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are filled with round scales a little lighter in the intervals ; the pygi- 

 dium is clothed with yellow-ochre scales ; the hind femora are very 

 thick, the trochanter is spinose and the inner tooth of the knee is 

 conspicuous, the hind tibiae are curved and crenulate beneath on 

 each side, but have a strong ante-apical tooth ; the inner claw of the 

 hind legs is nearly as long as the outer, and is very deeply incised. 



Female : The female is like the male in colour and sliape ; the 

 median teeth of the clypeus are likewise almost obliterated ; the 

 shape of the claws is similar, but it is clothed with hairs instead of 

 scales except on the posterior part of the elytra. 



Hab. Cape Colony (? Gi^aham's Town). 



Length 5 J mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Heterochelus consors, n. spec. 



Male : Greenish black, shining ; elytra with two interrupted bands 

 of sub-flavescent scales on each side ; size, shape, and vestiture of II. 

 vmlticlcntatus, but the elytra are more rugose, while the two dorsal 

 impressed intervals are deeper, and the pubescence more fulvous and 

 longer ; the pygidium is denuded, shining and impunctate ; the clypeus 

 has a median emargination between the two median teeth, and is not 

 at all attenuate laterally ; the juxta-sutural band on the elytra begins 

 only in the median part, and also rounds the apex, the dorsal one 

 reaches from the base to about the median part, and the supra- 

 marginal one is obliterated ; the hind femora are very robust and 

 liave a conspicuously long inner tooth close to the knee, the hind 

 tibiae are slightly dentate inwardly close to the knee on the upper 

 mai'gin, while the lower margin is conspicuously dentate at the 

 base, the tibia itself is flattened inwardly, scarcely concave at the 

 apex the two angles of which are produced into two long, but not 

 very robust hooked mucros of equal size. 



Female unknown. 



Length 6 J mm. ; width 3 J mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam). 



Heterochelus contractus, Bohem., 



Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 156. 



H. pniinosiis, Boh., loc. cit., p. 157. 



Male : Head black, prothorax and elytra fuscous or dark cliestnut- 

 brown, legs and under side reddish ; prothorax and elytra clothed 

 with contiguous, round, yellowish-green scales, the latter non-costate, 

 and having on each side a diagonal band of whiter scales reachin'-' 



