﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  869 
  

  

  villose, 
  flavescent 
  or 
  yellow 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  scutellum 
  are 
  of 
  

   the 
  same 
  colour 
  as 
  those 
  covering 
  the 
  prothorax 
  and 
  the 
  elytra 
  ; 
  the 
  

   latter 
  are 
  parallel, 
  numerously 
  costulate, 
  but 
  two 
  only 
  of 
  the 
  costules 
  

   are 
  plain, 
  and 
  all 
  the 
  costules 
  bear 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  short, 
  whitish 
  bristles, 
  

   along 
  the 
  suture 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  these 
  bristles 
  are 
  much 
  longer 
  

   and 
  stiffer 
  ; 
  legs 
  black, 
  very 
  bristly, 
  the 
  smaller 
  claw 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  legs 
  

   is 
  not 
  cleft. 
  The 
  green 
  scales 
  sometimes 
  turning 
  into 
  greenish 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Exactly 
  like 
  the 
  male 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  same 
  vestiture, 
  but 
  

   the 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  pygidium 
  and 
  the 
  abdomen 
  have 
  a 
  somewhat 
  whiter 
  

   tinge, 
  and 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  straight 
  at 
  the 
  apex. 
  

  

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

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch, 
  Malmesbury, 
  Paarl). 
  

  

  Group 
  HOPLIDES. 
  

  

  Key 
  to 
  the 
  Genera. 
  

  

  A 
  2 
  . 
  Labrum 
  not 
  produced 
  vertically. 
  

  

  Body 
  broad, 
  short, 
  depressed, 
  clypeus 
  straight 
  laterally 
  and 
  at 
  

   apex 
  ; 
  all 
  the 
  claws 
  double 
  and 
  unequal, 
  body 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   appressed 
  hairs 
  Anisochelus. 
  

  

  Body 
  elongate, 
  clypeus 
  sharply 
  narrowed, 
  reflexed 
  or 
  dentate, 
  

   anterior 
  and 
  intermediate 
  claws 
  double, 
  unequal, 
  posterior 
  ones 
  

   single, 
  simple 
  ; 
  body 
  covered 
  with 
  squamiform 
  hairs 
  and 
  occa- 
  

   sionally 
  with 
  scales 
  Inanda. 
  

  

  A 
  1 
  . 
  Labrum 
  produced 
  vertically. 
  

  

  B 
  3 
  . 
  Body 
  somewhat 
  cylindrical, 
  clothed 
  with 
  hairs 
  and 
  scales, 
  

   occasionally 
  with 
  hairs 
  only. 
  

  

  Clypeus 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  and 
  emarginate 
  at 
  the 
  tip, 
  hind 
  

   claw 
  single, 
  the 
  others 
  double, 
  unequal 
  and 
  simple 
  ; 
  maxillae 
  

   not 
  dentate 
  Microplus. 
  

  

  Clypeus 
  rounded 
  laterally 
  or 
  sub-parabolic 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  anterior 
  

   and 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  double, 
  unequal, 
  only 
  the 
  stouter 
  

   anterior 
  one 
  cleft 
  ; 
  maxillae 
  sharply 
  pluri-dentate 
  ; 
  body 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  scales 
  or 
  sub-squamose 
  hairs 
  Blicroplidus. 
  

  

  B 
  2 
  . 
  Body 
  clothed 
  with 
  sub-squamose 
  hairs 
  and 
  no 
  scales. 
  

  

  a 
  2 
  . 
  Maxillae 
  not 
  dentate. 
  

  

  Clypeus 
  short, 
  sub-parabolic, 
  claws 
  of 
  anterior 
  and 
  inter- 
  

   mediate 
  legs 
  double, 
  unequal. 
  

  

  Last 
  joint 
  of 
  maxillary 
  palpi 
  very 
  swollen 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  

   and 
  spindle-shaped 
  Blikana. 
  

  

  Last 
  joint 
  of 
  maxillary 
  palpi 
  elongate, 
  cylindrical 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  Harpina. 
  

  

  a 
  1 
  . 
  Maxillae 
  dentate. 
  

  

  