762 Transactions South African PliilosopJiical Socict/i. ^vol. xii. 



Female : I do not know the female, which, according' to Bur- 

 meister, has the pygidium covered with greyish hairs. 



Length 5\ mm. ; width 3^ mm. 



This species somewhat resembles H. lugcns ; the shape of the hind 

 femora is the same, but the hind tibiae are much more broadly 

 scooped underneath, the inner tooth is set more in the middle, the 

 mucro is shorter, there is an apical spur which is wanting in 

 H. higcns, and the spine of the trochanters is much shorter. 



Hah. Cape Colony (no exact locality). 



Heterochelus connatus, Burm., 

 Handl). d. Eutouiol., iv., 1, p. 123. 



Male : Black, with the elytra light testaceous and infuscate laterally; 

 scutellum, apical margin of the elytra, pygidial part and abdomen 

 clothed with thick flavescent scales ; head and prothorax covered 

 with very dense sul)-fiavescent villose hairs, the clypeus is con- 

 spicuously ti'i-dentate, but the median tooth is bhmter than the 

 lateral ones; elytra not distinctly costulate, clothed with appressed not 

 very closely set slightly flavescent hairs ; pectus, abdomen, and legs 

 villose, the latter are red; the hind femora are robust; the hind tibiae 

 are dilated, broadly excavated underneath near the base, the inner 

 margin is bluntly dentate at a short distance from the knee, and tlie 

 outer is distinctly emarginate at the base, they are mucronate on 

 each side of the apex, the mucros are of nearly equal length, but not 

 very long, and the inner one bears an apical spur. 



Female unknown. 



Length 6-7 mm. ; width 3-3|- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Oudtshoorii). 



Heterochelus indigens, n. spec. 



Male : Black, with tlie elytra and legs chocolate-brown, and the 

 anterior legs redder ; the facies and vestiture are similar to those of 

 H. indvcrosus, but it is much snuiUer, and the shape of the hind 

 tibiae is different ; the spine of the trochanters is hardly discernible, 

 the hind femora are moderately thickened, and have a sharp swelling 

 inwardly, but they are not scooped underneath, and not at all 

 mucronate at apex, the apical spur is small, but distinct ; the claw of 

 the intermediate legs is double, but the smaller one is extremely 

 small ; the hind claws are missing in the only example that I have 

 seen. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (exact locality not known). 



