1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 703 



elytra with three longitudinal JDands of sub-flavescent scales ; pygi- 

 dium scaly ; clypeus with four, distinct, nearly equal teeth ; 

 longitudinal basal sulcus of prothorax not distinct ; elytra attenuate 

 laterally towards the apex, costate with the intervals filled with 

 round, closely set scales, the outer band is divided at the base by 

 the non-scaly humeral callus ; edge of propygidium densely scaly ; 

 trochanters produced into a very long, sharp, sub-horizontal spine, 

 hind femora dentate on each side of the knee ; hind tibiae like those 

 of D. dentipes, l3ut not grooved underneath ; no apical spur ; joints of 

 hind tarsi sub-triangular, somewhat compressed ; all the claws 

 double, of very equal length, and very slightly cleft. 



Female not known with certainty. 



Length 7-7^ mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (? Worcester). 



DiCHELUs siMPLiciPES, Burm., 



Plate XLII., fig. 28. 



Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 119. 



Male : Black, with the elytra dark chestnut-brown or reddish 

 brown, legs of the same colour as the elytra ; upper surface with 

 a slight metallic tinge ; elytra with two interrupted bands of white 

 scales on each side ; head and prothorax densely villose with the 

 hairs black ; along the base of the latter there is a faint trace of a 

 narrow band of appressed whitish squamose hairs ; scutellum densely 

 scaly, the scales elongate ; elytra somewhat convex in the anterior 

 part, and having longitudinal, shallow depressions on each side 

 separated by a slightly raised, scarcely costulate space, in the juxta- 

 sutural depression there is a band of moderately closely set elongate 

 white scales beginning at about the median part and reaching to the 

 apex, while the discoidal band begins at the base of the second 

 depression, and reaches to past the median part ; the hind femora, 

 although robust, are not as much developed as in the preceding 

 species, and the spine of the trochanters is very slender, but long, 

 the tibiae are compressed, moderately dilated gradually towards the 

 apex, simple but a little emarginate near the knee and end in a 

 moderately long apical inner mucro ; the propygidium is edged with 

 whitish scales, and the ventral segments and the metasternum have 

 a patch of white scales, the pygidium has none, but occasionally there 

 are a few remote flavescent squamose hairs at the apex. 



Female unknown with certainty. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Malmesbury, Paarl, Caledon). 



