1902.] Catalogne of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 735 



yellow scales forming a nearly non-interrupted coating, legs reddish ; 

 head scabrose, hairy, clypeus very sharply quadri-dentate, median 

 teeth as long as the outer and all distinctly reflexed ; prothorax 

 fringed along the anteiior and lateral margins with long, flavescent 

 bristles, and distinctly grooved longitudinally in the centre ; elytra 

 not distinctly costulate, attenuate laterally towards the apex ; hind 

 femora with a short trochanterine spine and more distinctly dentate 

 inwardly at the knee than outwardly, hind tibiae a little curved, deeply 

 scooped underneath from base to apex, and having a short tooth near 

 the knee at the base of the inner margin, both margins are serrate, 

 and the mucro is a little slanting, but not very developed, no apical 

 spur, hind claw single, simple. 



Female unknown. 



Length 5^-5f mm. ; w^idth 3 mm. 



This species is easily recognised by its bright yellow coating and 

 the four sharp teeth of the clypeus. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town, Port Elizabeth). 



Heterochelus pachyglutus, Wiedem., 



Plate XLII, fig. 47. 



Zool. Mag., h., 1, p. 97. 



M. hyhridus, Burm., loc. cit., p. 24. 



Male : Black, with the prothorax and elytra clothed with yellow 

 scales turning sometimes to orange on the elytra, but having there 

 a sutural and a marginal band of paler scales ; the pygidium is 

 denuded at the apex only, and the rest of the surface is clothed with 

 yellow scales, but it has a lateral orange patch on each side, and 

 there is a transverse one of the same colour on the propygidium ; 

 the legs are reddish brown ; the clypeus is feebly bi-dentate in the 

 middle ; the prothorax is nearly as densely scaly as the elytra, and 

 the scales are nearly round ; those on the scutellum are a little paler 

 than on the elytra, but are of the same hue as those which are set 

 along the suture ; the hind femora are very thick and the trochanters 

 are very long and project at about the median part of the thigh into a 

 sharp horizontal spine distinctly bent inw^ardly at tip, the teeth on 

 each side of the knee are distinct, but not much developed ; the hind 

 tibiae are very swollen in the anterior part where the inner angle is 

 developed into a tooth, scooped inwardly in the apical part where 

 both the inner and outer angles are distinctly mucronate ; no apical 

 spur ; hind claws single, simple. 



Female : Black with the elytra chestnut-brown ; prothorax hairy ; 

 elytra sparsely covered with appressed squamose greyish hairs, but 



