752 Transactions South African Philosophical Societrj. [vol. xii. 



Heterochelus fraternus, n. spec, 

 Plate XLI., fig. 33. 



Male : Very closely allied to H. analis ; the shape, size, and hind 

 legs of the male are also similar, hut the vestiture is different ; the 

 clypeus is also quadri-dentate, hut the two median teeth are 

 distinctly smaller than the outer ones ; the median groove of the 

 prothorax and the hase have a liand of flavescent or golden-yellow 

 scales ; the scutellum is scaly ; the elytra have two moderately 

 raised, yet distinct costaB on each side, and four somewhat hroad 

 bands of rounded, dense, yellow- or yellowish scales, the second band 

 does not reach quite to the apex, and the fourth coalesces with the 

 third at about half the length ; the propygidium and sides of the 

 abdomen are very densely scaly and so is the pygidium, the scales 

 of which are, however, of a uniform tint. 



Female : Densely hairy on the prothorax ; elytra pale testaceous, 

 clothed with dense greyish hairs, and having an apical band of 

 yellow scales ; pygidium and sides of abdomen covered with light 

 orange-yellow scales. 



Length 4f-5 mm. ; width 2^-3 J mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Caledon, Eiversdale, Xamaqualand). 



In the examples from Namaqualand the scales are orange-yellow, 

 but much paler in those from other localities. 



Heterochelus analis, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. IIG. 

 Male : Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown and the legs either 

 dark l)ro\vn or black ; clypeus sharply quadri-dentate and with the 

 two median teeth only slightly smaller than tlie outer ; prothorax 

 deeply grooved from the median part to the base, densely hut some- 

 what briefly hairy, the hairs are slightly flavescent and there is 

 no basal band of scales in my examples ; scutellum clothed with 

 appressed, squamose hairs ; elytra covered with appressed, slightly 

 flavescent and squamose hairs which do not hide the colour of the 

 background, and having occasionally a narrow^ apical band of yellow 

 scales ; apical part of the propygidium and pygidium with contiguous 

 golden-yellow scales, the latter with two darker yellow longitudinal 

 patches ; hind legs somewhat robust, trochanters non-spinose, hind 

 femora simple, but with the knee somew'hat sharply angular on each 

 side ; hind tibiae simple, a little compressed inwardly towards the 

 apex, and slightly concave there, sharpl)' angular, almost sub- 

 mucronate on each side at tip, and with a distinct but short apical 

 spur ; hind claws simple, single. 



