838 Transactions South African Philosophical Socicttj. [vol. xii. 



and produced at about the median part of the thigh into a long, 

 sharp spine ; hind tibias concave inwardly especiallj' at the apex, 

 simple, but with the edges very sharp and the inner one produced 

 into an apical triangular, hollowed, somewhat short iBucro ; claws of 

 the anterior and intermediate legs distinctly double, the posterior 

 ones single, simple. 



Female : Colour and vestiture of the male, the scales are similar 

 and arranged in the same manner ; the hind legs are slender, and 

 the hind tibiae have a long, apical compressed spur. 



Length 9-11 mm. ; width 4i— 6 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Umvoti County), Transvaal 

 (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg), Cape Colony (King William's Town). 



MoNOCHELus PULCHER, Paring., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. iii., 1885, p. 94. 



Male : Bluish-])lack bronze with the elytra bronze-green, shining, 

 and with the upper side, pygidial part, abdomen and pectus 

 clothed with large, elongate, somewhat closely set golden scales, 

 legs red, tarsi black ; antennae I'ed with the club fuscous ; head 

 densely scaly, briefly pubescent, clypeus a little attenuate laterally 

 and with the outer angles completely rounded, apical part nearly 

 straight, and not emarginate, margins only slightly reflexed ; pro- 

 thorax very obliquely attenuated laterally in front and not much 

 rounded past the middle, fringed with long golden bristly hairs along 

 the anterior and lateral margins, and almost entirely covered by 

 the contiguous scales which, however, leave a small longitudinal 

 denuded band on each side ; prothorax closely scaly ; elytra attenuate 

 laterally towards the apex, non-costulate, shagreened, the scales are 

 large, elongato-ovate and separated from one another by a space 

 equal to their size ; the scales on the propygidium, pygidium, and 

 abdomen are smaller than those on the elytra and closely set ; the 

 hind femora are very robust, triangular underneath and with the 

 trochanters prolonged to the median part of the thigh, and sharply 

 spinose there ; tibiae convex on the outer face, somewhat concave on 

 the inner, simple but with the upper inner edge slightly serrate, and 

 produced at tip into a long, transverse mucro as long as the two 

 basal joints of the hind tarsi ; posterior claws single, not cleft but 

 having underneath a conspicuous, sub-median, and sub-horizontal 

 tooth. 



Female : The shape, colour, arrangement and size of the scales are 

 the same as in the male, but the hind tibiae have an apical spur, and 

 the hind claw has no tooth underneath 



