1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 729 



from the base to the median part of the disk, and another along the 

 posterior part of the suture ; pygidium with two basal brown patches ; 

 clypeus with the two median teeth nearly obliterated, the head is 

 pubescent, and the prothorax has, besides the coating of green scales, 

 a flavescent pubescence more distinct in the anterior part ; the 

 scutellum is clothed with slightly lanceolate scales which are of 

 the same colour, that is to say, paler than those forming the two 

 bands of the elytra ; hind trochanters sharply spinose, hind thighs 

 swollen and having a sharp tooth in the inner part of the knee, hind 

 tibijB deeply grooved beneath at the base and with the edges of the 

 groove slightly dentate there, the inner edge being strongly serrate ; 

 they are strongly mucronate at tip, and are without an apical spur ; 

 inner claw of hind legs half the size of the outer, which is simple. 



Female : The vestiture is like that of the male, but instead of 

 having two brown patches on the pygidium, the scales on each side 

 of the base are somewhat orange. 



Length 4^6 mm. ; width 2^-3^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban, Estcourt). 



This species might be taken for a small example of H. sulphureus, 

 but the elytra are not costate, the hind tibiae in the male have not 

 the conspicuous median inner tooth, and the elytra of the female are 

 vmiformly covered with scales instead of having bands of squamiform 

 hairs. 



Hetekochelus icteeicus, n. spec. 



Male : Black, with the elytra and legs rufescent ; the latter are 

 clothed with greenish-yellow scales ; clypeus with the two median 

 teeth small but distinct ; head and prothorax clothed with fiavous or 

 yellow hairs ; the latter has along the base a narrow l^and of elongate 

 yellow scales, which fill also the posterior part of the median groove ; 

 scutellum densely scaly ; elytra entirely clothed with contiguous 

 round yellow scales, and having on each side two very feebly raised 

 costae having each a series of remote, somewhat squamulose, very 

 short, whitish bristles ; propygidium, pygidium and sides of abdomen 

 clothed with closely set, round, yellow scales ; hind femora with the 

 trochanters long and spinose, and having the inner tooth of the knee 

 well developed ; hind tibiae bent, scooped beneath at the iDase and 

 having a small tooth near the knee on each side of the excavation, 

 and close to it a strong, triangular tooth on the upper edge of the 

 groove, while the lower edge is very strongly serrate as far as the 

 strongly incurved apical mucro ; no apical spur ; inner claw of hind 

 tarsi half the length of the outer, which is simple. 



Female unknown. 



