﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  847 
  

  

  MONOCHELUS 
  FUNEBRIS, 
  n. 
  Spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  shining, 
  clothed 
  with 
  small 
  lanceolate 
  greyish 
  scales 
  ; 
  

   head 
  very 
  closely 
  punctate 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  very 
  short 
  greyish 
  pubes- 
  

   cence, 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  slightly 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  and 
  has 
  the 
  outer 
  

   angles 
  rounded 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  convex, 
  ampliated 
  and 
  rounded 
  laterally 
  

   in 
  the 
  middle, 
  faintly 
  impressed 
  longitudinally 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  part 
  of 
  

   the 
  disk, 
  deeply 
  but 
  moderately 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  each 
  puncture 
  

   bearing 
  a 
  short, 
  squamiform 
  appressed 
  greyish 
  hair, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  all 
  

   round 
  a 
  border 
  of 
  thicker 
  and 
  slightly 
  more 
  flavescent 
  squamose 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  covered 
  with 
  elongate 
  greyish 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex 
  and 
  deeply 
  sinuate 
  below 
  

   the 
  humeral 
  part, 
  bi-costate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  intervals 
  

   filled 
  with 
  lanceolate, 
  somewhat 
  closely 
  set 
  but 
  not 
  contiguous 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  propygidium, 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  and 
  pectus 
  covered 
  with 
  

   elongate 
  scales, 
  pygidium 
  with 
  short 
  hair-like 
  scales 
  broadly 
  

   scattered 
  ; 
  legs 
  long, 
  slender, 
  the 
  hind 
  femora, 
  which 
  are 
  sparsely 
  

   squamose, 
  are 
  moderately 
  robust 
  and 
  simple, 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  

   also 
  moderately 
  thick, 
  simple, 
  and 
  have 
  an 
  apical 
  spur, 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   ones 
  are 
  bi-dentate 
  outwardly, 
  the 
  claws 
  are 
  robust, 
  the 
  anterior 
  ones 
  

   double 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  one 
  cleft, 
  the 
  median 
  ones 
  are 
  more 
  emarginate 
  

   than 
  incised 
  at 
  the 
  tip. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  closely 
  resembles 
  M. 
  inops, 
  but 
  is 
  distinguished 
  by 
  

   the 
  shorter 
  clypeus, 
  which 
  is 
  also 
  less 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  laterally, 
  the 
  

   absence 
  of 
  the 
  long 
  setae 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  and 
  lateral 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  

   prothorax, 
  the 
  smaller, 
  denser, 
  and 
  less 
  hair-like 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  elytra, 
  

   and 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  a 
  tooth 
  under 
  the 
  claw 
  of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  legs, 
  

   this 
  claw 
  also 
  is 
  not 
  bifid 
  as 
  in 
  M. 
  inops. 
  

  

  Length 
  5-5 
  J 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2 
  J 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Durban). 
  

  

  THABINA, 
  n. 
  gen. 
  

  

  Mentum 
  ovoid, 
  gradually 
  attenuated 
  towards 
  the 
  apex 
  and 
  not 
  

   constricted 
  laterally, 
  straight 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  with 
  the 
  angles 
  slightly 
  

   rounded 
  and 
  not 
  penicillate 
  ; 
  inner 
  lobe 
  of 
  maxillae 
  absent, 
  upper 
  

   lobe 
  short, 
  concave, 
  not 
  penicillate 
  and 
  armed 
  with 
  four 
  teeth 
  ; 
  last 
  

   joint 
  of 
  labial 
  palpi 
  swollen 
  outwardly, 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  maxillary 
  palpi 
  

   fusiform, 
  truncate 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  attenuate 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   where 
  it 
  is 
  emarginate, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  margin 
  raised 
  all 
  round 
  ; 
  

   antennae 
  nine- 
  jointed, 
  club 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  other 
  six 
  joints 
  taken 
  

   together 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  ampliated 
  and 
  rounded 
  laterally 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  

   ogival 
  ; 
  elytra 
  sinuate 
  laterally 
  and 
  very 
  attenuate 
  towards 
  the 
  

  

  