﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  637 
  

  

  set 
  also 
  on 
  the 
  median 
  and 
  posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  space 
  between 
  the 
  

   suture 
  and 
  the 
  humeral 
  costa 
  ; 
  propygidium, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  

   thickly 
  clothed 
  with 
  similar 
  scales 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  piceous 
  red 
  and 
  

   with 
  the 
  basal 
  outer 
  tooth 
  distinct 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  very 
  long, 
  narrow, 
  deeply 
  

   incised 
  at 
  tip. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  remarkable 
  by 
  the 
  brilliancy 
  of 
  the 
  green 
  scales, 
  

   which, 
  however, 
  have 
  no 
  golden 
  sheen. 
  

  

  Length 
  9-10 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4^-5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Eiversdale). 
  

  

  Anisonyx 
  lepidotus, 
  Wiedem., 
  

   Germ. 
  Magaz., 
  iv., 
  p. 
  139. 
  

  

  Black, 
  or 
  as 
  often 
  as 
  not 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  fulvous 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  

   prothorax 
  very 
  densely 
  villose 
  with 
  the 
  hairs 
  black 
  or 
  fulvous 
  ; 
  the 
  

   prothorax 
  has 
  three 
  median 
  lines 
  of 
  green 
  scales, 
  and 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  

   an 
  elongate, 
  broad 
  band 
  or 
  patch 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra, 
  which 
  are 
  densely 
  

   clothed 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  with 
  long 
  hairs, 
  fuscous 
  or 
  fulvous, 
  according 
  to 
  

   the 
  colour 
  of 
  the 
  elytra, 
  have 
  a 
  few 
  scattered 
  green 
  scales, 
  which 
  are 
  

   also 
  remote 
  on 
  the 
  propygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  ; 
  the 
  abdomen 
  is 
  

   without 
  scales, 
  but 
  it 
  is, 
  like 
  the 
  pectus 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae, 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  very 
  long 
  and 
  dense 
  fulvous 
  hairs 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  very 
  long, 
  somewhat 
  

   slender, 
  acuminate 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  triangularly 
  emar- 
  

   ginate 
  at 
  tip 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  with 
  a 
  somewhat 
  distinct 
  third, 
  basal 
  

   tooth. 
  

  

  Length 
  8-J-- 
  9 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4-4-| 
  mm. 
  

  

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

  

  Found 
  in 
  great 
  numbers 
  on 
  the 
  flowers 
  of 
  gladiolus 
  and 
  the 
  corolla 
  

   of 
  Richardia 
  athiopica. 
  

  

  Anisonyx 
  hilaeis, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

   Head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  black, 
  elytra 
  and 
  legs 
  light 
  brick-red, 
  antennae 
  

   and 
  palpi 
  black 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  densely 
  villose, 
  the 
  hairs 
  black 
  ; 
  

   the 
  prothorax 
  has 
  two 
  broad 
  bands 
  of 
  bluish 
  opaline 
  scales 
  on 
  each 
  

   side, 
  and 
  a 
  narrow, 
  median 
  one 
  ; 
  the 
  two 
  lateral 
  bands 
  often 
  coalesce, 
  

   but 
  the 
  scales 
  are 
  very 
  often 
  rubbed 
  off 
  ; 
  the 
  scutellum 
  has 
  no 
  scales, 
  

   but 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  there 
  are 
  some 
  sapphyrine 
  ones 
  somewhat 
  scat- 
  

   tered, 
  but 
  denser 
  in 
  the 
  juxta-sutural 
  and 
  the 
  supra-marginal 
  

   longitudinal 
  depressions 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  closely 
  set 
  sapphyrine 
  ovate 
  scales 
  and 
  

   villose, 
  the 
  hairs 
  greyish 
  ; 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  

   sapphyrine 
  scales 
  ; 
  pectus 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  black 
  villosity 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  

   very 
  long, 
  attenuated 
  laterally 
  from 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part, 
  slightly 
  

  

  