﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  795 
  

  

  Key 
  to 
  the 
  Species. 
  

  

  a 
  2 
  . 
  Hind 
  claw 
  single, 
  simple. 
  

  

  Hind 
  tibiae 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  elongated, 
  not 
  thickened, 
  simple. 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  crassipes. 
  

  

  a 
  1 
  . 
  Hind 
  claws 
  double, 
  the 
  larger 
  one 
  cleft. 
  

  

  Hind 
  tibiae 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  short, 
  dilated, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  margin 
  

  

  simple 
  longipes. 
  

  

  Hind 
  tibiae 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  short, 
  dilated, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  lower 
  

  

  margin 
  pluri-dentate 
  transvaalensis. 
  

  

  DlAPLOCHELUS 
  CRASSIPES, 
  Bumi., 
  

  

  Handb. 
  d. 
  EntomoL, 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  133. 
  

   D. 
  squamulatus, 
  Burm., 
  ibid., 
  p. 
  134. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  pale 
  testaceous 
  or 
  testaceous 
  red, 
  

   and 
  the 
  legs 
  rufescent, 
  but 
  occasionally 
  the 
  elytra 
  and 
  legs 
  are 
  black 
  ; 
  

   the 
  head, 
  prothorax, 
  pectus, 
  and 
  legs 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  dense 
  

   fulvous 
  pubescence, 
  the 
  scutellum 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  greyish 
  or 
  slightly 
  

   navescent 
  scales 
  which 
  form 
  also 
  a 
  marginal 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  elytra, 
  this 
  

   band 
  ascends 
  a 
  little 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  head 
  very 
  rugose, 
  clypeus 
  

   broadly 
  rounded 
  laterally, 
  slightly 
  curved 
  at 
  apex 
  and 
  marginated 
  all 
  

   round 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  elongate, 
  somewhat 
  convex, 
  very 
  feebly 
  grooved 
  in 
  

   the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  part, 
  covered 
  with 
  deep 
  and 
  dense 
  but 
  not 
  

   contiguous 
  punctures 
  bearing 
  each 
  a 
  very 
  long 
  seta, 
  the 
  median 
  basal 
  

   part 
  is, 
  however, 
  impunctate 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  densely 
  scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  shining, 
  

   distinctly 
  costate 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  intervals 
  remotely 
  punctate, 
  they 
  are 
  

   elongate, 
  very 
  little 
  sinuate 
  laterally 
  past 
  the 
  humeral 
  part, 
  and 
  a 
  

   little 
  narrowed 
  towards 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  punctures 
  are 
  occasionally 
  a 
  

   few 
  whitish 
  scales, 
  but 
  the 
  propygidium, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  are 
  

   covered 
  with 
  closely 
  set, 
  dense, 
  navescent 
  scales 
  similar 
  in 
  shape 
  to 
  

   those 
  edging 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  ; 
  

   the 
  apical 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  pygidium 
  is 
  fringed 
  with 
  very 
  long, 
  navescent 
  

   setae 
  ; 
  posterior 
  femora 
  robust, 
  but 
  not 
  very 
  swollen, 
  and 
  without 
  any 
  

   sharp 
  trochanters, 
  articulation 
  of 
  the 
  knee 
  rounded 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  hind 
  

   tibiae 
  elongated, 
  robust 
  but 
  not 
  very 
  ampliate, 
  somewhat 
  sub-mucronate 
  

   on 
  each 
  side 
  at 
  apex, 
  and 
  without 
  an 
  apical 
  spur 
  ; 
  joints 
  of 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  

   short, 
  closely 
  set, 
  fifth 
  joint 
  robust, 
  elongate, 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  other 
  

   four 
  taken 
  together, 
  and 
  bi-dentate 
  underneath, 
  hind 
  claw 
  single, 
  

   simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  more 
  distinctly 
  striate, 
  

   and 
  the 
  punctures 
  more 
  numerous, 
  the 
  lateral 
  and 
  apical 
  marginal 
  

   bands 
  of 
  scales 
  are 
  narrower, 
  and 
  the 
  scales 
  less 
  dense 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  

   more 
  hair-like. 
  

  

  Length 
  8-10 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4-4J 
  mm. 
  

  

  