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prothorax, scutellum, elytra, propygidium, and sides of abdomen are 

 greyish white or shghtly flavescent ; the scales on the elytra are 

 very small, very elongate, somewhat in the shape of a squamose hair, 

 and the whole pygidium, which is very strongly convex in the centre, 

 is glabrous and shining black. 



The female is like that of H. longijjes, but the elytra are dark 

 chestnut-brown. 



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



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmes- 

 bury). 



Hetebochelus adspersus, n. spec. 



Male: This species is very closely allied to H. viiiri)ins ; the 

 shape, size, and sculpture are similar, but the scales with which the 

 elytra are vei'y abundantly sprinkled are rounder and broader, the 

 hind legs are black, and the pygidium is much less convex in 

 the male than in H. murinus, where it is conspicuously so. The 

 females of the tw^o species cannot be distinguished from each other. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 3;|— 3^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Clanwiiliam). 



Heterochelus vulpecula, Burm., 

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



Male : Black, with the elytra and legs reddish ; clypeus very 

 slightly bi-dentate in the median part ; head and prothorax covered 

 with a short flavescent pubescence and small yellow scales ; scu- 

 tellum and elytra also covered with contiguous j-ellow scales ; the 

 elytra are not very elongate ; the propygidium, the whole of the 

 pygidium and the sides of the abdomen are covered with yellow 

 scales ; the pygidium is very convex at the base ; the hind femora 

 are very swollen, like those of H. lomjipcs and H. murinus, but the 

 trochanters are produced into a very long spine ; the hind tibiae are 

 not deeply grooved underneath, and the inner edge of the groove has a 

 sharp, median tooth, equi-distant from the apical curved mucro, and 

 from the base ; the outer margin of the groove is not well defined, 

 and is not toothed ; hind claw single, simple. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 2f mm. 



Female not known with certainty. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 



Heterochelus venustus, n. spec. 

 Male : Black, but entirely covered on the upper side, pygidial 

 area, abdomen, and sides of the metasternum with minute bright 



