1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 795 



Key to the Species. 



a-. Hind claw single, simple. 



Hind tibiae of the male elongated, not thickened, simple. . . . crassipes. 



a\ Hind claws double, the larger one cleft. 



Hind tibiffi of the male short, dilated, and with the margin 



simple loiuiipe.^. 



Hind tibiffi of the male short, dilated, and with the lower 



margin pluri-dentate transvanleiisis. 



DiAPLOCHELUS CKASSIPES, Buiin., 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 133. 

 D. squamulatus, Burm., ibid., p. 131. 



Male : Black, with the elytra pale testaceous or testaceous red, 

 and the legs rufescent, but occasionally the elytra and legs are black ; 

 the head, prothorax, pectus, and legs are clothed with a very dense 

 fulvous pubescence, the scutellum is covered with greyish or shghtly 

 flavescent scales which form also a marginal band on the elytra, this 

 band ascends a little along the suture ; head very rugose, clypeus 

 broadly rounded laterally, slightly curved at apex and marginated all 

 round ; prothorax elongate, somewhat convex, very feebly grooved in 

 the middle of the posterior part, covered with deep and dense but not 

 contiguous punctures bearing each a very long seta, the median basal 

 part is, however, impunctate ; prothorax densely scaly ; elytra shining, 

 distinctly costate and with the intervals remotely punctate, they are' 

 elongate, very little sinuate laterally past the humeral part, and a 

 little narrowed towards the apex ; in the punctures are occasionally a 

 few whitish scales, but the propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen are 

 covered with closely set, dense, flavescent scales similar in shape to 

 those edging the posterior part and the outer margin of the elytra ; 

 the apical part of the pygidium is fringed with very long, flavescent 

 setae ; posterior femora robust, but not very swollen, and without any 

 sharp trochanters, articulation of the knee rounded on each side, hind 

 tibiae elongated, robust but not very ampliate, somewhat sub-mucronate 

 on each side at apex, and without an apical spur ; joints of hind tarsi 

 short, closely set, fifth joint robust, elongate, as long as the other 

 four taken together, and bi-dentate underneath, hind claw single, 

 simple. 



Female : Like the male, but the elytra are more distinctly striate, 

 and the punctures more numerous, the lateral and apical marginal 

 bands of scales are narrower, and the scales less dense and a little 

 more hair-like. 



Length 8-10 mm. : width 4-4+ mm. 



