1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 747 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Tulbagh). 



H. dentifrons, Blanch., is a variety with reddish elytra. 



Heterochelus simulans, n. spec. 



Male : This species might be mistaken for H. forcijMtiis ; the size 

 and shape of the hind legs are the same, but the head is quadri- 

 dentate and the outer teeth are not so developed nor so reflexed ; the 

 elytra are somewhat bi-costulate on each side and have three or 

 four bands of orange-yellow nearly contiguous scales, and the 

 propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen are clothed with similar scales, 

 but the pygidium has two basal dark patches. 



Female : Like that of H. forcipatus. 



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



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 



Heterochelus spurius, n. spec, 



Male : This species is still more closely allied to H. forcipatus 

 than H. mimus ; the elytra are covered with greyish, dense appressed 

 hairs, like in H. forcipatus, but the clypeus is quadri-dentate and 

 similar in shape to that of H. mimus ; the pygidium has no scales, 

 and the hind legs are similar to those of the two preceding species. 



Female unknown. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 2-|- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon, Eiversdale). 



Heterochelus elegans, n. spec, 

 Plate XLH., fig. 50. 



Male : Black, with the elytra light testaceous, and the legs reddish, 

 or occasionally black ; prothorax with a median longitudinal band of 

 yellowish scales and a less distinct outer marginal and basal one, 

 elytra with three longitudinal bands of similar scales on each side, 

 pygidium without scales, propygidium and abdomen scaly, upper 

 edge of hind tibiae fringed with long hairs, joints of hind tarsi 

 fasciculate ; head and prothorax very closely scabroso-punctate, 

 clypeus quadri-dentate, the two median teeth very sharp, but smaller 

 than the outer ones which are strongly developed ; prothorax covered 

 with a short black pubescence, fringed with short bristles laterally, 

 deeply grooved longitudinally in the middle from base to apex, the 

 groove filled with the yellow scales which are denser there than along 

 the base or the lateral margins ; scutellum scaly ; elytra elongate, some- 

 what strongly attenuate laterally towards the apex but not very 



