1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcra of Soutli Africa. 771 



they are not closely set there ; the elytra and the pygidial part are 

 clothed with similar scales ; pectus with a greyish pubescence ; legs 

 brown and with greyish yellow hairs, anterior tibioe with two sharp 

 teeth, hind legs of the male long, not thickened and simple ; all the 

 claws are double, but the inner one is very small." 



Hetebochelus litueatus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 96. 



" Black, clothed with ashy hairs ; legs and elytra red, the latter 

 densely squamose and with fuscous bands; pygidium shining, 

 sparsely squamose. 



Length 3'". <? . 



South Africa, communicated by Mr. Winthem. Head black, 

 strongly punctured on the upper part, and covered with greyish 

 hairs, clypeus tri-dentate, palpi yellowish red ; anterior part of the 

 prothorax clothed with greyish-yellow scales thickly mingled with 

 villose hairs, the median sulcus is conspicuous, but not near the 

 base ; scutellum thickly scaly ; elytra also scaly, but the scales on the 

 costte are small, greyish brown, and the costse are bristling with hairs, 

 these scales are disposed in three narrow rows on each side, the outer 

 one ending in the centre, while the tw'o inner ones broaden and 

 merge into one from the median part to the apex ; pygidium black or 

 brown, shining and clothed with non-contiguous scales ; propygidium 

 densely scaly, sides of abdomen scaly; pectus hairy, episterna of 

 mesosternum with lighter hairs, epimera of metasternum partly 

 scaly and hairy ; legs brown or reddish, sparsely bristly, posterior 

 ones very thick in the male, especially the tibiae, and the tarsi very 

 short, tibiae with a spur; hind claws single, simple." 



Heterochelus senex, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 123. 



" Black, clothed with whitish hairs, elytra testaceous and covered 

 with appressed hairs ; pygidium flavous, clypeus quadri-dentate. 



Length 3 hn. ^ . 



From South Africa. A species well characterised by its broad and 

 short corpulence, it is plane above, and the elytra are strongly 

 attenuate laterally towards the apex, being thus very unlike all the 

 preceding ones ; head and body quite black, thickly scabroso-punctate 

 and clothed with long greyish- white hairs, only on the tibiae and on 

 the buccal organs are the hairs golden-yellow ; the clypeus is quadri- 

 dentate, and there are also two more, one on each side of the base, 



