﻿746 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  with 
  golden-yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  the 
  latter 
  has 
  two 
  sub-denuded, 
  basal 
  

   patches 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  quadri-dentate, 
  the 
  two 
  median 
  teeth 
  a 
  little 
  

   smaller 
  than 
  the 
  outer; 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  closely 
  scabroso-punctate, 
  

   and 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  comparatively 
  short, 
  sub-flavescent, 
  erect 
  

   pubescence, 
  posterior 
  median 
  groove 
  short 
  but 
  deep 
  ; 
  elytra 
  slightly 
  

   costulate, 
  slightly 
  pubescent, 
  the 
  appressed 
  pubescence 
  somewhat 
  

   seriate 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  very 
  robust, 
  simple 
  but 
  having 
  the 
  outer 
  tooth 
  

   of 
  the 
  knee 
  very 
  much 
  more 
  sharply 
  developed 
  than 
  the 
  inner 
  which 
  

   is 
  also 
  very 
  distinct 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  short, 
  curved 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  side, 
  deeply 
  

   emarginate 
  underneath 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  for 
  about 
  half 
  the 
  length, 
  sub- 
  

   angular 
  there, 
  then 
  ampliated, 
  somewhat 
  compressed, 
  and 
  produced 
  

   into 
  a 
  strong, 
  slightly 
  curved 
  mucro. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  testaceous, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  

   a 
  sutural 
  band 
  of 
  squamose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  pygidium 
  is 
  entirely 
  covered 
  

   with 
  flavescent 
  scales, 
  but 
  there 
  is 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  base 
  an 
  orange 
  

   patch 
  ; 
  the 
  legs 
  are 
  reddish. 
  

  

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

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch, 
  Paarl). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  forcipatus, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLL, 
  fig. 
  46. 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  115. 
  

  

  H. 
  wicinatus, 
  Blanch., 
  Cat. 
  Coll. 
  Ent., 
  1850, 
  p. 
  65. 
  

   H. 
  dentifrons, 
  Blanch., 
  loc. 
  cit., 
  p. 
  65. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  fore 
  legs 
  reddish, 
  elytra 
  fuscous 
  brown, 
  

   covered 
  with 
  greyish 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  few 
  minute 
  

   greyish 
  scales 
  along 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  ; 
  the 
  propygidium 
  and 
  the 
  

   abdominal 
  segments 
  have 
  narrow 
  bands 
  of 
  similar 
  scales, 
  the 
  

   pygidium, 
  is 
  not 
  scaly; 
  head 
  rugose, 
  briefly 
  pubescent, 
  clypeus 
  not 
  

   dentate 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  there, 
  outer 
  angles 
  very 
  

   sharp 
  and 
  renexed 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  dark 
  villose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  

   hardly 
  costulate, 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  narrowed 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  

   apex 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  very 
  large 
  and 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  knee 
  

   two 
  greatly 
  developed 
  teeth 
  the 
  inner 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  longer, 
  more 
  

   curved 
  and 
  more 
  spinose 
  than 
  the 
  outer, 
  the 
  trochanters 
  are 
  not 
  

   spinose, 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  very 
  curved, 
  compressed, 
  dilated 
  towards 
  

   the 
  tip 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  lower 
  edge 
  very 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  above 
  the 
  

   inner 
  mucro 
  which 
  is 
  compressed 
  and 
  bifid 
  at 
  the 
  tip. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Elytra 
  light 
  testaceous 
  and 
  not 
  very 
  hairy 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  scales 
  and 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  a 
  darker 
  patch. 
  

  

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

  

  