1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 877 



by appressed hairs. In the two species belonging to the latter 

 section the teeth of the maxillae are smaller and less plainly distinct 

 than in the others. 



Key to the Species. 



A-. Body covered with scales. 



1j3. Claws of the intermediate legs single, simple in the male. 



Body covered with round white scales alhiger. 



Body covered with round white scales, but having a denuded 



spot on each elytron atdJnli.-f. 



B-. Claws of the intermediate legs double, but inner claw very small. 



Body covered with a black tomentum, elytra with five inter- 

 rupted bands of white round scales luetuosus. 



Body covered with minute elongate flavescent scales, and 



having a small denuded spot on each elytron hiiiotatus. 



B\ Claws of the intermediate legs double, inner claw long. 



Body covered with small elongate whitish scales; anterior 



tibise tri-dentate i^umilng. 



Body covered with very dense, ovate flavescent scales, each 

 elytron with five rows of short, whitish bristles ; anterior tibiae 

 bi-dentate perdmilix. 



A'. Body covered with appressed hairs. 



Upper side and pygidium covered with thick, slightly squamose 



greyish hairs ; claws of the intermediate legs single algocnsi>!. 



Upper side and pygidium covered with fine non-squamose ap- 

 pressed hairs ; claws of intermediate legs double nilgus. 



MiCROPLIDUS ALBIGEK, Bumi., 



Handb. d. Entom., iv., 2, p. 482. 

 Male : Eeddish brown, with the head and prothorax black, 

 covered above and under with round white scales ; head very briefly 

 pubescent ; clypeus broadly rounded laterally and very rugose ; pro- 

 thorax plainly narrowed laterally in the anterior part and straight 

 thence, with the basal angle somewhat sharp, moderately convex, 

 and with a margin of very short bristles ; scutellum slightly elongated, 

 ogival, densely scaly ; elytra elongated, not sinuate laterally, but a 

 little attenuated towards the apex, somewhat convex, not costulate ; 

 pygidium vertical, densely scaly; claws of anterior legs double, 

 unequal, the stouter one cleft at the apex, intermediate and pos- 

 terior tarsi with a single, simple claw. 



