1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 699 



angles and the apical one is slightly oblique, there is no inner 

 apical tooth and the claws of all the legs are double, strongly 

 divaricating, and cleft at the tip. 



In the figure and details given by Guerin-Meneville, loc. cit., the 

 hind legs only, the claws especially, are correct. 



Key to the Species. 



Male. 



Trochanters of hind femora produced into a long spine. 



Elytra without any scales ; hind tibiee grooved underneath from 

 the large median minor tooth, and having another acute inner 

 tooth near the knee (pi. xlii., fig. 23) dentijyes. 



Elytra without any scales ; hind tibiae with a small inner tooth 

 near the knee and a large median one grooved from apex to 

 base (pi. xlii. fig. 24) expansu?. 



Elytra with a juxta-sutural line of whitish scales ; hind tibise not 

 gi'ooved underneath, and having a small inner tooth near the 

 knee and a conspicuous median one (pi. xlii., fig. 26) .. .. acant}i02)us. 



Similar to the preceding species, but elytra with three bands of 



whitish scales rillosus. 



Elytra with three broad bands of dense ashy-grey scales ; pro- 

 thorax scaly ; hind tibiae as in D. acanthopitu vittatus. 



Elytra with a juxta-sutural line of white scales ; pygidium not 

 scaly ; hind tibiae short, very curved, grooved beneath, and with 

 only a small inner tooth near the knee lucttiosus. 



Elytra with a discoidal and a juxta-sutural interrupted line of 

 white scales ; hind trochanters slender and very sharp ; hind 

 tibiae not curved, compressed, grooved underneath, and simple 

 (pi. xlii., fig. 28) siiiqdicipes. 



Elytra with a discoidal and a juxta-sutural interrupted line of 

 scales ; hind tibiae curved, grooved, dentate on each side of the 

 basal part of the groove only ; trochanters strongly dentate, 

 femur with a short basal spine ; pygidium non-scaly . . . . holosericeus. 



Trochanters of hind femora with a very short but sharp spine. 



Body black, elytra testaceous and with three lines of flavescent 

 scales ; hind tibiae carinate underneath, deeply emarginate near 

 the knee, and with the angles of the emargination sharp .. lucidus. 



Body without scales, black ; hind femora simple ; tibiae short, 

 very curved, carinate underneath, sharply dentate inwardly, 

 and produced at apex into a very strong mucro (pi. xlii., fig. 32) laticolUs. 



