﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  751 
  

  

  elytra 
  non-costulate, 
  very 
  shining, 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  appressed, 
  remote, 
  

   flavescent 
  hairs, 
  and 
  having 
  along 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  suture, 
  

   and 
  round 
  the 
  apical 
  margins 
  a 
  not 
  very 
  distinct 
  band 
  of 
  yellow 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  abdomen 
  villose 
  ; 
  legs 
  also 
  villose, 
  robust, 
  

   hind 
  femora 
  simple, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  articulation 
  of 
  

   the 
  knee 
  dentate, 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  simple, 
  thickened 
  at 
  the 
  

   base, 
  and 
  slightly 
  compressed 
  in 
  the 
  inner 
  part 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   where 
  they 
  are 
  sub-mucronate 
  on 
  either 
  side, 
  the 
  inner 
  mucro 
  

   bearing 
  the 
  apical 
  spur, 
  hind 
  claw 
  single, 
  simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  legs 
  are 
  reddish, 
  and 
  the 
  scales 
  

   on 
  the 
  elytra 
  occur 
  along 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  only 
  ; 
  the 
  median 
  teeth 
  

   of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  are 
  more 
  obliterated 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male. 
  

  

  Length 
  5-5^ 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2| 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Worcester). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  capicola, 
  Fabric, 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  36. 
  

  

  Spec. 
  Insect., 
  i., 
  p. 
  46. 
  

  

  Oliv., 
  Entom., 
  i., 
  5, 
  p. 
  76, 
  pi. 
  v., 
  fig. 
  55 
  a.b. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chocolate-brown 
  ; 
  scutellum, 
  

   abdomen, 
  and 
  propygidium 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense 
  flavescent 
  scales, 
  

   pygidium 
  also 
  scaly 
  but 
  having 
  a 
  triangular 
  tomentose 
  patch 
  

   denuded 
  of 
  scales 
  in 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  elytra 
  covered 
  

   with 
  dense 
  appressed 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  head 
  very 
  granulose, 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  a 
  dense 
  erect 
  pubescence, 
  clypeus 
  having 
  only 
  a 
  slight 
  sinuation 
  

   in 
  the 
  middle, 
  where 
  the 
  median 
  teeth 
  should 
  be, 
  outer 
  angles 
  very 
  

   sharply 
  dentate 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  moderately 
  long, 
  very 
  

   dense 
  pubescence, 
  scabroso-punctate 
  all 
  over 
  and 
  with 
  a 
  median 
  

   furrow 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  only 
  ; 
  elytra 
  conspicuously 
  attenuate 
  

   laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  not 
  costulate, 
  very 
  closely 
  punctured, 
  

   in 
  some 
  examples 
  the 
  band 
  of 
  scales 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  margins 
  ascends 
  

   a 
  little 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  hind 
  legs 
  robust, 
  villose, 
  trochanters 
  

   simple, 
  hind 
  femora 
  also 
  simple, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  articulations 
  of 
  the 
  

   knee 
  rounded 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  simple, 
  convex 
  inwardly 
  at 
  

   the 
  base, 
  a 
  little 
  compressed 
  towards 
  the 
  apex 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  sub- 
  

   mucronate 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  the 
  apical 
  spur 
  is 
  long, 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  claw 
  

   single 
  and 
  simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  The 
  female 
  is 
  unknown 
  to 
  me, 
  but 
  Burmeister 
  says 
  that 
  

   the 
  elytra 
  are 
  testaceous 
  and 
  the 
  legs 
  fuscous, 
  and 
  that 
  the 
  clypeus 
  

   is 
  somewhat 
  rounded, 
  while 
  the 
  pygidium 
  instead 
  of 
  being 
  scaly 
  

   is 
  hairy. 
  

  

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

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Namaqualand). 
  

  

  