﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  843 
  

  

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

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Durban, 
  Frere) 
  ; 
  Transvaal 
  (Johannesburg). 
  

  

  Monochelus 
  inops, 
  ii. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  covered 
  on 
  the 
  head, 
  prothorax 
  and 
  elytra 
  with 
  

   dingy, 
  ashy-grey 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  scarcely 
  squamose, 
  antennae 
  rufes- 
  

   cent 
  with 
  the 
  club 
  black 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  very 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  laterally 
  

   with 
  the 
  anterior 
  margin 
  reflexed 
  and 
  not 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  

   head 
  roughly 
  punctate, 
  clothed 
  with 
  short, 
  slightly 
  flavescent, 
  erect 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  regularly 
  ampliate 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  laterally, 
  closely 
  

   punctate, 
  but 
  the 
  punctures 
  are 
  not 
  scabrose, 
  and 
  bear 
  each 
  a 
  short 
  

   appressed 
  hair, 
  median 
  part 
  not 
  grooved 
  longitudinally 
  except 
  near 
  

   the 
  base, 
  where 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  short 
  sulcus, 
  the 
  anterior 
  and 
  lateral 
  

   margins 
  are 
  fringed 
  with 
  very 
  long, 
  slightly 
  fulvous, 
  bristly 
  hairs 
  ; 
  

   scutellum 
  covered 
  with 
  sub-squamose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  costate 
  in 
  the 
  

   discoidal 
  part 
  and 
  costulate 
  below 
  the 
  shoulder, 
  roughly 
  punctulate 
  

   and 
  with 
  the 
  squamose 
  hairs 
  denser 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  dorsal 
  intervals 
  ; 
  pro- 
  

   pygidium 
  and 
  under 
  side 
  clothed 
  with 
  appressed, 
  squamose, 
  slightly 
  

   flavescent 
  hairs 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  bi-dentate, 
  hind 
  legs 
  robust, 
  femora 
  

   swollen, 
  simple, 
  but 
  having 
  the 
  trochanters 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  short, 
  

   sharp 
  spine, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  broad 
  but 
  somewhat 
  compressed, 
  emarginate 
  

   underneath 
  near 
  the 
  knee, 
  slightly 
  concave 
  inwardly 
  near 
  the 
  apex 
  

   where 
  it 
  is 
  sub-mucronate 
  inwards 
  and 
  sharply 
  angular 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  

   side, 
  the 
  upper 
  edge 
  is 
  very 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  at 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  

   from 
  the 
  apex, 
  the 
  upper 
  angle 
  of 
  the 
  emargination 
  being 
  very 
  sharp, 
  

   almost 
  dentate 
  ; 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  small, 
  yet 
  distinct 
  apical 
  spur, 
  and 
  the 
  

   outer 
  surface 
  is 
  irregularly 
  foveato-punctate. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

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

  

  I 
  have 
  seen 
  four 
  males 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  preserved 
  in 
  spirit 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  

   possible 
  that 
  the 
  sub-squamose 
  hairs 
  are 
  more 
  flavescent 
  in 
  fresh 
  

   examples. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  I 
  am 
  not 
  sure 
  of 
  the 
  true 
  habitat 
  of 
  this 
  species. 
  It 
  might 
  

   prove 
  to 
  be 
  Port 
  Elizabeth 
  in 
  the 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  or 
  Durban 
  in 
  Natal. 
  

   I 
  opine 
  for 
  the 
  latter. 
  

  

  Monochelus 
  geacilis, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  legs 
  rufescent, 
  whole 
  body, 
  including 
  the 
  

   hind 
  legs, 
  clothed 
  with 
  closely 
  set 
  scales 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  very 
  little 
  attenuate 
  

   laterally, 
  nearly 
  straight 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  sharp 
  

   but 
  not 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  setulose 
  laterally 
  and 
  in 
  front, 
  but 
  the 
  

  

  