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with the angles broadly rounded, liead covered with large, non- 

 contiguous granules ; prothorax clothed with a somewhat dense, 

 sub-erect pubescence, it has small granules not closely set along the 

 anterior margin and also on the anterior part of the sides, but the 

 remainder of the surface is extremely finely aciculate, and in 

 the median part of the disk only are there a few broad, scattered 

 punctures, and there is a median longitudinal groove deeper and 

 plainer in the posterior part ; scutellum slightly pubescent ; elytra 

 elongate, emarginate laterally, but only slightly attenuate towards 

 the apex, bi-costulate on each side, and having some deep, somewhat 

 irregularly scattered punctures bearing each an appressed, long, 

 bristle-like white hair ; pygidial part and abdomen not very densely 

 pubescent ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate but with the basal tooth very 

 minute, all the claws are double and cleft, and less compressed 

 against each other than in the other species of the genus, hind 

 femora robust, hind tibiae shorter than the thigh, plainly dilated 

 triangularly towards the tip, but not mucronate there. 



Length &\ mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Unlike the other species of the genus, the hairs on the elytra are 

 almost bristle-like, although appressed ; the gi'anules on the head 

 are also fewer and larger. 



Hah. Cape Colony (^Yorcester). 



Platychelus glabeipenxis, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 153. 



Male : Shape and size of P. hopUoidcs which it closely resembles ; 

 black, with a slight metallic tinge ; the head is also scabrose, but the 

 clypeus is a little attenuate laterally towards the apex which is 

 straight with the margin reflexed and the outer angles sharp ; the 

 prothorax, pygidial part, abdomen, pectus, and legs are clothed with 

 a very long and very dense yellow pubescence ; the elytra are brick- 

 red, somewhat shining, not distinctly costulate, l)ut having instead 

 of scabrose, closely set punctures, irregularly scattered round ones, 

 more distinct and somewhat seriate in the dorsal intervals, and along 

 the outer margin ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly ; posterior 

 legs of male, robust, hind tibiae plainly dilated towards the apex, 

 spinose on each side at the tip and with the apical spur small but 

 distinct. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 4|^ mm. 



Ilah. Cape Colony (exact locahty not recorded). 



