760 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol xii. 



Hetekochelus ditus, n. spec, 

 Plate XLII., fig. 39. 



Male : Black, with the elytra ochraceous and completely covered 

 with very dense and closely set, appressed, short squamose ochraceous 

 hairs, scutellum, pygidial part and abdomen clothed with light 

 yellow scales ; head and prothorax densely villose, the hairs 

 yellow, the clypeus is tri-dentate, and the prothorax has a short 

 basal fm'row filled with appressed hairs which form also a band 

 along the whole margin ; elytra elongate, bi-costate on each side, 

 normally attenuate laterally towards the apex ; legs villose, hind 

 femora moderately robust, quite simple, trochanters not spinose, 

 bind tibiae very swollen inwardly in the middle, and not mucronate 

 at apex, nor grooved underneath, the four basal joints of hind tarsi, 

 short, triangular, fourth one more or less distinctly bifid inwardly, 

 fifth longer than the four together, massive and conspicuously tri- 

 dentate underneath, hind claw robust, simple, but not quite as long 

 as the fifth joint. 



Female : Shape and vestiture of the male, the elytra also are 

 clothed with ochraceous appressed hairs, but they have each three 

 bands of greyisli ones reaching from base to apex, and on the 

 pygidium are two apical patches of lighter scales. 



Length 7-9 mm. ; width 3J-4^ mm. 



The shape of the hind tibiae of the male greatly resembles that of 

 H. hivittatus. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Paarl, Worcester). 



Hetekochelus insignis, n. spec. 



Male : Black, with the elytra testaceous or reddish brown, often 

 a little infuscate, and almost entirely covered with round not 

 contiguous light yellow scales, or having three bands of scales 

 on each side, these are often obliterated but there are nearly 

 always traces of the juxta-sutural one left, legs reddish ; clypeus 

 sharply tri-dentate ; prothorax covered with a short, erect black 

 pubescence mixed occasionally with sub-villose fiavescent hairs in 

 fresh examples, in which case lialf the posterior part of the disk 

 is covered with yellow or fiavescent scales somewhat contiguous in 

 the basal part, the median groove reaches only to the median part ; 

 scutellum scaly ; elytra distinctly attenuate laterally towards the 

 apex, bi-striate but not costulate on each side ; propygidium and 

 abdominal segments edged with yellowish or yellowish - whit 

 scales ; pygidium deeply punctured, but without scales ; hind 

 femora robust and simple, trochanters without spine, hind tibia> 



