782 Transactions SontJi African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



Omoceates lobipes, Burm., 

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



" Black, shining, hairy, the hairs underneath are white, the elytra 

 pale and edged with black, pj-gidium with flavous scales. 



Length 2'". 



Male : This species is shaped like 0. axillaris and resembles it 

 completely, but it is easily distinguished by the shape of the hind legs, 

 which are also strongly compressed laterally, but are produced into 

 an upright, broad lobe rounded on the upper side of the apex ; there 

 is an apical spur, and the hind claw is single but cleft. The colour 

 and sculpture are the same, the hairs are longer and much denser." 



From the description this species, which I have not seen, is very 

 closely allied to 0. moclestus, but in the latter the hind tibiae, although 

 dilated, are not lobate on the upper side. 



Hab. Cape Colony. 



Omockates tauxillus, n. spec. 



Female : Brick-red, with the head and anterior part of the prothorax 

 slightly infuscate ; the clypeus is briefly quadri-dentate, the teeth are 

 equal ; the prothorax is very slightly pubescent, and not closely 

 punctulate behind ; the scutelluni is slightly carinate longitudinally 

 and scarcely pubescent ; the elytra have an appressed, greyish 

 pubescence, the apical mai^gin of the propygidium and the pygidium 

 are covered with round contiguous yellow scales ; the abdomen and 

 pectus have somewhat dense, long, whitish hairs, and the hind claw 

 is single and simple. 



I do not know the male of this species, which will be easily 

 distinguished, however, by the quadri-dentate clypeus. 



Length 4-J- mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



Omocrates depressus, Blanch., 

 Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 67. 



Male : Black, with the legs red ; clypeus with the outer angles 

 dentate, the head is covered with a very short, erect pubescence, and 

 the prothorax also, but this short pubescence is intermingled with 

 golden-yellow squamose hairs on the prothorax ; scutellum densely 

 scaly ; elytra densely clothed with somewhat round, golden-yellow 

 scales which are not, however, contiguous, and are somewhat more 

 elongated and hair-like on the sides and on the apical margin ; the 

 propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen are thickly covered with golden 



