1902.] Catalogue of the Goleoptera of South Africa. Ill 



a'. Trochanters spinose. 



Black, with the elytra light brown; clypeus 

 very sharply quadri-dentate ; elytra elongate, 

 and with three bands of tlavescent scales ; hind 

 femora with a tooth on each side at about 

 two-thirds of the length ; hind tibiae dilated, 

 compressed, lower margin deeply hacked and 

 bi-dentate near the base; pygidimn glabrous 

 (pi. xlii., fig. 50) elegans. 



Black, with the elytra testaceous and the legs 

 reddish ; head, prothorax, and pectus densely 

 villose, pygidium scaly on the upper side, 

 villose underneath ; hind femora with a con- 

 spicuous inner tooth near the knee ; hind tibias 

 compressed inwardly, slightly grooved under- 

 neath, and dentate on each side of the groove, 

 inner mucro long, distinctly curved (pi. xlii., 

 fig. 41) leoninus. 



Black, with the elytra very dark brown, elytra 

 with two longitudinal bands of squaraose 

 hairs ; pygidial part with golden-yellow scales ; 

 hind femora massive and having the trochan- 

 ters produced into a long, horizontal spine 

 reaching further than the knee, and armed 

 with an inner apical tooth ; hind tibise some- 

 what concave inwardly, armed with a strong, 

 inner basal tooth and mucronate on each side 

 at apex mitcronatus. 



C. Hind tibiae with an apical spur. 

 a^. Trochanters spinose. 



Black, with the elytra light testaceous and the legs 

 somewhat reddish ; scutellum, pygidial part, and 

 abdomen scaly ; hind femora very massive ; 

 trochanters projecting as a spine in the median 

 part of the thigh ; hind tibia concave inwardly and 

 with the lower edge emarginate at the base and 

 nearly equally sub-mucronate on each side at apex inoniatux. 



(('. Trochanters not spinose. 



Clypeus sharply quadri-dentate, teeth equal. 



Black, with the elytra testaceous red; scutellum, 

 apical margin of elytra, pygidial part, and abdomen 

 clothed with sub-lanuginose scales; hind femora 

 robust, simple ; hind tibiae very deeply hollowed in 

 the median part and having a small, median tooth 

 on the upper margin comosits. 



b-. Clypeus with the two median teeth not quite as long 

 as the outer, which are very sharp and set close to 

 each other. 



