﻿778 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  A 
  1 
  . 
  Anterior 
  tibiae 
  tri-dentate 
  outwardly. 
  

  

  B 
  3 
  . 
  Clypeus 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  dentate. 
  

  

  Posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   dense, 
  sub-lanuginose 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  and 
  pygidial 
  part 
  

   densely 
  scaly 
  depressus. 
  

  

  Posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  not 
  scaly, 
  

   elytra 
  clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  white 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  

   densely 
  scaly 
  spatulipennis. 
  

  

  Posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  not 
  scaly, 
  elytra 
  

   hardly 
  pubescent 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  part 
  with 
  scales 
  so 
  closely 
  set 
  

   as 
  to 
  form 
  a 
  coating 
  humilis. 
  

  

  Whole 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  body, 
  except 
  the 
  head, 
  pygidial 
  part, 
  

   and 
  abdomen, 
  clothed 
  with 
  round 
  scales, 
  prothorax 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  elongate 
  placens. 
  

  

  B 
  a 
  . 
  Clypeus 
  tri-dentate. 
  

  

  Posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense, 
  thick 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  closely 
  set, 
  appressed, 
  sub-squamose 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  part 
  densely 
  scaly 
  plausibilis. 
  

  

  Same 
  vestiture 
  as 
  plausibilis, 
  but 
  prothorax 
  without 
  scales 
  

  

  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  variabilis. 
  

  

  B 
  1 
  . 
  Clypeus 
  quadri-dentate. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  not 
  scaly; 
  elytra 
  with 
  squamose 
  appressed 
  

   hairs, 
  but 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  three 
  narrow 
  bands 
  of 
  

   scales 
  and 
  the 
  apex 
  also 
  scaly 
  ; 
  hind 
  claw 
  single, 
  simple 
  . 
  . 
  misellus. 
  

  

  Omocrates 
  mendax, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  testaceous 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  lateral 
  

   and 
  apical 
  infuscate 
  band 
  beginning 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  side 
  

   and 
  reaching 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  head 
  scabrose, 
  clypeus 
  quite 
  straight 
  at 
  the 
  

   apex 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  sharp, 
  it 
  is 
  covered 
  like 
  the 
  prothorax 
  

   with 
  a 
  very 
  dense, 
  somewhat 
  appressed 
  light 
  fulvous 
  pubescence, 
  

   and 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  which 
  is 
  somewhat 
  depressed 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  of 
  the 
  

   basal 
  part, 
  has 
  a 
  longitudinal 
  median 
  groove 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  very 
  long 
  

   and 
  sharply 
  triangular 
  and 
  densely 
  hairy 
  ; 
  elytra 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  the 
  

   prothorax 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  very 
  conspicuously 
  narrowed 
  laterally 
  towards 
  

   the 
  apex 
  ; 
  plane, 
  not 
  costulate 
  but 
  having 
  a 
  sub-transverse 
  basal 
  

   impression 
  near 
  the 
  callus, 
  rugulose 
  and 
  covered 
  with 
  appressed, 
  sub- 
  

   flavescent 
  fine 
  hairs 
  ; 
  propygidium, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  covered 
  

   with 
  navescent 
  or 
  yellow 
  lanuginose 
  scales 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  colour 
  on 
  

   the 
  pygidium 
  ; 
  hind 
  legs 
  densely 
  hairy, 
  hind 
  femora 
  and 
  tibiae 
  simple, 
  

   the 
  latter 
  moderately 
  dilated, 
  hind 
  claws 
  double, 
  the 
  larger 
  one 
  cleft 
  ; 
  

  

  