758 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



and close to the knee there is the customary inner tooth ; hind claws 

 single, simple, intermediate ones double, the outer deeply cleft. 



Female unknown. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (locality unknown). The only example of 

 this species which I have seen is one collected by Drege. 



Heterochelus lugens, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 119. 



H. viiserabilis, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 66. 



Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown or occasionally l)lack, clypeus 

 sharply tri-dentate ; head and prothorax clothed with a short, erect, 

 black pubescence, the prothorax is deeply grooved from the base to 

 a short distance from the apex ; scutellum covered with yellow 

 ovate scales ; elytra of the normal shape, faintly costulate on each 

 side on the disk, closely punctured and having on each side three 

 more or less obliterated bands of ovate yellow scales intermingled 

 with a very short, sub-appressed, blackish pubescence ; propygidium 

 and abdomen edged %vith yellow scales and thick squamose hairs, 

 pygidium deeply punctured and having a small squamose hair 

 in each puncture ; legs reddish, hind femora robust and having 

 a very distinct inner tooth near the knee, the spine of the 

 trochanters is long and shai'p, hind tibiae curved, swollen inwardly 

 at the base, and then compressed from there to the apex where it is 

 produced into a short but sharp mucro, and the inner edge of the 

 excavated part underneath has a distinct tooth not produced 

 inwardly ; hind claws single, simple, intermediate one single, 

 but cleft. 



Female : Similar in colour to the male, the prothorax is more 

 densely villose, and the hairs are lighter, the scales are replaced 

 by squamose hairs which cover the scutellum and the pygidial area, 

 and the elytra have only a sutural and a narrow outer marginal band 

 of these hairs. 



Length 4f-6^ mm. ; width 2f-3-J- nun. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Ceres, Worcester). 



H. viiserabilis, Bl., is a red variety. 



Heterochelus escourtianus, n. spec. 



Male : Totally black, scutellum, pygidial part, abdomen and 

 metasterniun clothed with deep yellow scales ; head and prothorax 

 densely villose, the hairs greyish, clypeus broadly and sharply 



