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



DiCHELus LATiPES, Nonfr., 

 Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitsch., 1891, p. 257. 



" Black, opaque, covered with white setae. Body large, obovate, 

 robust ; ch'peus marginate, broad, rugulose, blackish brown, opaque, 

 antennae brown ; prothorax sub-rotund, blackish brown, opaque, 

 densely and roughly punctured, clothed with whitish setae ; elytra 

 broad, plane, sub-costate, densely punctate, red, clothed with 

 whitish hairs ; pygidium opaque, rugulose, covered with a whitish 

 tomentum ; under side fuscous bordering on black ; mesothorax 

 hairy, the hairs white; abdomen covered with white scales; legs 

 and tarsi brown, anterior tibial sharply bi-dentate outwardly. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 4f mm. 



Hah. Cape of Good Hope. A peculiarly depressed species." 



This species is not a Dichelus or an Ilctcrocliclns, owing to the 

 anterior tibiae being bi-dentate outwardly. It may prove to be a 

 Platychdus. 



Gen. OMOCEATES, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 125. 



Goniaspidius, Burm. (part). 

 . Mentum long, ovate, emarginate, obliquely attenuate towards the 

 apical part where it is emarginate, the angles are sharp, and not 

 penicillate, the upper lobe of the maxillae is horny, feebly peni- 

 cillate at the tip, hollow, armed on each side with four robust 

 somewhat hooked teeth and with an apical one less strongly hooked 

 than the others, apical joint of labial and maxillary palpi swollen, 

 fusiform, and acuminate ; clypeus reflexed or dentate at the tip, 

 short, and without a lateral basal angular projection ; prothorax 

 elongate, longer than broad, distinctly narrowed laterally in front for 

 one-third of the length, then parallel ; scutellum very long, broad at 

 base and sharply triangular ; elytra very strongly sinuated laterally 

 and very much narrowed towards the apex ; pygidium vertical and 

 very slightly infiexed in the male ; intermediate and posterior legs 

 with an apical spur ; anterior tibia2 bi- or tri-dentate outwardly, the 

 basal teeth at right angles with the tibiae and slightly curved down- 

 wards, the apical one slightly more oblique than in Heterochclus ; 

 anterior and intermediate claws double, and both cleft, posterior ones 

 double or single ; in the male the hind femora and tibiio are some- 

 times very strongly dilated and ampliated {axillaris, lohipes), but 

 they are usually only a little more robust than those of the 

 female. 



The main differences between this genus and Heterochclus are the 



