1908.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 671 



erect greyish flavescent simple pubescence, which, although thick, 

 does not hide the black background, but along the basal margin the 

 hairs are slightly squamose ; scutellum not much elongated, clothed 

 with squamulose greyish white hairs hiding the background ; elytra 

 strongly narrowed towards the apex, seemingly without costules and 

 clothed with very dense, squamulose, elongated, flavescent whitish 

 hairs which, although set close to each other, do not completely hide 

 the colour of the background ; the pygidium is clothed with appressed 

 hairs and also scales, the abdomen with lanceolate, thick, squamose 

 hairs ; apical tooth of anterior tibiae long ; anterior claws double, 

 both cleft, the inner and smaller one very slightly only, the single 

 intermediate one also slightly incised at tip, hind ones double, and 

 cleft ; hind femora somewhat robust, simple like the tibise. 



Length 5| mm. ; width 3 mm. 



The facies of this species resembles that of Omocrates ; the shape 

 of the clypeus and also of the attenuated elytra being the same, but 

 the scutellum is not elongated as in Omocrates. The only example 

 seen by me is Boheman's type or co-type, described from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Svakop Eiver, in Damaraland. 



Gen. DICRANOCNEMUS, Catal. i., p. 787. 

 Dicranocnemus spiniceps, n. spec. 



Male : Black, elytra slightly rufescent laterally, claws and hind 

 tibiae reddish ; clypeus very plainly dentate laterally, and with the 

 outer angle of the truncate anterior margin produced into a con- 

 spicuous spine-like tooth ; prothorax moderately deeply grooved 

 longitudinally in the hind part, covered with strongly asperous 

 punctures turning to granules on the sides and clothed with a fairly 

 long sub-flavescent pubescence and a few yellow scales along the 

 base ; scutellum scaly ; elytra much narrower behind than in front, 

 sub-bicostulate on each side, very deeply punctate, not pubescent, 

 but sprinkled with small ovate yellowish or yellowish white scales 

 more numerous across the median part where they form two patches, 

 and along the apical margin where they form a broad border ; pro- 

 pygidium clothed with thick elongate yellow scales ; underside and 

 legs densely hairy, the hairs greyish ; upper outer tooth of anterior 

 tibiae far removed from the other two ; hind femora somewhat 

 robust and having a small trochanterine spine ; claws of intermediate 

 tarsi simple underneath, and cleft inwardly at the base, hind ones 

 single, not cleft. 



Female unknown. 



Length 4 J mm. ; width 21 mm. 



