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Body without scales; elytra brownish-red ; hind femora with the 

 inner tooth of the knee longer and sharper than the outer one ; 

 hind tibiae short, broadly dilated towards the apex, deeply 

 grooved underneath, and with the inner margin of the excava- 

 tion dentate near the knee and also at the apex (pi. xlii., tig. 25) ilcnticeps. 



Body without scales ; elytra flavous ; hind legs simjile . . . . pallid ipetniix. 



Female. 



Elytra without any scale, costulate, and very rugose; pygidium 



clothed with greyish appressed hairs zultunut'^. 



DiCHELUs DENTiPES, Fabric, 



Plate XLII., fig. 23. 



Spec. Insect., i., p. 44. 



Oliv., EntomoL, i., 5, p. 74, pi. vi., fig. 66. 



Black, with the elytra testaceous red or with the basal part only 

 broadly testaceous red, and the rest fuscous or entirely black, tarsi 

 and claws piceous red ; head briefly but densely hairy and bristly 

 laterally ; prothorax very closely scabroso-punctate, briefly hairy, 

 the hairs are black and longer on the sides than on the disk, along 

 the base there is a narrow fringe of not closely set appressed, 

 yellowish hairs ; scutellum clothed with small, contiguous, yellow 

 scales ; elytra broadly ampliated at the base and obliquely nar- 

 rowed laterally from the humeral part to the apex, distinctly 

 bi-costate on each side, but with only the first costa reaching past 

 the median part, very closely and deeply punctured, shining, but 

 clothed with minute greyish appressed hairs ; apical part of pro- 

 pygidium and the whole of the pygidium clothed with small, 

 contiguous, bright yellow scales ; abdominal segments with a 

 small yellowish patch on the upper side ; pectus clothed with a 

 black pubescence ; hind femora greatly developed, villose like the 

 tibiiE, simple but sharply bi-dentate on each side of the articula- 

 tion of the knee, and having the trochanters produced into a very 

 long, sub- vertical spine ; hind tibiae broadly but not very deeply 

 grooved underneath, dentate on the inner side near the knee 

 having a strong, nearly median spine on the outer, and also very 

 strongly mucronate inwardly at apex ; all the claws are double, 

 equally long, and slightly cleft at the apex. 



Female : Black, with the elytra light testaceous, clothed with 

 dense villose, greyish hairs except on the elytra and the pygidium, 

 the latter and also the apical part of the propygidium are entirely 

 clothed with bright yellow scales. 



