﻿796 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Stellenbosch, 
  Paarl, 
  Worcester, 
  Caledon, 
  

   Graham's 
  Town). 
  

  

  In 
  all 
  my 
  examples 
  from 
  the 
  western 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  the 
  

   scutellum 
  and 
  elytra 
  are 
  only 
  sparsely 
  squamulose, 
  but 
  in 
  some 
  from 
  

   Graham's 
  Town 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  elytra, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  is 
  

   entirely 
  covered 
  with 
  very 
  dense, 
  light 
  fulvous 
  scales. 
  

  

  Diaplochelus 
  longipes, 
  Fabric, 
  

  

  Mantiss. 
  Insect., 
  i., 
  p. 
  24. 
  

  

  Oliv., 
  Entomol., 
  i., 
  5, 
  p. 
  76, 
  pi. 
  vii., 
  fig. 
  72. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  pale 
  testaceous 
  and 
  shining, 
  legs 
  and 
  

   abdomen 
  reddish 
  ; 
  palpi 
  and 
  antennae 
  pale 
  ruf 
  escent 
  ; 
  head 
  deeply 
  

   and 
  closely 
  punctured 
  but 
  not 
  scabrose, 
  covered 
  with 
  somewhat 
  

   sparse, 
  short 
  erect 
  hairs, 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  lateral 
  fringe 
  of 
  long 
  setae 
  ; 
  

   prothorax 
  convex, 
  grooved 
  longitudinally, 
  sparsely 
  punctured, 
  the 
  

   punctures 
  deep 
  and 
  bearing 
  each 
  a 
  very 
  short 
  hair 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  with 
  a 
  

   few 
  scales; 
  elytra 
  very 
  slightly 
  costulate, 
  sparsely 
  and 
  deeply 
  

   punctate, 
  densely 
  scaly 
  (squamulatus, 
  longipes) 
  or 
  only 
  sparsely 
  so; 
  

   propygidium 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  elongate 
  scales, 
  pygidium 
  glabrous, 
  but 
  

   thickly 
  fringed 
  at 
  apex 
  with 
  villose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  hair- 
  

   like 
  appressed 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  segments 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  

   intermediate 
  legs 
  double, 
  and 
  both 
  slightly 
  cleft, 
  hind 
  claws 
  double, 
  

   the 
  inner 
  one 
  deeply 
  cleft 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  robust, 
  simple 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  sinuated 
  outwardly, 
  gradually 
  dilated 
  and 
  compressed, 
  and 
  

   with 
  the 
  lower 
  margin 
  simple, 
  they 
  are 
  setulose 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  

   which 
  is 
  somewhat 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  above 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  they 
  are 
  

   not 
  mucronate, 
  but 
  strongly 
  bristly 
  all 
  round 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  

   apical 
  spur 
  ; 
  the 
  joints 
  of 
  the 
  tarsi 
  are 
  bristly, 
  somewhat 
  elongated, 
  

   and 
  the 
  fifth 
  joint 
  is 
  simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  hind 
  legs 
  are 
  more 
  slender, 
  the 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  simple, 
  and 
  they 
  have 
  a 
  long 
  apical 
  spur. 
  

  

  Length 
  5J-7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3-3J 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch, 
  Malmesbury, 
  

   Tulbagh, 
  Worcester, 
  Paarl). 
  

  

  Diaplochelus 
  transvaalensis, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Allied 
  to 
  D. 
  longipes, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  differs 
  mainly 
  by 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  

   the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  ; 
  the 
  head 
  alone 
  is 
  black, 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  

   legs, 
  and 
  under 
  side 
  being 
  reddish, 
  and 
  the 
  elytra 
  brick-red, 
  the 
  

   clypeus 
  is 
  a 
  little 
  narrower; 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  are 
  much 
  

   more 
  numerously 
  punctate, 
  and 
  the 
  pubescence 
  on 
  the 
  sides 
  is 
  there- 
  

   fore 
  denser 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  more 
  roughly 
  and 
  numerously 
  punctured 
  

  

  