; under side fuscous bordering on black; mesothorax
hairy, the hairs white; abdomen covered with white scales; legs
and tarsi brown, anterior tibie sharply bi-dentate outwardly.

Length 6 mm.; width 43 mm.

Hab. Cape of Good Hope. A peculiarly depressed species.”’

This species is not a Dichelus or an Heterochelus, owing to the
anterior tibiz being bi-dentate outwardly. It may prove to be a
Platychelus.

Gren. OMOCRATHES, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 126.

Gomaspidius, Burm. (part).

Mentum long, ovate, emarginate, obliquely attenuate towards the
apical part where it is emarginate, the angles are sharp, and not
penicillate, the upper lobe of the maxille is horny, feebly pent-
cillate at the tip, hollow, armed on each side with four robust
somewhat hooked teeth and with an apical one less strongly hooked
than the others, apical joint of labial and maxillary palpi swollen,
fusiform, and acuminate; clypeus reflexed or dentate at the tip,
short, and without a lateral basal angular projection; prothorax
elongate, longer than broad, distinctly narrowed laterally in front for
one-third of the length, then parallel; scutellum very long, broad at
base and sharply triangular; elytra very strongly sinuated laterally
and very much narrowed towards the apex; pygidium vertical and
very slightly inflexed in the male; intermediate and posterior legs
with an apical spur; anterior tibice bi- or tri-dentate outwardly, the
basal teeth at right angles with the tibiz and slightly curved down-
wards, the apical one slightly more oblique than in Heterochelus ;
anterior and intermediate claws double, and both cleft, posterior ones
double or single; in the male the hind femora and tibiz are some-
times very strongly dilated and ampliated (aaillaris, lobipes), but
they are usually only a little more robust than those of the
female.

The main differences between this genus and Heterochelus are the

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more elongated shape of the prothorax, the very narrowed elytra
(this, however, occurs in some, although few, species of Heterochelus),

and the much longer and sharply triangular scutellum.

The genus appears to be restricted to South Africa.

Key to the Species.
A’. Anterior tibie bi-dentate outwardly.
B. Clypeus straight, with the outer angles very sharp.
C3. Hind claws double.

a3, Prothorax densely hairy and having a longitudinal
impression in the posterior part.

Elytra light testaceous edged with black, clothed

with appressed light hairs:
Pygidial part covered with thick, concolorous
lanuginose scales, but having two patches of
darker scales in the female :
Propygidium and pygidium each rah io
patches of darker brown scales in both sexes ..
Pygidial scales of a uniform colour in both sexes

a?. Prothorax hairy, broadly grooved from base to apex.

Klytra testaceous, but somewhat reddish at base and
apex, pygidium with not lanuginose scales

at. Prothorax hairy, not grooved in the central part.

Elytra light testaceous, briefly hairy ; em
and pygidium covered with scales

Elytra light testaceous, briefly hairy, narrower and
more elongate than in the preceding species

B?. Clypeus with three sharp teeth.
c®. Hind claw single, simple.

Posterior tibie of male very broadly dilated, compressed,
and with the carinate upper ridge strongly bi-sinuated
towards the apex and curved there inwardly ..

Posterior tibiz somewhat dilated, but simple. .
ct. Hind claw single, cleft.

Posterior tibiz dilated, compressed and lobate at the
apex

Bt. Clypeus quadri-dentate.

Body brick-red, elytra very briefly Peay Bes with
round, somewhat large scales ..

mendax.

Luridipennis.
placidus.

canaliculatus.

cylindricus.

elongatus.

axillaris.

modestus.

obipes.

pauxillus.

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At, Anterior tibise tri-dentate outwardly.
B3. Clypeus with the outer angles dentate.

Posterior part of the prothorax of the male clothed with
dense, sub-lanuginose scales; elytra and pygidial part
Grae AeeR WA GR GG 6h 60. 65 oo oo 06 5a 40 WOLD.

Posterior part of the prothorax of the male not scaly,
elytra clothed with gr pee white appressed hairs ; ae
densely scaly 9...) Mec : Petar spatulipennis,

Posterior part of the prothorax of the male not scaly, elytra
hardly pubescent; pygidial part with scales so closely set
asito form a*coatime’. (3) a -c, eee) me ummermetos Woven e/UUITCL Use

Whole surface of the body, except the head, pygidial part,
and abdomen, clothed with round scales, prothorax dis-
binctlyelomgate sz. ecm. | cst mie yy chistes teste ter merous ar ame DLL CED.

B?. Clypeus tri-dentate.

Posterior part of the prothorax clothed with dense, thick
scales; elytra with closely set, appressed, sub-squamose
hairs; pygidial part densely scaly .. .. .. .. .. plausibilis.

Same vestiture as plausibilis, but prothorax without scales
in the posterior part... .. ..0 ¢eBu 15s, 2s ss vartabilis:

Bt. Clypeus quadri-dentate.

Prothorax not scaly; elytra with squamose appressed
hairs, but having on each side three narrow bands of
scales and the apex also scaly; hind claw single, simple .. misellus.

OMOCRATES MENDAX, N. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra light testaceous and having a lateral
and apical infuscate band beginning at about the middle of the side
and reaching the suture ; head scabrose, clypeus quite straight at the
apex and with the outer angles sharp, it 1s covered like the prothorax
with a very dense, somewhat appressed light fulvous pubescence,
and the prothorax, which is somewhat depressed in the centre of the
basal part, has a longitudinal median groove; scutellum very long
and sharply triangular and densely hairy; elytra as broad as the
prothorax at the base, very conspicuously narrowed laterally towards
the apex; plane, not costulate but having a sub-transverse basal
impression near the callus, rugulose and covered with appressed, sub-
flavescent fine hairs; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen covered
with flavescent or yellow lanuginose scales all of the same colour on
the pygidium ; hind legs densely hairy, hind femora and tibiz simple,
the latter moderately dilated, hind claws double, the larger one cleft ;

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anterior tibiz bi-dentate outwardly, but sharply angular above the
basal tooth.

Female unknown.

Length 6-64 mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

OMOCRATES LURIDIPENNIS, Burm.,
EHandbyd: Kmtomol., 1v., 1, p: 126:

Black, with the elytra and the legs reddish brown, but the elytra
are occasionally testaceous at the base; the head is similar to that of
the preceding species, but the outer angles are not quite so sharp ;
the pubescence on the prothorax is not so dense nor so villose, the
elytra are also less pubescent, but in the apical part there is a somewhat
distinct band of sub-squamose flavescent hairs, the propygidium has
a very broad band of bright yellow hairs and two large round patches
of brown tomentose scales, and the pygidium has also two similar
patches at the base; the hind claws are double and both cleft; the
hind legs are simple and the tibiae are not conspicuously dilated ;
anterior tibiz bi-dentate, but distinctly angular above the basal
tooth.

Female : Like the male, but more hairy on the pygidial part, and
with the appressed hairs concolorous.

Length 5 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury,
Worcester).

OMOCRATES PLACIDUS, n. spec.

Entirely similar in shape and sculpture to O. lwridipennis, but the
elytra are light testaceous, and infuscate laterally behind, the pubes-
cence on the prothorax is longer, the propygidium and pygidium are
covered with thick flavescent scales of uniform colour, and the anterior
tibize have a third tooth shorter than the second, but distinct.

Length 5 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

OMOCRATES CYLINDRICUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 128.
O. flavipennis, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 64.
Male: Black, with the elytra flavous; the head and prothorax are

densely villose, the hairs flavescent, the clypeus is transversely
straight at tip but the angles are sharp and slightly reflexed, and in

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some examples almost dentate, in the base of the prothorax there are
some squamose yellow appressed hairs forming a narrow marginal
line, which is often obliterated; scutellum with yellow squamose
hairs ; elytra not costulate but impressed longitudinally along the
suture and on the disk, roughly punctate and clothed with fine,
somewhat dense, slightly flavescent appressed hairs; pygidial part
and abdomen covered with contiguous round yellow scales ; anterior
tibiz sharply bi-dentate, not angular, but pluri-serrate above the basal
tooth ; hind claw double.

Female: Like the male, but the angles of the clypeus are not so
sharp, the pubescence on the elytra is not quite so dense, and the
pygidial part is covered with appressed yellow hairs.

Length 4 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

This species is not a Platychelus, although described as such by
Blanchard, whose type (a female) I have examined; it much re-
sembles O. depressus, spatulipennis, &c., but is at once distinguished
by the bi-dentate fore tibie.

OMOCRATES CANALICULATUS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 66.

Male: ‘‘ Black, nearly glabrous, antenne, palpi, legs, and abdomen
rufous ; head rugose, clypeus quadrate with the angles slightly
prominent; prothorax convex, punctate, shining, sides setose, median
part very broadly furrowed ; scutellum fuscous; elytra short, punc-
tate, testaceous, somewhat rufescent at the base and at the apex;
pygidium clothed with flavous scales; anterior tibiz bi-dentate
outwardly. |

Length 4 mm.

Hab. Cape of Good Hope.”’

The only example that I have seen is Blanchard’s type. It is very
closely allied to O. spatulipennis, but it is glabrous on the upper side,
and the prothorax has a very broad median sulcus.

OMOCRATES ELONGATUS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 66.

Male: ‘Narrow, black, pilose, the hairs ashy-grey, antenne and
palpi fuscous; clypeus concave with the angles projecting ; prothorax
convex, closely punctate, clothed with greyish hairs; scutellum
squamose; elytra testaceous red, elongate, sparsely pilose; legs
black, tarsi of the hind legs red at apex; anterior tibiw bi-dentate,

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hind claws unequal, inner one simple; abdomen and pygidium
clothed with greyish hairs.

Length 54 mm.

Hab. Cape of Good Hope.”’

I have seen only Blanchard’s type of this species, which is much
more elongated than the other species of Omocrates.

OMOCRATES AXILLARIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 125.

Male: Black, with the elytra pale testaceous and edged with a
fuscous marginal band broadening towards the posterior part; head
and prothorax clothed with a dense, erect, sub-flavescent pubescence,
the clypeus is armed at apex with three long, triangular teeth, and
the prothorax has an elongated impression in the median discoidal
part; scutellum slightly carinate longitudinally in the centre, and
clothed with a few greyish hairs ; elytra covered with deep, irregular
punctures, very briefly pubescent, propygidium and pygidium clothed
with dense, thick, flavescent or yellow scales, abdomen without
scales, pectus villose, the hairs greyish white; hind femora robust,
simple but deeply grooved underneath for half the length, hind tibize
broadly dilated, spatuliform, the upper edge is strongly sinuate and
curves inwardly at the apex; hind claws single, simple.

Female: Like the male, but the propygidium and pygidium are
covered with squamose appressed flavescent hairs and the pygidium
has two distinct patches of browner hairs in the centre.

Length 62-7 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Malmesbury, Worcester).

In shape and colouration it is like O. mendax, but it is easily
distinguished by the form of the hind legs.

OMOCRATES MODESTUS, N. spec.

Male: Entirely similar to O. axillaris in colour, vestiture, and
build, but it is very much smaller; the clypeus is also sharply tri-
dentate, but the median tooth is smaller than the lateral ones, the
hind legs are robust, the hind femora are dilated, compressed, the
upper margin is straight, and the lower slightly ampliate at middle ;
the scales on the propygidium and pygidium are so closely set that
they form a thick coating, and they are not yellow as in O. axillaris ;
the hind claw is single and simple.

Female unknown.

Length 5 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie).

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OMOCRATES LOBIPES, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 125.

‘Black, shining, hairy, the hairs underneath are white, the elytra
pale and edged with black, pygidium with flavous scales.

Length 2”.

Male: This species is shaped like O. axillaris and resembles it
completely, but it is easily distinguished by the shape of the hind legs,
which are also strongly compressed laterally, but are produced into
an upright, broad lobe rounded on the upper side of the apex; there
is an apical spur, and the hind claw is single but cleft. The colour
and sculpture are the same, the hairs are longer and much denser.”

From the description this species, which I have not seen, is very
closely allied to O. modestus, but in the latter the hind tibia, although
dilated, are not lobate on the upper side.

Hab. Cape Colony.

OMOCRATES PAUXILLUS, Nn. spec.

Female : Brick-red, with the head and anterior part of the prothorax
slightly infuscate; the clypeus is briefly quadri-dentate, the teeth are
equal; the prothorax is very slightly pubescent, and not closely
punctulate behind; the scutellum is slightly carinate longitudinally
and scarcely pubescent; the elytra have an appressed, greyish
pubescence, the apical margin of the propygidium and the pygidium
are covered with round contiguous yellow scales; the abdomen and
pectus have somewhat dense, long, whitish hairs, and the hind claw
is single and simple.

I do not know the male of this species, which will be easily
distinguished, however, by the quadri-dentate clypeus.

Length 44 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

OMOCRATES DEPRESSUS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 67.

Male: Black, with the legs red; clypeus with the outer angles
dentate, the head is covered with a very short, erect pubescence, and
the prothorax also, but this short pubescence is intermingled with
golden-yellow squamose hairs on the prothorax; scutellum densely
scaly ; elytra densely clothed with somewhat round, golden-yellow
scales which are not, however, contiguous, and are somewhat more
elongated and hair-like on the sides and on the apical margin; the
propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen are thickly covered with golden

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yellow scales; hind legs simple, hind claw single, deeply cleft
laterally.

Female: Like the male, but the prothorax is less scaly, and the
scales on the elytra and the pygidial part are a little paler in colour,
and those on the pygidial part are more hair-like.

Length 4-44 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

Blanchard, in his description of the species, states that the anterior
tibize are bi-dentate, but such is not the case; the tibize of the type
are tri-dentate.

OMOCRATES SPATULIPENNIS, Blanch.,
Catal. Collect. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 66.
O. lepidus, Boh., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 150.

Male: Black, with the elytra light testaceous, and the legs piceous
or piceous red; similar in shape and sculpture to O. depressus, but
the clypeus is much more strongly dentate on each side of the apex,
and is also a little more concave in front; the prothorax has no scale,
and is clothed with dense greyish villose hairs from the base to two-
thirds of the length, and has a very narrow border of appressed
greyish or sub-flavescent hairs along the base; scutellum with
squamiform yellow hairs ; elytra with appressed, not dense, hair-like,
short yellow scales; pygidial part and abdomen clothed with con-
tiguous, round, bright yellow scales; hind claws double, and both
distinctly cleft.

Female: Like the male, but the clypeus is not so sharply dentate
on each side, the hairs on the elytra are more filiform, and the scales
on the pygidial part and abdomen are replaced by appressed white
hairs.

Length 43-53 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Frere).

OMOCRATES PLACENS, nN. spec.

Closely allied to O. depressus, the shape of the clypeus is the same,
but the prothorax is more elongated and less attenuated laterally in
the anterior part, the prothorax is completely covered with closely
set, slightly lanuginose scales nearly similar to those on the elytra,
these scales are greyer and even in the pygidial part they are only
flavescent instead of being bright yellow; the hind claw is simple
and cleft sideways as in O. depressus.

Length 34-4 mm.; width 14-2 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Caledon)

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OMOCRATES HUMILIS, n. spec.

Male: Intermediate between O. depressus and O. spatulipennis ;
black, with the elytra testaceous and the legs rufescent; the clypeus
is dentate on each side, the prothorax is covered from the base to
three-fourths of the length with villose erect greyish hairs, and there
is no basal band of appressed hairs; the elytra have a few incon-
spicuous, pallid, appressed hairs, the propygidium and pygidium are
covered with contiguous, pale yellow, round scales, and the edge of
the abdominal segments have more elongate, somewhat filiform ones
of the same colour; the anterior tibiz are tri-dentate outwardly, but
the basal tooth is much shorter than the intermediate one; the hind
claws are double and both slightly cleft.

Female: Like the male, but the pygidial part and abdomen are
villose.

Length 44 mm.; width 2-24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

OMOCRATES PLAUSIBILIS, nN. Spec.

Male: A very distinct species. Black, with the elytra light
testaceous and the legs reddish; clypeus sharply tridentate, the
median tooth as much raised as the lateral ones; prothorax clothed
for two-thirds of the length with dense, erect, greyish villose hairs,
the posterior part is covered with dense, yellow, somewhat elongated
scales ; scutellum and elytra covered with similar scales ; pygidial
part closely scaly, the scales somewhat round and deeper yellow
than on the elytra; abdomen with squamose appressed hairs
flavescent on the apical segments and turning to white on the
basal ones; hind claws double, the inner one is small and simple,
the outer one is slightly cleft laterally.

Female unknown.

Length 54 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Burghersdorp).

OMOCRATES VARIABILIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 128.

Male: Black, with the elytra light testaceous and the basal part
narrowly fuscous, or occasionally with the prothorax reddish, hind
legs reddish brown; clypeus tri-dentate, median tooth a little smaller
than the lateral ones which are distinctly reflexed; prothorax clothed
for two-thirds of the length with a short, dense, greyish pubescence,
and having a narrow basal band of greyish, sometimes sub-flavescent

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scales ; scutellum densely scaly ; elytra also densely scaly, the scales
elongated, sub-lanuginose and not unlike appressed squamose hairs ;
these scales are greyish or sub-flavescent, those with which the
abdomen is densely clothed are almost similar in shape, but on the
pygidial part they are normally rounded and more flavescent; hind
claws double and both cleft.

Female: Like the male, but the pygidial part is scaly.

Length 34-44 mm.; width 2-24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage).

OMOCRATES MISELLUS, Nn. spec.

Female: Black, with the elytra pale flavous, legs rufescent ;
clypeus quadri-dentate, but with the four teeth equal but not strongly
developed ; prothorax clothed all over the surface with long, greyish
white villose hairs, it has in the centre a deep, median sulcus reaching
from base to apex; scutellum with squamose greyish hairs; elytra
covered with short, flavescent sub-squamose, not densely set hairs,
but having also along the suture, the discoidal part, and the outer
margin a distinct but not conspicuous narrow band of ovate scales
not set close to each other except on the apical margin where they
are denser and deeper yellow; the propygidium and pygidium are
clothed with contiguous golden yellow scales; the abdomen is also
clothed with similar scales which, however, turn to white on the
anterior segments; hind claws single, simple.

In the male the scales on the elytra are probably more yellow and
the bands more distinct.

Length 54 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

A distinctive character of this species is the deep median groove
extending from base to apex on the prothorax ; the only other species
in which there is a similar groove is O. canaliculatus, but the clypeus
is not dentate and the anterior tibie are said to be bi-dentate out-
wardly.

Gren. GONIASPIDIUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 126.

Mentum elongate, oblong, slightly emarginate at tip where it is
densely fasciculate on each side, the upper lobe of maxille short,
broad, transversely concave, and armed with four robust, elongate
teeth, arranged in a line along the apical part, the inner tooth is
strongly bifid, apical joint of palpi very swollen, especially the
maxillary one, fusiform and acuminate; clypeus sharply tri-dentate

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with the teeth strongly reflexed, and moderately angular laterally at
the base; prothorax moderately convex; scutellum as broad as long,
straight laterally for more than half the length and thence sharply
triangular, impressed transversely in the basal part; elytra somewhat
triangular, distinctly narrowed laterally towards the apex and sinuate
below the humeral part, but leaving only a narrow part of the surface
of the abdominal segments uncovered; pygidium broad, flat, and
greatly inflexed in the male; anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly, the
two basal teeth connate at the base and the apical one oblique as in
Heterochelus, hind legs moderately slender and simple in both the
sexes; all the claws double, the inner one of the intermediate and
hind legs small, and very small respectively, and the outer cleft;
posterior tibize with a distinct apical spur.

Of the three species included in the genus by Burmeister I retain
G. brevis only, the other two are true Omocrates. The distinctive
characters of Goniaspidius are—(a) the singular shape of the upper
lobe of the maxillz, which is short, broad, transverse, with the teeth
disposed along the upper margin, whereas in Omocrates it is long,
narrow, and sub-lanceolate, and (6) the shape of the scutellum which,
instead of being regularly triangular, is rectangular and triangular
only at apex, and deeply impressed transversely at the base.

Key to the Species.

Elytra black or reddish brown according to the sex, and having each

three bands of squamose greyish-white hairs; apical tooth of anterior

tibia widely separated at apex from the intermediate one and longer .. brevis.
Elytra testaceous and with a fuscous border all round, apical tooth of

anterior tibie strongly turned downwards like the other two and not

broadly separated from the intermediate one ar a 5A .. simplex.

GONIASPIDIUS BREVIS, Burm.,
Handb:ds Hmtomols iv., 1). 127.

Black in the male, but with the discoidal part of the elytra and
the legs reddish brown in the female, which is in other respects
entirely similar to the male; head and prothorax clothed with
villose, dense, greyish and black hairs, the clypeus has in front
three long, sharp, reflexed teeth all of equal size; the prothorax,
which is not very convex in the centre, is depressed in the basal
part, which is nearly impunctate, the rest of the surface is, however,
scabroso-punctate ; scutellum hairy along the apical border; elytra
scarcely broader than the base of the prothorax, plane, punctulate,
distinctly narrowed laterally from the humeral part towards the apex,
not costate, but slightly impressed longitudinally along the suture,

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and having on each side three bands of appressed squamose greyish
white or slightly flavescent hairs, the juxta-sutural band of hairs is
broader than the other two which are sometimes partly obliterated ;
propygidium clothed with appressed, squamiform, sub-flavescent
hairs; under side somewhat densely hairy; apical tooth of anterior
tibia somewhat widely separated at apex from the intermediate one,
and also longer.

Length 54-6 mm.; width 34-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

GoONIASPIDIUS SIMPLEX, N. Spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra testaceous, but having a broad fuscous
border all round; head and prothorax clothed with dense black and
greyish villose hairs, the clypeus has three conspicuous reflexed teeth
at the apex; the prothorax is scabroso-punctate from the apex to the
base, which is not very depressed; elytra plane, strongly sinuate
laterally under the humeral part, thence distinctly attenuate towards
the apex, not costate, but having the customary longitudinal impres-
sion along the suture deeply and closely punctured, the punctures
bearing each a black, erect hair; pygidium broad, conspicuously
declivous forwards, briefly hairy; under side villose, the hairs greyish
white; the apical tooth of the anterior tibize is not very oblique and
is turned downwards like the two basal ones.

Female unknown,

Length 54-7 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

This species is distinguished from G. brevis by the shghtly more
elongated elytra, and the absence of bands of squamiform appressed
hairs.

GEN. DICRANOCNEMUS, Burm.,
Handb, d. Emtomol., 1v., 1,p: 135.

Mentum narrow, very elongated, a little ampliated laterally towards
the median part, narrowed at the insertion of the labial palpi, straight
at tip, but with the angles rounded and penicillate; upper lobe of
maxille horny, narrow, very long, with a long pencil of hairs at the
tip, and having inwardly and in the upper part five short, curved
teeth arranged in a line, inner lobe membranaceous, and penicillate,
apical joint of labial palpi somewhat swollen and distinctly truncate
at the tip, that of the maxillary palpi very elongated, slender, sub-
fusiform inwardly and sinuate outwardly; clypeus short, attenuate
laterally, sometimes angular at the base and dentate on each side

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(sulcicollis, pulcher), or straight with the angles either very sharp
(natalensis), or slightly rounded; prothorax very convex and villose ;
scutellum short, triangular; elytra sinuate laterally, distinctly nar-
rowed towards the apex, plane, more or less densely scaly; pro-
pygidium broadly uncovered, pygidium vertical in the male; legs
moderately robust, similar in the two sexes; anterior tibia tri-dentate
outwardly, but with the two apical teeth connate at the base and
widely separated from the basal one, all three teeth long and sharp,
set at right angles with the tibia and bending downwards; claws of
anterior legs double, the outer one cleft, those of the intermediate
and hind ones single, but deeply cleft; in two species (squamosus,
squamulatus) the claw of the intermediate legs has a conspicuous
tooth underneath in the male.

Key to the Species.

A?. Median claw simple underneath.
B3,. Clypeus sharply angular on each side.

Clypeus very narrowed towards the apex; prothorax vil-
lose, not scaly; elytra covered with minute not closely set
sub-flavescent scales .. .. 1.2 3. 3. «2 =. «. «. mavalensis:

B?. Clypeus sharply dentate on each side at apex, and also
laterally.

Teeth of clypeus long, reflexed; prothorax clothed with
very long, villose hairs, scaly along the base and in the
median groove which is very broad behind; elytra
with two lateral bands of golden-yellow scales and two
quadrate patches on the suture .. .. .. .. .. .. sudcicollis.

Teeth of the clypeus angular, not reflexed; prothorax
covered with a shorter pubescence, disposition of scales on
the elytra as in the preceding species .. .. .. .. «. pulcher.

B'. Clypeus not dentate on each side at the apex or laterally. .

Prothorax pubescent and having a narrow basal band of
scales, elytra with three bands and a transverse patch of
golden yellow scales on each side .. .. .. «.. «. «« hypocrita.

Prothorax briefly pubescent and covered with scales from
the median part of the disk to the base; elytra entirely
covered with flavescent scales and having two lines and a
transverse median patch of white scales sa ee as tye UCNGUCTISE

Prothorax pubescent, narrowly edged with scales along the
base; elytra covered with concolorous yellow scales... .. pulverulentus

At. Median claw with a conspicuous tooth underneath.

Prothorax densely pubescent and without scales; elytra with
minute scattered scales looking like appressed hairs .. .. .. squamulatus.

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Prothorax densely pubescent and with a basal band of appressed
squamiform hairs; elytra with three broad bands of yellow
scales, or nearly completely covered by the scales .. .. .. squamosus.

DICRANOCNEMUS NATALENSIS, n. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra very light testaceous; antennz with
the exception of the two basal joints, black; head rugose, covered
with a greyish short pubescence, clypeus conspicuously narrowed
laterally towards the apex, emarginate at the tip and with the two
angles sharply triangular and reflexed; prothorax moderately convex,
densely scabrose, clothed with a dense, somewhat long, slightly silky
grey pubescence, and having only a very faint longitudinal furrow in
the posterior part; scutellum covered with greyish round scales;
elytra not costulate, and covered with small elongate, flavescent scales,
not very closely set; pygidial part and abdomen with dense flavescent
round scales; tarsi reddish; claw of intermediate legs simple under-
neath.

Female: Exactly like the male, but the scutellum and elytra have
appressed greyish hairs instead of scales, and the scales on the
pygidial part and the abdomen are replaced by thick appressed
squamiform hairs; the tibize and tarsi are red.

Length 54-54 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Natal (Estcourt).

In general appearance this species resembles Omocrates spatuli-
pennis, and is very distinct from the others.

DICRANOCNEMUS SULCICOLLIS, Wiedem.,
Germ. Magaz., iv., p. 144.

Male; Black, with the elytra fulvous and having on each side
three somewhat broad bands of golden-yellow round scales, the two
discoidal bands are sometimes not interrupted in the middle, but
oftener than not the median one is so, and the sutural one is inter-
rupted at about the median part, this interrupted part forms thus
a quadrangular patch ; head very rugose, clothed with a flavescent
pubescence, the clypeus has the two angles of the apical part pro-
duced into a strongly reflexed tooth, and there is a shorter triangular
tooth laterally at the base of the clypeus ; prothorax conspicuously
convex in the posterior part, scabroso-punctate in the anterior part
only, punctate on the rest of the surface, and clothed with a very
long and very dense, erect, flavous pubescence, it is distinctly
grooved longitudinally, and this groove is partly filled with squamose
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base; scutellum clothed with appressed hairs; elytra very closely
punctulate, not costulate, sinuate laterally and distinctly attenuate
towards the apex, the basal part is pubescent, and the scales forming
the two bands and the median transverse patch are round and very
closely set; pygidial part and abdomen clothed with thick lanuginose
yellow hairs; legs and pectus densely villose ; claw of intermediate
legs without a tooth underneath.

Female: Like the male, the prothorax is less densely villose, and
less squamose along the base, but the vestiture of the elytra and
underneath is similar to that of the male.

Length 42-64 mm.; width 24-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury.
Worcester, Ceres, Tulbagh).

DICRANOCNEMUS PULCHER, 0. spec.

Male: Shape and vestiture of D. sulcicollis, of which it is a very
close ally, but the shape of the clypeus is different owing to the
lateral tooth and the angles of the apical part not being reflexed and
hardly prominent; the median groove of the prothorax is not so
deep, and the pubescence is shorter; the scales are not so golden
yellow, and those on the scutellum and the median part of the
discoidal band, and also on the post-scutellary patch, are slightly
whitish.

Female: Shaped like the male, but the prothorax is covered with
a densely dark pubescence turning to bright fulvous on the sides, and
the furrow is filled with a narrow, similar band; the elytra are
covered with a chocolate tomentum, and the bands of scales and
also the post-scutellary patch are very slender. I am not quite sure,
however, that the insect thus described is the female of D. pulcher.
The clypeus is hardly angular at the tip.

Length 5-54 mm.; width 23 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Caledon, Knysna).

DICRANOCNEMUS HYPOCRITA, N. spec.

Male: Almost similar to D. pulcher, but a little shorter ; the apical
angles of the clypeus are distinctly rounded, and there is no lateral
prominence at the base; the prothorax is briefly villose, and has
a similar basal lateral patch of squamose flavescent hairs and a fine
line of yellow scales filling also part of the median groove; the elytra
have only two bands of bright yellow scales uniting in the median
part and the sutural patch, the scales of which are whitish, is connected
with the scaly apical part by a narrow line of scales, these scales leave

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thus three denuded places on each side; pygidial part and abdomen
clothed with dense, golden-yellow scales; legs rufescent, villose ;
claw of the intermediate legs simple.

Female: Like the male, but with the hair-like scales on the elytra
more scattered or less plainly banded, the sutural whitish patch
indistinct.

Length 4 mm.; width 2 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Worcester).

DICRANOCNEMUS MENDICUS, Nn spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra reddish brown ; apical angles of the
clypeus slightly sharp; prothorax clothed with a sub-appressed
Squamose pubescence turning to flavescent scales on the whole of
the posterior half, the longitudinal furrow is very distinct; scutellum
densely scaly, the scales somewhat pallid; elytra entirely clothed
with flavescent ovate scales, bi-costulate and having in each interval,
on each side, a somewhat distinct band of paler scales, the scales
of the sutural patch are also of the same colour; scales on the
pygidial part and abdomen similar in colour to those on the back-
ground of the elytra; legs briefly setulose; claw of intermediate legs
simple.

Female: Clypeus less angular laterally at tip than in the male ;
prothorax clothed with a short, non-squamose pubescence, and with-
out scales; elytra less distinctly costulate, and covered like the
scutellum with greyish, sub-squamose appressed hairs; scales on
the pygidial part and abdomen nearly similar to those of the male,
but a little less closely set on the pygidium.

This species is easily distinguished from the preceding one by the
scaly posterior half of the prothorax, and by the whole surface of
the elytra being also scaly, but having the customary bands and
patches of paler scales.

Length 44-44 mm.; width 23-3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Graham’s Town).

DICRANOCNEMUS PULVERULENTUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol:, iv: 1; p. 137.

Male: Short and robust facies of D. mendicus; this species is
easily distinguished from the four preceding in having the elytra
covered almost uniformly with round, golden scales which are not
disposed in bands, but there is still a faint trace of a sutural whiter
patch under the scutellum ; in some examples, however, the two
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the basal part; clypeus with the apical angles rounded, and emargi-
nate in the centre of the apex; prothorax clothed with a greyish
not very short pubescence, and having along the base a somewhat
broad band of yellow scales which fill also the longitudinal groove
for one-third of the length ; scutellum covered with scales which are
a little lighter in hue than those covering the elytra; scales on the
pygidial part and abdomen golden-yellow ; legs piceous red, setulose ;
claws of intermediate legs simple underneath.

Female: Clothed like the male, except that there is no basal band
of scales on the prothorax, the clypeus is not emarginate at apex,
and the angles are a little more rounded than in the male.

Length 44 mm.; width 22 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Uitenhage, Port Elizabeth).

DICRANOCNEMUS SQUAMULATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d: Bintomoliyiv., 170. 136,

Male: Black, with the elytra light testaceous and having some
scattered, although nearly equi-distant, flavescent, minute, elongate
scales a little denser occasionally along the suture and the apical
margin; clypeus straight at the tip, and with the angles distinct ;
prothorax clothed with a dense, somewhat long, greyish, slightly
flavescent pubescence, and having a narrow basal line of yellow
scales, which fill also partly the posterior part of the median groove ;
scutellum covered with thick squamose yellow hairs; elytra very
slightly costulate, the scales are more like very short hairs; pygidial
part and abdomen clothed with very dense golden-yellow round
scales; legs piceous red or reddish; claws of intermediate tarsi with
a distinct tooth underneath.

Female: Resembles the male very much, except for the shape of
the pygidium and the absence of the tooth under the intermediate
claw. |

This species is easily distinguished from D. squamosus, the male
of which has also a tooth under the claw of the intermediate legs, by
the hair-like scales scattered on the elytra, but there is still a tendency
for these scales to be grouped into a sutural patch.

Length 4-5 mm.; width 2-3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Graham’s Town).

DICRANOCNEMUS SQUAMOSUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 186.

Black, with the elytra testaceous red; anterior angles of the
clypeus distinctly rounded; prothorax clothed with a very dense,

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long, flavescent pubescence, and having a somewhat broad band of
appressed squamose scales along the base; the median groove is
only moderately deep; scutellum densely squamose ; elytra bi-cos-
tulate and either completely covered with round, golden-yellow
scales set close to each other or forming the two usual bands of
scales on the disk and above the outer margin, and the interrupted
sutural one, the median patch of which is occasionally paler than the
other scales; the pygidial part and the abdomen are densely scaly,
the scales a little lighter yellow than those on the upper side ; legs
piceous, tarsi reddish, claw of the intermediate legs with a robust
tooth underneath. |

Female: Shape of the male, but a little smaller, the scales on the
elytra are replaced by squamose flavescent hairs, and the elytra are
darker brown.

Length 4-54 mm.; width 24-3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Port Elizabeth,
Graham’s Town, Kowie).

Gen. NANNISCUS, Burm.,
land. dy Emiomoliv., Ip. 137.

Mentum narrow, elongate, upper lobe elongate, penicillate at tip
and not dentate ; palpi as in Dicranocnemus ; clypeus a little attenu-
ate laterally and quite parabolic in front; prothorax somewhat plane,
distinctly attenuate laterally; scutellum moderately long and broad,
triangular; elytra plane, sinuate laterally, and moderately attenuate
towards the apex ; pygidium broad, sloping forwards ; legs moderately
slender; anterior tibiz bi-dentate, but with the apical tooth bluntly
bifid; all claws double and both cleft; posterior tarsi very long; hind
femora of male robust, simple like the tibiz, which have an apical
spur. |
The distinctive characters between this genus and Dicranocnemus
are the absence of teeth in the inner part of the upper maxillary lobe,
and the shape of the apical outer teeth of the tibiz, which are fused
‘into one, which is, however, slightly bifid at the tip; the shape of the
clypeus is different, and the prothorax is much more plane.

Only one species of this genus is known.

NANNISCUS PULICARIUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 138.

Black, with the elytra testaceous and the legs rufescent; head and
prothorax rugulose, covered with an appressed greyish pubescence

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without trace of scales; scutellum and elytra covered thickly with
thick, appressed, somewhat squamose greyish white hairs with a slight
sheen, and which, although thick, do not hide the colour of the back-
ground, they are plane, not costulate, sinuate laterally below the
humeral part, a little attenuate towards the apex, and leave the
greatest part of the propygidium uncovered; pygidial part and
abdomen densely scaly, the scales are white and smaller and rounder
on the pygidium ; legs moderately pubescent, hind femora robust but
simple, like the tibiee.

Female unknown.

Length 3 mm.; width 14 mm.

I have seen only one male example presented by Drege and bearing
his Catalogue name.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

Gren. DIAPLOCHELUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 182.

Mentum elongate, somewhat ovate in the basal part, but narrow,
thence deeply incised laterally towards the tip at the point of
insertion of the palpi, apical part sloping a little towards the outer
angles and fringed, except for a narrow space in the middle, with long,
dense, ciliate hairs; upper lobe of maxillze as broad as long, obliquely
emarginate on the upper outer part and with the emargination filled
with a broad bunch of hairs, quadri-dentate inwardly with the two
lower teeth double on the left jaw while in the right these two teeth
are set in a line, the lobe is therefore six-dentate, inner lobe sharply
angular at tip (crassipes, transvaalensis) or very feebly tri-dentate
(longupes) apical joint of labial palpi sub-fusiform and truncate at
tip, that of the maxillary palpi sub-cylindrical ; antenne normally
10-jointed ; clypeus rounded laterally at the tip and slightly reflexed
there, not angular laterally in the basal part; prothorax depressed
and a little rounded laterally; scutellum sub-ogival but somewhat
rounded at the tip; elytra elongated, slightly and gradually narrowed
laterally towards the apex, but not sinuate below the humeral part ;
propygidium partly uncovered by the elytra ; pygidium very declivous
forwards in the male, vertical in the female ; anterior tibize tri-dentate,
the two basal teeth are set at right angles with the tibia, and the
apical one is slightly oblique, the anterior claws are double and both
cleft, the median ones single and cleft, and the posterior ones either
single and simple, or double and cleft ; the metasternum is impressed
in the male.

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Key to the Species.
a’, Hind claw single, simple.
Hind tibie of the male elongated, not thickened, simple... .. crassipes.
at, Hind claws double, the larger one cleft.

Hind tibie of the male short, dilated, and with the margin

simple.. Schad UE oy ED ok GD Ov On Pe ne longipes.
Hind tibiz of the male short, dilated, and with the lower
margin pluri-dentate Meme emesis iY ee ee Re ema ye CROMSVACLENGISs

DIAPLOCHELUS CRASSIPES, Burm.,
Handb, d. Entomol, iv., 1, p.133:

D. squamulatus, Burm., ibid., p, 184.

Male: Black, with the elytra pale testaceous or testaceous red,
and the legs rufescent, but occasionally the elytra and legs are black ;
the head, prothorax, pectus, and legs are clothed with a very dense
fulvous pubescence, the scutellum is covered with greyish or slightly
flavescent scales which form also a marginal band on the elytra, this
band ascends a little along the suture; head very rugose, clypeus
broadly rounded laterally, slightly curved at apex and marginated all
round ; prothorax elongate, somewhat convex, very feebly grooved in
the middle of the posterior part, covered with deep and dense but not
contiguous punctures bearing each a very long seta, the median basal
part is, however, impunctate ; prothorax densely scaly ; elytra shining,
distinctly costate and with the intervals remotely punctate, they are
elongate, very little sinuate laterally past the humeral part, and a
little narrowed towards the apex; in the punctures are occasionally a
few whitish scales, but the propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen are
covered with closely set, dense, flavescent scales similar in shape to
those edging the posterior part and the outer margin of the elytra;
the apical part of the pygidium is fringed with very long, flavescent
setze ; posterior femora robust, but not very swollen, and without any
sharp trochanters, articulation of the knee rounded on each side, hind
tibia elongated, robust but not very ampliate, somewhat sub-mucronate
on each side at apex, and without an apical spur; joints of hind tarsi
short, closely set, fifth jot robust, elongate, as long as the other
four taken together, and bi-dentate underneath, hind claw single,
simple.

Female: Like the male, but the elytra are more distinctly striate,
and the punctures more numerous, the lateral and apical marginal
bands of scales are narrower, and the scales less dense and a little
more hair-like.

Length 8-10 mm.; width 4-44 mm.

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Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester, Caledon,
Graham’s Town).

In all my examples from the western part of the Cape Colony the
scutellum and elytra are only sparsely squamulose, but in some from
Graham’s Town the whole of the elytra, as well as the scutellum, is
entirely covered with very dense, light fulvous scales.

DIAPLOCHELUS LONGIPES, Fabric.,
Mantiss. Insect., 1., p. 24.

Oliv., Entomol’, 155, p. 76) plea, en

Male: Black, with the elytra pale testaceous and shining, legs and
abdomen reddish; palpi and antenne pale rufescent; head deeply
and closely punctured but not scabrose, covered with somewhat
sparse, short erect hairs, and having a lateral fringe of long sete;
prothorax convex, grooved longitudinally, sparsely punctured, the
punctures deep and bearing each a very short hair; scutellum with a
few scales; elytra very slightly costulate, sparsely and deeply
punctate, densely scaly (squamulatus, longupes) or only sparsely so;
propygidium with a few elongate scales, pygidium glabrous, but
thickly fringed at apex with villose hairs; abdomen with a few hair-
like appressed scales on the upper side of the segments; claws of
intermediate legs double, and both slightly cleft, hind claws double,
the inner one deeply cleft at the tip; hind femora robust, simple ;
hind tibize sinuated outwardly, gradually dilated and compressed, and
with the lower margin simple, they are setulose on the upper side,
which is somewhat deeply emarginate above the apex, and they are
not mucronate, but strongly bristly all round at the apex, there is no
apical spur; the joints of the tarsi are bristly, somewhat elongated,
and the fifth joint is simple.

Female: Like the male, but the hind legs are more slender, the
hind tibize are simple, and they have a long apical spur.

Length 54-7 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury,
Tulbagh, Worcester, Paarl).

DIAPLOCHELUS TRANSVAALENSIS, N. Spec.

Allied to D. longipes, from which it differs mainly by the shape of
the hind tibiee of the male; the head alone is black, the prothorax,
legs, and under side being reddish, and the elytra brick-red, the
clypeus is a little narrower; the sides of the prothorax are much
more numerously punctate, and the pubescence on the sides is there-
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between the two costules, which are very distinct, and the punctures
bear each a minute sub-flavescent scale; the pygidium and also the
propygidium have small, ovate, flavescent scales either partly rubbed
off or very scattered ; in the male the trochanters project as a small
but distinct spine, the robust hind tibiee have a short, sharp spine in
the inner part of the knee, the hind tibie are emarginate near the
knee, compressed and gradually dilated underneath into a laminate
sub-elongato-quadrate process, the lower edge of which is quadri-
dentate, the fourth tooth forming a sort of apical mucro, the basal
part of the tibia is grooved underneath, and there is no apical spur ;
the joints of the hind tarsi are conical, somewhat short, but not
closely set, the fourth joint is simple underneath, and the hind claw
is double, the shorter one being alone cleft.

Length 54-7 mm.; width 34-34 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

BIZANUS, n. gen.

Mentum long, very narrow but slightly expanding at the apex
where it is somewhat rounded and sub-penicillate; lobe of maxille
short, narrow, simple, but having at the tip a pencil of hairs longer
than the whole maxilla; apical joint of labial palpi more than twice
as long as the other two taken together, that of the maxillary also
long, straight inwardly but fusiform outwardly; antenne normal;
clypeus narrower than the head, nearly parabolic and with the apical
margin reflexed ; prothorax, scutellum, elytra and pygidium as in
Heterochelus ; in the male, however, the claw of the intermediate
legs has alongside of it another one equally robust but shorter, and
pointing downwards-as in some species of Dicranocnemus, Monochelus,
&e., but instead of being a part of the claw it projects laterally from
the base itself; the female has also this claw, but it is somewhat
rudimentary ; in the male the hind legs are very robust.

This genus differs from Heterochelus by the rounded shape of the
clypeus, and the absence of teeth on the maxillary lobe; from
Diaplochelus, in which the clypeus is nearly similar, it differs by
the absence of teeth on the maxillary lobe, and also in the general
facies, which is that of an Heterochelus.

BIZANUS CALIGINOSUS, Nn. spec.

Male: Black, with the fore legs rufescent, the elytra are chocolate-
brown and covered with nearly contiguous ashy-grey scales, the
propygidium and abdomen have deep yellow scales, but the pygidium
has none; the head is very rugose, the clypeus is very much rounded

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laterally, but somewhat straight at the tip the margin of which is
distinctly reflexed; prothorax scabroso-punctate and covered with
somewhat dense, black and sub-flavescent hairs; scutellum covered
with scales; elytra bi-costulate on each side, the lanciform scales are
set very close to each other, but they have no sheen and form a sort
of tomentum; the pygidium is very briefly pubescent and has no
scales; the claws of the anterior legs are double and both cleft, that
of the intermediate one is single and deeply cleft laterally, the hind
one is single and simple; hind femora robust, simple, hind tibie
strong, somewhat compressed inwardly and having a small angular
tooth underneath near the knee, the upper edge is emarginate at
some distance from the apex and the upper angle of the emargina-
tion is somewhat sharp, the apices are distinctly sharp but not
mucronate, and there is an apical spur.

Female: Like the male but more densely hairy and without scales
on the scutellum, elytra, and pygidial part; the two strize between
the costules of the elytra are deeper, and the latter instead of scales
have a very short, erect, black pubescence; the pubescence on the
pygidial part and the abdomen is often greyish white.

Length 34-4 mm.; width 2-21 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Ceres, Stellenbosch, Worcester).

Group SCELOPHYSIDES.

Key to the Genera.
A?, Labrum not produced vertically.
B?,. Claws of all the legs double.

Clypeus deeply emarginate in the centre and with the angles
very sharp, scutellum very long, all the claws double and
cleft, legs slender in both sexes; clothed with scales; sexual
differences not erediy jc) i) vic) oe pete eresnr iene ote inten MODOC US ae

Clypeus nearly always straight at the apex in the male and
with the angles sharp or rounded; scutellum short; all the
claws usually double and cleft; legs slender in both sexes or
not greatly developed in the male; clothed with appressed
hairs ; sexual differences not great:

Club of antenne somewhat short. .. .. .. .. .. Platychelus.
Club of antenne long .. Sec Nee eee Coega.
Claws of hind legs single, simple 32 2. 42. Ss Se Waiyarar

Clypeus with four broad reflexed teeth disposed semicircularly ;
claws double, hind legs slender or developed ; in the male a
tooth underneath the claw of the intermediate legs; clothed
with scales or hairs 20 ose os oa Wels vee? ola dies pei Opn

B‘. Claws of hind legs single.

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Clypeus with the angles more or less broadly rounded ; anterior
and intermediate claws double or single, hind ones nearly
always single and not cleft; clothed with scales; sexual
differences very great; claw of the intermediate and some-
times of the hind legs with a tooth underneath in the male:

Club of antenne small Muy co menses one), oon, UM OnOCHeLUs:
Like Monochelus, but club of antenne as long as all the
other joints taken together ; clothed with hairs .. .. Thabina.

Clypeus either sharply acuminate in the centre or sub-parallel
with the apical angles sharp ; claws single but cleft except the
hind ones; sexual differences either striking or not, no tooth
under the intermediate clawin the male... .. .. .. .. Gymmnoloma.

Clypeus plainly narrowed obliquely and deeply emarginate
at the tip; legs slender in both sexes and witha tooth under-
neath the intermediate claw in the male, hind claws only
single and simple; clothed with scales ciel Uesey le rom een LO7L2/ S10,

Clypeus deeply and broadly emarginate in the middle and
with the two basal angles developed inwardly into a tooth ;
hind claws only single and simple, hind legs of male, especially
iiekubie very swollemy. ba; cs). Gs «ci ss «. ss Outemgua.

A‘. Labrum produced vertically.

Clypeus sub-orbicular, deeply impressed; legs slender in both
sexes, all the claws simple, but the four anterior ones slightly
cleft Re a alee bond Ware ribald Vain UA PU tl ise ug e, ), GOUNGs

Clypeus slightly attenuate laterally, emarginate at the apex; hind
legs of male thick, robust; all the claws double, unequal .. .. Scelophysa.

Clypeus sub-rectangular, not emarginate at the apex; hind legs
slender in both sexes; all the claws double, unequal .. .. .. Lepisia.

KUBOUSA, n: gen.

Mentum broad but a little longer than wide, rounded laterally,
deeply and broadly emarginate at the tip, and not ciliate there,
upper lobe of maxillee robust, armed with six strong sharp teeth, set
in a double row; palpi of Platychelus ; antenne nine-jointed, club
as long as the five preceding joints taken together; clypeus slightly
constricted laterally at the base, emarginate in front; prothorax
attenuate laterally in front and sinuate or deeply sinuate in the
posterior part and with the basal angles sharp, base strongly sinuate,
scutellum long, sharply ogival; elytra as strongly attenuated laterally
towards the apex as in Omocrates, plane more or less densely scaly ;
pygidium vertical in the male; anterior tibiz tri-dentate outwardly,
the two basal teeth are very small and all three equi-distant; but in
K. elegans the tibize are only bi-dentate; legs slender, similar in both
sexes, all the claws double with the more robust ones cleft.

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In shape the insects included in this genus greatly resemble small
species of Omocrates, but they are at once distinguished by the shape
of the outer teeth of the anterior tibia which are not connate and not
set at right angles with the tibie.

Key to the Species.

A?, Elytra with a broad transverse impression near the humeral callus.

B?. Clypeus diagonal laterally from the middle to the sharp angle
of the apex and deeply emarginate.

C?. Elytra with a reddish broad basal band.

Prothorax very opaque on the discoidal part and closely
punctured? 3.08 0 Sse 5 he ee eee pote Cr CLC UULOLIZES

Prothorax shining, impunctate on the discoidal part .. .. venusta.

Bt. Clypeus not attenuate laterally and with the angles rounded.
C’. Elytra without a reddish basal band.

Prothorax opaque, finely aciculate .. .. .. .. .. «- gentilis.
A‘, Elytra with only the normal impression along the humeral callus.

Clypeus attenuate laterally, outer angles very sharp, apex deeply
emarginate.

Prothorax and elytra covered with dense greyish scales .. .. .. elegans.

KUBOUSA AXILLARIS, Burm.
Platychelus axillaris, Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 143.

Male: Black, shining, with the elytra transversely rufescent in the
median part, along the suture of the elytra are a few sparse, whitish
scales, the vertical pygidium is covered with round, nearly con-
tiguous, flavescent scales, and the propygidium and the edges of the
abdominal segments have elongated, somewhat appressed, hair-like,
white scales; head scabrose, pubescent, clypeus long, slightly angular
laterally at base, somewhat obliquely narrowed towards the tip which
is emarginate with the angles dentate and reflexed; prothorax obliquely
attenuate laterally from about the middle to the anterior part, sinuate
from the median part to the base, convex, shining and with some
remotely scattered punctures, fringed with somewhat stiff ciliate
hairs along the anterior and lateral margins, and having along the
base and also the posterior part of the lateral margin a very narrow
band of white, elongate scales which are, however, rubbed off oftener
than not; scutellum long, sharply triangular, elytra plane but having
on each side a strongly arcuate, transverse impression near the base,
shining, irregularly punctured and having in the puncture some white,

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hair-like scales which are more regularly disposed along the suture,
although not forming a band, they are very deeply emarginate laterally
past the humeral part, greatly narrowed towards the apex, leaving a
great part of the dorsal surface of the abdomen uncovered ; anterior
tibie tri-dentate, the teeth widely separated, hind legs very slender,
- tibiee longer than the femora, and having a very distinct apical spur ;
hind tarsi nearly as long as the tibiae; hind claws double and both
cleft, inner one not quite half as long as the outer.

Female: Like the male, but the two angles of the apical part of
the clypeus are not quite as much reflexed, the elytra are testaceous
red from a small distance from the base right to the apex, and the
legs are reddish.

Length 44-5 mm.; width 2-21 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Tulbagh, Malmesbury,
Namaqualand).

KUBOUSA VENUSTA, n. spec.

Male: Very closely allied to K. avillaris ; it differs in the less
elongated shape of the body, which is a little broader in proportion to
the length; the prothorax, instead of being opaque and very finely
aciculate, is shining and either impunctate or has only a few scattered
punctures in the discoidal part; the elytra are also more shiny and
less closely punctate, the sub-basal red patch is often less plainly
visible, and the round scales on the pygidium are bright yellow.

Female: Shape of the male, but the prothorax is more punctate,
and in all my examples the elytra are red, but have a broad, basal,
black band.

Length 34-44 mm.; width 24-3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). .

KUBOUSA GENTILIS, n. spec.

Male: Aineous black, with the elytra somewhat brownish red in
the anterior part, covered with small, elongate, white scales on the
prothorax, and also on the elytra, pygidial part abdomen and pectus
also covered with similar scales which are contiguous ; head elongate,
clypeus sub-parallel and with the anterior angles a little rounded, the
apical part is emarginate in the centre and reflexed, club of antennez
somewhat elongate; prothorax distinctly emarginate laterally in the
posterior part and with the posterior angle somewhat sharp and pro-
jecting ; scutellum elongate, narrowly ogival and having a few scales ;
elytra elongate, very distinctly narrowed laterally towards the apex
and strongly sinuate below the shoulder, thus leaving a somewhat

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broad portion of the dorsal parts of the abdominal segments un-
covered as in Omocrates, they are plane and not costulate and have
a deep, transverse, basal impression between the scutellum and the
humeral callus, the white scales are dense but not contiguous, except
along the suture ; anterior tibize bi-dentate outwardly, hind legs long,
slender, and having only a few villose hairs and a few scales; all the
claws double, unequal, slender, and all very slightly cleft.

Length 44 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Malmesbury).

KUBOUSA ELEGANS, Nn. spec.

Male: Black, with the tarsi rufescent, covered on the upper side
with small and dense but not quite contiguous greyish white shghtly
hair-like scales, and on the pygidial part, abdomen and metasternum
with thicker and broader silvery-white ones; clypeus a little
rounded laterally near the base, and sub-diagonally attenuated
towards the apex which is very deeply emarginate in the centre, and
the angles of which are very sharp, and somewhat reflexed ;
head and prothorax finely shagreened, the latter is plainly sinuate
laterally in the posterior part and sharply angular at the base, and
has a small impression along the base on each side of the median
part, the scales leave a median longitudinal denuded band, and it is
ciliate in front, and laterally; scutellum elongate, ogival; elytra
strongly sinuate laterally and very plainly attenuate thence towards
the apex, the scales are denser than on the prothorax, but not quite
contiguous, they are very faintly costulate on each side, and they
have a distinct longitudinal basal impression along the humeral
callus ; fore tibize tri-dentate, but with the basal tooth very small ;
claws double, unequal, the stronger ones cleft.

Female: Like the male in size, shape, and vestiture, but the scales
are a little more flavescent, and those on the pygidium a little more
hair-like.

Length 34-5 mm.; width 24-24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

Gen. PLATYCHELUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 141.

Encyophanes, Burm., ibid., p. 139.

Mentum somewhat elongate, ovate, deeply constricted at the point
of insertion of the labial palpi, nearly straight or very little sinuate

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at the tip the angles of which are obliquely attenuate and penicillate ;
upper maxillary lobe horny and with a long pencil of hairs at the top,
broad, concave, armed with six strong teeth set opposite each other,
apical joint of maxillary and labial palpi swollen at the base, fusiform ;
clypeus slightly attenuate laterally towards the apex, or rectangular,
straight at the tip, with the angles sometimes sharp or slightly
reflexed ; prothorax convex, narrowed laterally in the anterior part ;
scutellum short, triangular ; elytra elongate, somewhat plane, slightly
or strongly sinuate laterally below the humeral part, and attenuate
from there to the apex; pygidium declivous forwards in the male;
legs moderately slender, hind legs generally similar in both sexes,
with the exception of P. pugionatus, P. excentrus, P. dispar ; anterior
tibize bi- or tri-dentate outwardly; all the claws double and cleft
(except in P. cicatrix), but the smaller one of the hind feet is
sometimes simple.

By restricting to this genus all the species with the clypeus
transversely straight at apex, we have a very homogeneous group
of insects, the livery of which consists of hairs, not of scales; in the
elytra, however, these appressed hairs are somewhat squamose
along the posterior part of the suture and on the apical margin.

The habits are those of Heterochelus, and some species have a
facies which is not unlike that of certain species of the latter. P. semv-
virgatus, &c., have the two basal outer teeth of the fore tibize nearly
connate, and therefore resembling those of Heterochelus ; the tro-
chanters are developed into a long spine, and the hind tibie into
a long mucro in P. pugionatus, or the hind tibiz are triangularly
dilated, and the apices sub-mucronate in the males of P. excentrus
or P. dispar. The maxille are, however, much more robust and
more powerfully dentate inwardly in Platychelus, the apical outer
tooth of the anterior tibiz is always very oblique, and the hind legs
have always a long inner apical spur.

I am not aware of the genus being represented elsewhere than in
South Africa.

Key to the Species.

A?. Hind trochanters produced into a long spite in the male.

Metallic, glittering, elytra light chestnut-brown, under side and
legs clothed with dense yellow hairs .. .. .. .. .. .. pugionatus.

A‘. Hind trochanters not spinose.

B?. Elytra without deep longitudinal impressions or without
costules.

C?. Anterior tibiz bi-dentate outwardly.

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a*. Clypeus straight, with the angles sharp, elytra
moderately elongate, and having in the posterior
part a faint juxta-sutural band of sparse greyish
hairs; hind tarsi not villose:

Elytra testaceous, and with a lateral and apical

intuscater and aaerume) me dimidiatus.
Elytra eneous and with a br ona heel ester

band ee basalts.
Elytra eneous Ail ne a eeint Hint heen

leopmonvADNisioh lore! 65 68) 65 “da 66 oa oo WIUNS.

at. Clypeus slightly rounded laterally, and somewhat
emarginate ; elytra moderately elongate and with-
out a juxta-sutural band of hairs:
Clypeus a little attenuate laterally and with the
angles rounded; elytra sneous with a large
yellow basal patch on each side; hind tarsi not
particularly villose .. . anomalus.
Clypeus attenuate laterally anal alee sinapllane
elytra testaceous yellow, slightly eneous at apex;
hind tarsi very densely villose .. .. .. .. brevis.

C:. Anterior tibix tri-dentate.

Elytra short, testaceous red, and having on each side a
diagonal impressed line reaching from the scutellum
to the outer margin; hind tarsi very densely villose .. cicatriz.

Elytra normal, short, testaceous red; hind tarsi not
Villose2asa Biht 23.2) ML Mice Soe rly eee es ey TOC SI SE

Elytra normal, short, with the humeral part not sloping,
black aes se oa ie eee ee CCDS LSE

Elytra very elongate, light testaceous ; Le: briefly
clothed with greyish hairs.. .. So 6a (OVOE TING.

Elytra elongate, light testaceous; pygidium clothed with
conspicuously dense fulvous hairs ., .. . 22) sa PYnopyGais.

Bt. Elytra with two or three longitudinal impressions on each
side, and costulate.

C*. Anterior tibie tri-dentate.
D?. The two basal teeth sub-connate.

a3, Elytra with three not interrupted bands of
greyish hairs on each side.

Clypeus straight, sub-angular laterally ; inner
claw of anterior tibia very thick oe) ee GRMUTGRIS.

a’, Elytra with two interrupted bands of hairs on
each side.

Clypeus tri-dentate; hind claw cleft on the
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Clypeus sharply angular laterally and with the
median part of the apical margin slightly raised ;
hind claw cleft at the tip

Clypeus straight, normally angular; larger hind
claw cleft laterally. .

Clypeus very sharply angular laterally, the
angle reflexed; larger hind claw cleft at the tip
for nearly the whole length.. anes ad ace

at, Elytra without interrupted bands of hair.
Clypeus straight with the angles sharp and
reflexed; hind claw slightly cleft cay:
smaller one simple cea ees :
D'. Anterior tibize tri-dentate, the two basal teeth not
connate.

Clypeus straight, but with the angles slightly
rounded in both sexes; elytra of the male fuscous,
of the female red..

Clypeus of the male slightly emarginate in the
centre, and distinctly angular laterally but not
reflexed ; prothorax very closely punctured in the
posterior part

Clypeus with the outer angles sharp and reflexed ;
prothorax with broader and less closely set punc-
tures

Clypeus rounded lateraliy ; elytra plainly bi-costate
and covered with bristle-like whitish, scattered
appressed hairs

Anterior tibize bi-dentate.

Clypeus straight, sharply angular; elytra red, sparsely
punctate on the intervals.. So bb pes Bo et
Clypeus nearly straight, but with the angles rounded
in the male, sub-orbicular in the female; elytra very
closely punctured

Clypeus sub-orbicular in the male; elytra very closely
punctured 8 oe Oey es

Clypeus quite rounded in front (¢?); elytra covered
with minute, not closely set granules

Clypeus sub-orbicular in the male; elytra very closely
punctured and having two patches of white hairs on
each side

Clypeus straight and angular on each side; elytra
clothed with short, appressed fuscous hairs

805

semivirgatus.

hottentotus.

unguiculatus.

conformis.

discolor.

litigosus.

nitidulus.

retensus.

glabripennis.

hoplioides.

caffer.

jucundus,

excentrus.

dispar.

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PLATYCHELUS PUGIONATUS, Nn. Spec.

Male: Aineous, shining, elytra light chestnut-brown, and clothed
on the prothorax, the pygidial part, the under side and legs, with
very long and dense light fulvous hairs ; head and clypeus granular,
clypeus straight laterally, transverse but slightly emarginate in front,
and with the angles sharp but not projecting, the anterior margin is
reflexed ; prothorax plainly scabroso-punctate in the anterior half,
normally punctate in the posterior, and having a short, shallow, basal
longitudinal furrow ; scutellum moderately short, triangular, clothed
with fulvous hairs; elytra not very deeply sinuate laterally but
plainly narrowed towards the apex, faintly bi-costulate on each side,
but having there two longitudinal impressions, they are irregu-
larly punctulate, and nearly glabrous; pygidium almost sub-ho1i-
zontally declivous forwards; anterior tibiz bi-dentate outwardly,
hind femora robust and having the trochanters produced into
a very long sub-vertical spine, hind tibia slender in propor-
tion to the size of the femora, somewhat flattened underneath,
slightly curved and ending in a very long, spinose, outer mucro, no
apical spur; claws double, unequal, the stronger one somewhat
slender.

Female unknown.

This is the only Platychelus having spinose trochanters.

Length 5 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

PLATYCHELUS DIMIDIATUS, Burm..,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 146.

Head and prothorax shining bronze; legs and under side metallic
black, shining; elytra light testaceous, somewhat broadly infuscate
laterally in the male, but not in the female, pygidium with a few
small greyish appressed hairs in the male, densely hairy with the
hairs yellow in the female; head very scabrose; clypeus straight,
somewhat bluntly angular laterally and covered like the prothorax
with a villose greyish pubescence; prothorax deeply scabroso-
punctate; scutellum with greyish villose hairs; elytra slightly
impressed longitudinally along the suture, but not costulate, deeply
and closely punctured, briefly pubescent and having on each side
a faint discoidal band of greyish white hairs somewhat remote, and
a short and more distinct one along the suture in the posterior part ;
propygidium and abdominal segments covered with dense whitish
squamose hairs, pectus villose; hind legs normal, hind claws
slender, anterior tibise bi-dentate.

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Length 6-64 mm. ; width 34 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand),

PLATYCHELUS BASALIS, N. spec.

Like the preceding species, but much less hairy, the vestiture of
the pygidial part and of the abdomen is similar; the elytra are of the
same shining bronze colour as the head and prothorax, but the whole
basal part is testaceous with a metallic tinge, and there is no trace of
the bands of greyish-white hairs ; legs similar.

Length 6 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Tulbagh, Ceres, Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

PLATYCHELUS GENTILIS, nN. Spec.

Similar in shape and size to the two previous species, but at once
distinguished by the elytra which are a little more costulate on the
discoidal part, the head and prothorax are bronze-green, the elytra
are slightly rufescent along the base in the male, but not in the
female, and are dark bronze for the greatest part of the length, the
pubescence of the prothorax and elytra is much shorter than in P.
dimidiatus, but the bands of whitish hairs are similar, the scutellum,
propygidium, and abdomen are clothed with dense, squamose, slightly
flavescent hairs, which in the female are less squamose and more
yellow ; legs as in the preceding species.

Length 54 mm.; width 3-3} mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch).

PLATYCHELUS ANOMALUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Ktomol., iv., 1, p..150.

Male: Bronze, more shining on the prothorax than in the posterior
part of the elytra, the anterior part of the latter being occupied by a
transverse testaceous yellow patch reaching to near the outer margin
and to the suture; clypeus very rugose, plainly rounded laterally and
slightly emarginate in the centre; prothorax clothed with an erect
greyish pubescence which is somewhat bristly, it is closely scabroso-
punctate in the anterior part, but normally punctate in the posterior ;
scutellum with a greyish pubescence; elytra very plane, distinctly
emarginate and narrowed laterally, covered with broad, somewhat
closely set punctures, and covered with a very short, fuscous
appressed pubescence; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen
clothed with greyish hairs; hind legs slender.

Length 5 mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality recorded).

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PLATYCHELUS BREVIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 152.

Male: This species is also very closely allied to P. dinmudiatus, so
much so that it is difficult to differentiate them ; it is, however, a little
smaller, the pubescence on the prothorax is somewhat denser and
more flavescent; the elytra of the male are fuscous in the posterior
part only, not on the sides, the pygidium is much more densely
covered with flavescent hairs; the hind tarsi, and also the hind
tibize, but the former especially, are very densely villose, the villose
hairs on the tibize are yellow, and on the tarsi black.

The female cannot be distinguished from that of P. dinudiatus.

Length 5mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand)

PLATYCHELUS CICATRIX, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 144.

Male: Head, prothorax, and legs bronze, shining, under side
black with a metallic tinge, elytra reddish brown; head granular,
setulose, clypeus straight at the tip, and with the angles well defined,
but slightly rounded ; prothorax convex, covered with deep, not very
closely set punctures, densely villose, the villosity long and flavescent,
no median longitudinal sulcus; scutellum covered with whitish,
thick, squamose hairs; elytra very distinctly attenuate laterally
towards the apex and very sinuate below the shoulder, not costulate,
but having near the base a conspicuous obliquely transverse im-
pressed line reaching on each side from the scutellum to the outer
margin close to the shoulder, they are closely punctured, clothed with
very dense but very short, erect, slightly flavescent hairs, and have in
the centre of the disk a small fascicle of white hairs, and another
one, close to the suture and adjoining the transverse oblique im-
pressed line; pygidial part and abdomen clothed with dense, con-
tiguous white scales, the pygidium has also a fringe of greyish cilize
all round, the abdomen is entirely covered with thick, squamose hairs,
and the pectus is clothed with dense, greyish-white, villose hairs ;
the hind legs, and especially the tarsi, are very densely villose, with
the hairs rufescent, but black on the tarsi; hind claws double and
not cleft, the inner one is more than half the length of the outer,
which is not thickened ; anterior tibia tri-dentate.

Female: Similar to the male, but the scales on the pygidial part
and abdomen are a little more flavescent.

Length 5 mm. ; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

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PLATYCHELUS KARROOENSIS, n. spec.

Male: Bronze, somewhat greenish on the prothorax; elytra
testaceous red, very shiny, but with scarcely a metallic sheen ;
clypeus straight at apex, slightly attenuate laterally and with the
outer angles distinct, the head is very granulose, and slightly
pubescent; prothorax very closely scabroso-punctate laterally and
in the anterior part, but with normal, somewhat closely set punctures
in the median part, very slightly grooved longitudinally in the
anterior part only, and clothed with a dense greyish and sub-
flavescent, long pubescence; scutellum covered with thick flavous
hairs; elytra plainly sinuate and narrowed laterally towards the
apex, very plane, not costulate, but having a somewhat distinct,
although very shallow impression along the suture, they are very
closely punctured, and covered with a very short, appressed, slightly
fuscous pubescence ; pygidial part and abdomen clothed with a very
dense, thick yellowish pubescence; the legs are pubescent, but not
the hind tarsi; all the claws are cleft, and the anterior tibize are
distinctly tri-dentate.

Length 54-6 mm. ; width 3-34 mm.

This species is distinguished from P. dimidiatus and P. brevis,
both of which it closely resembles, by the tridentate anterior tibie,
and also from the last-named species by the non-densely villose hind
tarsi.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

PLATYCHELUS EXPANSUS, Nn. spec.

Male: Black, with a dark green metallic tinge on the prothorax ;
head and prothorax clothed with a fulvous erect, somewhat villose
pubescence; clypeus normal in shape; prothorax with a posterior
short and shallow median groove, scutellum, propygidium, and
pygidium clothed with dense appressed fulvous hairs; the elytra
are broader than in P. dimidiatus and P. brevis, and being not
longer than in the latter species, they look more ampliated at the
base, the longitudinal impression near the humeral callus is distinct,
but there is only a slightly transverse impression below the scutellum,
they are very closely punctured, are covered with a very short, erect
black pubescence, and have no trace of appressed greyish hairs ; hind
legs clothed with a fulvous, not very dense pubescence.

Female unknown.

Length 5 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Pella).

This species resembles also P. karrooensis, but owing to the

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shoulders being straight instead of oblique, the elytra are broader
at the base and look shorter in proportion to the size.

PLATYCHELUS LUPINUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 146.

Male: Elongate, black with a bronze tinge, elytra very light
testaceous, slightly infuscate in the apical part ; head and prothorax
clothed with a very long, villose, light fulvous pubescence, which is
nearly equally as long and dense on the abdomen and the pectus; the
punctures on the prothorax are not scabrose in the posterior half,
and there is no median groove; scutellum densely hairy; elytra
elongate, conspicuously emarginate laterally and strongly attenuate
towards the apex, nearly plane but having a deep transverse im-
pression in the basal part, and a slight depression along the suture,
they are covered with somewhat closely set, round, somewhat seriate
punctures, each bearing a fine sub-appressed, pallid hair, at the apex
of the suture there is a short band of denser paler hairs on each side;
pygidium somewhat convex, very closely and very finely punctulate,
and covered with a slight pallid pubescence which does not conceal
the black background; anterior tibia with a somewhat indistinct
third outer tooth ; hind legs slender, villose, the hind inner claws are
two-thirds of the length of the outer, and both distinctly cleft at tip.

Female: Similar to the male, but the elytra are not infuscate
behind, and the third basal tooth of the anterior tibiz is, although
very small, sharper and more distinct.

Length 7-8 mm. ; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury,
Worcester).

This species is easily distinguished from the preceding ones by
the more elongated shape.

PLATYCHELUS PYROPYGUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 147.

This species might be mistaken for P. lwpinus, and I am not sure
that it is not merely a variety; it is, however, smaller, and the
pubescence on the prothorax, under side, and legs is greyish white,
but the propygidium and pygidium are clothed with very dense
orange-yellow appressed hairs; the prothorax is also more shining
bronze, but occasionally the hairs on the prothorax and under side
are aS fulvous as in P. lwpimuws, in which case the only distinctive
character is the background of the scutellum entirely hidden by the

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thickly appressed orange hairs; anterior tibie with a third, very
small basal tooth.

Female exactly like the male.

Length 6-64 mm. ; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury).

PLATYCHELUS (ENCYOPHANES) GRAVIDUS, Burm.,
Handb. d: Mntomol., iv., 1, p. 140:

Male: Black, prothorax clothed with a dense flavescent or
whitish, slightly lanuginose pubescence; elytra with four bands of
appressed, squamulose hairs of the same colour, pygidium and
abdomen clothed with similar hairs, pectus and legs densely hairy ;
head and prothorax scabrose, the clypeus is straight laterally and
also at apex; the outer angles are very distinct, and the apical
margin is plainly reflexed; scutellum hairy; elytra very little
broader than the prothorax at the base but very plainly narrowed
laterally from the shoulder towards the apex, they are very closely
punctured and have on each side two somewhat distinct costules,
and three intervals filled with the appressed, squamose hairs
in addition to the outer marginal band, but the third one is often
obliterated, or very indistinct; pygidium large and very slanting
forwards, being almost sub-horizontal; hind legs moderately
robust, hind tibiz sub-mucronate inwardly at apex and having an
apical spur, anterior tibie strongly tri-dentate with the two basal
teeth closely set but not connate, and the basal one shorter, but
broader than the intermediate; all the claws are double and un-
equal, the anterior ones are both cleft, the inner one of the anterior
being short and very massive and less deeply cleft than the other,
in the intermediate and posterior legs the weaker claw is very small
and simple, and the stronger, and somewhat elongate one, is deeply
cleft.

Female: I have not seen the female, but Burmeister says that she
is smaller, narrower, and darker than the male ; the fore margin of the
clypeus is not much raised, and the squamose hairs are not so dense.

Length 8-10 mm.; width 44-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown); Natal (Frere).

PLATYCHELUS SEMIVIRGATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 148.

Male: Black, with an eneous sheen more noticeable on the sides
of the elytra and on the legs; head and prothorax clothed with a

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long greyish erect pubescence; elytra with a distinct sutural and
apical band of white, appressed, slightly squamulose hairs obliterated
close to the apex of the scutellum, there is also a faint trace of a
discoidal and of a supra-marginal line of similar hairs; the pygidial
part and abdomen are covered with appressed hairs more flaves-
cent on the pygidium than on the abdomen; clypeus very scabrose,
shghtly attenuate laterally, straight at the apex with the angles
sharp and reflexed, and a slight prominence in the centre of the
reflexed margin; prothorax very closely scabrose except on the
median basal part, which is punctured, it has a distinct median
longitudinal groove; scutellum densely hairy; elytra very plainly
sinuate laterally and attenuate towards the apex, irregularly and
somewhat closely punctured, not costulate but having two longi-
tudinal impressions; anterior tibize tri-dentate, the apical tooth is
very slanting, but the other two, although not quite connate at the
base, are set at right angles somewhat in the fashion of Hetero-
chelus, among which this species should be placed but for the
stronger hind claw being deeply cleft at the tip.

Female: Exactly like the male, but a little more robust; it can
be distinguished by the shape of the pygidium only.

Length 5-74 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Namaqualand, Graham’s Town).

PLATYCHELUS VIRGATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, 148.

Male: Black, with a very faint metallic tinge; prothorax clothed
with a moderately short, dense greyish pubescence; scutellum
hairy, elytra with three moderately distinct bands of appressed
greyish hairs, the median one of which is obliterated past the
middle; pygidial part, abdomen and legs clothed with appressed
hairs flavescent on the pygidium, greyish elsewhere; head finely
scabrose, clypeus slightly attenuate laterally, plainly tri-dentate at
apex and with the teeth reflexed ; the prothorax is finely scabrose
all over; scutellum clothed with greyish hairs; elytra plainly
sinuate laterally and attenuate towards the apex, bi-impressed longi-
tudinally on each side, the juxta-humeral impression being deeper
but shorter than the sutural one, they are closely but irregularly
punctured and somewhat brownish laterally, and they have a few
ashy grey hairs in the intervals of the hairy bands; anterior tibiz
tri-dentate, but with the basal one much shorter than the inter-
mediate, the two, however, are set close to each other and almost at
right angles with the tibiz ; the robust hind claw is cleft laterally,

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and the weaker one is very small in one of my examples but normal
in the other ; in the latter the hind tibie are also plainly mucronate
underneath at apex.

There is a little discrepancy between this description and that
of Burmeister, who says that the clypeus is quadri-dentate, and
- the teeth of the anterior tibiae very obtuse. The first might be
a lapsus calanw, the other an accident. My example was labelled
by Drége under this name. This species resembles P. semivirgatus,
but the head is more finely granulose, and the prothorax is equally
and also more finely scabrose right to the base; the shape of the
clypeus is also different, being plainly tri-dentate. This last feature
gives it also the appearance of a species of Goniaspidius, from
which, however, it is distinguished by the short, obtusely triangular
scutellum.

Length 54 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

PLATYCHELUS UNGUICULATUS, 0. spec.

Black, with the elytra and legs red, shining; head and prothorax
clothed with villose sub-flavescent hairs ; elytra moderately densely
pubescent; the pubescence is somewhat greyish, but along the
suture and the apical margin there is a band of denser and longer
white hairs turning to yellow on the apical margin; pygidium
clothed with very dense, appressed flavescent squamose hairs ;
clypeus sharply angular laterally, head and _ prothorax closely
scabrose; scutellum clothed with long, dense white hairs; the
elytra are punctate, impressed longitudinally along the humeral
callus; the propygidium, abdomen, pectus, and legs are clothed
with greyish or white hairs; the anterior tibia are strongly tri-
dentate outwardly, the teeth are very sharp, and the apical one is
broadly separated from the other two, which are nearly connate;
the hind claws are double and deeply cleft, the two parts of the
fissured inner claw which is cleft to beyond the median part being
equal in length and nearly so in thickness. The two sexes are alike.

In no other species of the group to which P. wnguwiculatus belongs
is the cleavage of the inner claw so greatly developed.

Length 5-64 mm. ; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

PLATYCHELUS HOTTENTOTUS, 0. spec.

Shape and sculpture of P. wngwiculatus, but somewhat more
robust; the shape of the clypeus is the same, the prothorax is

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somewhat metallic green, but the elytra have not only along the
suture a broad band of very dense and somewhat long, lanceolate
appressed white hairs, but the long impression along the humeral
callus is filled with a band of similar hairs; the scutellum is densely
hairy, and the hairs white; the appressed hairs on the pygidium are
white in both sexes; the anterior tibie are strongly and sharply
tri-dentate, the apical tooth is also broadly separated from the inter-
mediate one, and the hind claws are double and both parts cleft, but
the longer one is only cleft laterally, and the lateral part is slender
and shorter.

Length 6-9 mm.; width 3-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

PLATYCHELUS CONFORMIS, Nn. spec.

A close ally to P. hottentotus, but much smaller; the elytra are
darker brown ; the head and prothorax are similar, the latter being
more distinctly dark green, but the pubescence which covers it is
much shorter ; the scutellum is also hairy, but the hairs are greyish,
and the elytra have no longitudinal impression along the suture or
the humeral callus, and are covered equally with greyish appressed
hairs not as dense as on the pygidial area, abdomen, or pectus,
where they are flavescent; anterior tibiz tri-dentate, the teeth are
sharp and shaped as in P. hottentotus, and the hind claws are cleft
in the same manner, but the lateral cleft part of the outer one is
very slender.

The female is not known.

Length 4-44 mm. ; width 2 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Pella, Namaqualand).

PLATYCHELUS DISCOLOR, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 148.

Male: Bronze, shining, darker on the elytra than on the prothorax;
head and prothorax clothed with a moderately long, dense, sub-
flavescent pubescence, elytra moderately densely pubescent along
the margin, and in the basal discoidal impression; pygidial part,
abdomen, and legs clothed with dense, yellow, appressed hairs ;
head finely scabrose ; clypeus not narrowed laterally, straight at
apex but with the angles slightly rounded ; prothorax finely scabrose,
but with the posterior median part punctate; scutellum clothed with
greyish white hairs; elytra deeply sinuate and moderately attenuate
laterally towards the apex, impressed along the suture in the median

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part, and having a short, discoidal impression along the humeral
callus, they are closely punctate, and very slightly pubescent, the
pubescence is denser along the suture; anterior tibixw tri-dentate,
the teeth are equi-distant, but the basal one is small.

Female: Shape of the male, but the elytra are red, the prothorax
greener, and the pubescence on it is not as long as in the male,
the appressed hairs are more evenly spread and do not form a band
along the suture; the legs are piceous red. Some of the females
have partly fuscous elytra.

Length 5-54 mm.; width 24-3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage).

PLATYCHELUS LITIGOSUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 149.
P. cinereus, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 64.

Very closely allied to P. discolor; the male has also the elytra
eneo-fuscate, and redder along the sides, and in the female the
elytra are brownish red; the only difference is to be found in the
shape of the clypeus which in the male is straight at apex with
the angles sharp and plainly reflexed, while in the female these
angles are more rounded than in P. discolor.

Length 64-7 mm.; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

PLATYCHELUS NITIDULUS, Burm.,
Handb. d.‘Entomol., rv., 1, p. 149.

Male: Quite similar in general facies to P. sem-virgatus, but
much smaller; the colour and sculpture are alike, the prothorax
especially is very metallic ; in the male the clypeus is sharp laterally
and has a very slight prominence in the centre ; the elytra have the
same vestiture, the pygidial part is equally hairy, and the only
difference between the two species is to be found in the shape of the
two basal teeth of the anterior tibise which in. P. netidulus are
separate, whereas in P. semi-virgatus these are set very close to
each other, almost connate.

Length 4-44 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

PLATYCHELUS RETENSUS, N. spec.

Male: Dark bronze, a little more shiny on the prothorax than on
the rest of the body; clypeus very rugose, straight laterally and

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with the angles broadly rounded, head covered with large, non-
contiguous granules; prothorax clothed with a somewhat dense,
sub-erect pubescence, it has small granules not closely set along the
anterior margin and also on the anterior part of the sides, but the
remainder of the surface is extremely finely aciculate, and in
the median part of the disk only are there a few broad, scattered
punctures, and there is a median longitudinal groove deeper and
plainer in the posterior part; scutellum slightly pubescent ; elytra
elongate, emarginate laterally, but only slightly attenuate towards
the apex, bi-costulate on each side, and having some deep, somewhat
irregularly scattered punctures bearing each an appressed, long,
bristle-like white hair; pygidial part and abdomen not very densely
pubescent ; anterior tibiw tri-dentate but with the basal tooth very
minute, all the claws are double and cleft, and less compressed
against each other than in the other species of the genus, hind
femora robust, hind tibie shorter than the thigh, plainly dilated
triangularly towards the tip, but not mucronate there.

Length 64 mm.; width 3 mm.

Unlike the other species of the genus, the hairs on the elytra are
almost bristle-like, although appressed; the granules on the head
are also fewer and larger.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

PLATYCHELUS GLABRIPENNIS, Burm.,

Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 153.

Male: Shape and size of P. hoplioides which it closely resembles ;
black, with a slight metallic tinge ; the head is also scabrose, but the
clypeus is a little attenuate laterally towards the apex which is
straight with the margin reflexed and the outer angles sharp; the
prothorax, pygidial part, abdomen, pectus, and legs are clothed with
a very long and very dense yellow pubescence ; the elytra are brick-
red, somewhat shining, not distinctly costulate, but having instead
of scabrose, closely set punctures, irregularly scattered round ones,
more distinct and somewhat seriate in the dorsal intervals, and along
the outer margin; anterior tibie bi-dentate outwardly; posterior
legs of male, robust, hind tibiz plainly dilated towards the apex,
spinose on each side at the tip and with the apical spur small but
distinct.

Length 9 mm.; width 43 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality not recorded).

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PLATYCHELUS HOPLIOIDES, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 151.

Male: Black, with a faint sneous tinge, elytra either fuscous,
dark chestnut, or reddish brown, but with a slight metallic tinge,
clypeus straight at the apex but with the outer angles slightly
rounded ; head granulose ; prothorax very closely scabrose except
in the median posterior part, where the punctures are rounder and
clothed with a very dense, slightly flavescent, or sometimes fulvous,
erect pubescence ; scutellum clothed with a long, appressed pubes-
cence; elytra faintly bi-striate on each side, covered with very
closely set scabose punctures each bearing an appressed greyish
hair forming a dense pubescence ; pygidial part and abdomen also
similarly punctured and equally pubescent; pectus villose ; anterior
tibiz bi-dentate outwardly, all the claws double, unequal, and
cleft.

Female: Like the male, and only recognisable by the shape of the
pygidium which is a little convex, and vertical; generally the
appressed pubescence on the elytra is not quite so dense as in
the male, and the clypeus is parabolic.

Length 7-10 mm. ; width 34-54 mm.

I never found this species on flowers, but always dragging itself
on the ground. |

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury).

PLATYCHELUS CAFFER, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 155.

Male: Black, with a faint metallic tinge plainer on the prothorax,
and moderately shining ; elytra with a faint brownish tinge ; clypeus
a little attenuate laterally and much rounded, almost orbicular, the
margin is a little reflexed, it is, like the head, very rugose, and the
latter is hairy ; prothorax scabrose in the interior part and sides,
punctate in the discoidal posterior part, densely pubescent, the
pubescence long, erect, and greyish; elytra normally sinuate and
attenuate laterally, bi-impressed longitudinally on each side, deeply
and somewhat closely punctate and clothed with an equal, some-
what dense fuscous pubescence; pygidial part, abdomen, pectus,
and hind legs clothed with a similar pubescence which is not, how-
ever, very dense ; anterior legs bi-dentate. Boheman states that the
anterior tibiz are tri-dentate, but in his type, as also in my co-type,
they are as mentioned above.

Length 54 mm.; width 24 mm.

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Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). Boheman mentions
the Orange River region as the habitat of the species.

PLATYCHELUS JUCUNDUS, N. spec.

Female: Greenish bronze, brighter on the prothorax; head,
prothorax, pygidial part, abdomen, pectus, and legs clothed with
a long and dense greyish pubescence which is erect on the head and
prothorax ; clypeus nearly parabolic; the sculpture of the head and
prothorax is similar to that of P. hoplioides or P. glabripennis, but
the pubescence is longer; scutellum also pubescent; elytra not
costulate, but having a deep, basal, longitudinal impression alongside
the humeral callus, and a shallow one along the median part of the
suture, the surface is extremely finely and closely aciculate, and
instead of scabrose punctures they are covered with closely set, equi-
distant, small granules from the intervals of which spring small,
appressed, greyish hair; anterior tibie strongly bi-dentate, but
having also a third, very small basal tooth.

Length 94 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Malmesbury).

PLATYCHELUS EXCENTRUS, Nl. Spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra reddish brown; head very closely
scabroso-punctate, clypeus with the lateral angles much rounded,
sub-parabolic in the male, club of antenne reddish brown; pro-
thorax clothed with very dense and very long villose hairs, black in
the anterior part, greyish white in the posterior, it is distinctly convex
and has a well-defined median longitudinal sulcus in the posterior
part; elytra shghtly impressed longitudinally along the suture and
deeply along the humeral callus, the two impressions being divided
by a not much raised costule; they are clothed with sub-appressed
black hairs, but along the base there is a fringe of long, white hairs,
a patch of these in the discoidal impression, and a more elongate
one along the suture, at about the median part; the pygidial part,
abdomen, and pectus are clothed with greyish white, dense, villose
hairs, and the legs with black ones; the anterior tibia are bi-
dentate, the basal tooth is not sharp, and is more or less angular ;
the hind femora are robust, and the hind tibie are triangularly
dilated towards the tip where the apices are very sharp, the lower
one being mucronate; there is an apical spur.

Length 74-9 mm.; width 33-44 mm.

Ha’. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

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PLATYCHELUS DISPAR, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 153.

Male: Black, with the elytra brownish red; clothed on the
prothorax, under side and legs with a very dense ashy-grey pubes-
. cence. Similar in shape and sculpture to the preceding species,
but the head is a little more coarsely granulose, and the clypeus,
instead of being parabolic, is straight at the apex with the angles
sharp; the prothorax is plainly grooved longitudinally; the elytra
have a short but deep, basal, supra-humeral impression, and are
shightly impressed longitudinally along the median part of the
suture, they are moderately closely punctured, each puncture
bearing an appressed short blackish hair; the anterior tibiz are
bi-dentate outwardly, the hind femora are robust, and the tibix
dilated triangularly towards the apex the two angles of which are
greatly developed, the inner one being plainly mucronate, there is a
long apical spur.

Female unknown. Resembles somewhat P. excentrus, but is
distinguished by the straight clypeus, the much less densely punc-
tured elytra; the hind tibiz are not quite as plainly mucronate as
Burmeister states, and resemble those of P. glabratus, hoplioides,
and excentrus.

Length 64 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony. This description is made from one of
Drége’s specimens.

(Species which I have not seen or been able to identify.)

‘Anterior margin of clypeus reflexed, sharp laterally; anterior
tubie long, narrow, tri-dentate outwardly, legs long aud slender, claws
normally long.

Scutellum very small, rounded, the whole surface of the body
densely covered with scales.

PLATYCHELUS sQUAMOSUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 1438.

‘‘Fuscous, legs rufous, whole body with ashy-grey or fulvous
scales.

Length 2 lin.

From Mr. Drége. Margin of clypeus reflexed in front in both
sexes, a little raised in the middle, but with the angles more
raised, black, scabroso-punctate, head with grey hairs; antenne

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red with the club and also the palpi black ; frontal part, prothorax,
scutellum, elytra and the whole under side similarly clothed in both
sexes with small, closely set scales, narrower and white under-
neath, orange-yellow above in the male, and greyish green in the
female ; legs brownish red with the hairs greyish, the teeth of the
anterior tibiz are longer in the female; prothorax with sparse long
black setee, white in the posterior edge.”’

“ Scutellwm large, triangular ; anterior tibie bi-dentate.

PLATYCHELUS MELANURUS,
Ibid., p. 145.

‘‘ Black, shining, hairy, elytra pale testaceous, black at apex.

Length li lin. SQ.

From Mr. Drége. Black, shining, with long hairs, the hairs on
the sides of the abdomen white ; head thickly punctate, the apical
margin raised in the middle and very sharp laterally in the male ;
prothorax with rugose, sparse punctures, and having long hairs;
scutellum also punctate, but having short hairs; elytra testaceous,
those of the male convex and infuscate at the apex; pygidial part
and legs also brown and clothed with greyish hairs; antenns
entirely black, the club longer in the male than in the female.”’

PLATYCHELUS SEMIHIRTUS, Burm.,
Ibid., p. 145.

‘Black, shining, hairy; prothorax with grey hairs in the anterior
part; elytra testaceous.

Length li lin. $ 9.

From Mr. Drége. A little wider than the species preceding, but
similar otherwise ; black, clothed with grey hairs on the anterior
part only, the posterior one smooth and glabrous; scutellum with
short hairs; elytra light testaceous, finely punctulate and -with
appressed hairs; in the male the pygidium is covered with squamose
yellow hairs, tibiz and hind legs brown.”

‘‘ PLATYCHELUS PUSILLUS, Burm.,
Ibid., p. 145.
Black, shining, hairy; elytra and legs fuscous, abdomen with
greyish scales.
Length J¢ lin. ¢o.

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From Mr. v. Winthem. Quite similar to P. melanurus, but the
punctures are more closely set, smaller, and the hairs are more
grey; elytra and legs quite brown, the first are clothed with
appressed hairs and are more closely punctured ; hind part of the
body clothed with small, nearly contiguous yellowish grey scales;
pectus with white hairs.”

“ Anterior tibte tri-dentate, but upper tooth very small. Prothorax
and body short, densely villose ; elytra with two or three deep furrows,
filled with lanceolate squamulose hairs.

PLATYCHELUS ALTERNANS, Burm.,
Ibid., p. 147.

‘‘ Black, elytra ferruginous and having some bands of scales ;
prothorax squamose along the outer margin and in the median
groove. }

Length 3 lin. @.

From Mr. Drége. This species seems to be rare, because I have
seen one female only. The head is rounded in the anterior part,
roughly and closely punctate and bears black hairs; the antenne
and the palpi are reddish brown; the prothorax has a median
longitudinal groove, is finely scabroso-punctate, covered with
simple black setze in the anterior part as well as in the middle,
and with a shorter pubescence behind, along the margin and in
the furrow there are some short squamose white hairs; similar
squamose hairs occur in the scutellum, as also on the three
furrows of the elytra; these furrows are opaque, finely punc-
tate, depressed and hairy; the widest runs along the suture, the
other two are one on each side of the humeral callus, narrowed
thence and unite at the apex of the callus; abdomen and pectus
clothed with fine, small, distant hairs; the fore legs and the tarsi
are brown, the smaller claw of the hind legs is very small.”

“ Juxta-sutural part only deeply grooved, and filled with more
closely set hairs.

PLATYCHELUS MUSCULUS, Burm.,
Ibid., p. 150.

‘“‘Huscous, prothorax with an seneous tinge, whole body clothed
with long, greyish hairs.

Length 2 lin. 3f 9.

Var. Hlytra and hind legs rufous.

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From Mr. Drége. This species greatly resembles P. litigosus,
owing to its elongate shape, but it is one-third smaller, more
depressed, and has everywhere longer hairs; the clypeus is more
rounded, broader, not sharp laterally, and closely punctulate like the
prothorax the hind angles of which are sharp; in the female there
is a weak longitudinal furrow, the elytra are everywhere closely
punctulate and are equally covered with long yellowish grey hairs,
the abdomen, pectus, and legs have similar hairs ; the anterior tibiee
have three equi-distant sharp teeth; in the female the elytra, tarsi,
hind legs, antennz, and palpi are red, but in the male they are
brown.”

‘* Posterior legs short, thick, densely harry.

PLATYCHELUS PUERILIS, Burm.,
dinid ps dod:

‘‘ Black, eneous, shining, clothed with grey hairs, anterior tibie
sub-dentate.

Length ld lin. ¢. |

From Mr. Drége. Resembles P. musculus in a striking manner,
but it is a little more slender; clypeus rounded, moderately broad,
head and prothorax scabroso-punctate, the latter, which is nearly
purple, is quite impunctate behind, and has a coating of long greyish
hairs; elytra strongly punctate, deeply impressed alongside the
humeral callus and clothed with compressed white hairs, similar but
longer hairs clothe the pygidial part, abdomen and pectus; the legs
are also similarly hairy, but they are black and denser in the
posterior; in the anterior tibiz the nearly obliterated outer teeth
are as remarkable as the broad triangular form of the posterior ; these
two characters best differentiate this species from P. musculus.”’

PLATYCHELUS INTERMEDIUS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entomol., 1850, p. 63.

‘‘ Black, with ashy hairs, clypeus quadri-dentate; prothorax
black, shining, punctate, sulcate behind in the middle, and with
light fulvous hairs; scutellum with ashy scales; elytra broad, short,
entirely pale testaceous, immaculate; legs and abdomen red;
pygidium hidden by fulvous hairs; anterior tibie tri-dentate, claws
of the hind legs nearly equal in length and bifid.

Length 7 mm. Cape Colony (exact locality not known).”’

I have seen only the type of this species. It is a female, and
is almost similar to P. discolor. |

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PLATYCHELUS NITENS, Blanch.,
Ibid., p. 64.

“Allied to P. hoploides, but smaller and more depressed; black,
shining, clypeus little reflexed; prothorax convex, shining, hairy,
hairs black; elytra depressed, broad, uni-costate, granulated, black,
with the outer part rufous except the humeral margin; legs black,
anterior tibie tri-dentate, claws of the hind legs unequal, inner one
slender, outer one broad, bifid; abdomen entirely black, and with
ashy-grey hairs inwardly.

Length 5-6 mm.”

This species resembles P. litagosus to such an extent that at the
time of my examination I noted the two as being identical, but
P. lutigosus has the anterior tibie distinctly tvz-dentate, whereas in
his description of P. nitens Blanchard says that they are bi-dentate.
I did not at the time notice this difference.”’

COHGA, n. gen.

Mentum elongate, oblong but attenuate laterally towards the apex,
moderately constricted at the point of insertion of the antennew, and
not ampliated thence, the apical part is nearly straight, and the
angles are not penicillate ; maxille long, inner lobe obliterated, upper
lobe not penicillate, and produced into three sharp, hooked teeth
arranged transversely at the tip; apical joint of maxillary palpi long,
strongly fusiform and sub-acuminate; clypeus short, straight at the
apex, but with the angles rounded; antenne nine-jointed, club as
long as all the other joints taken together, sixth joint lamellate but
short ; prothorax a little attenuate laterally in front, sinuate behind
and with the basal angle sharp; scutellum small, ogival; elytra
sinuate laterally and moderately attenuate from there towards the
apex ; pygidium slanting forward in the male, abdomen compressed
laterally ; hind legs normally robust, anterior tibiz obliquely bi-
dentate, claws double, unequal, inner one of the anterior legs short,
robust and cleft, the weaker one of the intermediate one is cleft;
apical spur of hind tibie long.

The characteristic difference between this genus and Platychelus
is the great length of the antennal club.

CoEGA ILLOTA, n. spec.
Male: Black, opaque, club of antennz and tarsi piceous red ;
elytra with occasionally a broad, lateral reddish band; head very
scabrose, clothed with a flavescent pubescence; prothorax closely

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rugoso-punctate and clothed with very long, villose hairs; elytra
elongate, slightly broader than the prothorax, sinuate laterally below
the shoulders, but not much attenuate thence towards the apex,
they are deeply and irregularly punctured, have two costules on each
side, and from each scattered puncture springs a long appressed
flavescent hair; pygidium, under side and legs with a flavescent
pubescence.

Female unknown.

Length 64 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

IDUTYWA, n. gen.

Buccal organs of Platychelus, from which it differs in the shape of
the claws, which are longer, especially the anterior ones, not so
deeply cleft,.and the posterior ones are single and simple; the
clypeus is straight at apex with the angles slightly rounded, and the
prothorax and elytra are more convex; the fore tibia have two
oblique outer teeth, and the posterior ones no apical spur in the
male.

Key to the Species.

Prothorax with a median band of ashy grey hairs and a border of the

same all round, elytra with three bands of appressed grey hairs on each

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Prothorax and elytra with black hairs, the latter very dark brown .. vidua.

IpUTYWA COLLARIS, Burm.,
Monochelus collaris, Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 156.

Male: Black, prothorax with a broad border of ashy grey, appressed,
sub-squamose hairs and a broad patch of the same in the anterior
part of the disk whence it is continued in the longitudinal median
groove which is deep, and in addition to these appressed hairs is
clothed with a blackish erect pubescence ; the head is also pubescent,
but the pubescence is shorter and sub-flavescent, it is very granulose
all over, and the clypeus is short, straight at apex with the angles
slightly rounded, yet distinct; the palpi and antenne, with the
exception of the club, are reddish, this club however is black; the
prothorax is plainly convex and very rugose; scutellum short,
clothed with squamose greyish hairs; elytra sinuate laterally,
but attenuate towards the apex, not costulate on each side, but
having there two longitudinal depressions or broad strig, one, the
longer, along the suture, the other and much shorter one, on the

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discoidal part, these two depressions are filled with appressed
squamose greyish hairs which form also a supra-marginal band
reaching to the base, but the discoidal one does not reach quite to
the apex; the propygidium and abdomen are clothed with squamose
hairs similar to those on the elytra, but the pygidium has no scales,
and is covered with a fuscous brown tomentum; the hind femora
and tibize are very robust, the former very swollen, the latter short
and broadly dilated triangularly ; intermediate and hind tarsi villose.

Female: Resembles the male closely; the vestiture is the same,
but the pygidium is clothed with greyish sub-squamiform hairs; the
hind legs are as robust as in the male, but the hind tibiz have a
very distinct apical spur.

Length 6-7 mm.; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Calvinia).

I have but once found this species in flowers. It is generally
met with dragging itself clumsily along the paths or open herbaceous
spots.

Iputywa vipvA, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entomol. Mus. Par., p. 64.

Male: Head and prothorax shaped and sculptured as in 7’. collaris,
but covered with fuscous and brown hairs which on the prothorax
form a dense, erect pubescence for two-thirds of the length, and are
replaced in the posterior part with appressed hairs of the same
colour, there is a narrow basal longitudinal groove; scutellum
covered with appressed slightly greyish hairs; elytra similar in
shape to those of 7’. collaris, but instead of having bands of greyish
hairs on each side of the two intervals and also above the outer
margin, the whole surface is covered with very fine concolorous hairs
which, although very dense, do not hide the dark brown background ;
pygidial part, abdomen and legs also covered with similar hairs;
hind legs robust but moderately dilated; claw of the intermediate
legs single and cleft.

Female unknown.

Length 6 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

MITROPHORUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 140.

Mentum ampliate and rounded laterally in the basal part, narrowed
from about the middle to the apex, nearly straight at the tip and

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penicillate at the angle, upper lobe of maxillz short, very transverse,
thickly penicillate, inner lobe stiffly ciliate, apical joint of labial palpi
swollen, pyriform, apical joint of maxillary ones fusiform not sharply
acuminate at the tip; head with the clypeus somewhat short, quadri-
dentate at the tip, broad and reflexed somewhat in the manner of
Scarabeus ; prothorax convex, attenuate laterally in the anterior
part and thence nearly parallel, base not very arcuate; scutellum
short, sharp at tip; elytra not much ampliated at the humeral part,
very slightly emarginate below it or not at all (atewchoides) and not
strongly attenuate thence towards the apex; pygidium in the male
shightly declivous forwards; anterior tibize tri-dentate, the teeth
equally distant from each other, and with the apical one only slightly
curved, all the claws double with the smaller ones half the length of
the outer, which in the intermediate and posterior legs are deeply cleft.
In the male the intermediate claws have a tooth underneath more or
less similar in shape to that of some Monochelus. The genus
includes four species, one of which, M. atrox, which I have not seen,
might prove to be identical with M. natalensis, but Burmeister’s
description of it is far from satisfactory. The genus is purely South
African.

Key to the Species.

Elytra and pygidium clothed with contiguous yellow or sulphur-

yellow scales, hind tibia simple .. .. .. «4. ateuchoides,
Elytra with lanceolate scales along the aacheulen aan a the

suture, the outer margin and the pygidial part; hind tibiw some-

what deeply emarginate on the upper margin above the apex, the

angles of the emargination sub-dentate .. .. .. natalensis,
Elytra and pygidial part clothed with sonounnen Sane, “eel.

squamose, appressed hairs; hind tibiz with a long, mucro-like

spur on the upper margin above the apical part, but not far

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MITROPHORUS ATEUCHOIDES, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 141.
Gynnoloma leucophea, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Entom., 1850, p. 68.

Male: Black, with the scutellum, the elytra, the pygidial part and
the abdomen entirely covered with minute contiguous flavous or
sulphur-yellow scales, the prothorax is also covered with appressed
sub-squamose hairs, as well as with a flavescent pubescence, and
along the base there is a broad band of scales; head pubescent,
rugose, clypeus quadri-dentate, but the two median teeth project
far beyond the other two, which are not in a line and are almost
sub-lateral and rounded at the tip; elytra elongate, sub-rufescent,

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sub-cylindrical, not emarginate laterally, bi-costulate on each side;
hind femora not very robust, hind tibie slender, simple ; tooth under-
neath the claw of the intermediate legs conspicuous, sub-horizontal ;
basal tooth of the anterior tibiz very small.

Female unknown.

Length 7 mm.; width 3+ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Paarl).

MITROPHORUS NATALENSIS, nN. spec.

Male: Black; head closely scabrose, clothed with moderately
short, dense, sub-flavescent hairs, clypeus very sharply quadri-
dentate, the two outer teeth being only slightly shorter than the two
median ones, but equally sharp; prothorax very closely scabroso-
punctate and clothed with a villose, somewhat short, sub-flavescent
pubescence; elytra fuscous brown, covered with appressed hair-like
flavescent scales, denser in the posterior part along the suture and
the apical margin, they are slightly bi-costate on each side and
closely punctured; edge of propygidium, pygidium and abdomen
clothed with appressed squamiform flavescent hairs; legs villose ;
anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly, basal tooth shorter than the
intermediate ; hind femora robust, hind tibiz somewhat dilated, flat
in the inner side and with the upper carinate edge emarginated
somewhat deeply above the apex, which is sharply sub-dentate on
each side.

Length 64 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

MitTROPHORUS TRANSVAALENSIS, Nl. Spec.

Male: Black, moderately shining; head very rugose, clypeus
quadri-dentate, the teeth are broad and reflexed, but the two outer
ones are shorter and blunter than the median ones, but are in line
with them; prothorax deeply but not closely punctate, except on
the sides where the punctures are somewhat scabrose, and clothed
with a moderately dense sub-flavescent pubescence ; elytra distinctly
bi-costulate on each side and covered with appressed and sub-
appressed greyish hairs; propygidium and pygidium covered with
similar hairs, which are however shorter and more squamiform ;
hind legs villose, hind femora robust, hind tibiee deeply incised on
the upper side above the apex, and with the upper angle of the
incision produced into a long mucro; the tooth under the claw of
the intermediate legs is nearly horizontal.

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Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm.
Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

MITROPHORUS MORIO, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 478.

‘‘ Black, strongly punctate, briefly setose, elytra fuscous.

Length 8 lin. 3.

From Kaffirland.

Somewhat smaller than M. ateuchoides, but similarly shaped,
black, little shining, without scales, transversely scabroso-punctate
all over, and having a black flat bristle in each puncture, those along
the margin are longer, broader, and project like cilis; anterior
margin of clypeus with two blunt notches and rounded angles;
anterior tibiz with three strong, blunt teeth, all the tarsi with two
claws, the largest claw of the intermediate legs with a strong tooth
at the base, and cleft, the smaller claw very closely pressed against
the larger, and also cleft, hindermost claws similarly formed, except
that the larger one is without the tooth.”

I have not seen this species.

Gen. MONOCHELUS, Serv.,
Enecyclop. Méthod, x., 1825, p. 375.

Mentum short, or moderately short, ampliated laterally towards the
median part, very strongly constricted towards the apex, the angles
of which are rounded but project greatly, the apex is deeply emar-
ginate, and is not penicillate laterally ; maxillary lobe short, robust,
not penicillate at the tip, more or less deeply concave and having
three or four robust hooked inner teeth, the basal one of which is
sometimes trifid (IZ. calcaratus), or even quadrifid (M. aurantiacus,
glaberrimus, &c.); last joint of labial and maxillary palpi somewhat
short, fusiform but very swollen at the base, and truncate at the
tip ; clypeus sub-parallel, truncate at tip, or shghtly attenuate laterally
with the angles rounded; antenne nine-jointed, club similar in both
sexes; prothorax moderately convex, somewhat obliquely attenuated
laterally in the anterior part and straight in the posterior, or a little
ampliate in the median part; scutellum sub-ogival or ogival, some-
what short; elytra narrowed laterally towards the apex, distinctly
sinuate past the humeral part, and leaving the edge of the dorsal
abdominal segments uncovered, they are never strongly costate, as

often as not non-costulate, and the humeral callus is always distinct .

and has a more or less shallow depression on each side; propy-

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gidium conspicuous, pygidium vertical in the male; anterior tibiz
distinctly tri-dentate outwardly with the teeth oblique, and the basal
one short, or bi-dentate obliquely, the basal tooth being obliterated ;
the claws of the anterior or intermediate legs are either single and
cleft (M. spimipes), double and also cleft (M prwnosus, awran-
tiacus, natalensis), or single and cleft in the intermediate (M.
ornatus, letus, &c.), the hind claws are single and simple in the
male, except in MV. gratus, and M. gracilis, but in a certain number
of species the claw of the median legs, which is single, but cleft,
has a distinct tooth underneath, and in one (M. calcaratus) it is on
the hind legs that this claw is toothed; the hind legs are robust, the
trochanters are strongly spinose or are simple, and the hind tibia
are either scooped or carinate beneath, dentate or not beneath
the knee, and more or less strongly mucronate at the apex;
some species have an apical spur on the hind tibiz, others have
not.

The insects I restrict to this genus form a very homogeneous
group. They are represented in the Western and Eastern parts of
South Africa, but the species which have a tooth under the claw
of the intermediate or hind legs are only found in the Eastern part
(Natal, Transvaal).

Two of the species included by Burmeister in this genus have
been transferred to other genera. MM. parvulus is a Gymnoloma,
and M. collaris, which is more closely allied to Platychelus than to
Monochelus, is placed in the new genus, Idutywa; M. sub-vittatus,
Burm., is the female of M. arnupes.

Key to the Species.

A3, Claw of the intermediate and posterior legs without a tooth
underneath.

B?. Clypeus not attenuate laterally.
C?. Anterior tibiz of male tri-dentate outwardly.

D3. Hind femora with the trochanters produced into a
sharp spine.

Black, very shiny; elytra with a median and a
basal patch of white scales on each side, hind tibize
with a truncate inner tooth near the knee and
an ante-apical long one, an apical spur; hind
ClanySesimiplesy iy. ad (ae Gee wee eer os oe §6glaberrimus.

Similar to M. glaberrimus, but with the elytra
red; hind tibize with two inner teeth near the
knee; hind claws double Nelle chtie ft < kes. SOTALUS.

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D2:

Black, opaque, sprinkled here and there with
a few white scales; hind tibiew with a truncate
toothed process in the inner part near the knee,
mucronate at tip, no apical spur

Black, prothorax with the median grove and a
narrow marginal lateral and basal band of greyish
scales; elytra bi-costulate; hind femora dentate
near the knee, spine of trochanters sharp; hind
tibiz strongly compressed, carinate underneath,
and having the apical part projecting

Black, sprinkled with numerous white scales;
hind femora with a strong apical tooth under the
knee, hind tibiw sharply bi-dentate inwardly at
base, mucronate at apex, no apical spur

Hind femora with the trochanters non-spinose.

Black, covered with closely set orange scales on
the upper side; apical part of hind femora with
a long, sub-vertical spine, hind tibie strongly
mucronate inwardly, no apical spur

Ct. Anterior tibize of male bi-dentate outwardly.

D7.

Hind femora with the trochanters only slightly
spinose.

Fuscous brown, sprinkled with a few white scales,
hind femora simple; hind tibiw sharply triangular
on the upper side, deeply excavated underneath,
and with the outer edge sharply angular near the
knee, mucronate outwardly, no apical spur..

Bt. Clypeus a little attenuate laterally.

C?. Anterior tibie of male tri-dentate outwardly.

Dz

Trochanters of hind femora sharply spinose.

Black, elytra red, shiny, sprinkled here and there
with a few flavescent scales; prothorax densely
scaly but having two denuded bands in the
centre; hind femora not toothed; hind tibix
deeply scooped inwardly, mucronate on each side,
no apical spur

C. Anterior tibia of male bi-dentate outwardly.

Black, with the elytra sub-chalybeate, densely covered
with golden-yellow scales; hind femora triangular,
simple; hind tibiew scooped inwardly, strongly mucro-
nate inwardly at tip, no apical spur

Dr.

Trochanters of hind femora non-spinose.

Black, elytra red; prothorax with a median,
costate carina ; elytra distinctly bi-striate on each

[vou. Xi.

spinipes.

scutellaris.

formosus.

aurantiacus.

pruinosus.

natalensis.

pulcher.

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side; hind femora simple, hind tibie a little
concave inwardly at apex, and mucronate on
each side of it, an apical spur

Piceous black, with the intermediate and hind
femora red; elytra bi-striate on each side and
having three bands of greyish scales; hind
femora simple; hind tibie dilated towards the
apex, compressed on the upper side, broadly
scooped in the inner part, and incised inwardly
at a short distance from the apex, an apical
spur

A’. Claws of the posterior legs with a distinct tooth underneath.

B?. Trochanters of hind femora strongly spinose.

Black, sprinkled with moderately dense white scales on the
elytra which are red and not costulate, spine of the hind
trochanters separated from the thigh nearly at the apex ; hind
tibise concave, simple, upper part of the apex strongly and
sharply mucronate

Black, with the elytra chalybeate blue and sprinkled with
numerous white scales; spine of the hind trochanters small;
hind tibie simple, inwardly concave towards the apex, the
upper part of which is moderately mucronate

A'. Claws of the intermediate legs with a distinct tooth underneath.

B?. Trochanters of hind femora strongly spinose.

C?. Elytra bi-costate on each side.

Gc.

Black, with the femora red; prothorax with three dorsal
bands and a marginal one of yellow scales; elytra
with three bands of yellowish scales ; hind femora simple,
spine of trochanters very long; hind tibiew scooped in-
wardly at apex and equally mucronate on each side of
it, no apical spur

Red; prothorax with a median band and a broad mar-
ginal one of yellowish scales ; elytra with two interrupted
bands of scales ; trochanters of hind femora sharp, femora
simple; hind tibize scooped underneath, dentate inwardly
past the middle, moderately mucronate on each side of
the apex, an apical spur

Black, clothed with grey squamulose hairs which are a
little denser in the intervals of the elytra; pygidium not
scaly; hind legs as in WM. ornatus, but the spine of the
trochanters very short tM

Elytra non-costate.

Black, with the legs red, entirely covered with contiguous
orange-yellow scales; hind femora simple, spine of tro-
chanters robust, but not reaching to the median part of

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simplicipes.

jucundus.

calcaratus.

elegantulus.

princep:.

ornatus.

inops.

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the thigh; hind tibia very deeply scooped inwardly from
base to apex, the outer edge is very sharply angular near
the knee, and the inner one emits a curved tooth slightly
above the apex, which is not mucronate on either side, an
apical spur

Prothorax with a sub-denuded band on each side of the
median furrow; elytra densely scaly, the scales forming
three bands; hind femora triangular, trochanters spinose
at a short distance from the apex but having a tooth
above it; hind tibis very curved, mucronate inwardly at
apex, an apical spur

Prothorax and elytra covered with closely set whitish
scales, forming no bands on the elytra; point of the
trochanters forming the apex of the triangular hind
femora, which are simple; hind tibiw very curved,
mucronate inwardly at apex, an apical spur

Bt. Trochanters of hind femora non-spinose.

C?. Elytra non-costate.

Cc’.

Black, with the elytra sienna-brown and sprinkled with
white scales, prothorax with a median supra-marginal
and a marginal band of white scales; hind femora
simple; hind tibiz carinate underneath, the carina
angular near the knee and ending in a short mucyro at
apex, no apical spur

Elytra bi-costate on each side.

Black, with the prothorax and elytra covered with elon-
gate, ashy scales not closely set, hind legs moderately
robust, simple ; clypeus slightly rounded laterally, hind
claws simple .. oth lleies Gh Sa, Meteeny ake Verma Net Recto es
Black, completely covered with greyish-white and
brownish scales, the latter forming four bands on the
prothorax and two on the elytra; hind legs very slender
and long, claw of intermediate legs cleft ..

MoONOCHELUS GLABERRIMUS, Burm.,
Plate XLII., fig. 58.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 155.

[VOL. XII.

letulus.

letus.

litigiosus.

pulvinatus.

Sunebris.

gracilis.

Male: Black, very shining, and having on the prothorax a narrow
lateral band of white scales, and a basal one partly obliterated except
in the middle, while in the median longitudinal groove are a few white
hairs ; the scutellum is clothed with elongated white scales, and in the
central part of the elytra, close to the suture, there is a patch of
similar scales and a rudimentary longitudinal band of the same
beginning at the base but scarcely reaching to the median part; pro-
pygidium and apical margin of the abdominal segments fringed with

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white elongate scales; antenne reddish with the club black; head
~ and prothorax clothed with dense, villose fulvous hairs; clypeus
parallel but with the outer angles slightly rounded, and the apical
part slightly emarginate ; the median posterior part of the prothorax
_ is denuded and impunctate, but the sides are very deeply punctured,
and there is a broad median groove in the central part only;
scutellum broadly obtuse at tip; elytra strongly narrowed diagonally
from the humeral part towards the apex, a little impressed longi-
tudinally close to the humeral callus, and having a few shallow but
broad punctures scattered on the discoidal part; pygidium vertical,
smooth in the centre, punctate laterally, frmged with villose greyish
hairs, not scaly; hind legs and pectus clothed with a long greyish-
white pubescence ; hind femora very thick, and having a short but
sharp spine close to the knee but on the outer side, and the trochanter
is produced into a very long, slender spine; the tibise are somewhat
compressed, not deeply grooved beneath but have a somewhat
blunt tooth at the basal inner part of the groove, and a sharp,
horizontal inner spine at a short distance from the apex, where there
is a short but very distinct apical spur, the walls of the groove are
bluntly serrate, and the inner part of the tibie are very densely
villose ; only the claws of the hind legs are simple, the others are
double and slightly cleft.

Female: Like the male in all respects, except that the hind claw .
is simple, but distinctly cleft.

Length 74-9 mm. ; width 4-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

MoNOCHELUS GRATUS, 0. spec.

Black, with the elytra red, very shining, and with the head and
prothorax, the scutellum, the under side and legs, clothed with very
long, villose fulvous hairs, there are very few scales along the outer
margins of the prothorax, and there is a small juxta-sutural patch of
yellowish scales on each side of the elytra ; in shape and sculpture it
is ike M. glaberrimus, and the hind legs are similar, except that the
inner carina of the hind tibizw is more distinctly bi-dentate near the
knee. It might, however, be considered as a colour variety of
M. glaberrimus, but for the shape of the hind claws which, instead of
being simple and cleft, are distinctly double in both sexes, the inner
one being a little more than half the length of the outer, and both
are cleft.

Length 64-7 mm.; width 34-33 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam).
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MoNnocHELUS SPINIPES, Fabr.,
Plate XLII. fig. 51.

Spec. Insect., 1., p. 44.
Oliv,, Eaton sus om 2) pl. viel ood mO:
9 M. subvittatus, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 156.

Male: Black, almost glabrous on the upper side and having in the
base of the prothorax and also on the scutellum and elytra a few
widely scattered, whitish scales, traces of which are also seen on the
sides of the metasternum and on the abdominal segments ; head very
scabrose ; clypeus somewhat excavate and with the margins very dis-
tinctly raised, strongly angular laterally in the basal part and slightly
oblique there, broad at the tip, slightly emarginate in the middle,
and with the apical angles somewhat rounded; prothorax deeply and
very closely scabroso-punctate, moderately deeply grooved longitu-
dinally in the middle and having along the lateral outer margin a
series of equi-distant, sub-remote short black bristles; elytra covered
with somewhat closely set transverse scabrose punctures and having
on each side three very faint coste ; pygidium finely punctulate with
the punctures slightly scabrose ; pectus very briefly pubescent; hind
femora very thick and with the trochanters produced into a long
spine, hind tibia somewhat flattened and not grooved underneath
but having the lower edge strongly bi-dentate near the knee and the
apical part mucronate on each side, in the great development the
second inner tooth is sometimes truncate at tip or slightly bifid; hind
claws single, simple.

Femaie: Fulvous brown, and with the upper side, the abdomen
and legs covered with moderately closely set, elongate whitish scales
turning to squamiform appressed hairs on the pygidium ; the head
is shaped as in the male, but the apical margin is still more highly
reflexed ; the two apical outer teeth of the fore tibia are more robust
than in the male, and the hind claws are single and simple.

Length 10-12 mm.; width 54-7 mm.

I have often met with this species in fields of corn or oats, at the
beginning of the spring (September) but I have very seldom captured
the female, whose facies differs very strongly from that of the male.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury,
Worcester).

MoNOCHELUS SCUTELLARIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol,, iv., 1, p. lea:

Male: Black, shining, clothed with appressed hairs, margins of
prothorax, scutellum, and abdomen covered with white scales,

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pectus with a greyish pubescence; margins of clypeus reflexed,
regularly and deeply punctured, clothed with greyish hairs less dense
but longer in front than behind, prothorax very rugose, briefly but
very densely pubescent, grooved longitudinally in the centre,
narrowly marginate with greyish-white scales, the median sulcus
occasionally filled with similar scales; scutellum thickly scaly ;
elytra sub-scabroso-punctate, from each puncture springs a very
short, sub-erect hair, and each one has two rounded, not very con-
spicuous cost which are more deeply but not as closely punctured
as the intervals, or the sides; propygidium, pygidium, abdomen, and
pectus clothed with flavescent, contiguous scales; anterior tibiz
tri-dentate outwardly ; hind femora dentate near the knee, spine of
trochanters sharp; hind tibize red, robust, strongly compressed,
laminate underneath and having the apical part projecting; tarsi
longer than the tibiz and spinose underneath.

Female: Like the male; apical spur very long, hind claws simple.

Length 8-10 mm.; width 44-54 mm.

The only male I have seen had lost its hind tibia, and I have
therefore to cull the description of that part from Burmeister ;
unfortunately it is not as clear as it might be.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact-locality unknown). My examples are
from Drege’s Collection.

MonocHELus FORMOSUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 159.

Male: Black, or very dark fuscous brown; prothorax with three
bands of whitish or sub-flavescent scales; scutellum and elytra
sprinkled with similar scales which also edge the abdominal segments
and the metasternum; head very rugose, clypeus parallel, slightly
arcuate at tip, and with the outer angles not much rounded,
apical margin reflexed; prothorax scarcely pubescent but having
some stiff, long bristles along the anterior and lateral margins, very
conspicuously grooved longitudinally in the middle, the groove
usually filled with scales, very diagonally attenuate laterally in the
anterior part and distinctly emarginate in the posterior where the
basal angle is sharp, it is very closely scabroso-punctate; the scu-
tellum is partly covered with elongate scales, and those on the
elytra are somewhat scattered, but are still somewhat seriate; the
propygidium and pygidium are without scales and nearly glabrous ;
the hind femora are greatly developed, the trochanters are sharply
Spinose, and the femora have an apical, distinct tooth under the
articulation of the knee; the hind tibize have inwardly a broad but

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very shallow groove the lower edge of which is strongly bi-dentate
near the knee, the second tooth being the more developed of the two,
and ending in a strong but not very long apical mucro, this edge is
serrate and villose; hind claws slightly cleft inwardly towards the
median part; the two basal teeth of the anterior tibie are very short,
and strongly oblique.

Female: Light chocolate-brown and entirely clothed on the upper
side with appressed, very closely set, squamiform greyish hairs
which are, however, somewhat flavescent in the median groove,
the hairs on the pygidial part are similar to those on the elytra,
but those which cover the whole of the under side are more
scale-like.

Length 7-74 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

MoNOCHELUS AURANTIACUS, Burm.,
Plate XLII, fig. 52.
andb. d; Entomoly jays, ap. Wor

Male: Black, with the prothorax and the elytra covered with con-
tiguous round orange-yellow scales; head very rugose, briefly
pubescent, clypeus very rounded laterally at tip and with the
margins almost non-reflexed; prothorax very diagonally narrowed
laterally in the anterior part, rounded and non-emarginate in the
posterior, not distinctly grooved longitudinally in the centre, and
fringed along the anterior and the lateral margins with long black
bristles: scutellum somewhat small and almost ogival; elytra
moderately attenuate laterally towards the apex, non-costulate, and
having along the suture, immediately below the scutellum, a fascicle
of very long black bristles and a series of short ones following the
suture, as well as some hardly distinct rows of similar but still
shorter bristles projecting from between the scales; pygidium and
underside scabrose, glabrous; hind femora greatly developed and
having inwardly near the apex, at a short distance from the knee,
a very long, sub-horizontal, robust spine hamate at the tip, the
trochanters are not spinose, the hind tibizw are curved, not quite as
long as the femora, not grooved inwardly and they end in a very
robust, sharp, apical mucro; the claws of the anterior and inter-
mediate legs are distinctly double, the inner one being nearly three-
quarters of the length of the outer, both are cleft; and the hind
claws are simple and single.

Female: Covered like the male with contiguous orange-yellow
scales on the elytra and the prothorax, but having in the discoidal

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part of the latter two denuded conspicuous patches; the hind tibie
have a conspicuous apical spur blunt at tip.

Length 9-11; width 5-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

MoNOCHELUS PRUINOSUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 159.

Male: Chocolate-brown, a little darker on the prothorax than on
the rest of the body, sparingly sprinkled above and beneath with
slightly elongated white scales ; head and prothorax similar in shape
to that of M. formosus, but the latter is not so deeply or closely
scabroso-punctate; the elytra are similar, but the shape of the hind
tibize is very different ; the spine of the trochanters is small, and the
apical spine of the femora beneath, under the knee, is conspicuous ;
the tibiz are deeply grooved beneath, the outer edge is very sharply
angular near the knee and ends in a sharp, curved mucro at apex,
and the inner edge is simple, while the upper carina is conspicuously
keeled; hind claws single, simple.

Female unknown.

Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown).

I have seen three examples only, collected by Drége, the locality
of which is not recorded, but I think they are from Namaqualand. —

MoNOCHELUS NATALENSIS, Péring.,
Trans. 8. Afric. Philos. Soc., vol. 11., 1885, p. 93.

Male: Black, with the elytra and legs red and shining; the head
and prothorax are clothed with round, contiguous, somewhat orange-
yellow scales leaving on each side of the disk a denuded longitudinal
band, scutellum densely scaly; elytra with a few scattered scales,
propygidium densely scaly, pygidium less densely scaly than the
propygidium, sides of abdomen and pectus thick; head rugose,
clypeus a little attenuate laterally and with the angles very rounded,
very slightly emarginate at tip, margins almost non-reflexed ; pro-
thorax gradually ampliated laterally in the middle, marginate, slightly
rugose laterally but with the two denuded, discoidal bands smooth,
anterior and lateral margins fringed with very long, dense yellow
bristles; scutellum sub-ogival; elytra non-costulate, very vaguely
and sparingly punctate, attenuate laterally towards the apex, and
glabrous ; posterior femora very robust, armed with a conspicuous
tooth beneath, under the knee, and having the trochanters very long

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and produced at about the median part of the thigh into a long,
sharp spine; hind tibize concave inwardly especially at the apex,
simple, but with the edges very sharp and the inner one produced
into an apical triangular, hollowed, somewhat short mucro ; claws of
the anterior and intermediate legs distinctly double, the posterior
ones single, simple.

Female: Colour and vestiture of the male, the scales are similar
and arranged in the same manner; the hind legs are slender, and
the hind tibiee have a long, apical compressed spur.

Length 9-11 mm.; width 44-6 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Umvoti County), Transvaal
(Potchefstroom, Lydenburg), Cape Colony (King William’s Town).

MOoONOCHELUS PULCHER, Péring.,
Trans. §. Afric. Philos. Soe., vol. iii., 1885, p. 94.

Male: Bluish-black bronze with the elytra bronze-green, shining,
and with the upper side, pygidial part, abdomen and _ pectus
clothed with large, elongate, somewhat closely set golden scales,
legs red, tarsi black; antennze red with the club fuscous; head
densely scaly, briefly pubescent, clypeus a little attenuate laterally
and with the outer angles completely rounded, apical part nearly
straight, and not emarginate, margins only slightly reflexed; pro-
thorax very obliquely attenuated laterally in front and not much
rounded past the middle, fringed with long golden bristly hairs along
the anterior and lateral margins, and almost entirely covered by
the contiguous scales which, however, leave a small longitudinal
denuded band on each side; prothorax closely scaly ; elytra attenuate
laterally towards the apex, non-costulate, shagreened, the scales are
large, elongato-ovate and separated from one another by a space
equal to their size; the scales on the propygidium, pygidium, and
abdomen are smaller than those on the elytra and closely set; the
hind femora are very robust, triangular underneath and with the
trochanters prolonged to the median part of the thigh, and sharply
spinose there; tibize convex on the outer face, somewhat concave on
the inner, simple but with the upper inner edge-slightly serrate, and
produced at tip into a long, transverse mucro as long as the two
basal joints of the hind tarsi; posterior claws single, not cleft but
having underneath a conspicuous, sub-median, and sub-horizontal
tooth.

Female: The shape, colour, arrangement and size of the scales are
the same as in the male, but the hind tibiw have an apical spur, and
the hind claw has no tooth underneath

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Length 6-64 mm.; width 3-4 mm.
Hab. Transvaal (Rustenburg).

MonocHELUS SIMPLICIPES, N. Sp.

Male: Black, with the elytra testaceous red, antenne rufescent
with the club black; head very rugose, clypeus slightly attenuatea
laterally with the outer angles moderately rounded, and the margins
somewhat reflexed; prothorax having instead of a median groove a
longitudinal, not much raised and rounded costate carina and a
shallow, but somewhat broad furrow on each side, which, like the
two median furrows are filled with yellow scales, the median carina is
impunctate; and there is also an impunctate longitudinal space
on each side of the disk; scutellum rugulose; elytra deeply and
irregularly punctate and rugose laterally, and having a distinct costa
in the discoidal part, the intervals on each side of the costa are
somewhat deep and broad, humeral callus well developed, the juxta-
humeral interval is partially filled at the base with greyish-white
scales, a few of which are very sparsely sprinkled here and there;
pygidium black, glabrous; abdominal segments also glabrous; pectus
scaly; anterior tibize bi-dentate outwardly but incised above the
second tooth, the incision sharply angular; anterior and interme-
diate claws somewhat thick, posterior ones with a short, lamellate
inner one reaching only to one-fourth of the length of the outer one, -
both claws are simple; hind femora robust, simple, trochanters not
spinose; hind tibiz elongated and moderately dilated at the apex,
somewhat compressed outwardly, slightly concave inwardly but
more deeply scooped at the tip, the apices of the groove are very
sharply angular, the inner one being sub-mucronate, and there is
a small apical spur.

I have seen one male example only, and it is quite possible that
this specimen had partly lost his scaly covering.

This is the only Monochelus in which the median part of the pro-
thorax is bluntly carinate.

Length 74 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Natal (Karkloof).

MONOCHELUS JUCUNDUS, n. spec.

Male: This species is very closely allied to M. partitus, the facies
and sculpture are identical, but the elytra are piceous red, and more
distinctly costate, the scales are whiter and similarly arranged, but
the hind legs are differently shaped; the trochanters of the hind
femora are not produced into a spine, and the hind tibie are gradually

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ampliated from base to apex, flattened outwardly, broadly scooped
inwardly, and the inner edge is bluntly dentate at about two-thirds
of the length and emarginate under the tooth, the apices are mode-
rately sharp but not mucronate, and there is a small apical spur;
hind claws single, simple.

Female: Like the male, but the three bands of scales on the elytra
are very distinct.

Length 54-6 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

MoNoCHELUS ELEGANTULUS, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Par. Mus., 1850, p. 68.

Bohem., Insect. Caffrar., 1., p. 158.

Male: Black, with the elytra chalybeate and shining, antenne and
legs red; prothorax partly covered with yellowish, elongate scales,
denser and smaller along the base, where they form a band, some-
what irregularly disposed on the disk, but partly filling the median
longitudinal groove, scutellum covered with small scales ; elytra with
very elongate whitish scales not closely set but very numerous and
somewhat seriate; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen with
similarly elongate whitish or yellowish scales looking almost like
appressed squamose hairs, and also set not very close to each other ;
head very rugose, clypeus with the outer angles broadly rounded, and
the anterior margins slightly reflexed and scarcely emarginate in the
centre ; prothorax gradually ampliated laterally in the middle, having
on each side of the disk some deep punctures filled by the scales, as
well as smooth intervening spaces, but closely and finely punctate on
each side of the base, the anterior and lateral margins are fringed
with very long, somewhat dense, fulvous, bristly hairs, the elytra are
roughly punctate and not costulate, and although attenuate laterally
towards the apex, not strongly sinuate past the humeral part ;
anterior tibiz bi-dentate; posterior femora swollen, moderately
robust, simple but with the trochanters produced into a short, sharp
spine; hind tibiz moderately robust, convex outwardly, flattened
inwardly, concave thence towards the apical part where they end in a
sub-mucronate process on each side, the upper one being the more
developed of the two; hind claws with a very distinct tooth under-
neath, no apical spur to the posterior tibize.

Female: Like the male, but the anterior tibiz have a very small,
basal outer tooth, and there is no tooth under the hind claws.

Length 74-9 mm. ; width 4-44 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

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MoNnocHELUS CALCARATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 160.

Male: Black, with the elytra red and the legs piceous red; pro-
thorax with five bands of flavescent scales, scutellum scaly, elytra
with rows of scale; apical part of the propygidium, the whole
of the pygidium and the sides of abdomen and of pectus scaly ;
head scaly; clypeus sub-obliquely attenuate, distinctly emarginate at
tip and with the outer angles moderately rounded, margins slightly
reflexed ; prothorax ampliate laterally in the median part, punctulate
laterally, but less so in the discoidal part, the median part of which
is grooved longitudinally, the scales of the marginal and sub-lateral
bands are set in the punctures, between the scaly groove and the
sub-lateral band there are also a few scales, and the anterior and
lateral margins are fringed with long yellow bristles ; elytra elongate,
distinctly attenuate laterally towards the apex, although not so much
ampliated at the base as in M. natalensis, and having equi-distant
elongate whitish scales disposed in one scale rows, and set in dis-
tinct seriate punctures ; the scales on the pygidium are not closely
set, and the hind legs are also scaly; the hind femora are much
thickened, and the trochanters are produced into a long slightly
curved spine which is detached from the thigh at a short distance
from the apex, and projects much beyond the knee, the tibiz are
somewhat impressed inwardly but not grooved, the two edges are
very sharp, and the inner one is produced into a very long, curved
apical mucro with two short bristles at the tip; claws of hind legs
single, not cleft, and having underneath a very distinct sub-horizontal
tooth.

Female: The female is similar to the male in colour, sculpture,
and vestiture, but the punctures on the elytra are seldom filled with
scales; the hind claws are a little ampliate underneath but not
dentate, and the hind tibiew have an apical spur.

Length 7-8 mm.; width 32-44 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kast London, Fort Beaufort, Port St. John) ;
Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Umvoti County, Estcourt).

MONOCHELUS PRINCEPS, 0. spec.

Male: Similar in general appearance to VW. letus; the shape and
vestiture of the head are similar; the prothorax has the median
groove filled with flavescent scales, the outer margins, including the
basal one, have a broad band of similar scales, and on each side of
the groove there is a short band reaching from the apex to about the
median discoidal part; the scutellum is scaly and on each elytron

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there are three bands of scales divided by two slight cost; the pro-
pygidium, sides of the abdomen, and pectus are densely scaly, the
pygidium has only some remote, hair-like appressed scales; all the
femora are red, the hind ones are very robust, grooved beneath, but
simple, the trochanters are produced into a very long spine ; the hind
tibiz are piceous black like the anterior and intermediate ones, only
slightly convex on, the outer face, concave in the inner, slightly
dilated towards the tip where the two apices are mucronate, in-
wardly there is no apical spur; claws of the intermediate legs with a
very distinct sub-vertical tooth beneath; claws of the posterior legs
single, simple.

Female: Similar to the male and with the yellow scales also
similarly arranged, but the pygidium is a little less densely scaly ;
the femora are also red.

Length 6-7 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Zululand (Eshowe) ; Natal (Howick).

MoNOCHELUS ORNATUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 161.

Male: Black, with the elytra and legs red and shining; the pro-
thorax has a narrow median band of flavescent scales, and the sides
are broadly covered with similar scales; the scutellum is hairy, and
on each elytron there is a band of not very closely set whitish flaves-
cent scales running alongside the suture from about the median part
to the apex, and a dorsal one beginning at the base, but obliterated
at about the median part; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen
covered with contiguous yellow scales ; head as in the two preceding
species, z.¢., a little attenuate laterally towards the apex, with the
outer angles somewhat rounded and the apical margin slightly
reflexed ; the prothorax is deeply grooved in the centre and fringed
with long, bristly yellow hairs along the anterior and lateral margins ;
the elytra have two slight longitudinal impressions divided by a
blunt, not very distinct costa, and they are somewhat deeply punc-
tured along the outer margins; the hind femora are very robust and
simple, but the trochanters are produced into a long, sharp spine,
the hind tibiz are very broadly scooped inwardly and the inner edge
is produced at about two-thirds of the length into a long, sub-trans-
verse, mucro-like tooth, the outer edgeis simple but sharp, the apices
are sharp but not mucronate, and there is a small apical spur ; hind
claws single, simple; basal outer tooth of anterior tibiz nearly
obliterated,

Female unknown.

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Length 6-7 mm.; width 34-4 mm.
Hab. Natal (Durban, Frere) ; Transvaal (Johannesburg).

MOoONOCHELUS INOPS, nh. spec.

Male: Black, covered on the head, prothorax and elytra with
dingy, ashy-grey appressed hairs scarcely squamose, antenne rufes-
cent with the club black; clypeus very broadly rounded laterally
with the anterior margin reflexed and not emarginate in the middle ;
head roughly punctate, clothed with short, slightly flavescent, erect
hairs ; prothorax regularly ampliate in the middle laterally, closely
punctate, but the punctures are not scabrose, and bear each a short
appressed hair, median part not grooved longitudinally except near
the base, where there is a short sulcus, the anterior and lateral
margins are fringed with very long, slightly fulvous, bristly hairs ;
scutellum covered with sub-squamose hairs; elytra costate in the
discoidal part and costulate below the shoulder, roughly punctulate
and with the squamose hairs denser in the two dorsal intervals ; pro-
pygidium and under side clothed with appressed, squamose, slightly
flavescent hairs; anterior tibia bi-dentate, hind legs robust, femora
swollen, simple, but having the trochanters produced into a short,
sharp spine, hind tibiz broad but somewhat compressed, emarginate
underneath near the knee, slightly concave inwardly near the apex
where it is sub-mucronate inwards and sharply angular on the upper
side, the upper edge is very deeply emarginate at a short distance
from the apex, the upper angle of the emargination being very sharp,
almost dentate; there is a small, yet distinct apical spur, and the
outer surface is irregularly foveato-punctate.

Female unknown. |

Length 7-74 mm.; width 34 mm.

I have seen four males of this species preserved in spirit; it is
possible that the sub-squamose hairs are more flavescent in fresh
examples.

Hab. Iam not sure of the true habitat of this species. It might
prove to be Port Elizabeth in the Cape Colony or Durban in Natal.
I opine for the latter.

MOoNOCHELUS GRACILIS, n. spec.

Male: Black, with the legs rufescent, whole body, including the
hind legs, clothed with closely set scales ; clypeus very little attenuate
laterally, nearly straight at the tip and with the outer angles sharp
but not reflexed; prothorax setulose laterally and in front, but the

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Setz are not long, it is distinctly emarginate laterally from the median
to the basal part, grooved longitudinally in the middle, and completely
covered above and laterally with greyish-white scales, and has a longi-
tudinal band of light buff scales on each side of the median groove,
and another above the outer margin; scutellum covered with white,
slightly elongate scales ; elytra elongate, deeply sinuate laterally, and
attenuate towards the apex, bi-costate on each side, covered with
contiguous round white scales changing to light buff on the two
cost ; the scales on the pygidial part, abdomen, and pectus are pure
white and very dense; the anterior tibie are bi-dentate outwardly,
the hind femora and legs are very long, slender, and simple, the hind
tarsi are slightly longer than the tibie, and the hind claw is double,
the inner claw being less than half the length of the outer, which is
cleft laterally ; claws of the intermediate legs shaped as that of the
posterior legs, but having in addition a strong sub-horizontal tooth
under the robust outer one.

Female unknown.

Length 5 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

This insect will be easily identified, not only by the slender facies,
the nearly truncate clypeus, and the long, slender legs, but also by
the shape of the claws of the intermediate legs which are armed
underneath with a conspicuous tooth, like some other species, but are
double instead of being simple.

MoNOCHELUS LZETUS, Nn. spec. *

Male: Head and prothorax black, elytra and legs light brownish red ;
the head and prothorax are covered with minute, nearly contiguous
flavescent scales leaving a narrow longitudinal band on each side of
the deep median groove partly denuded, and also a similar but
shorter space midway between the first discoidal space and the outer
margin; elytra densely scaly but with three narrow denuded bands,
the two outer of which reach from base to apex, but the first dorsal
one reaches only to about the median part, these scales are whiter
than those on the prothorax and larger, and the denuded bands are
not always very well defined; pygidium non-squamose, edge of pro-
pygidium, abdomen, and pectus very densely scaly; head rugose, a
little attenuate laterally towards the apex, which is slightly sinuate,
but the outer angles of which are rounded; the prothorax is attenuate
laterally in the anterior part, rugose, and has a deep, median groove
reaching from base to apex; elytra attenuate laterally towards the
apex, non-costulate ; pygidium convex, aciculate, moderately shining ;

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hind femora very strong, broadly dilated triangularly till past the
median part, triangularly dentate underneath, and with the tro-
chanters completely fused with the lower edge of the thigh, and pro-
duced at about the median part into a sharp spine a little in front of
the post-median triangular tooth ; hind tibize very curved, somewhat
slender, covered with appressed white hairs, a little concave inwardly
at the apex, the lower edge of which is mucronate, the mucro 1s
short, and there is a distinct apical spur; hind claws single, simple ;
the fore tibia have the basal tooth quite obliterated in both
SEXES.

Female: Like the male, but the scales on the prothorax are more
hair-like, the scales on the elytra are a little deeper yellow, and form
two distinct dorsal bands, the juxta-sutural one is interrupted below
the base, and the pygidium is covered with appressed squamose
hairs.

Length 5-74 mm.; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

MoNOCHELUS LITIGIOSUS, n. spec.

Male: Very closely allied to M. letus, from which it differs by
the uninterrupted squamose covering and the shape of the hind
femora; instead of having a denuded lateral patch and a band along-
side the median groove on each side of the prothorax, this part of the
body is entirely covered with greyish white scales; the brownish red
elytra are also covered with dense, although not contiguous, scales
which are not forming longitudinal bands, and the hind femora have
only the trochanterine spine beneath, this latter forms the apex of
the triangle; the horizontal tooth under the median claw is stronger
than in M. letus.

Female: Like the male; it is also differentiated from the female
of M. letus by the absence of longitudinal bands of scales on the
elytra.

Length 7-74 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Estcourt).

MONOCHELUS LHXTULUS, n. spec.

Male: Black, with the whole upper surface, the pygidial part, the
abdomen and pectus entirely covered with contiguous ochre-yellow
scales ; legs red; head, prothorax, and elytra similar in shape to
those of M. letus, but there is no denuded space or bands on the
prothorax and the elytra; the scales on the latter are round, and they

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have on each side two faintly raised costa covered by a series of
slightly lighter yellow scales ; hind femora very robust and having a
very small tooth at the apex, underneath close to the knee the
trochanters are produced into a sharp spine; the hind tibie are
broadly but not very deeply scooped inwardly, and the edges are
sharply carinate, the outer one is very sharply angular near the knee
and the inner is produced at a short distance from the apex into a
conspicuous mucro-like tooth, there is a small apical spur, and the
angles of the tibia are not mucronate on either side; basal tooth of
the anterior tibia obliterated in both sexes; hind claws single,
simple.

Female: Like the male, but the prothorax is covered with appressed
squamose hairs instead of scales, and the apical spur is more
developed.

Length 7-8 mm.; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

MoNOCHELUS PULVINATUS, 0. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra chocolate-brown ; head scaly ; pro-
thorax with a median band of whitish scales, a discoidal one and a
more or less regular marginal one; elytra irregularly besprinkled
with ovate white scales; scutellum, propygidium, pygidium, and
under side covered with closely set whitish scales; clypeus a
little more obliquely attenuate laterally towards the apex than the
other species of Monochelus, and sub-incised at the tip; prothorax
rugose, very briefly setulose, with an apical and lateral series
of stiff, long, black bristles, and in the median part a narrow,
median furrow; elytra with a faint, discoidal costule, very closely
punctate, each puncture bearing a very short, fuscous seta; pygi-
dium with a narrow denuded median longitudinal line reaching from
the base to two-thirds of the length; anterior tibiew tri-dentate
outwardly, but with the basal tooth very small and inconspicuous ;
hind femora robust, moderately thickened, simple, trochanters non-
spinose, hind tibize not convex inwardly, emarginate near the knee
and very angular there, lower apical angle sharp and slightly pro-
duced, but not mucronate; claw of the intermediate legs with a
distinct tooth underneath ; hind claws single, simple.

Female: Like the male, but the scales are a little wider on the
upper side and golden-yellow ; the denuded band on the pygidium
is very well defined, and the hind tibia have a distinct apical spur.

Length 54 mm.; width 3-3} mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

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MoNOCHELUS FUNEBRIS, Nn. spec.

Male: Black, shining, clothed with small lanceolate greyish scales ;
head very closely punctate and having a very short greyish pubes-
cence, the clypeus is slightly attenuate laterally and has the outer
angles rounded ; prothorax convex, ampliated and rounded laterally
in the middle, faintly impressed longitudinally in the central part of
the disk, deeply but moderately closely punctured, each puncture
bearing a short, squamiform appressed greyish hair, and there is all
round a border of thicker and slightly more flavescent squamose
hairs ; scutellum covered with elongate greyish scales; elytra dis-
tinctly attenuate laterally towards the apex and deeply sinuate below
the humeral part, bi-costate on each side and with the intervals
filled with lanceolate, somewhat closely set but not contiguous
scales ; propygidium, abdominal segments and pectus covered with
elongate scales, pygidium with short hair-like scales broadly
scattered ; legs long, slender, the hind femora, which are sparsely
squamose, are moderately robust and simple, and the hind tibiz are
also moderately thick, simple, and have an apical spur, the anterior
ones are bi-dentate outwardly, the claws are robust, the anterior ones
double with the outer one cleft, the median ones are more emarginate
than incised at the tip.

Female unknown.

This species closely resembles M. inops, but is distinguished by
the shorter clypeus, which is also less broadly rounded laterally, the
absence of the long sete in the anterior and lateral parts of the
prothorax, the smaller, denser, and less hair-like scales on the elytra,
and the absence of a tooth under the claw of the intermediate legs,
this claw also is not bifid as in MM. mops.

Length 5-54 mm.; width 2? mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

THABINA, n. gen.

Mentum ovoid, gradually attenuated towards the apex and not
constricted laterally, straight at the apex with the angles slightly
rounded and not penicillate; inner lobe of maxille absent, upper
lobe short, concave, not penicillate and armed with four teeth; last
joint of labial palpi swollen outwardly, that of the maxillary palpi
fusiform, truncate at the tip; clypeus attenuate towards the apex,
where it is emarginate, and with the margin raised all round;
antenne nine-jointed, club as long as the other six joints taken
together ; prothorax ampliated and rounded laterally; scutellum
ogival; elytra sinuate laterally and very attenuate towards the

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apex; pygidium sloping forwards; anterior tibie tri-dentate, but
the basal tooth is very short and the other two are very slanting ;
claws of the front and intermediate tarsi double, unequal, the stouter
one of the fore legs cleft, hind claw single, simple.

Intermediate in shape between some species of Monochelus and
Idutywa. Its main distinctive character is the very long, flabellate
club of the antenne.

THABINA SIMPLEX, n. spec.

Male: Black, head rugose and having some very short, sub-
flavescent hairs in the frontal part, clypeus reflexed all round ;
prothorax plainly grooved longitudinally in the centre, ampliated
and rounded laterally in the middle, broadly and deeply punctured,
each puncture bearing a long, somewhat fulvous bristle, and in the
furrow as well as along the outer margin are some whitish, appressed
squamose hairs; elytra somewhat bi-costulate on each side and
having along the suture a broad band of partly erect squamose white
hairs, and a discoidal one not quite as broad as the juxta-sutural, and
sometimes reduced to a faint line, they are deeply but not closely
punctured, each puncture bearing a long bristle; pygidial part and
abdomen clothed with appressed greyish squamose hairs, which are
not dense on the pygidium ; legs bristly and pubescent; hind ones
not especially robust, intermediate and hind tibiz with an apical
spur, fifth joint of the hind tarsi nearly as long as the three preceding
taken together and bi-dentate underneath.

Length 5 mm.; width 25 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Potchefstroom).

Gren. GYMNOLOMA, Burm.,
Eland).<d. Emvomiol veel, qo. aol

Mentum ampliate near the base, attenuate laterally towards the
apex, not deeply constricted near it, arcuately emarginate there, and
with the angles mostly sharply dentate and slightly fasciculate, lobe ot
maxillze long, robust, armed with six sharp teeth curved inwardly ;
apical joint of labial and maxillary palpi sub-fusiform; clypeus
sharply triangular (G. atomaria), truncate and simple (G. stragosa),
or truncate and dentate laterally (G. ornata); club of antenne as
long as the five joints preceding, sixth joint briefly lamellate ;
prothorax oblique laterally, in the anterior part and from there
straight or little ampliate ; scutellum short, bluntly rounded at the
tip; elytra narrowed laterally towards the posterior part, strongly
sinuate below the humeral part, and leaving a somewhat broad part

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of the dorsal abdominal segments uncovered; propygidium very
wide, pygidium declivous ; anterior tibize bi- or tri-dentate outwardly,
claws of the anterior and intermediate legs single and slightly cleft
(G. atomaria, femorata), or double and each cleft in the anterior only
(G. strigosa), but the claws of the hind legs are always single and
simple ; hind femora very robust and with the trochanters spinose,
the tibize carinate underneath, and dentate or angular near the knee
(femorata, ornata, strigosa), or slender and simple; apical spur of
posterior tibiz distinct in the males of some species, absent in
others.

The distinctive characters separating this genus from Monochelus
are the longer club of the antenne, and also the shape of the mentum,
the apical part of which has the angles sharply dentate, but this
character does not hold good for all the species; the shape of the
clypeus varies very much, and in several species it is quite similar to
that of some Monochelus ; the development of the hind legs and
trochanters, which are so conspicuous in Monochelus, is also to be
found in somé species of Gymnoloma. The main characteristic
distinction as given by Burmeister, 7.c., that all the tarsi have a
single claw, while in Monochelus, the anterior and sometimes the
median ones are double, does not hold good for all the species, either
in Gymnoloma or Monochelus.

The genus stands as constituted by Burmeister, except that one
species, B. lineolata, has been transferred to another genus; G.
elegantula, leucophea and sulcicollis, Blanch., do not belong to this
genus; G. elegantula belongs to Monochelus; G. leucophea to
Dichelus ; G. sulcicollis to Knysna ; this last species is identical with
K. hwmeralis, Burm.

Key to the Species.

A?, Hind femora with sharply spinose trochanters.
B3. Clypeus triangular, sharp at the tip.
C?. Anterior tibiew bi-dentate outwardly in the male.

Black, with the femora red ; elytra bi-costate on each side,
and having along the suture a partly obliterated line of
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Black, with the elytra testaceous, without scales, and
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B?. Clypeus obliquely narrowed, sinuate at the tip.

_ Black, with the elytra chocolate-brown, non-costate, and
having on each side two discoidal and one sutural band
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B'. Clypeus truncate in front and with the angles dentate,

C'. Anterior tibize tri-dentate.

Black, with the intermediate and hind legs red; elytra
with six elongate flavescent scaly patches on each side ..

A‘. Hind femora with the trochanters not spinose.

B?.

18}

Clypeus triangular, sharp at the tip.

Black, sprinkled on the upper side with very numerous white
scales; elytra chocolate-brown, non-costulate, hind femora
slender, villose

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Black, sprinkled on the upper side with numerous white
scales ; hind femora dilated at the apex

Black; elytra chocolate-brown, not scaly, slightly bi-costu-
late, closely and finely punctured ; hind femora long, slender,
yillose:7\//$ 4 4.) 24 aes

Clypeus parallel, truncate at the tip.

Ce. Anterior tibie tri-dentate, but with the basal tooth nearly
obliterated.

Black, with the elytra brownish red, opaque, margin of
prothorax and suture of elytra with a narrow band of
whitish scales ..

Cr. Anterior tibise distinctly tri-dentate.

Black, with the elytra light chocolate-brown, each elytron
bi-costulate in the basal part, and having two discoidal
and a sutural band of greyish-white scales

Black, with the elytra fuscous brown and sprinkled with
elongate, appressed, squamose greyish hairs; prothorax
with a median, a supra-lateral and a lateral band of
similar hairs ..

Reddish brown, uniformly clothed on the upper get with
small, elongate scales ;

Black, with the elytra ‘chestnut-brown; head and
prothorax villose, almost without scales; elytra with a
basal discoidal band of white scales reaching the
median part, and a juxta-sutural one reaching from
the middle to the apex

GYMNOLOMA FEMORATA. Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 165.

[von, XII,

ornata. —

atomaria.

subsulcata.

ingloriosa.

suturalis.

strigosa.

parvula.

pusilla,

spuria.

Male: Black, with the intermediate and hind femora red;
antenne piceous red with the club black; head and prothorax closely
scabroso-punctate ; the head is clothed with stiff, short, black bristles,
the clypeus is obliquely attenuate, triangular at apex ;

prothorax

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covered with dense, long, black bristly hairs, suleate longitudinally in
the middle, with the furrow filled with greyish-white scales not very
closely set, but more numerous along the outer margin, especially in
the female ; scutellum scaly ; elytra elongate, very distinctly attenuate
laterally from the shoulders towards the apex, clothed with a very
short, slightly greyish pubescence, not dense enough to conceal the
somewhat shagreened background, and having along the suture a
partly obliterated series of remote ovate white scales, a few of which
are also sprinkled on the posterior part of the disk, each elytron has
two costules which disappear past the median part ; in the female the
sutural band of white scales is much more distinct, and there is a
similar one along the outer margin ; propygidium, pygidium, and under
side covered with closely set scales, white in the male, flavescent in
the female; anterior tibie bi-dentate in the male, but with a very
small third, basal tooth, claws of anterior and intermediate legs
simple but distinctly cleft at the tip; hind femora very robust,
simple, but with the trochanters produced into a long, sharp spine ;
hind tibize carinate beneath, the carina sharp, strongly angular near
the knee, mucronate inwardly at apex, no apical spur ; claws of hind
legs single, simple.

Female: Like the male, the hind tibie, however, are not carinate
underneath, but the Dee: are aS angular and mucronate as in the
male.

Length 7-74 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab, Cape Golony (Worcester, Clanwilliam, Near salina

GYMNOLOMA TIBIALIS, n. spec.

Black, with the prothorax somewhat metallic, and the elytra
testaceous, not scaly on the upper side, with the exception of a few
scales on the sides of the prothorax and of the scutellum, but clothed
with dense scales and whitish hairs underneath ; clypeus triangular
and covered, like the head, with long hairs; prothorax very densely
hairy, the hairs erect, closely and somewhat roughly punctured,
deeply grooved longitudinally in the centre ; elytra strongly attenuate’
laterally from the base to the apex, and having on each side two
conspicuous longitudinal impressions separated by two cost, they
are deeply punctured, the punctures are somewhat scattered in the
anterior part, but denser and distinctly granulose behind, from these
punctures spring a very short, blackish bristle; anterior tibiz bi-
dentate outwardly ; hind femora swollen inwardly in the median
part, obsoletely grooved underneath near the base, not dentate there
and sub-mucronate inwardly at the tip; femora robust, and having

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the trochanters sharply spinose ; pygidium and propygidium clothed
with contiguous white scales.

Female unknown.

Length 7 mm.; width 32 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

GYMNOLOMA PERPLEXA, Nn. spec.

Black, with the elytra chocolate-brown ; prothorax sprinkled with
sub-flavescent, numerous scales scattered on the discoidal part, but
not forming bands, and denser along the outer and the basal margins ;
seutellum very little scaly ; elytra having on each side a sutural and
two discoidal narrow bands of minute sub-flavescent scales as well as
a marginal one, often, however, partly obliterated or merging near the
shoulder into the outer discoidal one; pygidial part and under side
densely scaly, the scales not quite contiguous ; clypeus very attenuate
obliquely laterally, sinuate at tip, rugose, briefly bristly; prothorax
closely punctured with the punctures slightly scabrose, clothed with
a short, erect pubescence, but having long, bristly black hairs along
the anterior and outer margins; scutellum non-scaly; elytra very
closely and somewhat roughly punctured, and having on each side
three series of short, black bristles; anterior tibiz bi-dentate in the
male, claws of anterior and intermediate legs single, cleft laterally ;
hind femora robust, simple, but with the trochanters sharply spinose ;
hind tibiz carinate beneath, the carina sharp, strongly angular near
the knee, and mucronate at apex ; claws of hind legs single, simple.

Female unknown.

Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown).

GYMNOLOMA ORNATA, Burm.,
Handbs a) intone avon p. Loa;

Male: Black, with the intermediate and posterior legs red; pro-
thorax with a median longitudinal band of flavescent scales, a
discoidal one interrupted in the middle and an outer marginal ;
scutellum densely scaly; elytra with eight elongated patches of
yellowish scales on each side; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen
clothed with contiguous yellowish scales; head closely and somewhat
roughly punctate and clothed with short, dense, black hairs, clypeus
a little attenuate laterally, truncate at tip, and with the outer angles
sharp and reflexed; prothorax closely scabroso-punctate and with
a deep median groove filled with scales; scutellum short, sub-ogival ;

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elytra conspicuously narrowed laterally from below the shoulder
towards the apex, bi-costulate on each side, closely and roughly
punctured, very briefly pubescent in the posterior part, the elongate
patches of yellow scales are disposed as follows: a small one in the
base near the scutellum, an elongate basal discoidal, a juxta-sutural
reaching from some distance from the base to about the median part,
and a diagonal one placed outside the humeral callus, reaching to about
the same distance, but beginning near the base, two smaller ones
situate in the middle of the discoidal part and parallel to each other, a
juxta-sutural one reaching nearly to the apex, and a supra-marginal of
nearly the same length, the scales of which the bands are formed being
small and round; hind femora robust, swollen, simple but having the
trochanters briefly spinose; hind tibize sharply carinate underneath,
very sharply angular near the knee, briefly mucronate in the lower
apical part, and strongly angular on the upper; anterior tibia very
distinctly and sharply bi-dentate outwardly, claws of the anterior and
intermediate legs single, cleft laterally; posterior ones single, simple.

Female: The shape is similar to that of the male, but the prothorax
is clothed with very dense yellowish hairs; the scutellum is scaly,
the scales being flavescent white, and the whole surface of the elytra
is covered with contiguous yellow scales entirely surrounding the
elongated patches which are disposed as in the male, but the scales of
which are paler than those forming the background; the hind legs
are also robust, but much less so than in the male, the hind tibiz are
compressed and have an apical spur,

Length 7-8 mm.; width 33-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

GYMNOLOMA ATOMARIA, Fabr.,
Spec. Insect., i., p. 48.
Oliv; Eimiom:., 1 0,p. (1, pl. v., fe. o2.

Male: Black, with the elytra light chocolate-brown, sprinkled with
very numerous minute white scales and having on the outer margins
of the prothorax three patches of denser white scales somewhat
connected; pygidium, sides of abdomen, and pectus very densely
scaly, the scales white; clypeus produced into a long triangle, very
sharp at apex, head very rugose; prothorax with a deep median
longitudinal groove filled with denser scales, and thickly fringed in
the anterior margin with very long, blackish bristly hairs; scutellum
small; elytra obsoletely costulate, conspicuously narrowed laterally
from the shoulder towards the apex, and leaving thus a somewhat
‘broad part of the dorsal abdominal segments uncovered, this part is

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densely squamose but has a denuded round patch on the stemmata;
the fore tibiz are tri-dentate outwardly, but the basal tooth is small,
the anterior and intermediate claws are single but cleft; the hind
femora are slender, densely scaly, simple, with the trochanters not
spinose ; hind tibiz as long as the femora, not much wider at apex
than near the base, simple, not mucronate, very densely pe
inwardly, and without an apical spur.

Female: Like the male, but with the scales distinctly flavescent, or
yellow ; hind tibiz with a long, apical spur.

Length 7-74 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colone (Caledon, Swellendam, Uitenhage, Ganka S
Town).

GYMNOLOMA SUBSULCATA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 163.

Female: Like Burmeister I know only the female of this insect,
and my example is also of Drege’s collecting. Unlike other females
of this genus the fore tibie are distinctly bi-dentate; the body
is black, covered with very short greyish hairs on the head and
prothorax, the latter being fringed with the customary bristly mar-
ginal long hairs, and the median sulcus and the sides have.a few
scattered, elongate whitish scales, which sparsely cover the scutellum ;
the elytra are distinctly bi-costulate on each side, the outer costa
disappearing past the median part, and the space between the cost
is filled with not closely set,- elongate white scales, the whole
pygidial part and under side- are densely scaly, the scales being
elongate; the hind legs are as in the preceding species, but the tibiee
are more dilated at the apex, and have a distinct apical spur; the
clypeus is attenuate laterally, bluntly triangular and slightly reflexed
at tip. |

Length 6 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown).

GYMNOLOMA INGLORIOSA, N. spec.

Black, with the elytra chocolate-brown, opaque; there are a few
sparse scales along the margin, and also in the median longitudinal
groove of the prothorax, very few only along the elytral suture,
but the whole under side is clothed with white scales, and the propy-
gidium is also densely scaly, but has a longitudinal denuded band ;
legs black; in shape this species resembles G. atomaria; the clypeus
is similar; the prothorax is more densely villose; the elytra are
slightly yet plainly costulate, and covered with contiguous, somewhat

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elongate, scabrose punctures, and clothed with very short upright
black hairs with on each side two series of erect bristles, the suture
also is bristly ; anterior tibize tri-dentate ; hind femora long, slender,
villose, not thickened or ampliated at apex.

Length 7 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

GYMNOLOMA SUTURALIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol.,-iv., 1, p. 164.

Male: Black, with the elytra reddish brown, opaque, outer and
basal margins of prothorax with a broad band of sub-flavescent
scales; elytra with a moderately broad band of scales along the
suture, and a narrow line on the outer margin; pygidial part and
abdominal segments densely clothed with yellowish-white scales
leaving a conspicuously denuded space round the stemmata; legs
reddish ; clypeus a little attenuate laterally, truncate at tip and with
the outer angles distinct, prothorax fringed in front and laterally with
very long, black, bristly hairs, the median furrow is shallow, but very
broad; elytra attenuate laterally towards the apex, sinuate below the
humeral part, very finely punctured and extremely briefly pubescent,
distinctly bi-costulate on each side and without any sprinkled scales
besides those forming the sutural band and the outer marginal line;
anterior tibie tri-dentate, but with the basal tooth very small; hind
femora moderately slender, simple and without a trochanterine spine;
hind tibiz: narrowed near the knee and slightly dilated from there to
the apex, somewhat concave on the upper side, flattened inwardly,
and with the two apices angular, but not mucronate, no apical spur

Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, Caledon).

GYMNOLOMA STRIGOSA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 163.
Lacord. Gener., Atlas, pl. xxix., fig. 2.

Male: Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, opaque; prothorax
with a median and an outer marginal band of white, somewhat dense
scales, which form also a partly obliterated one along the base ;
scutellum scaly; elytra with a sutural, two discoidal and an outer
marginal line of white scales; pygidium and under side densely scaly
the former having a denuded median basal patch ; clypeus very slightly
attenuate laterally, straight at tip and with the angles distinct ; head
and prothorax rugose and clothed with not very short, erect black

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hairs, and having the usual fringe of black bristles; elytra very
slightly bi-costulate on each side, closely punctured, extremely briefly
pubescent, attenuate laterally towards the apex, and distinctly sinuate
below the humeral part; anterior tibie sharply tri-dentate; anterior
claws double, intermediate single, cleft; hind femora simple, not
robust, without trochanterine spine ; hind tibize moderately slender, a
little dilated towards the apex, not mucronate there and without an
apical spur.

Female: Like the male, but having an apical spur on the hind
tibie, the scales are also whitish, but on the pygidium there is an
elongate, sharply triangular patch of flavescent scales.

Length 7-8 mm.; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay, Worcester, Willowmore).

GYMNOLOMA PARVULA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 160.

Black, and covered with elongate white scales, looking more like
squamose hairs in the female; in the male the prothorax has a longi-
tudinal denuded median space divided by a thin line of scales set in
the shallow median groove; the scales on the elytra are moderately
dense and more closely set along the sutural part; head densely
scaly, lateral and apical margins strongly reflexed and anterior part
of clypeus sub-excavate ; prothorax ampliate laterally at middle, and
not emarginate in the posterior part; elytra very little attenuate
towards the apex, non-costulate ; hind femora not swollen in the
male, simple, and without spinose trochanter ; hind tibia compressed,
a little dilated inwardly at the middle, simple and non-mucronate
at apex.

Length 5 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

This species was included by Burmeister in Monochelus.

GYMNOLOMA PUSILLA, Nn. spec.

Male: Very closely allied to G. parvula, but smaller; the shape
and sculpture of the head and of the outer teeth of the anterior tibiz
are similar, but the prothorax is not grooved longitudinally in the
centre, and is uniformly covered with small, elongate, slightly
flavescent scales; the elytra are also uniformly clothed with similar
scales, the pygidial part and the abdomen are scaly.

The absence of median groove on the prothorax, which is uniformly
covered with scales, distinguishes this species from G. parvula.

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Female unknown.
Length 34 mm.; width 1} mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

GYMNOLOMA SPURIA, Nn. spec.

Male: Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown; prothorax with faint
traces of scattered whitish scales, often rubbed off, elytra with a
juxta-sutural band of white elongate scales beginning at about the
median part and reaching to the apex, and a discoidal one reaching
from the base to about the median part; propygidium and pygidium
covered with elongate, not very closely set white scales, abdominal
segments edged with elongate scales, pectus pubescent; head and
prothorax scabroso-punctate; the clypeus is distinctly acuminate
laterally towards the apex, which is emarginate in the centre, the
whole head is covered with sub-flavescent, villose hairs; prothorax
grooved longitudinally in the centre and clothed all over with
very long, sub-flavescent villose hairs; scutellum non-scaly; elytra
elongate, sinuate laterally below the shoulder, but not conspicuously
narrowed from there towards the apex, very closely punctate, some-
what coriaceous, and having two not very distinct costules on each
side; anterior tibiz tri-dentate outwardly, claws double, and each
cleft apically, those of the intermediate and posterior ones single,
but the latter only are simple; club of antennz as long as the five
joints preceding. In this species the angles of the mentum are not
very sharp.

Length 6-7 mm.; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

KNYSNA, n. gen.

Mentum long, oblong, somewhat slender, not deeply constricted
laterally near the apex, which is very slightly sinuate and has the
outer angles distinct and slightly bristly, but not penicillate; lobe
of maxillze short, slightly penicillate, and having an apical tooth
more or less sharply trifid, and three lower down, last joint of
maxillary and labial palpi fusiform, the latter short and very
swollen; clypeus in the shape of a truncate cone emarginate at
apex; antenne nine-jointed, club as long as the four preceding
joints taken together; prothorax nearly plane, attenuate laterally
in the anterior part, bi-smuate along the base, and deeply grooved
longitudinally in the middle; scutellum short, broadly rounded at
the tip; elytra elongate, parallel, not sinuate laterally, and covering
the dorsal part of the abdominal segments except the propygidium ;

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abdomen of the male compressed laterally, pygidium sloping for-
wards; legs long, slender, similar in both sexes, anterior tibiee
tri-dentate outwardly, the teeth oblique and equi-distant, the basal
one very small; anterior claw double, the outer one very small and
simple, the inner one slightly cleft, intermediate ones single but
cleft, posterior ones single, simple; in the male the claw of the
intermediate legs has a conspicuous tooth underneath, and the
metasternum has on each side of the anterior part a broad, oblique,
tomentose patch, while the rest of the surface is scaly.

Key to the Species.

Clypeus deeply emarginate at the apex; elytra with the whole
interval between the suture and the first costule filled with a broad
band” of flavescent whitevhainrs 8 92) oe ee) ee ee ee IUIENIUC Lise

Clypeus slightly emarginate at the apex; whole surface of elytra
covered with small, somewhat closely set sub-flavescent scales .. sulcicollis.

KNYSNA HUMERALIS, Burm.,
Ischnochelus humeralis, Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 132.

Male: Black, legs with the exception of the hind tibie reddish,
antenne of the same colour as the legs, but with the club infuscate ;
_prothorax with a median longitudinal band of whitish scales and a
supra-lateral one not very well defined; elytra with a broad band
of similar but a little more flavescent scales at a short distance from
the suture, pygidial part, abdomen and pectus scaly; head scabrose,
sparingly hairy, clypeus distinctly narrowed, strongly bi-dentate at
the tip; prothorax with a deep median longitudinal furrow reaching
from the apex to the base, the anterior and lateral margins are
fringed with long, stiff bristles, the sides are deeply but not closely
punctured, the punctures being filled with scales, but between the
median furrow and the punctures there is a longitudinal smooth
area; scutellum not scaly in my examples, but the scales may
have been rubbed off; elytra nearly parallel, but still a little
attenuate laterally towards the apex, very little simuate, they are
rugulose and have on each side two slight costee the outer of which
is hardly distinct, and the interval between the first and the suture
is filled with the band of scales, which is sightly oblique and reaches
from the base to a very short distance from the apex; the pygidium
is scaly like the propygidium and the abdomen, but the scales are
much more scattered; the claw of the intermediate legs has a
conspicuous, sub-horizontal tooth underneath in the male.

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Length 7 mm.; width 3 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Caledon).

KNYSNA SULCICOLLIS, Blanch.,
Gynmoloma sulcicollis, Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 67.

Male: Black with the legs reddish, except the hind tibiz and
tarsi, which are black; head densely clothed with elongate, some-
what hair-like ashy-grey scales, prothorax with a median and a
supra-lateral band of similar scales which cover also the outer
margin, scutellum, elytra, pygidial part, and the abdomen clothed
with very closely set but not contiguous elongate scales of the same
pattern as those on the prothorax; clypeus distinctly acuminate
but with the two apical teeth a little less reflexed than in
K. humeralis ; the prothorax has three longitudinal furrows, and
the scales, which are much more elongate and very dense, may
be said to cover the whole surface except the two median, some-
what raised longitudinal smooth areas; elytra with only one distinct
discoidal costule, they are a little less parallel owing to a slight
median amplication, and the scales on the pygidium are not as
closely set as on the propygidium; claw of the intermediate tarsi
with a conspicuous horizontal claw underneath.

Female: Like the male, but less densely scaly, and with the
costule on the elytra more distinct; the claw of the intermediate
legs has no tooth underneath.

Length 6-74 mm.; width 24-3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

I have always met this species dragging itself clumsily along the
ground, and never in or on flowers.

OUTENIQUA, n. gen.

Mentum short, ovate, strongly incised laterally near the insertion
of the palpi, strongly dilated from there to the apex, where it is
straight with the angles distinct; maxilla glabrous at the tip, and
armed there with three apical sharp teeth bent almost at right angles
(the median one of which is slightly more apical than the other two),
and another trifid transverse one lower down; the joints of the labial
palpi are short and the apical one is thick, sub-fusiform outwardly,
straighter inwardly, and the apical maxillary joint is a little swollen
inwardly, and straighter, but slightly sinuate outwardly ; antenne
nine-jointed, basal joint very swollen at the tip, second short, beady,
fifth and sixth produced into a short lamellate process at tip; clypeus

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separated from the head by a transverse suture, sub-parallel laterally,
deeply emarginate semi-circularly at tip and with the angles sharply
acuminate, reflexed, and projecting transversely; prothorax oblique
laterally from the apex to the median part, emarginate in the
posterior, and with the base moderately arcuate; scutellum very
long, narrow, and sharp at tip; elytra strongly narrowed laterally
from the humeral part towards the apex, but not sinuate, and covering
the dorsal part of the abdominal segments; propygidium uncovered
by the elytra, pygidium vertical in the male; anterior tibie strongly
bi-dentate in the male and sharply angular above the second tooth,
the first and second teeth are remote, set nearly at right angles, the
apical one is nearly twice as long as the other, and both are slightly
curved backwards at the tip; the posterior femora and tibize are very
swollen, the intermediate and hind tarsi are thick, especially the
latter, the fifth joint of the posterior ones is very robust and shaped
as in some species of Pachycnema; claws of the anterior and inter-
mediate legs double and cleft, the outer claw being only half the
length of the inner one; posterior claws double, but with the inner
one very minute, and the outer simple and robust; tibize without
apical spur in both sexes.

The general appearance of the only species known is not unlike
that of Pachycnema.

OUTENIQUA FESTIVA, Péring.,
Plate XLIV., fig. 6.

Gymnoloma festiva, Trans. 8. Afric. Phil. Soe., vol. 111, pt. i,
1885, p. 95.

Male: Black, with the elytra flavescent or light testaceous yellow,
and the hind legs occasionally red or reddish brown; the prothorax
has a broad margin all round of bluish opaline scales and is clothed
on the disk with flavescent, dense, short hairs; the scutellum is
squamulose and the elytra have a very broad sutural band of bluish
opaline ovate scales reaching from base to apex; the pygidial part
and the under side are covered with dense, similar scales, which are
also somewhat densely sprinkled on the intermediate and hind
femora ; the head is very rugose, and clothed with short yellowish
hairs, the apical angles of the clypeus project outwardly as a trans-
verse tooth; the prothorax is closely scabroso-punctate and is not
grooved longitudinally in the middle; the elytra are clothed with
appressed, dense, yellowish-white hairs, and they have on each side
four distinct rows of white, long bristles ; posterior tibia compressed,
robust; intermediate and posterior femora robust, especially the

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latter, which are simple with the trochanters not projecting into a
spine, but are bluntly dentate on each side of the articulation of the
knee; hind tibie thick, swollen inwardly and outwardly, slightly
angular near the knee with the lower apical part very sharply
angular, and the upper part developed into a long spinose mucro; the
four basal joints of the hind tarsi are short and very robust, and the
fifth is greatly developed, thick, as long as the four preceding and
denticulate underneath, outer claw very robust, as long as the fourth
joint, simple, inner claw very minute; the claws of the two first pairs
of legs are double and both cleft.

Female: The female is shaped like the male, except that the
pygidium is sub-horizontal; the anterior tibiz are, however, more
distinctly tri-dentate ; the discoidal part of the prothorax and of the
elytra is sprinkled with numerous scales, not as closely set, however,
as those on the marginal and juxta-sutural bands, and these scales
have a more golden sheen than in the male; the hind legs are also
robust.

Length 54-9 mm.; width 3-5 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Rustenburg), Southern Rhodesia
(Salisbury), Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez), Bechuanaland
(Ramoutsa).

The examples from Southern Rhodesia are much smaller than the
others and less brightly scaly.

GOUNA, n. gen.

Mentum sub-orbicular, rounded also at tip, and only very slightly
narrowed laterally near the apex, bristly on the outer face but not
penicillate at the tip; lobe of maxille glabrous, concave, and armed
with four strong teeth, the two basal ones set opposite one another,
apical joint of labial and maxillary palpi fusiform, somewhat short,
but very swollen near the base; labrum vertical, strongly developed,
antennz nine-jointed; clypeus sub-parallel, but with the apical
angles rounded, straight at tip, deeply impressed, and with the apical
margin reflexed; prothorax obliquely attenuate laterally in the
anterior part, and straight from there; scutellum somewhat rounded
at apex ; elytra attenuate laterally towards the apex, slightly sinuate
laterally past the humeral part, but covering the dorsal part of the
ventral segments; pygidium declivous in the male; propygidium
nearly completely covered by the elytra (G. aliena) or moderately
exposed (G. lineolata); anterior tibie tri-dentate, the teeth oblique ;
claws of anterior and intermediate legs simple, slightly cleft, hind
legs slender, simple, fore and hind tibize without an apical spur.

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Differs from Gymnoloma in general facies as well as in the different
shape of the mentum, the quadri-dentate lobe of the maxilla, and
the great development of the labrum,

Key to the Species.

Prothorax with a median, a supra-lateral and a marginal band of
white scales; scutellum scaly; elytra with a discoidal white band
reaching from the base to the middle, and a very short juxta-sutural
median one; pygidium non-squamose .. .. .. .. .. «. «. «.- Jineola.

Prothorax with a median, a supra-lateral, and a marginal band of
white scales, and also a supra-marginal patch; elytra with a juxta-
sutural band of white scales and a basal discoidal one; pygidium with

appressed, squamose hairs aliena,

GOUNA LINEOLATA, Burm.,
Gymnoloma lineata, Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 162.

Black; head, prothorax, and elytra very closely punctate, the
punctures scabrose and partly hidden by a very short, sub-appressed,
slightly flavescent pubescence, the clypeus is a little narrowed
obliquely towards the apex with the sides sinuate and slightly
emarginate at tip, it is impressed somewhat deeply, and the apical
margin is reflexed; the prothorax has a narrow median line and a
supra-lateral one of white scales, and the outer margin is moderately
broadly banded with similar ones; the scutellum is densely squamose ;
the elytra have a discoidal band of white scales beginning close to
the base but barely reaching the median part, and a juxta-sutural
one slightly shorter than the discoidal, beginning at about the median
part, and obliterated at a good distance from the apex; propygidium,
abdomen, and pectus clothed with dense silvery-white scales; pygi-
dium closely punctured, not scaly or hairy; anterior tibiae sharply
tri-dentate ; legs with squamose whitish appressed hairs; hind legs
simple, slender, hind tibize without apical spur.

Length 64-7 mm. ; width 34-33 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Swellendam, Bredasdorp).

GOUNA ALIENA, 0. spec.

Black, sub-opaque, with the head, prothorax, and elytra closely
scabroso-punctate and covered with very short, sub-appressed
greyish hairs and greyish-white elongate scales numerous on the
head, and forming on the prothorax a median line, a supra-lateral
band, usually interrupted in the middle, and an entire marginal
one, as well as a supra-marginal, lateral, median patch; scutellum

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not densely scaly; elytra with a very faint, dorsal, longitudinal,
raised line, and having on each side a juxta-sutural band of white scales,
and a much shorter one along the humeral callus; the edge of the
propygidium is scaly, the pygidium is clothed with not closely set,
appressed greyish, squamose hairs, but the abdomen and the whole
_pectus are covered with large, conspicuous, silver-white scales ; legs
with squamose whitish appressed hairs, hind legs slender, simple, hind
tibiz without apical spur.

Differs from G. lineolata in the shape of the clypeus, and the
bands of scales on the elytra are not: similarly disposed.

Length 6 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage).

? GoUNA VITTIGERA, Burm.,
Gymnoloma vittigera, Handb. d. Kntomol., iv., 1, p. 162.

Burmeister places this species next to Gymnoloma lineolata. I
have not been able to identify it, nor have I seen the co-type, but
judging from his description, which I repeat here, it is quite possible
that it should be included in the genus Gouna.

‘Black, squamose, prothorax marginate with white; elytra with
four bands, the internal ones broader than the others.

Length 32 lin.

Communicated by Herr v. Winthem. Altogether like G. lineolata
in general conformation, but covered everywhere with regularly
disposed scales; clypeus a little broader, frontal part and vertex
with white scales; prothorax black, white on the sides and having
two bands projecting from the black base to the limit of the scales,
the median line is whiter and deeper ; scutellum scaly; elytra with
four longitudinal white bands, the two near the suture broader and
longer than the other two which are narrower and shorter, between
the two juxta-sutural bands and the suture there is a sprinkling of
white scales; pectus and hind part of the body scaly, but not the
edges of the abdominal segments; legs black, femora and tibia
sprinkled with white scales.”

Hab. Cape Colony.

Gren. SCELOPHYSA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, 1844, p. 168.
Mentum broad, ovate, constricted laterally towards the apex,
dilated thence, slightly sinuate at the tip, with the angles oblique and
feebly penicillate, maxille robust, inner lobe reduced to a point,

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upper lobe very short, penicillate at the tip and armed with four
robust faleate teeth; apical joint of the labial palpi sub-cylindrical
but a little attenuate at the tip, that of the maxillary comparatively
short, fusiform outwardly only, and slightly inflexed inwardly;
clypeus a little attenuate laterally, straight at tip with the margin
reflexed and the angles very sharp; antennz nine-jointed, some-
what short ; prothorax depressed, a little attenuate laterally in front,
straight from there, bi-sinuate at the base; scutellum sharply ogival ;
elytra elongate, attenuate laterally from the shoulder towards the
apex, not quite covering the edge of the dorsal part of the abdominal
segments, deeply impressed diagonally in the anterior part from near
the humeral part to a third of the length, and leaving the propygidium
almost entirely uncovered; pygidium convex in the male, vertical or
nearly so in both the sexes; anterior tibis sharply bi-dentate out-
wardly, hind femora and hind tibiz robust and swollen in the
male, all the tibiz with an apical spur; tarsi short, thick, the fifth
joint very robust in the male, all the claws double, the stronger one
in the anterior and intermediate legs slightly bifid, the weaker one
slender and pressed against the other, and both those of the posterior
legs uncleft; body clothed wholly with minute scales, differing in
colour according to the sex.
This South African genus consists of three species.

Key to the Species.

Body covered in both sexes with deep ochreous or dark orange-yellow

scales turning to white on the abdomen; hind legsred .. .. .. .. militaris.
Body entirely covered with sky-blue scales in the male, dark sienna-
brown in the female; legs black .. .. .. trimeni.

Prothorax, scutellum, a sutural and saerettanl mane < on the elytra
pygidial part and whole under side sky-blue, discoidal part of elytra
lilac, in the male; the whole upper side clothed with green scales and
the under side with yellow and white scales in the female .. .. .. prwinosa.

SCELOPHYSA MILITARIS, Gyllh.,
Schonh. Syn. Ins., 1., 8, App. p. 116.

Male: Entirely covered on the upper side with minute contiguous
scales varying in colour from light bright yellow to orange and
ochreous, the pygidial part and the abdomen are covered with
similar but flavescent scales, the clypeus, however, is without any,
and the pectus is villose; the antenne are fuscous, and the legs red
and slightly pubescent, deeply punctured, with the punctures
squamose; head very rugose, clypeus broadly but shallowly
emarginate and with the angles sharp and somewhat reflexed ;

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prothorax covered with dense, moderately short, bristly hairs ; scales
on the scutellum a little lighter than those on the elytra; elytra faintly
costulate on each side in the discoidal part for about two-thirds of
the length, and having only a row of very short sete along the suture
and all round the marginal part; edge of the pygidium and of the
abdominal segments with minute sete; hind femora moderately
thick, hind tibiae longer than the femora, swollen in the middle and
with a short, sharp mucro on the upper apical part, fifth joint of
intermediate and posterior tibia strongly developed, especially the
latter, which has a conspicuous triangular tooth and a smaller basal
one underneath.

Female: Similar to the male in shape and colouration, but the
hind tibize are not swollen, the fifth jot of the hind tarsi are not so
strongly developed, and the scales on the pygidium are nearly always
more flavescent than in the male.

Length 10-12 mm.; width 6-7 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Clanwilliam, Namaqualand).

SCELOPHYSA TRIMENI, Péring.,
Plate XLIV., fig. 7.
vanssoe Airc. Philos; Soe, vols 1.5 pt. u., 95, 1885.

Male: Shape of the preceding species, but clothed on the upper
and under side with bright azure-blue minute scales, having a faint
silvery tinge on the under side; the legs are black, the anterior
ones and also the head have no scales, but the intermediate and
hind legs have blue scales; the head is very scabrose and covered
with a dense but not long greyish pubescence, that on the
prothorax is white ; the elytra are distinctly bi-costate on each side,
- but also striate laterally, and the suture is as much raised as the
discoidal cost, which, like the narrow intervals separating the
lateral strize, bear each a row of very short, white, bristly hairs; the
scales in the posterior half of the propygidium are round, whereas
in the anterior part, on the pygidium itself, and on the abdomen
they are elongate; the legs are similar to those of S. militarts, but
the third and fourth joints are developed inwardly into a long
spine on the upper side, especially the latter, and the fifth joint is tri-
dentate.

Female: Like the male in general appearance, but entirely covered
on the upper side with brown scales intermingled with orange-yellow
ones, which are partly rubbed off in all my examples on the prothorax,
and similar in colour to those covering the pygidial part and
abdomen, but on the posterior half of the propygidium there is a

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band of darker ochreous scales, and a similar but lateral one on each
side of the pygidium.

Length 10-11 mm.; width 5-54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). Found only on the plains.

SCELOPHYSA PRUINOSA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 169.

Male: The description of the preceding species applies also to
the present one, which differs in the disposition of the blue scales on
the elytra, where they are dense only along the outer margins and
the suture, and along the base, the whole discoidal part is also
covered with scales similar to the others in shape, but opaline, and
giving to the background, which is light testaceous, a lilac tinge,
the whole surface is briefly but densely setulose; the hind tibize
are not quite so inflated in the middle as in S. trvmenz.

Female: The shape is also the same as in S. érvmem, but it is
completely covered on the upper part with greenish-yellow scales,
turning to uniform yellow on the pygidium and along the upper part
of the abdominal segments, the scales on the lower part being silvery
white. I have, however, seen a few examples having the same
vestiture as the male, but with the blue scales on the prothorax and
elytra mixed with a few greenish-yellow ones, the scales on the
pygidial part being of the normal yellow colour.

Length 9-10 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). Seems to be met with more
in the mountainous parts, but it occurs also on the plains.

Gren. LEPISIA, Serv.,
Encyclop. Méthod., x., 1825, p. 374.

Mentum ovoid, deeply constricted laterally at the point of insertion
of the antenne, dilated triangularly thence to the apex where it is
deeply and broadly emarginate, the angles are slightly oblique and
have a bunch of short hairs; maxilla robust, inner lobe almost
rudimentary, but produced into a point at apex, upper lobe short,
strongly tri-dentate and penicillate at the tip, the two upper teeth
are set opposite one another; apical joint of labial palpi short,
sub-fusiform, that of the maxillary long, a little bent inwardly,
fusiform outwardly and obtuse at the tip; clypeus straight at apex
(virescens), dentate in the middle in the male (rupicola, ornatissima) ;
prothorax a little attenuate laterally in the anterior part and thence
nearly straight, bi-sinuate at the base, very little convex; scutellum

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ogival; elytra sub-parallel, plane, not distinctly costulate, not sinuate
laterally ; pygidium vertical and a little convex in the male; hind
legs nearly similar in both sexes, not thickened; anterior tibiz sharply
bi-dentate inwardly and having an inner, slender apical spur; claws
of all the legs double, unequal, the four anterior ones cleft; tarsi
moderately long, joints simple with the fifth not strongly developed
in the male.

The distinctive characters between this genus and Scelophysa are
the tri-dentate lobe of the maxillary lobe, and the slender legs which
have more elongated tarsal joints, and are nearly similar in both sexes.

This South African genus includes three species.

Key to the Spectes.

A?. Clypeus triangularly dentate in the middle in the male.
Body covered with greenish scales in both sexes .. .. .. «2 = rupicola.

Upper side of body of the male purple-red and with three
prothoracic bands, and one marginal one on the elytra of greenish-
yellow scales, the scutellum, pygidial part, and under side similarly
scaly; female covered with greenish-yellow scales but having
three bands of deeper yellow on the prothorax; scutellum alse
Clear POE Pee ue MUN Pe Aiet eoidetl ice! Goat) ats lige, Jes ROTMaLSSING.

A‘. Clypeus not dentate in the middle in the male.

Upper side covered with yellowish-green scales and with slightly
flavescent ones underneath in both sexes eee age Peis higies UUNESCONS.

LEPISIA VIRESCENS, Péring.,
Trans, S. Afric, Philos. Soc., vol. iv., 1888,-p. 102.

Male: Completely covered on the upper side with minute round
yellowish-green scales adjoining one another, except the head; the
elytra are testaceous red, but the colour of the background is hidden
by the scales, which on the under side are whitish with a flavescent
tinge, the legs are piceous red and the hind femora are scaly ; head
closely scabrose, briefly tomentose except on the clypeus which is
straight at tip with the angles not sharp; the prothorax is deeply
bi-sinuate at the base very much as in Scelophysa, and the pubescence
is yellow and very dense, but short; the elytra are more attenuate
laterally towards the apex than the two species following, and also
shorter in proportion to the length of the head and prothorax taken
together, they have a very indistinct discoidal costule on each side,
and are sub-diagonally impressed longitudinally outside the humeral
angle; the claws are double, unequal and cleft, except the stouter
posterior one,

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Female like the male, but a little more elongate, and with the legs
redder.

Length 9-10 mm.; width 54 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

LEPISIA ORNATISSIMA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 168.

Male: Head, prothorax, and legs black, the prothorax has three
bands of greenish-yellow scales separated by two bands of purplish-
brown ones, the elytra are purple-brown, have a bordering of yellowish
green, and are partly covered with scales of nearly the same colour as
the background but with a tinge of orange, and the pygidial and
abdominal parts have light golden scales; head very rugose, clypeus
as long as the head, slightly oblique laterally from about the median
part, the outer angles are distinct but not very sharp, it is slightly
bi-sinuate at the tip, the margin is reflexed and produced in the
centre into a short, triangular tooth; prothorax clothed with very
long villose golden hairs ; elytra not plainly bi-costulate on each side,
nearly parallel, and having along the suture a fringe of very villose
golden hairs which from the base to about the median part are
extremely long, the outer margins have a fringe of similar hairs but
shorter and more bristly; the legs have fulvous hairs, and the pygidial
part is also setulose; the hind claws are not cleft.

Female: Shape and size of the male, but the whole upper surface
and that of the pygidial part is clothed with greenish-yellow scales,
the prothorax has three bands of brighter yellow ones similar in
tint to those clothing the scutellum, and the elytra, in addition to the
villose hairs along the suture similar to those of the male, have each
eight rows of long sete; the apical margin of the clypeus is straight.

Length 9-94 mm.; width 42-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

LEPISIA RUPICOLA, Fabr.,
Syst. Entomol. Append., p. 818.
Guér., Icon. Régn. Anim. Insect., pl. xxv., fig. 5.

Male: Covered on the upper side and pygidial part with green
scales, and on the abdomen with greenish-yellow ones; head roughly
scabrose, clothed with a flavescent long pubescence, the clypeus is
denuded, rounded laterally at apex and produced obliquely there into
a sharp, triangular reflexed tooth, the apical margin is also reflexed ;
prothorax clothed in addition to the contiguous scales with long,

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villose, flavescent or yellow hairs; the scales on the scutellum are of
the same colour as those covering the prothorax and the elytra; the
latter are parallel, numerously costulate, but two only of the costules
are plain, and all the costules bear a row of short, whitish bristles,
along the suture and the outer margin these bristles are much longer
and stiffer; legs black, very bristly, the smaller claw of the hind legs
is not cleft. The green scales sometimes turning into greenish yellow.

Female: Exactly like the male and with the same vestiture, but
the scales on the pygidium and the abdomen have a somewhat whiter
tinge, and the clypeus is straight at the apex.

Length 7-8 mm.; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, Paarl).

Group HOPLIDES.
Key to the Genera.
A?, Labrum not produced vertically.

Body broad, short, depressed, clypeus straight laterally and at
apex; all the claws double and as ae clothed with
AWRESSeduiaIns | i i. Pi a em he Ga eee sis ee) poe AISOCTCLUS,

Body elongate, clypeus sharply narrowed, reflexed or dentate,
anterior and intermediate claws double, unequal, posterior ones
single, simple; body covered with squamiform hairs and occa-
Siomallhya wal SCHIES Wc.) cel Meee scl eseri es caniy Veet! sen let Ananda.

A‘. Labrum produced vertically.

B3, Body somewhat cylindrical, clothed with hairs and scales,
occasionally with hairs only.

Clypeus attenuate laterally and emarginate at the tip, hind
claw single, the others double, unequal and simple; maxillee
MOMGACMCALCH Rae pial st cet se | ict sem ree oe! ve WLICTOPLUS,

Clypeus rounded laterally or sub-parabolic ; claws of anterior
and intermediate legs double, unequal, only the stouter
anterior one cleft; maxille sharply pluri-dentate; body
clothed with scales or sub-squamose hairs .. .. .. .. MWMicroplidus.

B?. Body clothed with sub-squamose hairs and no scales.
a?. Maxille not dentate.

Clypeus short, sub-parabolic, claws of anterior and inter-

mediate legs double, unequal.

Last joint of maxillary palpi very swollen in the middle

AMG SPINGLE-SMADEG: | as in «4 si Ss pe wey es Dltkand.

Last joint of maxillary palpi elongate, cylindrical.. .. Harpina.

a‘. Maxille dentate.

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b?, Antenne nine-jointed.

Clypeus straight with the outer angles rounded, club of
the antenne as long as all the other joints together ; claws
double, unequal, and with the more robust one cleft .. Nanaga.

Clypeus excavate, all the claws double, somewhat unequal
and slightly cleft; posterior tibie of the male with an
apical spur; antenne nine-jointed; the two apical teeth
of the anterior tibiz set close to each other .. .. .. Cylichnus.

Clypeus excavate, the four anterior claws double, unequal,
simple and very divaricating ; posterior tibiz of the male
without an apical spur; antenne nine-jointed ; the three
outer teeth of the anterior tibis equidistant .. .. .. Rabula.

bt. Antenne ten-jointed.

Clypeus parabolic, not excavate; the four anterior claws
double, unequal, very divaricating, and cleft; hind ones
single, simple; four anterior tarsi moderately long .. Congella.

Clypeus straight in front, deeply emarginate, all the claws
double, unequal, and simple; four anterior tarsilong .. Kareiga.

B'. Body covered with scales.

Clypeus broad; antenne nine-jointed with the outer angles
rounded; the four anterior claws double, unequal, cleft;
elytra with a very plain callus on each side at apex; hind
tibize of the female only with a spur Oy ite aw ne | een Oplia.

Gren. ANISOCHELUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 170.

Mentum very swollen in the middle, strongly narrowed at the base
and towards the apex where it is deeply constricted at the point of
insertion of the palpi, thence dilated triangularly with the angles
rounded and slightly penicillate, and broadly and deeply emarginate
at the tip; upper lobe of maxilla short and having at the tip a long
pencil of hairs, it is armed with three strong teeth, the two upper ones
set opposite each other are falcate, and the basal one is simple and
not much hooked (inornatus) or briefly trifid (neglectus) ; apical joint
of labial palpi cylindrical, that of the maxillary also sub-cylindrical,
but a little more swollen outwardly than inwardly; antenne nine-
jointed ; clypeus a little rounded laterally, straight at tip; prothorax
a little attenuate laterally in front, base not sinuate; scutellum
elongate, sharply triangular; elytra depressed, not sinuate laterally,
singly rounded behind, and leaving the propygidium uncovered ;
pygidium nearly vertical in both sexes; abdomen broad, not con-
tracted ; anterior tibiz bi-dentate outwardly (jilaris, neglectus), or

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tri-dentate (inornatus), anterior claws double and both cleft, the inter-
mediate ones double but unequal, and either both cleft (znornatus) or
only the stronger one (neglectus), posterior ones double, unequal.

I know only two out of the three species included in this genus by
Burmeister. Their facies is quite unlike that of the other insects
included in this group, and in shape they somewhat resemble some
species of Peritrichia.

Key to the Species.
A.” Body not shiny.
Prothorax and elytra clothed with long, villose hairs in both sexes ;
elytra light chestnut with a fuscous border ; oe ee with a
transverse band of white hairs in the male es .. imornatus.

Prothorax black, villose; elytra chestnut-red or testaceous accord-
ing to the sexes, and clothed with dense appressed testaceous hairs neglectus.

al

At. Body shiny.

Whole body clothed with very dense long hairs ; pits pale
GESTACCOUS Is sa ae we re se ep | eS Tae es LATS.

ANISOCHELUS INORNATUS, Burm.,
lelehaillo,, Cc 1 Dnaigonmaveyly hve, 1h en dork,

Male: Black, with the elytra testaceous and having a broad lateral
fuscous border; head very rugose, clypeus a little rounded laterally,
straight at apex and with the lateral angles distinct, the head and
prothorax are clothed with very long, erect black hairs, and the
surface is finely aciculate ; scutellum briefly pubescent; elytra broad
and somewhat short, sub-quadrangular and singly rounded at the
apex, they are very flat, sightly impressed longitudinally along the
suture, and also along the outer margin, not costulate, punctulate,
set with very short, sub-appressed black hairs, not dense enough to
form a pubescence, and long black bristles somewhat scattered but
more numerous on the shoulders and in the anterior part; pygidium
broad but not long, villose and having a conspicuous transverse band
of appressed white silky hairs along the base, the other villose hairs
are black ; abdomen and pectus clothed with a greyish pubescence ;
anterior tibize tri-dentate, claws of the anterior and intermediate legs
double and both cleft, those of the posterior legs are double, but only
the smaller one is cleft; legs piceous, very bristly.

Female: Shape and size of the male; it is also very villose on the
prothorax and the elytra, but the latter especially are also covered
with dense, appressed greyish hairs; the pygidium has a transverse
band of greyish hairs along the base and at the apex, and the hairs
and the pubescence underneath are a little more flavescent.

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Length 6 mm.; width 4 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

ANISOCHELUS NEGLECTUS, Burm.,
Handb.di Eniomr vive, igo. li i

Head and prothorax nearly black but with an seneous sheen, which
is also to be observed on the legs and under side ; elytra light chestnut-
brown; head and prothorax very rugose and clothed with a dense,
long, sub-appressed flavescent pubescence mixed with erect sete, the
latter are denser in the anterior part and also along the outer margins;
elytra short and broad, nor costulate and covered with dense appressed
flavescent hairs, and a few erect sete in the basal part; propygidium
and pygidium clothed with dense, long, appressed flavous hairs ; legs
hairy, tarsi piceous red. The differences between the two sexes are
hardly noticeable.

Length 5-54 mm.; width 3mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl).

ANISOCHELUS HILARIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 170.

“Black, shining, clothed with fulvous hairs ; elytra chestnut-brown ;
hind tibiz and tarsi very densely hairy.

Length 24 lin. 3.

Communicated by Mr. Drege. Head black, densely punctured,
but nevertheless shiny; frontal part and vertex of the head with
brown hairs; prosternum shining with a silky lustre, longitudinally
grooved and having some scattered punctures and long, reddish-
yellow hairs which are denser on the sides; scutellum black; elytra
pale chestnut-brown, shiny, coarsely punctate, clothed with hairs of
unequal length between which long hairs occur at the suture and on
the shoulders, lateral margins and sides as well as ventral surface of
the abdomen, sternum and legs with long, equal hairs, underneath
these hairs are whitish but on the tibigz and tarsi they are reddish-
brown, the tarsi are somewhat reddish, and the hind ones are more
densely hairy than the others.”

I have not seen this species, the habitat of which is probably the
Cape Colony.

INANDA, n. gen.

Mentum ovate or elongato-ovate, strongly constricted laterally,
expanding at the apex where the angles are rounded and the apical

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part straight, or broadly but not deeply emarginate ; maxillw elongate,
robust, inner lobe ending in a sharp point, but very little developed,
upper lobe horny, armed with four long, sharp inner teeth (swlczcollis,
gracilis) or with six (trivialis), and having a fine pencil of hairs at the
tip; apical joint of labial palpi sub-fusiform outwardly, but not in-
wardly, that of the maxillary elongate and fusiform ; clypeus plainly
narrowed laterally towards the apex and expanding there into two
sharply angular reflexed teeth; antennez normally nine-jointed, club
not longer than the four preceding joints together; eyes very large,
conspicuously divided in the anterior part by the canthus; pro-
thorax a little ampliated laterally in the middle, more attenuated
in the anterior than in the posterior part, base very little arcuate,
hardly sinuate; scutellum moderately long, ogival; elytra elongate,
sinuate laterally but very little attenuated towards the apex, and
covering the greatest part of the propygidium; pygidium sub-
vertical, abdomen very little compressed; legs slender, all the tibiee
with an apical spur, which is, however, very small in the anterior
ones, and is even wanting in gracilis; the anterior tibiew are tri-
dentate outwardly, the two apical ones are oblique, but the shorter
basal one is straight; anterior and intermediate claws double, un-
equal, the smaller one is very short, the anterior ones are both cleft,
but only the longer intermediate one is cleft, the hind ones are
single and simple.

The three insects included in this genus are covered with very long
hairs and minute scales, or with appressed, slightly squamose hairs.
They are easily distinguished by the shape of the clypeus.

Key to the Species.

Clypeus as broad at apex as at base, and tri-dentate; whole body
clothed with very long villose hairs and scales .. .. .. .. «. sulcicollis.

Apical part of clypeus narrowed and straight; prothorax and elytra
clothed with sparse yellow squamose hairs... .. .. «2 «2 of «- gracilis.

Apical part of clypeus produced into two sharp, reflexed teeth ; pro-
thorax and elytra clothed with flavescent appressed hairs .. .. .. trivialis.

INANDA SULCICOLLIS, Bohem.,
Peritricwa sulcicollis, Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 1, 46.

Black, with the anterior tibize and all the tarsi piceous red, covered
above and under and also on the legs with extremely long greyish
flavescent hairs, and somewhat dense, ovate, greyish scales on the
elytra, prothorax, pygidium, and abdomen; head roughly punctate,
clypeus much reflexed at the apex with the angles projecting as a

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sharp tooth, and having also an equally high tooth in the centre ;
prothorax scabroso-punctate in the anterior part, punctate in the
posterior, and slightly grooved longitudinally towards the base ; elytra
very rugose, not plainly costulate, only slightly sinuate and attenuate
laterally towards the apex; the longer claw of the anterior legs is
very deeply cleft.

Length 5mm.; width 2mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

INANDA GRACILIS, n. spec.

Head, prothorax, pectus, and scutellum black ; elytra, abdomen, and
legs testaceous red; head and clypeus very scabrose, the latter is
strongly reflexed at the tip, with the angles sharp but not projecting,
and the median part is more raised than the angles without, however,
being dentate, the whole head is covered with an erect, yellow pubes-
cence; prothorax closely scabroso- punctate laterally but with the
median part of the disk nearly impunctate, and with only a few
punctures along the base, it is moderately densely covered with
small, sub-squamiform yellow appressed hairs ; elytra elongate, very
slightly sinuate and attenuate laterally towards the apex, deeply
impressed longitudinally along the suture and having a similar dis-
coidal impression reaching from the base to the median part, it is
finely but not closely punctured, and in each puncture there is a
minute appressed yellow hair; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen
clothed with hairs similar to those on the elytra; the basal tooth
of the anterior tibiz is very small, and the inner apical spur is
wanting.

Length 5mm.; width 24mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

INANDA TRIVIALIS, nN. spec.

More massive than the two preceding species ; black with the elytra
chestnut-red ; head very scabrose and with the clypeus produced into
two sharp reflexed teeth at the tip, the whole head is covered with
sub-appressed flavescent hairs; prothorax scabroso-punctate but
more densely so on the anterior part, and clothed with a moderately
long and moderately dense appressed flavescent pubescence ; elytra
hardly sinuate laterally and very little attenuated towards the apex,
plainly bi-costate on each side and with the suture raised, irregularly
punctured, and clothed with somewhat long, sub-squamiform, not
closely set flavescent hairs; propygidium, pygidium, under side
and hind legs with almost similar appressed hairs; anterior tibiae

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with a minute inner spur; larger claw of anterior legs not deeply
cleft.

Length 5+-6mm.; width 3mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

GEN. MICROPLUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 174.

Mentum straight laterally but slightly attenuated towards the apex
where it is nearly straight, with the angles distinct; maxillze mode-
rately elongate, upper lobe transverse, short, truncate at apex, not
toothed but having there a few short, stiff bristles, slightly denti-
form, and a thin pencil of hairs, apical joints of maxillary and
labial palpi slightly curved inwardly and sub-fusiform outwardly,
the intermediate joint of the labial seems fused with the third, and
the two intermediate ones of the maxillary are obconical, the second
not much longer than the third; clypeus a little attenuated laterally
towards the apex, slightly hollowed there and with the apical margin
a little emarginate but with the anterior angles sharp; prothorax
not very convex, plainly obliquely attenuated laterally from the
median part to the anterior, straight thence as far as the outer angle
which is distinct but not sharp, base bi-sinuate ; scutellum longer
than broad, ogival; elytra elongate, sub-parallel, rounded behind, not
very convex, covering the basal part of the propygidium ; pygidium
obtusely triangular, vertical in the male; abdomen not compressed ;
all the tibiz with an inner spur; interior ones bi-dentate in the
male, and with a minute third tooth in the female; anterior and
intermediate claws double and unequal, the posterior single and
simple, the stronger claw of the anterior and intermediate is slightly
cleft and so is the weaker claw of the anterior legs.

Burmeister includes in this genus, of which the South African
M. nemoralis is the type, several Madagascar species, but I am not
sure that they belong to it.

MiIcRoPLUS NEMORALIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 174.

Rusty red, moderately shining; head clothed with short squamose
flavescent hairs looking like scales, a few of these are to be seen
along the marginal edges of the prothorax, on the scutellum and
along the apical margin of the elytra; clypeus plainly reflexed and
with the angles sharp, slightly emarginate in the middle and granu-
lose; prothorax very closely punctured, each puncture bearing a

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slightly flavescent and very short appressed hair, there are
also a few erect bristles on the disk, and a fringe of them along
the anterior and lateral margins; elytra nearly oblong, but not
quite parallel owing to a supra-lateral sinuation, they are not
plainly costulate, but are somewhat striate in the discoidal part,
moderately deeply but somewhat closely and irregularly punctate,
and have on each side eight series of short, white sete regularly
disposed and not closely set, between these rows are some
scattered, small, flavescent hair-like scales which are a little less
remote on the posterior part, and often rubbed off; the pygidium,
abdomen, and pectus are clothed with appressed flavescent hairs,
and the legs are more bristly than pubescent.

Length 74-8 mm.; width 33-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Golane (Cape Town):

This species is crepuscular.

MICROPLIDUS, n. gen.

Mentum oblongo-ovate, not very deeply narrowed at the point of
insertion of the antenne, nearly straight at the tip with the angles
somewhat rounded and not penicillate; inner lobe of maxille indis-
tinct, but sharp at the tip, the upper one is short, has a thick pencil
of hairs at the tip, and four or five sharp teeth inwardly; apical
joint of labial palpi short, swollen, that of the maxillary moderately
long, sub-fusiform ; clypeus broadly rounded laterally, and with the
margin slightly reflexed, it is a little shorter than the head, which is
very rugose; antenne nine-jointed, club short, ovate; prothorax
convex, distinctly narrowed obliquely laterally in the anterior part
and nearly straight from there to the posterior angle, but also
occasionally a little amplated and rounded in the middle, the base
is slightly bi-sinuate; scutellum moderately long, narrow, ogival ;
elytra somewhat convex, very little emarginate laterally below the
humeral part, but a little attenuated thence towards the apex, and
covering the greater part of the propygidium; pygidium nearly
vertical; tibia with an apical spur, anterior ones bi-dentate or
occasionally with a third tooth (pwmilus), the two teeth very
oblique and long, posterior legs robust, the tibia broad, shorter
than the thigh; claws of forelegs double, unequal, the stouter one
cleft at the tip; those of the intermediate and posterior legs single
or double, simple or cleft.

The insects included in this genus have a peculiar facies owing to
their narrow elongate body. They can be divided into two sections,
according to the body being entirely or partly covered by scales, or

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by appressed hairs. In the two species belonging to the latter
section the teeth of the maxilla are smaller and less plainly distinct
than in the others.

Key to the Species.

A?. Body covered with scales.

B3. Claws of the intermediate legs single, simple in the male.
Body covered with round white scales... .. .. .. «.. «. albiger.

Body covered with round white scales, but having a denuded
Spot OM CHC OlyiKOM.. yg 4 on we be ee) we de aw =» SHADES.

B?’. Claws of the intermediate legs double, but inner claw very small.

Body covered with a black tomentum, elytra with five inter-
Hupred bands Of white round seales =.4 5. 2. ga 2. .. lusetwosus.

Body covered with minute elongate flavescent scales, and
having a small denuded spot on each elytron Hem ase sta UlLOLatess

B'. Claws of the intermediate legs double, inner claw long.

Body covered with small elongate whitish scales; anterior

tibize tri-dentate pumilus.

Body covered with very dense, ovate flavescent scales, each
elytron with five rows of short, whitish bristles; anterior tibia
bi-dentate .. persimilis.
A‘. Body covered with appressed hairs.

Upper side and pygidium covered with thick, slightly squamose

greyish hairs ; claws of the intermediate legs single Jie ae om @Lgoensis:

Upper side and pygidium covered with fine non-squamose ap-
pressed hairs; claws of intermediate legs double .. .. .. .. vulgus.

MIcROPLIDUS ALBIGER, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 482.

Male: Reddish brown, with the head and _ prothorax black,
covered above and under with round white scales ; head very briefly
pubescent; clypeus broadly rounded laterally and very rugose; pro-
thorax plainly narrowed laterally in the anterior part and straight
thence, with the basal angle somewhat sharp, moderately convex,
and with a margin of very short bristles; scutellum slightly elongated,
ogival, densely scaly; elytra elongated, not sinuate laterally, but a
little attenuated towards the apex, somewhat convex, not costulate ;
pygidium vertical, densely scaly; claws of anterior legs double,
unequal, the stouter one cleft at the apex, intermediate and pos-
terior tarsi with a single, simple claw.

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Length 8-84 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab, Natal (Durban).

I have not seen the female of this insect. According to Bur-
meister it is setose, instead of squamose, and the claws of the
intermediate legs are double and cleft, the posterior legs have a
single claw which is also cleft.

MICROPLIDUS STABILIS, n. spec.

Similar in size, shape, and sculpture to M. albidus, it is covered
with scales identical in colour and size, but on each elytron there is
a small, sub-quadrate or transverse denuded space close to the
suture, and situated slightly past the median part.

Length 64-71 mm.; width 34-4 mm. :

Hab. Natal (Durban, Umvoti).

MIcROPLIDUS BINOTATUS, N. Spec.

Head, prothorax, legs, and pectus black, elytra, pygidial part, and
abdomen chestnut-brown; clypeus with the outer angles slightly
oblique, head briefly pubescent; prothorax plainly attenuated laterally
in the anterior part and somewhat rounded in the median, convex,
covered with scale-like flavescent appressed hairs, and very closely
and finely punctured; pygidium covered with minute, elongate sub-
flavescent scales; elytra with two nearly obliterated costules on each
side, very closely punctulate and having in each puncture a minute
elongate flavescent scale, except near the suture at about the median
part, where there is a small denuded round spot; on the pygidial
part and on the abdomen the scales are thicker than on the elytra
and more greyish, and the pectus has an appressed pubescence ;
both the claws of the anterior legs are cleft at the tip, and the
inner of the intermediate ones is hardly half the length of the outer.

Length 6 mm.; width 3 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

MIcROPLIDUS LUCTUOSUS, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 159,

Black, opaque, clothed with a fuscous tomentose pubescence on
the upper side; prothorax with three bands, often partly obliterated,
of round scales; elytra with four longitudinal bands of white round
scales, broadly interrupted in the median part of the disk; pygidial
part and abdomen clothed with elongate white scales, pectus with
scales and appressed greyish hairs, legs pubescent but not scaly ;

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head very rugose, covered with a very short, somewhat fulvous
pubescence; prothorax also very closely punctured and clothed
with moderately long erect hairs; scutellum not scaly; elytra
elongate, very slightly sinuate laterally, not very distinctly tri-
costulate, and having rows of very short erect bristles; the
~ antenne are rufescent, and the legs black; the inner claw of the
intermediate tarsi is very small, and often obliterated, and only
the outer claw of the anterior legs is cleft.

Length 7-9 mm.; width 33-41 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie, East London); Natal (Durban,
Maritzburg). ,

MIcROPLIDUS PUMILUS, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffr., 1., p. 160.

Chestnut-brown, covered on the upper and the under sides with
closely set but not quite contiguous, small, elongate, slightly flavescent
scales; the head and prothorax are very closely punctured and not
pubescent, the whole head is covered with scales, the clypeus is
much rounded laterally, the scales on the prothorax are quite
similar to those on the elytra, the latter are not plainly costulate,
but along the suture and also on each side there are faint rows of
minute whitish bristles; the scales on the pygidial part and the
under side are finer, more appressed, and more hair-like than on the
upper side, and the anterior tibie have a third minute outer tooth ;
inner claw of intermediate legs more than half the length of the
outer.

Length 4 mm.; width 2 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

MIcROPLIDUS PERSIMILIS, N. Spec.

Chestnut-brown with the legs rufescent like the preceding species,
which it greatly resembles, and also covered above and under with
flavescent scales, but it is more elongate, the scales, which are
smaller, are more closely set, thus almost obscuring the colour of the
background, and those on the under side and pygidial part are round
and also very closely set; each elytron has four plain rows of whitish
bristles in addition to a sutural and an outer marginal one; the
anterior tibiz are normally bi-dentate outwardly, both the claws
of the anterior and intermediate legs, and also the single claw of the
posterior are cleft, and the inner one of the intermediate legs is half
the length of the outer.

Length 6 mm.; width 24 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

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MICROPLIDUS ALGOENSIS, n. spec.

Chestnut-brown, clothed above and underneath with a somewhat
dense appressed greyish pubescence assuming on the elytra a some-
what squamiform appearance ; antenne rufescent; clypeus, head, and
prothorax normally punctured and scabrose ; elytra elongate, very
little sinuate laterally, not plainly costulate; legs very pubescent ;
claws of the intermediate and posterior legs single, simple; the
prothorax is a little more rounded laterally in the middle than in the
other species.

Length 8 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Delagoa Bay).

MICROPLIDUS VULGUS, n. spec.

Rusty brown with the legs a little paler, clothed above and under-
neath with a fine appressed greyish pubescence not dense enough
to hide the colour of the background, and nowhere squamulose ; it
is similar in shape to the preceding species, the prothorax being also
rounded and more amplhated laterally at the middle, but the apical
margin of the clypeus is more reflexed ; the elytra are very faintly
bi- or tri-costulate, and have no series of short bristles; the claws
of the intermediate legs are double and both slightly cleft, that of
the hind ones single and also slightly cleft.

Length 64-7 mm. ; width 3-34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie).

BLIKANA, n. gen.

Mentum oblong but distinctly attenuate laterally towards the
apex and not deeply incised at the point of insertion of the labial
palpi, not dilated thence, broadly but not deeply emarginate at the
tip where the angles are rounded and not penicillate, the surface is
very densely villose; the maxilla are strong, horny, the two lobes
are indistinct, straight at the tip and with a few non-penicillate
bristles, concave and having no inner teeth; apical joint of labial
palpi very swollen outwardly but not inwardly, that of the maxillary
in the shape of a spindle conspicuously swollen at the centre and
very sharp at the tip; clypeus quite parabolic and slightly elongate,
not divided from the head by a suture; antenne nine-jointed, club
elongate, as long as all the four joints preceding, prothorax as in
Harpina; elytra also elongated, parallel, rounded behind and covering
the propygidium, the latter is vertical in the male; abdomen not

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compressed ; legs moderately slender but hind ones robust and with
the tibia somewhat dilated triangularly; anterior tibie strongly
bi-dentate, the apical tooth is very long, and there is no apical spur ;
claws of the anterior and intermediate legs double, unequal, but the
smaller one is nearly as long as the stronger one, which is cleft in the
~ anterior legs, whereas in the intermediate both are cleft.

This genus differs from Harpina in the shape of the last joint of
the maxillary palpi, and the cleft claws. |

BULIKANA COMOSA, Nn. spec.

Black, covered all over with a very long pubescence, fuscous
brown on the prothorax, mixed with sub-flavescent greyish hairs on
the elytra where they form there four or five greyish longitudinal
bands on each side; abdomen, pectus, and legs densely villose, the
pubescence ashy-grey ; head and prothorax very closely and some-
what roughly punctured ; elytra oblong, parallel, strongly coriaceous
and having on each side two very plain cost; propygidium and
pygidium clothed with dense greyish hairs similar to those on the
abdomen ; hind legs somewhat robust in the male, the tibiz being
plainly dilated at apex.

Length 7-8 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

Gen. HARPINA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 201.

Mentum obovate laterally from the base to the point of insertion
of the labial palpi, attenuate from there and quite parabolic at the
apex where there are no set, maxille robust, horny, the two lobes
indistinct, very obliquely truncate at the apex, penicillate there and
without inner teeth; apical joint of labial palpi very swollen out-
wardly, that of the maxillary elongate, cylindrical, but slightly bent
inwards ; clypeus broadly rounded laterally but a little blunt at the
apex, and with the margin finely reflexed, but it is not concave, and
it is separated from the head by a transverse suture; prothorax
obliquely attenuate laterally from the apex to the middle, nearly
straight from there to the base which is sinuate, and not very
convex on the disk; scutellum longer than broad, ogival; elytra
somewhat broader than the prothorax, parallel, covering the whole
propygidium ; pygidium as broad at the base as long, vertical in
the male, abdomen scarcely compressed; legs moderately strong ;
anterior tibiz tri-dentate, claws of the anterior and intermediate

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legs double, unequal, the smaller claw is about two-thirds of the
length of the stronger, and instead of being appressed, it divaricates
plainly, the posterior claws are single, and simple.

HARPINA VITTIGERA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 201.

Black, moderately shining; head very closely scabroso-punctate,
clypeus sub-foveolate ; prothorax finely shagreened and having deep
scattered punctures each bearing a stiff erect cilia, among these are
spread a few greyish appressed hairs; elytra oblong, parallel, coria-
ceous and having on each side two distinct coste and four bands of
appressed, squamose, greyish-white hairs, in the first three intervals
there is a line of single hairs, but between the third band and
the supra-marginal one the hairs are more numerous; pygidium,
abdomen, and legs with similar appressed whitish hairs, pectus clothed
with a light fulvous pubescence; the claws of the four anterior legs
are double and unequal, those of the posterior single, and none are
cleft.

Length 7 mm.; width 34-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (? Cape Town).

NANAGA, n. gen.

Mentum broad, somewhat short, ovate, not deeply constricted
laterally at the point of insertion of the antenne; upper lobe of
maxille a little elongate, fasciculate at the tip, armed inwardly
with five teeth, the three apical ones arranged transversely at the
tip ; apical joint of labial palpi swollen at the base, moderately
acuminate towards the apex, that of the maxillary sub-cylindrical ;
clypeus slightly attenuate laterally, straight at the tip and with the
angles distinct although slightly rounded, not plainly divided from
the head by a suture; antenne nine-jointed, basal joint strongly
turbinate, club a little longer than all the other joints taken together ;
prothorax longer than broad, narrowed laterally in the anterior part,
sinuate in the posterior and with the basal angle sharp; scutel-
lum short, triangular; elytra moderately sinuate laterally, plainly
narrowed towards the apex, and leaving the greater part of the
propygidium uncovered; pygidium of the male steeply slanting
forwards ; abdomen compressed ; anterior legs bi-dentate, basal tooth
very short but oblique; posterior legs robust, tibiz triangularly
dilated at apex, tarsi long; all the claws double, unequal, the more
robust one cleft at the tip.

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NANAGA ELEGANS, n. spec.

Male: Black, opaque on the upper side, slightly metallic under-
neath and on the legs, prothorax and elytra closely and distinctly
shagreened, head and clypeus strongly scabrose ; antenne also
black but with the club slightly rufescent; prothorax clothed with a
very long, ashy-grey, erect pubescence ; scutellum pubescent; elytra
very briefly pubescent, the pubescence is sub-erect and silky, greyish
white and a little more abundant along the suture, the base is
setulose ; pygidial part, abdomen, and pectus clothed with a greyish-
white pubescence ; hind femora somewhat robust, hind tibize shorter
than the femora, dilated at the apex, and having a long apical
spur; all the claws are double and unequal, the shorter one being
about three-fourths of the length of the other, which is cleft,
but in the intermediate legs only is the shorter one slightly
cleft.

Female unknown.

Length 54-6 mm. ; width 24 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch).

Gen. CYLICHNUS, Burm.,
Eiandibs deeimiomol ive.) py hit.

Mentum slightly longer than broad but very broadly ovate,
gradually narrowed at the apex where it is distinctly tri-dentate and
not penicillate, the maxille are short, very robust, concave at apex
and armed there with four very strong teeth the upper one of which
is deeply bifid; joints of labial palpi short, robust, apical one elon-
gate, ovate, last joint of the maxillary nearly as long as the two
preceding, fusiform outwardly only ; clypeus transverse, slightly
concave with the anterior margin reflexed, nearly straight at apex
and with the outer angles slightly rounded; eyes very large;
antenne nine-jointed, club long, flabellate ; prothorax nearly twice
as broad as long, obliquely attenuate laterally towards the anterior
part for more than half the length, bi-sinuate along the base; elytra
a little longer than the prothorax, not sinuate or attenuate laterally
towards the apex, and not very convex; pygidium sub-vertical in the
male, more horizontal in the female; anterior tibiz tri-dentate out-
wardly, the two lower teeth are set very close to the apex, the basal
one is broadly separated from the others, the intermediate one is set at
right angles with the tibia, and there is no apical spur; the posterior
tibize are compressed, distinctly bi-carinate on the upper side, and the
caring are serrulate; all the claws are double and unequal, but the

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shorter tooth is more than half the length of the other (pzlosulus)
or nearly as long (neglectus, vanus) and slightly cleft at the tip.

Burmeister has seen only one example of this genus, and did not
dissect the mouth parts, perhaps he was not allowed to do so. This
would account for the discrepancy between his description and mine.
My example, however, came from Drége, and I have some reason to
believe that it is the identical female examined by Burmeister.

This genus is very well characterised by the peculiar shape of the
mentum and by the tibiz being bi-carinate on the upper side. It is
purely South African.

Key to the Species.

Head and prothorax black, with the elytra dark chestnut-brown and
rouchlyicoriaceous 4%: |2..9 eivecen wee ee ee ae per me ULOSTIU ICS

Head black, prothorax and elytra chestnut-brown and both closely

punctulatece, a us ee illotus.

Whole body light testaceous, prothorax extremely closely punctured,
the punctures minute and irregular; elytra also very closely punctured, .
the punctures round and somewhat deep in the male, broader and more
cicatricose and enclosing a smaller puncture in the female .. .. .. vanus.

CYLICHNUS PILOSULUS, Burm..,
iEtandb: de dintomeole ive) pela

Head and prothorax black, elytra and under side chestnut-brown,
legs testaceous ; head very rugose, almost roughly foveolate, clypeus
straight at the apex and with the angles slightly rounded, reflexed at
tip, somewhat concave and covered like the head with a sub-flavescent
pubescence ; prothorax transverse, nearly twice as broad as long,
attenuate diagonally towards the apex for about half the length,
granulose and set with long, sub-appressed, sub-flavescent hairs ;
scutellum somewhat short, triangular; elytra sub-parallel, rounded
behind, not sinuate laterally, plane rather than convex, pluri-costate
on each side, but the cost not very plain, covered with transverse,
closely set, somewhat irregular scar-like impressions, and clothed
with dense sub-erect greyish hairs; under side and legs finely
pubescent; claws of all the legs double, unequal, the smaller claw
is not quite as long as the stronger one and is briefly bifid at the tip.

Length 74 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

CYLICHNUS NEGLECTUS, Nn. spec.

Testaceous brown, covered with very fine, minute, sub-flavescent
hairs not set sufficiently close to each other to form a pubescence on

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the upper side; shape and sculpture of the head and clypeus similar
to that of C. pilosulus; the prothorax is covered with nearly con-
fluent punctures separated by irregular, not scabrose walls, the
punctures do not bear each a short, appressed hair, and are equi-
distant and somewhat remote ; the elytra, including the greatest
part of the suture, are pluri-costulate and covered with nearly
contiguous punctures the irregular walls of which make the
surface appear shagreened, and each puncture bears a minute
appressed sub-flavescent hair; the pygidium is briefly pubescent all
round, but has on the surface hairs similar to those on the elytra,
and those on the under side, especially on the abdomen, are alike ; the
claws of all the legs are double and unequal, but the smaller one is
nearly as long as the stronger, and all are slightly bifid at the tip.

Length 8 mm.; width 4 mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

CYLICHNUS VANUS, h. spec.

Male: Head black with the clypeus slightly brown, prothorax and
elytra chestnut-brown, but with the median anterior part of the
former a little infuscate ; both the head and clypeus are equally
shagreened, the clypeus is short but broad, straight at the apex and
with the outer angles slightly rounded, and is divided from the head
by a conspicuous transverse carinule ; prothorax very finely punc-
tured, the punctures are very dense, and among them are some large
ones bearing each a very short, appressed greyish hair; prothorax
with hardly any puncture; elytra elongate, only slightly broader
than the prothorax at the base but broader at the apex, plainly
bi-costate on each side, but having also a less well-defined third
discoidal costule, the suture is raised, and it is covered by very
closely set punctures bearing each a minute greyish flavescent
appressed hair; pygidium, abdomen, and hairs with similar hairs
which are not, however, so closely set; legs testaceous.

Female: The female is very different from the male ; it is reddish
brown all over, the prothorax has much more numerous cicatricose
punctures and the elytra are covered with broad very closely set
punctures having a smaller one in the centre, these punctures
are more cicatricose in the anterior than in the posterior part, the
appressed hairs are considerably less dense and are finer.

Length 9 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Transkei).

This insect somewhat resembles in general appearance some species
of Congella.

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RABULA, n. gen.

Mentum and palpi of Hoplia, the maxille are also similar in shape,
and six-dentate inwardly, but the two upper teeth are longer than
the others and project obliquely above them; clypeus a little rounded
laterally, tri-dentate at the apex, separated from the head by a
suture ; antenne nine-jointed ; prothorax transverse, a little rounded
laterally ; grooved longitudinally in the middle, base slightly bi-
sinuate ; elytra elongated, not much broader than the prothorax at
the base, but a little wider at the apex, moderately callose at the
shoulder, and more distinctly so at the apex, hardly convex and
covering the edge of the pygidium which is broad and vertical in the
male; legs moderately slender, and without an apical spur; hind
tibize slightly compressed inwardly ; claws of the four anterior legs
double, unequal, the smaller one somewhat divaricating, all simple,
those of the hind legs single and also simple; no apical spur to the
posterior tibiee.

Key to the Species.

Clypeus not excavate and plainly tri-dentate in front .. .. .. .. morosa.

Clypeus deeply excavate, and simple infront .. .. .. .. .. .. marqueza.

RABULA MOROSA, N. spec.

Fuscous brown, opaque, clothed with some slightly remote, ap-
pressed minute ashy-grey hairs; clypeus sub-granulose, a little
rounded near the base, slightly obliquely attenuate thence and
plainly and somewhat sharply tri-dentate at the apex, head and
prothorax covered with cicatricose shallow punctures from the
centre of which springs a very short bristle; the prothorax has a
shallow but plainly visible longitudinal furrow; scutellum with a few
small appressed hairs; elytra plainly tri-costate on the discoidal
part and having in addition another costa above the outer margin,
the suture is also raised, and the sculpture consists of closely set
cicatricose punctures a little more closely set than on the prothorax,
and bearing likewise a very small appressed hair, but the costze
and the suture have in addition a series of distant, short bristles ;
pygidium and abdomen aciculate, especially the former, and with
scattered minute hairs; legs punctate and with similarly appressed
hairs; they have no apical spur, the anterior tibiz are tri-dentate,
the three teeth are set close together and very oblique, none of the
claws is cleft, those of the four anterior ones are double and unequal.

Length 7 mm.; width 34 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester),

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RABULA MARQUEZA, N. spec.

Female: Dark chestnut-brown ; clypeus straight laterally and in
front, but broadly rounded on each side, very deeply hollowed,
with the margins slightly reflexed, and divided from the head by a
distinct raised line, it is granulose, but the head is finely punctured ;
prothorax very obliquely attenuate laterally from the anterior to the
median part, ampliated and rounded thence to the base, very finely
punctulate, without any traces of larger punctures, and having some
appressed squamulose hairs short and not set close to each other ;
scutellum with a few squamose hairs; elytra a little broader at the
base than the base of the prothorax, but not broader than the latter
at its widest part, a little amplated from the shoulder to the apex,
moderately convex, plainly tri-costate on each side, the suture
is a little raised, the two intermediate spaces between the suture
and the second costa are also slightly raised in the centre, they
are very coriaceous, and moderately densely clothed with small,
not closely set squamulose greyish scales; the hind tibia have a
small, apical spur, and the double but unequal claws of the anterior
and intermediate legs are strongly diverging.

Length 8 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez),

CONGELLA, n. gen.

Mentum broadly grooved longitudinally in the anterior face, ovate
laterally and very plainly attenuated towards the apex where it
expands, the angles are rounded, not penicillate, and the apical
part is somewhat broadly sinuate, maxilla robust, moderately
elongated, inner lobe indistinct but ending into a sharp tooth, upper
lobe horny, short not penicillate at the apex, concave and armed
inwardly with six sharp, powerful teeth, apical joints of the labial
and maxillary palpi elongated, fusiform; clypeus short, nearly para-
bolic but a little obtuse in the median anterior part, not plainly
separated from the head by a suture: antenne ten-jointed, basal
joint gradually thickened from base to apex and as long as the seven
following joints taken together, second joint strongly moniliform, the
other four conical and of nearly equal length, seventh aculeate under-
neath, the three-jointed club moderately small, elongato-ovate; eyes
large, deeply divided by the canthus of the gene, prothorax short
but broad, rounded laterally, base not arcuate but slightly bi-
sinuate; scutellum short, ogival; elytra broader than the prothorax,
sub-parallel, a little convex in the dorsal part, shghtly callose on each
side near the apex, not sinuate nor attenuate laterally, covering the

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propygidium ; pygidium sub-vertical in both sexes, abdomen not
contracted; anterior tibize tri-dentate outwardly, with the teeth
nearly equi-distant and oblique, sharply truncate inwardly and
having an apical spur in the female only, legs slender, moderately
long, tarsi as long as the tibiew or nearly so, the four anterior claws
double, unequal, slightly cleft at the tip, and divaricating more than
in the other genera of this tribe, hind ones single, simple, long and
not very robust.

This genus differs from Hoplia in the parabolic shape of the clypeus
and the ten-jointed antennz in both sexes; and in the legs having
an apical spur in the female; unlike Hoplia the body has no scales,
but sometimes short squamose hairs, and the general appearance
reminds one of some species of Adoretus. Several Madagascar
species, Hoplia plagulata, Fairm., among others, will probably be
included in this genus.

Key to the Species.

Upper side clothed with very closely set greyish squamose hairs,
elytra closely punctate; all the tibie with an apical spur in the
female.

Prothorax laterally ampliate and rounded in the middle... .. tessellatula.
Prothorax laterally ampliate and bluntly angular in the middle. mashuwnensis.

Upper side sparingly clothed with not closely set greyish hairs ;
elytra covered with scar-like very closely set punctures, the four
posterior tibize of the female with an apical spur; colour chestnut-
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Upper side with sparse minute greyish hairs, elytra with not very
closely set scar-like punctures, colour piceous-black .. .. .. .. nigrita.

CONGELLA TESSELLATULA, Nn. spec.

Fuscous brown, with the head black and the legs, especially
the anterior ones, redder, covered on the upper and under side,
and also on the legs with dense, ashy-grey, minute, appressed,
slightly squamulose hairs; clypeus rounded and attenuated late-
rally, apical part plainly emarginate, the whole head is granulose,
the granules not set close to each other; prothorax twice as broad
as long, ampliated and rounded laterally in the middle, but a little
more obliquely attenuated in the anterior than in the posterior part,
very finely aciculate and bearing also cicatricose marks having a
median puncture from which springs a minute hair; scutellum
covered with similar hairs; elytra oblong, but slightly wider at the
apex than at the base, somewhat plainly tri-costate on each side and

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having in addition a supra-marginal costule, they are finely coriaceous,
and very densely hairy, but these hairs are sometimes wanting on the
cost at regular intervals, and gives thus to the elytra a sub-tessellated
appearance ; pygidium broad, vertical in both sexes.

In the male the slightly squamulose hairs are denser than in the
~ female, and the latter has an apical spur to all the legs.
Length 8 mm.; width 9 mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Port St. John, Kowie), Natal (Durban).

CoNGELLA MASHUNENSIS, nN. spec.

Male: Colour, sculpture, and vestiture of C. tessellata ; the head
and clypeus are similar, but the prothorax is more angular laterally
at middle and more obliquely attenuated thence towards the basal
angle; the elytra are much more plainly tri-costate on each side,
and the intervals are deeper, but the minute scale-like hairs are
identical.

Length 9 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury).

CONGELLA VALIDA, 0. spec.

Reddish brown, sometimes slightly infuscate ; head with scattered
granules, clypeus parabolic but a little blunt at the tip ; prothorax as
in the preceding species, but the space among the scar-like punc-
tures are plainly wrinkled or rugose; the elytra are similarly costate,
the hairs are not so dense, but longer and less squamulose, and
the sculpture consists of contiguous impressed punctures having in
the centre a smaller one emitting a hair; these hairs are similar
on the upper and under sides and also on the legs as well as on the
pygidium, the latter is granulose and has a median longitudinal
furrow ; in the male the legs have no apical spur, but in the female
the four posterior legs are provided with one.

Length 11-124 mm.; width 64 mm.

This species is much more massive than C. tessellatula, and the
vestiture is not much denser in the male than in the female.

CONGELLA NIGRITA, Nn. spec.

Intermediate in size between C. tessellatula and C. valida; the
colour is black on the upper side, piceous red underneath, and
the prothorax and elytra bear minute, scattered, greyish appressed
hairs; the shape and sculpture of the head are the same as in
C. valida, but on the prothorax the cicatricose punctures are deeper;

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the scutellum is not so sharply ogival and is shagreened ; the elytra
are somewhat plainly quadri-costate on each side, and also deeply
cicatricoso-punctate, but these punctures are not set close to each
other, and are somewhat obliterated in the posterior part of the
coste ; the pygidium is shagreened and has a distinct longitudinal
smooth and shallow median furrow, the appressed hairs on it as
well as on the abdomen are very minute and equally distant, and the
posterior tibiz of the male, the only sex known to me, are a little
more robust than in the two preceding species.

Length 9 mm.; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown).

The example from which this description is made was sent to me

by the late Dr. Dohrn, of Stettin, and came from either Zeyher or
Drége.

KARHIGA, n. gen.

Mentum ampliate laterally, not wider at the base than at the apex,
hardly longer than broad, incised laterally near the point of inser-
tion of the palpi, semicircularly emarginate at apex; labrum
vertical, arcuately emarginate ; palpi of Hoplia ; maxilla short, very
robust, upper lobe armed with two short, robust, bifid teeth somewhat
blunt and set somewhat in the inner edge, mandibles sharply bi-cari-
nate on the outer face, concave between the two caring, falcate at the
tip and slightly bifid inwardly ; antenne ten-jointed, basal joint long,
clava as long as all the intermediate joints taken together; head
somewhat broad and having distinct genz the canthus of which
divide nearly equally the anterior part of the large eyes, clypeus
transverse, not so broad as the head, rounded laterally and deeply
emarginate in the centre; prothorax short, twice as broad as long,
crenulate laterally, very little sinuate along the base; scutellum
somewhat short, broadly ogival; elytra plane in the anterior part,
slightly broader at the base than the base of the prothorax, sub-
parallel ; pygidium vertical; anterior and intermediate tarsi longer
than the tibiae, posterior ones not longer, claws double, unequal, and
simple, the inner one of the posterior legs very short; anterior tibie
tri-dentate, the teeth broad, turned slightly downwards, intermediate
and apical ones connate; intermediate and hind tibiee with two series
of closely set, short, serrate teeth on the upper side; ail tibize with a
spur in the female, the joints of the tarsi are very villose and densely
bristly underneath.

The only species included in this genus has the general appearance
of an Hmpecta (MELOLONTHIN), but the elytra are more depressed.

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KAREIGA HYPOCRITA, N. spec.

Female: Dark brown, clothed with squamiform, elongate white
hairs; antenne flavescent; clypeus short, but broad, rounded
laterally, arcuately emarginate in front and with the margin some-
-what reflexed, it is deeply and roughly punctate and granulate, and
the head is very closely granoso-punctate, each puncture bearing a
short hair ; prothorax ampliated and rounded a little past the median
part, more obliquely attenuated thence to the anterior angle than in
the posterior part which is slightly sinuate and is not serrate like
the anterior, twice as broad as long, not much convex and clothed
with nearly coalescing, fine, but somewhat deep punctures, and
covered, but not densely, with somewhat long, white squamose
hairs; scutellum deeply and irregularly punctured and with a few
hairs; elytra sub-parallel, very little ampliated past the middle and
having on each side two dorsal costules, they are covered with
oblong punctures separated from one another by a space equal to
their size and enclosing a smaller round puncture bearing an
appressed white, somewhat scale-like hair; propygidium, pygidium,
and abdomen irregularly aciculate and having scattered hairs ; pectus
and legs setulose; anterior and intermediate tarsi longer than the
tibiz, villose and densely bristly under the joints; female with a
conspicuous spur on the posterior tibia.

Length 14 mm.; width 7$ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham’s Town).

Guns ELOPILUA, Mlic.,
Mag., 11., 1803, f. 226.

Mentum ampliate ovate, deeply narrowed laterally towards the
apex, deeply emarginate there with the angles rounded and not
penicillate, convex and not grooved in the anterior face; maxille
broad, arcuate, inner lobe indistinct, upper one short, not penicillate
at the tip and armed with five or six sharp inner teeth, apical
joint of labial palpi moderately long, slightly arcuate and a little
swollen outwardly, that of the maxillary sub-cylindrical, moderately
acuminate at the tip; clypeus transverse, nearly straight laterally
with the angles slightly rounded, and emarginate at the apex;
antenne nine-jointed in both sexes; prothorax transverse, ampliated
and rounded laterally in the middle; scutellum short, ogival ; elytra
with a distinct humeral and apical callus, slightly ampliated behind
and covering the propygidium ; anterior tibiz tri-dentate outwardly
but without an inner apical spur; legs not robust, short; claws of

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the four anterior legs double, unequal, and slightly cleft, the hind
ones simple ; pygidium broad, vertical in both sexes ; body scaly.
The genus has a very wide distribution. In the South African
species, from which I have drawn this generic description, the
female only has a small inner spur on the four hind tibia.

Hopuia sorpDIpA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 196.

Chestnut-brown, upper side partly covered in the male with
whitish scales, and completely in the female with flavescent ones,
under side and legs with silvery white scales in both the sexes.

Male: Head scaly, clypeus broad, transverse with the outer angles
slightly rounded, and emarginate in the middle of the apex; pro-
thorax twice as broad as long, ampliated and rounded laterally in the
median part, and having five bands of ovate, non-carinate white
scales, the two lateral ones of which do somewhat commingle, and
spatuliform, short, erect and distant hairs; scutellum scaly ; elytra
with a humeral and median basal callus on each side and an apical
median one, they are not costate, but there is a longitudinal impres-
sion between the two basal calluses and they are partly covered with
somewhat closely set ovate white scales, from among which spring
spatuliform erect black hairs which here and there form irregular
fascicles, especially in the median part of the disk, they are a
little broader than the prothorax and gradually ampliated towards
the apex where they are plainly wider than at the base.

Female: Like the male, but a little more massive and entirely
covered on the upper side with carinate scales more elongate on the
head and prothorax than on the elytra where they are ovate, the
elytra are also more plainly bi-costulate, and they have regular rows
of distant spatuliform hairs with occasionally short fascicles as in
the male.

Length 64-8 mm.; width 4-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage); Natal (Durban); Transvaal
(Lydenburg).

(Species which I have not seen or been able to identify.)

Hopuia CILIATA, Casteln.,
Hist. Natur. d. Insect., u., p. 144.
‘Black, prothorax with very short yellow hairs arranged along
the sides and forming in the centre a longitudinal line, on each side
of the prothorax are long brownish ciliew ; elytra brown, set with

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scattered short whitish-yellow hairs; scutellum and sides of the
abdomen yellowish ; legs brown, hind legs black.

Length 3 lin. ; width 1} ln.

Hab. Cape of Good Hope.”

Hopuia CAFFRA, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., u., p. 484.

“Broad, black, shining, punctate, setose; anterior tibie tri-den-
tate; claws cleft, posterior ones simple.

Length 4lin. ¢.

From Caffraria. Received from Herr Zeyher. Similar to Hoplia
morio (from Madagascar), but much broader, black, shiny, punctate,
and having a small whitish hair in each puncture; the hairs on the
under side are broader and more scale-like; antennz small, brown ;
legs thick, strong, but not very long; anterior tibiz with three thick
obtuse teeth, the claws brown, all cleft, only the hind ones simple,
no spur on the tibiee.”’

Congella tessellatula may perhaps prove to be identical with this
species.

Gen. MICRODORIS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1., p. 32.

‘‘ Body tolerably slender on the whole, somewhat flattened
but rotundate and more than twice as long as broad; the head
is flat and disk-like, rounded in front, slightly reflexed, and
decidedly larger in the male than in the female; the antenneze are
ten-jointed, but without sexual differences. The quite soft, almost
membranous labrum and similarly constructed mandibles are not
distinguishable externally but are hidden deep under the widely pro-
jecting margin of the head, the under jaw and under lip are also
delicately formed, and this may be the reason why I could perceive
no membranous bi-lobate ligula at the end of the ligular portion,
which, however, is not fused with the mentum ; galea of the maxille
small, toothless, and with a long pencil of hairs; the thin slender
palps project far forwards ; end joint of labial palpi ovately swollen ;
pronotum about as broad as long, somewhat swollen at the sides,
but not broader behind than in front; scutellum small, cordate ;
elytra broader at the base than the prothorax, not narrowed behind,
but rounded apically; legs short, not very strong; anterior tibize
with three outer teeth, somewhat weak in the male, the four pos-
terior tibiz have an apical spur, but not the anterior ones ; tarsi only

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as long as the tibiz, bristly like them, and having large claws; in
the four anterior feet both claws are of equal size, strongly divergent,
(owing to the thick but non-setigerous after-claw which intrudes
itself between them at the base), and end in a blunt apex alongside
of which a sharp, shorter cleft tooth is present internally ; posterior
tarsi with a long, cleft, always folded claw, pygidium in the male
perpendicular and not drawn in, but projecting more posteriorly
in the female. Whole upper surface shiny, with solitary hairs.
Only one species from South Africa.”

MIcrRopoRIS AQUILA, Burm.,
Loe. cit., p. 33.

“From Drége. Surface of head densely and coarsely punctate, the
vertex almost black, with yellow hairs, prothorax very shiny, with
scattered punctures and with long yellow bristles at the sides;
scutellum tolerably covered with yellow hairs. HElytra shiny, brown,
and with punctures set in irregular rows which bear appressed
yellow bristly hairs ; under surface, legs, antenna, and palpi pale
yellow, shiny, with scattered bristles; the hairs on the sternum are
shorter and appressed, those at the anal margin forming long cilie.

Length 38 lin.”

I do not. know this genus, which Lacordaire places in the Hoplides
group.

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APPENDIX.

Susp-Faminy RUTELINA.

The present part of this Catalogue was in the hands of the printers
when Mr. G, A. Arrow published, in the February number of the
‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History,’ 1902, Ser. 7, vol. 19,
a paper on “ Rutelid and Melolonthid Beetles from Mashonaland
and East Africa.’’ This paper contains the description of some
species which I described under another name, and also one addition.
Mr. Arrow’s names have, however, the priority, and must take the
place of mine. I am indebted to Mr. G. A. K. Marshall for the loan
of five of the co-types of the species mentioned.

Trt ADORETINI.
Gen. ADORETUS.

Adoretus sebakuensis, Pér., Catal. Scarab., p. 578 = A. wniformis,
Arrow, loc. cit., p. 91.

Adoretus zambesianus, Pér., loc. cit., p. 576 = A. ovatus, Arrow,
lee melts, 94:

The examples of this species which I first examined had no trace
of the three rows of the patches of yellowish-white agglomerated
hairs on each side of the elytra; in fresh examples received since
these rows are very conspicuous ; in others they are partly obliterated
in the anterior part, but there is always a large, juxta-sutural patch
on each side of the apex. This species is recorded from the Transvaal
(Lydenburg).

Adoretus Sai buricwere Pers, loc, cit. p.. ofl = A. plumbscollas,
Arrow, loc. cit. p. 93.

In the two examples from which my description was made the
four rows of distant, whitish bristles on each elytron were not very
distinct ; but in all the examples received since, these rows are very
plain. The species is also recorded from the Transvaal (Lydenburg,
Waterberg).

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Adoretus albolepidus, Arrow, loc. cit., p. 92 = A. hoplioides, Bohem.

Boheman records this species from Port Natal, but although the
three bands of white hairs on the prothorax are less conspicuous
(and even sometimes nearly obliterated) in specimens from that
locality than in those from the Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg,
Zoutpansberg), or from Southern Rhodesia, there is no doubt that
the two species are one, and this is also proved by the shape of the
genital armature of the male.

Tre ANOMALINI.
Gren. POPILLIA.

Popillia eupyga, Arrow, loe. cit., p. 91.

Elongated, black, shining, hirtose; elytra testaceous with the
margins infuscate; head rugose everywhere on the upper side,
margin of the clypeus very little reflexed ; prothorax nearly as long
as broad, strongly narrowed in the anterior part, and with the
posterior angles obtuse, hind margin broadly excised in front of the
scutellum, discoidal part coarsely strigoso-punctate, clothed, but not
thickly, with whitish hairs, but having a median line and two lateral
spaces with the exception of a median punctiform fascicle, denuded ;
elytra glabrous, strongly attenuate behind, bearing six remote strie,
the second stria strongly flexed in the middle; the punctate pygidium
is adorned with four white fascicles; the propygidium with two
transverse ones; whole pectus and all the posterior part abdominal
segments hairy-white ; legs black, anterior tibia bi-dentate, meso-
sternum quadrate in front, not projecting ; antenne black.

Length 10 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Mashonaland (Salisbury).

I have seen one example of this interesting species, which differs
from the other South African ones by the very convex, yet very
sloping, pygidium which is ornamented with four hairy patches.

Trrpe PHANOMERIINI.
Gen. PHANOMERIS.

Mr. Arrow identifies as P. rufipenns, Branes., loc. cit., p. 91, the
species which I take to be P. magnifica, Hope, and to which I
doubtfully referred the former.

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Sus-Famity COPRIN A.

SCARABAEINI.
Gen. SCARABASUS Lin.
SCARABEHUS CANALICULATUS, Fairm., p. 56.

I have been able, through Mons. Fairmaire’s courtesy, to examine
the type of this species. Its nearest ally is S. flavicormis, but it is
twice as large, and the pubescence on the legs is fulvous brown; the
punctures on the centre of the disk are equally deep but more closely
set, and the sides as well as the anterior part are more scabrose, the
smooth median longitudinal line is less regular; the cost of the
elytra are still sharper and more raised than in S. flavicornis, and are
not punctulate.

Gen. SISYPHUS, Latr., p. 98.

I have been able, through the kindness of the authorities of the
Genova Museum, to examine some of Gory’s types of this genus
belonging to that Institution, and as a result of this examination I
have come to the following conclusions :—

Sisyphus appendiculatus, Bohem., is the same species as S. guadre-
collis and S. hesst, Gory, as stated by me, p. 103.

Sisyphus crispatus, Gory, is the same species as S. hirtus, Gory.
The name of S. goryt, proposed by Harold as a substitute for
S. hirtus, this name having been already used for a species of the
genus, must therefore be dropped, and that of S. crispatus retained.

Sisyphus spuupes, Gory (?=S. spinipes, Thunb., teste Harold), is
a very different species from the one I described under that name,
and which I now take to be, perhaps wrongly, S. rugosus, Gory, but
the type of this species is no longer to be found.

Sisyphus capensis, Gory, Monogr., p. 12, pl. 1, fig. 8 is no longer
in the Gory Collection. I have not been able to identify the species.

SISYPHUS SPINIPES, Gor.,
Monogr, 1833, p. 8, pl. i., fig. 4.
2S. spinupes, Thunb., Mém. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 411.

This species belongs to the sections A? and B? of the genus
(vide p. 100). The shape and colour are those of S. quadricollis,
the vestiture is the same, but the shape of the intermediate and
posterior legs is different; the anterior tibize are bi-dentate under-
neath, the intermediate femora are plainly scooped underneath
towards the apical part, and between this incision and the knee

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there is a long, curved, bi-sinuate tooth, the intermediate cox are
conspicuously curved inwardly in the basal part, and the inner
margin laminate from the apical part of this curve to the apical
spurs, with the upper angle of the lamina sharp or dentate, the
crenulate outer margin is deeply incised at about the median part,
and the upper angle of the margin is prolonged into a long, oblique
spine; the point of the trochanters of the hind femora does not
project much, the femur bears a very distinct, vertical tooth at a
short distance from the knee; the hind tibize are moderately arcuate,
and very little incurved at the apex.

Length 12 mm.; width 62 mm.

The insect from which this description is made is labelled:
‘Sisyphus spinipes, Gory. Cap. B.E. Collection Jurine.” In the
figure given by Gory the shape of the intermediate legs is about
correct, but not that of the hind ones.

Raffray described and figured under the name of S. tzbialis an
insect from Abyssinia which seems to be closely allied to S. spunipes.

COPRINI.
Gren. MACRODERES, Westw., p. 297.

Owing to the kindness of the Brussels Museum authorities I have
been able to examine two of de Borre’s species (types) of this genus.

MACRODERES POLITULUS, Borre, p. 301.

The example I have described anew under this name is absolutely
similar to de Borre’s type, and is alsoa female. This is evidenced
by the arcuate frontal carina of the head.

MACRODERES WESTWOODI, Borr., p. 302.

This species is a very distinct one; the inner spur of the anterior
tibiz is very long, straight, and bent at right angles near the tip;
the frontal ridge of the head is very little raised, slightly arcuate,
and is provided in the centre with a plain, rounded tubercle; the
prothorax is covered by punctures separated from each other by a
space equal to the diameter of a puncture, but they are slightly more
broadly scattered in the posterior part; the elytra are finely striate, and
the intervals which are nearly plane and are provided with a waving,
plicate row more shiny than the background, on the sides this row
resembles somewhat a series of shallow fovez without wall on one
side; the supra-epipleural stria is very slender, and begins at the
line of the first abdominal segment.

1902. | , Appendix. 899

Guy. SAPRGICIUS, p. 306.

I mention in the description of this genus, p. 307, line 10, that the
joints of the intermediate and posterior tarsi are fused and vary in
number from two to five. It is possible that in one of the species,
S. optatus, the number of these joints as given by me is correct, for
they agree in the two examples that I examined; but in the other
species, S. singularts, one more example of which has lately reached
me, both the intermediate and posterior tarsi are five-jointed; the
examples previously received were mutilated.

CATHARSIUS PANDION, Har., p. 336.

I referred, with some doubt, this species to C. melancholicus, Boh.
Although very closely allied, it may, however, be differentiated by the
length of the supra-marginal carina of the elytra, which reaches in
C. melancholicus to only one-third of the whole length of that part of
the body, whereas in C. pandion it is very sharp for three-fourths
of the length. The habitat seems, however, to be the same as that
of C. melancholicus, but I have also received it from Lourenco-
Marquez.

Famity HYBOSORIN~.
Gen. ARHIOTANYPUS, Waterh.,
Ann. & Magaz. Nat. Hist., vol. xv., 4th ser., 1875, p. 404.

“Mentum quadrate, slightly rounded at the base, the anterior angles
obliquely truncate; labium only slightly visible at the sides, on
account of the mentum being truncate. Labial palpi very stout ;
the penultimate joint small, as long as broad; the apical joints large,
ovate, scarcely truncate at the apex. Lobes of the maxille mem-
branous, thickly clothed with stiff hair. Maxillary palpi with the
apical joint four times as long as the preceding one, sub-fusiform,
with the apex slightly truncate. Labrum transverse. Mandibles
stout, much curved, with the apex acute; these with the labrum
visible from above. Antennze composed of eleven joints; the first
joint large, stout; the second nearly globular; the third nearly as
long as the first, but comparatively slender, sub-cylindrical; the
fourth, fifth, and sixth shorter, the sixth obliquely truncate at the
apex; the seventh transverse, narrowed at its base; the eighth very
short, and almost confounded with the first joint of the club; the
ninth, tenth, and eleventh joints forming a short, ovate club; the
ninth, the largest, shining, and slightly embracing the tenth and
eleventh, which are spongy. Eyes large, not divided by a canthus.
Thorax transverse. Scutellum triangular. Elytra elongate, slightly
rounded at the sides. Abdomen composed of six segments; the

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basal one small and much hidden. Anterior coxe rather large,
conical. Metasternum short. Intermediate and posterior tibie
furnished with two spurs at the apex, those of the intermediate
pair being the longer; anterior tibize elongate, not much widened
at the apex, with two strong teeth on the outer edge, and a smaller
one near the base. Tarsi long and very slender, longer than the
tibia, the anterior pair the longest, nearly twice as long as the tibia ;
the basal joint very short (club-shaped), not reaching beyond the
apical tooth of the tibia; the second to fifth joints very long and
slender, the fifth the longest. The claws very long, slender, very
slightly curved, simple, about four-fifths of the length of the claw-
joint.”

Mr. Waterhouse adds that many of the characters of this genus
suggest an affinity with Serica.

ARHOTANYPUS BOOPS, Waterh.,
Loe. cit., p. 400.

‘““Piceous black, strongly punctate; head moderately large, plane,
moderately closely punctate ; eyes large, rounded ; prothorax broader
than the head, broader than long almost by one-half, slightly convex
and only a little narrowed in front, strongly but moderately closely
punctate ; scutellum in the shape of an elongated triangle, almost
smooth; elytra slightly broader than the prothorax, and twice and a
half as long, slightly convex, irregularly punctured, the punctures
close and deep, a little ampliated behind, attenuated arc-like towards
the apex; legs long, anterior tibie tri-dentate outwardly, tarsi testa-
ceous, very long, slender; claws slender, simple.

Length 24 lin.; lat 14 lin.

The clypeus is not separated from the forehead by any distinct
line; it is transverse, and has the angles slightly rounded. The
thorax has the anterior angles slightly prominent, scarcely acute ;
the sides are gently reflexed, very gently narrowed in front; the
base is broadly lobed in the middle. The elytra are furnished with
a stria near the suture. The under side of the body is very shining,
not punctured. The three teeth on the outer edge of the anterior
tibize are sharp, the basal one very small. The femora and tibia are
furnished with long, delicate hairs. The tarsi are very slender, and
have only one or two almost imperceptible hairs at the apex of the
joints; the anterior pair are about four-fifths of the length of the
elytra, and are relatively longer than the posterior tarsi; the basal
joint is very short. The antenne are short; the club short, ovate,
its basal joint shining.

Hab. South Africa, Lake N’Gami.”’

I have not seen this species.

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104,
104,
104,
110,
120,
130,
175,
307,

307,
307,

336,
336,
369,
446,
474,
493,

503,
508,
509,
509,
510,
516,
ahs
518,

520,

521,

521,

522,

523,

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23,
40,

19,
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21,
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CORRECTIONS.

, line 34, read Hopliine instead of Melolonthine.

insert some before Dynastine.

read Pentodontoschema instead of Pontodontoschema.

read A few instead of Many.

delete Camenta.

read membranaceous instead of membraceous.

read Scarabeii instead of Atewchint.

delete z.

read hottentoruwm instead of hottentotwm.

add after Méth. nec Bohen.

read namniscus instead of manniscius.

read Sisyphus rugosus, Gor.

read Monogr., p. 12, pl. 2., fig. T.

delete S. spinipes, Gory, etc., etc.

read five- or bi-jointed.

read aygulus instead of aggulus.

add O before wnuus.

read sugillatus instead of sigillatus.

read posterior ones five-jointed instead of posterior ones four-
jowted.

add . spec.

read intermediate and posterior tibie five-jointed, and delete
the rest of the sentence.

add Fabric. after Copris Jacchus.

delete Fabricius.

read Key to the Genera instead of to the Species.

add 1. spec.

read on the anterior instead of 1 the anterior.

read numerously punctate strie instead of nwmerous punc-
tate stria.

read pitchy black instead of patchy black.

2 from the bottom, read Pentodontoschema.

14,
36,
15,

insert a comma after plains.
read mandibles instead of mazille.
read mandibles instead of maxilla.

acter line 4, add Plate XL., fig. 3.

line

26,

16,
15,
ey

28,

21,

2,

delete Plate XL. Ag 2.

read fig. 2 ered of fig. 3.
read fig. 9 instead of fig. 5.
read fig. 7 instead of fig. 6.
read jig. 5 instead of fig. 7.
read fig. 11 instead of fig. 8.
read fig. 10 instead of fig. 9.

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525,
527,
528,
535,
536,
537,
538,
539,
540,
041,

542,
542,
543,
544,

546,
549,
549,
553,
554,
55D,
55D,
55S,
556,
557,
561,
569,
570,
573,
576,
588,
598,

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after line 32,

26,

12, read jig. 13 instead of fig.
9, read fig. 12 instead of jig. 13, and add fig. 39.

delete Plate XL., fig. 11.

12.

32, read jig. 22 instead of jig. 19.

Nish,
Ss
34,
29,
24,
25,

delete Plate XL., jig. 22.

read jig. 24 instead of jig.
read jig. 25 instead of fig.

add 1. spec.
read fig. 23 instead of fig.

add Plate XL., fig. 21.
line 28, read fig. 19 instead of jig.
read fig. 20 instead of jig.

20.
21.

24,

25, and add fig. 38.

ater line 23, insert Plate XL., fig. 29.

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99
line

99

99

line

9

9

1,
32,

34,
IU;

28,
26,
9,

4,

9, add 2. spec.

11, add Plate XL., fig. 29.

read jig. 31 instead of jig.

26.

read fig. 30 instead of jig. 27.

add jig. 36.

read fig. 26 instead of fig. 29.

add . spec.

delete Plate XL., fig. 30.

read in which instead of on which.
read fig. 27 instead of fig. 31.
after line 34, insert Plate XL., fig. 35.

16, read jig. 33 instead of fig. 32.

19, read capicola instead of testacews.
read capicola instead of testacews
delete and before the clypeus.
delete the comma after hair.

read 29 instead of 28.

delete Plate XLI., fig. 37.

610, after line 21, insert Plate XLI., jig. 48.
12, insert Plate XLI., fig. 49.
ae 18, delete Plate XLIII. Ale. 33.

after line 25, insert Plate XLII. sig. LS.
23, insert Plate XLII., fig. 16.
1, insert Plate XLII., fig. 17.
32, read fig. 11 instead of fig. 4.

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621,
683,

684,
686,
689,

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1902. ( 903 )

EXPLANATION OF PLATES XXXI.-XLI. OF THE
CATALOGUE (Puates I.-XII. or Vou. XII)

READE SOO, (PIT. Vol. aie)

No. No.

1. Colophon westwoodi. 8. Scarabeus galenus.

2. Nigidius delegorguei. 9. Sceliages adamastor. _
3. i validus. 10. Pachysoma zsculapius.
4, Xiphodontus antilope. 11. Gymnopleurus celatus.
5. Scarabeeus femoralis. 12. Anachalcos pumilus.

6 53 cupreus. 13. Pedaria tuberculata.

i i fritschi. 14. Coptorhina barratti.

PEATE SONNE, (El Il, Vol. Xr.)

No. No,
1. Heliocopris hamadryas. 5. Heliocopris eryx.
Dy. Ke pirmal. 6. FS antenor.
8. Be atropos. Uc - gigas.
4. sy hamifer. 8. 3% 4apetus.

PrAre, Sar. (Pi. TT., .Vols Xai.)

No. No.

1. Copris globulipennis. 9, 9a. Copris orphanus.

2, 2a. Copris cornifrons. 10, 10a, 10b. Copris urus.

3, 3a. Parapinotus dewitzi. 11, lla. Catharsius ulysses.

4, 4a. Copris contractus. 12, 12a. Copris jacchus, var.
5. Dd anise) WOGUES:. Ae Tae ele

6. Catharsius opacus. 16, 16a... ., i 2.

7. Copris meracanthus. 15, Wa.) 3); lelphenor, 2°.

8. ae victorin. HO LI. © 55 9 gee

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No. No.

13, 18a. Catharsius tri-cornutus. 22, 22a. Catharsius melancholicus, ?.
14, 14a. Copris anceus. 23, 23a. rs laticeps, ¢.

18. Copris laticornis. 24, 24a. ne 5 5

20. Catharsius vitulus. 25, 25a. - pylades, 3.

21, 21a. Catharsius melancholicus, ¢.

isa LOONIE (ele Ion Welly 2Ula))

No. No.
1. Onitis bohemani, ¢. 12,120. Onitissphinx, fore and hind legs
la. Fore leg of same. 13. Onitis viridulus, hind femur.
2. Onitis paradoxus, ¢. 14. 4, + pecuarius, hind femur.
3. , castelnaui, ?. 15, 15a. Onitis erarius, intermediate
3a. Fore leg of same. and hind legs.
4. Onitis curvipes, hind leg. 16. Cheironitis apelles, prosternal pro-
40. ee ue fore leg. cess.
5 » confusus, fore tibia. 17, 17a. Cheironitis hoplosternus, pro-
Gey - hind femur. sternal process.
6. ,, caffer, hind femur. 18. Sisyphus muricatus, ¢.
uf », robustus, intermediate leg. 19. - spinipes, ¢.
8. ,, fabricii, intermediate leg. 20. Ar rubripes, ¢.
9. ,, orthoptus, hind leg. 21, 21a. Tragiscus dimidiatus, ¢?.
10, 10a. Onitis inversidens, fore tibie. 21b. a ie Gs
1G Yoy, TC YoRs > 5 . hindfemur. 22. Drepanocerus sulcicollis, ¢.
11,lla. ,, aygulus, fore leg and 23. » kirbyi, 3.
hind leg. 24. ce laticollis, ¢.

PEATE, DOO (El Ve, Vols exer)

No. No.

1. Phalops ardea. 23. Onthophagus deterrens.

2. ms flavocinctus. 24. ‘ impressicollis.

4, i boschas. 25. , obtusicornis.

DOs adspersipennis. 26. ae giraffa.

7. Diastellopalpus quinquedens. 27. 5 alcyon.

8. Onthophagus rangifer. 28. 5 pilosus.

9. ce furcifer. 29. a quadrinodosus..
10. us rarus. 30. ne parumnotatus.
1 5 panoplus. oll i emeritus.

12. pyramidalis. 32. sf gazella.

By * naso. oon ne bubalus.

14. bs ebenus. 34. " urus.

ile a sub-extensus. BD. a bovinus.

Ge lanista. 36. a interstitialis.
Ie re insignis. 37. ” vitulus.

18. 5 loricatus. 38. t merus.

19. A leucopygus. 39. ‘ tenuicornis.
20. rs opimus. 40. rs intermedius.
DAL ve pugionatus. 41. ye venustulus.

22. e cretus.

1902.] Explanation of the Plates.

Prats XXXVI. (Pl. VI., Vol. XII.)

No No.

1. Onthophagus corniculatus. 17. Bolboceras capense, ¢.
Ds me ambiguus. 18. 7 spurium.
3. 3 bi-plagiatus. 1k, 3 damarinum.
4, exiguus. 20. a indubium.
5. i obtutus. Jill . auspicatum.
6. * plebejus. 22), Be plausibile.
Tie ne bicallosus. HS. te fortuitum.
Seg: Be croesulus. 24. - caffrum.

LO; - columella. D5. ae vacivum.

1 as brucei. 26. es consocium.

1 Pr, sapphirinus. 27. ts panza.

Ale ns suspectus. 28. an maculicolle.

14. of gemmeus. 29. Orphnus pugnax.

15. oe aciculatus. 30. 5 zambesianum.

16. Bolboceras capense, ?. 31. Onitis dispar, hind leg of.

Prare XXXVII. (Pl. VII, Vol. XII.)

Genital Armature of Male.

No. No.

1. Pachylomera femoralis, left and 18. Scarabeeus rusticus.

right side view. 19. sé ebenus.

2. Scarabeeus cuprescens. 20. 55 satyrus.

3. metallicus. 21. a profanus.

4, if usurpator. Wid ae zambesianus.

5 As mashunus. 23. - modestus.

6 a intricatus. Oe se infernalis.

7 PC rubripennis. 25. a“ prodigiosus.

8 “ flavicornis. 26. a bonelli.

oe ss proximus. 27. 5 nigro-sneus.
10. if suri. 28. Sebasteos galenus.
ree a viator. 29. 5 caffer.
12: Pe rugosus. 30. i laticeps.
13. 6 ambiguus. 31. Pachysoma hypocrates.
14. ms funebris. 32. rr eesculapius.
ny, x hottentorum. Boe a marginatum.
16. ‘3 savignyi. 34. we denticolle.
ive An convexus. 310) Ae adamastor.

PrATER OO Gy Eni (Pl, VILE; Vol: XIE.)
Gemtal Armature of Male.

No. No.

1. Circellium bacchus. 5. Gyronotus pumilus.
2. Gymnopleurus ignitus. 6. Onitis castelnaui.
3. Anachalcos convexus. fed. ) ayoulus.

4, Gyronotus marginatus. 8. Cheironitis apelles.

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9. Drepanocerus impressicollis.
10. Scaptocnemis segregis.

11. Oniticellus planatus.

12. Epirinus sulcipennis.

13. Sisyphus fortuitus.

14, tA rubripes.

1. a quadricollis.
1G: oe atratus.

Alife 3 spinipes.

18. af fasciculatus.
8), vs muricatus.

20. Diastellopalpus quinquedens.
21. Onthophagus bi-callosus.

22. 5 rarus.
23. a brucei.
24, furcifer.

PLATE XXXIX.

Genital Armature of Male.

No.
1. Phzocrous madagascariensis.

2. Bolboceras panza.

3. as auspicatum.
4, capense.

oe ee spurium,

‘S. ua vacivum.

tbe a fortuitum.
8. a plausibile.
9. 5 maculicolle.

10. Trox luridus.

11. ,, angulatus.
12. ,, penicillatus.
13. ,, fascicularis.
14. ,, xrhyparoides.
Lote oOrniGus:
16-095, aneuliius:
17. 4, gravidus.
18. 4, ponuderosus.
19. ,, tuberosus.
20. Neonitis porculus.

Z
°

1 G2) Or

. Onthophagus lanista.

- sub-extensus.
. Parapinotus dewitzi.

. Macroderes greeni.

. Pedaria cuprascens.

a costata.

. Coptorhina klugi.

- nana.

. Aphengeecus clypeatus.
34. Aphodius procerus.

35. Chiron puncticollis.

36. Orphnus zambesianus (closed).

bb wb W& bw
(os)

so ww ©
bro fo

ot
oo °

37. oh ‘ (open).
38. Hybosorus ruficornis.
39. a illigeri.

(eI IEG Wolke 20) f1')

No.

21. Chetocanthus insuetus.

22. Aphengecus clypeatus.

23. Acanthocerodes singularis.

24. Heliocopris, Labial palpus of.

25. Copris,

26. Parapinotus, “A

27. Odontoloma, Maxillary palpus of.

28. Neonitis, Labial palpus of.

29. Cheironitis,

30. Onitis, -s

31. Heteroclitopus remipes, Hind leg of

32. Heliocopris hamadryas, Genital
armature of.

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99

33. i faunus, e
34. Catharsius heros, A
35. Copris globulipennis, os
36. ,, cassius, Ae
37. Catharsius ulysses, ae
38. a pylades, 3

PuArE ih, (Pex, Vol oxi

Genital Armature of Male.

No. No.
1. Heteronychus claudius. 4. Heteronychus mashunus.
Dy. Ps licas. 5. vs arator.
D. - wilmsi. 6. Pe dissidens.

* The numbering of this plate in the text is partly erroneous.

907

1902. ] Explanation of the Plates.

No. No.

7. Heteronychus tristis. 25. Pychnoschema corydon.

8. indotatus. 26. Syrichthodontus spurius.

De transvaalensis. 27. Pseudosyrichthus clathratus.
10. pauperatus. 28. Syrichthus verus.

11. viator. 29. Callistemonus intrusus.

12. Pentodontoschema capicola.* 30. Oryctes monoceros.

13. aries. 31. 3 boas.

14. diversa. 32. Rhizoplatys trituberculatus.
15: nirea. 33. bituberculatus.
16. deceptor.

17. Hyboschema contracta. Mentum and Maxillary Palps of-
18. sobrina. 34. Cyphonistes vallatus.
19. Temnorhynchus bubalus. 35. Pseudocyphonistes corniculatus.
20. faunus. 36. Syrichthus verus.

a1. clypeatus. 37. Callistomenus.
22. retusus. 38. Pychnoschema corydon.
23. Pychnoschema diversa. 39. Pentodontoschema capicola.
24. corpulenta.
Pane Xe, (Pl. XU Vol xa)
Gemtal Armature of Male.

No. No.

1. Adoretus capicola. 26. Anomala vestita.

2 . fallaciosus. ite <, vetula.

3 a incongruens. 28. os bohemani.

4, es punctipennis. 29. c damara.

5. . hoplioides. 30) exoleta.

6 a plumbicollis. ole = exitialis.

7 Pe ictericus. B2h f immatura.

8 Ms ovampoensis. 33. 3 zambesicola.

2h, i fusculus. 34. 3 repensa.
LO: - mashunus. Bo. se transvaalensis.

ia. 45 variegatus. 36. yy pinguis.

15 ee laticeps. Ble Pe probativa.

1B f fraudulentus. 38. a intrusa.

14. a ovatus. 39. - tolerata.

15. , impurus. 40. i phthysica.

16. 5 exasperans. 41. ie dita.

aly(e is fraudator. Ae an Galina:

18. » dissidens. 43. - resplendens.

19. na cribrosus. 44, es castanea.
20. sp tessulatus. 45. a fuscipes.
oY. a bechuanus. 46. a dorsata.

22. ‘5 picticollis. 47. ss delagoa.
23. PA inglorius. 48. Peripopillia basalis.

24, 5 flaveolus. 49. Popillia bipunctata.

25. curtulus. 50. major.

9)

* The sheaths of the penis are more slender than those of fig. 13, but they
should be likewise angular laterally towards the median part.

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No.
51. Pharaonus subvittatus.
52. Schizonycha neglecta.

53. a transvaalica.

54. - meracula.

55. - infantilis.

56. iA fragilis.

Dihis ae dubiosa.

58. - tumida.

59. e saga.

COT61- furva.

62. infans.

65. ; languens.

64. a mediastina.

65. a puerilis.

66. 4 perfidiosa.

67. aM immixta.

68. o insuesa.
PrAre xan:

No.

1. Hoplocnemis koikoina.

2. a hylax.

35 rr crassipes.

4, a auriventris.

5. a armata.

6. a mutica.

Up ms fuliginosa.

8. Pachycnema striata.

): <5 squamosa.
10. 5 morbillosa.
ae i signatipennis.
12. Aa calcarata.
lise s flavolineata.
14. rs singularis.
ioe 5. lineola.

16. = marginella.
17s a rostrata.

18. $5 obscurepurpurea.
19. Heterochelus chiragricus.
20. - detritus.

21. 5 podagricus.
22. .; unguiculatus.
23. Dichelus dentipes.

24. 5 expansus.

25. aA denticeps.

OG AS. acanthopus.

No.
69.
nO:
Al
72.
73.
74.
75.
76.
Wife
78.
1
80.
81.
82.
83.
84,

No.
27.
28.
29.

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Schizonycha disputabilis.

Entyposis
Schizonycha

5 DUA Oil 2015)

minima.
natalensis.
manicana.
rufina.
spuria.
constrata.
rurigena.
increta.
mendax.
divulsa.
continens.
zambesiana.
plausibilis.
algoensis.
profuga.

Dichelus holosericeus.
a simplicipes.
Heterochelus vulpinus. -

9

9?

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. Monochelus

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)

* This figure is not quite correct.

armipes.
multidentatus.

. Dichelus laticollis.
. Heterochelus fraternus.

arthriticus.
longipes.
capicola.
natalensis.
longulus.
ditus.
miserabilis.
leoninus.
coccineus. *
placatus.
sexlineatus.
armatus.
forcipatus.
pachyglutus.
dissidens.
elegans.
spinipes.
aurantiacus.
glaberrimus.

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INDEX

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A

PAGE
abbreviata (Khoina) .......... 661
abdominalis (Pachyenema).... 688
(Pherocoma)...... 644
abyssimicus (Onitis)| .........< 148
Acanthocerodes .............. 471
acanthopus (Dichelus) ........ 701
acanthotarsis (Drepanocanthus) 432
achates (Copris) .............. 365
aciculatus (Onthophagus) 254
AGCUIMOPNOTUS <<)... cassia cs os os 23
aculeatus (Phoberus).......... 461
adamastor (Sceliages) ........ 63
PNDOREDINE sa.s ccdmvateoleiwiey o< 565, 895
AGOretus ......ccececserecees 895
adspersipennis (Phalops)...... 268
adspersus (Heterochelus)...... 734
adustus (Aphodius) .......... 407
gneus (Mpirinus) ............ 93
eequatus (Onthophagus) ...... 205
BEALIUS (OMIPIS)! .<ipc 2% eee’ 5s 127
meted) (AMONG)! cic tr esis cies «+ 591
eruginosus (Omitis)) .s.2.9..-. 136
(Scarabeeus) ...... 31
africanus (Oniticellus) ........ 165
aquila (Microdoris) .......... 894
albiger (Microplidus).......... 877
albolepidus (Adoretus) ........ 896
alcyon (Onthophagus) ........ 193
algoensis (Microplidus)........ 880
aliena (Gouna) .....562..--6- 862
alienus (Scarabeeus) .......... 39
alternans (Pedaria) .......... 283
(Platychelus) ...... 821
alternata (Pachycnema) ...... 682
amabilis (Aphodius) .......... 404
(Onthophagus) ...... 188
(ortsalba)yy seis cies: 670
ambiguus (Drepanochirus) .... 117
— (Onthophagus)...... 227
— (Scarabzeus) ........ 43
AAMMMOCCHUS .2 cesar aescine canes 371
amcenulus (Heterochelus) 740
amoenus (Aphodius) .......... 384
amyntor (Copris) ............ 353
Anachalcos .......... cece eae 81
analis (Heterochelus) ........ 752
anceus (Copris)\<..0.<.0<.+. >. 356
anderseni (Catharsius) ........ 339
(Scarabzeus) ........ 35
andersoni (Heliocopris) ...... 313
anpulatus (Erox) S.s00<+..- 463
Anisochelus...... se ewenser ane 870

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ANISONY Xo chess cteeve cess eo al sis 632
TMtitney So 5 oes soc an ceueneuos 586
/UNOMITUEIOSIT 6c Oo boo Hh GuGdE 585, 896
anomalipus (Aphodius)........ 393
anomalus (Caccobius) ........ 276
— (Heterochelus)...... 7o7

— (Platychelus) ...... 807
antenor (Heliocopris)) ....:-.. 316
antilope (Xiphodontus)........ 9
apelles (Cheironitis) .......... 156
appendiculatus (Sisyphus) .... 103
ADEN SOCUS) (Foci cin eltiaciald severe 94
apicalis (Mialiehus)). 33. .2-.< <5. 274
(Bopilbia ya sc eee ove 613

ADP TEVO DIDEN AM, 22 ge ocelats c.aveisi< as 369
TA HOGIUS! si) ccarorars cise aos oratehateltei'e!s 371
ADHOGODIUS: S555 i3 was diascee sae 420
ArwOtany Pus) ./.,.2.< scree sees 899
arator (Heteronychus) ........ 521
INKQNO 6 Bp oooo eo boos Ae en dor 551
areolatus (Catharsius) ........ 333
ardea: (Phalops)) mds as< ee. < 267
ardens) (Aphodius) js... 5 «2m 416
aries (Pentodontoschema) .... 527
armata (Coptorhina) .......... 294
armata (Hoplocnemis) ........ 694
armatus (Aphodius) .......... 402
(Idjoiesawls) Pen nanoenae 294
(Heterochelus) ...... 736
armaticeps (Ammeecius) ...... 410
armipes (Heterochelus) ...... 725
arthriticus (Heterochelus) .... 759
asimilis (Onthophagus)........ 236
asper (Hipirimuis) sec. esc es «- 92
aspera) (eCde@ris) asc. 44-0 « «4 282
asperulatus (Omorgus)........ 468
ateuchoides (Mitrophorus) .... 826
—— (Tapeinopterus) .. 152
TPCUGLINS oo oangeu Gn er ole oUer 23
atomaria (Gymnoloma) ...... 853
atramentarius (Rhyssemus) 443
atratus (Heteronychus) ...... 524
(Sus ols e Seg ecne coor 104
atricapillus (Adoretus) ........ 583
atropos (Heliocopris).......... 321
apes (Omnis) Vener eieie w ecl<s 123
aulicus (Onthophagus)........ 184
AulonocnemMis .....0..eseseeee 284
aurantiacus (Heterochelus).... 736
(Monochelus) .... 836

auricollis (Ischnochelus) ...... 770
auriculatus (Notocaulus)...... 441
—— (Onthophagus) .... 212

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auriventris (Hoplocnemis) ....
auspicata (Coptorhina)........
auspicatum (Bolboceras)
axillaris (Kubousa)
(Omocnates) icc icc
— (Oonotus)
(Onthophagus)
aygulus (Onitis)

bacehws (Cineell imi ys eye
badius (Oxyomus)
batesi (Bolboceras)
barbarossa (Sisyphus)
barbatum (Pachysoma)
basalis (Peripopillia).......:..
(Elativelelius)js10)periae
besckei (Phenomeris)
barratti (Coptorhina)
bechuanus (Adoretus)
bias (Macroderes)
bicallosus (Onthophagus)......
bicarinulatus (Heliocopris) ....
bidentatus (Ischnochelus)
bilateralis (Khoina)
bilobus (Orphnus)
bimaculatus (Heterochelus)
binodulosus (Aphodius)
binotatus (Heterochelus)
(Microplidus)
bipartitus (Ischnochelus)......
biplagiatus (Onthophagus) ....
bipunctata (Popillia)..........
bisignatus (Heterochelus)
bituberculatus (Onthophagus) .
(Rhizoplatys) ..
bivittatus (Heterochelus)......
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bohemani (Anomala)
(Aphodius)
(Scarabzeus)
bohemanni (Onitis)
Bolboceras
bonellii (Scarabzeus)
boops (Areotanypus)..........
bootes (Copris)
boschas (Phalops)
boschimanus (Phalops)........
bovinus (Onthophagus)........
brachypterus (Coptochirus)....
bradshawi (Catharsius)........
(Onthophagus)
brevicornis (Onthophagus) ....
brevis (Gnatholabis)
— (Goniaspidius)
——-— (Platychelus)
brevitarsis (Aphodius)
brunnea (Anomala)
brucei (Onthophagus)

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bubalus (Onthophagus)........

218.
(Temnorhynchus) .... 537
buxeipennis (Aphodius) ...... 418
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CAaCCODIUS ws c.i06'. caja csterst peters 168, 275
Cacconemus........-......+.:. 168
Caccophilus 5 j.)- i -rueronesieictele 168
Grolleynbls (Cores) 6a goose50cs008 361
(Gymnopleurus)...... 72
(Ruby ssemnuls)) i710. 445
caffer (Gymnopleurus) ........ 69
((OnastaS) Gascon cone cceS 139
—— (Platychelus) .......... 817
—— (Scarabeeus) ............ 60
—— (Scarabzeus) ............ 40
—— (Sisyphus) .......5.... 106
eo Uhidoy eR RR AS ORK dado ObEC 462
caffra (Anomala)............-. 602
(Eliopp lia) Fatty torte iicreterore 893
caffrum (Bolboceras).......... 484
calaharicus (Catharsius) ...... 341
calcaratus (Aphodius) ........ 399
-———— (Monochelus) ...... 841
calcarata (Nongoma).......... 609
=== (Physocnema) ...... 678
calcaratus (Sisyphus) ........ 103
caliginosus (Bizanus).......... 197
Callistemonus ...............- 543
camillus (Catharsius) ........ 334
canaliculatus (Omocrates) 780

(Scarabzeus) ....57, 897

capense (Bolboceras).......... 484
capensis (Aphodius) .......... 416
(Cops) acrtece-rrererre 357

capicola (Adoretus) .......... 568
—-— (Heterochelus) ...... 751
— (Ochodeeus) .......... 505
——- (Peritrichia) ........ 651
— (Pentodontoschema).. 528
(Pleurophorus) ...... 448
carbonarius (Onthophagus).... 244
carinatipennis (Rhyssemus) 443
carinulatus (Ammioeecius) ...... 411
cassius (Copris) ©... 66.5 2s cies 351
castanea (Anomala) .......... 602
castaneipennis (Heterochelus) . 733
— (Rhizoplatodes). 562
castaneus (Onthophagus)...... 262
castelnaui (Onitis)............ 122
Catharsius ......cesseeeeeeee 323
catta (Onthophagus).......... 181
centaurus (Archon) .......... 581
centralis (Aphodius) .......... 417
cephalotes (Catharsius) ...... 338
Cheetocanthus ..........-...4 495
chalcostomus (Onthophagus) .. 221
CHABMEC oi scee cence vewiereunns 630:
Cheironitis «i i. scis ta ss alia 154
chiragricus (Heterochelus) .... 756
CHIT OM 6 ogg on) t0 ab syeiie hele retore itennide 473
CHIBONIN-AS « 6 05 sv 5 serene 472

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chloris (Gymnopleurus) ...... 72 | coracinus (Gymnopleurus) .... 71
cicatricosa (Pedaria) .......... 280 | corniculatus(Onthophagus).... 222
cicatricosus (Scarabeeus)...... 33 | —————— (Pseudocyphonistes) 558
cicatrix (Platychelus) ........ 808 | cornifrons (Copris) .......... 360
eiliata (Hoplia) ....5.)55.6..- 892 | cornutus.(Orsilochus) -........ 533
cinerascens (Aphodius)........ 386 | corpulenta (Pychnoschema) 540
cinereus (Platychelus) ........ 815 | corvinus (Heteronychus) ...... 518
WincellimMy oss.) 2a. os one oe eles 61 | corydon (Pychnoschema)...... 541
circumdatus (Aphodius) ...... Ait! | Corythoderus:.. 2.65 6c... 5. es 449
citrinus (Heterochelus)........ Wel || ‘costata (Pedaria)) 22.5.2... 5: 280
CIAGORNALHUS 44 o.6 86 Ss ce be 4 | costipennis (Onthophagus).... 196
claudius (Heteronychus) ...... 515 (Oxvommus))\.:).\<5 « 414
clathratus (Pseudosyrichthus) . 556 | crassipes (Hoplocnemis) ...... 696
clericus (Scarabzeus) .......... 55 — (Diaplochelus) ...... 795
clypeata (Anomala) .......... 596 (Pachycnema) ...... 683
clypeatus (Aphengeecus) ...... 98") ‘crassus (Etybosoriis): =... ... 2... 494
(Temnorhynchus) dao | crenatus (Onitis) ...2........ 132
coccineus (Heterochelus)...... 741 | cretus (Onthophagus) ........ Is)
COSTS RES Cea IG Rane On eR 823 | cribratus (Adoretus).......... 579
cognata (Peritrichia).......... 649 (Oratis) yoiye ere cce ses.che 135
cognatus (Coptochirus) ...... #28) =| ,cribrosus (Adoretus) 2... 2... 579
—— Scarabeeus) ........ 38 | cricetus (Heteronychus) ...... 521
collaris (Monochelus) ........ O24) | scrimitus (Amisonyx)i sce a... << 635
(Onthophagus)........ 186 | cristatum (Pachysoma)........ 78
—-—— (Idutywa) ............ 824 | creesulus (Onthophagus) ...... 245
Colobepterus: 2.0 i ss6e. 6. es 371 | crucifer (Onthophagus) ...... 217
colluta (Anomala) ............ 597 | cruentatus (Onthophagus) .... 260
COLOPHON) 25.2.0 we Soe oe oes Za | PELUEN LUIS: (A pPhOWIS) as... 2 saa 415
columella (Onthophagus)...... 243 | cuprascens (Pedaria).......... 282
comosan(blikana)” 5 tesa. . S Sail | ‘cupreus (Adoretus)> 5.4... ...0. 583
comosus(Hipirinus)) o.......0. 94 (Gymnopleurus) ...... 74
— — (Heterochelus) ...... 750 | ——— (Onitis) .......... 128, 1386
concinnus (Heterochelus) 726 (Scarabeeus) .......... 31
concolor (Aphodius) 12.0525 ...% 419 | cupricollis (Onthophagus) .... 246
contormis:(Pedaria) <.)......%< 283 | curtipennis(Heteronychus).... 518
— (Platychelus) ...... 814 | -curtulus (Adoretus) .....5.... 582
contusus: (Copris) 02.2.2 .9 2.0. gee || curvicormis) (Copris)) j.......2. 360
a= (OMAGIS) ys ae cee clone ss 139) vcurviirons (Copris).......6.... 309
GCONCCNA ose sors vane k ass abe 887 ji curvipes (Omitis) oni 6. ss we 3 143
congenitus (Phalops).......... 270 | cyanea (Phenomeris) ........ 620
connatus (Heterochelus) ...... TOD 7) (6 YAICBRUS 4 0.40. .40.5 sie wierd so os 0s 883,
connexus (Aphodius) ........ 384 | cylindrica (Pedaria) .......... 281
-_———— (Drepanocanthus) 434 | cylindricus (Omocrates) ...... 779
consanguineus (Heterochelus.. 727 | Cyphonistes.................. 546
—__—_—— (Omorgus) 466 D
consimilis (Aphodius) ........ 391
consobrinus (Onthophagus).... 259 | damara (Anomala)............ 593
consocium (Bolboceras) ...... 488 | damarinus (Omorgus) ........ 469
consocius (Gymnopleurus) .... 68 | damarinum (Bolboceras) ...... 481
consors (Heterochelus) ...... Nae" \deceptor, (Onitis):*...ee. «<i 28. 145
contracta (Hyboschema) ...... 532 | ——-——-(Pentodontoschema).. 530
contractus, (Copris) 2% 0.1.54 6 352 | decipiens (Aphodius) ........ 390
— (Heterochelus) .... 287 (Onthophagus) ...... 225
convalescens (Scarabeeus) .... 42 | decora (Chasme).............. 630
controversus (Heterochelus) .. 765 | ——-— (Hriesthis) ............ 669
convexus (Anachalcos) ........ 82 | decoratus (Adoretus).......... 574
— (Scarabeus) ........ 45 | dedecor (Onthophagus)........ 264
OOP LIN Ate sot Ls ns ttre e 21; 897 | dejeani (Aphodius)............ 419
COPRINT Fagcner cca dcats wok 6 898 | delagoa (Anomala)............ 605
GOB EIS hat ssahete ia eas ies ss websites 8s 342 | delagorguei (Gymnopleurus) .. 71
COPLGEMITES) 400.0) en esek cts 426 | delegorguei (Nigidius) ........ 10
coptorhinoides (Onthophagus).. 237 | Delopleurus.................. 275
COPEL NIG, «305 s/c oie np See hire 286! denticeps(Dichelus) -......... 705

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‘denticolle (Pachysoma) ......
-denticulatus (Omorgus) ......
-dentifrons (Heterochelus)......
dentilabris (Xinidium)........
dentinus (Ammeecius) ........
dentinum (Odontoloma) ......
edentipes (Dichelus) ..........
deplanatus (Epirinus) ........
deplanatus (Lorditomeus) ....
-depressus (Omocrates) .........
deterrens (Onthophagus)......
detritus (Heterochelus)........
dewitzi (Parapinotus) ........
Diaplochelus) 2... nce nets
Diastellopalpus ..............
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‘Dicranocnemus ..............
dichropus (Gepitrix) ....7/...-.
dilloni (Heliocopris) ..........
dimidiata (Peritrichia)........
dimidiatus (Platychelus) ......
—————-—_ (Tragiscus) ........
dispar (Drepanocerus) ........
(OWNS) saggaccas0cnas
(Onthophagus)........
(Platychelus)...-....-.
‘disparilis (Adoretus) ..........
discoidalis (Aphodius..........
‘discolor (Platychelus) ........
discrepans (Onthophagus)

discretus (Onthophagus) ......
disseptus (Catharsius) ........
dissidens (Adoretus) ........-.
—-———-(Heterochelus) ......
—— (Heteronychus)......
‘distanti (Anomala) ..........
distincta(Peritrichia) ........
dita (Anomala) .............-
—— (Peritrichia) ............
‘ditissima (Peritrichia) ........
ditus (Anisonyx)........- piercer
(ApHOdINS) i c—e 5-\1-)-1cels
—— (Heterochelus) ..........
(Onthophagus) ........--
diversa (Pentodontoschema) ..
(Pychnoschema) ......
‘dolosus (Aphodius) .........-
dorsalis (Aphodius) ........-.
dorsata (Anomala)..........+-
Drepanocanthus ...........-+-
DrepanoceruS ......csecccccce
SDYEPANOCHITUS (2.265515 5- ous
Drepanognathus............+-
dregel (Ee halops) iss > «te xe eee
dubiosa (Eriesthis) ..........
dubiosus (Aphodius) ..........
‘dubius (Catharsius) ..........
(Macroderes) ... 202...
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egens (Heterochelus).......... 740
egenus (Heterochelus) ........ 741
egregius (Oniticellus) ........ 162
elegans (Heterochelus)........ 747
(Kulbousa) 2 jeer 802
elegantulus (Monochelus) .... 840
elizabethe (Anisonyx)........ 636
elongatus (Omocrates) ........ 780
elphenor)(Copris) ence emir 357
emarginatus (Coptochirus) .... 428
emeritus (Aphodius) .......... 382
(Ischnochelus) ...... 769
———— (Onthophagus) ...... 216
Encyophanes ...........eeeeee 802
E/pilissuis 2a0\ 0 Sec e.c.cteus pv oets « cere 95
Epirinus 270 s4ayte«saisitee eer 89, 294
LagGrly Gasdannsesngons5oo a6 662
eryx (Heliocopris) <..0..1--) o.le 322
escourtianus (Heterochelus) .. 758
euplynes (Onthophagus) ...... 268
EWP YOR. 2/0 ss a ceuelaie Gltels osye ees 619
eupyea(Bopilliia) eecmecreniecr 896
evanidus (Copris) 52... ise 350
—-— (Psammobius) ...... 446
exactor (Heterochelus)........ 761
exarata (Harmogaster)........ 422
exasperans (Adoretus) ........ 577
excavatus (Copris) ............ 364
excentrus (Platychelus) ...... ¢ 819
excisus (Coptochirus) ........ 430
exiguus (Catharsius) .......... 340
(Onthophagus)........ 215
eximius (Drepanocanthus) .... 483
exitialis (Anomala) .......... 594
exoleta (Anomala)............ 593
expansus (Dichelus) .......... 701
— (Platychelus)........ 809
F
ehoaterblh (ann Saguaodgosnoqs. 140
fallaciosus (Adoretus) ........ 569
fallax<(Aplodits)) sy ren iaeieis 417
= (Ud WON) Ao go d00005 4 666
farinosa (Pachycnemida)...... 689
fascicularis (Phoberus)........ 457
fasciatus (Anisonyx) .......... 640
fasciculatus (Sisyphus)........ 106
fastiditus (Drepanocerus)...... 113
—- (Gymnopleurus) .... 70
faunus (Heliocopris) .......... 309
~—-— (Temnorhynchus)...... 538
femoralis (Heterochelus) ...... 730
—(Pachycnema)........ 26
femorata (Gymnoloma) ...... 850
ferrugineus (Aphodius)........ 396
(Onthophagus) .... 247
festiva (Gymnoloma).......... 860
festiva (Outeniqua) .......... 860
Ai AES + COPS) Korat ere e,) ee del see 361
flagellatus (Epirinus) ........ ot
flaveolus (Adoretus) ........5% 579
flavicornis (Scarabeeus)........ 38
flavimanus (Dichelus) ........ 707

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flavipennis (Omocrates) ...... Meo?) sraba; (Pherocomia)), oo... -
flavocinctus (Phalops) ........ ola) Status: (Epirus) .5..52:--
flavolimbatus (Onthophagus) .. 211 (Monochelus))....5...
flavolineata (Physocnema) .... 679 | gravidus (Encyophanes) ....
forcipatus (Heterochelus) .... 746 —(Omorgus) ........
fornicatus (Macroderes) ...... Bess) eravis; (Chiron) ssc u.. 5...
formosus (Monochelus) ...... 835) ereeni (Macroderes)).... >...
(Oniticelilias) .. o.2.ar 164 | guttata (Peritrichia) ........
fortuitum (Bolboceras)........ 482 | guttatus (Onthophagus) ....
fortuitus (Sisyphus) .......... HOS" | “Gymnoloma; oi. 6.5. 05sln..%
foveolatus (Omorgus) ........ ARON *Gymnopleurus:. ss'easss «4. -
fraternus (Heterochelus) ...... 752 | Gyronotus ;
fraudator (Adoretus) .......... 577
fraudulenta (Pentodontoschema) 529 H
fraudulentus (Adoretus) ...... 575
-— —— (Heterochelus) .. 764 | hematiticus (Aphodius) ....
fugitivus (Aphodius) .......... 405 | hamadryas (Heliocopris) ....
—.(Onthophagus) ...... 225 | hamifer (Heliocopris) ae
Polletd as. (Owibis). oo... cic ecievein se 128 | Harmodactylus .............
fuliginosa (Hoplocnemis)...... 695 | Harmogaster ..............
funebris (Scarabzeus).......... 42 | haroldi (Onthophagus)......
furcifer (Drepanocerus) ...... 112 | harpagus (Catharsius) ......
(Onthophagus)........ DS SPACE PIMA i's wis, oietere orators’ oi of ae
furoninus (Heterochelus)...... 727 | Heliocantharus ............
fuscipes (Anomala) .......... G04 | Heliocopris: «5.205 se6c not ys
- ot UO WIGPIN) se cce' as. aps 657 | hemisphericus (Circellium) ...
fuseulus (Adoretus) .......... 573 | wheros (Catharsius) 21.25. :.. 2...
hess (Sisyplus)is.cs 0. 4-24: -
G herus (Onthophagus)........
HHTHROCHELIDES! ....%.....
galenus (Scarabeus) .......... 58 | Heterochelus ..............
gazella (Onthophagus) ........ 181 | Heteroclitopus .............
gemmatus (Onthophagus) .... 256 | Heteronychus ..............
SEMIMEUS: (AMISOIMYX) = lee aie - 638 | hilaris (Anisochelus).........
— (Onthophagus) ...... 188 | ———— (Anisonyx)..........
genialis (Aphodius) ........>.. 390 (Epis) yae ss
Sempilica WOO tMsa ers. as 4s ce 801 (ie prETI ye. 25). ames
(Ge pibeis\ sche sin} Shed: 659 | hippias (Sceliages)..........
=) (Platvelelis)\e 4.402% 5% 807 | hippocrates (Pachysoma).....
Gre OW RIE UN AM) os 50 alendience 8 AV? | haxvta, (Peritrichia)’.. 2... ....
germanus (Rhyssemus) ...... 444 | hirticeps (Aphodius).........
Sipps (EVEMOCOPTIS) i tersiso 66 0+ 315 | hirtipes (Peritrichia)........
Se OMUUIS), Suerole ale ce ois we» slate 195) | Hnirtuis (Sisyphus)) 2.2 Sas... 2.
giraffa (Onthophagus) ........ 194 | histerinus (Caccobius) .......
glaber (Onthophagus) ........ 239 | holosericeus (Dichelus)......
glaberrimus (Monochelus) .... 832 | holubi (Aphodius). ........
glabripennis (Platychelus .... 816 | Homceomorphus............
globulipennis (Copris) ........ B09) ||) HOPS: 26.20 cece eee 3 «
Gnatholabis.......... Ws Pakayee senaue GIG? le TIO TWUNGAN SB sere cess ou ae 8
sonaper (Seteroebelis))Ic-svoly es | HOPULINT ...52.605....2.00.
Gonidspidiis 26.02. sul cenes © 785 | hoplioides (Adoretus) .......
BOEVT. (SUSY PWUS)\«'s.< «scr vn ve 106 — (Hriesthis) ......
(A UUTE Sots S aneieamere tenn Oba c 861 | ————— Platychelus) ....
guttata (Hiriesthis) .......... 667 | Hoplocnemis ..............
gracilicornis (Onthophagus) .. 187 | Hoploscelis ................
gracilis (Aphodius) <......... 387 | hoplosternus (Cheironitis) ...
COTO OTS i ate foalonals\a; oben tele 350 | horridus (Pachylomera) ....
Clea A) acini is, win slates 874 (Phoberus)s. 2.5...
(Momochelus)) .... 24. 843 | hospes (Heterochelus) ......
granulatus (Aphodius) ........ 391 | hettentorum (Scarabeus) ..
—— (BIplFINS)) 4,5 66 oo 91 | hottentotus (Platychelus) ....
granulifer (Coptorhina) ...... 294 | ——_——-— (Scarabeus) ....
graphicus (Onthophagus)...... 264 | humeralis (Gymnopleurus)....

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humeralis (Ischnochelus)......
— (Knysna)
humilis (Omocrates)
(Oniticellus)
Hyboschema
HYBOSORIN Ah
Hybosorus
hyvbriday(Peritrichia)-n or
hybridus (Heterochelus)
(Onthophagus)
hylax(Eloplocmemnais)) hose:
hypocrita (Dicranocnemus)....
==) (rvesthis) spre cletets
(Kareiga)

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ictericus (Adoretus)
(Heterochelus)

Idutywa
evounmpis (CSTE N55 Gq 50nc006n
illigeri (Hybosorus)
illitus (Adoretus)
illota (Coega)
illotus (Onthophagus)
imitativa (Captorhina)
imitativus (Onthophagus)
immatura (Anomala)
immundus (Onthophagus) .
impictus (Onthophagus)
importunus (Onthophagus)....
impressicollis (Drepanocerus). .
(Onthophagus) ..
—- (Sybax)
impressus (Drepanochirus) ....
impurus (Adoretus)
==( Aphodius) ete be ee
——— (Onthophagus)
Inanda
incertus (Onthophagus)
inchoatum (Bolboceras)
inconditus (Adoretus)
incongruens (Adoretus)
(Heterochelus) ...
inconspicuus (Onthophagus) ..
incultus (Omorgus)
(Orphnus) ema. seer
indigens (Heterochelus)
indigus (Heteronychus)
(Onthophagus)........
indotatus (Heteronychus)
indubium (Bolboceras)
infernalis (Scarabeus) ........
infrictus (Heteronychus)
ingloriosa (Gymnoloma)
inglorius (Adoretus)
innuus (Onitis)
inops (Heterochelus)..........
—— (Monochelus)
—— (Onthophagus)..........
inornatus (Anisochelus)
inornatus (Heterochelus)......
iInNSidiOSUS (COPLIS) secu. o's oor

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insidiosus (Gymnopleurus) .... 69
insignis (Catharsius).......... 327
(Heterochelus) 86 (00)
(Onthophagus)........ 185
insuetus (Chetocanthus)...... 496
insulsus (Onthophagus) ...... 224
mabeser (COpris)\ ieee oe ieeier 348
intercalaris (Aphodius)........ 392
intermedius (Onthophagus).... 214
intermedius (Platychelus) .... 822

interstitialis (Onthophagus) .. 217

- (Scarabzeus) ...... 43
intricatus (Scarabeeus) ........ 33
intrusa (Anomala)............ 598
intrusus (Callistemonus) ...... 544
— (Drepanocanthus).... 434
inversidens (Onitis) .......... 147
iridescens (Aphodius) ......-. 383
isidis) (ehOcopris) ie minmieiar 318
U-{o} bk: Waraey AeMeS eA ey cen ord o olcio So 622
USO MODE GG Geode cagnoFaGa0005 622

J
japetus (Heliocopris) ........ 317
jOpas ((SCelases) eer cre tenet ele 62
jucunda (Chasme) ............ 631
jucundus (Platychelus)........ 818
— (Monochelus)........ 839
jacchusi(Copris) ici errr 308
jucundulus (Oxyomus)........ 412
jugalis (Oxyomus) ..........-. 413

K
kahilem(Adoretus) terete. eer 584
KHOI Ary tee ere 661
kirbyi (Drepanocerus) ........ 112
klugi (Coptorhina).......... 288, 289
=) (Obani) Sec catssdoouocse 128
Leh EWS soasagucucg50cubGag 669
koikoina (Hoplocnemis) ...... 693
Kubousa ......s000-: boul do 799
karrooensis (Platychelus)...... 809
NVA 0 isis eeveicce eee etme 857
BAT CU GS, 0/5 50s acsoeto tiaras Mbteehens 890

i
laceratus (Onthophagus) ..... . 236
leetams (Popillie) ie cctaeietliiete or 614
letulus (Monochelus) ........ 845
letus (Monochelus) .......... 844
levilineatus (Heteronychus) 524
levis (Scarabzeus) ..........6- 45
lanata (Anisonyx) ............ 658
lanista (Onthophagus) ........ 184
lanuginosus (Aphodius) ...... 385
laticeps (Adoretus)............ 575
(Catharsivis) ius «amie 335
Scarabsous) 5......5+3 59
laticollis (Dichelus).......:... 705
— (Drepanocerus) ...... 114

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laticornis (Copris) ............ 347 | mashunus (Adoretus) .......,
latifrons (Catharsius) ........ 339 | — (Heteronychus) ....
latipes (Dichelus) ............ 776 | ————— (Onthophagus)
latiusculus (Adoretus) ........ ot -—— (Scarabseus)........
lasiosoma (Isoplia)............ 623 | mastrucatus (Onthophagus)
leoninus (Heterochelus) ...... 748 | medioximus (Oxyomus) ......
lepidotus (Anisonyx).......... 637 | melancholicus (Catharsius) ....
lepidus (Omocrates) .......... 783 (Omorgus)
MOPAR EA cha: oi s|sicle\e oleic! se: «e's shai che 866 | melanoleucus (Adoretus) ......
TAG DUGEER wioleisis wicks ala Rusia loud Miwiel aie 654 | melanospila (Pachycnema) ....
leucopheea (Mitrophorus)...... 826 | melanurus (Platychelus) ......
leucopygus (Onthophagus) .... 187 | mendax (Omocrates)..........
lies (Hieteronyehus).......... 518 | mendicus (Dicranocnemus)....
mempus(Onitis) - s.0.526. 245 4% 137 | merus (Onthophagus) ........
limbata (Popillia) ............ 613 | mesacanthus (Copris) ........
limbatus (Aphodius) .......... 398 | metallicus (Onthophagus)
lameata(epitrix)) 22.5.2... 655 (Scarabzeus)........
lineatosuleatus (Aphodius) .... 418 | microcephalus (Sceliages)
lineola (Pachycnema) ........ Osi) Microdoris: “-ci sean...
lineolata (Gouna) ............ 862) |) Nicroplidusins siemens. ose.
EEPAFOCHIVUS, o.3.se sie 6.0 050 foe's ASH | NECTOPIUS © ciel... eocceele Seaeioness © 6 os
litigiosus (Monochelus) ...... B45) VERIO US, 5 osi5.c <rsacpetes oqsvatesers casei: s
—— (Onthophagus) ...... 249 | militaris (Oniticellus), .............
litigosus (Platychelus) ........ 815 |. —— (Scelophiysa)i ...-..-.
lituratus (Ischnochelus) ...... ae | mam us, (Amin cee ius) ae. 2 er.
Invadus: (ApMOdiUS)) ss <6: 6 3 2 398 (Eleterochelus)iiy.. 4... -
lobipes (Omocrates) .......... (82) mmator (Copris\y) sarc. 5 = <>
lonpapes (AmISOnyX)) 6.14. 4.11 635 | minutulus (Onthophagus)
(Diaplochelus) ...... 796 | minutus (Heterochelus) ......
(Eeterochelus) 2.7: .. 73a | misellus (Aphodobius) ........
LOLGILOMBUS: «6.6. creer ee 436 (COpris)w ieee aac: ak
loricatus (Onthophagus) ...... 186 (Omoerates)y.5--...
LUCANIDZ............... 1 | miserabilis (Heterochelus) ....
TEI CASNGENEAE crave feb chest asco ae DOV MAtrOpHOLUs) shits a5 ire eco as
htierda; (Anomala) <..s..<.0-- 607 | moerens (Pachycnema).........
lucidulus (Aphodids)e a... 4... aor | moestus (Aphodius) ...5..°...
——-—— (Scarabeus) ........ 35 =i (CACCODIUMS a ere e a). 3.)
cidus: (Dichelus)/s.<< cfs... 104 | modesta (luepitrix)\ic......:..
luetuosus (Dichelus).......... 102") modestus.(Copris)) 22.2... 5. ...<
ludificans (Tabora)............ 618 | ——-—-- (Gymnopleurus) ....
lugubris (Ammoecius) ........ 409 | ———-- (Omocrates) ........
— (Onthophagus) ...... 195 | ——-—— (Onthophagus)......
ingens (eterochelus)) <1... 2. fo8 | ————— (Psammobius)......
(Onthophagus) ........ 198 | ——-—— (Scarabeeus)........
lunarioides (Copris) ........ 347, 348 | monoceros (Oryctes) ..........
lupinus (Platychelus) ........ Sl@ | Monochelus 2. ja0c0s4e0- 25.4.
luridipennis (Omocrates)...... 779 | monodon (Onthophagus)......
Wurrdiiss (ErOx)) irae aero sir coe 462 | morbillosa (Pachycnema)......
lutea (Amomala): ci. ees = << 607 | morio (Mitrophorus) ..........
lutulentus (Onthophagus) .... 195 | morosa(Rabula)..............
luctuosus (Microplidus) ...... Sie |, MMematiumir ic <<... qc ..s. 7 cs
lyeeus (Circellium) ....... 2... 62 | mmiszechi (Onitis).+;..........
lyeophron. (Onitis).:.005....2.. 148 | mucronatus (Heterochelus)....
RY ASEACAMA SONI R) is: ci 5: on oot an orto ores 638 | multidentatus (Heterocerus) ..
mundus (Gymnopleurus)...,..
M muricatus (Sisyphus) ........
murina (Pachycnema) ........
MAGCKOUEFES 220.606 eee ee sie s ss 29, 898 | murinus (Aderetus)).:.<...2...
marshalli (Corythoderus)...... 450 | ——— (Heterochelus) ......
— (Heliocopris)........ 318 | musculus (Platychelus) ......
mashuna (Pychnoschema) .... 543 | macer (Copris) ..............
mashunensis (Aphodius) ...... 406 |-Macroderes ...0:..205 +0560.
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maculata (Pachycnema) ......
maculicolle (Bolboceras) ......
madagascariensis (Phocrous)

magnifica (Phenomeris) ......
major (Eopililia) eerie anes a
mandibularis (Drepanognathus)
marcellus (Catharsius) ........
marginatum (Pachysoma) ae
marginatus (Gyronotus) ......
marginella (Pachycnema) ap
marginicollis (Anomala) ......
-——-—— (Colobopterus) ..
marqueza (Rabula) ..........
mutica (Hoplocnemis) ........
muticus (Litocopris)..........

N

namaqua (Pachycnema) ......
-—— (uepitrix)) steceesnes
nana (Coptorhina) ............
NERO 6 65 Beeb OB ocd aoe ao ee c
NAMMISCUS Ty teil ieee
nanniscus (Phoberus) ........
--~———-~ (Sisyphus)..........
MENTORS Gonsodsobcoa cocoon GCOS
nasicornis (Oniticellus).........
naso (Onthophagus) ..........
nasuta (Harmogaster) ........
nasutus (Adoretus) of.)%-).1. 2 a.
(Bhoberus) ioe):
nasuus (AnisonyXxX) ............
natalensis (Cladognathus)
(Dicranocnemus)
—_——— (Drepanocerus) ....
-—_--—— (Heterochelus)......
——-——- (Mitrophorus)......
-———— (Monochelus) ......
—— (Pleurophorus) ....
neglectus (Anisochelus) ......
—— (Cylichnus) ........
nemestrinus (Catharsius)......
nemoralis (Microplus) ........
IVGOMIGIS| - are oe e wla se vie scl sa «ie
ive} opts ((OCyoiis))" Go pans occdco00
neptunus (Helocopris)........
niger (Heteronychus) ........
INDSUGIUS) | fee ue ocotaensy oo ehar oneteh enter
nigreovestita (Anomala) ......
misriceps (Adoretus)) iso. c1ets oe
nigripes (Lepitrix)
migtita (Coneella)\ cine «lcm am
(Pemibrichig)) i762 accra
nigritulus (Oniticellus)........
nigrolimbata (Pachycnema) ..
nigromaculata (Peritrichia)....
nigrosignatus (Aphodius)......
nigrovillosa (Peritrichia) ......
nirea (Pentodontoschema) ....
nitens (Platychelus) ..........
nitidicollis (Peripopillia) ......
nitidipennis (Coptorhina)......
—— (Peritrichia)......

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nitidissimus (Dichelus) ...... 708
nitidulus (Onthophagus) ...... 228
— (Rlatychelus)isa. ssn. 815
nitidus (Macroderes).......... 302
nobilitata (Chasme) .......... 631
NONZ OMA ois ew creer erste 609
INQUOCANUNIS rene terete ral tein tire ener 44]
nubiensis (Onitis) .25.2....... 142
nubilus (Heterochelus)........ 763
O
obscurepurpurea (Pachycnema) 683
oberthuri (Peripopillia) ...... 610
ebesus) (Copris)ieeyseeri ieee 352
(Onthophagus) ........ 224
obtusicolis (Onthophagus) .... 245
obtusicornis (Catharsius)...... 326
— (Coptorhina)...... 292
a (Onthophagus).... 197
ObtusuUs (EipirimUs) eee. 93
——-— (Onthophagus)........ 221
obtutus (Onthophagus)........ 230
Ochodceus crept io 505
ochraceus (Ischnochelus)...... 172
Odontoloma yu... cree 86
Omocrates: 225.5 260 sau een 776
OMOPEUS: 6.0 sie ca os es ho ee eras 452
Onthophasug! cies) ssawee cote 168
Oniticellus: sry. cic acs. oheaetenens 160
(Oph Vou Gor Bon oS Go ooe Gn 5 bo 119
Oonotus ieee cern 6
opaca (Pachylomera).......... 26
opacicollis (Anomala) ........ 607
opacula (Harmogaster)........ 424
opacus (Catharsius) .......... 338
-——— (Onthophagus) ........ 202
operosus (Heliocopris) ........ 319
opimus (Onthophagus)........ 189
optata (Coptorhina) .......... 290
optatus (Saproecius) .......... 308
optivus (Heterochelus)........ 757
— (Onthophagus)........ 255
oreopygus (Heterochelus) .... 737
orion: (Copris)is: as arenieeeaetoon 348
ornata (Gymnoloma).......... 852
ornatella (Lepitrix) .......... 659
ornatellum (Bolboceras) ...... 490
ornatissima (Lepisia) ........ 868
ornatus (Monochelus) ........ 842
orphanus (Coprig) jemi seni 350
OR PELNEN Aue ee meaner 498
OFPDDUS (eh. neni has sen ele 498
OrsilOCHuUsy cise ci solitaire 533
orbhopus (Omibis) (Giant 149
OLY CUCS mie ciectererseneeretorenn copra oe 548
oscitans (Harmodactylus) .... 371
Outeniguad civcc Haein se aeneenrs 859
ovale (Byrrhidium) , ........4«. 84
ovampoa (Anomala) .......... 601
ovampoanus (Orphnus)........ 502

ovampoensis (Adoretus) ....,. 573

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Gvatus (Adoretus) 02.5.5 982 s. 895 | phthysica (Anomala)..........
Omyonntee cies ONSEN Sete Aare 371 | picea (Pedaria) ..............
piceus (Onthophagus) ........
P picipes (Aphoditis)|...........
pUciMUs! (AGOLEGUS)) 25. ec ss = > =
pacatus (Scarabeeus) .......... 49 | picticollis (Adoretus)..........
GCMYCNEMA) | 26.53 ss ewe 671 ——— (Onitis) ............
IPAGERVONEIMENE 54 vais c)etwe tle 628) pictus (Oniticellus)) J... .5....
PACHYCNEMIGA. «<4. 66055-0085 6507) pilosa (Iuepitrix)io.3. 4... .> +
pachyglutus (Heterochelus) ido-| pilosa (Peritrichia) ..........
PaAChylOmera, |. .s 6250s ce ..0 fe 3s 26))| pilosulus (Cylichnus)..-.)..<.
pachymerus (Ischnochelus).... 773 | pilosus (Onthophagus) ........
PACHYSOMA 215 foo. ois bos Ss (Om pineiis (Anomala)\e iy... -.. ;
pallens (Oniticellus)*.......... #660) pirmal (HMiclocopris) ia... . 2. -
pallida: (Anomala) ............: 597 | pistrinaria (Peritrichia) ......
pallidipennis (Coptochirus).... 429 | placatus (Heterochelus) ......
+—-—\-(Dichelus) ...... 706 | placens (Omocrates) ..........
——--—-- (Onthophagus) .. 231 | placidus (Omocrates)..........
pandion (Catharsius) ...... 337, 899 | plagiata (Anomala) ..........
pannosum (Bolboceras)........ 489 | planatus (Oniticellus) ........
panoplus (Outhophagus) ...... 209 |~plato (Onthophagus)..........
panza (Bolboceras)..........-. 480 | platycerus (Catharsius)........

paradoxus (Omitis)......5.654. 126 | ———— (Onthophagus)

—— (Scarabeeus)........ 58 | platynotus (Dichelus) ........
———— (Venedus) ........ Sot | Platychelus «ess. a0 +60 26 = -
PALAPINOGUS!: a6 sits sim cto ees wis oes 308 | plausibile (Bolboceras) ........
parca: (Anomala)i.cc.. 0.4.0. 605 | plausibilis (Omocrates)........
parentalis (Ischnochelus)...... 768 —— (Scarabeus)........
parilis (Heterochelus) ........ 732 | plebeia (Peritrichia) ..........
parvula (Gymnoloma) ........ 856 | plebeius (Onthophagus) ......
parvulus (Ischnochelus) ...... 774 (Ose aloe G5 onco se do on
———— (Scarabzeus) ........ 347 | Pleurophorus «.....-05.......-
parumnotatus (Onthophagus).. 200 | plumbicollis (Adoretus) ......
patricius (Onthophagus) ...... 229" | plumuipes (hoima)!s... 525... ..
pauperatus (Anisonyx)........ Seoul) plutuss(Copris)) acs .ce ee oe
(oe (Heteronychus).... 523 | podagricus (Heterochelus) ....
— —— (Ischnochelus) .... 775 | politulus (Macroderes)...... 301
pauxillum (Odontoloma) ...... 87 | ponderosus (Diastellopalpus) ..
pauxillus (Omocrates) ........ 782 (Omorgus) .35. 2.
LOTTIE as bes Rn a Die MOPODUMN A, ors bys hc bien aie se oe 611
pedestris (Onthophagus) ...... 199) | poremlusc(Neonitis) S350. 5...
pellax (Onthophagus) ........ 259 | posticatum (Bolboceras) ......
peniciblatus (Tox) ss'). 0.05. 0'.. AGL | postieus (Aphodius)? .2-5..5.5 07.
Pentodontoschema ............ 525 | preestabilis (Ischnochelus) ....
peregrinus (Aphodius) ........ 401 | preestans (Onthophagus) ......
Peripopillia, pee. es GLO") preustus (Phalops) 7.........
POLttwiC hia sprees ass sees o'6) 2: 640 | proboscidea (Peritrichia) ......
perniciosus (Onthophagus) .... 197 | probativa (Anomala)..........
perplexa (Gymnoloma)........ Sa2_, |) probes (Aphodits)iaeea tes sis ss:
perplexus (Onmitis) 222254 .),4% =: 140 | probus (Onthophagus) ........
persimilis (Microplidus) ...... 879 | procerus (Aphodius) .....:....
—— — (Heterochelus)...... 744 | prodigiosus (Scarabeeus) ......
perturbator (Copris) .......... 362 | productus (Aphodius) ........
—-—— (Onitis) ........... 134 | profanus (Gymnopleurus)
IPEEACNOMERIING <5 rs oc as oo oe 619, 896 (Scarabrus) ..3.5..%
PROMOMECTIS. ...05 864. 66 os 619, 896 | proletarius (Anisonyx) ........
PNGOCHOUBH oiicis sae hr fle oes 496 | promontorii (Heterochelus)....
aap Semen cies elle een oe oe 266 (Rhyssemus)......
BHatmMOMMS yi jsiics es Seige oa ees 615 | proximus (Scarabzeus) ........
PRETOCOM A ses). k Feidcle ess es 640 | princeps (Monochelus) ........
philus(@atharsius) ......:. +. 340 | principalis (Aphodius) ........
PHONEBRUG ircras se walleye sais oes as 452 | pristinus (Macroderes) ........
Physocnema......-++++.+++.+. 671 | pruinosa (Scelophysa) .......,

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pruinosus (Heterochelus)...... 728
—-—- (Monochelus) ...... 837
puberula (Peritrichia) ........ 652
puberulus (Oxyomus) ........ 413
pubiventris (Scarabeeus) ...... 55
pudens (Onthophagus) ........ 248
pudibunda (Stenocnema)...... 671
puerilis (Ischnochelus) ...... 767
(Blatychelus)i irc ee 822
pugionatus (Platychelus) ...... 806
(Onthophagus) .... 192
pugnax (Orphnius) eee 500
pulcher (Dicranocnemus)...... 790
(Mionochelus) scr 838
pulchella (Peritrichia) ........ 650
pulicarius (Nanniscus)........ 793
pullus (Delopleurus)) tee. 296
pulverosus (Heterochelus) 761
pulverulenta (Pachycnema).... 684
pulverulentus (Dicranocnemus) 791
pulvinatus (Monochelus)...... 846
pumilionis (Copris) .......... 368
pumilus (Gyronotus).......... 85
(Microplidus) ee rr 879
puncticollis (Chirom)).< 474
(Copris) c/s 350
punctipennis (Adoretus) ...... 570
pusilla (Hriesthis)]............ 664
Gyimnoloma) gener 856
pusillus (Platychelus) ........ 820
-—-— (Onthophagus) ...... 234
pusio (Onthophagus).......... 203
Psammobius ........-.-...:. 445
Pseudocyphonistes............ 507
pteropus (Coptochirus)........ 427
Pychnoschema)...0 sss se 539
pygidiale (Odontoloma) ...... 88
pygidialis (Heterochelus)...... 738
——-— (Peritrichia) ........ 652
pylades (Catharsius) .......... 332
pygmeeus (Oxyomus).......... 412
pyramidalis (Onthophagus).... 208
pyropygus (Platychelus) ...... 510
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quadraticeps (Onthophagus) 263
quadricollis (Sisyphus) ........ 103
quadrinodosus (Onthophagus) 201
quinquedens (Diastellopalpus) 265
R
Lei WE: BE a ec Pec ORSICnaG ln ono OHO no 886
radula (Omorgus) .......... 468, 469
rangifer (Onthophagus) ...... 248
rarus (Onthophagus).......... 250
reichei (Scarabeeus) .......... 57
remipes (Heteroclitopus)...... 315
repensa (Anomala)............ 595
resplendens (Anomala)........ 603
retensus (Platychelus) ........ 815
retusus (Temnorhynchus) 535

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rhinoceros (Aphodius) ........ 402
— (Catharsius)........ 328
rhyparoides (Phoberus) ...... 456
RDYSSCMUS. -6)-(hesscheel sels escent 4492
Rhizoplatodes ........c0 aces 561
FUHUZOPIAPYS <7. sieve caseetey aetna 509
ritsemec(Copris)in ae ene ee 368
TEXOSUS (SCarabeeus) | ewe 50
robustus (Omitis\ ie eee 146
rostrata (Pachycnema)........ 686
rostratus (Scarabeeus) ........ 51
roti (Onibis) irc iyehaoe sene 150
rubricosus (Aphodius) ........ 396
rubripennis (Scarabseus) ...... 36
TUbrIpes ((Sisy plus) Meer erk 101
rugosus (Scarabeus) ........ 42
ruficornis (Hybosorus) ........ 494

rufimanus (Heterochelus) .... 745
rufipennis (Phzenomeris) ....621, 896

rufipes (Homceomorphus) 545
rufosignatus (Phalops) ........ 273
rufotestaceum (Bolboceras).... 491
ume isH( Oxp lanes) eye 503
TuUpieola; (Ue pisia) scr sete er 868
russaticeps (Anomala) ........ 608
russatus (Aphodius) .......... 394
rusticus (Omoreus) een eee 466
(Scarabzeus).. 22... ae. 46

1a OMAP OVONL 2d, P5565 66 doo4 cc 563, 895

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saga (Pachyenema) .......... 688
(Ener ocomral)reera-rrn ret 644

salisburiensis (Adoretus) ....571, 895

sapphyrinus (Onthophagus) 253
SAPLOCIUS! (js cic seenels 306, 899
Sarophorus: .. 22 shiwks% wince 277
satyrus (Heliocopris).......... 319
(SKCEWHORSUIS)) Golson cone 47
savignyi (Scarabeus) ........ 45
scabratus (Mpirinus).......... 91
scabrosus (Cheironitis) ........ 156
wae (Onthophagus) ...... 199
| Scaptocnemis ... 00.0605 odes 158
SCARABAIDA.......... 13
| SCARAB AUINGT —cuctasiemrer sym 21, 897
SCAPADIOUS 405 eer resotaieis rere 23, 897
SCOLMASES 5.5.6 :6 we einte se wr spewsuecnmyane 63
Scelophysai* .<is.. sre cuaavelere ose 863
schintzi (Pachysoma) ........ 80
sculpturatum (Odontoloma) .. 87
scutellaris (Monochelus) ...... 834
sebakuana (Anomala) ........ 606
sebakuensis (Adoretus) ....578, 895
BODASTCOS cri olecle ie cuciieo ete: 57
segregis (Pedaria) ............ 283
(Scaptocnemis) ...... 158
semiflavus (Onthophagus) 232
semihirta (Hriesthis).......... 668
semihirtus (Platychelus) ...... 820
seminulum (Onthophagus) .... 263
semivirgatus (Platychelus) .... 811

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senex -(Isehnochelus).......... ar
seniculus (Onthophagus) ...... 257
senalign(Amisonyx)) i... i. Ss 639
—— (Heterochelus) ........ 750
serenus (Aphodius) .......... 393
sericatus (Gymnopleurus) .... 74
serripes (Heterochelus)........ 764
Setosan (MepUGrixX):. . cto 5. 04 oes 658
setosus (Onthophagus) ........ 198
sexlineatus (Heterochelus) .... 723
shoensis (Onitis) .......4..% 150
signatus (Onthophagus) ...... 233
signatipennis (Pachycuemida).. 689
SUPROGES: 626 606 0s obese wc en ee 496
silphoides (Phoberus) ........ 460
simplex (Adoretus)............ 579

(Copris) - 200 fs iors tes 367
— (Goniaspidius) ........ 787
(Tha bina) i.e. eset 848
(Liparochirus) .....:.. 435

_ simplicipes (Dichelus) ........ 703
(Monochelus)...... 839

simulans (Adoretus) .....-..-. 581
(Heterochelus) ...... 747
singularis (Acanthocerodes).... 472
-—— (Pachycnema) ...... 680
-—_——— (Saproecius) ........ 307
BITSY DMUS x lave 6 sre wttis Soe ee see 937 897
smaragdinus (Anisonyx) ...... 636
(Gymnopleurus).... 75

sobrina (Hyboschema) ........ 532
solida (Anomala).........:... 594
sordidan(Eloplia)ia.¢ 5.06. 658. 892
sordidus) (Sisyphus)! ....<.... 106
sorex (Neuchestes)i... 455.2... 425
spatulipennis (Omocrates) .... 783
spectabilis (Ammeecius) ...... 410
—— (Anachalcos) ........ 83
——-——(Hoplocnemis) ...... 693
—(Macroderes) ........ 300
spheeropterus (Copris) ........ 367
Sp MitEKe(OWNGIS): vier He wba. hs « 150
spinipes (Monochelus) ........ 834
(Siswpbuis)irr:. es 3s - 104, 898
(Emilocelits)\ 7. si.55 os). 116
spinitarsis (Drepanocanthus) .. 433

splendens (Gymnopleurus).... 67

—— (Onthophagus)...... 193
splendidus (Gymnopleurus).... 67
spuria (Gymnoloma) .......... 857
———(Reritrichia) 0.0.5.) 202s 651
spurius (Heterochelus)........ 747
——w— (Syrichthodontus) .... 554

(Syrichthus)).. 2.0... 533
spurium (Bolboceras) ........ 482
squamosa (Pachycnema)...... 677
squamosus (Dicranocnemus) .. 792
squamulatus (Diaplochelus) 795

——(Dicranocnema).. 792
stabilis (Microplidus) ........ 878
stenocerus (Onthophagus) 187
SECMOCHEMA 26 sb sees ec cee 670
stercorarius (Onthophagus).... 247

Index.

stercorosum (Bolboceras)......
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stigmatica (Hriesthis)
striata (Pachycnema)
striatum (Pachysoma) ........
striatus (Ischnochelus)........
strigosa (Gymnoloma) ........
subciliatus (Psammobius) :
subcostatus (Adoretus)........
subcupratus (Gymnopleurus) ..
subextensus (Onthophagus)....
Subsidens (Copris)\iaes see. ee
subspilosus (Dichelus) ........
subsulcata (Gymnoloma)......
Sub tiliss(Biprlassis) see. ce. 1
subvittatus (Heterochelus) ....
subvittatus (Monochelus)......
subvittatus (Pharaonus) ......
suffusus (Onthophagus)........
sugillatus (Onthophagus)......
sulcatus (Ischnochelus)
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sulcicollis (Dicranocnemus) ..

(Drepanocerus) ......

(Gymnoloma) ......
— -——— (Inanda)............

(Ischnochelus)
——— (Peritrichia)
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sulcipennis (Hipirinus) ........
(Oxayomais) eer ierias
sulphureus (Heterochelus) ....
SULIA(SCALADBUS) a. 05.05 -. 5.66
suspectus (Onthophagus)......
suturalis (Gymnoloma)........
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tarsatus (Adoretus)
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Temnorhynchus
tenuicornis (Onthophagus) ....
terminatus (Aphodius)
termitophilus (Syrichthomor-

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tessulatus (Adoretus)
testaceipennis (Heterochelus)..
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tibialis (Gymnoloma)..........
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timidus (Aphodius)
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torquata (Aulonocnemis)......
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transitoria (Harmogaster) ....
transvaalensis (Anomala)......
(Diaplochelus)....
—_——__——— .(Heteronychus) ..
(Mitrophorus)
transvaalicus (Heteronychus). .
transversus (Scarabeeus) ......
triangulatus (Oniticellus)......
tricorniger (Onthophagus)
tricornutus (Catharsius) ......
tridens (Oniticellus) ..........
trimeni (Scelophysa)..........
trinodosus (Onthophagus) ....
tristis (Hieterochelus).. 2.32.22:
(EHieteronyehus) v2 tree ira:
——— (Pherocoma) ............
trituberculatus (Rhizoplatys) ..
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trogiformis (Drepanochirus)
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troglodytarum (Copris)........
troglodytes (Catharsis) ........
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truncaticornis (Onthophagus)..
trunculucus (Ischnochelus)....
tulbaghina (Peritrichia) ......
tuberculata (Pedaria) ........
tuberosus (Omorgus) ........

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uncinatus (Heterochelus)......
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ulysses (Catharsius) ..........
undulatus (Microderes)........
unguicularis (Platychelus) ....
unguiculatus (Heterochelus) ..
unicolor (Gymnopleurus)......
uniformis (Adoretus)..........
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—-- (Peritrichia) ............
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——— (Onthophagus) ..........
ustulata (Anomala) ..........
usurpator (Scarabeeus) ........

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vacivum (Bolboceras) ........
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valida (Congcellla)): .,. 0. + x. ajaate
validum (Pachysoma) ........
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vallatus (Cyphonistes) ........
vanellus (Onthophagus) ......
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variabilis (Omocrates) ........
variegata (Kriesthis) ..........
variegatus (Adoretus) ........
—-—— — (Tiniocellus) ........
variolosus (Omorgus)..........

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venusta (Kubousa) ....0... 06 801
venustulus (Onthophagus) .... 213
venustus (Heterochelus) ...... 734
verticalis (Onthophagus) ...... 222
verus (Syrichthus) si... 5... 553
vestita (Eiriesthis) ...........- 665
vestitus (Aphodius) .........- 384
versutus (Onthophagus) ...... 214
vetula (Anomala) ............ 591
viator (Heteronychus) ........ 522
=) (Scarabeeus)) 2. -l- 41
vicarius (Onthophagus)........ 23
vicina (Coptorhina) .......... 289
yalGianer) (Onan) nabgcqsoocsonase 150
victorini (Copris) ..........-. 304
vidua (Idutywa) ............-- 825
vigens (Onthophagus) ......-. 195
villosulus (Aphodobius)........ 421
Villosusi( IDiclvelis) er. terete: 7OL
vinctus (Onthophagus)........ 224
virens (Gymnopleurus)........ 76
virescens (Lepisia)..........-. 867
———— (Onthophagus )...... 228
viridicollis (Heterochelus) .... 742
— (Onthophagus) ...... 173
vaneoublhblsy ((OvoumS))" SG cogosc adds 133
virgatus (Platychelus) ........ 812
vittatus (Dichelus)............ 702
vittiferus (Heterochelus) ...... 765
vittiger (Ischnochelus)........ 753
vittigera (Blikana)............ 882
-—— (Gouna) .........4.. 863
(Gymnoloma) ...... 863
vittipennis (Anomala) ........ 603
vitulus (Catharsius) .......... 334
— (Onthophagus) ........ 220
Wollsqullblsy (( Glamor) "San soe odoodc 276
vulgatus (Coptochirus) ........ 429
vulgus (Microplidus).......... 880
vulpecula (Heterochelus) ...... 734
vulpina (Hriesthis)............ 665
vulpinus (Heterochelus) ...... 722
W
wahlbergi (Aphodius) ........ 381
——-—— (Gymnopleurus).... 68
westermanni (Onitis)........-- 129
westwoodi (Colophon) ........ 3
———-—— (Macroderes) ....302, 898
——_———— (Scarabeeus) ...... 58
wilmsi (Heteronychus)........ 516
wittel (PHalops) ceiaeGu uta sete 268
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xanthoptera (Lepitrix)........ 660
Z
zambesicola (Anomala)........ 595
zambesianus (Adoretus) ....576, 895
——————. (Onitis).......... 146
— — (Orphnus)........ 502
(Scarabzeus)...... 49
zuluanus (Dichelus) .......... 706

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