1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of So7ith Africa. 727 



yellow scales similar to those on the elytra ; the pygidium is also 

 scaly, but in the JDase of the latter there are two distinct dark brownish 

 patches which nearly coalesce and reach to the median part ; trochan- 

 ters of hind leg's very long and sharp, femora swollen and having a 

 well-developed inner tooth at the knee, but none outwardly ; the 

 hind tibiae are grooved beneath in the anterior part, and have a 

 greatly developed triangular, sub-median inner tooth ; the apical 

 part is strongly mucronate sub-horizontally, and the inner margin 

 between the tooth and tlie mucro is not serrate ; inner claw of the 

 nind legs only half the length of the outer. 



Female : Much smaller than the male ; elytra chestnut-brown, 

 and having on each side four bands of yellowish lanceolate hairs ; 

 pygidium covered with yellowish scales, and having two basal, 

 dark brown spots. 



Length 6^-8 mm. ; width 4-5f mm. 



Hal). Natal (Durban), Cape Colony (Pondoland). 



Heterochelus consaxguineus, n. spec. 



Male : Eeddish brown with the clypeus black ; closely allied to 

 the preceding species, but the hairs and the scales are orange-yellow 

 without any greenish tinge ; the elytra are distinctly costate, the 

 costae are bristly and have no scales, while the intervals are thickly 

 covered with them ; the pygidium is entirely clothed with yellow 

 scales, and has no dark brown patch ; the trochanters and hind 

 femora are alike, and the hind tibiae are nearly similar, but the upper 

 edge of the groove beneath is more strongly dentate at the base, and 

 the inner median tooth is often bifid ; inner claw of hind legs half 

 the length of the outer which is simple. The hind legs very much 

 resemble those of H. placatus. 



In very fresh examples the costae on the elytra are as much 

 covered with scales as the intervals. 



Female unknown. 



Length 5f-6f mm. ; width 3i-4^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Graham's Town). 



Hetekochelus furoninus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 98. 

 Male : Closely allied to H. gonager, but the colour of the back- 

 ground is redder brown, the head only being black ; the squamose, 

 lanciform hairs are not set very close to each other on the prothorax ; 

 the elytra are feebly costate, the costae being set with short lanciform, 

 squamose bristles, they are costate, but the costae and the intervals 



