842 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



there are three bands of scales divided by two shght costae ; the pro- 

 pygidium, sides of the abdomen, and pectus are densely scaly, the 

 pygidiuni has only some remote, hair-like appressed scales ; all the 

 femora are red, the hind ones are very robust, grooved beneath, but 

 simple, the trochanters are produced into a very long spine ; the hind 

 tibiae are piceous black like the anterior and intermediate ones, only 

 slightly convex on the outer face, concave in the inner, slightly 

 dilated towards the tip where tlie two apices are mucronate, in- 

 wardly there is no apical spur ; claws of the intermediate legs with a 

 very distinct sub-vertical tooth beneath ; claws of the posterior legs 

 single, simple. 



Female : Similar to the male and with the yellow scales also 

 similarly arranged, but the pygidium is a little less densely scaly ; 

 the femora are also red. 



Length 6-7 mm. ; wadth 3i- mm. 



Hah. Zululand (Eshowe) ; Natal (Howick). 



MONOCHELUS OKXATUS, Bumi., 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 161. 



Male : Black, with the elytra and legs red and shining ; the pro- 

 thorax has a narrow median band of flavescent scales, and the sides 

 are broadly covered with similar scales ; the scutellum is hairy, and 

 on each elytron there is a Ijand of not very closely set whitish flaves- 

 cent scales running alongside tlie suture from about the median part 

 to the apex, and a dorsal one ])eginning at the base, but obliterated 

 at about the median part ; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen 

 covered with contiguous yellow scales ; head as in the two preceding 

 species, i.e., a little attenuate laterally towards the apex, with the 

 outer angles somew'hat rounded and the apical margin slightly 

 reflexed ; the prothorax is deeply grooved in the centre and fringed 

 with long, bristly yellow hairs along the anterior and lateral margins ; 

 the elytra have two shght longitudinal impressions divided by a 

 blunt, not very distinct costa, and they are somewhat deeply punc- 

 tured along the outer margins ; the hind femora are very robust and 

 simple, but the trochanters are produced into a long, sharp spine, 

 the hind tibiae are very broadly scooped inw^ardly and the inner edge 

 is produced at about two-thirds of the length into a long, sub-trans- 

 verse, mucro-like tooth, the outer edge is simple but sharp, the apices 

 are sharp but not mucronate, and there is a small apical spur ; hind 

 claws single, simple ; basal outer tooth of anterior tibiiE nearly 

 obliterated. 



Female unknown. 



