1902.] Catalogue of the Coleojytera of South Africa. 701 



the teeth distinct and equal ; posterior longitudinal impression of 

 prothorax somewhat deep ; elytra costulate, roughly punctured, 

 clothed with an appressed greyish pubescence, not much ampliated 

 laterally near the base, but normally attenuated towards the apex; 

 pygidium vertical, clothed with greyish appressed hairs ; intermediate 

 ■claws cleft inwardly at about the median part ; hind tibiae densely 

 bristly on each side. 



Male unknown. 



Length Gf mm. ; width 3f mm. 



Differs from the females of the other species by the much more 

 distinctly costate and more roughly punctate elytra, and also by the 

 j)ygidium covered with greyish hairs. 



Hab. Natal (Eshowe). 



[Species which I have not seen or been able to identify.) 



DiCHELus FLAviMANUs, Burm., 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 2, p. 497. 



" Black, silky, opaque ; clypeus quadri-dentate ; antenna, palpi, 

 and anterior legs testaceous ; sides of the abdomen scaly here and 

 there. 



Length 2^ lin. ^ . 



From Caffraria. Nearest to D. holosericeus, but differing some- 

 what from all the species by the slender, thin legs, the teeth on 

 the anterior tibiae of which are not set so close together, and 

 by the non-dentate legs of the male. Clypeus with four marginal 

 teeth, and rugose, like the head which is stiffly ciliate ; prothorax 

 rather flat than convex, having a finely raised outer margin ciliate 

 with stiff bristles, opaquely silky in appearance, and with coarse, 

 scattered punctures in which stiff bristles stand ; scutellura with 

 white scales ; elytra broadly cordate, somewhat narrowed posteriorly, 

 flatly convex, silky in appearance, indistinctly striate, and having 

 some spare scabrose punctures in which are short, appressed hairs, 

 colour black greenish ; pygidium not shiny, black, ventral surface of 

 abdomen and also the pectus dull shiny, clothed at the sides with 

 scattered white scales ; legs long, thin, nowhere remarkably thick- 

 ened, shiny, black-brown, the anterior ones only light i-eddish yellow, 

 the three teeth of the interior tibiae finer, more separated ; all the 

 tarsi with two equal, cleft claws ; antennae and palpi testaceous, 

 apex of the antennal club bi'own." 



