1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 827 



sub-cylindrical, not emarginate laterally, bi-costulate on each side ; 

 hind femora not very robust, hind tibiae slender, simple ; tooth under- 

 neath the claw of the intermediate legs conspicuous, sub-horizontal ; 

 basal tooth of the anterior tibias very small. 



Female unknown. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 3^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Paarl). 



MiTROPHORUS NATALBNSIS, 11. SpCC. 



Male : Black ; head closely scabrose, clothed with moderately 

 short, dense, sub-flavescent hairs, clypeus very sharply quadri- 

 dentate, the two outer teeth being only slightly shorter than the two 

 median ones, but equally sharp ; prothorax very closely scabroso- 

 punctate and clothed with a villose, somewhat short, sub-flavescent 

 pubescence ; elytra fuscous brown, covered with appressed hair-like 

 flavescent scales, denser in the posterior part along the suture and 

 the apical margin, they are slightly bi-costate on each side and 

 closely punctured ; edge of propygidium, pygidium and abdomen 

 clothed with appressed squamiform flavescent hairs ; legs villose ; 

 anterior tibige tri-dentate outwardly, basal tooth shorter than the 

 intermediate ; hind femora robust, hind tibiae somewhat dilated, flat 

 in the inner side and with the upper carinate edge emarginated 

 somewhat deeply above the apex, which is sharply sub-dentate on 

 each side. 



Length 6|- mm. ; width 3^ mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



MiTROPHORUS TRANSVAALEXSIS, n. SpCC. 



Male : Black, moderately shining ; head very rugose, clj-peus 

 quadri-dentate, the teeth are broad and reflexed, but the two outer 

 ones are shorter and blunter than the median ones, but are in line 

 with them ; prothorax deeply but not closely punctate, except on 

 the sides where the punctures are somewhat scabrose, and clothed 

 with a moderately dense sub-flavescent pubescence ; elytra distinctly 

 bi-costulate on each side and covered with appressed and sub- 

 appressed greyish hairs ; propygidium and pygidium covered with 

 similar hairs, which are however shorter and more squamiform ; 

 hind legs villose, hind femora robust, hind tibiae deeply incised on 

 the upper side above the apex, and with the upper angle of the 

 incision produced into a long mucro ; the tooth under the claw of 

 the intermediate legs is nearly horizontal. 



