1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcm of SontJt Africa. 763 



Hetekochelus incongruens, n. spec. 



Male : Black, without traces of scales, fore legs reddish ; clypeus 

 tri-dentate, but with the median tooth projecting more than the 

 lateral ones which are more angular than dentate, head and pro- 

 thorax very scabrose and clothed, especially the latter, with dense, 

 moderately long villose lilack hairs ; elytra of the normal shape, 

 distinctly costulate on each side in the discoidal part, and clothed 

 with a short but dense fuscous pubescence ; pygidium very closely 

 and somewhat roughly punctured, not pubescent or scaly, but fringed 

 all round with long setae, pectus pubescent, the pubescence of the 

 metasternum greyish white ; hind femora and hind tibiae moderately 

 robust and simple ; the latter is not mucronate, and has a very 

 distinct apical spur ; intermediate claw double, but with the longer 

 one not cleft ; hind claw single, simple. 



Female : Like the male, and recognisable only by the shape of 

 the pygidium. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 2^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



Hetekochelus nubilus, Burm., 

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



Male : Black, with two bands of white scales on the elytra and 

 the scutellum, propygidium and abdomen clothed with dense greyish- 

 white scales ; clypeus sharply tri-dentate, head and prothorax scarcely 

 pubescent, the latter has a deep, post-median groove occasionally 

 filled with white scales, and has a lateral and anterior fringe of 

 setose hairs ; elytra conspicuously attenuate laterally towards the 

 apex, sub-costate on each side of the disk, and with the two longi- 

 tudinal impressions, divided by the costule, filled with a band of 

 small white round scales not very closely set ; the outer band 

 reaches to the median part only ; legs with a few bristles, but 

 otherwise glabrous, hind femora and tibiae long, slender, the latter 

 with a long apical spur ; intermediate claw single but slightly cleft, 

 hind one single, simple. 



Female : Like the male, but the elytra are covered with denser 

 and more elongate flavescent scales, and the pygidium is clothed 

 with yellowish scales. 



Length 4-5 mm. ; width 2-21 mm. 



The species which I take to be H. nubiliis, and which was labelled 

 under this name in Drege's Collection, answers very well to Bur- 



