1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 783 



Heterochelus longipes, Burm., 



Plate XLII., fig. 35. 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 101. 



H. testacciponnis ? , Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entoiii., p. 65. 



H. gonager, Guer., Icon. Eegn. Anim. Insectes, pi. xxiv., fig. 3. 



Male : Black, with the legs red and the hind tarsi sometimes 

 piceous red ; clypeus quadri-dentate but with the median tooth 

 shorter than the outer ones, and not very sharp ; head covered 

 with a very short, erect flavescent pubescence ; prothorax distinctly 

 grooved longitudinally in the posterior part and entirely covered 

 with dense, although not quite contiguous, round flavescent scales 

 and having a few squamose hairs on the anterior part ; scutellum 

 densely scaly ; elytra elongate, distinctly attenuate laterally from 

 near the humeral part to the apex, clothed with nearly contiguous 

 round scales, and although not distinctly costulate, having on each 

 side three faint series of remote greyish squamiform setae, as well as 

 one along the suture ; propygidium and sides of abdomen clothed with 

 small, yellow scales, pygidium not distinctly convex, and clothed with 

 similar scales from the base to past the median part, thence denuded 

 and shining ; hind trochanters very slightly spinose, hind femora 

 large and having the inner tooth of the knee sharper and more 

 developed than the outer ; hind tibiae half the length of the thigh, 

 not much arcuate, broad, compressed, grooved underneath and 

 emarginate near the base, straight from there and having the basal 

 part of the groove dentate on each side, and the apical mucro 

 moderately long, nearly transverse, and very sharp ; no apical spur, 

 hind claw simple, single ; intermediate tibiae dilated and strongly 

 compressed. 



Female : Black, with the elytra light testaceous, and covered with 

 appressed squamose flavescent hairs turning to scales along the 

 extreme edge of the posterior part ; scutellum, pygidium, pro- 

 pygidium and sides of abdomen clothed with yellow hairs. 



Length 5^-6 mm. ; width 2-^3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester, 

 Malmesbury, Port Ehzabeth, Graham's Town). 



Heterochelus murinus, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 102. 



H. castancipcnnis J , Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 66. 



Male : This species is closely allied to H. longipes ; it is also black 



and the legs red ; the shape of the elytra and hind legs is similar, 



but instead of being flavescent or yellow, the scales covering the 



