1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 673 



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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