1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 875 



with a minute inner spur ; larger claw of anterior legs not deeply 

 cleft. 



Length 5|— 6mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



Gen. MICEOPLUS, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 174. 



Mentum straight laterally but slightly attenuated towards the apex 

 where it is nearly straight, with the angles distinct ; maxillae mode- 

 rately elongate, upper lobe transverse, short, truncate at apex, not 

 toothed but having there a few short, stiff bristles, slightly denti- 

 form, and a thin pencil of hairs, apical joints of maxillary and 

 labial palpi slightly curved inwardly and sub-fusiform outwardly, 

 the intermediate joint of the labial seems fused with the third, and 

 the two intermediate ones of the maxillary are obconical, the second 

 not much longer than the third ; clypeus a little attenuated laterally 

 towards the apex, slightly hollowed there and with the apical margin 

 a little emarginate but with the anterior angles sharp ; prothorax 

 not very convex, plainly obliquely attenuated laterally from the 

 median part to the anterior, straight thence as far as the outer angle 

 which is distinct but not sharp, base bi-sinuate ; scutellum longer 

 than broad, ogival ; elytra elongate, sub-parallel, rounded behind, not 

 very convex, covering the basal part of the propygidium ; pygidium 

 obtusely triangular, vertical in the male ; abdomen not compressed ; 

 all the tibiae with an inner spur ; interior ones bi-dentate in the 

 male, and with a minute third tooth in the female ; anterior and 

 intermediate claws double and unequal, the posterior single and 

 simple, the stronger claw of the anterior and intermediate is slightly 

 cleft and so is the weaker claw of the anterior legs. 



Burmeister includes in this genus, of which the South African 

 31. nemoralis is the type, several Madagascar species, but I am not 

 sure that they belong to it. 



MiCROPLUs NEMOBALis, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 174. 



Eusty red, moderately shining ; head clothed with short squamose 

 flavescent hairs looking like scales, a few of these are to be seen 

 along the marginal edges of the prothorax, on the scutellum and 

 along the apical margin of the elytra ; clypeus plainly reliexed and 

 with the angles sharp, slightly emarginate in the middle and gx'anu- 

 lose ; prothorax very closely punctured, each puncture bearing a 



