704 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



DiCHELus HOLOSERiCEus, Burm., 



Plate XLIL, fig. 27. 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 111. 



Male : Shape, size, and sculpture of D. siniplicipes ; the elytra, 

 however, are redder, although they are also occasionally infuscate, 

 or even black ; the two white bands of scales are similar, and they 

 are faintly punctured, with the punctures somewhat seriate ; the 

 scutellum has no scales, but it has often some flavescent, some- 

 what remote appressed hairs; the hind legs are, however, very 

 different and approximate to those of D. luctuosus ; the hind femora 

 are very robust and have the spine of the trochanters strong, sub- 

 horizontal but not very long, and above the point of the spine there 

 is a short but very distinct femoral tooth ; the hind tibiae are arcuate, 

 shallowly grooved underneath with the two edges simple, equal, and 

 projecting at the apex in a very long, arcuate inner mucro, thus 

 resembling entirely those of D. luctuosus. 



Female : Black, with the elytra testaceous, the pygidium, abdomen, 

 and legs reddish ; elytra deeply and broadly punctate, sparsely 

 pubescent. 



Length 5-5^ mm. ; width 3-3^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Oudtshoorn, Clanwilliam, Port 

 Elizabeth). 



DiCHELUS LuciDus, n. spec. 



Black, not distinctly metallic, shining, elytra testaceous and having 

 some traces left on each side of the bands of obliquely disposed 

 greyish-white scales, pygidium clothed with yellow scales, anterior 

 legs reddish ; head and prothorax clothed with fulvous hairs, scutellum 

 without scales ; elytra with two faint costules on each side separating 

 the three bands of scales, the juxta-sutural of which is the broadest 

 and the most distinct, they are punctulate, not convex at the base, 

 normally narrowed laterally towards the apex ; propygidium scaly at 

 apex, abdominal segments with a patch of flavescent scales ; hind 

 femora robust, but not very swollen, simple, but the two teeth of the 

 articulation of the knee are very sharp, and the trochanters have a 

 very short spine ; the hind tibige are conspicuously emarginate at the 

 base for a third of the length, compressed and laminate underneath 

 with the upper angle of the lamina very sharp, and the apical one 

 produced into a moderately long inner mucro; the bristles of the hind 

 tarsi are fulvous. 



Female unknown. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon). 



