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nieister's description, but all my examples are smaller than the 

 measm-ements given by this author. 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



Heterochelus fraudulentus, n. spec. 



Male : Black, with the elytra and legs reddish brown, the scu- 

 tellum, the pygidial part, the abdomen and the metasternum aie 

 clothed with contiguous flavescent scales, and the elytra have three 

 narrow bands of similar ones ; head sharply tri-dentate, but witli 

 the median tooth smaller than the lateral, head and prothorax 

 clothed with a long, villose sub-flavescent pubescence ; elytra dis- 

 tinctly attenuate laterally towards the apex but not sinuate below 

 the humeral part ; they are clothed with dense, greyish appressed 

 hairs, the three bands consist of round scales situate in two very 

 shallow longitudinal depressions, and the outer, which is the con- 

 tinuation of the apical marginal one, does not reach the humeral 

 angle ; legs reddish, with the hind ones piceous red ; the hind 

 femora are very robust, simple, but sharply angular on each side of 

 the knee ; the hind tibiae are distinctly grooved underneath for 

 the whole length, dentate on each side at the base and produced at 

 apex into a long, somewhat curved mucro, bearing an apical spur ; 

 hind and intermediate claws double and both cleft ; the inner claw 

 is about half the length of the more robust one. 



Female imknown. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 3h mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uniondale). 



Hetekochelus serripes, Blanch., 

 Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 62. 



Male : Totally red, elytra covered with elongate, not very closely 

 set, ashy scales, and have behind a fuscous patch on each side ; 

 clypeus tri-dentate, head and prothorax pubescent, the latter with a 

 few squamose hairs along the base ; elytra not much attenuated 

 laterally towards the apex, and somewhat costulate ; the hind legs 

 are robust, there is no spine to the trochanter, but the femur is 

 distinctly angular near the knee ; the hind tibiae are somewhat 

 curved, slightly dentate on each side at the base underneath and 

 strongly mucronate inwardly at apex, there is an apical spur ; the 

 propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen have elongate scales ; hind 

 claws double, and both cleft ; the inner is more than half the length 

 of the outer. 



