﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  735 
  

  

  yellow 
  scales 
  forming 
  a 
  nearly 
  non-interrupted 
  coating, 
  legs 
  reddish 
  ; 
  

   head 
  scabrose, 
  hairy, 
  clypeus 
  very 
  sharply 
  quadri-dentate, 
  median 
  

   teeth 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  outer 
  and 
  all 
  distinctly 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  

   fringed 
  along 
  the 
  anterior 
  and 
  lateral 
  margins 
  with 
  long, 
  flavescent 
  

   bristles, 
  and 
  distinctly 
  grooved 
  longitudinally 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  ; 
  elytra 
  

   not 
  distinctly 
  costulate, 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  with 
  a 
  short 
  trochanterine 
  spine 
  and 
  more 
  distinctly 
  dentate 
  

   inwardly 
  at 
  the 
  knee 
  than 
  outwardly, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  a 
  little 
  curved, 
  deeply 
  

   scooped 
  underneath 
  from 
  base 
  to 
  apex, 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  short 
  tooth 
  near 
  

   the 
  knee 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  both 
  margins 
  are 
  serrate, 
  

   and 
  the 
  mucro 
  is 
  a 
  little 
  slanting, 
  but 
  not 
  very 
  developed, 
  no 
  apical 
  

   spur, 
  hind 
  claw 
  single, 
  simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  5|— 
  5f 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3 
  mm. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  easily 
  recognised 
  by 
  its 
  bright 
  yellow 
  coating 
  and 
  

   the 
  four 
  sharp 
  teeth 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Graham's 
  Town, 
  Port 
  Elizabeth). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  pachyglutus, 
  Wiedem., 
  

   Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  47. 
  

   Zool. 
  Mag., 
  ii., 
  1, 
  p. 
  97. 
  

   M. 
  hybridus, 
  Burm., 
  loc. 
  cit., 
  p. 
  24. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  prothorax 
  and 
  elytra 
  clothed 
  with 
  yellow 
  

   scales 
  turning 
  sometimes 
  to 
  orange 
  on 
  the 
  elytra, 
  but 
  having 
  there 
  

   a 
  sutural 
  and 
  a 
  marginal 
  band 
  of 
  paler 
  scales 
  ; 
  the 
  pygidium 
  is 
  

   denuded 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  only, 
  and 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  surface 
  is 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   yellow 
  scales, 
  but 
  it 
  has 
  a 
  lateral 
  orange 
  patch 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  and 
  

   there 
  is 
  a 
  transverse 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  colour 
  on 
  the 
  propygidium 
  ; 
  

   the 
  legs 
  are 
  reddish 
  brown 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  feebly 
  bi-dentate 
  in 
  the 
  

   middle 
  ; 
  the 
  prothorax 
  is 
  nearly 
  as 
  densely 
  scaly 
  as 
  the 
  elytra, 
  and 
  

   the 
  scales 
  are 
  nearly 
  round 
  ; 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  scutellum 
  are 
  a 
  little 
  paler 
  

   than 
  on 
  the 
  elytra, 
  but 
  are 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  hue 
  as 
  those 
  which 
  are 
  set 
  

   along 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  femora 
  are 
  very 
  thick 
  and 
  the 
  trochanters 
  

   are 
  very 
  long 
  and 
  project 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  thigh 
  into 
  a 
  

   sharp 
  horizontal 
  spine 
  distinctly 
  bent 
  inwardly 
  at 
  tip, 
  the 
  teeth 
  on 
  

   each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  knee 
  are 
  distinct, 
  but 
  not 
  much 
  developed 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  

   tibiae 
  are 
  very 
  swollen 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  where 
  the 
  inner 
  angle 
  is 
  

   developed 
  into 
  a 
  tooth, 
  scooped 
  inw 
  T 
  ardly 
  in 
  the 
  apical 
  part 
  where 
  

   both 
  the 
  inner 
  and 
  outer 
  angles 
  are 
  distinctly 
  mucronate 
  ; 
  no 
  apical 
  

   spur 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  single, 
  simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Black 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chestnut-brown 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  hairy 
  ; 
  

   elytra 
  sparsely 
  covered 
  with 
  appressed 
  squamose 
  greyish 
  hairs, 
  but 
  

  

  