1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 719 



«'. Hind tibise with an apical spur. 



})-. Tooth under the femur nearly apical, broad and short. 



Elytra without scales, hairy, hind tibipe very short, 



mucronate part strongly curved (pi. xlii., fig. 22) . . ungiticulatiis. 



h\ Tooth under the femur sub-median, long and sharp. 



Elytra covered with flavescent scales and having an 

 elongate velvety brown patch on each side of the 

 posterior part (pi. xlii., fig. 21) podagriciis. 



Elytra having a broad sutural band and a narroweK 



marginal one of yellowish scales (pi. xlii., fig. 19) . . (■Idragrkun. 



B'. Joints of hind tarsi not compressed. 



C-. Elytra clothed with contiguous scales. 



Prothorax with squamulose, sub-appressed hairs; elytra 

 clothed with contiguous flavescent scales ; pygidium 

 scaly ; hind femora with a strong spine on the 

 trochanters ; hind tibise grooved, distinctly dentate 

 outwardly on each side of the base, and sharply 

 mucronate at the apex optivits. 



C Elytra with bands of scales, or clothed with appressed 

 hairs. 



D=. Hind tibise without apical spur. 

 a". Trochanters sharply spinose. 



Elytra chestnut-brown, and with a few scales 

 along the suture ; pygidium scaly, hind femoi'a 

 robust, simple ; hind tibise compressed and 

 connate underneath, briefly sub-dentate near 

 the knee, and with the apical mucro long and 

 curved anomalus. 



Elytra chestnut-brown and having three more 

 or less regular bands of yellow scales ; pygidium 

 scaly ; hind femora with a conspicuous inner 

 tooth near the knee ; hind tibise a little swollen 

 in the basal part, where it is grooved under- 

 neath, and sharply dentate on the inner side, 

 mucro long, arcuate and somewhat slender 

 (pi. xlii., fig. 40) miserabilis . 



Elytra black, covered with greyish appressed 

 hairs, scutellum and pygidium covered with 

 yellow scales ; hind femora moderately robust, 

 simple; tibise also simple, moderately ampliate, 

 not mucronate at apex estcourtianns, 



a\ Trochanters not spinose. 



