﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  675 
  

  

  B*. 
  Pygidium 
  with 
  a 
  basal 
  line 
  or 
  band. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  marginal 
  band 
  of 
  scales 
  and 
  a 
  

   small 
  patch 
  on. 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  elytra 
  red, 
  bristly 
  along 
  the 
  

   suture 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  with 
  a 
  broad, 
  

   basal 
  transverse 
  velvety 
  black 
  patch 
  namaqua. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  with 
  the 
  scaly 
  outer 
  border, 
  but 
  not 
  the 
  

   small 
  patch 
  ; 
  elytra 
  pale 
  testaceous, 
  bristly 
  all 
  over 
  ; 
  

   propygidium 
  with 
  a 
  narrow, 
  but 
  distinct 
  transverse, 
  

   apical 
  black 
  band 
  saga. 
  

  

  B 
  1 
  . 
  Pygidium 
  with 
  a 
  longitudinal 
  denuded 
  median 
  band. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  flavous 
  scaly 
  margin 
  ; 
  elytra 
  reddish 
  

   brown, 
  bristly 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  ; 
  

   propygidium 
  with 
  a 
  narrow, 
  velvety, 
  apical 
  line, 
  

   pygidium 
  covered 
  with 
  whitish 
  flavescent 
  scales, 
  and 
  

   having 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  a 
  distinct, 
  longitudinal 
  black 
  

   band 
  lineola. 
  

  

  Pachycnema 
  striata, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  8 
  ; 
  Plate 
  XLIV., 
  figs. 
  4, 
  ia. 
  

  

  Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  57. 
  

  

  Head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  black 
  ; 
  elytra 
  reddish 
  -brown 
  and 
  having 
  on 
  

   each 
  side 
  five 
  broad 
  uninterrupted 
  bands 
  of 
  white 
  scales 
  ; 
  legs 
  

   brownish 
  red 
  ; 
  head 
  deeply 
  scrobiculate, 
  hairy 
  laterally, 
  clypeus 
  

   elongate, 
  slightly 
  attenuate 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  little 
  emarginate 
  at 
  tip, 
  

   and 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  sharply 
  recurved 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  greatly 
  

   attenuated 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  and 
  not 
  sinuate, 
  the 
  base 
  is 
  

   arcuate 
  and 
  marginate, 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  surface 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  

   closely 
  set, 
  lanceolate 
  scales 
  interspersed 
  with 
  long, 
  flavescent 
  hairs 
  

   which 
  are 
  denser 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  

   covered 
  with 
  dense, 
  large, 
  elongate 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  ampliated 
  laterally 
  

   at 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  from 
  the 
  shoulder 
  in 
  both 
  sexes, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  

   humeral 
  callus 
  very 
  pronounced, 
  somewhat 
  depressed 
  in 
  the 
  

   centre 
  below 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  and 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  four 
  slightly 
  

   raised 
  costae, 
  smooth 
  and 
  denuded 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  bearing 
  a 
  row 
  

   of 
  remote 
  black 
  bristles, 
  they 
  are 
  punctate 
  and 
  partly 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   flavous 
  hair-like 
  appressed 
  scales, 
  while 
  the 
  five 
  intervals 
  are 
  

   covered 
  with 
  small, 
  nearly 
  contiguous 
  scales, 
  white 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  

   yellowish 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  entirely 
  covered 
  with 
  yellowish- 
  

   white 
  scales 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  and 
  under 
  side 
  densely 
  hairy 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  

   with 
  four 
  strong 
  outer 
  teeth 
  the 
  two 
  anterior 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  connate 
  

   at 
  base, 
  but 
  are 
  nearer 
  to 
  the 
  third 
  than 
  the 
  basal 
  one, 
  which 
  is 
  a 
  

   little 
  less 
  sharp 
  than 
  the 
  other 
  three, 
  but 
  broader 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  

   shorter 
  ; 
  trochanters 
  of 
  posterior 
  legs 
  produced 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  into 
  

  

  