1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 751 



elytra non-costulate, very shining, sprinkled with appressed, remote, 

 flavescent hairs, and having along the j)osterior part of the suture, 

 and round the apical margins a not very distinct band of yellow 

 scales ; pygidial part and abdomen villose ; legs also villose, robust, 

 hind femora simple, but with the outer part of the articulation of 

 the knee dentate, the hind tibiae are simple, thickened at the 

 base, and slightly compressed in the inner part as far as the apex, 

 where they are sub-mucronate on either side, the inner mucro 

 bearing the apical spur, hind claw single, simple. 



Female : Like the male, but the legs are reddish, and the scales 

 on the elytra occur along the apical margin only ; the median teeth 

 of the clypeus are more obliterated than in the male. 



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



Ilab. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



Heterochelus capicola. Fabric, 

 Plate XLII., fig. 36. 

 Spec. Insect., i., p. 46. 

 Oliv., Entom., i., 5, p. 76, pi. v., fig. 55 a.b. 

 Male : Black, with the elytra chocolate-brown ; scutellum, 

 abdomen, and propygidium clothed with dense flavescent scales, 

 pygidium also scaly but having a triangular tomentose patch 

 denuded of scales in the median part of the base ; elytra covered 

 with dense appressed greyish hairs ; head very granulose, clothed 

 with a dense erect pubescence, clypeus having only a slight sinuation 

 in the middle, where the median teeth should be, outer angles very 

 sharply dentate ; prothorax clothed with a moderately long, very 

 dense pubescence, scabroso-punctate all over and with a median 

 furrow in the posterior part only ; elytra conspicuously attenuate 

 laterally towards the apex, not costulate, very closely punctured, 

 in some examples the band of scales of the apical margins ascends 

 a little along the suture ; hind legs robust, villose, trochanters 

 simple, hind femora also simple, and with the articulations of the 

 knee rounded on each side, hind tibiae simple, convex inwardly at 

 the base, a little compressed towards the apex where it is sub- 

 mucronate on each side, the apical spur is long, and the hind claw 

 single and simple. 



Female : The female is unknown to me, but Burmeister says that 

 the elytra are testaceous and the legs fuscous, and that the clypeus 

 is somewhat rounded, while the pygidium instead of being scaly 

 is hairy. 



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



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



