﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Colcoptcra 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  873 
  

  

  part 
  straight, 
  or 
  broadly 
  but 
  not 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  ; 
  maxillae 
  elongate, 
  

   robust, 
  inner 
  lobe 
  ending 
  in 
  a 
  sharp 
  point, 
  but 
  very 
  little 
  developed, 
  

   upper 
  lobe 
  horny, 
  armed 
  with 
  four 
  long, 
  sharp 
  inner 
  teeth 
  (sulcicollis, 
  

   gracilis) 
  or 
  with 
  six 
  (trivialis), 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  fine 
  pencil 
  of 
  hairs 
  at 
  the 
  

   tip 
  ; 
  apical 
  joint 
  of 
  labial 
  palpi 
  sub-fusiform 
  outwardly, 
  but 
  not 
  in- 
  

   wardly, 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  maxillary 
  elongate 
  and 
  fusiform 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  plainly 
  

   narrowed 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex 
  and 
  expanding 
  there 
  into 
  two 
  

   sharply 
  angular 
  reflexed 
  teeth 
  ; 
  antennae 
  normally 
  nine-jointed, 
  club 
  

   not 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  four 
  preceding 
  joints 
  together 
  ; 
  eyes 
  very 
  large, 
  

   conspicuously 
  divided 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  by 
  the 
  canthus 
  ; 
  pro- 
  

   thorax 
  a 
  little 
  ampliated 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  more 
  attenuated 
  

   in 
  the 
  anterior 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part, 
  base 
  very 
  little 
  arcuate, 
  

   hardly 
  sinuate 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  moderately 
  long, 
  ogival 
  ; 
  elytra 
  elongate, 
  

   sinuate 
  laterally 
  but 
  very 
  little 
  attenuated 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  

   covering 
  the 
  greatest 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  propygidium 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  sub- 
  

   vertical, 
  abdomen 
  very 
  little 
  compressed; 
  legs 
  slender, 
  all 
  the 
  tibiae 
  

   with 
  an 
  apical 
  spur, 
  which 
  is, 
  however, 
  very 
  small 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   ones, 
  and 
  is 
  even 
  wanting 
  in 
  gracilis 
  ; 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  are 
  tri- 
  

   dentate 
  outwardly, 
  the 
  two 
  apical 
  ones 
  are 
  oblique, 
  but 
  the 
  shorter 
  

   basal 
  one 
  is 
  straight 
  ; 
  anterior 
  and 
  intermediate 
  claws 
  double, 
  un- 
  

   equal, 
  the 
  smaller 
  one 
  is 
  very 
  short, 
  the 
  anterior 
  ones 
  are 
  both 
  cleft, 
  

   but 
  only 
  the 
  longer 
  intermediate 
  one 
  is 
  cleft, 
  the 
  hind 
  ones 
  are 
  

   single 
  and 
  simple. 
  

  

  The 
  three 
  insects 
  included 
  in 
  this 
  genus 
  are 
  covered 
  with 
  very 
  long 
  

   hairs 
  and 
  minute 
  scales, 
  or 
  with 
  appressed, 
  slightly 
  squamose 
  hairs. 
  

   They 
  are 
  easily 
  distinguished 
  by 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus. 
  

  

  Key 
  to 
  the 
  Species. 
  

  

  Clypeus 
  as 
  broad 
  at 
  apex 
  as 
  at 
  base, 
  and 
  tri-dentate 
  ; 
  whole 
  body 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  very 
  long 
  villose 
  hairs 
  and 
  scales 
  sulcicollis. 
  

  

  Apical 
  part 
  of 
  clypeus 
  narrowed 
  and 
  straight 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  and 
  elytra 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  sparse 
  yellow 
  squamose 
  hairs 
  gracilis. 
  

  

  Apical 
  part 
  of 
  clypeus 
  produced 
  into 
  two 
  sharp, 
  reflexed 
  teeth 
  ; 
  pro- 
  

   thorax 
  and 
  elytra 
  clothed 
  with 
  flavescent 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  trivialis. 
  

  

  Inanda 
  sulcicollis, 
  Bohem., 
  

   Peritrichia 
  sulcicollis, 
  Insect. 
  Caffrar., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  1, 
  46. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  and 
  all 
  the 
  tarsi 
  piceous 
  red, 
  covered 
  

   above 
  and 
  under 
  and 
  also 
  on 
  the 
  legs 
  with 
  extremely 
  long 
  greyish 
  

   flavescent 
  hairs, 
  and 
  somewhat 
  dense, 
  ovate, 
  greyish 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  

   elytra, 
  prothorax, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  ; 
  head 
  roughly 
  punctate, 
  

   clypeus 
  much 
  reflexed 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  with 
  the 
  angles 
  projecting 
  as 
  a 
  

  

  