﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  793 
  

  

  long, 
  flavescent 
  pubescence, 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  somewhat 
  broad 
  band 
  of 
  

   appressed 
  squamose 
  scales 
  along 
  the 
  base; 
  the 
  median 
  groove 
  is 
  

   only 
  moderately 
  deep 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  densely 
  squamose 
  ; 
  elytra 
  bi-cos- 
  

   tulate 
  and 
  either 
  completely 
  covered 
  with 
  round, 
  golden-yellow 
  

   scales 
  set 
  close 
  to 
  each 
  other 
  or 
  forming 
  the 
  two 
  usual 
  bands 
  of 
  

   scales 
  on 
  the 
  disk 
  and 
  above 
  the 
  outer 
  margin, 
  and 
  the 
  interrupted 
  

   sutural 
  one, 
  the 
  median 
  patch 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  occasionally 
  paler 
  than 
  the 
  

   other 
  scales 
  ; 
  the 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  the 
  abdomen 
  are 
  densely 
  scaly, 
  

   the 
  scales 
  a 
  little 
  lighter 
  yellow 
  than 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  ; 
  legs 
  

   piceous, 
  tarsi 
  reddish, 
  claw 
  of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  with 
  a 
  robust 
  

   tooth 
  underneath. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Shape 
  of 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  a 
  little 
  smaller, 
  the 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  

   elytra 
  are 
  replaced 
  by 
  squamose 
  flavescent 
  hairs, 
  and 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  

   darker 
  brown. 
  

  

  Length 
  4-5J 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2J-3 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch, 
  Port 
  Elizabeth, 
  

   Graham's 
  Town, 
  Kowie). 
  

  

  Gen. 
  NANNISCUS, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  137. 
  

  

  Mentum 
  narrow, 
  elongate, 
  upper 
  lobe 
  elongate, 
  penicillate 
  at 
  tip 
  

   and 
  not 
  dentate 
  ; 
  palpi 
  as 
  in 
  Dicranocnemus 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  a 
  little 
  attenu- 
  

   ate 
  laterally 
  and 
  quite 
  parabolic 
  in 
  front 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  somewhat 
  plane, 
  

   distinctly 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  moderately 
  long 
  and 
  broad, 
  

   triangular 
  ; 
  elytra 
  plane, 
  sinuate 
  laterally, 
  and 
  moderately 
  attenuate 
  

   towards 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  broad, 
  sloping 
  forwards 
  ; 
  legs 
  moderately 
  

   slender 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  bi-dentate, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  apical 
  tooth 
  bluntly 
  

   bifid 
  ; 
  all 
  claws 
  double 
  and 
  both 
  cleft 
  ; 
  posterior 
  tarsi 
  very 
  long 
  ; 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  of 
  male 
  robust, 
  simple 
  like 
  the 
  tibiae, 
  which 
  have 
  an 
  apical 
  

   spur. 
  

  

  The 
  distinctive 
  characters 
  between 
  this 
  genus 
  and 
  Dicranocnemus 
  

   are 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  teeth 
  in 
  the 
  inner 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  maxillary 
  lobe, 
  

   and 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  outer 
  teeth 
  of 
  the 
  tibiae, 
  which 
  are 
  fused 
  

   into 
  one, 
  which 
  is, 
  however, 
  slightly 
  bifid 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  ; 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  

   clypeus 
  is 
  different, 
  and 
  the 
  prothorax 
  is 
  much 
  more 
  plane. 
  

  

  Only 
  one 
  species 
  of 
  this 
  genus 
  is 
  known. 
  

  

  Nanniscus 
  pulicarius, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  138. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  testaceous 
  and 
  the 
  legs 
  rufescent 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  

   prothorax 
  rugulose, 
  covered 
  with 
  an 
  appressed 
  greyish 
  pubescence 
  

  

  