1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 865 



prothorax covered with dense, moderately short, bristly hairs ; scales 

 on the scutellum a little lighter than those on the elytra ; elytra faintly 

 costulate on each side in the discoidal part for about two-thirds of 

 the length, and having only a row of very short setae along the suture 

 and all round the marginal part ; edge of the pygidium and of the 

 abdominal segments with minute setge ; hind femora moderately 

 thick, hind tibiae longer than the femora, swollen in the middle and 

 with a short, sharp mucro on the upper apical part, fifth joint of 

 intermediate and posterior tibiae strongly developed, especially the 

 latter, which has a conspicuous triangular tooth and a smaller basal 

 one underneath. 



Female : Similar to the male in shape and colouration, but the 

 hind tibiae are not swollen, the fifth joint of the hind tarsi are not so 

 strongly developed, and the scales on the pygidium are nearly always 

 more flavescent than in the male. 



Length 10-12 mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Clanwilliam, Namaqualand). 



SCELOPHYSA TRIMENI, Pei'ing., 



Plate XLIV., fig. 7. 

 Trans. S. Afric. Philos. Soc, vol. iii., pt. ii., 95, 1885. 



Male : Shape of the preceding species, but clothed on the upper 

 and under side with bright azure- blue minute scales, having a faint 

 silvery tinge on the under side ; the legs ai'e black, the anterior 

 ones and also the head have no scales, but the intermediate and 

 hind legs have blue scales ; the head is very scabrose and covered 

 with a dense but not long greyish pubescence, that on the 

 prothorax is white ; the elytra are distinctly bi-costate on each side, 

 but also striate laterally, and the suture is as much raised as the 

 discoidal costae, which, like the narrow intervals separating the 

 lateral striae, bear each a row of very short, white, bristly hairs ; the 

 scales in the posterior half of the propygidium are round, whereas 

 in the anterior part, on the pygidium itself, and on the abdomen 

 they are elongate ; the legs are similar to those of <S'. militaris, but 

 the third and fourth joints are developed inwardly into a long- 

 spine on the upper side, especially the latter, and the fifth joint is tri- 

 dentate. 



Female : Like the male in general appearance, but entirely covered 

 on the upper side with brown scales intermingled with orange-yellow 

 ones, which are partly rubbed off in all my examples on the prothorax, 

 and similar in colour to those covering the pygidial part and 

 abdomen, but on the posterior half of the propygidium there is a 



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