1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 781 



hind claws unequal, inner one simple ; abdomen and pygidium 

 clothed with greyish hairs. 



Length 5f mm. 



Hah. Cape of Good Hope." 



I have seen only Blanchard's type of this species, which is much 

 more elongated than the other species of Omocratcs. 



Omockates axillaris, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 125. 



Male : Black, with the elytra pale testaceous and edged with a 

 fuscous marginal band broadening towards the posterior part ; head 

 and prothorax clothed with a dense, erect, sub-flavescent pubescence, 

 the clypeus is armed at apex with three long, triangular teeth, and 

 the prothorax has an elongated impression in the median discoidal 

 part ; scutellum slightly carinate longitudinally in the centre, and 

 clothed with a few greyish hairs ; elytra covered with deep, irregular 

 punctures, very briefly pubescent, propygidium and pygidium clothed 

 with dense, thick, flavescent or yellow scales, abdomen without 

 scales, pectus villose, the hairs greyish white ; hind femora robust, 

 simple but deeply grooved underneath for half the length, hind tibiae 

 broadly dilated, spatuliform, the upper edge is strongly sinuate and 

 curves inwardly at the apex ; hind claws single, simple. 



Female : Like the male, but the propygidium and pygidium are 

 covered with squamose appressed flavescent hairs and the pygidium 

 has two distinct patches of browner hairs in the centre. 



Length 6|-7 mm. ; width 3-3^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Malmesbury, Worcester). 



In shape and colouration it is like 0. viendax, but it is easily 

 distinguished by the form of the hind legs. 



Omocrates modestus, n. spec. 



Male : Entirely similar to 0. axillaris in colour, vestiture, and 

 build, but it is very much smaller ; the clypeus is also sharply tri- 

 dentate, but the median tooth is smaller than the lateral ones, the 

 hind lec^s are robust, the hind femora are dilated, compressed, the 

 upper margin is straight, and the lower shghtly ampliate at middle ; 

 the scales on the propygidium and pygidium are so closely set that 

 they form a thick coating, and they are not yellow as in 0. axillaris ; 

 the hind claw is single and simple. 



Female unknown. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 2-i mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Kowie). 



