﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  871 
  

  

  tri-dentate 
  (inornatus), 
  anterior 
  claws 
  double 
  and 
  both 
  cleft, 
  the 
  inter- 
  

   mediate 
  ones 
  double 
  but 
  unequal, 
  and 
  either 
  both 
  cleft 
  {inornatus) 
  or 
  

   only 
  the 
  stronger 
  one 
  {neglectus), 
  posterior 
  ones 
  double, 
  unequal. 
  

  

  I 
  know 
  only 
  two 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  three 
  species 
  included 
  in 
  this 
  genus 
  by 
  

   Burmeister. 
  Their 
  facies 
  is 
  quite 
  unlike 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  insects 
  

   included 
  in 
  this 
  group, 
  and 
  in 
  shape 
  they 
  somewhat 
  resemble 
  some 
  

   species 
  of 
  Peritrichia. 
  

  

  Key 
  to 
  the 
  Species. 
  

   A.- 
  Body 
  not 
  shiny. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  and 
  elytra 
  clothed 
  with 
  long, 
  villose 
  hairs 
  in 
  both 
  sexes 
  ; 
  

   elytra 
  light 
  chestnut 
  with 
  a 
  fuscous 
  border 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  with 
  a 
  

   transverse 
  band 
  of 
  white 
  hairs 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  inornatus. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  black, 
  villose; 
  elytra 
  chestnut-red 
  or 
  testaceous 
  accord- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  the 
  sexes, 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense 
  appressed 
  testaceous 
  hairs 
  neglectus. 
  

  

  A 
  1 
  . 
  Body 
  shiny. 
  

  

  Whole 
  body 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  dense 
  long 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  pale 
  

   testaceous 
  hilaris. 
  

  

  Anisochelus 
  inornatus, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  171. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  testaceous 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  broad 
  lateral 
  

   fuscous 
  border 
  ; 
  head 
  very 
  rugose, 
  clypeus 
  a 
  little 
  rounded 
  laterally, 
  

   straight 
  at 
  apex 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  lateral 
  angles 
  distinct, 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  

   prothorax 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  long, 
  erect 
  black 
  hairs, 
  and 
  the 
  

   surface 
  is 
  finely 
  aciculate 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  briefly 
  pubescent 
  ; 
  elytra 
  broad 
  

   and 
  somewhat 
  short, 
  sub-quadrangular 
  and 
  singly 
  rounded 
  at 
  the 
  

   apex, 
  they 
  are 
  very 
  flat, 
  slightly 
  impressed 
  longitudinally 
  along 
  the 
  

   suture, 
  and 
  also 
  along 
  the 
  outer 
  margin, 
  not 
  costulate, 
  punctulate, 
  

   set 
  with 
  very 
  short, 
  sub-appressed 
  black 
  hairs, 
  not 
  dense 
  enough 
  to 
  

   form 
  a 
  pubescence, 
  and 
  long 
  black 
  bristles 
  somewhat 
  scattered 
  but 
  

   more 
  numerous 
  on 
  the 
  shoulders 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  

   broad 
  but 
  not 
  long, 
  villose 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  conspicuous 
  transverse 
  band 
  

   of 
  appressed 
  white 
  silky 
  hairs 
  along 
  the 
  base, 
  the 
  other 
  villose 
  hairs 
  

   are 
  black 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  and 
  pectus 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  greyish 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  

   anterior 
  tibiae 
  tri-dentate, 
  claws 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  and 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  

   double 
  and 
  both 
  cleft, 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  legs 
  are 
  double, 
  but 
  only 
  

   the 
  smaller 
  one 
  is 
  cleft 
  ; 
  legs 
  piceous, 
  very 
  bristly. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Shape 
  and 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  also 
  very 
  villose 
  on 
  the 
  

   prothorax 
  and 
  the 
  elytra, 
  but 
  the 
  latter 
  especially 
  are 
  also 
  covered 
  

   with 
  dense, 
  appressed 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  pygidium 
  has 
  a 
  transverse 
  

   band 
  of 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  the 
  hairs 
  

   and 
  the 
  pubescence 
  underneath 
  are 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  flavescent. 
  

  

  