﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleopiem 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  783 
  

  

  yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  legs 
  simple, 
  hind 
  claw 
  single, 
  deeply 
  cleft 
  

   laterally. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  pro-thorax 
  is 
  less 
  scaly, 
  and 
  the 
  

   scales 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  and 
  the 
  pygidial 
  part 
  are 
  a 
  little 
  paler 
  in 
  colour, 
  

   and 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  pygidial 
  part 
  are 
  more 
  hair-like. 
  

  

  Length 
  4-4 
  J 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch). 
  

  

  Blanchard, 
  in 
  his 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  species, 
  states 
  that 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   tibiae 
  are 
  bi-dentate, 
  but 
  such 
  is 
  not 
  the 
  case 
  ; 
  the 
  tibiae 
  of 
  the 
  type 
  

   are 
  tri-dentate. 
  

  

  Omoceates 
  spatulipennis, 
  Blanch., 
  

   Catal. 
  Collect. 
  Entom. 
  Mus. 
  Par., 
  p. 
  66. 
  

   0. 
  lepidus, 
  Boh., 
  Insect. 
  Caffr., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  150. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  testaceous, 
  and 
  the 
  legs 
  piceous 
  

   or 
  piceous 
  red 
  ; 
  similar 
  in 
  shape 
  and 
  sculpture 
  to 
  0. 
  depressus, 
  but 
  

   the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  much 
  more 
  strongly 
  dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   and 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  concave 
  in 
  front 
  ; 
  the 
  prothorax 
  has 
  no 
  scale, 
  

   and 
  is 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense 
  greyish 
  villose 
  hairs 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  to 
  two- 
  

   thirds 
  of 
  the 
  length, 
  and 
  has 
  a 
  very 
  narrow 
  border 
  of 
  appressed 
  

   greyish 
  or 
  sub-navescent 
  hairs 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  with 
  

   squamiform 
  yellow 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  appressed, 
  not 
  dense, 
  hair-like, 
  

   short 
  yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  abdomen 
  clothed 
  with 
  con- 
  

   tiguous, 
  round, 
  bright 
  yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  double, 
  and 
  both 
  

   distinctly 
  cleft. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  not 
  so 
  sharply 
  dentate 
  

   on 
  each 
  side, 
  the 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  more 
  filiform, 
  and 
  the 
  scales 
  

   on 
  the 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  abdomen 
  are 
  replaced 
  by 
  appressed 
  white 
  

   hairs. 
  

  

  Length 
  4f-5f 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2} 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Durban, 
  Frere). 
  

  

  Omoceates 
  placens, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Closely 
  allied 
  to 
  0. 
  depressus, 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  the 
  same, 
  

   but 
  the 
  prothorax 
  is 
  more 
  elongated 
  and 
  less 
  attenuated 
  laterally 
  in 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  part, 
  the 
  prothorax 
  is 
  completely 
  covered 
  with 
  closely 
  

   set, 
  slightly 
  lanuginose 
  scales 
  nearly 
  similar 
  to 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  elytra, 
  

   these 
  scales 
  are 
  greyer 
  and 
  even 
  in 
  the 
  pygidial 
  part 
  they 
  are 
  only 
  

   flavescent 
  instead 
  of 
  being 
  bright 
  yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  claw 
  is 
  simple 
  

   and 
  cleft 
  sideways 
  as 
  in 
  0. 
  depressus. 
  

  

  Length 
  3J-4 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  l|--2 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Stellenbosch, 
  Caledon) 
  

  

  