1902.] Catalogue of the ColcoiAera of South Africa. 787 



and having on each side three bands of appressed squamosa greyish 

 white or sHghtly flavescent hairs, the juxta-sutural band of hairs is 

 broader than the other two which are sometimes partly obliterated ; 

 propygidium clothed with appressed, squamiform, sub-fiavescent 

 hairs ; under side somewhat densely hairy ; apical tooth of anterior 

 tibise somewhat widely separated at apex from the intermediate one, 

 and also longer. 



Length 5^-6 mm. ; width 3^-3| mm, 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



GoNiASPiDius SIMPLEX, n. spec. 



Male : Black, with the elytra testaceous, but having a broad fuscous 

 border all round ; head and prothorax clothed w^ith dense black and 

 greyish villose hairs, the clypeus has three conspicuous reflexed teeth 

 at the apex ; the prothorax is scabroso-punctate from the apex to the 

 base, which is not very depressed; elytra plane, strongly sinuate 

 laterally under the humeral part, thence distinctly attenuate towards, 

 the apex, not costate, but having the customary longitudinal impres- 

 sion along the suture deeply and closely punctured, the punctures 

 bearing each a black, erect hair; pygidium broad, conspicuously 

 declivous forwards, briefly hairy ; under side villose, the hairs greyish 

 white ; the apical tooth of the anterior tibias is not very oblique and 

 is turned downwards like the two basal ones. 



Female unknown. 



Length 5f-7 mm. ; width 3-3^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



This species is distinguished from G. brevis by the slightly more 

 elongated elytra, and the absence of bands of squamiform appressed 

 hairs. 



Gen. DICEANOCNEMUS, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 135. 

 Mentum narrow, very elongated, a little ampliated laterally towards 

 the median part, narrowed at the insertion of the labial palpi, straight 

 at tip, but with the angles rounded and penicillate ; upper lobe of 

 maxillae horny, narrow, very long, with a long pencil of hairs at the 

 tip, and having inwardly and in the upper part five short, curved 

 teeth arranged in a line, inner lobe membranaceous, and penicillate, 

 apical joint of labial palpi somewhat swollen and distinctly truncate 

 at the tip, that of the maxillary palpi very elongated, slender, sub- 

 fusiform inwardly and sinuate outwardly; clypeus short, attenuate 

 laterally, sometimes angular at the base and dentate on each side 



