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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  Omocrates 
  humilis, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Intermediate 
  between 
  0. 
  depressus 
  and 
  0. 
  spatulipemiis 
  ; 
  

   black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  testaceous 
  and 
  the 
  legs 
  rufescent 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  

   is 
  dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  the 
  prothorax 
  is 
  covered 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  to 
  

   three-fourths 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  with 
  villose 
  erect 
  greyish 
  hairs, 
  and 
  there 
  

   is 
  no 
  basal 
  band 
  of 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  have 
  a 
  few 
  incon- 
  

   spicuous, 
  pallid, 
  appressed 
  hairs, 
  the 
  propygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  are 
  

   covered 
  with 
  contiguous, 
  pale 
  yellow, 
  round 
  scales, 
  and 
  the 
  edge 
  of 
  

   the 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  have 
  more 
  elongate, 
  somewhat 
  filiform 
  ones 
  

   of 
  the 
  same 
  colour 
  ; 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  are 
  tri-dentate 
  outwardly, 
  but 
  

   the 
  basal 
  tooth 
  is 
  much 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  intermediate 
  one 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  

   claws 
  are 
  double 
  and 
  both 
  slightly 
  cleft. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  abdomen 
  are 
  

   villose. 
  

  

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

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Worcester). 
  

  

  Omocrates 
  plausibilis, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  A 
  very 
  distinct 
  species. 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  

   testaceous 
  and 
  the 
  legs 
  reddish 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  sharply 
  tridentate, 
  the 
  

   median 
  tooth 
  as 
  much 
  raised 
  as 
  the 
  lateral 
  ones 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  

   for 
  two-thirds 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  with 
  dense, 
  erect, 
  greyish 
  villose 
  hairs, 
  

   the 
  posterior 
  part 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  dense, 
  yellow, 
  somewhat 
  elongated 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  and 
  elytra 
  covered 
  with 
  similar 
  scales 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  

   part 
  closely 
  scaly, 
  the 
  scales 
  somewhat 
  round 
  and 
  deeper 
  yellow 
  

   than 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  with 
  squamose 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  

   flavescent 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  segments 
  and 
  turning 
  to 
  white 
  on 
  the 
  

   basal 
  ones 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  double, 
  the 
  inner 
  one 
  is 
  small 
  and 
  simple, 
  

   the 
  outer 
  one 
  is 
  slightly 
  cleft 
  laterally. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  5-J- 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2f 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Burghersdorp). 
  

  

  Omocrates 
  variabilis, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  128. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  testaceous 
  and 
  the 
  basal 
  part 
  

   narrowly 
  fuscous, 
  or 
  occasionally 
  with 
  the 
  prothorax 
  reddish, 
  hind 
  

   legs 
  reddish 
  brown 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  tri-dentate, 
  median 
  tooth 
  a 
  little 
  smaller 
  

   than 
  the 
  lateral 
  ones 
  which 
  are 
  distinctly 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  

   for 
  two-thirds 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  with 
  a 
  short, 
  dense, 
  greyish 
  pubescence, 
  

   and 
  having 
  a 
  narrow 
  basal 
  band 
  of 
  greyish, 
  sometimes 
  sub-flavescent 
  

  

  