1902.] Catalogue of the CoJeoptera of South Africa. 815 



part, and having a short, discoidal impression along the humeral 

 callus, they are closely punctate, and very slightly pubescent, the 

 pubescence is denser along the suture; anterior tibite tri-dentate, 

 the teeth are equi-distant, but the basal one is small. 



Female : Shape of the male, but the elytra are red, the prothorax 

 greener, and the pubescence on it is not as long as in the male, 

 the appressed hairs are more evenly spread and do not form a band 

 along the suture ; the legs are piceous red. Some of the females 

 have partly fuscous elytra. 



Length 5-5J mm. ; width 2i-3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage). 



Platychelus litigosus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 149. 

 P. cinereus, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Entom., p. 64. 



Very closely allied to P. discolor; the male has also the elytra 

 seneo-fuscate, and redder along the sides, and in the female the 

 elytra are brownish red ; the only difference is to be found in the 

 shape of the clypeus which in the male is straight at apex with 

 the angles sharp and plainly reflexed, while in the female these 

 angles are more rounded than in P. discolor. 



Length 6^-7 mm. ; width 3^—4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Graham's Town). 



Platychelus nitidulus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, p. 149. 



Male : Quite similar in general facies to P. semi-virgatus, but 

 much smaller ; the colour and sculpture are alike, the prothorax 

 especially is very metallic ; in the male the clypeus is sharp laterally 

 and has a very slight prominence in the centre ; the elytra have the 

 same vestiture, the pygidial part is equally hairy, and the only 

 difference between the two species is to be found in the shape of the 

 two basal teeth of the anterior tibiae which in P. nitidulus are 

 separate, whereas in P. semi-virgatus these are set very close to 

 each other, almost connate. 



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



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Platychelus eetensus, n. spec. 



Male : Dark bronze, a little more shiny on the prothorax than on 

 the rest of the body ; clypeus very rugose, straight laterally and 



