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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE

COLEOPTERA OF SOUTH AFRICA.

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L. PERINGUEY, F.E.S.,

Asfiistant Director nf the Soutli African Mui^eum.

Fam. SCAEAB.EIDiE.
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o/v? shallow cicatricose punctures nearly coalescing ; propygidium
covered with very closely set, fine, very short, somewhat irregular
folds on the w^iole 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).

Ehizoplatys bitubeeculatus, Klug,
Plate XL., fig. 32.

Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 657; Peters' Eeis., 1862, p. 253.

General appearance of the preceding species, but a little narrower,
and with the elytra more finely punctured and the striae nearly
invisible ; head as in B. trituherculatus ; the mandibles are sharply
aculeate in the outer angle of the anterior margin and very sharply /'^

dentate in the inner, the spine-like tooth being recurved ; the V?.-*

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 B. trituherculatus, 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
B. tritubcrculatus, but the four outer spines on the intermediate
and posteiior tibiae are not connate at base.

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

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls), Mozambique (Louren^o-
Marquez).

EHIZOPLATODES, n. gen.

Closely allied to Bhizoplatys, but with the shape of the mentum
and maxillae different. Mentum diagonally ampliate laterally from

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the base to a third of the length, emarginate there and sHghtly
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 ; maxillae 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 Rhizoplatys, but the mandibles are
more aculeate and produced at apex into a triangular reflexed tooth.

Ehizoplatodes castaneipennis, Bohem., .
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 27.

Rhizoplatys ambiguus, Gerst., Deck. Eeis., p. 873, p. 105, pi. 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 posterior 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

tlie 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 centres elytra elongate, somewhat plane, nearly parallel,

declivous at apex, covered with shallow, slightly cicatricose

punctures closely set, and with the striae 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
Bhizoplatis amhignns, Gerst., is identical with Boheman's B. castanci-
jpennis.

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.

Sub-Family EUTELIN^.

Ligula horny and fused with the mentum, slightly or strongly sloping
backwards ; labial palpi inserted laterally ; maxillas always robust, or
very robust, inner lobe obliterated, but showing faintly in Isoplia,
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
fringed on the base only with short dense ciliae {Adorctus, &c.),
projecting slightly or distinctly beyond the labrum which is free,
horizontal, sub-horizontal or quite vertical ; clypeus simple, not in-
cised ; genae reduced to a mere canthus ; eyes large ; antennae eight- to
ten-jointed, club tri-jointed not much developed in the African insects,
even in the male ; sci;tellum of moderate size in the South African
genera, with the exception of PhcEuoincris where it is very elongated ;
elytra covering the basal part of the propygidium and having or
not an epipleural membrane ; anterior coxae transverse, except in
Phcenovieris , and Isoplia ; mesosternum produced sometimes in a
projecting aculeate or carinate process, mesothoracic epimera more
or less projecting ; legs mostly robust, hind and intermediate tibiae
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 HopliincB, but is at
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mediate and posterior tibiae instead of one. The claws are equal
only in the genus Phcenomeris where they are also dentate under-
neath in the four anterior legs in the manner of many Melolonthinje.
With the Dynastin^e they are connected by the position of the
spiracles which is nearly similar. The foi'm of the punctate
striation on the elytra of many species of Anomala is somewhat
similar to that found in many species of Dynastixje.

Most of the South African Rutelix.e 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 Adorctus
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 PopilUa and kindred
genera, and on that account I have found a comparison of the genital
armature of the male most useful, not only for discx'iminating 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 — i.e., Phcenomeris — 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 HctcrocJiilus
of the Sub-Family Hopliin^, and, as in many of the latter, the upper
lobe of the maxillae has a pencil of hairs. This is the only instance
known to me among the RuTELiNiE.

The South African species and genei'a are divided into four Tribes.

Labrum vertical, greatly developed, antennffi 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 ; antennse 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; antennae nine-jointed; anterior coxee
transverse ; mesosternal epimera not pi'ojecting ; claws of the tarsi
often incised except the posterior ones Axomalini.

Labrum quite horizontal, continued in a line with the clypeus ;
mandibles plane ; elytra without membranaceous epipleura ;
antennte nine-jointed, anterior coxae longitudinal ; mesosternal
epimera projecting; all claws simple Isopliini.

Labrum horizontal, projecting much beyond the clypeus ; man-
dibles plane ; elytra without membranaceous epipleura ; antennae
ten-jointed, anterior coxae longitudinal ; mesosternal epimera pro-
jecting; claws of the four anterior tarsi with a curved median tooth
underneath Phcenomerini.

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Teibe ADORETINI.

Gen. ADOKETUS, Casteln.,

Hist. Natur. d. Insect., ii., 1840, p. 142.

Mentum sub-parallel or trapezoidal, deeply incised laterally near
the point of insertion of the antennae 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 ; maxillae 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 a little 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 genge for a third of the
length ; antennae 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 tibiae 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 tibiae ; claws unequal, parallel, inner one of the
anterior tarsi and outer one of the intermediate ones cleft at the
tip ; each coxae 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
tlie 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 Species.

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 (pi. li., fig. 1) capicohi.

Suture of the clypeus hardly distinct ; scutellum with only
a few punctures, hind trochanters produced into a short
spine (pi. li., fig. 2) /alliiciosit:^.

B'. Trochanters of male not spinose.

a3. Elytra not distinctly costulate.

Chestnut-red, clothed with white concolorous hairs ; f incoiinnieiia.
(pi. li., fig. 3) ] illitus.

Fuscous brown, densely clothed with white scale-like
hairs, and having on each side four i"ows of granules
bearing each a white bristle (pi. li., fig. 4) 2)uuctij)e)iiih

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

n'. 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 (pi. li., fi .5) ho})lioidiK.

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a'. 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
(pi. li., fig. 7) ictericus.

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

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, costsB very distinct
(pi. li., fig. 9) fuscians.

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

A^. Clypeus sub-parallel laterally, sub-arcuate or arcuate in front.

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 (pi. li., fig. 11) variegatus.

a'. Elytra slightly costulate.

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

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

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

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

Testaceous, with the head, two very wide patches on the
prothorax and the suture infuscate :

Clypeus short, plainly arcuate (pi. li. , fig. 15) . . . . impuru^.

Clypeus short, very little arcuate (pi. li., fig. 16) . . exasperam.

Clypeus long, plainly arcuate (pi. li., fig. 17) .. .. fraudator.

Testaceous, head brownish, closely scabrose from apex to
base, prothorax with a small, median impression; elytral
cost^E very distinct latiusculuit.

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Testaceous, slightly metallic, but darker in the median part
of the head, prothorax and dorsal part of the elytra, the
costae of which are interrupted at regular intervals by a
darker patch (pi. li., fig. 18) dixxidens.

A.\ 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 costse
very plain, and the punctures very deep and conspicuously
rugose (pi. li., fig. 19) cribmsus.

Brown, somewhat infuscate on the dorsal part of the elytra, sub-
metallic, elytra densely hairy, each costa with a tesselate row of
denser hairy patches (pi. li., fig. 20) tesfudlatiis.

Pale testaceous, with the hind part of the head only infuscate,
hind tibias fusco-ferruginous ; costules moderately raised (pi. li.,
fig. 21) hechiKiinig.

Pale testaceous, with the head, two patches on the prothorax,

and the suture and hind tarsi infuscate {])l. li., fig. 22) . . . . pkticulli'i.

\'. 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 (pi. li., fig. 23) iinjloriiis.

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
towards the anterior part pici)ius.

A". 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 (pi. li.,
fig. 24) flaveolus.

Adoketus capicola, Burm.,
Plate XLI., fig. 1.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., i., p. 472 ? .
A. testaceus, Fiihr., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 70 S •

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 metaUic 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-fom^th 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 6-6i mm.

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

Burmeister's description was made from a female example.

Adoeetus incongruens, n. spec.
Plate XLL, fig. 3.

The description of A. tcstaceus 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. ieiuiceus, 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 10-11 i mm. ; width 5^6 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury).

Adoretus fallaciosus, n. spec.

Plate XLL, 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 trochantei'S is short.

Female unknown.

Length 10 mm. ; width 5^ mm.

Hah. British Bechuanaland (Kanye).

Adoketus 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 j&nely punctulate, and the elytra are not costulate, and are
covei-ed 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 ^4. faUaciosus,
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 5|- mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban).

Adoketus punctipexms, Fahr.,

Plate XLL, fig. 4.

Insect Catfr., ii., p. 67.

Closely allied to A. teHt a con s ; 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. tcstaceus, nearly parallel, much more
obliquely truncate laterally at the tip, and more broadly emarginate
in the centre.

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

Rab. Natal (Durban), Mozambique (Lourenco-Marquez, Ama-
tongaland), Transvaal (Rustenburg), Southern Ehodesia (Zambesi
River).

Adoretus hoplioides, Boliem.,"

Plate XLI., tig. 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 9^^-10^^ mm. ; width 5-5f mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (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, n. spec.,.
Plate XLI., 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. variecjatuii, has been
erroneously printed Ericsthis in Boheman's " Insecta CaffrariEe."

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with the margins much reflexed, it is not distinctly scabrose, the
suture is obliterated, and the whole head is clothed with w^hite, 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 Ehodesia (Salisbury).

Adoretus ictekicus, Burm.,
Plate XLL, fig. 7.
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 469.
A. nigriceps, 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, cl}"peus 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 12-12^ mm. ; width 6-6^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Port EHzabeth, Port St. John, Uitenhage),
Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg).

Adoretus ovampoensis, n. spec,
Plate XLI., fig. 8.

Similar in shape, size, and colour to A. ictericus, 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 6^ mm.

Hab. Ovampoland (Evari Eiver).

Adobetus fusculus, Fahr.,

Plate XLI., 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 A. 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 ; IEE3i the clypeus in the male is rounded and not emarginate
as in A. cribrosus <? .

Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. British Bechuanaland (Kanye).

Adeoetus 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 sei'ies 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 sepai'ated by a narrow incision.

Length 9 mm. ; width 5-5^ mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe).

Adoketus vakiegatus, Bohem.,

Plate XLI., fig. 11.

Insect. Catfrar., ii., p. 113.

A. vielanolciLCHS, Paring., Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 161.
A. dccoratns, 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 oeneo-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-
aeneous transverse, glabrous ones, and there are also two or three
more white patches in the posterior supra-lateral part ; the under side
and hind tibiae 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 8^8f mm. ; width 4^ mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo, Enkeldoorn, Sebakwe).

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Adoretus laticeps, Fahr.,

Plate XLI., fig. 12.
Insect. Catfrar., ii., 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, parabohc 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. testaccus, more
parallel, incised at apex with each lobe obliquely truncate on
each side.

Length 10-11| mm. ; width 5^-5f mm.

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

Adoretus feaudulentus, n. spec,
Plate XLI., fig. 13.
Head and prothorax reddish brown, elytra testaceous red, under
side and legs testaceou's, 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 wath punctures which on the
sides and in front are very closely set and scabrose, but a Httle 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 ^4. ictericus, but it is more sinuated laterally
on the upper side, less incurved, plainly tri-dentate at the apex.

Length 11| mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. ? Southern Rhodesia.

Adoretus inconditus, n. 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 13 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Bedford).

Adoeetus zambesiaxus, n. spec,
Plate XLI., fig. 14.

Light brick-red, shiny but without a metallic tinge, clothed on the
upper surface w'ith 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 costai 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 slightly rounded outwardly.

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

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls, between the Zambesi
and the Limpopo Elvers).

Adoretus iMi'UKUs, Filhr.,

Plate XLI., fig. 15.
Insect. Caffrar., ii., 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 10-11^ mm. ; 5-6 mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

Adoketus exasperans, n. spec.
Plate XLI., fig. 16.

In colour, shape, size, and sculpture this species is so very much
like ^4. impurus 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 5f mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Fort Beaufort).

Adoretus fraudator, n. spec.
Plate XLI., 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 antennae is much
more elongate, being nearly as long as all the joints taken together,
and the shape of the genital ai'mature 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 lOJ mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hah. 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 ; prothoi'ax
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 costae 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 12i- mm. ; width 6i- mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Barberton).

Adoeetus dissidens, n. spec,
Plate XLI., 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, the 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 costae 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 tbe
upper side, parallel, straight transversely at the tip but slightly
attenuate obliquely laterally.

Length 10 mm. ; width 5^ mm.

Hah. Natal (Estcourt).

Adoretds sebakdensis, n. spec, pi. zliii., fig. 29.
Pale testaceous, the head is a little infuscate, the whole body, except the le^s, is
covered with a coatinf; of white squamose haii-s hiding; the l)ack},'round ; the hind
tavsi 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 pyj,'idium has no squamose hairs. In general
appearance it is not unlike A. cdjiicoln, but is easih' 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 9-9|- mm. ; width 4|-5^ mm.

Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Sebakwe).

Adoretus cribrosus, Har.,

Plate XLI., fig. 19.

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 dilTerent from that of both A. capicola and A. punctipennis.
Length 13 mm. ; width 6^ mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe).

Adoretus simplex, n. spec, pi. xliii., fig. 30.

Shape, size, and sculpture of A. imjmriis, 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. exaspercnis, 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 lOi mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Southern Bhodesia (Sebakwe).

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

Length 10^12 mm. ; width 5^5^ mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Harding, Frei^e).

Adoretus tessulatus, Burm.,

Plate XLI., fig. 20.

Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 2, p. 529.

A. macxdatus, Fahr., Insect. Caffr., ii., 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 costae 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. obsciirus 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
Eiver Colony (Bothaville), Natal (Estcourt), Damai'aland, Transvaal
(Potchefstroom, Rustenburg).

• Adoretus bechuanus, n. spec,

Plate XLI., fig. 21.

Pale testaceous, with the head and the hind tibiye fuscous black,^

clotlied with greyish moderately dense greyish hairs ; closely allied

to A. fraud 11 lent us and to A. Jiavcolus, but differs from the former in

having the clypeus more truncate in front, and from the second in it

Adoretus disparilis, n. spec, pi. xliii., fig. 31.

Pale testaceous, slightly metallic, and covered on the upper and under sides and
also on the lej^s 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 tliere 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 tibia; is a little
shorter than in the intermediate. The genital armature differs much from that,
of the other South African species. Length il-'.H mm. ; width 4:^-45 mm.

Hah. 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. fraud ulentus, 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 aj^ex.

Length 10^ mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. British Bechuanaland (Eamoutsa).

Adoeetus picticollis, Fjihr.,

Plate XLI., fig. 22.

Insect. Caffr., ii., 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. mijmrus ; 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. invpurus and ^4. exasperans.

Length 10-11 mm. ; width 4f-5^ mm.

Hah. Transvaal (Johannesburg, Lydenburg), Orange Eiver
Colony (Bothaville).

Adoeetus ingloeius, n. spec,
Plate XLL, 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 wath 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

Adoeetus simulans, n. spec, pi. xliii., fig. 32.

Almost similar to A. tessulatits, 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. tomnlatu^. The shape of the genital armature is
quite different from that of the latter, and closely resembles that of A. separabili.s,
a very distinct species, but the opening is much more ovate, and the apical incision
is broader, deeper, and its apical angles sharper. Length 10-11 mm. ; width
5J-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 suh-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. jncticollis,
hut 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, Ftxhr.,
Insect. Caff'r., ii., p. 73 <? .
A. nasntus, F<\hr., loc. cit., p. 72 2 .

Dark chestnut-brown, with a very distinct metallic sheen on the
upper side ; sides of pi'othorax, 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. tcstaccits, but it is a little narrower,
more parallel, and not slightly inflated laterally towards the apex.

The co-type of A. i)icinus, Fahr., is undoubtedly the male of
A. nasntus, 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 ll|-12i mm. ; width 5i-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska, Kakamas).

Adoretus cuktulus, n. spec, pi. xli., fig. 25.
.Eneous, clothed with appiessecl, dense, greyish -white sijunuiose hairs; anteniHB
testaceous, club of a" 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 costie ; 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. capkola.

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{Species ivliich I have not been able to identify.)

Adoretus atricapillus, Klug,

Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659 ; Peter's Eeis., p. 261.

"Elongate, pale testaceous, head black, clypeus short, ferruginous.

Length 4 lin.

One example from Sena. Similar to A. nigrifrons, 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, tibise and
tarsal joints are brown."

Adoretus cupreus. Arrow,
Annals and Magaz. Natur. Hist., 1899, vol. iv., p. 121.

" Elongato-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 10^-12 mm. Female.

This species has apparently some affinity with A. picinus, 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. picinus, Bohem., the
sides of the prothorax are straight as far as the middle.

Adoretus murinus, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 468.

" Fuscous, clothed with a greyish pubescence ; outer margin of the
prothorax, costae of elytra and legs paler than the background.
Length 5 lin.
Hab. South Africa ; received from Drege.

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Tolerably vivid brown, shiny on account of the sparseness of the
hairy coating and punctures. Antennae, palpi, sides of pronotum
and legs yellowish brown ; the scutellum and also the four small
costae 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 coxae wdth a narrow but long truncate
process.

Adobetus subcostatus, Klug,
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659 ; Peter's Eeis., p. 261.

" Elongate, pale testaceous, head brown, elytra rugoso-punctate,
sub-costate.

Length 4-|- 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. nigrifons) extending along the whole length
of the elytra. The tarsi ai'e brown. One example from Tette
(Mozambique)."

Adoketus tarsatus, Klug,

Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659 ; Peter's Reis., p. 260.

" Elongate, fuscous, clothed with a whitish pubescence, sides of
prothorax, pectus, abdomen, and legs pallid, tarsi ferruginous.
Length 4 lin.

Adobetus 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; antenme 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 setfb
somewhat fulvous, shining; anterior tibia; sharply tridentate. Length 14 mm.
Zambesi River.

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Elongato-ovate, the head of medium size, densely punctate every-
where on tlie upper side, rugoso-punctate in parts with raised
longitudinal stripes on the elytra. Colour pale yellowish brown ;
clypeus, palpi, antennae, and sides of the prothorax paler yellow ;
under side as w^ell 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 A. ■picinus,
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. tessullatus, Burm., = A. maculatus, Fahr.

Tribe ANOMALINI.

Key to tlie Genera.

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

MaxillaB with hooked teeth ; hind tibiffi a little narrower at the

apex than in the median part Anomala.

Maxillas without hooked teeth, hind tibiae broadly dilated at the

apex Nongoma.

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

B^. Anterior tibise 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.

B'. Anterior tibiae bi-dentate, basal tooth very sharp, apical one
curved.

a". Maxillae sharply toothed.

Clypeus rounded laterally, margins much reflexed ; club
of antennae 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 Tahora.

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a'. Maxillae not sharply toothed.

Upper lobe of maxillaj produced into a laminate process
rounded at the tip and hollowed inwardly ; clypeus not
rcflexed at the tip ; prothorax marginate all round . . Gnatholalm.

Gen. ANOMALA, Samouelle,

Ent. Usef. Compend., i., 1819, p. 191.

HeteropUa, 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 centi'e, 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 setse, the apical
margin has a few short setae, 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 ; maxillae
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. ustulata) ; but in A. nigrovestita the
upper teeth are reduced to a round lobe followed by three teeth
disposed transversely ; maxillarj' palpi moderately long, apical joint
as long as the two preceding taken together, sub-fusiform, obtuse at
the tip, and slightly impressed laterally ; antennae nine-jointed, basal
joint slender for half the lengtb, 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 genas ; 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 tlie 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 strige,
geminate in the dorsal part and separated by smooth or punctured,
round or sharp costse, the striae 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 costae 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 coxaB the anterior edges of
which as well as of the posterior ones are sharply carinate ; hind
trochanters with a lobate process ; anterior tibiae 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. nigrovestita), the female
has the claw of both the anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft ; the in-
termediate and hind tibiae 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 entii*ely 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 2^ 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. fuscij^es is the only one having a somewhat wide
range, for it occurs in the Orange Eiver Colony, in Buluwayo, and
Mazoe in Southern Ehodesia, and also in Northern Damaraland.

Key to the Species.

A-. Inner claw of the anterior tarsi somewhat slender in both
sexes.

B'*. Inner claw of the anterior tarsi onh' cleft in the male and
in the female.

P'erruginous red, elytra piceous and with a narrow red-
dish margin ; prothorax closely aciculate ; clypeus very
narrow, broadly refiexed ; intervals of elytra conspicuously
coriaceous (pi. li., fig. 26) nigrocextita.

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
antei'ior legs reddish ; prothorax indistinctly acicu-
late ; clypeus narrow, hollow, and broadly reflexed ;
intervals of elytra smooth (pi. li., fig. 27) vetnla.

<('. Whole body testaceous.
h^. Anterior tibiae tri-dentate.

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

h'. Anterior tibiee bi-dentate.

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

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

Head and clypeus shagreened ; prothorax distinctly
aciculate, and having a very faint median longitudinal
impressed line (pi. li., fig. 31) cxitudis.

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

a~. Clypeus parallel.

7)^. Colour testaceous or testaceous red.

C-. Anterior tibise bi-dentate.

Clypeus a little elongate and slightly arcuate in front ;
prothorax indistinctly aciculate laterally (pi. li.,
fig. 32) immatm-n.

Clypeus not very elongate and sub-truncate in front ;

prothorax punctulate laterally (pi. li., fig. 3.3) . . . . zamhedcola.

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

Clypeus sub-truncate in front, but with the outer angles
somewhat rounded; prothorax distinctly aciculate

(pi. li., fig. 35) tramvaalensis.

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

c'. Anterior tibiae tri-dentate.

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

bK Elytra wholly or partly piceous.

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

a\ 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 (pi. li., fig- 37) mtidata.

B'. Inner claw of anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft in the

male.

a-. Anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly.

Testaceous, clypeus very little rounded laterally ; pro-
thorax aciculate (pi. H., fig. 39) tolerata.

a'. Anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly.

Ir. Body testaceous or brick-red.

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

h\ 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 (pi. li., fig. 37) .... prohativa.
Testaceous, head infuscate; prothorax aciculate,
elytra with a triangular fuscous basal band continued
along the suture (pi. li., fig. 40) 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 costse on each elytron sub-
tectiform and smooth (pi. li. , fig. 41) dita.

Head finely rugose ; prothorax with closely set but not
deep punctures ; the three first costae on each elytron
transversely plicate ovampoa.

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 (pi. li., fig. 44) castauea.

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

Inner claw of the male moderately broad ; under side
testaceous (pi. li., tig. 42) cafra.

Inner claw of the male very broad ; under side the

colour of the elytra (pi. li., fig. 43) reaplcitdcnx.

B'. Prothorax and elytra partly or completely testaceous.

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

Head infuscate ; prothorax with a very broad discoidal
fuscous patch ; elytra costate on the dorsal part the striae
of which are fuscous and the costae testaceous ; second
interval irregularly punctured for four-tifths of the length

Head slightly infuscate, the rest of the body testaceous ;
elytra costate, second interval irregularly punctured for a
short distance only (pi. li., tig. 45)

Head and median part of the prothorax reddish brown,
metallic ; elytra somewhat short, costulate, tiavescent, and
with the second interval irregularly punctured for a quarter
of the length (pi. li., fig. 47) delagoa.

dorsatd.

jxircti.

ftixciccps.

Anomala nigrovestit.\, 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 7-7;^ mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Johannesburg).

Anomala vetula, Wiedem., •
Plate XLI., fig. 27.
Germ. Mag. Entom., iv., p. 133.

A. nitens, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., i., p. 238.

A. area, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 186.

Piceous black, very shining and with a faint metallic tinge, head
and anterior legs reddish, palpi and antennae rufescent ; prothorax
with a very narrow rufescent mai'gin, 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 sti^aight 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 naore 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 I'ow 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 13-16i- mm. ; width 7-9 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth, Graham's
Town).

Anomala bohemaxi, Fahr., n. spec,

Plate LXI., fig. 28.

Insect. Caffrar., ii., 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
antennte 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 lOi^-11^ mm. ; width 6 mm.

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

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Anomala damara, n. spec,
Plate XLI., fig. 29.

Pale brick-red, shining, palpi and antennae 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 obHterated 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 tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, inner
claw of anterior and intermediate tarsi simple in the male, cleft in
the female.

Length 13i-15 mm. ; width 8 mm.

Hah. Damaraland (Otjimbingwe).

Anomala exoleta, n. spec,

Plate XLI., fig. 30.

Pale testaceous, shining, hind tibiae 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 striae are shallow but not very rugose ; the shape is
similar to that of the two preceding species ; pygidium very closely

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punctured, not fringed with hairs ; pectus, ahdomen, and legs as in
A. damara ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, inner claw of
anterior and intermediate tarsi simple in the male, cleft in the female.

Length 15-18^ mm. ; width 8-9^ mm.

Hab. Orange River Colony (Bothaville), Mozambique (Louren90-
Marquez).

Anomala exitialis, n. spec,
Plate XLI., 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 tibiae 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 9-9^ mm.

Hah. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Middle Limpopo), Mozam-
bique (Louren90-Marquez).

Anomala immatura, Bohem.,

Plate XLL, fig. 32.

Ofvers. Vet. Ak. Forh., 1860, p. 16.

A. solidar Arrow, Trans. Entom. Soc , 1899, p. 257.

This species closely resembles .1. 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 tibise are tri-dentate but the basal tooth is very
small, whereas they are bi-dentate in A. .toUda [inutatu), Ai-ro\v, but there is no
doubt that the two species are one owing to the similarity of the genital armature.

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very different from that of the three aUied species mentioned
before.

Length 15-17 mm. ; width 7|-9i mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Griqualand West), Transvaal (Potchef-
;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. immatura, but it is a little
wider in proportion to its length, the club of the antennge 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 I'ows 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 tibiae
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 13|— 15 mm. ; width 7^-9 mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Sahsbury, Mazoe, Enkeldoorn), Ovampo-
land (Okovango Eiver).

Anomala repensa, n. 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
striae 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 .-1. zamhesicola, but that of the head, tarsi,.
and hind tibiae is the same.

Length 16-16^^ mm. ; width 9 mm.

Hah. 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 tibiae long and curved, tarsi long and
robust.

Female : Claws of the anterior and intermediate tarsi evenly
cleft, basal outer teeth of the anterior tibiae 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, Pering.,

Plate XLI., fig. 36.

Trans. Entomol. Soc, 1896, p. IGl.

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, liind and intermediate tibiae 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 retiexed, especially in the male, anterior part of the
head deeply and closely punctate ; prothorax slightly wider in the
anipliate median part than at the base, finely and closely puuctulate,
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. immacnltita, Boh.

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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 tibiae 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 Ehodesia (Salisbury).

Anomala colluta, n. spec.

Testaceous, shining, with the clypeus, the hind tibiae, 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 tibige are plainly tri-dentate, as in
A. damara; the clypeus is quite parallel laterally, as in A. immatitra,
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 striae 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 11^ mm.

Hab. Mozambique (Louren9o-Marquez).

Anomala teansvaalensis, Arr.,
Plate XLL, fig. 35.
Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., 1899, p. 258.
A. ixdlida, Fflhr. (nee Fabric, Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 60.)

Testaceous, shining, legs reddish, hind tibiae piceous red ; it has
the general appearance of A. immatura, 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 13^-14^- mm. ; width 7-8 mm.

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

Anomala ustulata, Arrow,

Plttte-J^ Lr., fig. 37 i

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 antennae 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 striae are regularly punctured, and the punctures
round and moderately deep ; the pygidium is finely coriaceous, and
the pectus is moderately densely hairy ; the anterior tibiae 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. probativa. The female
has sometimes the vs^hole of the discoidal part of the prothorax
suffused with fuscous brown.

Length 16 mtn. ; width 8 mm.

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

Anomala intbusa, n. spec,
Plate XLI., fig. 38.
Red, moderately shining, with the tibiae and the tarsi I)lack ; in
the male, however, only the outer part of the anterior tibice is black ;
clypeus truncate in front, with the outer angles broadly rounded
and the anterior margin moderately refiexed, 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
tibige bi-dentate outwardly ; inner claw of anterior and intermediate
tarsi cleft in both the sexes. In this species the three teeth of the
maxilla3 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 6^-7^ 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 Khodesia (Salisbury).

Anomala tolerata, n. spec,
Plate XLI., fig. 39.

Pale testaceous, with the clypeus mostly always slightly infuscate,
hind tibiae 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 tibiae tri-dentate in the male, bi-dentate in the female ;
inner claw of anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft in both sexes.

Length 12^-13i- mm. ; width 6-6^ mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Enkeldoorn).

Anomala probativa, n. spec,
Plate XLL, 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 striae are more or less deeply infuscate ;
clypeus broadly rounded laterally, sub-truncate in front in 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 punctui'es, 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 tibiae bi-dentate outwardly, inner claw
of the anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft ; pectus densely hairy in
the male, less so in the female.

Length 13^-15 mm. ; width 8 mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Newcastle), Transvaal (Eustenburg).

In two female examples from Eustenburg, the prothorax has the
whole of the median part fuscous.'''

Anomala phthysica, n. 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 pai't 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 tibiie bi-dentate outwai'dly, inner claw of
the anterior and intermediate tarsi not broad, and cleft in the male.
Female unknown to me.

Length 12-13 mm.; width 6-6^ mm.

* This variable species may prove to be identical with .1. ttstttluta, the armature
of the males being similar.

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Hab. British Bechuanaland (Eange), Southern Ehodesia (Sahs-
bury; between the Zambesi and the Limpopo Eivers).

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
antennse piceous red with the club of the latter fiavescent ; 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 punctui^es 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 striae 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 tibiae
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. senecjalensis, the J of
which is unknown to me ; but the costae 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.

Akomala dita, n. spec,
Plate XLL, 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 ai'ea, more conspicuous than in the
other South African species ; the three first intervals of the ely^ra^
are sub-tectiform, and more or less distinctly plicate transversely
owing to the punctures in the striae being transverse, the punctures
on the other striae 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 tibi^e 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 11-11^ mm. ; width 5|— 6 niai.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Enkeldoorn).

Anomala castanea, Ftihr.,

Plate XLI., fig. 44.

Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 61.

^^neous or reddish bronze, with the sides of the prothorax, the
pygidium, under side, and femora testaceous. Similar in shape and
size to A. ocampoa from which it differs in the very faintly aciculate
prothorax, the finer and closer punctures of the scutellum, the deeper
punctures of the striae 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 tibiae 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. ; wndth 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 green, 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 ^-1. dita, but

with the punctures rounder and less closely set on the sides ; the

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603

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 striae are much shallower and rounder, especially
on the first three dorsal ones and on the second and third intervals
the j)luri-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 tibiae 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 11-12^ mm. ; width 6-7^ mm.

Hah. Natal (Durban).

Anomala resplendens, Fahr.,

Plate XLI., fig. 43.

Insect. Caffrar., ii., 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 l^roader 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.

Hah. Natal (Frere).

Fahroeus' type is a female.

Anomala dorsata, Fa,hr.,

Plate XLI., fig. 46.
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 63.

A. vittipennis, Fahr., loc. cit., p. 64.

A. marginicollisr Arr., Ann. Magaz. Nat. Hisc, 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. mai-(jinicolUs to be a variety of the
very variable A. dorxata.

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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
infuscate, 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 latei'ally in the male, less so in the female,
vei'y 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 tibiae are
bi-dentate in the female, but have a third short basal angular
tooth in the male. .

Length lOA— 13 mm. ; width 6-7J mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (between the Zambesi and Limpopo
Elvers, Salisbury, Mazoe, Buluwayo), Transvaal (Pienaars Eiver).

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

Anomala fusciceps, Fflhr.,

Plate XLI., fig. 45.

Insect. Caffr., ii., 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 tibiae
bi-dentate outwardly in both sexes ; inner claw of anterior and
intermediate tarsi cleft, the anterior one of the male broad.

Length 10-|-13|- mm. ; width 6-6^ mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Mashonaland, Zambesi Eiver),
Northern Damaraland, Orange Eiver Colony (Bothaville).

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

Anomala delagoa, n. spec,
Plate XLI., fig. 47.

Flavescent, with the head, the discoidal part of the prothorax the
scutellum and the tibiae 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 strige,
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 10-10^ mm. ; width 5f-6 mm.

Hah. Mozambique (Louren^o-Marquez).

Anomala pakca, n. 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 striae 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
costae are not carinate, and are smooth, the punctures in the striae
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 foveae ;
pectus very little pubescent ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate ; claws of
anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft in the female, the only sex
I know.

Not unlike the female of .1. 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 Hi— 12-| mm. ; width 6-7 mm.

Hab. Southern Khodesia (Salisbury).

{Species tvhich I have not been able to identify.)

Anomala brunnea, Klug,
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659 ; Peter's Eeis., p. 259.

" Eeddish brown, head and prothorax with an aeneous sheen,
vaguely and finely punctate, elytra striato-punctate.

Length 5 lin.

One example from Tette (Mozambique). Similar to A. vctula,
Wiedem., from the Cape, but smaller and relatively naiTower. 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 brow'n-red, only
somewhat darker. The tibiae of the fore-legs are bi-dentate, the
external broader claw is cleft."

Anomala sebakdana, n. 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. prcbativa, 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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607

Anomala lucida, Klug,
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659 ; Peter's Eeis., p. 259.

" Obscurely ferruginous, with an aeneous sheen on the upper side ;
head, thorax, and scutehum with punctate impressions ; elytra striato-
punctate.

Length 4^ 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 tibiae bi-dentate ; claws
as in A. bnmnea."

Anomala lutea, Klug,
Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1885, p. 659 ; Peter's Eeis., p. 258.

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

Length 9 lin.

Very like .4. iKtllida, Fabr., only a little larger. The yellow^
colouration extends over almost the whole body, only the head,
with the exception of the antennge, the dorsal surface of the
prothorax, the suture of the elytra, their apical margin, and the
tarsi are brown ; the area between the ej^es 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-
gularly 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 tibiae bi-dentate. This
species belong to the Sub-genus Hcteroplia 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 6 mm. <y .

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 antennae 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. prohativa : inner claw of anterior and intermediate tarsi cleft in both sexes.
Length llj-llf mm. ; width 5^6 mm.
Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe).

Anomala opacicollis, n. spec.
This species is also very closely allied to A. prohativa, 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 tibiae and the tarsi
blackish ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate."

This species, which I have not been able to identify, shou^ld come
in the same group {Hoplopus) as ^4. letula, which group comprises
all the species, the male of which has the claws of the anterior and
intermediate tarsi simple.

Anomala kussaticeps, 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 tibiae
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 striae 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 distant:, Arrow,
Transact. Entom. Soc. Loud., 1899, p. 258.

" A close ally to the preceding species {A. trans valcnsis), 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 tibiae and tarsi of all the legs rufous.

Length 18 mm.

(J . Outer claws of anterior legs unequally cleft, basal teeth of the
anterior tibiae short and curved.

$ . A little larger ; outer claws of anterior and intermediate tibiae
equally cleft, basal tooth of the anterior tibiae 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 tibiae, 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 l)rieriy pubescent ; inner claw of anterior tarsi cleft in both sexes. In
one example only among the nine which 1 examined was the fuscous sutural band
of the elytra obliterated. Length 14-14^ mm. ; width 7-7^ 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 ; maxillae not dentate 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 tibiae 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 antennee, 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.

Either 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 tiaiiy ; anterior tibiae 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 12^14^ mm. ; width 7-8 mm.

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

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Gen. PEEIPOPILLIA, Kolb.,

Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1894, p. 208.

Mentum and palpi of Popillia, but the apical joint of the labial
palpi is a little elongato-ovate, and distinctly impressed outwardly ;
the maxillae ai'e armed with five sharp robust teeth, the shape of the
clypeus is that of Popillia, but the prothorax is that of Anoinakiy
and is likewise marginate all round, the scutellum is also short, but
broader than in the last-mentioned genus ; the elytra are shaped
mxjre like those of Popillia, 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

Pomllia.

^^ ^^'
Peeipopillia basalis, Blanch., \\>^*

Catal. Coll. Entomol., 1850, p. 191. :?V<v^'^
? P. nitidicollis, Klug, Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 659 ; Peter's.
Eeis., p. 259, pi. xv., fig. 6.

P. Oherthuri, 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 emargiiiate in the middle of it,
broadly I'ounded 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 costa>, which
include the sutural one, are tectiform and smooth, except tbat 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 tibiae.

Length 9:^-10 mm. ; width 5^-6 mm.

Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo, Sahsbury). 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 PopilUa bipunctata and P. major, and very closely
resemble those oi Aiioiiuda dorsata, Fiihr.

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

Gen. POPILLIA, Serv.,
Encyclop. Method, 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, aad 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 gense ; 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 to a 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 pai't 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 coxae are sharply carinate semi-
circularly on the outer part and project distinctly beyond the elytra ;
anterior tibiae bi-dentate, liut 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 ; antennae 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 i^epresentative 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, Peripopillia, has, I
think, a generic value, and is retained as such ; but the only dis-
tinction between Popillia and the genus Nannopopillia created for
Popillia minusctda, 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 Popillia, 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 tibia?.
The species of Popillia 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 ;
aeneous on the upper side with the elytra reddish yellow or pale
testaceous with a very broad discoidal black band ; intervals of elytra
plane })i-inuutatu.

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

Mesosternal process short, cuneiform ; aeneous on the upper side
with the elytra pale testaceous in the anterior part, and black in the
posterior major.

POPILLIA BIPUNCTATA, Ftlbr,,

Mantiss., Insect., i., 1787, p. 25. TfcxfijC ^ / ■ , (\. ^^

P. Unibata, Boh., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 59.

P. apicalis, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1892, p. 190.

Glabrous on the upper side ; head, prothorax, and scuteUum
coppery red, or aeneous, 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 ampliate from the middle to the
sharp basal angle, conspicuously tri-sinuate 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 ;
scuteUum 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 striae, intervals plane or nearly so, and impunctate ; propy-
gidium partly covered by the elytra, closely punctate ; pygidium
sub-scabroso-punctate ; femora hardly punctate, tibiae more so.

Length 11^-13 mm. ; width 6h-S 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 l)and ; this
latter is the P. limhata, Bohem., and any doubt as to its being
identical with P. hipunctata is at once removed by the examination
of the genital armatures of the male, which are absolutely similar.

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

POPILLIA LAETANS, U. 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 PopilUa hipunctata, 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
striaB are deeper and more deeply punctured, the intervals are plainly
costate; the basal outer tooth of the anterior tibiae 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.
hipunctata.

Length 9 J mm. ; width 5^ mm.

Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Manica).

POPILLIA 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 narx'ow sutural bronze
line, glabrous on the upper side, and with two transverse patches of

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greyish-white hairs on the hasal 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 striae 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 5^ 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.

Gen. PHAEAONUS, 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 ; maxillae 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 ; head with the canthus of the genae 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 Popillia ;
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 antennae 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., i., 1844, p. 307.

Head and prothorax bronze-green, moderately shining, under side
and legs metallic black, antennae 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
bx'oad 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 ti'ansverse 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 7-7^ mm. ; width ^h nmi.

Hah. Natal (Estcourt, Frere), Southern Rhodesia (Salisl)ury),
Cape Colony (Graham's Town).

Gen. 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 PopiUia, but the apical

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one of the labical is a little loiigev ; the maxillte are rol)USt 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 PopiUia 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 Httle 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 maxillae. Dr. G.
Kraatz, in his Monographic Revision of the RuteHd 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 metalhc 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, antennae, wdth 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 shghtly 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 striae are
deeply punctured and the intervals are plane in the dorsal part, and
impunctate ; pygidium scabroso-punctate and completely covered
with the appressed hairs ( 9 ) .

Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hah. Natal (Durban).

In 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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TABOEA, 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 Popillia, but the maxillaj
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 Gnatholahis,
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
Gnatlwlabis, 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 maxillae
are different in N. niinnscula, the only other species belonging to
Nannopopilia, and so is the shape of the clypeus.

Tabora ludificaxs, Ancey.,
Natural. Sicilian, ii., 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 ])and bottle-green or very nearly black ; under side
black, antenna) and legs brownish red ; cl}-peus very slightly Ijroader
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 Inroad, 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 pHcate ; 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 tibiae which have a metallic
sheen ; anterior tibial bi-dentate ; larger claw of intermediate tarsi of
the male not cleft.

Length 7-7^ mm. ; width 3i-4 mm.

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

Tribe PH.ENOMERIINI.

Gen. PH^NOMERIS, Hope,

Trans. Zoolog. Soc, 1825, p. 97.

Eupijga, 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 ; maxillae 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, slit
by the short canthus of the genaj above the median part ; antennae
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 sinuate 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
ti'iangular, raised smooth area, dividing conspicuously the dorsal
costae and striae 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
betw^een the intermediate cox;© ; hind femora thickened, anterior
tibiae 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 outwai'dly ; tarsi a little 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 tibiae gradually dilated from base to apex,
strongly ciliate there, almost lobate inwai'dly 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 RiiteUnce 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 MclolonthincB.

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 ceerulean, sekloin green ; prothorax and
scutellum impunctate but for a few punctures along the outer
margin of the prothorax, costie of elytra impunctate bexrkci.

Colour of the upper side green, or golden green, elytra and
pygidiuni hyaeinthine or violaceous ; prothorax and scutellum
closely punctulate ; costiii of elytra plainly punctured iiKifiiiitirn.

Ph^nomeris besckei, Mannerh.,

Bull. Mosc, 1838, i., p. 35.

Lacord. Gener. Atl., pi. xxxiii., fig. 4.

P. cyaiiea, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., ii., p. 203.

Shining metallic green or dark blue with the femora violaceous,
and occasionally reddish ; antennas black, with the exception of the
first joint, very shining, glabrous on the upper side ; head small,
clypeus mvich rounded in front, sharply marginate all round, very
rugose, posterior part of the head less rugose than the anterior ;
])iothorax 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 stria? 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 tootli underneath.

Length 17|-19i- mm. ; width 8^-9 miB.

Hab. Transvaal (Eustenburg, 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 F. 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 opaUna from UsamJDara.
He retains the variety cyanca, Blanch., for examples from Dar es
Salam. But some examples from there and also from Zanzibar,
which I saw, or I own, are nmch greener than those from the
Transvaal or Natal.

Ph^nomeris magnifica, Hope,

Trans. Zoolog. Soc, 1825, p. 98, pi. xiii., fig. 6.
? P. rufipennis, Brancs. Jahr. Ver. Trencs., xix., 1897, p. 117.

Similar in shape to P. hcsckei, 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, w4iereas in P. besckei the sinuation there is
conspicuous ; on the elytra the sharp, tectiform costaa 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. besckei.

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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Tribe I80PLIINI.

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 is impressed in the anterior part and
convex thence towards the base ; the maxillae 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 genae ; antennae 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
slightly rounded, basal part obliquely prolonged towards the
scutellum, but not angular in the centre, and narrow'er than the
elytra ; scutellum broad at the base, thence narrowed, long, shai-ply
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 aiiove 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 in-oad,
mesosternum very small ; legs moderately long, posterior femora and
tibicU robust, somewhat short, the intermediate and posterior tibiae
with two conspicuous apical spurs and with transverse ciliate rows

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on the outer side ; anterior tibiae 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 tibiae, be included in the
Hoplinice. 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 ; antennae 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 tibiae are short, very compressed, very
obliquely truncate inwardly, sharply tri-dentate outwardly ; claws,
long, slender, simple.

Length 8:^-8^ mm. ; width 4^ mm.

In general facies this species resembles a hirtose Valgus

Hah. Natal (Durban).

624 Transactions Sonth African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii.

Burmeistev 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.

Sub-Family HOPLINIIN.E.

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 {Pachycneniini)
or fused with the mentum {Hoi)liini), maxillae dentate or simple,
often with a broad membranaceous border; antennae 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
Melolonthinje ; hind tibiae without spurs or with one spur only ;
claws single or double, unequal except in the genus DicJielus, cleft
or simple, the smaller one usually pressed against the larger which
is articulated as in the Sub-Family Eutelinm; ; 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 Pachycnemixi.

Ligula horny, fused with the mentum Hopliixi.

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

A'. Labrum not vertical.

B"^. Abdomen very compressed laterally in the male.

C. Anterior tibiae tri- or quadri-dentate outwardly, the
basal teeth set at right angles with the tibia, and the
apical tooth not oblique Hcteiochelith'n.

A-. Labrum vertical or not.

B". Abdomen compressed laterally in the male.

C-. Anterior tibiae bi- or tri-dentate outwardly, the outer
teeth seldom set at right angles, and the apical one
always slanting ScelophijKidcit.

A'. Labrum vertical or not.

B". Abdomen not compressed laterally in the male.

C. .\nterior tibiae with three slanting outer teeth Hoplides.

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

In the districts of the Cape Colony where the winter rains prevail
(May-Septembei') 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 Pachycnemini are characterised
by very long and slender maxillae, 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 Anisonyx, Peritricliia, Lcpitrix. Covered
with dense, long hairs, and provided with a very narrow and elongate
clj^eus, they penetrate deep into the corolla of the flowers and emerge
■covered with pollen. The species of Paclnjcncma which, like those
of the genera above-mentioned, have no toothed maxillae and possess
a sharply acuminate clypeus, are heavier insects, in manj^ cases
scantily clothed with hairs ; they also are, however, important agents
of fertilisation. Ericsthis, Stoiocneina, and Korisaba have strongly
dentate maxillas and a shorter and broader ligula ; they are no
longer suctorial insects only, and they, like the Heterochclidcs 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 Heteroclielidcs 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 maxillae 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 Melolonthin^, 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 Monochelns, &c., of the group Scclopky sides. Among the
Pachycnemini they have reached their highest point in the genera
Pachycnema and Hoplocnemis in which the hind tibiae 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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lon^" 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 tibiaB is met with, because the species of Hoplocncmis,
in which this development has become almost a monstrosity, do not
feed on flowers, or at least have not been obsen'ed doing so. Their
habits seem to be more those of certain Dynastin^, and I suspect
them to live, while in the larval state, in the excrement deposits of
the subterranean white ant, Hodotervics viator, Latr.

In the Scelophysides this great development of the hind limbs is
less common. Certain kinds of Monochelus seem to be met w'ith
on grasses. The males of one of the largest kind, M. spinipcs, 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. natalcnsis 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 Idiiti/na
collaris and its close ally, PlatycJiclus hoplioides, which I never
found but on the gi'ound. All the species of Platychclus 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 Pachycncma.

The true Hojylides are less numerous in kind and in number.
They are more closely allied to the Madagascar representatives of
the group than to the palaearctic 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, Harpintty
Coiigella) ; Microplus and Rahula are known to be crepuscular.

The distribution of the Hopliin.k 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 Colon)',
where there is a narrow strip of country from long. 24^^ E. along
the south coast, bounded on the north by the Langebergen, and con-
tinuing northwards along the west coast, with the Drakenstein, the
OUfants 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 Hopliin^ are so characteristic.
Of the total numljer of 43 genera and 359 species, 25 genera and
236 species occur in that area. It is especially in that pai"t 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. E. 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 HoPLiiN^. 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 Pachy enema seem to be restricted to that
locality, but Anisonyx is not represented there, and the species of
this genus seem to be met with especially where the Heaths
(Ericacece) abound. They are more numerous and more varied in
the Caledon and Eiversdale, 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 Pachyciw-
mini especially represented by the genus Eriesthis ; Pachycncma has
one I'epresentative in the neighbourhood of Graham's Town, but on
the whole the suctorial Hopliin^ are rare, or never very numerous
beyond the area mentioned, but in the last-named locality we find a
very singular species of Hoplocncmis 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° East, 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 Eastern or J^]thiopian region of South
Africa. None are recorded from the Orange Eiver 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 {Diaplochelus longipcs) from Kanye in

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

If we follow the 30th parallel and compare the Hopliinjs found
in the west with those met with in the east we are immediately
sti-uck by the absence of Pachi/cneviini, except Ericsthis, the paucity
of HeterocJielides, and the great number of Scclophysidcs represented
by the species of the genus Monochelus. Not that the latter genus
is not I'epresented 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 {Outeniqua festiva) is
the only Scelophysid known to occur in Mashunaland. It seems,
however, to have a wide range, for it has been found at Lourenco-
Marquez, in the Transvaal, and British Bechuanaland.

The species of the group Hoplidcs 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 extraoi'dinary simi-
larity of the females among themselves in the group HeterocJielides
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
iifiinities of the group Hoplidcs lies with the Madagascar fauna, but
the Pachycnemini, Heterochclides, and Scclophysidcs are South
African. On the West Coast of Africa one species of Pachycncma
has, however, been described from Angola '•' as well as one Dichchis
from Pvingo Andongo, and in Eastern Africa one Ericsthis and a
DicJielus from Tabora, and also one Monochelus from the Ugueno
Mountains.

Tribe PACHYCNEMINI.

Key to the Genera.

A"". Hind legs slender, similar in both sexes.
B=. Mentum very long and narrow.

C-. Scutellum moderately rounded at the apex.

* I have so far seen two species of Pachycnemini from Damaraland. One
\Peritriclii(i lUtissiiini) differs in colouring from the other species of the genus.
Boheman records also a species of HcterochilUlcs (Dichelus fuspectu.i) from the
same part of South Africa.

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a-. Maxillae serrate.

Clypeus sub-rectangular, maxillae serrate, elytra

parallel Ghasme.

C'. Scutellum sharply triangular.

«'. . . . Maxillae 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.. Ani.'^onyx.

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 double ; elytra broader than the
pi'othorax at the base, and more or less plainly
narrowed behind Pcritricliia.

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 . . Lepitrix.

Clypeus broad, declivous, rounded in front, hind claws

single Kliohid.

A-. Hind legs of male slightly more robust than the female's.

a\ Maxillfe 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 Eriesthis.

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

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 tibiae nearly con-
nate and set at right angles with the tibiae, scutellum very
long and narrow Stenocncma.

A'. 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.

rt'. Maxillae not toothed Pachycnema.

a\ Maxillse toothed Pachycncvdda.

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 Hoplonicmis.

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Gen. CHASME, Serv.,
Encyclop. Method. 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 maxillae horny, strongly serrate inwardly and having a thick
bunch of long hairs at the apex, apical joint of the maxillary palpi
cuiTed inwardly, sub-cylindrical, not very acuminate at tip, and
nearly as long as the two preceding joints ; clypeus broader than
long. Slab-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 tibiae with an inner apical spur and two or one very
obliquely produced outer teeth ; posterior tibiae not much thickened ;
all the claws are double and unequal, the inner one in the antei'ior
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 postei'ior only the smaller and shorter claw,
which is nearly as long as the outer, is cleft.

Key to the Species.
A-. Anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly.

Elytra parallel, entirely clothed with ^,'olden 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 jncuuila.

A'. Anterior tibia; imi-dentate outwardly.

Elytra sub-parallel, entirely clothed with yellow scales in the e? ,

paler in the ?, and hardly hairy vohilitata.

Chasme decoka, \Viedem.,

Zoolog. Magaz., ii. 1, p. 94.

Cuvier's R6gn. Anim. Insect., pi. 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, genae prominent;
prothorax clothed with dense villose hairs and covered with some-
what closely set orange-yellow minnte scales ; scutellmii densely
squamose ; elytra sub-parallel, having two shallow dorsal longi-
tudinal sulci clothed with minute orange scales which cover also
the slightly raised costte, but the humeral angle is often denuded,
along the suture and the outer margin there is a series of long,
bristle-like hairs, but the whole dorsal part is hairy, the hairs on
the two costae being a little longer, stitfer, 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 tibiae sharply bi-dentate outwardly.

Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm.

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

Chasme jucunda, n. 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 tibiae clothed sparingly with
flavescent hairs ; anterior tibiae 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 G. decora ; it
is easily distinguished by the unidentate fore tibiae ; 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 6^7 mm. ; width 4-4f mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Nolloth).

Gen. 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 intei'val, 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 ; maxillae 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,
cl}"peus as long as the head, nearl}' sub-parallel, deeply eniarginate
in the centre at tip, and slightly grooved longitudinally in the median
part ; antennae ten-jointed, club as long as all the other joints ;
prothorax attenuate laterally in front and with the base arcuate ;
scutelluni 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 tibiae with an inner slender spui", 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 thev are met with in the Karroo as far

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as Beaufort West and Carnarvon. Two species only are found in the
eastern parts of the Cape Colony.

Keij to the Sijccies.

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

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

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 longlpes.

Head, prothorax, and elytra 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 ditux.

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 pa\iperatuA.

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

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 xmarcKjcHiius.

Prothorax with three, not well-detined 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 lepidotu^.

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 liilari^.

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 scales <jemmatus.

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

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 senilis.

Prothorax black ; elytra pale fulvous, narrowly inf uscate laterally,
but without any scales on the upper or under side luisiitus.

Prothorax black ; elvtra testaceous red ; no scales proletariux.

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Anisonyx ursus, Fabr.,
Syst. Entom. Append., p. 184.

Black, with the antennae 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 veiy
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 ; scutelluni 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 costae the oiiter of which
is the prolongation of the humeral callus which is veiy developed and
shai-p, 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
naiTow longitudinal bands of somewhat opaline scales which do
not extend as far as the apex ; propygidium, pygidium, abdomen,
and pectus densely villose and without §cales ; hind tibiae clothed
with long and dense black hairs ; hind tarsi testaceous red ; anterior
tibiae 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 9^-11 mm. ; width 5-5^ mm.

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

Anisonyx ignitus, Casteln.,

Plate XLIV., fig. 2.
Hist. Nat. d. Ins., ii., p. 157.

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 antennie
and legs are black, and the basal outer tooth of the anterior tibiae is
as distinct as in J. ursus, but the clypeus, instead of being parallel,
is a little ampliated laterally in the middle, somewhat shaiply

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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 tibi® are clothed with very long and
very dense black hairs, and there is only one humeral costa on each
elytron.

Length 10-10^ mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

Anisonyx longipes, Linn.,
Syst. Nat., i., 2, p. 555.

A. crinitits, Fabr., Mant. Insect., i., p. 24 ; Blanch., Cuvier's Eegne
Animal. Atl. Ins., vol. 25 bis, fig. 9.

A.fiKundus, 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 ; antenna? 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
tlian 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 tibiae 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. juciindus.

Length 9^-10 mm. ; width 4^-5 mm.

Hah. 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 l)road lateral hand, divided ohliquely
at the base by a narrow black band, and a median narrow one ; the
scales on the elyti'a 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 tibiae are densely hairy, but the hairs are
slightly light fulvous in the inner part.

Length H-9h mm. ; width 4-4^ mm.

Ilah. Cape Colony (Ceres).

Anisonyx pauperatus, n. 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. ursns, hwt it is smallei*, the
clypeus is narrower, but equally long and also incised at tip ; the
villosity is similar, and the anterior tibia ai'e more distinctly tri-
dentate.

Length 8-9^ mm. ; width 4-4f mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Carnarvon, Beaufort West, Willowmore,
Graham's Town.)

Anisonyx Elizabeths, n. spec,

Eesembles much A. 2)aui)cratus, 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. pauperatus.

Length 1\ mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

Anisonyx smaragdinus, n. spec.
Black, tarsi piceous; head and prothorax covered with long, villose
l)lack hairs intei'spersed 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 tibiae 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 4^-5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale).

Anisonyx lepidotus, Wiedem.,
Germ. Magaz., iv., p. 139.

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 tibiae, 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 8^-9 mm. ; width 4-4^ mm.

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

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

Anisonyx hilaris, n. spec.
Head and prothorax black, elytra and legs light brick-red, antennae
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, iind with the outer angles slightly reflexed ; anterior
tibicG tri-dentate, basal tooth very small, yet distinct ; posterior tibiue
villose inwardly, the villosity black.

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 4^-5f mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Worcester).

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

Anisonyx gemmeus, n. spec.

Black, witli the elytra pale testaceous ; shape and vestiture of the
preceding species, l)ut 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 tibiae rufescent, the anterior ones
with a verj' short basal tooth ; clypeus not slender, incised at tip.

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Caledon).

Anisonyx lynx, Fabr.,

Gen. Insect. Mant., p. 210.

Oliv., Entom., i., 5, p. 58, pi. Ik.. Hg. 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-detined outer marginal
band of opaline golden scales which do not extend round the apex ;
the pygidium, abdomen, pectus, and hind legs are clothed witli black
or greyish black villose hairs.

Length 9-9^ mm. ; width 4-4f mm.

Hah. This species has, so far as I know, been found only 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
w^iich 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 wdiich 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 tibise very small.

This species is evidently allied to A. gemmem, 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 9^ mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

Anisonyx nasuus, Wiedem.,

Germ. Magaz., iv., p. 140.

Guer., Menev., Icon. Eegn. Anim. Ins., pi. 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, Init 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 8-8^ mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

Anisonyx proletarius, n. spec.

Similar in shape, although a little more robust, to A. nasuus ; it is
also scaleless, 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 4-4i mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Eiversdale, Caledon, Swellendam).

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(7 have not been able to identify Die folloicing 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 3^ lin. Male.

"Somewhat shorter than A. {Pachy enema) ahdominalis, mxvowev
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 quadi-ate, 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 tibiae some-
what scaly ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, the basal tooth very small ;
hind tibiae tolerably thick, sharply edged above and below."

Burmeister gives the habitat of this species as " South-Eastern
Africa." This is doubtless a mistake, l^ecause all the other species
to which he affixes this habitat are from the western part of the
Cape Colony.

Gen. PERITEICHIA, Bunn.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, 1844, p. 46.

Pheroeoma, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Mus. Par. 1, p. 59, 1850.

Mentum of Anisonyx, but moi'e 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 ; maxillae 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
wuth scales or squamose hairs ; anterior til)iae sharply tri-dentate,
apical tooth longer than the second, and likewise curved outwardly,
basal tooth smaller than either of the otlier two, Init 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 Lepitrix. The species of Pherocovm 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. hirtiyes
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
length (Pherocoma.)

B^. Elytra sub-parallel.

Black, elytra light testaceous or ferruginous and without
scales; the two basal abdominal segments only clothed
with white scales tristis.

Prothorax with an all-round margin of fiavous 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 . . firata.

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 abdomiiialis.

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.
apical marginal band j saqa.

Prothorax with two median round black patches ; elytra red-
dish brown and having on each side seven black, roundspots mijro-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 hirtipes,

Prothorax with a margin of scales and having on the

disk two arcuate ones ; elytra with two arcuate bands or

spots; clypeus not sharply acuminate at the tip, posterior {ditiasima.

tibiiE not densely villose \dita.

A". Claw of hind tarsi single, not cleft (Pekitrichia).

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 plebeia.

C. 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 iirsus.

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

Male black and entirely clothed with black hairs ;

upper side very deeply punctate ui(]rovillo>in.

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 . . . . nitidiponiix.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, and clothed all

over with black hairs cofinata.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, and having on
each side a ring of whitish scales, body clothed with
dense greyish black hairs tidbagJnna.

B'. 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. . .. dimidiatn.

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- i cdpicola.
dium hairy i !<pnrui.

Black and clothed with black hairs pulchelhi.

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 pubcnda.

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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 pygidialia.

Male black, with the prothorax edged with white squamosa
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 phtrinarin.

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 with yellow hairs hyhrida.

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 refiexed, it is rugose and slightly
shorter than the head which is also rugose and clothed, like the
prothorax, wnth 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 sviture ; propygidium and pygidium closely punc-
tured, villose ; abdomen clothed with greyish hairs, pectus with
black ones ; legs piceous, anterior tibiae sub-rufescent, tri-dentate
outwardly but with the intermediate and basal teeth set close to one
another, and occasionally sub-connate.

Length 8|^-9 mm. ; width 6 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Caledon).

Peritrichia (Pherocoma) grata, n, 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, grejnsh hairs ; the
head and prothorax are clothed with long, black villose hairs, and the
shape of the clypeus is similar to that of P. ahdominalis, but the
elytra are slightly more parallel ; legs as in the preceding species.

Male unknown.

Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Eiversdale).

Pebitrichia (Pherocoma) abdominalis, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., 1850, p. 59.

Black, with the anterior tibiae and the tarsi reddish ; head and
prothorax clothed with dense, villose !)lack hairs ; elytra black, but
occasionally piceous-brown laterally, not scaly in the male, l)ut
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 ; eh'tra somewhat
distinctly bi-costate on each side, and having three distinct intervals
on each side, they are closely punctate and clothed wdth 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 tibiae not very densely
\'illose ; 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 eh'tra.

Length 9i-10 nun. ; width 5|-6 mm.

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

Peritrichia (Pherccojia) S.A.GA, n. spec.

Black, with the elytra light chestnut-])rown, 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 7-J~10 mm. ; width 4-|— 5^ 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 live 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 7-| mm. ; width 4^ 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 tibiae with squamose appressed white hairs in
both sexes ; legs black, hind claws double.

Length 6i— 7 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

Peeiteichia hietipes, Pering.,
Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. iii., pt. ii., 1885, p. 92.

Black, with the elytra piceous, or sometimes piceous-red ; clj^eus
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 tibiae 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, n. 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 6-7-i- mm. ; width 4-4^ 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. ditissima, 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, w4iich have a border of white scales, are
two transverse, non-interrupted bands of whitish scales ; pygidium
and abdomen scaly-white.

Length 6 mm. ; width 3J-3|^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon), Damaraland.

Peritrichia plebeia, n. 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 maculae 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 tibiae 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. ahdominalis, but is easily distinguished by
having only one simple claw on the posterior legs. Unlike P. ahdo-
minalis, it is the male which in this case has scales.

Length 8i-9i mm. ; width 5-5i mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam).

Peritkichia ursus, Oliv.,
Entom., i., 5, p. 58, pi. 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, gi'eyish in the female ; abdomen
densely villose in both sexes, the villosity greyish white ; pectus,
femora and tibiie, except the anterior ones, very densely villose ; legs
piceous-red, posterior tibiae black ; there is very little difference
between the sexes, but the hind tibiae 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).

Peritkichia nigrita, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 60.
P. cinerea, Oliv., Ent., i., 5, p. 57, pi. 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.

Hah. 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 refiexed 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. ; wadth 4^ 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 wdth a few^er 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 tibiae very villose ; claws of posterior legs single and
simple.

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

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

Peritrichia cognata, n. 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 wdth the elytra
brownish red and occasionally infuscate along the apical margin ;

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clypeus shai'ply 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 wuth 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 8-8^ mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Tulbagh, Kiversdale).

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 prothox-ax 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 elytx'a, 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 w4iich 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 Ijunch of white ones ; this
villosity, however, is concolorous in the female ; claws of hind legs
single, simple.

Length 6-8^ mm. ; width 3i-4f mm.

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

Peritrichia pulchella, n. 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,
simple.

Length 7i— 8 mm. ; width 4-^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

Peeitkichia capicola, Fabr.,
Syst. Eleuth., ii., p. 179.

P. hirta, Fabr., Syst. Eleuth., ii., p. 134.

P. inlosa, Fabr., Syst. Eleuth., h., p. 134.

P. iwohoscidea, Oliv., Ent., i., 5, p. 59, pi. viii., fig. 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
sligbtly fiavescent 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 7|-9| mm. ; width 4i-5^ mm.

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

Peritrichja spuria, n. 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 7i-8 mm. ; width 4-4t mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Willowmore, Port Elizabeth, Graham's
Town, Knysna).

Peritrichia puberula, n. spec.

Black, with the elytra hght fulvous and the suture and the outer
margins slightly infuscate ; 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 covei'ing 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 3^ mm.

Hah. 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 refiexed ; 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 propygidiura 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 8^-10 mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorn, WiUowmore).

Peritrichia pistrinaria, Pering.,
Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. iv., pt. ii., 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 stitfer 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 8-9^ mm. ; width 5-5 J mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam, Namaqualand).

Peritrichia hybrida, n. 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, plightly 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 hah-s yellow on the sides, but whitish in the middle ; legs
piceous, briefly villose ; claws of hind legs simple, single.

Length 6^-7 mm. ; width 4-4^ mm.

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

Gen. LEPITKIX, Serv.,
Encyclop. M6th., 1825, x., p. .381.

Mentum comparatively short and Inroad, broader than long, lobes
of lignla 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 maxillae simple, broadly triangular inwardly
and fasciculate, but produced at apex into a narrow, elongate, mem-
branaceous process which is densely fasciculate at tip ; clj^eus 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 l)road, 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 pygidiura, the
latter is triangular, vertical in the male, sloping in the female ; the
legs are slender, the tarsi long ; the anterior tibias 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 uiiddle, and the outer one is much shorter there and
slit^htly 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
a,nd the pygidiuni are scaly, but not the abdomen.

Key to the Species.
A=. Claw of hind tarsi simple.

Piothoi'ax 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
apex Ihieata.

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

Prothorax with a narrow marginal band of .appi'essed yellow

hairs, but without discoidal bands ; elytra without scaly band. . >uunaqita.

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 ><ti()ina.

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

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 setosa.

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. . pilosa.

A". 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 oniatella.

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 (jentiUs.

Prothorax and elytra without scales, except for a few remote

ones at the apex of the latter; pygidium scaly ranthoptera.

Prothorax without scales; elytra with a juxta-sutural band of

not closely set black scales ; pygidium without scales . . . . dichropus.

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

L. quadrata, de Geer., Mem. Ins., vii., p. 645, pi. xlviii., fig. 10.

L. thoracica, Thunb., Mem. Acad. Petersb., 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 antennae are rufescent, and the colour of
the scales is deeper yellow in the male than in the female ; head
villose but not on the clj-peus which is broad, sub-parallel, but
slightly sinuate laterally at base with the outer angles rounded, and
very slightly sinuate at apex ; the mai-gins are sharply reflexed, the
anterior part is somewhat excavate and smooth and the posterior as
well as ths 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 tibiae distinctly tri-dentate outwardly, hind tibige similar in
both sexes ; hind claws single, simple.

Length 9-9|- mm. ; width 5^ mm.

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

Lepitrix modesta, n. 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 L. 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 Q-Q\ mm. ; width 4^ mm.

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

Lepitrix namaqua, n. 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,
hut the pygidial part and the abdomen are clothed with dense
yellowish white ones.

Length 8-8^ mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Nolloth).

Lepitrix stigma, de Geer,
Mem. Insect., vii., p. 645, pi. Ixxxiv., fig. 9.
? L.fuscipes, Thunb., M6m. Acad. Petersb., 1818, vi., p. 445.
L. nigripes, Fabr., Spec. Ins., i., p. 49 ; Oliv., Ent., 1, 6, p. 67,
pl. ix., fig. 85.

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 4|— 5|^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Caledon, Malmesbury, George,
Worcester).

Lepitrix hilaris, n. spec.

Facies, sculpture and vestiture of L. stigma, 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 L. 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.

Hah. 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 or slightly flavescent, but mixed with
appressed sub-squamose ones which are a little more squamosa 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-fiavescent
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
vfith 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 Anisonyx, but which, I think, is only a form of transition of Lepitrix
with Peritrichia ; claws of hind legs simple, single.

Length 5i— 6 ram. ; width 3 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Graham's Town).

Lepitrix pilosa, Bohem.,
Insect. Caifr., ii., p. 144.

{Anisonyx) lanata, Bohem., 1. c, p. 145.

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 tibise are
rufescent. In the examples in which the hairs on the upper side are
whitish grey, the elytra have no marginal or sutui'al infuscate band.

Length 5-5^ mm. ; width 2f-3 mm.

This pretty little species is as much an Anisonj/x as a Lcjntrix,
but the shape of the elytra is not sub-parallel as in the former. It
somewhat resembles Pachycnevui abdominalis, but is very nnich
.smaller.

Hah. Natal (Durl)an) ; Transvaal (Klerksdorp).

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Lepitrix ornatella, n. spec.

Black, prothorax distinctly marginate all round with scales and
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 bail's ; abdomen
clothed with light fulvovis hairs, but having no scales ; the clypeus
is slightly attenuate obliquely 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 tibiae 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.

Hah. 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 tibiae piceous-red, third basal outer tooth hardly dis-
tinct ; hind claw double.

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In the examples from Worcester the hands and patches of scales
are not so well defined in the anterior part as in those from Namaqiia-
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 7^-9 mm. ; width 4^4f mm.

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

Lepiteix xanthoptera, Burni.,
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 ol)literated in the rounded apical part ; pygidium and pro-
pygidium covered with somewhat flavescent scales ; under side
clothed with squamulose white hairs and a grejdsh-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 haii's ; 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.

Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

Lepitrix dichropus, Blanch.,
Cat. CoU. 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
slightly 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 tibye sul)-rufescent, distinctly tri-dentate ; hind claws double.

Length 8-9 mm. ; with 4f-5 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

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KHOINA, n. gen.
Buccal 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
propygidiuni is left uncovered by the elytra ; the anterior tibiae 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 propygidiuni and also along the abdominal
segment with white appressed hairs ; posterior tarsi simple . . . . hi-lnteralii'.

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

Khoina bi-lateralis, Thunb.,

Mem. Acad. Petersb., 1818, vi., p. 446.

K. ahbreviata, Guer,, Icon. Eegn. Anim. Ins., pi. xxv. bis, lig. 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,
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and much rounded laterally ; legs piceous or piceous-red, anterior
tibiae bi-dentate, posterior normal.

Length 6-6^ mm. ; width 4-4^ nun.

Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, ^Yorcester,
Port Elizabeth).

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

Khoina PLUMii'ES, 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 tibitc with two long outer teeth,
posterior tarsi set all round with long brushes of dense black hairs.

Length 8 mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (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
Coleopteres," vol. iii., 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 ;
maxilla! 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 {E. pusilla) there is no tooth at all, last joint of labial
palpi slightly fusiform and truncate at tip ; clj'peus 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 move sharply dentate, and
more deeply emai'ginate at tip in the female (^vuljnna, vcst/ita, 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. stiymatica, 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 E. vuljnna, and the hind tibise 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 maxillae of which are not pluridentate.

In all the species but one, E. vulpina, which is a transition form
between Lepitrix and Eriesthis, 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 Eriesthis be greatly misleading,
because, with the exception of E. vuljnna, 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 -Eastern
parts of the Colony, in Natal, and in the Transvaal. I have seen
an example alleged to have been collected on the Zambezi Kiver by
Dr. Bradshaw, but this habitat requires confirmation.

Key to the Species.

A3. Maxillae without tooth.

Head, prothorax and elytra clothed with dense, erect, greyish hairs ;
elytra with interspersed and contiguous, thick, squamose fiavous
appressed hairs pustilla.

A^. Maxillae with one basal tooth.

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

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Maxillae with a very briefly trifid basal tooth, elytra clothed with
appressed, sub-squamiform yellow hairs veitita.

Maxillae with a simple, basal tooth ; elytra with a marginal band
and two transverse discoidal ones formed by small, yellow
scales fallax.

Maxillae with a tritid basal tooth but having numerous hooked
cilise above it ; elytra covered with orange-yellow scales and
having two transverse rows of brown spots on each side .. .. stigiiiatica.

A\ Maxillae pluri-dentate.

Maxillae 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 ijttttata.

Maxillae with three short, briefly bifid teeth ; elytra covered with
appressed sub-squamose yellow hairs interspersed with black
hairs, but forming no design diihio.-<(i.

Maxillae with three long, claw-like teeth the basal one of which is
slightly bifid ; elyti'a clothed with very dense flavous squamosa
hairs having on each side two somewhat denuded patches . . . . hypocritu.

Maxillae 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 xemUnrla.

Maxillae 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
on each side decora.

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 tibiae tri-dentate.

This species is intermediate in form between Eriesthis and

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

Length 5^-6 mm. ; width 3|-4 mm.

Hab. Orange Eiver 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 l)lack 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 tibiae bi-
dentate, but with the basal tooth often nearly obliterated in the
female.

Length 6-7^ mm. ; width 3f-4i mm.

This species is easily recognised by the absence of scales.

Hah. 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 ilavescent 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 tibiae very small in the male, more distinct in the female ;
legs piceous, tarsi piceous-red.

Length 6-^-7 mm. ; width 4-4^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (East London) ; Natal (iMaritzhurg, New-
castle) ; Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

Eriesthis f.\llax, 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 fiavescent 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 fiavescent 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 pygidiuni clothed
with lemon oi- orange-yellow squamose hairs, which turn to white
and are not so squamose on the abdomen.

This species resembles very much E. 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 E. (juttata, and the
maxillae are very different.

Length 6-6^ 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.

Hah. 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 ; al)domen scaly in the male, hairy in the female ;
anterior tibiae 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 ; maxillae with a
triiid basal tooth, but having numerous hooked bristles above it.

Length 8-9-|- mm. ; width 5-6 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Calitzdorp, Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage
Graham's Town, Seymour).

Ebiesthis guttata, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 51.

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 tibiae strongly tri-dentate ; claws of hind
legs double ; clypeus not acuminate and hardly sinuate at tip.

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

Hah. Natal (Umvoti, Durban) ; Cape Colony (Pondoland) ;
Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls).

Eriesthis 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 ; maxillae armed with three short, briefly bifid teeth.

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

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

Length 6-7 mm. ; width 3f-4^ mm.

Hah. ? Natal (exact locality unknown).

Ekiesthis hypocbita, n. spec.

Black, with the elytra somewhat rufescent, covered on the head
and prothorax with pale yellow haii's which are dense, hut 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 hetter 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 ; maxillae with three long, claw-like teeth, the basal one of which
is bifid ; anterior tibias 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.

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

Ebiesthis 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 tibiae tri-dentate ; maxilla; armed with five claw-
like teeth ; claws of hind legs double.

Length 8 mm. ; width 4^ 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 ; maxillge armed with four short
teeth, the apical and basal of which are bifid ; inner claw of hind
legs small.

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

Length 8^-9i- mm. ; width 5-5f mm.

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

KOEISABA, n. gen.

Mentum narrow, elongate, oblong in the posterior part, a httle
narrowed in the anterior, slightly emarginate at tip, lobes of ligula
broad ; upper lobe of maxillae 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 M^here 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 l>road, vertical ; anterior tibiae 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 tibiae of the male are moderately
robust but not thicker than the thigh.

KOEISABA AMABILIS, n. SpSC.

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 latei'ally,
very sharply tri-dentate at the apex, the three teeth of equal size and
reflexed ; prothorax deeply and somewhat closely punctured, the
punctures not scabrose ; scutellum clothed wdth 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 b\ mm. ; width 3^ mm.

Hah. 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 Drege.

Gen. STENOCNEMA, Burm.,

Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 66.

Mentum moderately ampliated laterally in the median part, a little
attenuated l)ut not much constricted towards the apex which is
straight, ligula very short, the lobes quite lateral ; lobe of maxillae
glabrous, not penicillate at the top, armed inwardly with five very
strong teeth and five or six hooked stiff ciliae ; apical joints of labial
and maxillary palpi sub-cylindrical ; head triangular and with the
clypeus deeply emarginated in front and the angles dentiform and
reflexed ; prothorax obliquely attenuate in the antei'ior part for one-
third of the length, straight from there and with the base arcuate ;
scutellum very long and narrow ; elytra ampliated neai- the humeral
part, attenuated from there towards the apex ; propygidium wide,
pygidium vertical ; anterior legs without apical spur, anterior tibiae
strongly tri-dentate, the three teeth are set at right angles, but the
apical one is a little more slender than the other two which are very

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broad at the base and slightly connate there ; intermediate and
posterior tibiae with a distinct apical spur; hind femora and hind
tibiae 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 Eviesthis. The
shape of the outer teeth of the anterior tibiaj is similar to that of
some species of the former, but the hind legs are as in Eviesthis.

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 liavescent
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 7-8^ mm. ; width 4f-5^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Graham's Town),

Gen. pachycnema, Serville,

Encyclop. Method., x., 1825, p. 375.

Physociiema, Burm.

Mentum very long, oblongo-ovate but attenuated towards the tip

which is rounded, ligula long, bi-lobate, lobes very diverging ; upper

lobe of maxillae 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 ; clj^Deus 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 fi'ont, hase marginate, somewhat arcuate, hasal angles sharp ;
scutellum triangular, moderately long, or long ; elytra hroader 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 tibiae 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 tibiae greatly developed, especially
in the male ; apex of posterior tibiae 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 Inroad ; trochanters of posterior legs strongly developed and
occasionally spinose.

The genus can be divided into two groups.

In the first, the posterior legs of the male, especially tlie 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. calcaratiis)."' 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 tibiae
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 palpi is
cylindrical and curves outwardly from the l)ase to the median part.

Some species of this second group occur in the Eastern Provinces
of the Cape Colony.

Key to the Species.

A'. Posterior tibiae of males very much ampliated ; joints of tarsi
short, fused.

B-. Anterior tibiae 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 tibite 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 costse,
intervals filled with closely set sub-fiavescent scales . . -striata.

B'. Anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly.

C''. The three teeth quite apical and strongly connate.

Elytra clothed with dense cinerous scales, but having

on each side three small denuded patches melanospila.

C3. The three teeth long and sharp, nearly equidistant
but with the two apical ones slightly carinate at the
base.

D=. Posterior tibias somewhat scooped and dentate
inwardly, i^roduced on each side of the apex
into a distinct dentate process ; clypeus dentate
laterally.

Elytra with somewhat closely set whitish
scales ; costos and intervals set with short
decumbent bristles ; fifth joint of hind tarsi
with a strong median tooth squamosa.

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 morhillosa.

D'. Posterior tibias broadly dilated inwardly ; clypeus
not dentate laterally.

C=. The two apical teeth connate at base and set at a
great distance from the basal one.

D^. Hind tibiae very swollen, dentate inwardly.

Elytra red and with a juxta-sutural and a
marginal white band ; hind tibiee 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 calcarata.

Elytra brown and with three distinct white
or yellow bands on each side ; pygidium with-
out any black band ; hind tibiffi 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 jlacolineata.

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Elytra black, sprinkled with elongated, not
dense, white scales ; posterior tibiae 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
apical spur liingularis.

D". Posterior tibiae 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.

C. 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 ; tibiae black in the male . . . . obxcurejyurpurea^

Elytra red in the male, and having on each side
three non-interrupted white bands hardly reaching
as far as the apex ; tibiffi red in the male alternans.

Elytra reddish brown, sprinkled irregularly with
somewhat dense whitish scales ; tibiae black in
the male pKh-eraZeiita.

A'. Posterior tibiae 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
setae along the suture ; pygidium covered with white
scales moerens.

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 roKtrata.

Elytra pale testaceous and having a marginal and a
sutural black band, and a narrow line of white scales on
the rounded, apical margin abdoininalig.

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B^. Pygidium with a b<asal 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 j)atch nainaqua.

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 saga.

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 lineola.

Pachycnema striata, Burm.,

Plate XLII., fig. 8; Plate XLIV., figs. 4, 4a.

Handb. d. Entom., iv., 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 costae, 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 tibiae
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 tibia 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
tibiae 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 10^11^ mm. ; width 7-8 mm.

Hah. 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 ; clj'peus
very acuminate, l)i-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
blackisli, 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 tibiae 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 joint 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 tibiae 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 tibiae 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 tibiae 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, l)ut much less so than in the male, and simple,
and the body is much more parallel.

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 6-7 mm.

Ilab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand, Clanwilham).

Pachycnema morbillosa, Burm.,

Plate XLII., fig 10.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 58.

Head and prothorax black, clothed wdth dense, long black hairs
and having w^hite 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 tibiae 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 legs are simple and normal.

Length 8-10 mm. ; width 5^-7 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

Pachycnema (Physocnema) calcarata, Burm.,

Plate XLIL, fig. 12.

Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 65.

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

reaching from the base to two-thirds of the length, and a supra-

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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 tibiae
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 tibiae are
enormously swollen and have inwardly a sub-apical short tooth
situated close to and connate wdth 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 8f-9|- mm. ; width 5^6 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 antei'ior max'gin ; 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 tibiae 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 tibije 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 sinuate 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 5^-7 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

Pachycnema singularis, n. 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, broadly, 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 tibias 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 tibiae 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 tibiae not swollen and simple.

Length Si mm. ; width 5-5f mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Caledon).

Pachycnema mueina, 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 ; elyti-a 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, appi^essed black tomentum ; pygidium and abdomen
clothed with yellow scales ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, the two apical
teeth connate at base, the basal one stronger and somewhat remote ;
posterior femora swollen, simple, hind tibiae also simple, equally
swollen, and a little constricted at apex, inner spur distinct ; the four
basal joints of anterior tibiae 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
Drege 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 Drege's
collection.

Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

Pachycnema alternans, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 61. 1844.

Head and protliorax l)lack, elytra and hind tibiae 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 clotlied 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
tibige 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 tibiae are very swollen but narrow^er 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 9-10^ mm. ; width 6i-7| mm.

Hah. Cape Colony — locality unknown.

My examples w^ere collected by Drege.

Pachycnema obscurepuepueea, De Geer,
Mem. Ins., vii., p. 646, pi. xlviii., fig

't"' ?W. xur, ftV^ ■

P. maculata, Fab., Syst. Entom., i., 2, p. 123.

P. crassipes, Fab., Syst. Entom. Append., p. 813.

P. crassipes, Oliv., Ent., i., 6, p. 68, pi. vii., fig. 62.

P. crassipes, Lacord., Atlas, pi. xxix., fig. 1.

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 tibiae 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 tibiae are similar, but the fifth joint
is tri-dentate underneath.

Length 8^-9 mm. ; 5^-6 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Clan\Yilliam).

The habitat of this species does not seem to extend much beyond
the Cape District, but I have received it also from Clanwilliam.

Pachycnema pulvebulenta, 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, as a rule, black, but I have
occasionally seen some small males with red legs ; there ai'e no scales
on the prothorax, along the outer margin, or on the disk which has a
much deeper median furrow than in P. obscurepurjnirea ; 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 ai'e not so closely set, and do not form a band, except
at the rounded apical part ; under side and legs as in P. obscure-
purpurca.

Length 8^-9 mm. ; width 5|— 6 mm.

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

Pachycnema marginella, Fabric, , .\ a- \L
Syst.Entom.,i.,2,p.l78. f^.^« ^^""^'^■^'

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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685

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 tibiae 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 9-10^ mm. ; width 6-6^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Port Elizabeth).

Pachycnema moerens, n. spec.

This species greatly resembles P. marginclla, 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.

Hah. Cape Colony (Caledon, Eiversdale).

Pachycnema tibialis, Oliv.,
Entom., i., 5, p. 83, pi. x., fig. 118.

Shape and sculpture of P. marginclla 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, Burni. ,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 61.

?\a^tXLu.,-^.-^-M-

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 thi-ee, 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 tibiae 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 tibiae nearly equi-distant but with the apical one smaller
than the intermediate and the basal ones ; hind femora not much
thickened in the male ; tibiae 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 5^—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 l)ristly, in the female, however, the whole surface is
covered with bristly hairs ; hind legs as in the preceding species,
but the fifth joint of the tarsi is more seiTulate beneath in the
male.

Length 10-11 mm. ; width G-6i mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

Pachycxema saga, n, spec.

Intermediate in form between P. naniaqna and P. Uncola ; it is 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 costs ; the liead 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 5^-6 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester).

Pachycnema abdominalis, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 1099.

Anisonyx ahdominalis, loc. cit.

P. nicjro-limhata, Paring., Trans. S. A. Philos. Soc, vol. iv., 1888,
pt. 2, p. 102.

Black, clothed on the head, prothorax, and scutellum with long,
black liairs 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
nari'ow line of silvei*y-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 tibiae strongly
tri-dentate ; the teeth are equi-distant, the apical one is longer than
the intermediate ; the anterior tibiae 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 4^5 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.

Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

PACHYCNEMIDA, n. gen

Shape and facies of Pachycnema, but the upper lobe of the
maxillae 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./f: IC-
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 66.
Pachycnema farinosa, Pering., Trans. S. 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,

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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, clj'peus
short, parallel, dentate on each side at tip ; prothorax gradually
attenuate laterally from the base to the anterior angle, not gi'ooved
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 tibiae 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 tibiae obliterated, the other three fused, but with
three short teeth underneath, last joint 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 10-10^ mm. ; width 6-6i nnn.

Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

I found my examples on grasses, not in flowers like the other
species of Pachycncma.

Gen. 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 maxillae 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 shai-p, vertical teeth ;
head with a frontal tubercle or not ; prothorax longer than broad,
or vice versa, slightly rounded laterally, narrower than the elytra
which are somewhat ampliate laterally below the humeral part,
gradually 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 tibiae strongly tri-dentate, the teeth about equi-
distant ; posterior femora and tibiae 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. arviata 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 limp, and in the act of
being di'agged by ants to their nests.

The genus is strictly South African, and seems to be restricted to
the Cape Colony ; it includes eight species.

Keij to the Species.

A-. Posterior tibiae 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 . . . . hylax.

Head with a non-bifid frontal tubercle spectahilig.

Head without a frontal tubercle koikoina.

B'. Prothorax not deeply grooved in the centre.
a-. Head with a small tubercle.

Apical inner part of posterior tibite slightly produced into

a short process tri-dentate at tip, hind femora simple . . aiirirentris.

Apical inner part of posterior tibias produced into a long

process tri-dentate at tip, hind femora dentate tinnata.

a\ Head without tubercle.

Apical inner part of posterior tibiae moderately long,

bifid at tip and strongly tri-dentate on each side.. .. mutira.

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A'. Posterior tibiae without a terminal spur.

Prothorax with a tubercle on the anterior margin ; posterior tibiae
very convex and produced on each side into a very long process,
the upper sharply spinose and the other blunt, quadri-dentate . . crassipcf.

Prothorax without tubercle ; posterior tibiae scooped out hori-
zontally at the tip, bi-spinose inwardly and with a bitid process
trongly serrate outwardly fiilipiitoan.

HoPLOCNEMis HYLAX, Fabric,

Plate XLII., fig. 2.
Syst. Entom. Append., p. 817.

Oliv., Entomol., i., 3, p. 50, pi. xi., fig. 95 a-h.

Lacordaire, Atlas, pi. xxix., fig. 4a.
Male : Head, prothorax, and legs piceous brown ; elytra cherry-
red ; head very rugose, sharply carinate latei'ally, 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 glabi-ous on the upper side, and
covered wuth 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 tibia? 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 neai'ly obliterated,
the two following short, somewhat transverse, plainly soldered,
fourth sharply and very distinctly dentate beneath, fifth nearly twice

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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 tibite 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.

Hah. Cape Colony (Beaufort West, George, Worcester).

HOPLOCNEMIS SPECTABILIS, n. speC.

H. crassipes, Lacord., Atl., pi. xxix., fig. 1 ; nee. 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 tibiae ; the colour is dull black on the upper
side, the hind legs are also piceous black ; the club of the antennae
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 tibise are not quite so robust,
the inner part of the posterior tibiae is more sharply prolonged, and
the inner edge of the process is somewhat sharply quadri-dentate ;
tarsi as in H. hylax.

Female unknown.

Length 15 mm. ; width 9^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Ladismith).

HoPLOCNEMis KOiKOiNA, n. spec,
Plate XLIL, fig. 1.

Very similar to H. spectahilis 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. spectahilis, is bluntly serrate on each
side. The female is distinguished from the male only by the simple
and more slender hind tibite.

Length 13-15 mm. ; width 7^-9^ mm.

Apart from the outward characters distinguishing H. koikoina

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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 koikoina and
straight in spectabilis.

Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

HOPLOCNEMIS 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 tul)ercle equally developed in both sexes ; clj^eus
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 so in 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, fiavescent scales not at all closely set ; pygidium
vertical, slightly convex, and without scales ; in the male the hind
femora are thickened ; the hind tibiae 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 tibiic are thick but simple.

Length 10-11^ mm. ; width 6^-8 mm.

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

HoPLOCNEMIS ARMATA, Bumi.,

Plate XLII., fig. 5.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 54.
This species greatly resembles H. aurivcntris, 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 shai-p tooth at about
the median part, and connected with a sharp carina reaching to the
apex ; the tibiae 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 10^-12 mm. ; width 6^-9 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

HopiiOCNEMis MUTiCA, Burm.,

Plate XLII., fig. 6.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 55.

This species also resembles H. auriventris, and more especially the
red-winged examples of H, armata, but it is only on the propygidium
that there are a few scattered tiavescent 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 as in 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 tibise is
nearly as much developed as in H. armata, but broader, strongly tri-
dentate inwardly, bi-dentate at tip, and having four smaller l)ut
distinct teeth outwardly ; the forcipate clasps of the genital armature
are somewhat different from those of the two preceding species.

Female unknown.

Length 12^ mm. ; width 8 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Victoria West).

HoPLOCNEMis FULiGiNOSA, Burm.,

Plate XLIL, 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 x-ounded in the
posterior, slightly convex, deeply and closely punctured, denselj''
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, tibiae 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
tibiae are normal, and the claw of the hind tarsi is simple.

Length 9-10 mm. ; width 5-6^ 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. 51, pi. 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 punctm-es 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).

Teibe HOPLIINI.

Gkoup HETEEOCHELIDES.

Clypeus straight at the tip, seldom with slightly rounded
angles.

Anterior tibiae tri-dentate, all three teeth somewhat connate

at the base, all claws double, equal, diverging Dkhelus.

Anterior tibite tri- or four-dentate, all the teeth somewhat
connate at the base, hind claws double but unequal and
appressed, or single and simple Heteruchelus.

Anterior tibiae bi- or tri-dentate, apical tooth not connate.

Scutellum very long, sharply triangular Oinocrates.

Scutellum rectangular, broad and triangular at the apex . . Go)nci>!jjidiun.

Anterior tibia; bi-dentate, but with the apical tooth bitid and
broadly separated from the basal one :

Lobe of maxillse armed with teeth ; prothorax very convex Dicra)iocnemus.
Lobe of maxillte without teeth ; prothorax plane . . . . Xanniscus.

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A". Clypeus parabolic.

Body elongate, elytra very little sinuate laterally, claws of the

intermediate legs simple underneath in the male Diaplocheluf.

Body not elongate, elytra strongly sinuate laterally, claw of
the intermediate legs with a robust sub-lateral tooth in the
male Bizauus.

Gen. DICHELUS, Serv.,

Encyclop. M^th., x., 1825, p. 373.

Gu6r., Iconogr. d. Eegn. Anim. Insect., pi. xxv., figs. 8, 8a, 8b.

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 maxillae strongly dentate inwardly
and penicillate or not at the tip, the number of the sharp hooked
teeth is five {D. villosus) or four, ])ut with the basal one bifid
{(leiitipes), or three {laticoUis, &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, l)ut 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 ; antennae 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 stx'ongly
developed, hind coxae almost transverse, with the hind margin
sharply carinate and angular, and when the femora are greatly
developed projecting much beyond the abdominal segments ;
anterior tibiie with three outer teeth curving slightly downwards,
nearly connate at the base ; the two basal ones are set at right

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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.

In the figure and details given by Guerin-Meneville, loc. cit., the
hind legs only, the claws especially, are correct.

Key to the Species.

Male.

Trochanters of hind femora produced into a long spine.

Elytra without any scales ; hind tibiee grooved underneath from
the large median minor tooth, and having another acute inner
tooth near the knee (pi. xlii., fig. 23) dentijyes.

Elytra without any scales ; hind tibiae with a small inner tooth
near the knee and a large median one grooved from apex to
base (pi. xlii. fig. 24) expansu?.

Elytra with a juxta-sutural line of whitish scales ; hind tibise not
gi'ooved underneath, and having a small inner tooth near the
knee and a conspicuous median one (pi. xlii., fig. 26) .. .. acant}i02)us.

Similar to the preceding species, but elytra with three bands of

whitish scales rillosus.

Elytra with three broad bands of dense ashy-grey scales ; pro-
thorax scaly ; hind tibiae as in D. acanthopitu vittatus.

Elytra with a juxta-sutural line of white scales ; pygidium not
scaly ; hind tibiae short, very curved, grooved beneath, and with
only a small inner tooth near the knee lucttiosus.

Elytra with a discoidal and a juxta-sutural interrupted line of
white scales ; hind trochanters slender and very sharp ; hind
tibiae not curved, compressed, grooved underneath, and simple
(pi. xlii., fig. 28) siiiqdicipes.

Elytra with a discoidal and a juxta-sutural interrupted line of
scales ; hind tibiae 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 . . . . holosericeus.

Trochanters of hind femora with a very short but sharp spine.

Body black, elytra testaceous and with three lines of flavescent
scales ; hind tibiae carinate underneath, deeply emarginate near
the knee, and with the angles of the emargination sharp .. lucidus.

Body without scales, black ; hind femora simple ; tibiae short,
very curved, carinate underneath, sharply dentate inwardly,
and produced at apex into a very strong mucro (pi. xlii., fig. 32) laticolUs.

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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 tibiae short, broadly dilated towards the apex, deeply
grooved underneath, and with the inner margin of the excava-
tion dentate near the knee and also at the apex (pi. xlii., tig. 25) ilcnticeps.

Body without scales ; elytra flavous ; hind legs simjile . . . . pallid ipetniix.

Female.

Elytra without any scale, costulate, and very rugose; pygidium

clothed with greyish appressed hairs zultunut'^.

DiCHELUs DENTiPES, Fabric,

Plate XLII., fig. 23.

Spec. Insect., i., p. 44.

Oliv., EntomoL, i., 5, p. 74, pi. 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
tibiiE, 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 tibiae 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 6-J— 7^ mm. ; width 4-4f mm.

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

DicHELus EXPANSus, n. spec,
Plate XLIL, fig. 24.

Male : Eesembles D. deiitipes 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 4-4f mm.

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

DiCHELUs ACANTHOPUS, Burm.,

Plate XLIL, 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 tibiae 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 5-6^ mm. ; wddth 3-4 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

DiCHELUs viLLOsus, Bumi.,

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

* Fig. 48 is that of the small development.

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each three hands of elongate, somewhat hair-Uke, greyish-white or
sHghtly flavescent scales, often partly obliterated, hut with the
hroader juxta-sutural band always more distinct ; hind femora
simple but with the spine of the trochanters greatly developed ;
hind tibiae also as in D. clcntipes, but not at all grooved or concave
underneath, and therefore not carinate inwardly. The shape of the
tibia3 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 7-7^ mm. ; width 4 mm.

Hah. 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 tibiae 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 3i mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town).

This species seems to be very rare. It very much resembles
D. dcnticeps 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
tibitC.

MoNOCHELUs viTTATUS, 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 JDands 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 tibiae like those
of D. dentipes, l3ut 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 7-7^ mm. ; width 5 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (? Worcester).

DiCHELUs siMPLiciPES, Burm.,

Plate XLII., fig. 28.

Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 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 tibiae 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.

Hah. Cape Colony (Malmesbury, Paarl, Caledon).

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DiCHELus HOLOSERiCEus, Burm.,

Plate XLIL, fig. 27.
Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 111.

Male : Shape, size, and sculpture of D. siniplicipes ; 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. luctuosus ; 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 tibiae 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 5-5^ mm. ; width 3-3^ 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 tibige 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, BuriU.,

Plate XLII., fig. 32.
Handb. cl. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 111.

Black, opaque, with the anterior tibiae and the antennae 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 tibiae 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 tibiae 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 tibiae with a very distinct apical spur.

Length 5^-7 mm. ; width 3^-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 tibiae 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 Heterochehis.

Female : Like the male, but with a few flavescent, slightly
squamiform hairs on the elytra ; hind tibiae with a distinct apical
spur.

Length 5-5^ 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 tibiae 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 tlie 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 quadi'i-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 tibiae densely
bristly on each side.

Male unknown.

Length Gf mm. ; width 3f mm.

Differs from the females of the other species by the much more
distinctly costate and more roughly punctate elytra, and also by the
j)ygidium covered with greyish hairs.

Hab. Natal (Eshowe).

[Species which I have not seen or been able to identify.)

DiCHELus FLAviMANUs, Burm.,
Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 2, p. 497.

" Black, silky, opaque ; clypeus quadri-dentate ; antenna, palpi,
and anterior legs testaceous ; sides of the abdomen scaly here and
there.

Length 2^ 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 tibiae 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 ; scutellura 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 i-eddish yellow,
the three teeth of the interior tibiae finer, more separated ; all the
tarsi with two equal, cleft claws ; antennae and palpi testaceous,
apex of the antennal club bi'own."

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DiCHELUS PLATYNOTUS, Bui'IB.,

Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 112.

" Black, opaque, pilose, antennae elytra and legs rufous ; pygi-
dium of the male with flavous scales.

Length 2f lin. 3 .

Communicated by Herr von Winthem. This species resembles
closely D. holosericetis, 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
tibiae 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, scapulae, and abdomen squamose.

Length 3 liu. S ■

This species is closely allied to the preceding one {D. dcnticcps),
but the extremely conspicuous sheen makes it resemble more closely
still D. hivittatus. Head, anterior part of the prothorax, and
body black, the apical margin of the clypeus is quadi'i-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 scapula?, 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 antenna?, and the
palpi ; in the male the long hind legs have the trochanters strongly
spinose, and the thighs wnth a spine in the inner part of the
articulation of the knee ; the hind tibiiB are curved and simple but
mucronate at the apex, and without apical spur ; the hind tarsi are
setose with the setae 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. HETEEOCHELUS, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 87.
Ischnochehis, Burm., loc. cit., p. 129.
Mentum and palpi as in Dichelus ; lobe of maxillae 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 {coccincus, 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. egenics), 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 Dichelus, 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 (pygidialis), 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 tibiae are
tri-dentate {Hctcrochelus) or quadri-dentate (Isclniochelus) ; in the
first gi'oup 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-iMvtitus 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 doul)le, 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 (iJ. 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 tibiae have an apical
spur, and the posterior ones have one or are without ; when the
mucronate part of the hind tibiae of the male is very greatly
developed, this spur disappears completely, but there are exceptions
(H. femoralis, tmguiculatus, chiragricus, padagricus, insignis, &c.) ;
in the female this spur is always present ; in the male the hind
femora are very robust, or robust, seldom slender {iiubilus, dissidcns),
in some species of the division IscJinochelus 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 tibia; is more or less deeply emarginate
or incised inwardly, and when it is scooped underneath, there is close
to that emai'gination 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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Key to the Species.

FiEST Division.

Anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly (Heterochelus).

A3. Clypeus straight at the tip, more or less sharply quadri-dentate.
B"". Elytra covered with contiguous scaks.
C=. Hind tibiae without an apical spur.

D3. Clypeus with the two median teeth hardly distinct.
E=. Elytra distinctly costate.

F=. Hind claws double, unequal.

0.'*. Pygidium clothed with a velvety black tomen-
tum.

Hind tibia of the male not grooved under-
neath, but with the lower edge serrate, and
the inner with a small tooth near the knee
(pi. xlii., fig. 29) vulpimis.

Hind tibiae moderately grooved underneath,
but with both edges serrate and both strongly
dentate on each side of the knee (pi. xlii., fig.
44\ ftexlineatus.

Hind femora with the inner claw of the
femora near the knee greatly developed ; hind
tibite broadly laminate, sharply bi-dentate
inwardly near the knee, and with the apical
mucro long and transverse (pi. xlii., fig. 37) natalensis.

a3. Pygidium scaly but with two velvety black
patches.

Hind tibiae somewhat grooved underneath,
but with the outer edges serrate and the inner
one slightly dentate near the knee (pi. xlii.,
go'. 31) multidentatus .

Hind tibite 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 (pi. xlii., fig. 30) armipes.

Hind tibiae 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 mimus.

Hind tibiae not scooped underneath near the
base, but having there a distinctly truncate
inner tooth, upper apical angle normal . . concinnus.

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Hind tibiae not scooped underneath, but
having a conspicuous inner sub-median tooth,
upper angle strongly developed sulj)hureus.

a-. Pygidium uniformly clothed with scales of
the same colour.

Hind tibise strongly dentate on each side near
the knee, outer edge with a conspicuous, sub-
median sharp spine coiisa>i()iti>HU!'.

Hind tibias strongly dilated at apex and with a
broad triangular inner tooth set close to the
long, curved mucro furoninus.

a\ Pygidium denuded, shining.

Hind femora with the inner tooth of the
knee conspicuously developed ; hind tibiae with
a sub-median, well-developed inner tooth,
apices produced on each side into a long,
curved mucro of equal length consors

E". Elytra non-costate.

a^. Pygidium with two velvety dark brown patches.

Hind tibiae scooped underneath at the base and
having there a small tooth on each side of the
groove, inner margin serrate contractus.

a'. Pygidium entirely covered with scales of uniform
colour.

Hind femora with an inner tooth near the knee;
hind tibiae with a sharp triangular inner tooth
near that of the knee, outer edge strongly serrate,
mucro long and curved, upper apical angle
normal ictericus.

Hind femora with an inner tooth near the knee,
hind tibiae 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 (pi.
xlii., fig. 43) placatuit.

Hind femora with the trochanters produced into
a long, laminate spine, obliquely truncate at the
tip and dentate above the spine ; hind tibiae
curved, grooved beneath, simple, and with a
strong apical mucro bearing an apical spur . . femomlis.

rt". Pygidium covered with a velvety dark brown
tomentum.

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Femora with a well-developed inner tooth near
the knee ; hind tibiae 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 gonager.

Pygidium with the basal part only covered with a

dark brown tomentum citrinus.

F'. Hind claws single, simple.

a-. Femora very long ; hind tibise dilated,

strongly emarginate inwardly near the base,
grooved underneath.
h*. Trochanters conical at the base.
C. Pygidium glabrous.

Elytra with four bands of greyish scales . . x>arilis.

Elytra clothed with closely set, but not con-
tiguous, lanceolate greyish scales ; legs red ;
pygidium very convex murinus.

Elytra clothed with closely set ovate scales ;

legs black ; pygidium moderately convex . . adspersus.

c'. Pygidium glabrous in the lower part only.

Elytra clothed with contiguous ochreous scales

(pi. xlii., fig. 3.5) longipes,

a'. Femora long, hind tibias differently shaped.
63. Trochanters produced into a spine of mode-
rate size.

Clypeus sharply 4-dentate ; hind tibiae deeply
grooved underneath, with both edges denticu-
late ve7mstus,

l)-. Trochanters produced into a long spine.

Hind tibiae compressed inwardly and sharply
dentate on the median inner part, pygidium
convex at the base, spine of trochanters
vertical vulpecula.

Hind tibise 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 (pi. xlii., fig. 47) paclnjgliitus.

b'. Trochanters not spinose.

(F. Pygidium completely covered with scales.

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Hind femora not dentate inwardly near the
knee ; hind tibiae obliquely emarginate under-
neath at the base, and then dilated, com-
pressed, and having a median tooth in the
centre of the inner face aurojitiacux.

Hind femora with a strong, long, inner spine
near the knee ; hind tibiae very broadly dilated
at apex, concave there, and with the apical
outer margin obliquely truncate above the
mucro which is bifid (pi. xlii., fig. 45) .. aniiatiif:.

d'. Pygidium without scales.

Hind tibiae 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 biinactilatus.

Hind femora with a small outer tooth near
the knee ; hind tibiae compressed inwardly and
with the lower edge sub-circularly incised
above the short, apical mucro ; pygidium very
convex at the base, propygidiura very broad . . oreopygun.

Hind femora simple ; hind tibiffi with a slight
inner tooth near the knee, and not mucronate
at apex; pygidium projecting as an horizontal
ovate process pygidialis.

C. Hind tibiae with an apical spur.

D-. Clypeus with the two median teeth as sharp as the
lateral.

a-. Hind claws single, simple.
h". Trochanters with a long spine.

Abdomen very broadly ampliated ; spine of
trochanters as long as the femora, sub-
horizontal and arcuate inwardly Jiospe^f.

b'. Trochanters not spinose.

Elytra sub-costulate, covered with yellow scales,
but having a juxta-sutural bandandadiscoidal
one of lighter scales ; pygidium with a median
and two lateral bands of similar lighter scales ;
hind tibia; a little dilated .■iub-iittatus.

Elytra costulate, juxta-sutural interval con-
spicuously deep, whole upper surface and
pygidium clothed with minute, fiavescent
contiguous scales ; hind tibia; not dilated . . ajeiix.

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Elytra costulate, juxta-sutural interval not
conspicuously deep, whole upper surface and
pygidium clothed with minute, flavescent
contiguous scales ; hind tibiee very little dilated amoenulus.

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 sobrinus.

a\ Hind claws double.

Elytra covered with ochreous scales ; femora
very robust ; hind tibite 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 (pi. xlii., tig. 42) coccmeus.

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 tibiae not mu-
cronate egenus.

B'. Elytra clothed with hairs or bands of scales, but not with
contiguous scales.

C-. Hind tibiae without an apical spur.

D^. Hind claws double.

a-. Clypeus with the two median teeth distinct.
b-. Trochanters with a spine.

Prothorax dark metallic green, elytra chestnut;
scutellum, pygidium, and abdomen clothed
with yellow scales ; hind tibiae 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 viridicollh.

b\ Trochanters not spmose.

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 tibiae 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 :

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Prothorax not grooved, closelj- scabroso-

punctate promontorii.

Prothorax grooved, and with scattered non-

scabrose punctures persimilis.

a'. Clypeus with the two median teeth indistinct.
Trochanters spinose.

Entirely black ; hind femora with a hamate
inner tooth near the knee ; hind tibiae com-
pressed, laminate and strongly bi-dentate
underneath, and with the mucro produced in
a third triangular tooth tristis.

D'. Hind claws single.

a^. Trochanters non-spinose.

Black, elytra and hind tibise 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 hi-vittatus.

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 tibiae 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) . . rufimanus.

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
tibiae curved, compressed, semicii'cularly
emarginate underneath from the base for half
the length, then ampliated and ending in a
curved mucro bi-notatus.

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 tibiae 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) J'orcipatus.

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a'. 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 tibiae dilated,
compressed, lower margin deeply hacked and
bi-dentate near the base; pygidimn glabrous
(pi. xlii., fig. 50) elegans.

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 tibias
compressed inwardly, slightly grooved under-
neath, and dentate on each side of the groove,
inner mucro long, distinctly curved (pi. xlii.,
fig. 41) leoninus.

Black, with the elytra very dark brown, elytra
with two longitudinal bands of squaraose
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 tibise some-
what concave inwardly, armed with a strong,
inner basal tooth and mucronate on each side
at apex mitcronatus.

C. Hind tibiae with an apical spur.
a^. Trochanters spinose.

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 tibia concave inwardly and
with the lower edge emarginate at the base and
nearly equally sub-mucronate on each side at apex inoniatux.

(('. 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 tibiae very deeply hollowed in
the median part and having a small, median tooth
on the upper margin comosits.

b-. Clypeus with the two median teeth not quite as long
as the outer, which are very sharp and set close to
each other.

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Black, with the elytra light testaceous, shining,

and liaving a fuscous lateral band ; hind margin

of elytra, pygidial part, and abdomen scaly ; hind

femora and tibiae simple, the latter a little swollen

inwardly near the base, and slightly compressed

towards the apex, where it is distinctly mucronate i

inwardly senilis.

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 tibiae
as in the preceding species, but the apical mucro is
shorter aiialis.

Black, elytra with three conspicuous bands of
yellow scales, scutellum, pygidial part, and
abdomen scaly ; hind legs as in the preceding
species (pi. xlii., fig. 33) fraternus.

h'. 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 tibioe
concave inwardly, not mucronate at apex (pi. xlii.,
tig. 30) copicola.

c'. Elytra costate.

Black, elytra tri-costate, intervals with fulvous
scales, pygidium scaly and with two fuscous
patches ; femora and tibiffi simple, the latter
angular at apex hisitjnatits.

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 tibiae compressed on each side, gradually
ampliate, not mucronate at apex iniinttus.

.\=. Clypeus sharply tri-dentate at tip.

B-. Joints of hind tarsi triangular and compressed.
(i^. Hind tibiae without apical spur.

Body without scales ; hind femora with two spines set
longitudinally ; hind tibiae greatly dilated towards the
apex, bi-dentate on each side, and strongly mucronate,
joints of hind tibioe strongly dilated outwardly
(pi. xlii., fig. 20) detritus.

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«'. Hind tibise with an apical spur.

})-. Tooth under the femur nearly apical, broad and short.

Elytra without scales, hairy, hind tibipe very short,

mucronate part strongly curved (pi. xlii., fig. 22) . . ungiticulatiis.

h\ 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 (pi. xlii., fig. 21) podagriciis.

Elytra having a broad sutural band and a narroweK

marginal one of yellowish scales (pi. xlii., fig. 19) . . (■Idragrkun.

B'. Joints of hind tarsi not compressed.

C-. 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 tibise grooved, distinctly dentate
outwardly on each side of the base, and sharply
mucronate at the apex optivits.

C Elytra with bands of scales, or clothed with appressed
hairs.

D=. Hind tibise without apical spur.
a". Trochanters sharply spinose.

Elytra chestnut-brown, and with a few scales
along the suture ; pygidium scaly, hind femoi'a
robust, simple ; hind tibise compressed and
connate underneath, briefly sub-dentate near
the knee, and with the apical mucro long and
curved anomalus.

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 tibise 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
(pi. xlii., fig. 40) miserabilis .

Elytra black, covered with greyish appressed
hairs, scutellum and pygidium covered with
yellow scales ; hind femora moderately robust,
simple; tibise also simple, moderately ampliate,
not mucronate at apex estcourtianns,

a\ Trochanters not spinose.

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Elytra fuscous-brown, very briefly pubescent,
pygidium without any scales ; hind femora
very massive and simple ; hind tibiae 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 (pi. xlii., fig. 34) arthriticux.

Elytra entirely covered with ochraceous ap-
pressed hairs, scutellum and pygidium densely
scaly ; hind femora moderately robust, hind
tibiae very swollen inwardly, simple, notmucro-
nate at apex (pi. xlii., fig. 39) dittts.

D. Hind tibiae 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 tibiae 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 . . insigiiis.

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 tibiae broad, deeply scooped
inwardly, and having a median triangular tooth
on the inner margin of the excavation, apical
mucro distinct, but not very long 2>(//c<.To,s-i(.s\

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 tibiiB bi-carinate under-
neath, inner carina very bluntly toothed, apical
part not mucronate iiidifjeii:^.

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 tibite 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 counatus.

Elytra piceous black, body without any scales,

hind tibiae a little ampliate, no apical mucro . . iin-ongriiev!^.

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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 tibite
simple, slender )tuhilu!^.

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 tibise grooved,
the groove sharply carinate and dentate on each
side near the knee, inner mucro long, somewhat
curved fraudnlentus.

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 tibite

hollowed and dentate on each side underneath

near the base, apical mucro strong and curved . . ><erripes.

A'. Clypeus bi-dentate in front and having a sharp lateral tooth.

B^ Hind tibiae 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
villose outwardly only controversiis.

B'. Hind tibiae without apical spur.

Prothorax with five bands of greyish squamose hairs,

elytra with two bands of greyish scales vittiferus.

Second Division.

Anterior tibiae 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 tibise as
long as the other three ; clypeus not dentate in the centre :

Prothorax with broad, scattered punctures siilcatun.

Prothorax closely and finely punctured prcestahilis.

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A'. Elytra not costulate.

Black, elytra pale testaceous and without any scales along the

suture, clypeus quadri-dentate piterilix.

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 timidim.

Clypeus slightly bi-dentate in the middle ixiretualis.

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 .. Jii-jxirtitua.

Black, with the elytra testaceous and clothed with appressed

hairs; clypeus tri- dentate pauper(ttii.<.

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
and strongly reflexed enierittts.

Heterochelus vulpinus, Burm.,

Plate XLII., 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 tibiae 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 6f-7|- mm. ; width 4-4^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Port St. John), Natal (Durban).

Heterochelus sex-lineatus, Thunb.,

Plate XLIL, fig. 44.

Mem. Acad. St. Petersb., 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 tibias, at the beginning of the
grooved part.

Female similar to that of H. vulpinus.

Length 7-8 mm ; width 3^-4f mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester, Eiversdale, Caledon, George,
Knysna, Port Elizabeth).

Heteeochelus natalensis, n. spec,
Plate XLII., 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 wuth
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 tibiae 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 6-6^ mm. ; width 3^-3f mm.

Hah. Natal (Estcourt, Durban).

Heterochelus multidextatus, Burm.,

Plate XLII., fig. 31.

Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 94.

Male : Greenish metallic black, palpi, antennae, 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 costae 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 ; liind 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 shai-p,
the hind tibiai are curved, not concave inwardly, but the lower
edge is strongly serrate, and ends in a long mucro cun-ed sub-
obliquely, the upper apical part is sharply angular ; inner claw of
hind legs half the length of the outer.

Female unknown.

Length 6-^7i mm. ; width 3^-4^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester).

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Heterochelus armipbs, Bohem.,

Plate XLIL, fig. 30.

Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 154.

Male : Head and pectus black, prothoi'ax aeneous 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
costae 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 tibiae 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 tibiae 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 3^-4^ mm.

Hab. Natal (Durban, Estcourt) ; Transvaal (Johannesbm-g).

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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
tibiae also, but the pj'gidiura which in D. consancjuincus is entirely
covered with scales has in the present species two brown basal
patches.

Female unknown.

Length 5^-7 mm. ; width 3-4 mm.

Hah. Natal (Durban, Frere).

Heteeochelus 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
arc also costate with the costas very briefly setulose, but the pygidium
has two very distinct basal brown patches which are entirely absent
in //. mimus ; the hind femora are similar, but in the hind tibite
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 Q\ mm. ; width 3i- mm.

Hub. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

Heterochelus sulphureus, Bohem.,
Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 153.
^lale : Very dark Iirown or fuscous and with a metallic tinge very
noticeable on the hind legs ; head and prothorax clothed witli a very
short, but dense yellowish-gi-een 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 costaj there is a double row of very short bristles ;
the propj'gidium 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 JDase of the latter there are two distinct dark brownish
patches which nearly coalesce and reach to the median part ; trochan-
ters of hind leg's very long and sharp, femora swollen and having a
well-developed inner tooth at the knee, but none outwardly ; the
hind tibiae 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 tlie 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 6^-8 mm. ; width 4-5f mm.

Hal). Natal (Durban), Cape Colony (Pondoland).

Heterochelus consaxguineus, n. spec.

Male : Eeddish 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
costae 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 tibiae 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 costae on the elytra are as much
covered with scales as the intervals.

Female unknown.

Length 5f-6f mm. ; width 3i-4^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Graham's Town).

Hetekochelus furoninus, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 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 costae being set with short lanciform,
squamose bristles, they are costate, but the costae and the intervals

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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 tibiae 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 sliape ; 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 (? Gi^aham's Town).

Length 5 J mm. ; width 3 mm.

Heterochelus consors, n. spec.

Male : Greenish black, shining ; elytra with two interrupted bands
of sub-flavescent scales on each side ; size, shape, and vestiture of II.
vmlticlcntatus, 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
liave a conspicuously long inner tooth close to the knee, the hind
tibiae are slightly dentate inwardly close to the knee on the upper
mai'gin, 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 6 J mm. ; width 3 J mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam).

Heterochelus contractus, Bohem.,

Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 156.

H. pniinosiis, Boh., loc. cit., p. 157.

Male : Head black, prothorax and elytra fuscous or dark cliestnut-
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 reachin'-'

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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
tibijB 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 4^6 mm. ; width 2^-3^ mm.

Hah. Natal (Durban, Estcourt).

This species might be taken for a small example of H. sulphureus,
but the elytra are not costate, the hind tibiae in the male have not
the conspicuous median inner tooth, and the elytra of the female are
vmiformly covered with scales instead of having bands of squamiform
hairs.

Hetekochelus icteeicus, 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 fiavous or
yellow hairs ; the latter has along the base a narrow l^and 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
costae 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 tibiae bent, scooped beneath at the iDase 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. fiironinus hy the
absence of an inner tooth at the apex of the hind tibiae.

Heteeochelus placatus, n. 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 tibiae 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 tibiae are only moderately deeply
grooved at the base underneato, 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 little 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 5^-6 mm. ; width 2f-3f mm.

Hah. Natal (Durban).

Heteeochelus femoealis, n. 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 scaln-oso-punctate, clothed with partly
appressed, partly erect fiavous 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 ampliate and having beneath
a long, somewhat thick, horizontal spine l)eginning 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 Httle helow the
knee which is not dentate on either side ; the hind tibiae are very
much cui-ved, have a sliarp 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 far
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 5-6|- mm. ; width 3-3^ mm.

Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom).

Heterochelus gonager, Fabric,

Spec. Insect., i., p. 45.

Oliv., Entom., i., p. 74, pi. vi., fig. 68.

Male : Head, pi-othorax and pectus fuscous ; antennas, legs, and
elytra rufescent, the latter is 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 costse 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 tibiae moderately curved,
grooved beneath, with a very 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 5-J— 6 mm. ; width 3-3 J 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 thei'e to the apex ; the hind femora are similar, but the
hind tibiae 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 5i mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

Heterochelus parilis, n. spec.

Male : Black, with the anterior legs, and also the antennae, 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 wnth 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 tibiae
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 fiavescent scales.

Length 5-6 mm. ; width 3-4 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester),
? Natal (Durban).

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Heterochelus longipes, Burm.,

Plate XLII., fig. 35.
Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 101.

H. testacciponnis ? , Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entoiii., p. 65.

H. gonager, Guer., Icon. Eegn. Anim. Insectes, pi. 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 setae, 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 tibiae 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 tibiae dilated and strongly
compressed.

Female : Black, with the elytra light 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 5^-6 mm. ; width 2-^3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester,
Malmesbury, Port Ehzabeth, Graham's Town).

Heterochelus murinus, Burm.,

Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 102.

H. castancipcnnis J , 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 shghtly 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. longijjes, but the elytra are dark
chestnut-brown.

Length 5-6 mm. ; width 2^-3 mm.

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

Hetebochelus adspersus, n. spec.

Male: This species is very closely allied to H. viiiri)ins ; the
shape, size, and sculpture are similar, but the scales with which the
elytra are vei'y 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 tw^o species cannot be distinguished from each other.

Length 6 mm. ; width 3;|— 3^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwiiliam).

Heterochelus vulpecula, Burm.,
Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 102.

Male : Black, with the elytra and legs reddish ; clypeus very
slightly 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 j-ellow 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. lomjipcs and H. murinus, but the
trochanters are produced into a very long spine ; the hind tibiae 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 2f mm.

Female not known with certainty.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

Heterochelus venustus, n. spec.
Male : Black, but entirely covered on the upper side, pygidial
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 anteiior 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 tibiae 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 5^-5f mm. ; w^idth 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 XLII, fig. 47.

Zool. Mag., h., 1, p. 97.

M. hyhridus, 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 inw^ardly at tip, the teeth on
each side of the knee are distinct, but not much developed ; the hind
tibiae 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-
pygidiuni, pygidium, and abdomen as in the male.

Length •4-4-i- mm. ; width 2J mm.

H. hyhricliis, Burm., which I have received from Graham's Town,
is the same species as H. pachycjlutus, but the trochanters of the
hind legs are not quite so elongate, and the inner angular tooth of
the base of the hind tibiae is not very distinct.

Hah. 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 pul^escent ; 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 tibii3e 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 J mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

Heterochelus armatus, Burm.,

Plate XLII , fig. 45.
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 107.
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 vei'y small ; elytra without
costee ; 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 tibi8e 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 4-4^ mm. ; width 2-2^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Port Elizabeth).

Heterochelus 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 tibiffi 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).

Hetebochelus 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 tibiae 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 muci'O, which
is not greatly developed, a small tooth not projecting further than
the mucro itself ; no a.pical spur ; hind claws simple, single.

Length 4 mm. ; width li mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Somerset East).

Hetekochelus pygidialis, n. 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, l^ut 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 setae ; 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 tibiae 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 //. orcopygus ; in which tlie
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 5^-5-^ mm. ; width 2i— 2f mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

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Hetebochelus hospes, n. spec.
Male : Black, with the elytra covered witli 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 distmctly
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 tibiae 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 4 mm. ; width 2| mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Tulbagh).

Heteeochelus sub-vittatus, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 99.

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 costee ; pygidium covered with yellow scales, but having two
longitudinal orange bands; legs reddish; head sharply quadii-
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 costse 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 tibiae 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 4-J— 5 mm. ; width 2f-3 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Uitenhage).

Hetekochelus egens, n. spec.

Male : Black, covered with greyish scales having sometimes a
slight fiavescent 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 tibijfi not curved, concave inwardly towards the apex which is
slightly mucronate and has an apical spur ; hind claws single,
simple.

Female unknown.

Length 4-4^ mm. ; width 2;^ mm.

Hah. Natal (Durban).

Heterochelus amcenulus, 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 fiavescent scales so closely set that the colour of the
background is not visible ; the whole pygidial part, the sides of the
al)domen and also the hind femora are clothed with closely set scales
which are light lemon-colour like those on the elytra ; the elyti'a,
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. ei/cns, 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 4-4^ mm. ; width 2^— 2| mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska).

Heterochelus inops, n. spec.
Male : Black, with the elyti'a, 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 tibiffi 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-l^rown 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 2-2^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town).

Heterochelus coccineus, Burm.,

Plate XLII., 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 l^roadly 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 2i-3i mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth).

Heterochelus egenus, n. spec.
Male : Eeddish brown, with the head dark fuscous, completely
clothed with elongate, somewhat hair-like flavescent scales whicb

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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 stitf, short bristles; the
prothorax has no median impression, and the elytra are normally
attenuate laterally and not costate ; the pygidium is strongl)' directed
forward and covered with concolorous hair-like scales, the hind
femora are robust and simple, the hind tibiae 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 4f ram. ; width 3f 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.

Hetekochelus 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 vex'y 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 n 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
tibiai 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 hajf the length of the outer, 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, n. 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 tibiae 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 tibiae.

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 w^ithout 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 projectmg a little towards the
median part, and at a short distance from it there is a sub-hamate,
distinct spine ; hind tibiae compressed, having underneath a sub-

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quadi'ate 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 6-6^ mm. ; width 3^ mm.

Hab. Natal (Newcastle), Transvaal (Johannesburg).

Heterochelus persimilis, n. spec.

Male : Very similar to H. promontorii ; the hind femora and
tibiae 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. promontorii 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. promontorii 2 ■

Length 5 mm. ; width 2|- 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 w^hite scales, but the
latter has a median longitudinal denuded 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 is 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 tibiae are
long, strongly swollen inwardly, sharply but briefly mucronate in the
inner apical part, and quite similar to those of H. ditiis (pi. xlii.,
iig. 39) ; apical joint of hind tarsi and claw very long. The shape of
the hind tibias is nearly similar to that of H. ditus (pi. xlii., Iig. 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 7^-8^ mm. ; width 4-4f mm.

A very distinct species.

Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

Heterochelus rufimanus, Casteln.,
Plate XLIL, fig. 38.
Hist. Natur., ii., p. 145.

H. longidus, 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 tibiae 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 (pi. xlii., 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 2^3^ mm.

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

Heterochelus binotatus, Thunb.,
M^m. Acad. St. P^tersb., 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, shghtly 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 tibiae 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 3f-5 mm. ; width 2-2^ mm.

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

Heterochelus forcipatus, Burra.,

Plate XLL, fig. 46.
Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 115.
H. uncinatus, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 65.
//. dcntifrons, 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 moi-e spinose than the outer, the trochanters are not
spinose, the hind tibiae 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 3-^-4^ mm. ; width 2^ mm.

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Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Tulbagh).

H. dentifrons, Blanch., is a variety with reddish elytra.

Heterochelus simulans, n. spec.

Male : This species might be mistaken for H. forcijMtiis ; 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 3-4 J mm. ; width 2-2^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch).

Heterochelus spurius, n. spec,

Male : This species is still more closely allied to H. forcipatus
than H. mimus ; 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 2-|- mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Eiversdale).

Heterochelus elegans, n. spec,
Plate XLH., 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 tibiae 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 nupunctate and
scaly, the two discoidal bands are entire, but the outer one reaches
from the base to the median part only ; pj-gidium glabrous, shining ;
hind femora with the trochanters produced into a short but shai-p
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 tibiae 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 unknowm.

Length 6^-6^ mm. ; width 3 mm.

This pretty species has no ally. Owing to its more elongate facies
it somewhat resembles a Gymnoloma.

Hetekochelus 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 wnth 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 tibite are
compressed inwardly, slightly grooved undex'neath, 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 6-7i mm. ; width 3-4 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenboseh, Paarl, Tull)agh).

Heterochelus mucronatus, Burm ,
Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 117.
Male : Totally black, somewhat shining ; elytra with a juxta-
sutm-al 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 tibiae 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, n. spec.
Male : Black, with the elytra light 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 quadi-i-
dentate, the two median teeth being almost obliterated, it is 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 ; bind 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 tibiae 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 5-6|^ mm. ; width 3-3^ 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,
haixy, 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 tibiae
are dilated in the middle, have an inner, deep excavation with
a ti'iangular tooth above it on the upper margin and end in a
curved, robust and sharp mucro bearing a very distinct apical spur,
the upper part of the apex is also mucronate but the mucro 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 j)osterior 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 tibiae 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 5-5|- mm. ; width 2| mm.

Ilab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

Heterochelus capicola. Fabric,
Plate XLII., fig. 36.
Spec. Insect., i., p. 46.
Oliv., Entom., i., 5, p. 76, pi. v., fig. 55 a.b.
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 tibiae 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 6-6| mm. ; width 3-3| mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

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Heterochelus fraternus, n. spec,
Plate XLI., fig. 33.

Male : Very closely allied to H. analis ; the shape, size, and hind
legs of the male are also similar, hut the vestiture is different ; the
clypeus is also quadri-dentate, hut the two median teeth are
distinctly smaller than the outer ones ; the median groove of the
prothorax and the hase have a liand of flavescent or golden-yellow
scales ; the scutellum is scaly ; the elytra have two moderately
raised, yet distinct costaB on each side, and four somewhat hroad
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 4f-5 mm. ; width 2^-3 J mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Caledon, Eiversdale, Xamaqualand).

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. IIG.
Male : Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown and the legs either
dark l)ro\vn or black ; clypeus sharply quadri-dentate and with the
two median teeth only slightly smaller than tlie outer ; prothorax
deeply grooved from the median part to the base, densely hut 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 somew'hat sharply angular on each
side ; hind tibiae simple, a little compressed inwardly towards the
apex, and slightly concave there, sharpl)' 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 hlack.
Length 4-4|- mm. ; width 2|-3^ mm.
Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Riversdale).

Hetekochelus bisignatus, Blanch.,
Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 65.

Male : " Size of H. hinotatus 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 tilled 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.

Hah. Cape Colony.

Heterochelus minutus, Burm.,
Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 130.
Ischnochelus vittiger, Blanch., Catal. Collect. Entom., p. 66.

Male : Black, shining ; head scabroso-punctate, very brieflj"
•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 costse 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
are, as often as not, ruljbed off, and the intervals are seen to be

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deeply punctate ; propygidium and pygidium clothed with dense,
contiguous yellow scales somewhat deeper orange on the pygidium,
al)dominal segments clothed with somewhat lighter and more
elongate scales ; legs hlack with the tarsi piceous red, hind femora
somewhat rohust, simple, hind tiljiae somewhat compressed inwardly,
gradually ampliated obliquely underneath, simple, and having a
very long apical spur ; the basal outer tooth of the anterior tibiaB
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 tlie til)icP are
redder.

Length 3|-4 mm. ; width 2-2^ nun.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Oudtshoorn,
Clanwilliam, Uitenhage).

Heterochelus detritus, Burm.,

Plate XLII., 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 al)Ove 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 greyisli 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 tibijE
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-fljivescent 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 8^^-10 mm. ; width 5-5-^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Cape, Malmesbury, Namaqualand).

Heterochelus unguiculatus, Burm.,

Plate XLII., fig. 22.

Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 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 ampliated and rounded laterally, and the
transverse impression on each side of the basal margin has no carinate
upper edge ; scutellum miich 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 tliick and broad, but short, and have past the middle
a sharp, curved tooth which forms with the knee-spine a deep
crescent, hind tibiae short, ciu'ved, 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 tiljiai compressed
and with the four basal ones regularly triangular.

Female unknown.

This species, like the one preceding, has no ally.

Length 6^-7 nun. ; width 4 mm.

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

Heterochelus podagricus. Fabric,

Plate XLIL, fig. 21.

Spec. Insect., i., p. 44.

Oliv., Entomol., i., 5, p. 73, pi. 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 H.
detritus, but with the basal transverse impressions without a shai*]^)
ledge; scutellum briefly but densely pilose; elytra turning sometimes
to dark chocolate-brown, ver}"^ 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 hoi'izontal
spine beneath, knees not dentate; hind tibiae 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 l)asal 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 4-4^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Knysna, Port Elizabeth,
Humansdorp).

Heteroohelus chlragricus, Thunb.,

Plate XLII., fig. 19.

M6m. Acad. St. Petersb., 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. 'podacjricus, but the hind tibia 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 9i mm. ; width 6 J mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locahty).

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 tibiae 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 3-| mm. ; width 2 mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam).

Heterochelus anomalus, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., 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 svib-fiavescent 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 tibiae 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.

Hah. Cape Colony (locality unknown). The only example of
this species which I have seen is one collected by Drege.

Heterochelus lugens, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 119.

H. viiserabilis, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 66.

Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown or occasionally l)lack, clypeus
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 %vith 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 shai'p, hind tibiae 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 4f-6^ mm. ; width 2f-3-J- nun.

Hah. Cape Colony (Ceres, Worcester).

H. viiserabilis, Bl., is a red variety.

Heterochelus escourtianus, n. spec.

Male : Totally black, scutellum, pygidial part, abdomen and
metasterniun 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
tibite also simple, moderately ampliate, somewhat concave inwardly
at apex and not mucronate, hind claw robust, single, simple.

Female unknown.

Length 6^ mm. ; width 3i mm.

Hab. Natal (Estcourt).

Heterochelus arthriticus, Fabr.,

Plate XLIL, fig. 34.

Spec. Insect., i., p. 44.

Oliv., Ent., i., 5, p. 75, pi. 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 tibiae 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, wath the elytra light 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 2^ 3 mm.

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

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Hetekochelus ditus, n. 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 fm'row 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,
bind tibiae 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 tri-
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 greyisli ones reaching from base to apex, and on the
pygidium are two apical patches of lighter scales.

Length 7-9 mm. ; width 3J-4^ mm.

The shape of the hind tibiae of the male greatly resembles that of
H. hivittatus.

Hah. Cape Colony (Paarl, Worcester).

Hetekochelus 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 fiavescent hairs in
fresh examples, in which case lialf the posterior part of the disk
is covered with yellow or fiavescent 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 tibia>

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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 6-7 J mm. ; width 8—4 ram.

Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury,
Paarl, Worcester, Caledon).

Heterochelus exactor, n. spec.

Very closely allied to H. i)isigiiis.

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. insignis.

Length 6 mm. ; width 3i mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester).

Heterochelus pulverosus, Burm.,
Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 120.

Male : Black, elytra briefly pilose and having along the suture a
somewhat interrupted Ijand 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 tibiae 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 doul)le 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 5\ mm. ; width 3^ mm.

This species somewhat resembles H. lugcns ; the shape of the hind
femora is the same, but the hind tibiae 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. higcns, and the spine of the trochanters is much shorter.

Hah. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

Heterochelus connatus, Burm.,
Handl). d. Eutouiol., 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 sul)-fiavescent villose hairs, the clypeus is con-
spicuously ti'i-dentate, but the median tooth is bhmter 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 tibiae
are dilated, broadly excavated underneath near the base, the inner
margin is bluntly dentate at a short distance from the knee, and tlie
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 3-3|- mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorii).

Heterochelus indigens, n. spec.

Male : Black, with tlie elytra and legs chocolate-brown, and the
anterior legs redder ; the facies and vestiture are similar to those of
H. indvcrosus, but it is much snuiUer, and the shape of the hind
tibiae is different ; the spine of the trochanters is 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.

Hah. Cape Colony (exact locality not known).

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Hetekochelus incongruens, n. 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 lilack hairs ; elytra of the normal shape,
distinctly 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 setae, pectus pubescent, the pubescence of the
metasternum greyish white ; hind femora and hind tibiae 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 2^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

Hetekochelus 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 tibiae 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 2-21 mm.

The species which I take to be H. nubiliis, and which was labelled
under this name in Drege's Collection, answers very well to Bur-

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nieister's description, but all my examples are smaller than the
measm-ements given by this author.
Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

Heterochelus fraudulentus, n. spec.

Male : Black, with the elytra and legs reddish brown, the scu-
tellum, the pygidial part, the abdomen and the metasternum aie
clothed with contiguous flavescent scales, and the elytra have three
narrow bands of similar ones ; head sharply tri-dentate, but witli
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 tibiae 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 imknown.

Length 6 mm. ; width 3h mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uniondale).

Hetekochelus 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 tibiae 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 nun. ; width 3^ mm.

The only example of this species which I have seen is one of
Blanchard's type.
Hah. Cape Colony.

Heterochelus vittiferus, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 95.
Male : Black, prothoiax with five longitudinal bands of ashy
orey 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 tibiae 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 4^ mm. ; width 2 mm.

Hah. 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, n. 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 leo-s are red, with a metallic tinge ; the hind tibiae are thickly
and densely villose outwardly, the villose hairs golden-yellow ;
clypeus with the two anterior teeth somew^hat 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
feinoi'a and tibiae 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,

Ilah. Cape Colony (no exact locality).

Heteeochelus dissidexs, n. spec.

Male: Black, with only the elytra and tlie 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 tw^o sharp, triangular, reflexed teeth ; pro-
thorax with a median longitvidinal furrow disappearing on the anterior
pai't ; 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
tibiae 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 lialf
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 prothoi'ax is clothed with longer grey hairs ; the
scales on the elytra are more lemon-colour, the two costae on each
side are quite distinct and usually denuded, and the pygidium and
abdomen are hairy.

Length 6-7^ mm. ; width 3^-4 mm.

Ilab. Cape Colony (Worcester).

The shape of the clypeus resembles a little that of Mitrophorns
atcuchoides.

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
viiiiutiis, anterior tibi» with the fourth basal tooth strongly
developed.

Female unknown .

Length 4i-5 nnn. ; width 2-2f mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

HeTEROCHELUS (IsCHNOCHEIiUS) PR.ESTABILIS.

Male : Very closely allied to H. snlcatus; 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 4|-5 mm. ; width 2^ mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Willowmore).

Hetekochelus (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
tibiae not very robust, very slightly ampliated underneath before

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the median part, flattened inwardly and ending in a short mucro
l)earing the apical spur ; hind claws single, simple ; anterior tibiae
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 2^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage).

Heterochelus (Ischnochelus) timidus, Bunu.,
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, clj'peus straight, shai'ply 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 pi'opygi-
dium and thepygidium are densely covered witli thick, sub-lanuginose
yellow scales, and the abdomen with elongate white ones resembling
appressed hairs but thicker ; hind tibiae 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 squamifmui hairs.

Length 4-4i nmi. ; width 2-2^ mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namacjualand).

Heterochelus (Ischnochelus) parentalis, n. spec.
Female : This species is very closely allied to II. timidus, 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 l)i-denticu-
late in the centre at apex ; the sculpture and vestiture of the head
and prothorax are the same, the elytra are reddei" 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).

Hetekochelus (Ischnochelus) bipartitus. Burns.,
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 tibiae broad and trian-
gular, but not as long as the one preceding it ; hind tibiae 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 5^-6 mm. ; width 3 mm.

Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand).

Heterochelus (Ischnochelus) emeritus, n. 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 tibiae as long as the one pre-
ceding it ; hind tibiae as in the other species.

Female : Like the male, but the sutural and marginal bands of
scales are more like appressed hairs.

Length 5^6 mm. ; width 2-2f mm.

Hah. Cape Colony (Eiversdale, Worcester).

{Species lohich I have not seen or been able to identify.)

Heterochelus AURicoLLig, Burm.,
Handb. d Entomol., iv., 2, p. 477.

" Fuscous, head black, discoidal part of prothoras and legs rufous
and with ochraceous hairs ; elytra with four bands of scales ; pygidium
with two black patches at the base.

Length 3 lin. «? •

From Caffraria. Form, size, and appearance of H. vulpinus, 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 costae of the elytra bear
stiff black bristles ; the pygidium is reddish yellow with two black
spots at the base ; the hind tibiae, 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-like."

Heteeochelus bidentatus, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 107.

" Black, with the clypeus and the anterior tibia3 bi-denlate ;
posterior margin of the prothorax, scutellum, elytra, and abdomen
clothed with fulvous scales.

Length 3 hn. 3 •

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 ; anterior
part of prothorax scabrose and having a longitudinal furrow, it is
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 tibioe 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."

Hetebochelus litueatus, Burm.,
Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 96.

" Black, clothed with ashy hairs ; legs and elytra red, the latter
densely squamose and with fuscous 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
costte are small, greyish brown, and the costse are bristling with hairs,
these scales are disposed in three narrow rows on each side, the outer
one ending in the centre, while the tw'o 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 tibiae, and the tarsi very
short, tibiae 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 3 hn. ^ .

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 tibiae and on
the buccal organs are the hairs golden-yellow ; the clypeus is quadri-
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the antenna} ai'e 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 punctiu'es 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 wuth hairs ; legs
brown, thighs darker, clothed with long greyish hairs, the posterior
tibiae show distinctly to which sex the species belongs, in the male
the hind tibiae 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."

Hetekochelus ocheaceus, Burm.,
Log. cit., p. 100.

" Black, entirely covered with pale scales ; elytra sub-costate and
fen-uginous red, legs of the same colour as the elytra ; prothorax
strongly convex.

Length 2i lin.

Male : Squamose, hind femora and tibiae simple underneath,
anterior margin of clj'peus distinctly dentate. Female : Pilose and
squamose only on the abdomen, edge of ch^peus obsoletely dentate.

South Africa.

This species has the compact facies of H. suhvittatus, and
differs from it, and also from H. longipcs in having costate elytra.
The apical part of the cl}^eus 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 antenna? 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 costte 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 ciliao 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 tibiae 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.
Burm., loc. cit., p. lOG.

"Black, covered with greyish scales, clypeus quadri-dentate ; pro-
thorax most densely pilose ; elytra and legs rufescent, the latter with
greyish hairs.

Length S^ lin. S .

Eeceived 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 {pad lyij tutus, hyhridus, auran-
tiacus, sobrinus, bimaculatus, &c.). Black, antennae, palpi, legs, and
elytra reddish brown ; head and anterior part of prothorax thickly
punctulate ; apical mai'gin 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 spa