1902.] Cataloyue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 879 



head very rugose, covered with a very short, somewhat fulvous 

 puhescence ; prothorax also very closely punctured and clothed 

 with moderately long erect hairs ; scutellum not scaly ; elytra 

 elongate, very slightly sinuate laterally, not very distinctly tri- 

 costulate, and having rows of very short erect bristles ; the 

 antennte are rufescent, and the legs black; the inner claw of the 

 intermediate tarsi is very small, and often obliterated, and only 

 the outer claw of the anterior legs is cleft. 



Length 7-9 mm. ; width 3|-4|- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kowie, East London) ; Natal (Durban, 

 Maritzburg). 



MiCROPLiDus puMiLus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 160. 



Chestnut-brown, covered on the upper and the under sides with 

 closely set but not quite contiguous, small, elongate, slightly flavescent 

 scales ; the head and prothorax are very closely punctured and not 

 pubescent, the whole head is covered with scales, the clypeus is 

 much rounded laterally, the scales on the prothorax are quite 

 similar to those on the elytra, the latter are not plainly costulate, 

 but along the suture and also on each side there are faint rows of 

 minute whitish bristles ; the scales on the pygidial part and the 

 under side are finer, more appressed, and more hair-like than on the 

 upper side, and the anterior tibiae have a third minute outer tooth ; 

 inner claw of intermediate legs more than half the length of the 

 outer. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban). 



MiCROPLiDUS PERSiMiLis, n. spec. 



Chestnut-l)rown with the legs rufescent like the preceding species, 

 which it greatly resembles, and also covered above and under with 

 flavescent scales, but it is more elongate, the scales, which are 

 smaller, are more closely set, thus almost obscurmg the colour of the 

 background, and those on the under side and pygidial part are round 

 and also very closely set ; each elytron has four plain rows of whitish 

 bristles in addition to a sutural and an outer marginal one; the 

 anterior tibiaj are normally bi-dentate outwardly, both the claws 

 of the anterior and intermediate legs, and also the single claw of the 

 posterior are cleft, and the inner one of the intermediate legs is half 

 the length of the outer. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban). 



