1907.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 353 



A 1 . Basal joint of hind tarsi normal. 



Clypeus parallel, deeply sinuate in front; whole body covered 



with a thick pile of golden -yellow pubescence tomentosus. 



Anoplochilus rusticus, Gor. and Perch., 

 Monogr. Get., p. 263, pi. 50, fig. 4. 

 ruricola, G. and P., loc. cit., p. 264, pi. 50, fig. 6. 



Either entirely black or with the elytra more or less testaceous ; 

 head and clypeus deeply and scabrosely punctured, and densely 

 pubescent, the pubescence flavescent ; the clypeus is slightly 

 narrowed towards the apex the upturned truncate margin of which 

 bears four small teeth ; the galea is bluntly 3-dentate ; prothorax 

 diagonally narrowed laterally from the median part to the apex, 

 parallel behind, plainly dehiscent in the anterior part of the disk, 

 covered all over with round, deep punctures separated from each 

 other by an interval much narrower than their own diameter except 

 in the median basal part, and each setigerous, the hairs along the 

 outer margins are very long ; scutellum punctate but having the 

 basal part and a median longitudinal space impunctate ; elytra 

 narrowing slightly in the posterior part, plainly bi-costate on each 

 side, but having also traces of other costules, shallowly punctate, 

 each puncture bearing a minute flavescent hair ; pygidium glabrous ; 

 sides of abdomen, of pectus, and femora pubescent ; basal joint of 

 intermediate tarsi moderately spinose outwardly, first and second 

 joints of the hind ones more strongly spinose, the spine of the first 

 one being more produced than that of the second ; the development 

 of the outer part of these tarsal joints vary, however, in individuals, 

 and also according to the sex. 



This species seems to have subterranean habits. It is occasionally 

 found in sandy places, dragging itself along, much in the manner of 

 the Dynastid species of Hcteronychus ; it is somewhat rare in the 

 neighbourhood of Cape Town, but I have found it twice in fairly 

 good numbers in submerged or flooded places. Examples with 

 testaceous wing-cases are commoner than those which are completely 

 black. 



Length 10-12 mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl). 



Anoplochilus germari, Wiedem., 

 Zoolog. Magaz., ii., p. 86. 



Black, with a transverse reddish-yellow patch at the base of the 

 prothorax and immediately above the scutellum, elytra flavescent; 



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