1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 793 



long, flavescent pubescence, and having a somewhat broad band of 

 appressed squamose scales along the base ; the median groove is 

 only moderately deep ; scutellum densely squamose ; elytra bi-cos- 

 tulate and either completely covered with round, golden-yellow 

 scales set close to each other or forming the two usual bands of 

 scales on the disk and above the outer margin, and the intei'rupted 

 sutural one, the median patch of which is occasionally paler than the 

 other scales ; the pygidial part and the abdomen are densely scaly, 

 the scales a little lighter yellow than those on the upper side ; legs 

 piceous, tarsi reddish, claw of the intermediate legs with a robust 

 tooth underneath. 



Female : Shape of the male, but a little smaller, the scales on the 

 elytra are replaced by squamose flavescent hairs, and the elytra are 

 darker brown. 



Length 4-5J mm. ; width 2i^-3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Port Ehzabeth, 

 Graham's Town, Kowie). 



Gen. NANNISCUS, Burm., 

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



Mentum narrow, elongate, upper lobe elongate, penicillate at tip 

 and not dentate ; palpi as in Dicranocncmus ; clypeus a little attenu- 

 ate laterally and quite parabolic in front ; prothorax somewhat plane, 

 distinctly attenuate laterally ; scutellum moderately long and broad, 

 triangular ; elytra plane, sinuate laterally, and moderately attenuate 

 towards the apex ; pygidium broad, sloping forw^ards ; legs moderately 

 slender ; anterior tibia3 bi-dentate, but with the apical tooth bluntly 

 bifid ; all claws double and both cleft ; posterior tarsi very long ; hind 

 femora of male robust, simple like the tibia?, which have an apical 

 spur. 



The distinctive characters between this genus and Dicvanocneinus 

 are the absence of teeth in the inner part of the upper maxillary lobe, 

 and the shape of the apical outer teeth of the tibiae, which are fused 

 into one, which is, however, slightly bifid at the tip ; the shape of the 

 clypeus is different, and the prothorax is much more plane. 



Only one species of this genus is known. 



Nanniscus pulicakius, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 138. 



Black, with the elytra testaceous and the legs rufescent ; head and 

 prothorax rugulose, covered with an appressed greyish pubescence 



