796 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester, Caledon, 

 Graham's Town). 



In all my examples from the western part of the Cape Colony the 

 scutellum and elytra are only sparsely squamulose, but in some from 

 Graham's Town the whole of the elytra, as well as the scutellum, is 

 entirely covered with very dense, light fulvous scales. 



DiAPLOCHELUs LONGiPES, Fabric, 



Mantiss. Insect., i., p. 24. 



Oliv., Entomol., i., 5, p. 76, pi. vii., fig. 72. 



Male : Black, with the elytra pale testaceous and shining, legs and 

 abdomen reddish ; palpi and antennae pale rufescent ; head deeply 

 and closely punctured but not scabrose, covered with somewhat 

 sparse, short erect hairs, and having a lateral fringe of long setae ; 

 prothorax convex, grooved longitudinally, sparsely punctm'ed, the 

 punctures deep and bearing each a very short hair ; scutellum with a 

 few scales ; elytra very slightly costulate, sparsely and deeply 

 punctate, densely scaly {squamulatiis , lonrjipcs) or only sparsely so; 

 propygidium with a few elongate scales, pygidium glabrous, but 

 thickly fringed at apex with villose hairs ; abdomen with a few hair- 

 like appressed scales on the upper side of the segments ; claws of 

 intermediate legs double, and both slightly cleft, hind claws double, 

 the inner one deeply cleft at the tip ; hind femora robust, simple ; 

 hind tibiae sinuated outwardly, gradually dilated and compressed, and 

 with the lower margin simple, they are setulose on the upper side, 

 which is somewhat deeply emarginate above the apex, and they are 

 not mucronate, but strongly bristly all round at the apex, there is no 

 apical spur ; the joints of the tarsi are bristly, somewhat elongated, 

 and the fifth joint is simple. 



Female : Like the male, but the hind legs are more slender, the 

 hind tibiae are simple, and they have a long apical spur. 



Length 5^-7 mm. ; width 3-3^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, 

 Tulbagh, \Yorcester, Paarl). 



DiArLOCHELUS TEANSVAALENSIS, n. SpeC. 



Allied to D. longipes, from which it differs mainly by the shape of 

 the hind tibia} of the male ; the head alone is black, the prothorax, 

 legs, and under side being reddish, and the elytra brick-red, the 

 clypeus is a little narrower; the sides of the prothorax are much 

 more numerously punctate, and the pubescence on the sides is there- 

 fore denser ; the elytra are more roughly and numerously punctured 



