1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 739 



Hetebochelus hospes, n. spec. 

 Male : Black, with the elytra covered witli ochre-yellow or orange 

 scales ; prothorax non-scaly, pygidium and sides of abdomen clothed 

 with orange-yellow scales ; the body has a massive look on account 

 of the very ampliated metasternum and abdomen ; clypeus distmctly 

 quadri-dentate, the four teeth being of equal height; prothorax 

 clothed with sparse, decumbent, very short greyish hairs ; scutellum 

 densely scaly ; elytra non-costate, but with the impression on each 

 side of the humeral callus somewhat distinct, diagonally attenuate 

 from near the shoulder to the apex, the scales are round and 

 contiguous ; hind femora thickened, trochanters produced into 

 a long, falciform spine, curved inwardly but reaching as far as, 

 or further than the knee, the inner tooth of which is slightly 

 prominent ; hind tibiae nearly straight, a little attenuate inwardly 

 at base, moderately thick for half the length, somewhat compressed 

 inwardly from the median part to the apex which is not mucronate 

 inwardly, and has a very distinct apical spur ; hind claws simple, 



single. 



Female: Like the male but with the elytra redder-brown and 



.clothed with squamose hairs. 

 Length 4 mm. ; width 2| mm. 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Tulbagh). 



Heteeochelus sub-vittatus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 99. 



Black, with the prothorax clothed with squamose hairs turning to 

 yellow scales in the posterior part, and in the basal, longitudinal 

 groove ; elytra covered with closely set round yellow scales which 

 are paler along the suture and between the first and second slightly 

 raised costee ; pygidium covered with yellow scales, but having two 

 longitudinal orange bands; legs reddish; head sharply quadii- 

 dentate, the teeth of equal height, but the two median ones set some- 

 what closer to one another than to the lateral ones ; elytra not highly 

 costate, but the costse are nevertheless distinct ; the scales on the 

 propygidium are of the same orange colour as the two lateral bands 

 on the pygidium ; spine of the trochanters of the hind femora 

 indistinct or projecting very slightly only, femora simple and very 

 little dentate on each side of the knee; hind tibiae simple, com- 

 pressed inwardly towards the apical part which is only slightly 

 mucronate inwardly and has a very distinct apical spur adjoining 

 the mucro. 



Female : Clypeus also sharply quadri-dentate ; elytra with three 



