1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 745 



Female : Like the male, but the elytra are more distinctly costulate, 

 the median line on the prothorax and the discoidal one on the elytra 

 are white as in the male, and so is the scutellum, but the scales on 

 the abdomen and pygidium are yellow, and the latter has three 

 elongate, dark patches, the median of which is more elongate than 

 the others. 



Length 7^-8^ mm. ; width 4-4f mm. 



A very distinct species. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



Heterochelus rufimanus, Casteln., 

 Plate XLIL, fig. 38. 

 Hist. Natur., ii., p. 145. 



H. longidus, Burm., Handb. d. Entom., iv., p. 114. 



Male : Body black, with the fore legs reddish, or as often as not 

 with the elytra chestnut-brown, or chestnut-red ; the elytra have a 

 narrow apical margin of flavescent or yellow scales, the scutellum 

 and abdomen are densely scaly, but the pygidium is glabrous and 

 shining, and there is only a very narrow band of scales on the 

 propygidium ; clypeus quadri-dentate, head and prothorax scabroso- 

 punctate, clothed with long, villose greyish hairs, the median 

 posterior groove of the prothorax somewhat deep ; elytra distinctly 

 attenuate laterally towards the apex, densely but very briefly 

 pubescent with the pubescence erect, hardly costulate and covered 

 with deep, contiguous strongly scabrose punctures ; hind femora 

 long, robust, and having the inner tooth of the knee somewhat 

 strongly developed, hind tibiae somewhat short, curved, grooved 

 underneath, bi-dentate on each side at the base, and having an inner 

 strongly developed somewhat arcuate mucro ; they are almost 

 similar to those of H. longipes (pi. xlii., fig. 38). 



Female : Like the male, but the elytra are covered with appressed, 

 somewhat remote hairs, and have a few somewhat squamose ones 

 along the suture. 



Length 5-7 mm. ; width 2^3^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury, 

 Worcester, Ceres, Caledon). 



Heterochelus binotatus, Thunb., 

 M^m. Acad. St. P^tersb., 1818, vi., p. 448. 



Male : Black, with the elytra piceous, fore legs reddish, scutellum, 

 apical margin of elytra, abdomen, propygidium, and pygidium clothed 



