﻿1902. 
  J 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  853 
  

  

  elytra 
  conspicuously 
  narrowed 
  laterally 
  from 
  below 
  the 
  shoulder 
  

   towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  bi-costulate 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  closely 
  and 
  roughly 
  

   punctured, 
  very 
  briefly 
  pubescent 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part, 
  the 
  elongate 
  

   patches 
  of 
  yellow 
  scales 
  are 
  disposed 
  as 
  follows: 
  a 
  small 
  one 
  in 
  the 
  

   base 
  near 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  an 
  elongate 
  basal 
  discoidal, 
  a 
  juxta-sutural 
  

   reaching 
  from 
  some 
  distance 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  to 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part, 
  

   and 
  a 
  diagonal 
  one 
  placed 
  outside 
  the 
  humeral 
  callus, 
  reaching 
  to 
  about 
  

   the 
  same 
  distance, 
  but 
  beginning 
  near 
  the 
  base, 
  two 
  smaller 
  ones 
  

   situate 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  discoidal 
  part 
  and 
  parallel 
  to 
  each 
  other, 
  a 
  

   juxta-sutural 
  one 
  reaching 
  nearly 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  a 
  supra-marginal 
  of 
  

   nearly 
  the 
  same 
  length, 
  the 
  scales 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  bands 
  are 
  formed 
  being 
  

   small 
  and 
  round 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  robust, 
  swollen, 
  simple 
  but 
  having 
  the 
  

   trochanters 
  briefly 
  spinose 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  sharply 
  carinate 
  underneath, 
  

   very 
  sharply 
  angular 
  near 
  the 
  knee, 
  briefly 
  mucronate 
  in 
  the 
  lower 
  

   apical 
  part, 
  and 
  strongly 
  angular 
  on 
  the 
  upper; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  very 
  

   distinctly 
  and 
  sharply 
  bi-dentate 
  outwardly, 
  claws 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  and 
  

   intermediate 
  legs 
  single, 
  cleft 
  laterally 
  ; 
  posterior 
  ones 
  single, 
  simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  The 
  shape 
  is 
  similar 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  prothorax 
  

   is 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  dense 
  yellowish 
  hairs; 
  the 
  scutellum 
  is 
  scaly, 
  

   the 
  scales 
  being 
  flavescent 
  white, 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  

   is 
  covered 
  with 
  contiguous 
  yellow 
  scales 
  entirely 
  surrounding 
  the 
  

   elongated 
  patches 
  which 
  are 
  disposed 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  scales 
  of 
  

   which 
  are 
  paler 
  than 
  those 
  forming 
  the 
  background; 
  the 
  hind 
  legs 
  

   are 
  also 
  robust, 
  but 
  much 
  less 
  so 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  

   compressed 
  and 
  have 
  an 
  apical 
  spur. 
  

  

  Length 
  7-8 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3f-4 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Namaqualand). 
  

  

  Gymnoloma 
  atomaria, 
  Fabr., 
  

  

  Spec. 
  Insect., 
  i., 
  p. 
  43. 
  

  

  Oliv., 
  Entom., 
  i., 
  5, 
  p. 
  71, 
  pi. 
  v., 
  fig. 
  52. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  chocolate-brown, 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  

   very 
  numerous 
  minute 
  white 
  scales 
  and 
  having 
  on 
  the 
  outer 
  margins 
  

   of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  three 
  patches 
  of 
  denser 
  white 
  scales 
  somewhat 
  

   connected; 
  pygidium, 
  sides 
  of 
  abdomen, 
  and 
  pectus 
  very 
  densely 
  

   scaly, 
  the 
  scales 
  white; 
  clypeus 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  long 
  triangle, 
  very 
  

   sharp 
  at 
  apex, 
  head 
  very 
  rugose; 
  prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  deep 
  median 
  

   longitudinal 
  groove 
  filled 
  with 
  denser 
  scales, 
  and 
  thickly 
  fringed 
  in 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  margin 
  with 
  very 
  long, 
  blackish 
  bristly 
  hairs; 
  scutellum 
  

   small; 
  elytra 
  obsoletely 
  costulate, 
  conspicuously 
  narrowed 
  laterally 
  

   from 
  the 
  shoulder 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  leaving 
  thus 
  a 
  somewhat 
  

   broad 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  dorsal 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  uncovered, 
  this 
  part 
  is 
  

  

  