878 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



Length 8-8|^ mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Dm-ban). 



I have not seen the female of this insect. According to Bur- 

 meister it is setose, instead of squamose, and the claws of the 

 intermediate legs are double and cleft, the posterior legs have a 

 single claw which is also cleft. 



MiCROPLiDus STABiLis, n. spec. 



Similar in size, shape, and sculpture to M. albidus, it is covered 

 with scales identical in colour and size, but on each elytron there is 

 a small, sub-quadrate or transverse denuded space close to the 

 suture, and situated slightly past the median part. 



Length 6^7^ mm. ; width 3^-4 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban, Umvoti). 



MiCROPLiDUS BiNOTATUS, n. spec. 



Head, prothorax, legs, and pectus black, elytra, pygidial part, and 

 abdomen chestnut-brown ; clypeus with the outer angles slightly 

 oblique, head briefly pubescent ; prothorax plainly attenuated laterally 

 in the anterior part and somewhat rounded in the median, convex, 

 covered with scale-like fiavescent appressed hairs, and very closely 

 and finely punctured ; pygidium covered with minute, elongate sub- 

 flavescent scales ; elytra with two nearly obliterated costules on each 

 side, very closely punctulate and having in each puncture a minute 

 ■elongate fiavescent scale, except near the suture at about the median 

 part, where there is a small denuded round spot ; on the pygidial 

 part and on the abdomen the scales are thicker than on the elytra 

 and more greyish, and the pectus has an appressed pubescence ; 

 l)oth the claws of the anterior legs are cleft at the tip, and the 

 inner of the intermediate ones is hardly half the length of the outer. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



MiCROPLiDus LUCTUosus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Catfrar., ii., p. 159. 

 Black, opaque, clothed with a fuscous tomentose pubescence on 

 the upper side ; prothorax with three bands, often partly obliterated, 

 of round scales ; elytra with four longitudinal bands of white round 

 scales, broadly interrupted in the median part of the disk ; pygidial 

 part and abdomen clothed with elongate white scales, pectus with 

 scales and appi'essed greyish haii'S, legs pubescent but not scaly ; 



