1902.] Cataloyue of the Colcoptcra of SoutJi Africa. 635 



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 



