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are as numerous on the prothorax as on the elytra or the pygidial 

 part ; the clypeus is quite straight, and on the clypeus and the 

 frontal part there are three transverse rows of stitf, short bristles; the 

 prothorax has no median impression, and the elytra are normally 

 attenuate laterally and not costate ; the pygidium is strongl)' directed 

 forward and covered with concolorous hair-like scales, the hind 

 femora are robust and simple, the hind tibiae are also simple, 

 somewhat gradually dilated towards the apex, compressed inwardly 

 and not mucronate, the apical spur is distinct and the single hind 

 claw is simple. 



Female : Like the male, but the prothorax is more pubescent, and 

 the scales on the elytra and pygidial part are more like sub-squamose 

 hairs and are not so dense. 



Length 4f ram. ; width 3f mm. 



Hab. Natal (Estcourt, Durban). 



This species can easily be recognised by the straight apical part of 

 the clypeus as well as by the thick and very elongate scales covering 

 the body. 



Hetekochelus viridicollis, Blanch., 



Catal. Collect. Entom., 1850, p. 63. 



■ Male : Bronze-black, with the prothorax having a greenish tinge ; 

 elytra chestnut-red, scutellum, pygidial part and abdomen clothed 

 with slightly flavescent scales ; clypeus slightly di-dentate in the 

 centre, head granulose ; prothorax scabroso-punctate, clothed with a 

 short and not vex'y dense flavescent pubescence, and without any trace 

 of scales, elytra narrowed laterally towards the apex, but not deeply 

 emarginate below the humeral part, bi-costulate on each side, very 

 rugosely punctulate, and clothed with n very fine appressed 

 pubescence, hind femora with a short trochanterine spine and with 

 the inner tooth of the knee more developed than the outer, hind 

 tibiai a little swollen inwardly at the base, and somewhat compressed 

 towards the apex, sharply dentate on each side underneath at the 

 base where it is grooved, serrate, or even toothed from there to 

 the apex where it is sharply mucronate ; intermediate and posterior 

 inner claws hajf the length of the outer, and cleft, the outer posterior 

 one is simple. 



Female : Same colour as the male, but the elytra have on each 

 side three or four bands of slightly flavescent appressed hairs which 

 are denser on the rounded apical part. 



Length 5-7 mm. ; width 3-4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Riversdale, Stellenbosch, Paarl). 



