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shoulder, but short, and leaving nearly the whole propygidium 

 uncovered ; the pygidium slants very obliquely forwards ; the hind 

 femora are very robust and simple, but the inner part of the 

 articulation of the knee is sharper than the outer ; the trochanters 

 are not spinose, the hind tibiae are short, curved, broadly dilated 

 inwardly from near the knee, grooved underneath with the two edges 

 of the groove equal, but the inner one is slightly dentate near the 

 inner apical mucro which is moderately long, sharp, and strong ; the 

 claws are double, but they are not as divaricating as in the other 

 species of the genus, and the inner one is not quite as long as the 

 outer, but the affinities of this species are undoubtedly more with 

 species of the genus Dichelus, D. laticollis especially, than with any 

 species of Heterochehis. 



Female : Like the male, but with a few flavescent, slightly 

 squamiform hairs on the elytra ; hind tibiae with a distinct apical 

 spur. 



Length 5-5^ mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 



Dichelus pallidipennis, Blanch., 

 Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 63. 



Male : Black, with the elytra flavous, pygidium squamoso-villose, 

 and having two denuded patches at the base ; clypeus briefly quadri- 

 dentate but with the two median teeth smaller than the outer ; head 

 and prothorax densely villose, the hairs greyish ; the elytra have a few 

 appressed hairs ; the hind legs are moderately robust, simple, and 

 the hind tibiae have an apical spur, the hind claws are double, equal 

 in length, divaricating, and both cleft. 



Female like the male, but the pygidium is covered with greyish- 

 white appressed hairs and has no denuded space. 



Length 5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality, but probably Malmes- 

 bury). 



The only male example I have seen is the type. 



Dichelus zuluanus, n. spec. 



Female : Black, with tlie elytra and legs piceous, scutellum, pro- 

 pygidium and upper side of abdomen with sub-flavescent elongate 

 scales ; head and prothorax scabroso-punctate, somewhat densely 

 pubescent, the pubescence flavescent, the clypeus is quadi'i-dentate. 



