﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  695 
  

  

  testaceous 
  red 
  elytra 
  ; 
  the 
  propygidium 
  and 
  abdomen 
  are 
  clothed 
  also 
  

   with 
  appressed 
  flavous 
  scales, 
  but 
  the 
  hind 
  legs, 
  which 
  are 
  reddish 
  

   brown, 
  differ. 
  The 
  hind 
  femora 
  have 
  beneath 
  a 
  sharp 
  tooth 
  at 
  about 
  

   the 
  median 
  part, 
  and 
  connected 
  with 
  a 
  sharp 
  carina 
  reaching 
  to 
  the 
  

   apex 
  ; 
  the 
  tibiae 
  are 
  also 
  strongly 
  carinate 
  inwardly, 
  the 
  carina 
  being 
  

   strongly 
  serrate, 
  and 
  the 
  apical 
  inner 
  process 
  is 
  very 
  elongate, 
  

   strongly 
  but 
  bluntly 
  dentate 
  outwardly 
  and 
  is 
  five-dentate 
  at 
  tip, 
  the 
  

   upper 
  apical 
  tooth 
  is 
  small 
  but 
  very 
  distinct, 
  and 
  the 
  apical 
  spur 
  

   which 
  is 
  set 
  close 
  to 
  it 
  is 
  long 
  and 
  sharp 
  ; 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  genital 
  

   armature 
  is 
  also 
  different 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  H. 
  auriventris, 
  but 
  the 
  female 
  

   is 
  not 
  distinguishable 
  from 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  latter. 
  

  

  Length 
  10^-12 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  6-J-9 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Worcester). 
  

  

  Hoplocnemis 
  mutica, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  6. 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  55. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  also 
  resembles 
  H. 
  auriventris, 
  and 
  more 
  especially 
  the 
  

   red-winged 
  examples 
  of 
  H. 
  armata, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  only 
  on 
  the 
  propygidium 
  

   that 
  there 
  are 
  a 
  few 
  scattered 
  navescent 
  scales, 
  the 
  abdomen 
  having 
  

   none. 
  In 
  the 
  male 
  the 
  frontal 
  tubercle 
  is 
  obliterated 
  ; 
  the 
  colour 
  is 
  

   black, 
  the 
  elytra 
  only 
  being 
  brick-red, 
  the 
  sculpture 
  and 
  vestiture, 
  

   with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  the 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  are 
  as 
  in 
  H. 
  armata, 
  

   but 
  in 
  the 
  hind 
  legs, 
  the 
  trochanters 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  sub-spinose, 
  there 
  

   is 
  no 
  tooth 
  beneath, 
  and 
  the 
  inner 
  apical 
  process 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  is 
  

   nearly 
  as 
  much 
  developed 
  as 
  in 
  H. 
  armata, 
  but 
  broader, 
  strongly 
  tri- 
  

   dentate 
  inwardly, 
  bi-dentate 
  at 
  tip, 
  and 
  having 
  four 
  smaller 
  but 
  

   distinct 
  teeth 
  outwardly 
  ; 
  the 
  forcipate 
  clasps 
  of 
  the 
  genital 
  armature 
  

   are 
  somewhat 
  different 
  from 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  preceding 
  species. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  12-J- 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  8 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Victoria 
  West). 
  

  

  Hoplocnemis 
  fuliginosa, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  7. 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  56. 
  

   Head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  fuscous 
  black, 
  elytra 
  and 
  legs 
  reddish 
  brown 
  ; 
  

   abdomen 
  and 
  pygidium 
  covered 
  with 
  yellowish 
  scales 
  ; 
  head 
  rugose, 
  

   not 
  tuberculate 
  in 
  either 
  sex, 
  clypeus 
  acuminate, 
  the 
  two 
  lateral 
  

   apical 
  teeth 
  set 
  very 
  close 
  to 
  one 
  another, 
  it 
  is 
  densely 
  hairy, 
  the 
  

   hairs 
  being 
  black 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  obliquely 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  