1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 809 



Platychelus kakrooensis, n. spec. 



Male : Bronze, somewhat greenish on the prothorax ; elytra 

 testaceous red, very shiny, but with scarcely a metallic sheen ; 

 elypeus straight at apex, slightly attenuate laterally and with the 

 outer angles distinct, the head is very granulose, and slightly 

 pubescent ; prothorax very closely scabroso-punctate laterally and 

 in the anterior part, but with normal, somewhat closely set punctures 

 in the median part, very slightly grooved longitudinally in the 

 anterior part only, and clothed with a dense greyish and sub- 

 flavescent, long pubescence ; scutellum covered with thick flavous 

 hairs ; elytra plainly sinuate and narrowed laterally towards the 

 apex, very plane, not costulate, but having a somewhat distinct, 

 although very shallow impression along the suture, they are very 

 closely punctured, and covered with a very short, appressed, slightly 

 fuscous pubescence ; pygidial part and abdomen clothed with a very 

 dense, thick yellowish pubescence ; the legs are pubescent, but not 

 the hind tarsi ; all the claws are cleft, and the anterior tibiae are 

 distinctly tri-dentate. 



Length 5J-6 mm. ; width 3-3| mm. 



This species is distinguished from P. climidiatus and P. brevis, 

 both of which it closely resembles, by the tri-dentate anterior tibiae, 

 and also from the last-named species by the non-densely villose hind 

 tarsi. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester). 



Platychelus expansus, n. spec. 



Male : Black, with a dark green metallic tinge on the prothorax ; 

 head and prothorax clothed with a fulvous erect, somewhat villose 

 pubescence ; elypeus normal in shape ; prothorax with a posterior 

 short and shallow median groove, scutellum, propygidium, and 

 pygidium clothed with dense appressed fulvous hairs ; the elytra 

 are broader than in P. dimidiatus and P. brevis, and being not 

 longer than in the latter species, they look more ampliated at the 

 base, the longitudinal impression near the humeral callus is distinct, 

 but there is only a slightly transverse impression below the scutellum, 

 they are very closely punctured, are covered with a very short, erect 

 black pubescence, and have no trace of appressed greyish hairs ; hind 

 legs clothed with a fulvous, not very dense pubescence. 



Female unknown. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Pella). 



This species resembles also P. karrooensis, but owing to the 



