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laterally, but somewhat straight at the tip the margin of which is 

 distinctly reflexed ; prothorax scabroso-punctate and covered with 

 somewhat dense, black and sub-flavescent hairs ; scutellum covered 

 with scales ; elytra bi-costulate on each side, the lanciform scales are 

 set very close to each other, but they have no sheen and form a sort 

 of tomentum ; the pygidium is very briefly pubescent and has no 

 scales ; the claws of the anterior legs are double and both cleft, that 

 of the intermediate one is single and deeply cleft laterally, the hind 

 one is single and simple ; hind femora robust, simple, hind tibiae 

 strong, somewhat compressed inwardly and having a small angular 

 tooth underneath near the knee, the upper edge is emarginate at 

 some distance from the apex and the upper angle of the emargina- 

 tion is somewhat sharp, the apices are distinctly sharp but not 

 mucronate, and there is an apical spur. 



Female : Like the male but more densely hairy and without scales 

 on the scutellum, elytra, and pygidial part; the two strite between 

 the costules of the elytra are deeper, and the latter instead of scales 

 have a very short, erect, black pubescence ; the pubescence on the 

 pygidial part and the abdomen is often greyish white. 



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



Hah. Cape Colony (Ceres, Stellenbosch, Worcester). 



Group SCELOPHYSIDES. 



Key to the Genera. 



h?. Labrum not produced vertically. 



B-. Claws of all the legs double. 



Clypeus deeply emarginate in the centre and with the angles 

 very sharp, scutellum very long, all the claws double and 

 cleft, legs slender in both sexes ; clothed with scales ; sexual 

 dii?erences not gi'eat Kubousa. 



Clypeus nearly always straight at the apex in the male and 

 with the angles sharp or rounded; scutellum short ; all the 

 claws usually double and cleft ; legs slender in both sexes or 

 not greatly developed in the male ; clothed with appressed 

 hairs ; sexual differences not great : 



Club of antennae somewhat short Platychelu.". 



Club of antennae long Coega. 



Claws of hind legs single, simple Idittywa. 



Clypeus withfour broad reflexed teeth disposed semicircularly ; 

 claws double, hind legs slender or developed ; in the male a 

 tooth underneath the claw of the intermediate legs ; clothed 

 with scales or hairs Mi(ro2)]toru.<i 



B'. Claws of hind legs single. 



