﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  733 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  longipes, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  35. 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  101. 
  

  

  H. 
  testaceipennis 
  ? 
  , 
  Blanch., 
  Catal. 
  Coll. 
  Entom., 
  p. 
  65. 
  

  

  H. 
  gonager, 
  Guer., 
  Icon. 
  Begn. 
  Anim. 
  Insectes, 
  pi. 
  xxiv., 
  fig. 
  3. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  legs 
  red 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  sometimes 
  

   piceous 
  red 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  quadri-dentate 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  median 
  tooth 
  

   shorter 
  than 
  the 
  outer 
  ones, 
  and 
  not 
  very 
  sharp 
  ; 
  head 
  covered 
  

   with 
  a 
  very 
  short, 
  erect 
  flavescent 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  distinctly 
  

   grooved 
  longitudinally 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  and 
  entirely 
  covered 
  

   with 
  dense, 
  although 
  not 
  quite 
  contiguous, 
  round 
  flavescent 
  scales 
  

   and 
  having 
  a 
  few 
  squamose 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  

   densely 
  scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  elongate, 
  distinctly 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  from 
  

   near 
  the 
  humeral 
  part 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  clothed 
  with 
  nearly 
  contiguous 
  

   round 
  scales, 
  and 
  although 
  not 
  distinctly 
  costulate, 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  

   side 
  three 
  faint 
  series 
  of 
  remote 
  greyish 
  squamiform 
  setae, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  

   one 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  and 
  sides 
  of 
  abdomen 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   small, 
  yellow 
  scales, 
  pygidium 
  not 
  distinctly 
  convex, 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   similar 
  scales 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  to 
  past 
  the 
  median 
  part, 
  thence 
  denuded 
  

   and 
  shining 
  ; 
  hind 
  trochanters 
  very 
  slightly 
  spinose, 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   large 
  and 
  having 
  the 
  inner 
  tooth 
  of 
  the 
  knee 
  sharper 
  and 
  more 
  

   developed 
  than 
  the 
  outer 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  thigh, 
  

   not 
  much 
  arcuate, 
  broad, 
  compressed, 
  grooved 
  underneath 
  and 
  

   emarginate 
  near 
  the 
  base, 
  straight 
  from 
  there 
  and 
  having 
  the 
  basal 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  groove 
  dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  and 
  the 
  apical 
  mucro 
  

   moderately 
  long, 
  nearly 
  transverse, 
  and 
  very 
  sharp 
  ; 
  no 
  apical 
  spur, 
  

   hind 
  claw 
  simple, 
  single 
  ; 
  intermediate 
  tibiae 
  dilated 
  and 
  strongly 
  

   compressed. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  testaceous, 
  and 
  covered 
  with 
  

   appressed 
  squamose 
  flavescent 
  hairs 
  turning 
  to 
  scales 
  along 
  the 
  

   extreme 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  ; 
  scutellum, 
  pygidium, 
  pro- 
  

   pygidium 
  and 
  sides 
  of 
  abdomen 
  clothed 
  with 
  yellow 
  hairs. 
  

  

  Length 
  5J-- 
  6 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2J-3 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch, 
  Paarl, 
  Worcester, 
  

   Malmesbury, 
  Port 
  Elizabeth, 
  Graham's 
  Town). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  murinus, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  102. 
  

   H. 
  castaneipennis 
  $ 
  , 
  Blanch., 
  Catal. 
  Coll. 
  Entom., 
  p. 
  66. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  This 
  species 
  is 
  closely 
  allied 
  to 
  H. 
  longipes 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  also 
  black 
  

   and 
  the 
  legs 
  red 
  ■ 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  and 
  hind 
  legs 
  is 
  similar, 
  

   but 
  instead 
  of 
  being 
  flavescent 
  or 
  yellow, 
  the 
  scales 
  covering 
  the 
  

  

  