1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 833 



white elongate scales ; antennee reddish with the club black ; head 

 and prothorax clothed with dense, villose fulvous hairs ; clypeus 

 parallel but with the outer angles slightly rounded, and the apical 

 part slightly emarginate ; the median posterior part of the prothorax 

 is denuded and impunctate, but the sides are very deeply punctured, 

 and there is a broad median groove in the central part only ; 

 scutellum broadly obtuse at tip ; elytra strongly narrowed diagonally 

 from the humeral part towards the apex, a little impressed longi- 

 tudinally close to the humeral callus, and having a few shallow but 

 broad punctures scattered on the discoidal part ; pygidium vertical, 

 smooth in the centre, punctate laterally, fringed with villose greyish 

 hairs, not scaly ; hind legs and pectus clothed with a long greyish- 

 white pubescence ; hind femora very thick, and having a short but 

 sharp spine close to the knee but on the outer side, and the trochanter 

 is produced into a very long, slender spine ; the tibias are somewhat 

 compressed, not deeply grooved beneath but have a somewhat 

 blunt tooth at the basal inner part of the groove, and a sharp, 

 horizontal inner spine at a short distance from the apex, where there 

 is a short but very distinct apical spur, the walls of the groove are 

 bluntly serrate, and the inner part of the tibiae are very densely 

 villose ; only the claws of the hind legs are simple, the others are 

 double and slightly cleft. 



Female : Like the male in all respects, except that the hind claw 

 is simple, but distinctly cleft. 



Length 7|— 9 mm. ; width 4-5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



MoNOCHELus GBATUS, n. spec. 



Black, with the elytra red, very shining, and with the head and 

 prothorax, the scutellum, the under side and legs, clothed with very 

 long, villose fulvous hairs, there are very few scales along the outer 

 margins of the prothorax, and there is a small juxta-sutural patch of 

 yellowish scales on each side of the elytra ; in shape and sculpture it 

 is like M. glaberrimus, and the hind legs are similar, except that the 

 inner carina of the hind tibiae is more distinctly bi-dentate near the 

 knee. It might, however, be considered as a colour variety of 

 M. glaberrimus, but for the shape of the hind claws which, instead of 

 being simple and cleft, are distinctly double in both sexes, the inner 

 one being a little more than half the length of the outer, and both 

 are cleft. 



Length 6i-7 mm. ; width 3i-3f mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam). 



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