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hairs, and having the usual fringe of black bristles ; elytra very 

 slightly bi-costulate on each side, closely punctured, extremely briefly 

 pubescent, attenuate laterally towards the apex, and distinctly sinuate 

 below the humeral part; anterior tibiae sharply tri-dentate; anterior 

 claws double, intermediate single, cleft ; hind femora simple, not 

 robust, without trochanterine spine ; hind tibiae moderately slender, a 

 little dilated towards the apex, not mucronate there and without an 

 apical spur. 



Female: Like the male, but having an apical spur on the hind 

 tibiae, the scales are also whitish, but on the pygidium there is an 

 elongate, sharply triangular patch of flavescent scales. 



Length 7-8 mm. ; width 3^-4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Mossel Bay, Worcester, Willowmore). 



Gymnoloma parvula, Burm., 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 160. 



Black, and covered with elongate white scales, looking more Uke 

 squamose hairs in the female ; in the male the prothorax has a longi- 

 tudinal denuded median space divided by a thin line of scales set in 

 the shallow median groove ; the scales on the elytra are moderately 

 dense and more closely set along the sutural part ; head densely 

 scaly, lateral and apical margins strongly reflexed and anterior part 

 of clypeus sub-excavate ; pi'othorax ampliate laterally at middle, and 

 not emarginate in the posterior part ; elytra very little attenuate 

 towards the apex, non-costulate ; hind femora not swollen in the 

 male, simple, and without spinose trochanter ; hind tibiae compressed, 

 a little dilated inwardly at the middle, simple and non-mucronate 

 at apex. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Graham's Town). 



This species was included by Burmeister in 2Ionochclus. 



Gymnoloma pusilla, n. spec. 



Male: Very closely alUed to G. parvula, h\x.i smaller; the shape 

 and sculpture of the head and of the outer teeth of the anterior tibiae 

 are similar, but the prothorax is not grooved longitudinally in the 

 centre, and is uniformly covered with small, elongate, slightly 

 flavescent scales ; the elytra are also uniformly clothed with similar 

 scales, the pygidial part and the abdomen are scaly. 



The absence of median groove on the prothorax, which is uniformly 

 covered with scales, distinguishes this species from G. parnda. 



