﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  825 
  

  

  discoidal 
  part, 
  these 
  two 
  depressions 
  are 
  filled 
  with 
  appressed 
  

   squamose 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  which 
  form 
  also 
  a 
  supra-marginal 
  band 
  

   reaching 
  to 
  the 
  base, 
  but 
  the 
  discoidal 
  one 
  does 
  not 
  reach 
  quite 
  to 
  

   the 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  propygidium 
  and 
  abdomen 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  squamose 
  

   hairs 
  similar 
  to 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  elytra, 
  but 
  the 
  pygidium 
  has 
  no 
  scales, 
  

   and 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  fuscous 
  brown 
  tomentum 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   and 
  tibiae 
  are 
  very 
  robust, 
  the 
  former 
  very 
  swollen, 
  the 
  latter 
  short 
  

   and 
  broadly 
  dilated 
  triangularly 
  ; 
  intermediate 
  and 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  villose. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Eesembles 
  the 
  male 
  closely 
  ; 
  the 
  vestiture 
  is 
  the 
  same, 
  

   but 
  the 
  pygidium 
  is 
  clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  sub-squamiform 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  

   hind 
  legs 
  are 
  as 
  robust 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  have 
  a 
  

   very 
  distinct 
  apical 
  spur. 
  

  

  Length 
  6-7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3-J-- 
  4 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch, 
  Calvinia). 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  but 
  once 
  found 
  this 
  species 
  in 
  flowers. 
  It 
  is 
  generally 
  

   met 
  with 
  dragging 
  itself 
  clumsily 
  along 
  the 
  paths 
  or 
  open 
  herbaceous 
  

   spots. 
  

  

  Idutywa 
  vidua, 
  Blanch., 
  

   Catal. 
  Coll. 
  Entomol. 
  Mus. 
  Par., 
  p. 
  64. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  shaped 
  and 
  sculptured 
  as 
  in 
  T. 
  collaris, 
  

   but 
  covered 
  with 
  fuscous 
  and 
  brown 
  hairs 
  which 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax 
  

   form 
  a 
  dense, 
  erect 
  pubescence 
  for 
  two-thirds 
  of 
  the 
  length, 
  and 
  are 
  

   replaced 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  with 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  

   colour, 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  narrow 
  basal 
  longitudinal 
  groove 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  

   covered 
  with 
  appressed 
  slightly 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  similar 
  in 
  

   shape 
  to 
  those 
  of 
  T. 
  collaris, 
  but 
  instead 
  of 
  having 
  bands 
  of 
  greyish 
  

   hairs 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  intervals 
  and 
  also 
  above 
  the 
  outer 
  

   margin, 
  the 
  whole 
  surface 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  very 
  fine 
  concolorous 
  hairs 
  

   which, 
  although 
  very 
  dense, 
  do 
  not 
  hide 
  the 
  dark 
  brown 
  background 
  ; 
  

   pygidial 
  part, 
  abdomen 
  and 
  legs 
  also 
  covered 
  with 
  similar 
  hairs 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  legs 
  robust 
  but 
  moderately 
  dilated 
  ; 
  claw 
  of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  

   legs 
  single 
  and 
  cleft. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  6 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town). 
  

  

  MITROPHORUS, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  140. 
  

  

  Mentum 
  ampliate 
  and 
  rounded 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  part, 
  narrowed 
  

   from 
  about 
  the 
  middle 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  nearly 
  straight 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  and 
  

  

  