﻿840 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  ampliated 
  from 
  base 
  to 
  apex, 
  flattened 
  outwardly, 
  broadly 
  scooped 
  

   inwardly, 
  and 
  the 
  inner 
  edge 
  is 
  bluntly 
  dentate 
  at 
  about 
  two-thirds 
  

   of 
  the 
  length 
  and 
  emarginate 
  under 
  the 
  tooth, 
  the 
  apices 
  are 
  mode- 
  

   rately 
  sharp 
  but 
  not 
  mucronate, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  small 
  apical 
  spur 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  claws 
  single, 
  simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  three 
  bands 
  of 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  

   are 
  very 
  distinct. 
  

  

  Length 
  5J-6 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3|- 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Durban). 
  

  

  Monochelus 
  elegantulus, 
  Blanch., 
  

  

  Catal. 
  Coll. 
  Entom. 
  Par. 
  Mus., 
  1850, 
  p. 
  68. 
  

  

  Bohem., 
  Insect. 
  Caffrar., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  158. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chalybeate 
  and 
  shining, 
  antennae 
  and 
  

   legs 
  red 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  partly 
  covered 
  with 
  yellowish, 
  elongate 
  scales, 
  

   denser 
  and 
  smaller 
  along 
  the 
  base, 
  where 
  they 
  form 
  a 
  band, 
  some- 
  

   what 
  irregularly 
  disposed 
  on 
  the 
  disk, 
  but 
  partly 
  filling 
  the 
  median 
  

   longitudinal 
  groove, 
  scutellum 
  covered 
  with 
  small 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  

   very 
  elongate 
  whitish 
  scales 
  not 
  closely 
  set 
  but 
  very 
  numerous 
  and 
  

   somewhat 
  seriate 
  ; 
  propygidium, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  with 
  

   similarly 
  elongate 
  whitish 
  or 
  yellowish 
  scales 
  looking 
  almost 
  like 
  

   appressed 
  squamose 
  hairs, 
  and 
  also 
  set 
  not 
  very 
  close 
  to 
  each 
  other 
  ; 
  

   head 
  very 
  rugose, 
  clypeus 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  broadly 
  rounded, 
  and 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  margins 
  slightly 
  reflexed 
  and 
  scarcely 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  

   centre 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  gradually 
  ampliated 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  having 
  

   on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  disk 
  some 
  deep 
  punctures 
  filled 
  by 
  the 
  scales, 
  as 
  

   well 
  as 
  smooth 
  intervening 
  spaces, 
  but 
  closely 
  and 
  finely 
  punctate 
  on 
  

   each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  anterior 
  and 
  lateral 
  margins 
  are 
  fringed 
  

   with 
  very 
  long, 
  somewhat 
  dense, 
  fulvous, 
  bristly 
  hairs, 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  

   roughly 
  punctate 
  and 
  not 
  costulate, 
  and 
  although 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  

   towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  not 
  strongly 
  sinuate 
  past 
  the 
  humeral 
  part 
  ; 
  

   anterior 
  tibiae 
  bi-dentate 
  ; 
  posterior 
  femora 
  swollen, 
  moderately 
  

   robust, 
  simple 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  trochanters 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  short, 
  sharp 
  

   spine 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  moderately 
  robust, 
  convex 
  outwardly, 
  flattened 
  

   inwardly, 
  concave 
  thence 
  towards 
  the 
  apical 
  part 
  where 
  they 
  end 
  in 
  a 
  

   sub-mucronate 
  process 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  the 
  upper 
  one 
  being 
  the 
  more 
  

   developed 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  distinct 
  tooth 
  under- 
  

   neath, 
  no 
  apical 
  spur 
  to 
  the 
  posterior 
  tibiae. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  have 
  a 
  very 
  small, 
  

   basal 
  outer 
  tooth, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  tooth 
  under 
  the 
  hind 
  claws. 
  

  

  Length 
  7^ 
  — 
  9 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4-4J 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Transvaal 
  (Johannesburg). 
  

  

  