1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of South Africa. 741 



dentate but with the two median teeth very small ; prothorax clothed 

 with a few appressed squamulose hairs and a few scales in the 

 posterior part ; scutellum covered with scales which are similar to 

 those covering the elytra; hind femora moderately swollen and 

 without spinose trochanters, angles of the knee distinctly rounded, 

 hind tibiffi very little curved, flattened inwardly for a short 

 distance from the base, slightly mucronate at apex, and having 

 close to the mucro a very distinct apical spur ; hind claws simple, 

 single. 



Female : Black, with the elytra dark chestnut-l^rown or testaceous 

 red, and clothed with appressed, not dense hairs, and having at the 

 apex a narrow band of flavescent scales ; pygidium densely scaly. 



Length 3-4 mm. ; width 2-2^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town). 



Heterochelus coccineus, Burm., 



Plate XLII., fig. 42. 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 106. 



Black, with the scutellum, the elytra, the pygidium and the sides 

 of the abdomen clothed with orange scales ; clypeus sharply quadri- 

 dentate, the four teeth equal ; head and prothorax clothed with a 

 not dense but somewhat long, greyish pubescence, but in the 

 deep basal longitudinal groove of the prothorax there are a few 

 orange scales ; elytra non-costate ; hind femora thick and with the 

 trochanters non-spinose, deeply and broadly excavated underneath at 

 apex, the knee being very strongly dentate on each side; hind femora 

 very short, strongly dilated, very deeply and l^roadly excavated 

 underneath, and the upper margin produced into a broad, somewhat 

 triangular sharp tooth in the inner part near the knee, but the 

 outer margin is straight, there is no mucro, and the apical spur is 

 very distinct ; hind claws double, the inner one is cleft and nearly 

 three-quarters of the length of the outer which is simple. 



Female : Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown, and covered with 

 sub-appressed, flavescent hairs, but having only a few yellowish 

 scales along the apical edge as well as on the scutellum ; clypeus not 

 strongly bi-dentate in the median part. ^ 



Length 4-6 mm. ; width 2i-3i mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 



Heterochelus egenus, n. spec. 

 Male : Eeddish brown, with the head dark fuscous, completely 

 clothed with elongate, somewhat hair-like flavescent scales whicb 



