1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 783 



yellow scales ; hind legs simple, hind claw single, deeply cleft 

 laterally. 



Female : Like the male, but the prothorax is less scaly, and the 

 scales on the elytra and the pygidial part are a little paler in colour, 

 and those on the pygidial part are more hair-like. 



Length 4-4J mm. ; w4dth 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 



Blanchard, in his description of the species, states that the anterior 

 tibisB are bi-dentate, but such is not the case ; the tibiae of the type 

 are tri-dentate. 



Omoceates spatulipennis, Blanch., 

 Catal. Collect. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 66. 

 0. leindus, Boh., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 150. 



Male : Black, with the elytra light testaceous, and the legs piceous 

 or piceous red ; similar in shape and sculpture to 0. depressus, but 

 the clypeus is much more strongly dentate on each side of the apex, 

 and is also a little more concave in front ; the prothorax has no scale, 

 and is clothed with dense greyish villose hairs from the base to two- 

 thirds of the length, and has a very narrow border of appressed 

 greyish or sub-flavescent hairs along the base ; scutellum with 

 squamiform yellow hairs ; elytra with appressed, not dense, hair-like, 

 short yellow scales ; pygidial part and abdomen clothed with con- 

 tiguous, round, bright yellow scales ; hind claws double, and both 

 distinctly cleft. 



Female : Like the male, but the cl}'peus is not so sharply dentate 

 on each side, the hairs on the elytra are more filiform, and the scales 

 on the pygidial part and al^domen are replaced by appressed white 

 hairs. 



Length 4f-5f mm. ; w4dth 2J mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban, Frere). 



Omoceates placens, n. spec. 



Closely allied to 0. depressus, the shape of the clypeus is the same, 

 but the prothorax is more elongated and less attenuated laterally in 

 the anterior part, the prothorax is completely covered wath closely 

 set, shghtly lanuginose scales nearly similar to those on the elytra, 

 these scales are greyer and even in the pygidial part they are only 

 flavescent instead of being bright yellow ; the hind claw is simple 

 and cleft sideways as in 0. depressus. 



Length 3J-4 mm. ; width l|-2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Caledon) 



