1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 755 



with a sub-fljivescent pubescence denser and longer than in the 

 male ; the clypeus is sharply tri-dentate, and the elytra and abdomen 

 are very light testaceous ; the hind legs are slightly rufescent, and 

 the hind inner claw is much smaller than the outer. 



Length 8^^-10 mm. ; width 5-5-^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape, Malmesbury, Namaqualand). 



Heterochelus unguiculatus, Burm., 



Plate XLII., fig. 22. 



Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 92. 



Male : Black, with the elytra burnt sienna-brown, all the legs 

 ferruginous red ; clypeus short, very sharply and equally tri- 

 dentate, head and prothorax closely and densely scabroso-punctate, 

 and clothed with short, dense, greyish and brown sub-villose hairs ; 

 the prothorax is regularly ampliated and rounded laterally, and the 

 transverse impression on each side of the basal margin has no carinate 

 upper edge ; scutellum miich rounded at tip and clothed with short 

 hairs similar in colour and density to the very short sub-erect ones 

 which run along the suture ; the elytra are clothed with appressed, 

 very dense and not squamulose brown hairs, and they are not very 

 sinuate laterally, very little attenuate behind, and cover the greatest 

 part of the propygidium which, like the pygidium, is clothed with 

 dense black, setulose hairs ; the pectus is somewhat villose ; the hind 

 femora are very tliick and broad, but short, and have past the middle 

 a sharp, curved tooth which forms with the knee-spine a deep 

 crescent, hind tibiae short, ciu'ved, and having below the knee a 

 triangular tooth, the apical mucronate inner part is produced into a 

 very long and strongly curved tooth ; joints of hind tiljiai compressed 

 and with the four basal ones regularly triangular. 



Female unknown. 



This species, like the one preceding, has no ally. 



Length 6^-7 nun. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Cape Town). 



Heterochelus podagricus. Fabric, 



Plate XLIL, fig. 21. 



Spec. Insect., i., p. 44. 



Oliv., Entomol., i., 5, p. 73, pi. v., fig. 51. 



Male : Black, elytra with a broad discoidal patch of slightly 



flavescent, small, contiguous scales extending over the greater part 



of the discoidal part, but bi-sinuate on each side past the median 



