1902.] Catalogue of the Goleoptcra of South Africa. 715 



Elytra costulate, juxta-sutural interval not 

 conspicuously deep, whole upper surface and 

 pygidium clothed with minute, flavescent 

 contiguous scales ; hind tibiee very little dilated amoenulus. 



Prothorax and elytra covered with minute 

 ochre-yellow scales, scales of pygidium con- 

 colorous ; hind femora distinctly dilated ; 

 median teeth of clypeus not quite as much 

 developed as the outer ones sobrinus. 



a\ Hind claws double. 



Elytra covered with ochreous scales ; femora 

 very robust ; hind tibite short, very broadly 

 dilated outwardly into a sub-quadrate lamina, 

 deeply hollowed underneath, and with the 

 inner edge produced into a long median 

 transverse tooth (pi. xlii., tig. 42) coccmeus. 



D'. Clypeus quite straight and not dentate in the 

 middle. 



Hind claws simple. 



Entirely covered with thick hair-like yellowish 

 scales ; hind legs simple ; hind tibiae not mu- 

 cronate egenus. 



B'. Elytra clothed with hairs or bands of scales, but not with 

 contiguous scales. 



C-. Hind tibiae without an apical spur. 



D^. Hind claws double. 



a-. Clypeus with the two median teeth distinct. 

 b-. Trochanters with a spine. 



Prothorax dark metallic green, elytra chestnut; 

 scutellum, pygidium, and abdomen clothed 

 with yellow scales ; hind tibiae grooved under- 

 neath, dentate on each side of the base, and 

 serrate or even dentate from there to the apex, 

 apical mucro truncate at tip viridicollh. 



b\ Trochanters not spmose. 



Black, elytra chestnut-brown ; scutellum, pro- 

 pygidium, and abdomen clothed with yellow 

 scales, elytra with a sutural and apical band of 

 scales ; pygidium glabrous ; hind tibiae short, 

 curved, ampliate, grooved underneath and 

 strongly dentate on each side of the base, but 

 with the outer tooth further from the base 

 than the inner, and the inner mucro long and 

 curved : 



