﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  719 
  

  

  a 
  1 
  . 
  Hind 
  tibiae 
  with 
  an 
  apical 
  spur. 
  

  

  b 
  2 
  . 
  Tooth 
  under 
  the 
  femur 
  nearly 
  apical, 
  broad 
  and 
  short. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  without 
  scales, 
  hairy, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  very 
  short, 
  

  

  mucronate 
  part 
  strongly 
  curved 
  (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  22) 
  . 
  . 
  unguiculatiis. 
  

  

  b 
  1 
  . 
  Tooth 
  under 
  the 
  femur 
  sub-median, 
  long 
  and 
  sharp. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  covered 
  with 
  flavescent 
  scales 
  and 
  having 
  an 
  

   elongate 
  velvety 
  brown 
  patch 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  part 
  (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  21) 
  podagricus. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  having 
  a 
  broad 
  sutural 
  band 
  and 
  a 
  narrower 
  

  

  marginal 
  one 
  of 
  yellowish 
  scales 
  (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  19) 
  . 
  . 
  chiragricus. 
  

  

  B 
  1 
  . 
  Joints 
  of 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  not 
  compressed. 
  

  

  C 
  2 
  . 
  Elytra 
  clothed 
  with 
  contiguous 
  scales. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  with 
  squamulose, 
  sub-appressed 
  hairs; 
  elytra 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  contiguous 
  flavescent 
  scales 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  

   scaly; 
  hind 
  femora 
  with 
  a 
  strong 
  spine 
  on 
  the 
  

   trochanters; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  grooved, 
  distinctly 
  dentate 
  

   outwardly 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  sharply 
  

   mucronate 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  optivus. 
  

  

  C 
  1 
  . 
  Elytra 
  with 
  bands 
  of 
  scales, 
  or 
  clothed 
  with 
  appressed 
  

   hairs. 
  

  

  D 
  2 
  . 
  Hind 
  tibiae 
  without 
  apical 
  spur. 
  

   a 
  2 
  . 
  Trochanters 
  sharply 
  spinosei 
  

  

  Elytra 
  chestnut-brown, 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  scales 
  

   along 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  scaly, 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   robust, 
  simple 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  compressed 
  and 
  

   connate 
  underneath, 
  briefly 
  sub-dentate 
  near 
  

   the 
  knee, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  apical 
  mucro 
  long 
  and 
  

   curved 
  anomalus. 
  

  

  Elytra 
  chestnut-brown 
  and 
  having 
  three 
  more 
  

   or 
  less 
  regular 
  bands 
  of 
  yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  

   scaly 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  with 
  a 
  conspicuous 
  inner 
  

   tooth 
  near 
  the 
  knee 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  a 
  little 
  swollen 
  

   in 
  the 
  basal 
  part, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  grooved 
  under- 
  

   neath, 
  and 
  sharply 
  dentate 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  side, 
  

   mucro 
  long, 
  arcuate 
  and 
  somewhat 
  slender 
  

   (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  40) 
  iniserabilis 
  . 
  

  

  Elytra 
  black, 
  covered 
  with 
  greyish 
  appressed 
  

   hairs, 
  scutellum 
  and 
  pygidium 
  covered 
  with 
  

   yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  moderately 
  robust, 
  

   simple; 
  tibiae 
  also 
  simple, 
  moderately 
  ampliate, 
  

   not 
  mucronate 
  at 
  apex 
  estcourtianus. 
  

  

  a 
  1 
  . 
  Trochanters 
  not 
  spinose. 
  

  

  