﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Colcoptcra 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  877 
  

  

  by 
  appressed 
  hairs. 
  In 
  the 
  two 
  species 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  latter 
  

   section 
  the 
  teeth 
  of 
  the 
  maxillae 
  are 
  smaller 
  and 
  less 
  plainly 
  distinct 
  

   than 
  in 
  the 
  others. 
  

  

  Key 
  to 
  the 
  Species. 
  

   A 
  2 
  . 
  Body 
  covered 
  with 
  scales. 
  

  

  B3. 
  Claws 
  of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  single, 
  simple 
  in 
  the 
  male. 
  

  

  Body 
  covered 
  with 
  round 
  white 
  scales 
  albiger. 
  

  

  Body 
  covered 
  with 
  round 
  white 
  scales, 
  but 
  having 
  a 
  denuded 
  

  

  spot 
  on 
  each 
  elytron 
  stabilis. 
  

  

  B 
  2 
  . 
  Claws 
  of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  double, 
  but 
  inner 
  claw 
  very 
  small. 
  

  

  Body 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  black 
  tomentum, 
  elytra 
  with 
  five 
  inter- 
  

   rupted 
  bands 
  of 
  white 
  round 
  scales 
  luctuosus. 
  

  

  Body 
  covered 
  with 
  minute 
  elongate 
  flavescent 
  scales, 
  and 
  

  

  having 
  a 
  small 
  denuded 
  spot 
  on 
  each 
  elytron 
  binotatus. 
  

  

  B 
  1 
  . 
  Claws 
  of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  doable, 
  inner 
  claw 
  long. 
  

  

  Body 
  covered 
  with 
  small 
  elongate 
  whitish 
  scales 
  ; 
  anterior 
  

  

  tibiae 
  tri-dentate 
  pumilus. 
  

  

  Body 
  covered 
  with 
  very 
  dense, 
  ovate 
  flavescent 
  scales, 
  each 
  

   elytron 
  with 
  five 
  rows 
  of 
  short, 
  whitish 
  bristles 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  

   bi-dentate 
  persimilis. 
  

  

  A 
  1 
  . 
  Body 
  covered 
  with 
  appressed 
  hairs. 
  

  

  Upper 
  side 
  and 
  pygidium 
  covered 
  with 
  thick, 
  slightly 
  squamose 
  

  

  greyish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  single 
  algoensis. 
  

  

  Upper 
  side 
  and 
  pygidium 
  covered 
  with 
  fine 
  non-squamose 
  ap- 
  

   pressed 
  hairs 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  double 
  valgus. 
  

  

  MlCROPLIDUS 
  ALBIGER, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom., 
  iv., 
  2, 
  p. 
  482. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Eeddish 
  brown, 
  with 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  black, 
  

   covered 
  above 
  and 
  under 
  with 
  round 
  white 
  scales 
  ; 
  head 
  very 
  briefly 
  

   pubescent 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  laterally 
  and 
  very 
  rugose 
  ; 
  pro- 
  

   thorax 
  plainly 
  narrowed 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  and 
  straight 
  

   thence, 
  with 
  the 
  basal 
  angle 
  somewhat 
  sharp, 
  moderately 
  convex, 
  

   and 
  with 
  a 
  margin 
  of 
  very 
  short 
  bristles 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  slightly 
  elongated, 
  

   ogival, 
  densely 
  scaly; 
  elytra 
  elongated, 
  not 
  sinuate 
  laterally, 
  but 
  a 
  

   little 
  attenuated 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  somewhat 
  convex, 
  not 
  costulate 
  ; 
  

   pygidium 
  vertical, 
  densely 
  scaly 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  anterior 
  legs 
  double, 
  

   unequal, 
  the 
  stouter 
  one 
  cleft 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  intermediate 
  and 
  pos- 
  

   terior 
  tarsi 
  with 
  a 
  single, 
  simple 
  claw. 
  

  

  