﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Goleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  715 
  

  

  Elytra 
  costulate, 
  juxta-sutural 
  interval 
  not 
  

   conspicuously 
  deep, 
  whole 
  upper 
  surface 
  and 
  

   pygidium 
  clothed 
  with 
  minute, 
  flavescent 
  

   contiguous 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  very 
  little 
  dilated 
  amamulus. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  and 
  elytra 
  covered 
  with 
  minute 
  

   ochre-yellow 
  scales, 
  scales 
  of 
  pygidium 
  con- 
  

   colorous 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  distinctly 
  dilated 
  ; 
  

   median 
  teeth 
  of 
  clypeus 
  not 
  quite 
  as 
  much 
  

   developed 
  as 
  the 
  outer 
  ones 
  sobrinus. 
  

  

  a 
  1 
  . 
  Hind 
  claws 
  double. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  covered 
  with 
  ochreous 
  scales 
  ; 
  femora 
  

   very 
  robust 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  short, 
  very 
  broadly 
  

   dilated 
  outwardly 
  into 
  a 
  sub-quadrate 
  lamina, 
  

   deeply 
  hollowed 
  underneath, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  

   inner 
  edge 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  long 
  median 
  

   transverse 
  tooth 
  (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  42) 
  coccineus. 
  

  

  D 
  1 
  . 
  Clypeus 
  quite 
  straight 
  and 
  not 
  dentate 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle. 
  

  

  Hind 
  claws 
  simple. 
  

  

  Entirely 
  covered 
  with 
  thick 
  hair-like 
  yellowish 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  legs 
  simple 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  not 
  mu- 
  

   cronate 
  e 
  genus. 
  

  

  B 
  1 
  . 
  Elytra 
  clothed 
  with 
  hairs 
  or 
  bands 
  of 
  scales, 
  but 
  not 
  with 
  

   contiguous 
  scales. 
  

  

  C 
  2 
  . 
  Hind 
  tibiae 
  without 
  an 
  apical 
  spur. 
  

  

  D 
  2 
  . 
  Hind 
  claws 
  double. 
  

  

  a 
  2 
  . 
  Clypeus 
  with 
  the 
  two 
  median 
  teeth 
  distinct. 
  

   b 
  2 
  . 
  Trochanters 
  with 
  a 
  spine. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  dark 
  metallic 
  green, 
  elytra 
  chestnut 
  ; 
  

   scutellum, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  grooved 
  under- 
  

   neath, 
  dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  

   serrate 
  or 
  even 
  dentate 
  from 
  there 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   apical 
  mucro 
  truncate 
  at 
  tip 
  viridicollis. 
  

  

  b 
  1 
  . 
  Trochanters 
  not 
  spinose. 
  

  

  Black, 
  elytra 
  chestnut-brown 
  ; 
  scutellum, 
  pro- 
  

   pygidium, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  clothed 
  with 
  yellow 
  

   scales, 
  elytra 
  with 
  a 
  sutural 
  and 
  apical 
  band 
  of 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  glabrous 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  short, 
  

   curved, 
  ampliate, 
  grooved 
  underneath 
  and 
  

   strongly 
  dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  base, 
  but 
  

   with 
  the 
  outer 
  tooth 
  further 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  

   than 
  the 
  inner, 
  and 
  the 
  inner 
  mucro 
  long 
  and 
  

   curved 
  : 
  

  

  