﻿724 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  very 
  short 
  distance 
  from 
  the 
  curved 
  base, 
  the 
  upper 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   laminate 
  process 
  is 
  strongly 
  and 
  broadly 
  bifid, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  

   long 
  transverse 
  mucro, 
  no 
  apical 
  spur; 
  joints 
  of 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  elongate, 
  

   very 
  little 
  compressed 
  ; 
  inner 
  claw 
  not 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  outer, 
  

   both 
  slightly 
  cleft. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  6-6|- 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3^-3f 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Estcourt, 
  Durban). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  multidentatus, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  31. 
  

  

  Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  94. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Greenish 
  metallic 
  black, 
  palpi, 
  antennae, 
  except 
  the 
  club,, 
  

   and 
  the 
  fore 
  tarsi 
  reddish 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  three 
  bands 
  of 
  whitish 
  or 
  

   slightly 
  flavescent 
  scales 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  closely 
  

   scabroso-punctate 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  and 
  black 
  erect 
  villose 
  

   hairs, 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  are 
  a 
  few 
  whitish 
  grey, 
  remote,, 
  

   squamose 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  not 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle 
  at 
  the 
  tip 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  bi- 
  

   costate 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  with 
  the 
  three 
  spaces 
  intervening 
  between 
  

   the 
  suture 
  and 
  the 
  two 
  costae 
  filled 
  with 
  a 
  band 
  of 
  dense, 
  ovate 
  

   whitish 
  scales, 
  the 
  juxta-sutural 
  band 
  is 
  the 
  longest 
  and 
  goes- 
  

   round 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  in 
  some 
  examples, 
  the 
  discoidal 
  one 
  is 
  

   obliterated 
  past 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  one 
  is 
  oblique 
  and 
  hardly 
  

   reaches 
  the 
  apex 
  of 
  the 
  discoidal 
  one, 
  or 
  is 
  entirely 
  absent, 
  the 
  surface 
  

   is 
  roughly 
  punctured, 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  but. 
  

   dense 
  greyish 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  propygidium, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  

   covered 
  with 
  contiguous 
  yellowish 
  scales 
  which 
  are 
  occasionally 
  

   deep 
  orange 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  being 
  slightly 
  less 
  dense 
  there 
  form 
  

   with 
  the 
  background 
  two 
  darker 
  patches 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  fine 
  line 
  of 
  

   scales 
  similar 
  in 
  colour 
  to 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  part 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  very 
  

   robust 
  and 
  having 
  in 
  the 
  inner 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  knee 
  a 
  somewhat 
  short 
  

   spine 
  ; 
  the 
  spine 
  of 
  the 
  trochanters 
  is 
  moderately 
  long 
  and 
  sharp, 
  

   the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  curved, 
  not 
  concave 
  inwardly, 
  but 
  the 
  lower 
  

   edge 
  is 
  strongly 
  serrate, 
  and 
  ends 
  in 
  a 
  long 
  mucro 
  curved 
  sub- 
  

   obliquely, 
  the 
  upper 
  apical 
  part 
  is 
  sharply 
  angular 
  : 
  inner 
  claw 
  of 
  

   hind 
  legs 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  outer. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  6-|— 
  1\ 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3-£ 
  -4 
  \ 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Worcester). 
  

  

  