670 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



sides of abdomen and pygidial part are clothed with wider and con- 

 tiguous yellowish white scales ; clypeus denticulate laterally with 

 the angle of the truncate anterior margin sharp, deeply punctate, 

 each puncture bearing a very short appressed greyish hair ; pro- 

 thorax scabrose and having a very short greyish pubescence ; elytra 

 non-costulate ; hind legs and tibiae simple, the latter with a long, 

 slender terminal spur ; claw of hind tarsi long, cleft inwardly near 

 the tip. 



The livery of this species is not unlike that of a very small example 

 of H. murinus (Cat. i., p. 733) or H. adspersus (loc. cit., p. 734), but 

 the shape of the simple hind legs approximates it more to II. minutus, 

 Cat. i., p. 753. 



Length Sh mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Willowmore). 



Heterochelus simulator, n. spec. 



Female : Head, prothorax and pectus black ; elytra, abdomen 

 and legs rufescent ; clypeus slightly narrowed towards the apex 

 where it is transversely truncate with the outer angles sharp, the 

 lateral part is slightly denticulate ; prothorax distinctly scabrose all 

 over, clothed with a short, greyish pubescence, very slightly cana- 

 liculate behind, and having in the groove some squamose greyish 

 hairs ; scutellum squamose ; elytra very faintly costulate, covered 

 with elongate squamulose whitish hairs not dense enough to hide 

 the background ; propygidium and sides of abdomen squamose 

 white ; pygidium closely squamose ; hind legs simple ; claws of 

 hind tibiae simple, not cleft. 



Male unknown. 



This species ( ? ) resembles somewhat the $ of H. longipes, but 

 is different. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). 



Heterochelus suspectus, Boh., 



Ofv. Vet. Ak. Forhdl., 1860, p. 115. 



Black with the elytra testaceous, antennae and legs brownish red. 

 Clypeus sub-parallel, angular laterally at the junction with the 

 frontal part, truncate at apex with the lateral angles produced into 

 a sharp tooth, the surface of the whole head is plainly asperous, 

 and only slightly clothed with greyish hairs ; prothorax elongated, 

 attenuate laterally in front, grooved longitudinally in the centre 

 of the disk which is deeply scabrose punctate, and clothed with an 



