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sternum with scales adjoining each other and which are sometimes 

 greyish white ; scales on the elytra and the posterior part of the 

 body are either white or golden-yellow ; the elytra have alternate 

 brown costae, the scales on which are clavate, and a little more 

 remote than on the intervals, on each side there are usually three 

 bands of lighter scales, the sutural one is connected at the apex with 

 the supra-marginal one, which becomes somewhat indistinct in the 

 anterior part, and divided longitudinally, the discoidal band is narrow 

 and short ; legs black, almost glabrous, the hind ones are gradually 

 thickened, hind femora and tibiae simple, the latter with a spur, 

 tarsi as long or longer than the tibiae, hind claw single, simple." 



Heterochelus (Dichelus) subspilosus, Nonfr., 

 Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1891, p. 257. 



" Oblong, robust, brown, shining, densely fulvo-pilose on the 

 upper side, under side opaque, fuscous brown ; clypeus sub-quadrate, 

 quadri-dentate, rugulose and shining, blackish brown, frontal part 

 hairy, the hairs fulvous ; antennae reddish ; prothorax somewhat 

 rounded, convex, black, shining, closely and roughly punctate, 

 clothed with flavous hairs ; scutellum cordate, covered with fiavous 

 hairs ; elytra shining, brown, sub-costate, densely punctate, briefly 

 setos3, the setae flavous ; pygidium and abdomen completely covered 

 with whitish scales. 



Length 7 mm. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope." 



The shape of the hind claws is not mentioned in the description, 

 but one may presume that they are unequal, in which case the 

 species, if a valid one, is a Heterochelus. 



Heterochelus (Ischnochelus) parvulus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 131. 



" Clj'peus sub-tridentate, black, antennae legs and elytra rufous, 

 the latter and the abdomen clothed with flavous scales. 



Length li lin. J . 



Collected by Mr. Drege. Clypeus with three blunt teeth ; clypeus, 

 head, and prothorax roughly punctulate, glabrous, but the latter part 

 is ciliate laterally, and the posterior longitudinal groove is short ; the 

 scutellum, the testaceous elytra, and the pygidium are clothed with 

 small, golden-yellow scales ; pygidium spherical, regularly ciliate, 

 sparsely scaly at the tip ; pectus glabrous ; antennte, palpi, and legs 

 reddish brown, the hind ones a little thickened in the male, simple 



