﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  789 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  densely 
  pubescent 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  basal 
  band 
  of 
  appressed 
  

   squamiform 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  three 
  broad 
  bands 
  of 
  yellow 
  

   scales, 
  or 
  nearly 
  completely 
  covered 
  by 
  the 
  scales 
  squamosus. 
  

  

  DlCBANOCNEMUS 
  NATALENSIS, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  very 
  light 
  testaceous 
  ; 
  antennae 
  with 
  

   the 
  exception 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  basal 
  joints, 
  black 
  ; 
  head 
  rugose, 
  covered 
  

   with 
  a 
  greyish 
  short 
  pubescence, 
  clypeus 
  conspicuously 
  narrowed 
  

   laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  emarginate 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  two 
  

   angles 
  sharply 
  triangular 
  and 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  moderately 
  convex, 
  

   densely 
  scabrose, 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  dense, 
  somewhat 
  long, 
  slightly 
  silky 
  

   grey 
  pubescence, 
  and 
  having 
  only 
  a 
  very 
  faint 
  longitudinal 
  furrow 
  in 
  

   the 
  posterior 
  part 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  covered 
  with 
  greyish 
  round 
  scales 
  ; 
  

   elytra 
  not 
  costulate, 
  and 
  covered 
  with 
  small 
  elongate, 
  fiavescent 
  scales, 
  

   not 
  very 
  closely 
  set 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  abdomen 
  with 
  dense 
  fiavescent 
  

   round 
  scales 
  ; 
  tarsi 
  reddish 
  ; 
  claw 
  of 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  simple 
  under- 
  

   neath. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Exactly 
  like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  scutellum 
  and 
  elytra 
  have 
  

   appressed 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  instead 
  of 
  scales, 
  and 
  the 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  

   pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  the 
  abdomen 
  are 
  replaced 
  by 
  thick 
  appressed 
  

   squamiform 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  are 
  red. 
  

  

  Length 
  5J-5f 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3 
  mm. 
  

  

  Bab. 
  Natal 
  (Estcourt). 
  

  

  In 
  general 
  appearance 
  this 
  species 
  resembles 
  Omocratcs 
  spatuli- 
  

   pennis, 
  and 
  is 
  very 
  distinct 
  from 
  the 
  others. 
  

  

  Dicranocnemus 
  sulcicollis, 
  Wiedem., 
  

   Germ. 
  Magaz., 
  iv., 
  p. 
  144. 
  

  

  Male 
  ; 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  fulvous 
  and 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  

   three 
  somewhat 
  broad 
  bands 
  of 
  golden-yellow 
  round 
  scales, 
  the 
  two 
  

   discoidal 
  bands 
  are 
  sometimes 
  not 
  interrupted 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  but 
  

   oftener 
  than 
  not 
  the 
  median 
  one 
  is 
  so, 
  and 
  the 
  sutural 
  one 
  is 
  inter- 
  

   rupted 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part, 
  this 
  interrupted 
  part 
  forms 
  thus 
  

   a 
  quadrangular 
  patch 
  ; 
  head 
  very 
  rugose, 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  fiavescent 
  

   pubescence, 
  the 
  clypeus 
  has 
  the 
  two 
  angles 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  part 
  pro- 
  

   duced 
  into 
  a 
  strongly 
  reflexed 
  tooth, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  shorter 
  triangular 
  

   tooth 
  laterally 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  conspicuously 
  

   convex 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part, 
  scabroso-punctate 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  

   only, 
  punctate 
  on 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  surface, 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  

   long 
  and 
  very 
  dense, 
  erect, 
  ilavous 
  pubescence, 
  it 
  is 
  distinctly 
  

   grooved 
  longitudinally, 
  and 
  this 
  groove 
  is 
  partly 
  filled 
  with 
  squamose 
  

   yellow 
  hairs 
  which 
  form 
  also 
  a 
  somewhat 
  broad 
  band 
  along 
  the 
  

  

  