784 Transactions South African Fliilosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



Omockates hujiilis, n. spec. 



Male : Intermediate between 0. depressus and 0. spatulipennis ; 

 black, with the elytra testaceous and the legs rufescent ; the clypeus 

 is dentate on each side, the prothorax is covered from the base to 

 three-fourths of the length with villose erect greyish hairs, and there 

 is no basal band of appressed hairs ; the elytra have a few incon- 

 spicuous, pallid, appressed hairs, the propygidium and pygidium are 

 covered with contiguous, pale yellow, round scales, and the edge of 

 the abdominal segments have more elongate, somewhat filiform ones 

 of the same colour; the anterior tibitic are tri-dentate outwardly, ])ut 

 the basal tooth is much shorter than the intermediate one ; the hind 

 claws are double and both slightly cleft. 



Female : Like the male, but the pygidial part and abdomen are 

 villose. 



Length 4| mm. ; width 2-2i mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



Omockates plausibilis, n. spec. 



Male : A very distinct species. Black, with the elytra light 

 testaceous and the legs reddisli ; clypeus sharply tridentate, the 

 median tooth as much raised as the lateral ones ; prothorax clothed 

 for two-thirds of the length with dense, erect, greyish villose hairs, 

 the posterior part is covered with dense, yellow, somewhat elongated 

 scales ; scutellum and elytra covered with similar scales ; pygidial 

 part closely scaly, the scales somewhat round and deeper yellow 

 than on the elytra ; abdomen with squamose appressed hairs 

 flavescent on the apical segments and turning to white on the 

 basal ones ; hind claws double, the inner one is small and simple, 

 the outer one is slightly cleft laterally. 



Female unknown. 



Length 6\ mm. ; width 2t mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Burghersdorp). 



Omockates variabilis, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 128. 



Male : Black, with the elytra light testaceous and the basal part 

 nari'owly fuscous, or occasionally with the prothorax reddish, hind 

 legs reddish brown ; clypeus tri-dentate, median tooth a little smaller 

 than the lateral ones which are distinctly reflexed; prothorax clothed 

 for two-thirds of the length with a short, dense, greyish pubescence, 

 and having a narrow basal band of greyish, sometimes sub-llavescent 



