1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 845 



hind femora very strong, broadly dilated triangularly till past the 

 median part, triangularly dentate underneath, and with the tro- 

 chanters completely fused with the lower edge of the thigh, and pro- 

 duced at about the median part into a sharp spine a little in front of 

 the post-median tinangular tooth ; hind tibioB very curved, somewhat 

 slender, covered with appressed white hairs, a little concave inwardly 

 at the apex, the lower edge of which is mucronate, the mucro is 

 short, and there is a distinct apical spur ; hind claws single, simple ; 

 the fore tibiee have the basal tooth quite obliterated in both 

 sexes. 



Female : Like the male, but the scales on the prothorax are more 

 hair-like, the scales on the elytra are a little deeper yellow, and form 

 two distinct dorsal bands, the juxta-sutural one is interrupted below 

 the base, and the pygidium is covered with appressed squamose 

 hairs. 



Length 5-7-j mm. ; width 3^4 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban). 



MoNOCHELUs LiTiGiosus, n. spec. 



Male : Very closely allied to M. Icetus, from which it differs by 

 the uninterrupted squamose covering and the shape of the hind 

 femora ; instead of having a denuded lateral patch and a band along- 

 side the median groove on each side of the prothorax, this part of the 

 body is entirely covered with greyish white scales ; the brownish red 

 elytra are also covered with dense, although not contiguous, scales 

 which are not forming longitudinal bands, and the hind femora have 

 only the trochanterine spine beneath, this latter forms the apex of 

 the triangle ; the horizontal tooth under the median claw is stronger 

 than in M. Icetus. 



Female : Like the male ; it is also differentiated from the female 

 of M. IcBtus by the absence of longitudinal bands of scales on tlie 

 elytra. 



Length 7-7|- mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban, Estcourt). 



MoNOCHELUs L^TULUS, n. spec. 



Male : Black, with the whole upper surface, the pygidial part, the 

 abdomen and pectus entirely covered with contiguous ochre-yellow 

 scales ; legs red ; head, prothorax, and elytra similar in shape to 

 those of M. Icetus, but there is no denuded space or bands on the 

 prothorax and the elytra ; the scales on the latter are round, and they 



