1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 819 



Platychelus dispar, Burm., 

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



Male : Black, with the elytra brownish red ; clothed on the 

 prothorax, under side and legs with a very dense ashy-grey pubes- 

 cence. Similar in shape and sculpture to the preceding species, 

 but the head is a little more coarsely granulose, and the clypeus, 

 instead of being parabolic, is straight at the apex with the angles 

 sharp ; the prothorax is plainly grooved longitudinally ; the elytra 

 have a short but deep, basal, supra-humeral impression, and are 

 slightly impressed longitudinally along the median part of the 

 suture, they are moderately closely punctured, each puncture 

 bearing an appressed short blackish hair ; the anterior tibiae are 

 bi-dentate outwardly, the hind femora are robust, and the tibiae 

 dilated triangularly towards the apex the two angles of which are 

 greatly developed, the inner one being plainly mucronate, there is a 

 long apical spur. 



Female unknown. Eesembles somewhat P. cxccntrus, but is 

 distinguished by the straight clypeus, the much less densely punc- 

 tured elytra ; the hind tibiae are not quite as plainly mucronate as 

 Burmeister states, and i-esemble those of P. glahratus, Iwplioides, 

 and excentrus. 



Length 6|- mm. ; width 2|- mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony. This description is made from one of 

 Drege's specimens. 



{Species luhich I have not seen or been able to identify.) 



^'■Anterior margin of clypeus reflexed, sharp laterally; anterior 

 tibia long, narroiv, tri-dentate outwardly, legs long aiid slender, claivs 

 normally long. 



Scutellum very small, rounded, the lohole surface of the body 

 densely covered with scales. 



Platychelus squamosus, Burm., 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 143. 



" Fuscous, legs rufous, whole body with ashy-grey or fulvous 

 scales. 



Length 2 Im. 



From Mr. Dr^ge. Margin of clypeus reflexed in front in both 

 sexes, a little raised in the middle, but with the angles more 

 raised, black, scabroso-punctate, head with grey hairs; antennae 



