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



Platychelus bbevis, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 152. 



Male : This species is also very closely allied to P. dimidiatus, so 

 much so that it is difi&cult to differentiate them ; it is, however, a little 

 smaller, the pubescence on the prothorax is somewhat denser and 

 more flavescent ; the elytra of the male are fuscous in the posterior 

 part only, not on the sides, the pygidium is much more densely 

 covered with flavescent hairs ; the hind tarsi, and also the hind 

 tibicC, but the former especially, are very densely villose, the villose 

 hairs on the tibise are yellow, and on the tarsi black. 



The female cannot be distinguished from that of P. dimidiatus. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand) 



Platychelus cicatrix, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 144. 



Male : Head, prothorax, and legs bronze, shining, under side 

 black with a metallic tinge, elj'tra reddish brown ; head granular, 

 setulose, clypeus straight at the tip, and with the angles well defined, 

 but slightly rounded ; prothorax convex, covered with deep, not very 

 closely set punctures, densely villose, the villosity long and flavescent, 

 no median longitudinal sulcus ; scutellum covered with whitish, 

 thick, squamose hairs ; elytra very distinctly attenuate laterally 

 towards the apex and very sinuate below the shoulder, not costulate, 

 but having near the base a conspicuous obliquely transverse im- 

 pressed line reaching on each side from the scutellum to the outer 

 margin close to the shoulder, they are closely punctured, clothed with 

 very dense but very short, erect, slightly flavescent hairs, and have in 

 the centre of the disk a small fascicle of white hairs, and another 

 one, close to the suture and adjoining the ti'ansverse oblique im- 

 pressed line ; pygidial part and abdomen clothed with dense, con- 

 tiguous white scales, the pygidium has also a fringe of greyish cilias 

 all round, the abdomen is entirely covered with thick, squamose hairs, 

 and the pectus is clothed with dense, greyish-white, villose hairs ; 

 the hind legs, and especially the tarsi, are very densely villose, with 

 the hairs rufescent, but black on the tarsi ; hind claws double and 

 not cleft, the inner one is more than half the length of the outer, 

 which is not thickened ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate. 



Female : Similar to the male, but the scales on the pygidial part 

 and abdomen are a little more flavescent. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 2i- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



