﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  707 
  

  

  the 
  teeth 
  distinct 
  and 
  equal 
  ; 
  posterior 
  longitudinal 
  impression 
  of 
  

   prothorax 
  somewhat 
  deep 
  ; 
  elytra 
  costulate, 
  roughly 
  punctured, 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  an 
  appressed 
  greyish 
  pubescence, 
  not 
  much 
  ampliated 
  

   laterally 
  near 
  the 
  base, 
  but 
  normally 
  attenuated 
  towards 
  the 
  apex; 
  

   pygidium 
  vertical, 
  clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  ; 
  intermediate 
  

   claws 
  cleft 
  inwardly 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  densely 
  

   bristly 
  on 
  each 
  side. 
  

  

  Male 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  6f 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3f 
  mm. 
  

  

  Differs 
  from 
  the 
  females 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  species 
  by 
  the 
  much 
  more 
  

   distinctly 
  costate 
  and 
  more 
  roughly 
  punctate 
  elytra, 
  and 
  also 
  by 
  the 
  

   pygidium 
  covered 
  with 
  greyish 
  hairs. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Eshowe). 
  

  

  (Species 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  seen 
  or 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  identify.) 
  

  

  Dichelus 
  flavimanus, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  2, 
  p. 
  497. 
  

  

  " 
  Black, 
  silky, 
  opaque 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  quadri-dentate 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  palpi, 
  

   and 
  anterior 
  legs 
  testaceous 
  ; 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  scaly 
  here 
  and 
  

   there. 
  

  

  Length 
  2£ 
  lin. 
  $ 
  . 
  

  

  From 
  Caffraria. 
  Nearest 
  to 
  D. 
  holosericeus 
  , 
  but 
  differing 
  some- 
  

   what 
  from 
  all 
  the 
  species 
  by 
  the 
  slender, 
  thin 
  legs, 
  the 
  teeth 
  on 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  not 
  set 
  so 
  close 
  together, 
  and 
  

   by 
  the 
  non-dentate 
  legs 
  of 
  the 
  male. 
  Clypeus 
  with 
  four 
  marginal 
  

   teeth, 
  and 
  rugose, 
  like 
  the 
  head 
  which 
  is 
  stiffly 
  ciliate 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  

   rather 
  flat 
  than 
  convex, 
  having 
  a 
  finely 
  raised 
  outer 
  margin 
  ciliate 
  

   with 
  stiff 
  bristles, 
  opaquely 
  silky 
  in 
  appearance, 
  and 
  with 
  coarse, 
  

   scattered 
  punctures 
  in 
  which 
  stiff 
  bristles 
  stand 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  with 
  

   white 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  broadly 
  cordate, 
  somewhat 
  narrowed 
  posteriorly, 
  

   flatly 
  convex, 
  silky 
  in 
  appearance, 
  indistinctly 
  striate, 
  and 
  having 
  

   some 
  spare 
  scabrose 
  punctures 
  in 
  which 
  are 
  short, 
  appressed 
  hairs, 
  

   colour 
  black 
  greenish 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  not 
  shiny, 
  black, 
  ventral 
  surface 
  of 
  

   abdomen 
  and 
  also 
  the 
  pectus 
  dull 
  shiny, 
  clothed 
  at 
  the 
  sides 
  with 
  

   scattered 
  white 
  scales 
  ; 
  legs 
  long, 
  thin, 
  nowhere 
  remarkably 
  thick- 
  

   ened, 
  shiny, 
  black-brown, 
  the 
  anterior 
  ones 
  only 
  light 
  reddish 
  yellow, 
  

   the 
  three 
  teeth 
  of 
  the 
  interior 
  tibiae 
  finer, 
  more 
  separated 
  ; 
  all 
  the 
  

   tarsi 
  with 
  two 
  equal, 
  cleft 
  claws 
  ; 
  antennae 
  and 
  palpi 
  testaceous, 
  

   apex 
  of 
  the 
  antennal 
  club 
  brown." 
  

  

  