﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  741 
  

  

  dentate 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  two 
  median 
  teeth 
  very 
  small 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  a 
  few 
  appressed 
  squamulose 
  hairs 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  scales 
  in 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  part 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  covered 
  with 
  scales 
  which 
  are 
  similar 
  to 
  

   those 
  covering 
  the 
  elytra 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  moderately 
  swollen 
  and 
  

   without 
  spinose 
  trochanters, 
  angles 
  of 
  the 
  knee 
  distinctly 
  rounded, 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  very 
  little 
  curved, 
  flattened 
  inwardly 
  for 
  a 
  short 
  

   distance 
  from 
  the 
  base, 
  slightly 
  mucronate 
  at 
  apex, 
  and 
  having 
  

   close 
  to 
  the 
  mucro 
  a 
  very 
  distinct 
  apical 
  spur 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  simple, 
  

   single. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  dark 
  chestnut-brown 
  or 
  testaceous 
  

   red, 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  appressed, 
  not 
  dense 
  hairs, 
  and 
  having 
  at 
  the 
  

   apex 
  a 
  narrow 
  band 
  of 
  flavescent 
  scales 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  densely 
  scaly. 
  

  

  Length 
  3-4 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2-2^ 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Graham's 
  Town). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  coccineus, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  42. 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  106. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  the 
  elytra, 
  the 
  pygidium 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  

   of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  clothed 
  with 
  orange 
  scales 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  sharply 
  quadri- 
  

   dentate, 
  the 
  four 
  teeth 
  equal 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  

   not 
  dense 
  but 
  somewhat 
  long, 
  greyish 
  pubescence, 
  but 
  in 
  the 
  

   deep 
  basal 
  longitudinal 
  groove 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  there 
  are 
  a 
  few 
  

   orange 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  non-costate 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  thick 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  

   trochanters 
  non- 
  spinose, 
  deeply 
  and 
  broadly 
  excavated 
  underneath 
  at 
  

   apex, 
  the 
  knee 
  being 
  very 
  strongly 
  dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   very 
  short, 
  strongly 
  dilated, 
  very 
  deeply 
  and 
  broadly 
  excavated 
  

   underneath, 
  and 
  the 
  upper 
  margin 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  broad, 
  somewhat 
  

   triangular 
  sharp 
  tooth 
  in 
  the 
  inner 
  part 
  near 
  the 
  knee, 
  but 
  the 
  

   outer 
  margin 
  is 
  straight, 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  mucro, 
  and 
  the 
  apical 
  spur 
  is 
  

   very 
  distinct 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  double, 
  the 
  inner 
  one 
  is 
  cleft 
  and 
  nearly 
  

   three-quarters 
  of 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  which 
  is 
  simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chestnut-brown, 
  and 
  covered 
  with 
  

   sub-appressed, 
  flavescent 
  hairs, 
  but 
  having 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  yellowish 
  

   scales 
  along 
  the 
  apical 
  edge 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  on 
  the 
  scutellum 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  not 
  

   strongly 
  bi-dentate 
  in 
  the 
  median 
  part. 
  

  

  Length 
  4-6 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2^-3 
  J 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Port 
  Elizabeth). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  egenus, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Eeddish 
  brown, 
  with 
  the 
  head 
  dark 
  fuscous, 
  completely 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  elongate, 
  somewhat 
  hair-like 
  flavescent 
  scales 
  which 
  

  

  