1902.] Catalogue of tlic Coleoptcra of South Africa. 631 



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 



