1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 749' 



Length 6-7i mm. ; width 3-4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenboseh, Paarl, Tull)agh). 



Heterochelus mucronatus, Burm , 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 117. 

 Male : Totally black, somewhat shining ; elytra with a juxta- 

 sutm-al narrow and somewhat indistinct band of squamose greyish 

 hairs, apical margin of elytra with a few golden-yellow scales, 

 propygidium and abdominal segments with dense golden-yellow 

 scales, pygidium also scaly but having a denuded, median longi- 

 tudinal space, head and prothorax clothed with a dense, somewhat 

 long, dark pubescence, clypeus sharply quadri-dentate but with the 

 two median teeth a little smaller than the outer ones, and set close 

 to one another ; prothorax with a distinct, median furrow reaching 

 from base to apex ; scutellum hairy, without scales on the five 

 examples which I have examined; elytra costulate with the three 

 intervals on each side punctate and pubescent; hind legs robust, 

 hairy, hind femora with the trochanters produced into a long 

 horizontal spine reaching further than the knee, and between the 

 basal part of this spine and the articulation of the knee there is a 

 robust, sharp tooth, the hind tibiae are broadly but not deeply 

 scooped inwardly from base to apex, they have an inner tooth near 

 the base and the apices are produced into two long, curved mucros 

 of nearly the same length ; hind claw single, simple, pectus and 

 hind legs clothed with greyish villose hairs. 



Female not known with certainty. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 



Heterochelus inornatus, n. spec. 

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

 scutellum, apical margin of the elytra, pygidial part and abdomen 

 clothed with dense yellow scales intermixed along the edge of the 

 propygidium and the abdomen with white scales forming there a 

 narrow band or line ; head very granulose, clypeus hardly quadi-i- 

 dentate, the two median teeth being almost obliterated, it is covered 

 with a flavescent, dense, moderately long pubescence, and the pro- 

 thorax, which has a distinct median furrow reaching from the base to 

 the middle only, is clothed with a similar pubescence, and bears no 

 traces of scale ; elytra distinctly attenuate laterally towards the apex, 

 not costulate, covered with remotely scattered, appressed whitish 

 hairs turning to denser, scale-like ones along the posterior part of the 



