1907.] Catalogue of the Goleoiptera of South Africa. 357 



Anoplochtlus (Diathermus) globosus, Schoch., 

 Mith. Schw. Entomol. Gesels, 1897, p. 55. 



Black, the upper side light testaceous, or completely black, opaque 

 in both cases ; when the upper part is testaceous the prothorax has 

 three somewhat broad and entire fuscous discoidal bands, the scutel- 

 lum has a median longitudinal black band, and is edged with black ; 

 the elytra are tessellated more or less regularly with fuscous, and the 

 black pygidium is concolorous ; this species is somewhat closely allied 

 to A. flguratus, Boh., but it differs in the following points : the teeth 

 of the quadri-dentate clypeus are in a line along the anterior margin, 

 instead of the two median ones projecting considerably from the base 

 beyond the two sub-lateral ones, as in A. flguratus ; the prothorax is 

 much more densely pubescent, the pubescence being longer and very 

 flavescent, and the punctures are very much deeper and much more 

 closely set ; elytra slightly narrower behind than at the base, pluri- 

 costate on the dorsal part, and plainly punctate striate laterally ; 

 pygidium irregularly punctate ; sides of abdomen clothed with a 

 moderately dense fulvescent pubescence which is very thick on the 

 pectus ; the basal joint of the anterior tarsi is plainly triangular in 

 both sexes, but the upper angle does not project as much as in 

 A. flguratus, in which species the length is, however, very variable. 

 The shape of the genitalia of the male differs considerably in each 

 species. 



Length 13J-14f mm. ; width 8J-9 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Anoplochilus (Sisyraphoea) tomentosus, Gor. and Perch., 

 Monogr. p. 266, pi. 51, fig. 5. 



Black, covered all over with a thick pile of golden-yellow pubes- 

 cence hiding completely the teguments ; antennae chestnut-brown ; 

 mando of maxillae strongly hamate ; clypeus parallel, rounded 

 laterally in the anterior part with the anterior margin deeply sinuate 

 and simple ; prothorax normally attenuated diagonally laterally in 

 the anterior part and deeply and closely punctate ; scutellum and 

 elytra of the normal shape, very little narrower at apex than at base, 

 distinctly bi-costate on each side ; pygidium, with two small denuded 

 patches in the centre, and occasionally also on the sides, but the 

 number of patches varies a good deal ; legs as hairy as the body ; 

 basal joint of hind tarsi not sharply angular laterally. 



The shape of the genital clasps of the $ greatly approximates to 

 that of A. odiosus. 



Is found on flowers, especially Compositae. 



