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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

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

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Durban). 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  not 
  seen 
  the 
  female 
  of 
  this 
  insect. 
  According 
  to 
  Bur- 
  

   meister 
  it 
  is 
  setose, 
  instead 
  of 
  squamose, 
  and 
  the 
  claws 
  of 
  the 
  

   intermediate 
  legs 
  are 
  double 
  and 
  cleft, 
  the 
  posterior 
  legs 
  have 
  a 
  

   single 
  claw 
  which 
  is 
  also 
  cleft. 
  

  

  Miceoplidus 
  stabilis, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Similar 
  in 
  size, 
  shape, 
  and 
  sculpture 
  to 
  M. 
  albidus, 
  it 
  is 
  covered 
  

   with 
  scales 
  identical 
  in 
  colour 
  and 
  size, 
  but 
  on 
  each 
  elytron 
  there 
  is 
  

   a 
  small, 
  sub-quadrate 
  or 
  transverse 
  denuded 
  space 
  close 
  to 
  the 
  

   suture, 
  and 
  situated 
  slightly 
  past 
  the 
  median 
  part. 
  

  

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

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Durban, 
  Umvoti). 
  

  

  Microplidus 
  binotatus, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Head, 
  prothorax, 
  legs, 
  and 
  pectus 
  black, 
  elytra, 
  pygidial 
  part, 
  and 
  

   abdomen 
  chestnut-brown 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  slightly 
  

   oblique, 
  head 
  briefly 
  pubescent 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  plainly 
  attenuated 
  laterally 
  

   in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  and 
  somewhat 
  rounded 
  in 
  the 
  median, 
  convex, 
  

   ■covered 
  with 
  scale-like 
  flavescent 
  appressed 
  hairs, 
  and 
  very 
  closely 
  

   and 
  finely 
  punctured 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  covered 
  with 
  minute, 
  elongate 
  sub- 
  

   flavescent 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  two 
  nearly 
  obliterated 
  costules 
  on 
  each 
  

   side, 
  very 
  closely 
  punctulate 
  and 
  having 
  in 
  each 
  puncture 
  a 
  minute 
  

   elongate 
  flavescent 
  scale, 
  except 
  near 
  the 
  suture 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  

   part, 
  where 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  small 
  denuded 
  round 
  spot 
  ; 
  on 
  the 
  pygidial 
  

   part 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen 
  the 
  scales 
  are 
  thicker 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  

   and 
  more 
  greyish, 
  and 
  the 
  pectus 
  has 
  an 
  appressed 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  

   both 
  the 
  claws 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  legs 
  are 
  cleft 
  at 
  the 
  tip, 
  and 
  the 
  

   inner 
  of 
  the 
  intermediate 
  ones 
  is 
  hardly 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  outer. 
  

  

  Length 
  6 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Durban). 
  

  

  Microplidus 
  luctuosus, 
  Bohem., 
  

   Insect. 
  Caffrar., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  159. 
  

  

  Black, 
  opaque, 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  fuscous 
  tomentose 
  pubescence 
  on 
  

   the 
  upper 
  side 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  with 
  three 
  bands, 
  often 
  partly 
  obliterated, 
  

   of 
  round 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  four 
  longitudinal 
  bands 
  of 
  white 
  round 
  

   scales, 
  broadly 
  interrupted 
  in 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  disk 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  

   part 
  and 
  abdomen 
  clothed 
  with 
  elongate 
  white 
  scales, 
  pectus 
  with 
  

   scales 
  and 
  appressed 
  greyish 
  hairs, 
  legs 
  pubescent 
  but 
  not 
  scaly 
  ; 
  

  

  