﻿700 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  Body 
  without 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  brownish-red 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  with 
  the 
  

   inner 
  tooth 
  of 
  the 
  knee 
  longer 
  and 
  sharper 
  than 
  the 
  outer 
  one 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  short, 
  broadly 
  dilated 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  deeply 
  

   grooved 
  underneath, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  excava- 
  

   tion 
  dentate 
  near 
  the 
  knee 
  and 
  also 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  25) 
  denticeps. 
  

  

  Body 
  without 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  flavous 
  ; 
  hind 
  legs 
  simple 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  pallid 
  ipennis^ 
  

  

  Female. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  without 
  any 
  scale, 
  costulate, 
  and 
  very 
  rugose 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  

  

  clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  zuluanus. 
  

  

  Dichelus 
  dentipes, 
  Fabric, 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLII., 
  fig. 
  23. 
  

  

  Spec. 
  Insect., 
  i., 
  p. 
  44. 
  

  

  Oliv., 
  Entomol., 
  i., 
  5, 
  p. 
  74, 
  pi. 
  vi., 
  fig. 
  66. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  testaceous 
  red 
  or 
  with 
  the 
  basal 
  part 
  only 
  

   broadly 
  testaceous 
  red, 
  and 
  the 
  rest 
  fuscous 
  or 
  entirely 
  black, 
  tarsi 
  

   and 
  claws 
  piceous 
  red 
  ; 
  head 
  briefly 
  but 
  densely 
  hairy 
  and 
  bristly 
  

   laterally; 
  prothorax 
  very 
  closely 
  scabroso-punctate, 
  briefly 
  hairy, 
  

   the 
  hairs 
  are 
  black 
  and 
  longer 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  disk, 
  along 
  

   the 
  base 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  narrow 
  fringe 
  of 
  not 
  closely 
  set 
  appressed, 
  

   yellowish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  clothed 
  with 
  small, 
  contiguous, 
  yellow 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  broadly 
  ampliated 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  obliquely 
  nar- 
  

   rowed 
  laterally 
  from 
  the 
  humeral 
  part 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  distinctly 
  

   bi-costate 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  but 
  with 
  only 
  the 
  first 
  costa 
  reaching 
  past 
  

   the 
  median 
  part, 
  very 
  closely 
  and 
  deeply 
  punctured, 
  shining, 
  but 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  minute 
  greyish 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  ; 
  apical 
  part 
  of 
  pro- 
  

   pygidium 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  pygidium 
  clothed 
  with 
  small, 
  

   contiguous, 
  bright 
  yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  with 
  a 
  

   small 
  yellowish 
  patch 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  ; 
  pectus 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  

   black 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  greatly 
  developed, 
  villose 
  like 
  the 
  

   tibiae, 
  simple 
  but 
  sharply 
  bi-dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  articula- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  knee, 
  and 
  having 
  the 
  trochanters 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  very 
  

   long, 
  sub-vertical 
  spine 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  broadly 
  but 
  not 
  very 
  deeply 
  

   grooved 
  underneath, 
  dentate 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  side 
  near 
  the 
  knee 
  

   having 
  a 
  strong, 
  nearly 
  median 
  spine 
  on 
  the 
  outer, 
  and 
  also 
  very 
  

   strongly 
  mucronate 
  inwardly 
  at 
  apex 
  ; 
  all 
  the 
  claws 
  are 
  double, 
  

   equally 
  long, 
  and 
  slightly 
  cleft 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  testaceous, 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   dense 
  villose, 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  except 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  and 
  the 
  pygidium, 
  

   the 
  latter 
  and 
  also 
  the 
  apical 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  propygidium 
  are 
  entirely 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  bright 
  yellow 
  scales. 
  

  

  