770 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



very shining, and having a sutural band of yellow, elongato-ovate 

 scales beginning at about the median part, rounding the apex and 

 ascending the outer margin for about one-fourth of the length ; pro- 

 pygidium, and pygidium, but not the abdomen, clothed with deep 

 yellow scales ; basal tooth of anterior tibiae as long as the one pre- 

 ceding it ; hind tibiae as in the other species. 



Female : Like the male, but the sutural and marginal bands of 

 scales are more like appressed hairs. 



Length 5^6 mm. ; width 2-2f mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Eiversdale, Worcester). 



{Species lohich I have not seen or been able to identify.) 



Heterochelus AURicoLLig, Burm., 

 Handb. d Entomol., iv., 2, p. 477. 



" Fuscous, head black, discoidal part of prothoras and legs rufous 

 and with ochraceous hairs ; elytra with four bands of scales ; pygidium 

 with two black patches at the base. 



Length 3 lin. «? • 



From Caffraria. Form, size, and appearance of H. vulpinus, which 

 is its nearest ally, but from which it differs in the following points : 

 the margin of the head has two small median tubercles, the prothorax 

 is light red like the legs, and its pubescence consists of broad, short 

 reddish -yellow, scale-like hairs ; the smooth costae of the elytra bear 

 stiff black bristles ; the pygidium is reddish yellow with two black 

 spots at the base ; the hind tibiae, but not the femora, have a thick 

 tooth at the knee-joint, and several smaller teeth below this on the 

 inner edge ; the tarsi are more slender ; the pubescence is shorter, 

 coarser, more scale-like." 



Heteeochelus bidentatus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 107. 



" Black, with the clypeus and the anterior tibia3 bi-denlate ; 

 posterior margin of the prothorax, scutellum, elytra, and abdomen 

 clothed with fulvous scales. 



Length 3 hn. 3 • 



Black everywhere except on the basal part of the elytra, which 

 are brown. Clypeus narrowed in the anterior part and bi-dentate at 

 the apex, front and vertex of the head scabroso-punctate ; anterior 

 part of prothorax scabrose and having a longitudinal furrow, it is 

 covered with long soft greyish hairs and has a basal border of small 

 dull golden-yellow scales ; similar scales cover also the scutellum but 



