818 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. ^'OL. xii. 



Hab. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). Boheman mentions 

 the Orange River region as the habitat of the species. 



PliATYCHELUS JUCUNDUS, n. SpeC. 



Female : Greenish bronze, brighter on the prothorax ; head, 

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

 a long and dense greyish pubescence which is erect on the head and 

 prothorax ; clypeus nearly parabolic ; the sculpture of the head and 

 prothorax is similar to that of P. hoplioides or P. glahripcnnis , but 

 the pubescence is longer ; scutellum also pubescent ; elytra not 

 costulate, but having a deep, basal, longitudinal impression alongside 

 the humeral callus, and a shallow one along the median part of the 

 suture, the surface is extremely finely and closely aciculate, and 

 instead of scabrose punctures they are covered with closely set, equi- 

 distant, small granules from the intervals of which spring small, 

 appressed, greyish hair ; anterior tibia strongly bi-dentate, but 

 having also a third, very small basal tooth. 



Length 9^ mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Malmesbury). 



Platychelus EXCEN'TiiUS, u. spec. 



Male : Black, with the elytra reddish brown ; head very closely 

 scabroso-punctate, clypeus with the lateral angles much rounded, 

 sub-parabolic in the male, club of antennae reddish brown ; pro- 

 thorax clothed with very dense and very long villose hairs, black in 

 the anterior part, greyish white in the posterior, it is distinctly convex 

 and has a well-defined median longitudinal sulcus in the posterior 

 part ; elytra slightly impressed longitudinally along the suture and 

 deeply along the humeral callus, the two impressions being divided 

 by a not much raised costule ; they are clothed with sub-appressed 

 black hairs, but along the base there is a fringe of long, white hairs, 

 a patch of these in the discoidal impression, and a more elongate 

 one along the suture, at about the median part ; the pygidial part, 

 abdomen, and pectus are clothed with greyish white, dense, villose 

 hairs, and the legs with black ones ; the anterior tibiae are bi- 

 dentate, the basal tooth is not ^arp, and is more or less angular ; 

 the hind femora are robust, and the hind tibiae are triangularly 

 dilated towards the tip whei'e the apices are very sharp, the lower 

 one being mucronate ; there is an apical spur. 



Length 1\-^ mm. ; width 3^-4^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



