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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  not 
  grooved, 
  closely 
  scabroso- 
  

  

  punctate 
  promontorii. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  grooved, 
  and 
  with 
  scattered 
  non- 
  

  

  scabrose 
  punctures 
  persimilis. 
  

  

  a 
  1 
  . 
  Clypeus 
  with 
  the 
  two 
  median 
  teeth 
  indistinct. 
  

   Trochanters 
  spinose. 
  

  

  Entirely 
  black 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  with 
  a 
  hamate 
  

   inner 
  tooth 
  near 
  the 
  knee 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibise 
  com- 
  

   pressed, 
  laminate 
  and 
  strongly 
  bi-dentate 
  

   underneath, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  mucro 
  produced 
  in 
  

   a 
  third 
  triangular 
  tooth 
  tristis. 
  

  

  D 
  1 
  . 
  Hind 
  claws 
  single. 
  

  

  ft 
  2 
  . 
  Trochanters 
  non-spinose. 
  

  

  Black, 
  elytra 
  and 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  red; 
  prothorax 
  

   with 
  a 
  median 
  line 
  of 
  white 
  scales, 
  and 
  a 
  

   similar 
  one 
  on 
  each 
  elytron 
  ; 
  scutellum, 
  

   pygidial 
  part, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   dense 
  white 
  scales 
  

  

  bi-vittatus. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  fore 
  legs 
  red 
  and 
  the 
  elytra 
  

   occasionally 
  chestnut-red, 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  a 
  

   narrow 
  ledge 
  of 
  the 
  propygidium, 
  and 
  the 
  

   abdomen 
  scaly; 
  elytra 
  very 
  roughly 
  punctured 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  femora 
  with 
  the 
  inner 
  tooth 
  of 
  the 
  knee 
  

   well 
  developed 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibise 
  swollen 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  

   near 
  the 
  base, 
  grooved 
  underneath, 
  equally 
  

   dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  hooked, 
  

   robust, 
  and 
  sharp 
  mucro 
  (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  38) 
  . 
  . 
  rufimanus. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  piceous 
  brown, 
  scutellum, 
  

   apical 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  elytra, 
  propygidium, 
  

   abdomen, 
  and 
  pygidium 
  clothed 
  with 
  bright 
  

   yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  simple 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  

   two 
  teeth 
  of 
  the 
  knee 
  greatly 
  developed 
  ; 
  hind 
  

   tibise 
  curved, 
  compressed, 
  semicircularly 
  

   emarginate 
  underneath 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  for 
  half 
  

   the 
  length, 
  then 
  ampliated 
  and 
  ending 
  in 
  a 
  

   curved 
  mucro 
  bi-notatus. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  fore 
  legs 
  reddish 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  

   emarginate 
  at 
  tip 
  and 
  not 
  denticulate 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle, 
  scutellum 
  and 
  apical 
  edge 
  of 
  elytra, 
  of 
  

   propygidium, 
  and 
  of 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  

   narrowly 
  scaly 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  with 
  two 
  very 
  

   conspicuous 
  teeth 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  knee 
  and 
  

   with 
  the 
  inner 
  one 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  curved 
  spine 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  arcuate, 
  compressed, 
  dilated 
  towards 
  

   the 
  apex 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  lower 
  edge 
  sharply 
  

   angular 
  immediately 
  above 
  the. 
  curved, 
  sharp 
  

   and 
  long 
  mucro 
  (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  46) 
  forcipatus. 
  

  

  