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pygidium is black from the base to the median part and covered with 

 scales from thei'e to the apex ; the hind femora are similar, but the 

 hind tibiae are thicker at the base, and the mucro is more developed ; 

 the inner claw of the hind legs is about half the length of the other 

 and is distinctly cleft. 



Length 5i mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (no exact locality). 



Heterochelus parilis, n. spec. 



Male : Black, with the anterior legs, and also the antennae, with 

 the exception of the club, reddish ; scutellum densely scaly ; elytra 

 with three dorsal bands of greyish scales reaching to the apex 

 and a somewhat indistinct marginal one on each side ; pygidium 

 nude, shining ; clypeus not visibly dentate in the middle, but 

 with the angles sharp and acute ; head granulose, clothed with 

 a greyish pubescence ; prothorax slightly scabroso-punctate and 

 having the median posterior groove very distinct, clothed with 

 long, not very dense, greyish -black erect hairs interspersed with a 

 few greyish scales which form a distinct basal band ; scutellum 

 somewhat sharp at tip ; elytra not much ampliated laterally in the 

 anterior part and narrowed towards the apex, costate and with the 

 three intervals filled with small, round, greyish scales, which form 

 also a band along the apex ; propygidium wnth a broad border of 

 similar scales, which are also to be found on the sides of the 

 abdomen ; hind femora strong but not very swollen ; the trochanters 

 are developed into a very short, triangular tooth, and at the apex of 

 the femora the inner tooth of the knee is much more greatly 

 developed than the outer, and is set more inwardly ; the hind tibiae 

 are somewhat swollen but the edges are compressed, grooved 

 beneath in the anterior part, they have a small basal tooth, and 

 the angle of the inner wall of the groove is distinctly dentate close 

 to the basal minor tooth, the apical mucro is long and sharp, and 

 there is no apical spur ; the hind claws are long, single and 

 simple. 



Female : Black, with the elytra pale testaceous, and the legs 

 rufescent ; the prothorax is hairy, not scaly ; the scutellum is scaly, 

 but not the elytra, and the pygidium and sides of the abdomen are 

 clothed with small fiavescent scales. 



Length 5-6 mm. ; width 3-4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester), 

 ? Natal (Durban). 



