1902.] Catalogue of the Coleopteva of South Af.ica. 791 



thus three denuded places on each side ; pygidial part and abdomen 

 clothed with dense, golden-yellow scales ; legs rufescent, villose ; 

 claw of the intermediate legs simple. 



Female : Like the male, but with the hair-like scales on the elytra 

 more scattered or less plainly banded, the sutural whitish patch 

 indistinct. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Worcester). 



DiCRANOCNEMUS MENDICUS, n SpeC. 



Male : Black, with the elytra reddish brown ; apical angles of the 

 clypeus slightly sharp ; prothorax clothed with a sub-appressed 

 squamose pubescence turning to flavescent scales on the whole of 

 the posterior half, the longitudinal furrow is very distinct ; scutellum 

 densely scaly, the scales somewhat pallid ; elytra entirely clothed 

 with flavescent ovate scales, bi-costulate and having in each interval, 

 on each side, a somewhat distinct band of paler scales, the scales 

 of the sutural patch are also of the same colour ; scales on the 

 pygidial part and abdomen similar in colour to those on the back- 

 ground of the elytra ; legs briefly setulose ; claw of intermediate legs 

 simple. 



Female : Clypeus less angular laterally at tip than in the male ; 

 prothorax clothed with a short, non-squamose pubescence, and with- 

 out scales ; elytra less distinctly costulate, and covered like the 

 scutellum with greyish, sub-squamose appressed hairs ; scales on 

 the pygidial part and abdomen nearly similar to those of the male, 

 but a little less closely set on the pygidium. 



This species is easily distinguished from the preceding one by the 

 scaly posterior half of the prothorax, and by the whole surface of 

 the elytra being also scaly, but having the customary bands and 

 patches of paler scales. 



Length 4|— 4|- mm. ; width 2f-3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Graham's Town). 



DiCEANOCNEMUS PULVEEULENTUS, Bumi., 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 137. 

 Male : Short and robust facies of D. mendicus ; this species is 

 easily distinguished from the four preceding in having the elytra 

 covered almost uniformly with round, golden scales which are not 

 disposed in bands, but there is still a faint trace of a sutural whiter 

 patch under the scutellum ; in some examples, however, the two 

 costules on each side are somewhat distinct, and partly denuded at 



