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not very well-defined bands of hairs and paler elongate scales on 

 each side ; scales of pygidium as in the male. 



Length 4-J— 5 mm. ; width 2f-3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). 



Hetekochelus egens, n. spec. 



Male : Black, covered with greyish scales having sometimes a 

 slight fiavescent tinge on the whole surface as well as on the 

 pygidium and the sides of the abdomen ; legs rufescent ; clypeus 

 sharply quadri-dentate, all the teeth equal, but not long ; head and 

 prothorax densely squamose, the scales being similar to those of the 

 elytra, but not so closely set ; scutellum scaly ; elytra having between 

 the suture and a distinct dorsal costa a depressed interval reaching- 

 from the base to the apex, but on the other side of the costa, the 

 interval is only distinct from the base to the median part ; hind 

 femora moderately swollen and simple, trochanters non-spinose ; 

 hind tibijfi not curved, concave inwardly towards the apex which is 

 slightly mucronate and has an apical spur ; hind claws single, 

 simple. 



Female unknown. 



Length 4-4^ mm. ; width 2;^ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban). 



Heterochelus amcenulus, n. spec. 



Male : Very closely allied to H. egens ; it is black with the legs 

 rufescent, and the prothorax and elytra are covered with slightly 

 elongate fiavescent scales so closely set that the colour of the 

 background is not visible ; the whole pygidial part, the sides of the 

 al)domen and also the hind femora are clothed with closely set scales 

 which are light lemon-colour like those on the elytra ; the elyti'a, 

 however, have only a slight costa on each side, and the interval 

 between the costa and the suture is shallow in comparison with that 

 of H. ei/cns, from which species it would be difficult to separate it 

 but for this character ; the shape of the clypeus and that of the hind 

 legs are similar. 



Female unknown. 



Length 4-4^ mm. ; width 2^— 2| mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska). 



Heterochelus inops, n. spec. 

 Male : Black, with the elyti'a, the pygidium, and sides of abdomen 

 clothed with pale, sub-flavescent scales ; legs red ; clypeus quadri- 



