﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  827 
  

  

  sub-cylindrical, 
  not 
  emarginate 
  laterally, 
  bi-costulate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  femora 
  not 
  very 
  robust, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  slender, 
  simple 
  ; 
  tooth 
  under- 
  

   neath 
  the 
  claw 
  of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  conspicuous, 
  sub-horizontal 
  ; 
  

   basal 
  tooth 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  very 
  small. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3J 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Paarl). 
  

  

  MlTEOPHOEUS 
  NATALENSIS, 
  n. 
  Spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black 
  ; 
  head 
  closely 
  scabrose, 
  clothed 
  with 
  moderately 
  

   short, 
  dense, 
  sub-flavescent 
  hairs, 
  clypeus 
  very 
  sharply 
  quadri- 
  

   dentate, 
  the 
  two 
  outer 
  teeth 
  being 
  only 
  slightly 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  two 
  

   median 
  ones, 
  but 
  equally 
  sharp 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  very 
  closely 
  scabroso- 
  

   punctate 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  villose, 
  somewhat 
  short, 
  sub-flavescent 
  

   pubescence 
  ; 
  elytra 
  fuscous 
  brown, 
  covered 
  with 
  appressed 
  hair-like 
  

   flavescent 
  scales, 
  denser 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  and 
  

   the 
  apical 
  margin, 
  they 
  are 
  slightly 
  bi-costate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  and 
  

   closely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  edge 
  of 
  propygidium, 
  pygidium 
  and 
  abdomen 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  appressed 
  squamiform 
  flavescent 
  hairs 
  ; 
  legs 
  villose 
  ; 
  

   anterior 
  tibiae 
  tri-dentate 
  outwardly, 
  basal 
  tooth 
  shorter 
  than 
  the 
  

   intermediate 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  robust, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  somewhat 
  dilated, 
  flat 
  

   in 
  the 
  inner 
  side 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  upper 
  carinate 
  edge 
  emarginated 
  

   somewhat 
  deeply 
  above 
  the 
  apex, 
  which 
  is 
  sharply 
  sub-dentate 
  on 
  

   each 
  side. 
  

  

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

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Durban). 
  

  

  MlTEOPHOEUS 
  TEANSVAALENSIS, 
  n. 
  Spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  moderately 
  shining 
  ; 
  head 
  very 
  rugose, 
  clypeus 
  

   quadri-dentate, 
  the 
  teeth 
  are 
  broad 
  and 
  reflexed, 
  but 
  the 
  two 
  outer 
  

   ones 
  are 
  shorter 
  and 
  blunter 
  than 
  the 
  median 
  ones, 
  but 
  are 
  in 
  line 
  

   with 
  them 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  deeply 
  but 
  not 
  closely 
  punctate, 
  except 
  on 
  

   the 
  sides 
  where 
  the 
  punctures 
  are 
  somewhat 
  scabrose, 
  and 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  a 
  moderately 
  dense 
  sub-flavescent 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  elytra 
  distinctly 
  

   bi-costulate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  and 
  covered 
  with 
  appressed 
  and 
  sub- 
  

   appressed 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  covered 
  with 
  

   similar 
  hairs, 
  which 
  are 
  however 
  shorter 
  and 
  more 
  squamiform 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  legs 
  villose, 
  hind 
  femora 
  robust, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  deeply 
  incised 
  on 
  

   the 
  upper 
  side 
  above 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  upper 
  angle 
  of 
  the 
  

   incision 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  long 
  mucro 
  ; 
  the 
  tooth 
  under 
  the 
  claw 
  of 
  

   the 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  is 
  nearly 
  horizontal. 
  

  

  