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



the antenna} ai'e yellow ; the anterior part of the prothorax has a 

 very shallow longitudinal groove, the short scutellum is clothed with 

 a few greyish hairs, the elytra are light testaceous, transparent, 

 regularly punctured but with the punctiu'es distant, each puncture 

 bearing an appressed greyish hair, they are at the humeral part as 

 broad as the under side, and they are thence attenuate, leaving the 

 edge of the dorsal part of the abdominal segments uncovered, on the 

 apical border they have a band of yellow scales, similar to those 

 which clothe the pygidium where they are mixed wuth hairs ; legs 

 brown, thighs darker, clothed with long greyish hairs, the posterior 

 tibiae show distinctly to which sex the species belongs, in the male 

 the hind tibiae have on the upper side a tooth or hook pointing 

 inwardly and set close to the knee, they are mucronate on each side 

 at the apex, but the inner mucro is the longest, there is no apical 

 spur ; the tarsi are not long, and have a single, simple claw, but 

 those of the intermediate ones are double." 



Hetekochelus ocheaceus, Burm., 

 Log. cit., p. 100. 



" Black, entirely covered with pale scales ; elytra sub-costate and 

 fen-uginous red, legs of the same colour as the elytra ; prothorax 

 strongly convex. 



Length 2i lin. 



Male : Squamose, hind femora and tibiae simple underneath, 

 anterior margin of clj'peus distinctly dentate. Female : Pilose and 

 squamose only on the abdomen, edge of ch^peus obsoletely dentate. 



South Africa. 



This species has the compact facies of H. suhvittatus, and 

 differs from it, and also from H. longipcs in having costate elytra. 

 The apical part of the cl}^eus has four raised teeth, the two outer 

 of which are united at the base by a part of the curved margin, 

 the head is black, the pygidial part and the femora are clothed with 

 light yellow hairs, the palpi and the antenna? are light reddish yellow 

 with the exception of the club of the latter ; prothorax more convex 

 than in any other species, grooved longitudinally, clothed in the 

 male with small light yellow scales denser behind, and with greyish 

 hairs only in the female ; the elytra are reddish brown with two 

 slight costte and covered with regular, thick, light yellow scales in the 

 male, and with hairs only in the female ; under side thickly hairy but 

 with the posterior part scaly; pygidium of a uniform yellow and 

 with long ciliao along the base ; legs reddish brown ; in the male they 

 are strong, the trochanters are not spinose, the hind femora have an 



