﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleojptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  787 
  

  

  and 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  three 
  bands 
  of 
  appressed 
  squamose 
  greyish 
  

   white 
  or 
  slightly 
  flavescent 
  hairs, 
  the 
  juxta-sutural 
  band 
  of 
  hairs 
  is 
  

   broader 
  than 
  the 
  other 
  two 
  which 
  are 
  sometimes 
  partly 
  obliterated 
  ; 
  

   propygidium 
  clothed 
  with 
  appressed, 
  squamiform, 
  sub-flavescent 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  under 
  side 
  somewhat 
  densely 
  hairy 
  ; 
  apical 
  tooth 
  of 
  anterior 
  

   tibiae 
  somewhat 
  widely 
  separated 
  at 
  apex 
  from 
  the 
  intermediate 
  one, 
  

   and 
  also 
  longer. 
  

  

  Length 
  5J-6 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3J-3-| 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Worcester). 
  

  

  Goniaspidius 
  simplex, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  testaceous, 
  but 
  having 
  a 
  broad 
  fuscous 
  

   border 
  all 
  round 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense 
  black 
  and 
  

   greyish 
  villose 
  hairs, 
  the 
  clypeus 
  has 
  three 
  conspicuous 
  reflexed 
  teeth 
  

   at 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  prothorax 
  is 
  scabroso-punctate 
  from 
  the 
  apex 
  to 
  the 
  

   base, 
  which 
  is 
  not 
  very 
  depressed 
  ; 
  elytra 
  plane, 
  strongly 
  sinuate 
  

   laterally 
  under 
  the 
  humeral 
  part, 
  thence 
  distinctly 
  attenuate 
  towards 
  

   the 
  apex, 
  not 
  costate, 
  but 
  having 
  the 
  customary 
  longitudinal 
  impres- 
  

   sion 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  deeply 
  and 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  the 
  punctures 
  

   bearing 
  each 
  a 
  black, 
  erect 
  hair 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  broad, 
  conspicuously 
  

   declivous 
  forwards, 
  briefly 
  hairy 
  ; 
  under 
  side 
  villose, 
  the 
  hairs 
  greyish 
  

   white 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  tooth 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  is 
  not 
  very 
  oblique 
  and 
  

   is 
  turned 
  downwards 
  like 
  the 
  two 
  basal 
  ones. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  5|— 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3-3^ 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Worcester). 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  distinguished 
  from 
  G. 
  brevis 
  by 
  the 
  slightly 
  more 
  

   elongated 
  elytra, 
  and 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  bands 
  of 
  squamiform 
  appressed 
  

   hairs. 
  

  

  Gen. 
  DICRANOCNEMUS, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  fiandb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  135. 
  

  

  Mentum 
  narrow, 
  very 
  elongated, 
  a 
  little 
  ampliated 
  laterally 
  towards 
  

   the 
  median 
  part, 
  narrowed 
  at 
  the 
  insertion 
  of 
  the 
  labial 
  palpi, 
  straight 
  

   at 
  tip, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  angles 
  rounded 
  and 
  penicillate 
  ; 
  upper 
  lobe 
  of 
  

   maxillae 
  horny, 
  narrow, 
  very 
  long, 
  with 
  a 
  long 
  pencil 
  of 
  hairs 
  at 
  the 
  

   tip, 
  and 
  having 
  inwardly 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  five 
  short, 
  curved 
  

   teeth 
  arranged 
  in 
  a 
  line, 
  inner 
  lobe 
  membranaceous, 
  and 
  penicillate, 
  

   apical 
  joint 
  of 
  labial 
  palpi 
  somewhat 
  swollen 
  and 
  distinctly 
  truncate 
  

   at 
  the 
  tip, 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  maxillary 
  palpi 
  very 
  elongated, 
  slender, 
  sub- 
  

   fusiform 
  inwardly 
  and 
  sinuate 
  outwardly 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  short, 
  attenuate 
  

   laterally, 
  sometimes 
  angular 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  

  

  