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the basal part ; clypeus with the apical angles rounded, and emargi- 

 nate in the centre of the apex ; prothorax clothed with a greyish 

 not very short pubescence, and having along the base a somewhat 

 broad band of yellow scales which fill also the longitudinal groove 

 for one-third of the length ; scutellum covered with scales which are 

 a little lighter in hue than those covering the elytra ; scales on the 

 pygidial part and abdomen golden-yellow ; legs piceous red, setulose ; 

 claws of intermediate legs simple underneath. 



Female : Clothed like the male, except that there is no basal band 

 of scales on the prothorax, the clypeus is not emarginate at apex, 

 and the angles are a little more rounded than in the male. 



Length 4^ mm. ; width 2f mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Uitenhage, Port Elizabeth). 



DiCBANOCNEMUS SQUAMULATUS, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 136. 



Male : Black, with the elytra light testaceous and having some 

 scattered, although nearly equi-distant, flavescent, minute, elongate 

 scales a little denser occasionally along the suture and the apical 

 margin ; clypeus straight at the tip, and with the angles distinct ; 

 prothorax clothed with a dense, somewhat long, greyish, slightly 

 flavescent pubescence, and having a narrow basal line of yellow 

 scales, which fill also partly the posterior part of the median groove ; 

 scutellum covered with thick squamose yellow hairs ; elytra very 

 slightly costulate, the scales are more like very short hairs ; pygidial 

 part and abdomen clothed with very dense golden-yellow I'ound 

 scales ; legs piceous red or reddish ; claws of intermediate tarsi with 

 a distinct tooth underneath. 



Female : Eesembles the male very much, except for the shape of 

 the pygidium and the absence of the tooth under the intermediate 

 claw. 



This species is easily distinguished from D. squamosus, the male 

 of which has also a tooth under the claw of the intermediate legs, by 

 the hair-like scales scattered on the elytra, but there is still a tendency 

 for these scales to be grouped into a sutural patch. 



Length 4-5 mm. ; width 2-3 mm. 



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



DiCRAXOCXEMUS SQUAMOSUS, Bumi., 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 136. 

 Black, with the elytra testaceous red ; anterior angles of the 

 clypeus distinctly rounded ; prothorax clothed with a very dense, 



