﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  745 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  more 
  distinctly 
  costulate, 
  

   the 
  median 
  line 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax 
  and 
  the 
  discoidal 
  one 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  

   are 
  white 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  so 
  is 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  but 
  the 
  scales 
  on 
  

   the 
  abdomen 
  and 
  pygidium 
  are 
  yellow, 
  and 
  the 
  latter 
  has 
  three 
  

   elongate, 
  dark 
  patches, 
  the 
  median 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  more 
  elongate 
  than 
  

   the 
  others. 
  

  

  Length 
  7-|— 
  8-J- 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4-4-J 
  mm. 
  

  

  A 
  very 
  distinct 
  species. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Namaqualand). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  rufimanus, 
  Casteln., 
  

   Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  38. 
  

   Hist. 
  Natur., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  145. 
  

   H. 
  longulus, 
  Burm., 
  Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom., 
  iv., 
  p. 
  114. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Body 
  black, 
  with 
  the 
  fore 
  legs 
  reddish, 
  or 
  as 
  often 
  as 
  not 
  

   with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chestnut-brown, 
  or 
  chestnut-red 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  have 
  a 
  

   narrow 
  apical 
  margin 
  of 
  flavescent 
  or 
  yellow 
  scales, 
  the 
  scutellum 
  

   and 
  abdomen 
  are 
  densely 
  scaly, 
  but 
  the 
  pygidium 
  is 
  glabrous 
  and 
  

   shining, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  only 
  a 
  very 
  narrow 
  band 
  of 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  

   propygidium 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  quadri-dentate, 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  scabroso- 
  

   punctate, 
  clothed 
  with 
  long, 
  villose 
  greyish 
  hairs, 
  the 
  median 
  

   posterior 
  groove 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  somewhat 
  deep 
  ; 
  elytra 
  distinctly 
  

   attenuate 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  densely 
  but 
  very 
  briefly 
  

   pubescent 
  with 
  the 
  pubescence 
  erect, 
  hardly 
  costulate 
  and 
  covered 
  

   with 
  deep, 
  contiguous 
  strongly 
  scabrose 
  punctures 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   long, 
  robust, 
  and 
  having 
  the 
  inner 
  tooth 
  of 
  the 
  knee 
  somewhat 
  

   strongly 
  developed, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  somewhat 
  short, 
  curved, 
  grooved 
  

   underneath, 
  bi-dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  having 
  an 
  inner 
  

   strongly 
  developed 
  somewhat 
  arcuate 
  mucro 
  ; 
  they 
  are 
  almost 
  

   similar 
  to 
  those 
  of 
  H. 
  longipes 
  (pi. 
  xlii., 
  fig. 
  38). 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  covered 
  with 
  appressed, 
  

   somewhat 
  remote 
  hairs, 
  and 
  have 
  a 
  few 
  somewhat 
  squamose 
  ones 
  

   along 
  the 
  suture. 
  

  

  Length 
  5-7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2-|— 
  3f 
  mm. 
  

  

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

   Worcester, 
  Ceres, 
  Caledon). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  binotatus, 
  Thunb., 
  

  

  Mem. 
  Acad. 
  St. 
  Petersb., 
  1818, 
  vi., 
  p. 
  448. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  piceous, 
  fore 
  legs 
  reddish, 
  scutellum, 
  

   apical 
  margin 
  of 
  elytra, 
  abdomen, 
  propygidium, 
  and 
  pygidium 
  clothed 
  

  

  