1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 677 



late beneath, claw a little shorter than the fifth joint, simple 

 beneath. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Female unknown. 



Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality). 



Pachycnema squamosa, Burm., 



Plate XLIL, fig. 9. 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 58. 

 Head and prothorax black, the latter is clothed with dense black 

 hairs interspersed with white, lanceolate not very dense scales ; 

 elytra reddish brown, clothed with a dense but short black pubes- 

 cence, and with somewhat closely set, and rather large ovate scales, 

 white in the male, flavescent in the female ; head rugose, clypeus not 

 much attenuated laterally towards the tip where it is strongly bi-den- 

 tate ; prothorax rugulose, but having the same shape as the preceding 

 species ; scutellum as broad as long, not scaly, but pilose ; elytra 

 broadly ampliated laterally, humeral callus strongly developed and 

 prolonged longitudinally as far as the median part of the elytra, 

 there are on each side two deep, broad, longitudinal impressions 

 divided by a costate interval near the base ; the propygidium has a 

 transverse band of whitish squamose hairs, but the pygidium has no 

 scales in the male ; in the female, however, it has two patches of yellow 

 scales ; in the male the pygidium slants forwards and the abdominal 

 segments are strongly constricted ; the sides of these abdominal 

 segments are fringed with dense white hairs ; the hind legs are red in 

 both sexes ; the anterior tibiae have three very sharp outer teeth 

 which are quite straight, the two apical ones are nearly connate at 

 base, and the third is equally long and sharp, but very much broader 

 at the base ; in the male the hind femora are very swollen and 

 the trochanters are not spinose ; the tibiae are compressed, nearly 

 straight inwardly and swollen and emarginate on the outer face 

 near the apex, the upper angle of the emargination being dentate, 

 in the inner face it is somewhat shallowly scooped and has a 

 distinct median tooth, and the two apices of the tibiae are produced 

 into a sharp tooth, the one on the upper side is very long and much 

 longer than the upper which is shorter but much broader than the 

 apical spur ; the latter is situated close to it and is very distinct : 

 the four basal joints of the hind tarsi are equal in length but very 

 short and plainly soldered, the fifth is nearly twice as long as all 

 the four together, and is armed with a broad, sharply triangular 

 tooth beneath, the claw is as long as the apical joint, slightly sinuate, 



