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



shoulders being straight instead of oblique, the elytra are broader 

 at the base and look shorter in proportion to the size. 



Platychelus lupixus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 146. 



Male : Elongate, black with a bronze tinge, elytra very light 

 testaceous, slightly infuscate in the apical part ; head and prothorax 

 clothed with a very long, villose, light fulvous pubescence, which is 

 nearly equally as long and dense on the abdomen and the pectus ; the 

 punctures on the prothorax are not scabrose in the posterior half, 

 and there is no median groove ; scutellum densely hairy ; elytra 

 elongate, conspicuously emarginate laterally and strongly attenuate 

 towards the apex, nearly plane but having a deep transverse im- 

 pression in the basal part, and a slight depression along the suture, 

 they are covered with somewhat closely set, round, somewhat seriate 

 punctures, each bearing a fine sub-appressed, pallid hair, at the apex 

 of the suture there is a short band of denser paler hairs on each side; 

 pygidium somewhat convex, very closely and very finely punctulate, 

 and covered with a slight pallid pubescence which does not conceal 

 the black background ; anterior tibiae with a somewhat indistinct 

 third outer tooth ; hind legs slender, villose, the hind inner claws are 

 two-thirds of the length of the outer, and both distinctly cleft at tip. 



Female : Similar to the male, but the elyti-a are not infuscate 

 behind, and the third basal tooth of the anterior tibiai is, although 

 vex'y small, sharper and more distinct. 



Length 7-8 mm. ; width 3^-1 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmesbury, 

 Worcester). 



This species is easily distinguished from the preceding ones by 

 the more elongated shape. 



Platychelus pyropygus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 147. 



This species might be mistaken for P. lupiniis, and I am not sure 

 that it is not merely a variety ; it is, however, smaller, and the 

 pubescence on the prothorax, under side, and legs is greyish white, 

 but the propj-gidium and pygidium are clothed with very dense 

 orange-yellow appressed hairs ; the prothorax is also more shining 

 bronze, but occasionally the hairs on the prothorax and under side 

 are as fulvous as in P. lupinus, in which case the only distinctive 

 character is the background of the scutellum entirely hidden by the 



