﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  699 
  

  

  angles 
  and 
  the 
  apical 
  one 
  is 
  slightly 
  oblique, 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  inner 
  

   apical 
  tooth 
  and 
  the 
  claws 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  legs 
  are 
  double, 
  strongly 
  

   divaricating, 
  and 
  cleft 
  at 
  the 
  tip. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  figure 
  and 
  details 
  given 
  by 
  Guerin-Meneville, 
  loc. 
  cit., 
  the 
  

   hind 
  legs 
  only, 
  the 
  claws 
  especially, 
  are 
  correct. 
  

  

  Key 
  to 
  the 
  Species. 
  

  

  Male. 
  

  

  A 
  2 
  . 
  Trochanters 
  of 
  hind 
  femora 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  long 
  spine. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  without 
  any 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  grooved 
  underneath 
  from 
  

   the 
  large 
  median 
  minor 
  tooth, 
  and 
  having 
  another 
  acute 
  inner 
  

   tooth 
  near 
  the 
  knee 
  (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  23) 
  dentipes. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  without 
  any 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibias 
  with 
  a 
  small 
  inner 
  tooth 
  

   near 
  the 
  knee 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  median 
  one 
  grooved 
  from 
  apex 
  to 
  

   base 
  (pi. 
  xlii. 
  fig. 
  24) 
  expansus. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  with 
  a 
  juxta-sutural 
  line 
  of 
  whitish 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  not 
  

   grooved 
  underneath, 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  small 
  inner 
  tooth 
  near 
  the 
  

   knee 
  and 
  a 
  conspicuous 
  median 
  one 
  (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  26) 
  .. 
  .. 
  acanthopus. 
  

  

  Similar 
  to 
  the 
  preceding 
  species, 
  but 
  elytra 
  with 
  three 
  bands 
  of 
  

  

  whitish 
  scales 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  villosus. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  with 
  three 
  broad 
  bands 
  of 
  dense 
  ashy-grey 
  scales 
  ; 
  pro- 
  

   thorax 
  scaly 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  as 
  in 
  D. 
  acanthopus 
  vittatus. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  with 
  a 
  juxta-sutural 
  line 
  of 
  white 
  scales 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  not 
  

   scaly; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  short, 
  very 
  curved, 
  grooved 
  beneath, 
  and 
  with 
  

   only 
  a 
  small 
  inner 
  tooth 
  near 
  the 
  knee 
  luctuosus. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  with 
  a 
  discoidal 
  and 
  a 
  juxta-sutural 
  interrupted 
  line 
  of 
  

   white 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  trochanters 
  slender 
  and 
  very 
  sharp 
  ; 
  hind 
  

   tibiae 
  not 
  curved, 
  compressed, 
  grooved 
  underneath, 
  and 
  simple 
  

   (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  28) 
  simplicipes. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  with 
  a 
  discoidal 
  and 
  a 
  juxta-sutural 
  interrupted 
  line 
  of 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  curved, 
  grooved, 
  dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  

   basal 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  groove 
  only 
  ; 
  trochanters 
  strongly 
  dentate, 
  

   femur 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  basal 
  spine 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  non-scaly 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  holosericeus. 
  

  

  A 
  1 
  . 
  Trochanters 
  of 
  hind 
  femora 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  short 
  but 
  sharp 
  spine. 
  

  

  Body 
  black, 
  elytra 
  testaceous 
  and 
  with 
  three 
  lines 
  of 
  flavescent 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  carinate 
  underneath, 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  near 
  

   the 
  knee, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  angles 
  of 
  the 
  emargination 
  sharp 
  . 
  . 
  lucidus. 
  

  

  Body 
  without 
  scales, 
  black 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  simple 
  ; 
  tibiae 
  short, 
  

   very 
  curved, 
  carinate 
  underneath, 
  sharply 
  dentate 
  inwardly, 
  

   and 
  produced 
  at 
  apex 
  into 
  a 
  very 
  strong 
  mucro 
  (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  32) 
  laticollis. 
  

  

  