1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 843 



Length 6-7 mm. ; width 3i— 4 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban, Frere) ; Transvaal (Johannesburg). 



MoNOCHELUs iNOPs, u. spec. 



Male : Black, covered on the head, prothorax and elytra with 

 dingy, ashy-grey appressed hairs scarcely squamose, antenna? rufes- 

 cent wdth the club black ; clypeus very broadly rounded laterally 

 with the anterior margin reflexed and not emarginate in the middle ; 

 head roughly punctate, clothed with short, slightly flavescent, erect 

 hairs ; prothorax regularly ampliate in the middle laterally, closely 

 punctate, but the punctures are not scabrose, and bear each a short 

 appressed hair, median part not grooved longitudinally except near 

 the base, where there is a short sulcus, the anterior and lateral 

 margins are fringed with very long, slightly fulvous, bristly hairs ; 

 scutellum covered with sub-squamose hairs ; elytra costate in the 

 discoidal part and costulate below the shoulder, roughly punctulate 

 and with the squamose hairs denser in the two dorsal intervals ; pro- 

 pygidium and under side clothed with appressed, squamose, slightly 

 flavescent hairs ; anterior tibia? bi-dentate, hind legs robust, femora 

 swollen, simple, but having the trochanters produced into a short, 

 sharp spine, hind tibia? broad but somewhat compressed, emarginate 

 underneath near the knee, slightly concave inwardly near the apex 

 where it is sub-mucronate inwards and sharply angular on the upper 

 side, the upper edge is very deeply emarginate at a short distance 

 from the apex, the upper angle of the emargination being very sharp, 

 almost dentate ; there is a small, yet distinct apical spur, and the 

 outer surface is irregularly foveato-punctate. 

 • Female unknown. 



Length 1-lh mm. ; width 3|- mm. 



I have seen four males of this species preserved in spirit ; it is 

 possible that the sub-squamose hairs are more flavescent in fresh 

 examples. 



Hah. I am not sure of the true habitat of this species. It might 

 prove to be Port Elizabeth in the Cape Colony or Durban in Natal. 

 I opine for the latter. 



MoNOCHELUS GEACiLis, n. spec. 



Male : Black, with the legs rufescent, whole body, including the 

 hind legs, clothed with closely set scales ; clypeus very little attenuate 

 laterally, nearly straight at the tip and with the outer angles sharp 

 but not reflexed ; pi'othorax setulose laterally and in front, but the 



