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very short distance from the curved base, the upper part of the 

 laminate process is strongly and broadly bifid, and there is a very 

 long transverse mucro, no apical spur ; joints of hind tarsi elongate, 

 very little compressed ; inner claw not half the length of the outer, 

 both slightly cleft. 



Female unknown. 



Length 6-6^ mm. ; width 3^-3f mm. 



Hah. Natal (Estcourt, Durban). 



Heterochelus multidextatus, Burm., 



Plate XLII., fig. 31. 



Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 94. 



Male : Greenish metallic black, palpi, antennae, except the club, 

 and the fore tarsi reddish ; elytra with three bands of whitish or 

 slightly flavescent scales on each side ; head and prothorax closely 

 scabroso-punctate and clothed with greyish and black erect villose 

 hairs, along the base of the prothorax are a few whitish grey, remote, 

 squamose appressed hairs ; the clypeus is not emarginate in the 

 middle at the tip ; scutellum clothed with greyish scales ; elytra bi- 

 costate on each side, with the three spaces intervening between 

 the suture and the two costae filled with a band of dense, ovate 

 whitish scales, the juxta-sutural band is the longest and goes 

 round the apical margin in some examples, the discoidal one is 

 obliterated past the middle and the outer one is oblique and hardly 

 reaches the apex of the discoidal one, or is entirely absent, the surface 

 is roughly punctured, and the sides are clothed with a short but 

 dense greyish pubescence ; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen 

 covered with contiguous yellowish scales which are occasionally 

 deep orange at the base, and being slightly less dense there form 

 with the background two darker patches separated by a fine line of 

 scales similar in colour to those of the lower part ; liind femora very 

 robust and having in the inner part of the knee a somewhat short 

 spine ; the spine of the trochanters is moderately long and shai-p, 

 the hind tibiai are curved, not concave inwardly, but the lower 

 edge is strongly serrate, and ends in a long mucro cun-ed sub- 

 obliquely, the upper apical part is sharply angular ; inner claw of 

 hind legs half the length of the outer. 



Female unknown. 



Length 6-^7i mm. ; width 3^-4^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



