1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 825 



discoidal part, these two depressions are filled with appressed 

 squamosa greyish hairs which form also a supra-marginal band 

 reaching to the base, but the discoidal one does not reach quite to 

 the apex ; the propygidium and abdomen are clothed with squamose 

 hairs similar to those on the elytra, but the pygidium has no scales, 

 and is covered with a fuscous brown tomentum ; the hind femora 

 and tibige are very robust, the former very swollen, the latter short 

 and broadly dilated triangularly ; intermediate and hind tarsi villose. 



Female : Eesembles the male closely ; the vestiture is the same, 

 but the pygidium is clothed with greyish sub-squamiform hairs ; the 

 hind legs are as robust as in the male, but the hind tibiae have a 

 very distinct apical spur. 



Length 6-7 mm. ; width 3^-4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Tow^n, Stellenbosch, Calvinia). 



I have but once found this species in flowers. It is generally 

 met with dragging itself clumsily along the paths or open herbaceous 

 spots. 



Idutywa vidua, Blanch., 

 Catal. Coll. Entomol. Mus. Par., p. 64. 



Male : Head and prothorax shaped and sculptured as in T. collaris, 

 but covered with fuscous and brown hairs which on the prothorax 

 form a dense, erect pubescence for two-thirds of the length, and are 

 replaced in the posterior part with appressed hairs of the same 

 colour, there is a narrow basal- longitudinal groove ; scutellum 

 covered with appressed slightly greyish hairs; elytra similar in 

 shape to those of T. collaris, but instead of having bands of greyish 

 hairs on each side of the two intervals and also above the outer 

 margin, the whole surface is covered with very fine concolorous hairs 

 which, although very dense, do not hide the dark brown background ; 

 pygidial part, abdomen and legs also covered with similar hairs ; 

 hind legs robust but moderately dilated ; claw of the intermediate 

 legs single and cleft. 



Female unknown. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



MITEOPHOEUS, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 140. 



Mentum ampliate and rounded laterally in the basal part, narrowed 

 from about the middle to the apex, nearly straight at the tip and 



