1902.] Catalogue of the Golcoptcra of South Africa. 789 



Prothorax densely pubescent and with a basal band of appressed 

 squamiform hairs ; elytra with three broad bands of yellow 

 scales, or nearly completely covered by the scales nqmuitoaua. 



DiCRANOCNEMUS NATALENSIS, n. SpeC. 



Male : Black, with the elytra very light testaceous ; antennae with 

 the exception of the two basal joints, black ; head rugose, covered 

 with a greyish short pubescence, clypeus conspicuously narrowed 

 laterally towards the apex, emarginate at the tip and with the two 

 angles sharply triangular and reflexed ; prothorax moderately convex, 

 densely scabrose, clothed with a dense, somewhat long, slightly silky 

 grey pubescence, and having only a very faint longitudinal furrow in 

 the posterior part ; scutellum covered with greyish round scales ; 

 elytra not costulate, and covered with small elongate, fiavescent scales, 

 not very closely set ; pygidial part and abdomen with dense fiavescent 

 round scales ; tarsi reddish ; claw of intermediate legs simple under- 

 neath. 



Female : Exactly like the male, but the scutellum and elytra have 

 appressed greyish hairs instead of scales, and the scales on the 

 pygidial part and the abdomen are replaced by thick appressed 

 squamiform hairs ; the tibiae and tarsi are red. 



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



Eab. Natal (Estcourt). 



In general appearance this species resembles Omocratcs spatuli- 

 pennis, and is very distinct from the others. 



DiCEANOCNEMUS suLcicoLLis, Wiedem., 

 Germ. Magaz., iv., p. 144. 

 Male ; Black, with the elytra fulvous and having on each side 

 three somewhat broad bands of golden-yellow round scales, the two 

 discoidal bands are sometimes not interrupted in the middle, but 

 oftener than not the median one is so, and the sutural one is inter- 

 rupted at about the median part, this interrupted part forms thus 

 a quadrangular patch ; head very rugose, clothed with a fiavescent 

 pubescence, the clypeus has the two angles of the apical part pro- 

 duced into a strongly reflexed tooth, and there is a shorter triangular 

 tooth laterally at the base of the clypeus ; prothorax conspicuously 

 convex in the posterior part, scabroso-punctate in the anterior part 

 only, punctate on the rest of the surface, and clothed with a very 

 long and very dense, erect, fiavous pubescence, it is distinctly 

 grooved longitudinally, and this groove is partly filled with squamose 

 yellow hairs which form also a somewhat broad band along the 



