1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 871 



tri-dentate (inoruatus), anterior claws double and both cleft, the inter- 

 mediate ones double but unequal, and either both cleft {inoruatus) or 

 only the stronger one {ne(jlectus), posterior ones double, unequal. 



I know only two out of the three species included in this genus by 

 Burmeister. Their facies is quite unlike that of the other insects 

 included in this group, and in shape they somewhat resemble some 

 species oi Pcritrichia. 



Key to the Species. 

 A.-' Body not shiny. 



Prothorax a7id elytra clothed with long, villose hairs in both sexes ; 

 elytra light chestnut with a fuscous border ; propygidium with a 

 transverse band of white hairs in the male inovnatm. 



Prothorax black, villose; elytra chestnut-red or testaceous accord- 

 ing to the sexes, and clothed with dense appressed testaceous hairs nefilectua, 



A'. Body shiny. 



Whole body clothed with very dense long hairs ; elytra pale 

 testaceous hilaris. 



Anisochelus inoknatus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 171. 



Male : Black, with the elytra testaceous and having a broad lateral 

 fuscous border ; head very rugose, cljrpeus a little rounded laterally, 

 straight at apex and with the lateral angles distinct, the head and 

 prothorax are clothed with very long, erect black hairs, and the 

 surface is finely aciculate ; scutellum briefly pubescent ; elytra broad 

 and somewhat short, sub-quadrangular and singly rounded at the 

 apex, they are very flat, slightly impressed longitudinally along the 

 suture, and also along the outer margin, not costulate, punctulate,, 

 set with very short, sub-appressed black hairs, not dense enough to 

 form a pubescence, and long black bristles somewhat scattered but 

 more numerous on the shoulders and in the anterior part ; pygidium 

 broad but not long, villose and having a conspicuous transverse band 

 of appressed white silky hairs along the base, the other villose hairs 

 are black ; abdomen and pectus clothed with a greyish pubescence ; 

 anterior tibiae tri-dentate, claws of the anterior and intermediate legs 

 double and both cleft, those of the posterior legs are double, but only 

 the smaller one is cleft ; legs piceous, very bristly. 



Female : Shape and size of the male ; it is also very villose on the 

 prothorax and the elytra, but the latter especially are also covered 

 with dense, appressed greyish hairs ; the pygidium has a transverse 

 band of greyish hairs along the base and at the apex, and the hairs 

 and the pubescence underneath are a little more flavescent. 



