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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  and 
  produced 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  thigh 
  into 
  a 
  long, 
  

   sharp 
  spine 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  concave 
  inwardly 
  especially 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   simple, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  edges 
  very 
  sharp 
  and 
  the 
  inner 
  one 
  produced 
  

   into 
  an 
  apical 
  triangular, 
  hollowed, 
  somewhat 
  short 
  mucro 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  and 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  distinctly 
  double, 
  the 
  posterior 
  

   ones 
  single, 
  simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Colour 
  and 
  vestiture 
  of 
  the 
  male, 
  the 
  scales 
  are 
  similar 
  

   and 
  arranged 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  manner 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  legs 
  are 
  slender, 
  and 
  

   the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  have 
  a 
  long, 
  apical 
  compressed 
  spur. 
  

  

  Length 
  9-11 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4|— 
  6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Natal 
  (Durban, 
  Maritzburg, 
  Umvoti 
  County), 
  Transvaal 
  

   (Potchefstroom, 
  Lydenburg), 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (King 
  William's 
  Town). 
  

  

  Monochelus 
  pulcher, 
  Pering., 
  

   Trans. 
  S. 
  Afric. 
  Philos. 
  Soc, 
  vol. 
  hi., 
  1885, 
  p. 
  94. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Bluish-black 
  bronze 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  bronze-green, 
  shining, 
  

   and 
  with 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  pygidial 
  part, 
  abdomen 
  and 
  pectus 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  large, 
  elongate, 
  somewhat 
  closely 
  set 
  golden 
  scales, 
  

   legs 
  red, 
  tarsi 
  black 
  ; 
  antennae 
  red 
  with 
  the 
  club 
  fuscous 
  ; 
  head 
  

   densely 
  scaly, 
  briefly 
  pubescent, 
  clypeus 
  a 
  little 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  

   and 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  completely 
  rounded, 
  apical 
  part 
  nearly 
  

   straight, 
  and 
  not 
  emarginate, 
  margins 
  only 
  slightly 
  reflexed; 
  pro- 
  

   thorax 
  very 
  obliquely 
  attenuated 
  laterally 
  in 
  front 
  and 
  not 
  much 
  

   rounded 
  past 
  the 
  middle, 
  fringed 
  with 
  long 
  golden 
  bristly 
  hairs 
  along 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  and 
  lateral 
  margins, 
  and 
  almost 
  entirely 
  covered 
  by 
  

   the 
  contiguous 
  scales 
  which, 
  however, 
  leave 
  a 
  small 
  longitudinal 
  

   denuded 
  band 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  closely 
  scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  attenuate 
  

   laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  non-costulate, 
  shagreened, 
  the 
  scales 
  are 
  

   large, 
  elongato-ovate 
  and 
  separated 
  from 
  one 
  another 
  by 
  a 
  space 
  

   equal 
  to 
  their 
  size 
  ; 
  the 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  propygidium, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  

   abdomen 
  are 
  smaller 
  than 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  and 
  closely 
  set 
  ; 
  the 
  

   hind 
  femora 
  are 
  very 
  robust, 
  triangular 
  underneath 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  

   trochanters 
  prolonged 
  to 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  thigh, 
  and 
  sharply 
  

   spinose 
  there 
  ; 
  tibiae 
  convex 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  face, 
  somewhat 
  concave 
  on 
  

   the 
  inner, 
  simple 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  upper 
  inner 
  edge 
  slightly 
  serrate, 
  and 
  

   produced 
  at 
  tip 
  into 
  a 
  long, 
  transverse 
  mucro 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  two 
  

   basal 
  joints 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  ; 
  posterior 
  claws 
  single, 
  not 
  cleft 
  but 
  

   having 
  underneath 
  a 
  conspicuous, 
  sub-median, 
  and 
  sub-horizontal 
  

   tooth. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  The 
  shape, 
  colour, 
  arrangement 
  and 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  scales 
  are 
  

   the 
  same 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  have 
  an 
  apical 
  spur, 
  and 
  

   the 
  hind 
  claw 
  has 
  no 
  tooth 
  underneath 
  

  

  