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From Mr. Drego. This species greatly resembles P. litigosus, 

 owing to its elongate shape, but it is one-third smaller, more 

 depressed, and has everywhere longer hairs ; the elypeus is more 

 rounded, broader, not sharp laterally, and closely punctulate like the 

 prothoi'ax the hind angles of which are sharp ; in the female there 

 is a weak longitudinal furrow, the elytra are everywhere closely 

 punctulate and are equally covered with long yellowish grey hairs, 

 the abdomen, pectus, and legs have similar hairs ; the anterior tibiae 

 have three equi-distant sharp teeth ; in the female the elytra, tarsi, 

 hind legs, antenna?, and palpi are red, but in the male they are 

 brown." 



"Posterior legs short, thick, densely hairy. 



Platychelus puerilis, Burm., 

 Ibid., p. 151. 



" Black, £eneous, shining, clothed with grey hairs, anterior tibiae 

 sub-dentate. 



Length 1^ lin. J . 



From Mr. Drege. Eesembles P. musculus in a striking manner, 

 but it is a little more slender ; elypeus rounded, moderately broad, 

 head and prothorax scabroso-punctate, the latter, which is nearly 

 purple, is quite impunctate behind, and has a coating of long greyish 

 hairs ; elytra stx-ongly punctate, deeply impressed alongside the 

 humeral callus and clothed with compressed white hairs, similar but 

 longer hairs clothe the pygidial part, abdomen and pectus ; the legs 

 are also similarly hairy, but they are black and denser in the 

 posterior ; in the anterior tibiae the nearly obliterated outer teeth 

 are as remarkable as the broad triangular form of the posterior ; these 

 two characters best differentiate this species from P. viusadus." 



Platychelus intermedius, Blanch., 

 Catal. Coll. Entomol., 1850, p. 63. 



"Black, with ashy hairs, ch'peus quadri-dentate ; prothorax 

 black, shining, punctate, sulcate behind in the middle, and with 

 light fulvous hairs ; scutellum with ashy scales ; elytra broad, short, 

 entirely pale testaceous, immaculate ; legs and abdomen red ; 

 pygidium hidden by fulvous hairs ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, claws 

 of the hind legs nearly equal in length and bifid. 



Length 7 mm. Cape Colony (exact locality not known)." 

 I have seen only the tj'pe of this species. It is a female, and 

 is almost similar to P. discolor. 



