1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 835 



pectus with a greyish pubescence ; margins of clypeus reflexed, 

 regularly and deeply punctured, clothed with greyish hairs less dense 

 but longer in front than behind, prothorax very rugose, briefly but 

 very densely pul^escent, grooved longitudinally in the centre, 

 narrowly mai'ginate with greyish- white scales, the median sulcus 

 occasionally filled with similar scales ; scutellum thickly scaly ; 

 elytra sub-scabroso-punctate, from each puncture springs a very 

 short, sub-erect hair, and each one has tw^o rounded, not very con- 

 spicuous costte which are more deeply but not as closely punctured 

 as the intervals, or the sides ; propygidium, pygidium, abdomen, and 

 pectus clothed with flavescent, contiguous scales ; anterior tibiae 

 tri-dentate outwardly ; hind femora dentate near the knee, spine of 

 trochanters sharp ; hind tibiae red, robust, strongly compressed, 

 laminate underneath and having the apical part projecting ; tarsi 

 longer than the tibias and spinose underneath. 



Female : Like the male ; apical spur very long, hind claws simple. 



Length 8-10 mm. ; width 4-|-5^ mm. 



The only male I have seen had lost its hind tibiae, and I have 

 therefore to cull the description of that part from Burmeister ; 

 unfortunately it is not as clear as it might be. 



Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). My examples are 

 from Drege's Collection. 



MoNOCHELUs FORMOsus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 159. 



Male : Black, or very dark fuscous l^rown ; prothorax with three 

 bands of whitish or sub-flavescent scales ; scutellum and elytra 

 sprinkled with similar scales which also edge the abdominal segments 

 and the metasternum ; head very rugose, clypeus parallel, slightly 

 arcuate at tip, and with the outer angles not much rounded, 

 apical margin reflexed ; prothorax scarcely pubescent but having 

 some stiff, long bristles along the anterior and lateral margins, very 

 conspicuously grooved longitudinally in the middle, the groove 

 usually filled with scales, very diagonally attenuate laterally in the 

 anterior part and distinctly emarginate in the posterior where the 

 basal angle is sharp, it is very closely scabroso-punctate ; the scu- 

 tellum is partly covered with elongate scales, and those on the 

 elytra are somewhat scattered, but are still somewhat seriate ; the 

 propygidium and pygidium are without scales and nearly glalDrous ; 

 the hind femora are greatly developed, the trochanters are sharply 

 spinose, and the femora have an apical, distinct tooth under the 

 articulation of the knee ; the hind tibiiB have inwardly a broad but 



