1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 765 



Female unknown. 

 Length 7 nun. ; width 3^ mm. 



The only example of this species which I have seen is one of 

 Blanchard's type. 

 Hah. Cape Colony. 



Heterochelus vittiferus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 95. 

 Male : Black, prothoiax with five longitudinal bands of ashy 

 orey squamose hairs, elytra with two bands on each side of scales 

 of the same colour, pygidial part and abdomen densely scaly ; head 

 pubescent, clypeus with the two median teeth separated by a very 

 narrow space, and projecting obliquely beyond the two lateral ones ; 

 prothorax very rugose and with the area not covered by the five 

 sub-squamose bands slightly pubescent ; scutellum densely scaly ; 

 elytra narrow% elongate, moderately attenuate laterally towards the 

 apex, having on each side two longitudinal impressions which are 

 filled with the round, thick scales ; legs somewhat slender, the 

 hind femora and tibiae are simple, the latter has a notch on the 

 upper part; and is hardly mucronate inwardly ; hind claws single, 



simple. 



Female : Like the male, the vestiture is the same, but the scales 

 are flavescent, the elytra have each three bands of scales, the juxta- 

 sutural one being the broadest of the three, and in the apical part 

 there is a distinct horizontal spine at a short distance from the 

 sutural angle. 



Length 4^ mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 



The female only is known to me. Burmeister says that next 

 to the simple hind claw there is a very small, sometimes hardly 

 discernible one. In my example this claw is simple. 



Heterochelus controversus, n. spec. 



Male : Bronze, covered on the prothorax with a thick somewhat 

 lanuginose golden yellow pubescence, and having thick contiguous 

 scales of the same colour on the elytra, pygidial part, and abdomen ; 

 the leo-s are red, with a metallic tinge ; the hind tibiae are thickly 

 and densely villose outwardly, the villose hairs golden-yellow ; 

 clypeus with the two anterior teeth somew^hat broadly separated 

 and projecting very obliquely beyond the lateral ones ; the pubes- 

 cence of the prothorax is very thick and moderately long, and forms 

 a pile ; the elytra have a very faint costule on each side, the pygi- 



