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without trace of scales ; scutellum and elytra covered thickly with 

 thick, appressed, somewhat squamose greyish white hairs with a slight 

 sheen, and which, although thick, do not hide the colour of the back- 

 ground, they are plane, not costulate, sinuate laterally below the 

 humeral part, a little attenuate towards the apes, and leave the 

 greatest part of the propygidium uncovered; pygidial part and 

 abdomen densely scaly, the scales are white and smaller and rounder 

 on the pygidium ; legs moderately pubescent, hind femora robust but 

 simple, like the tibiae. 



Female unknown. 



Length 3 mm. ; width li mm. 



I have seen only one male example presented by Drege and bearing 

 his Catalogue name. 



Hah. Cape Colony (no exact locality). 



Gen. DIAPLOCHELUS, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 132. 



Mentum elongate, somewhat ovate in the basal part, but narrow, 

 thence deeply incised laterally towards the tip at the point of 

 insertion of the palpi, apical part sloping a little towards the outer 

 angles and fringed, except for a narrow space in the middle, with long, 

 dense, ciliate hairs ; upper lobe of maxillae as broad as long, obliquely 

 emarginate on the upper outer part and with the emargination filled 

 with a broad bunch of hairs, quadri-dentate inwardly with the two 

 lower teeth double on the left jaw while in the right these two teeth 

 are set in a line, the lobe is therefore six-dentate, inner lobe sharply 

 angular at tip {crassipes, transvaalensis) or very feebly tri-dentate 

 ilongipcs) apical joint of labial palpi sub-fusiform and truncate at 

 tip, that of the maxillary palpi sub-cylindrical ; antennae normally 

 10-jointed ; clypeus rounded laterally at the tip and slightly reflexed 

 there, not angular laterally in the basal part ; prothorax depressed 

 and a little rounded laterally; scutellum sub-ogival but somewhat 

 rounded at the tip ; elytra elongated, slightly and gradually narrowed 

 laterally towards the apex, but not sinuate below the humeral part ; 

 propygidium partly uncovered by the elytra ; pygidium very declivous 

 forwards in the male, vertical in the female ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, 

 the two basal teeth are set at right angles with the tibia, and the 

 apical one is slightly oblique, the anterior claws are double and both 

 cleft, the median ones single and cleft, and the posterior ones either 

 single and simple, or double and cleft ; the metasternum is impressed 

 in the male. 



