1902.] Catalogue of the CoIcojHera of South Africa. 807 



Length 6-6|- mm. ; width 3^ mm. 

 Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



Platychelus basalis, n. spec. 



Like the preceding species, but much less hairy, the vestiture of 

 the pygidial part and of the abdomen is similar ; the elytra are of the 

 same shining bronze colour as the head and prothorax, but the whole 

 basal part is testaceous with a metallic tinge, and there is no trace of 

 the bands of greyish-white hairs ; legs similar. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 3|- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Tulbagh, Ceres, Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 



Platychelus gentilis, n. spec. 



Similar in shape and size to the two previous species, but at once 

 distinguished by the elytra which are a little more costulate on the 

 discoidal part, the head and prothorax are bronze-green, the elytra 

 are slightly rufescent along the base in the male, but not in the 

 female, and are dark bronze for the greatest part of the length, the 

 pubescence of the prothorax and elytra is much shorter than in P. 

 dimidiatus, but the bands of whitish hairs are similar, the scutellum, 

 propygidium, and abdomen are clothed with dense, squamose, slightly 

 flavescent hairs, which in the female are less squamose and more 

 yellow ; legs as in the preceding species. 



Length 5^ mm. ; width 3-3^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch). 



Platychelus anomalus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Etomol., iv., 1, p. 150. 



Male : Bronze, more shining on the prothorax than in the posterior 

 part of the elytra, the anterior part of the latter being occupied by a 

 transverse testaceous yellow patch reaching to near the outer margin 

 and to the suture; clypeus very rugose, plainly rounded laterally and 

 slightly emarginate in the centre ; prothorax clothed with an erect 

 greyish pubescence which is somewhat bristly, it is closely scabroso- 

 punctate in the anterior part, but normally punctate in the posterior ; 

 scutellum with a greyish pubescence ; elytra very plane, distinctly 

 emarginate and narrowed laterally, covered with broad, somewhat 

 closely set punctures, and covered with a very short, fuscous 

 appressed pubescence ; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen 

 clothed with greyish hairs ; hind legs slender. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (no exact locality recorded). 



