1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 775 



and having an apical spur ; the smaller claw of the intermediate 

 legs very weak; the species is easily recognised on that account." 



Heterochelus (Ischnochelus) pauperatus, Burm., 

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



"Black, covered with ashy-grey hairs ; elytra and legs rufescent, 

 clypeus tri-dentate. 



Length li lin. ^ . 



Hab. South Africa. 



From Mr. Drege's collection. Shape of the preceding species 

 (J. hi-partitus), but the clypeus is tri-dentate; the clypeus, head, 

 and prothorax are spai'ingly clothed wdth long, greyish-yellow hairs, 

 and the elytra, which are light testaceous, have similar but 

 appressed hairs ; the scales are also wanting on the pectus, as 

 well as on the posterior (pygidial) part of the body, and are 

 replaced by hairs which become somewhat squamose round the 

 pygidium and on the edge of the propygidium ; the legs and the 

 palpi are reddish brown." 



Heterochelus (Ischnochelus) trunculus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 478. 



" Completely black, shining, clothed with greyish hairs ; elytra, 

 with greyish bands, abdomen very densely villose. 



Length 1|- Hn. S ■ 



Caffraria. This species belongs to the group in w^hich the posterior 

 angles of the prothorax are very sharp, but it possesses two claws on 

 the hind feet, which distinguishes it from all the others. The species 

 is shining black with grey hairs and is depressed, only the apices of 

 the tarsi are brownish ; the clypeus is sharply angular, but not 

 toothed ; the whole surface is evenly scabroso-punctate with an 

 erect hair in each puncture, most of the hairs are brown, but those 

 at the hind margin of the prothorax, on the scutellum, alongside the 

 suture, and a second row next to the latter, both forming stripes, are 

 coloured grey ; abdomen with a dense grey pubescence ; the middle 

 of the pygidium is raised in a tuft ; legs with longer grey hairs, the 

 anterior tibiae wdth three sharp, approximate teeth of which the 

 apical one is more divergent ; all the tarsi with two unequal, cleft 

 claws." 



Had this species red legs it would agree with Blanchard's H. vittlger, 

 but the tooth on the femur is also absent. 



