1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 637 



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 



