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someAvhat metallic green, but the elytra have not only along the 

 suture a broad band of very dense and somewhat long, lanceolate 

 appressed white hairs, but the long impression along the humeral 

 callus is filled with a band of similar hairs ; the scutellum is densely 

 hairy, and the hairs white ; the appressed hairs on the pygidium are 

 white in both sexes ; the anterior tibiaB are strongly and sharply 

 tri-dentate, the apical tooth is also broadly separated from the inter- 

 mediate one, and the hind claws are double and both parts cleft, but 

 the longer one is only cleft laterally, and the lateral part is slender 

 and shorter. 



Length 6-9 mm. ; width 3-4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



Platychelus confoemis, n. spec. 



A close ally to P. Iwttentotus, but much smaller ; the elytra are 

 darker brown ; the head and prothorax are similar, the latter being 

 more distinctly dark green, but the pubescence which covers it is 

 much shorter ; the scutellum is also hairy, but the hairs are greyish, 

 and the elytra have no longitudinal impression along the suture or 

 the humeral callus, and are covered equally with greyish appressed 

 hairs not as dense as on the pygidial area, abdomen, or pectus, 

 where they are flavescent ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, the teeth are 

 sharp and shaped as in P. hottentotus, and the hind claws are cleft 

 in the same manner, but the lateral cleft part of the outer one is 

 very slender. 



The female is not known. 



Length 4-4^ mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Pella, Namaqualand). 



Platychelus discolor, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 148. 



Male : Bronze, shining, dai'ker on the elytra than on the prothorax; 

 head and prothorax clothed with a moderately long, dense, sub- 

 flavescent pubescence, elytra moderately densely pubescent along 

 the margin, and in the basal discoidal impression ; pygidial part, 

 abdomen, and legs clothed with dense, yellow, appressed hairs ; 

 head finely scabrose ; clypeus not narrowed laterally, straight at 

 apex but with the angles slightly rounded ; prothorax finely scabrose, 

 but with the posterior median part punctate ; scutellum clothed with 

 greyish white hairs ; elytra deeply sinuate and moderately attenuate 

 laterally towards the apex, impressed along the suture in the median 



