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with golden-yellow scales ; the latter has two sub-denuded, basal 

 patches ; clypeus quadri-dentate, the two median teeth a little 

 smaller than the outer; head and prothorax closely scabroso-punctate, 

 and covered with a comparatively short, sub-flavescent, erect 

 pubescence, posterior median groove short but deep ; elytra slightly 

 costulate, shghtly pubescent, the appressed pubescence somewhat 

 seriate ; hind femora very robust, simple but having the outer tooth 

 of the knee very much more sharply developed than the inner which 

 is also very distinct ; hind tibiae short, curved in the upper side, deeply 

 emarginate underneath from the base for about half the length, sub- 

 angular there, then ampliated, somewhat compressed, and produced 

 into a strong, slightly curved mucro. 



Female : Like the male, but the elytra are testaceous, and there is 

 a sutural band of squamose hairs ; the pygidium is entirely covered 

 with flavescent scales, but there is on each side of the base an orange 

 patch ; the legs are reddish. 



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



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



Heterochelus forcipatus, Burra., 



Plate XLL, fig. 46. 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 115. 

 H. uncinatus, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Ent., 1850, p. 65. 

 //. dcntifrons, Blanch., loc. cit., p. 65. 



Male : Black, with the fore legs reddish, elytra* fuscous brown, 

 covered with greyish appressed hairs and having a few minute 

 greyish scales along the apical margin ; the propygidium and the 

 abdominal segments have narrow bands of similar scales, the 

 pygidium is not scaly ; head rugose, briefly pubescent, clypeus not 

 dentate in the middle and deeply emarginate there, outer angles very 

 sharp and reflexed ; prothorax clothed with dark villose hairs ; elytra 

 hardly costulate, closely punctured, narrowed laterally towards the 

 apex ; hind femora very large and having on each side of the knee 

 two greatly developed teeth the inner of which is longer, more 

 curved and moi-e spinose than the outer, the trochanters are not 

 spinose, the hind tibiae are very curved, compressed, dilated towards 

 the tip and with the lower edge very deeply emarginate above the 

 inner mucro which is compressed and bifid at the tip. 



Female : Elytra light testaceous and not very hairy ; pygidium 

 clothed with scales and having on each side a darker patch. 



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



