722 Transactions South African Pliilosophical Society, [vol. xir. 



A'. Elytra not costulate. 



Black, elytra pale testaceous and without any scales along the 



suture, clypeus quadri-dentate piterilix. 



Black, with the elytra pale testaceous and with a distinct broad 

 band of scales along the suture, and also an outer one in the male : 



Clypeus not dentate in the middle timidim. 



Clypeus slightly bi-dentate in the middle ixiretualis. 



Black, with a narrow basal band of yellow scales on the prothorax 



and the elytra, pygidial part and abdomen clothed with round 



yellow scales ; clypeus quadri-dentate .. Jii-jxirtitua. 



Black, with the elytra testaceous and clothed with appressed 



hairs; clypeus tri- dentate pauper(ttii.<. 



Black, with the elytra pale testaceous in the anterior discoidal 

 part and having a sutural band of yellow scales beginning at the 

 middle and continued on the apical margins ; clypeus bi-dentate 

 and strongly reflexed enierittts. 



Heterochelus vulpinus, Burm., 



Plate XLII., fig. 29. 



Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, 1844, p. 93. 



Male : Black, with the prothorax greenish bronze ; elytra and legs 

 occasionally reddish brown, scutellum clothed with yellow or flaves- 

 cent scales ; elytra with four longitudinal bands of scales of the same 

 hue situated in the intervals and the two lateral ones coalescing 

 a little past the median part ; edge of propygidium clothed with 

 yellow, round scales ; pygidium with a velvety black coating, and a 

 fine line of yellow scales at the apex, abdomen densely scaly ; clypeus 

 with the angles dentate and with two very little distinct median 

 teeth ; head and prothorax clothed with a dense flavous, or quite 

 yellow villose pubescence ; on the prothorax the median basal groove 

 is very distinct ; scutellum sub-ogival ; elytra plainly attenuate 

 laterally towards the apex, distinctly costate, and with the first two 

 scaly intervals broader than the other two, the scales are nearly 

 round, and set close to one another ; hind legs greenish black ; tro- 

 chanters produced into a very long, horizontal spine, hind femora very 

 swollen, dentate only on each side of the knee, with the inner tooth 

 longer and more conspicuous than the outer ; hind tibiae also with a 

 tooth on each side of the base, not deeply grooved longitudinally, 

 slightly serrulate on each side of the shallow groove and with a long 

 curved, compressed inner mucro, no apical spur, inner hind claw 

 only half the size of the outer, and cleft. 



