1902.] Catalogue of the Cohoptera of South Africa. 639 



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). 



