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deeply sinuate below the humeral part, hardly costulate but having 

 on each side two discoidal and one lateral depression filled with very 

 short, erect, blackish hairs, the three intervals are nupunctate and 

 scaly, the two discoidal bands are entire, but the outer one reaches 

 from the base to the median part only ; pj-gidium glabrous, shining ; 

 hind femora with the trochanters produced into a short but shai-p 

 spine, somewhat excavated under the knee, and dentate on each side 

 of the excavation, the articulation of the knee is rounded on each 

 side, hind tibiae dilated, compressed, laminate underneath and having 

 in the basal part three sharp, short teeth set in a line, apical mucro 

 not much longer than the upper part of the apex which is somewhat 

 truncate ; hind claw single but slightly cleft inwardly. 



Female unknowm. 



Length 6^-6^ mm. ; width 3 mm. 



This pretty species has no ally. Owing to its more elongate facies 

 it somewhat resembles a Gymnoloma. 



Hetekochelus leoninus, n. spec, 

 Plate XLII., fig. 41. 



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

 but occasionally with the hind ones black, head, prothorax and the 

 whole under side very densely villose, scutellum, propygidium, and 

 abdomen clothed with yellow scales, pygidium scaly only on the 

 upper half and villose on the lower, the elytra have in very fresh 

 examples a band of yellow scales edging the suture on the posterior 

 part, and extending along the apical margin ; head and prothorax very 

 scabrose, clypeus quadri-dentate, but wnth the two median teeth very 

 small and the outer ones not very highly reflexed, the long and dense 

 villosity clothing the head and prothorax is light fulvous ; the elytra 

 are very distinctly narrowed towards the apex, strongly sinuate 

 below the shoulder, not costulate but distinctly impressed longi- 

 tudinally close to the humeral callus, very closely punctulate all over 

 and very briefly pubescent ; hind femora robust, elongate, having a 

 very short spine in the trochanter, and a strong inner one under- 

 neath close to the articulation of the knee, the hind tibite are 

 compressed inwardly, slightly grooved undex'neath, dentate on each 

 side of the groove, the inner tooth being the more developed of the 

 two, and the inner mucro is long and curved ; hind claw single, 

 simple ; the villose hairs on the pectus are white. 



Female : Like the male, but the villose hairs on the upper and 

 under side are whitish, the whole pygidial part is densely scaly and 

 also villose. 



