﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  753 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Elytra 
  testaceous 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  suture 
  sometimes 
  black. 
  

   Length 
  4-4-J- 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2|— 
  3J 
  mm. 
  

   Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Caledon, 
  Eiversdale). 
  

  

  Hetebochelus 
  bisignatus, 
  Blanch., 
  

   Catal. 
  Coll. 
  Entom. 
  Mus. 
  Par., 
  p. 
  65. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  " 
  Size 
  of 
  H. 
  binotatus 
  but 
  a 
  little 
  larger, 
  under 
  side 
  with 
  white 
  

   hairs, 
  clypeus 
  with 
  four 
  strongly 
  prominent 
  teeth, 
  the 
  two 
  median 
  

   ones 
  being 
  set 
  close 
  to 
  each 
  other 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  punctate, 
  setose, 
  deeply 
  

   sulcate 
  behind 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  clothed 
  with 
  yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  

   elytra 
  plane, 
  slightly 
  tri-costate, 
  with 
  the 
  intervals 
  filled 
  with 
  

   fulvous 
  scales, 
  pygidium 
  flavescent 
  and 
  having 
  two 
  fuscous 
  patches 
  ; 
  

   legs 
  piceous, 
  posterior 
  ones 
  moderately 
  inflated, 
  femora 
  simple, 
  tibiae 
  

   not 
  dentate, 
  angular 
  at 
  apex. 
  

  

  Length 
  hardly 
  5 
  mm." 
  

  

  The 
  type 
  has 
  unfortunately 
  lost 
  its 
  hind 
  legs, 
  but 
  from 
  the 
  

   description 
  given 
  by 
  Blanchard 
  one 
  can 
  assume 
  that 
  it 
  belongs 
  to 
  

   the 
  group 
  of 
  H. 
  analis 
  fratermis, 
  &c, 
  and 
  has 
  an 
  apical 
  spur 
  in 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  tibiae. 
  The 
  two 
  fuscous 
  patches 
  on 
  the 
  pygidium 
  are 
  very 
  

   noticeable. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony. 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  minutus, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  130. 
  

   Ischnochelus 
  vittiger, 
  Blanch., 
  Catal. 
  Collect. 
  Entom., 
  p. 
  66. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  shining 
  ; 
  head 
  scabroso-punctate, 
  very 
  briefly 
  

   pubescent 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  closely 
  scabroso-punctate, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  punc- 
  

   tures 
  deeper 
  and 
  simple 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part, 
  clothed 
  with 
  short, 
  

   sparse, 
  sub-appressed 
  slightly 
  flavescent 
  hairs, 
  it 
  is 
  distinctly 
  convex 
  

   and 
  the 
  median 
  groove 
  is 
  deep 
  and 
  disappears 
  only 
  at 
  a 
  short 
  

   distance 
  from 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  clothed 
  with 
  squamulose 
  

   greyish- 
  white 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  a 
  little 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  

   apex, 
  but 
  not 
  strongly 
  sinuate 
  below 
  the 
  humeral 
  part, 
  each 
  one 
  has 
  

   two 
  costae 
  on 
  the 
  disk, 
  the 
  inner 
  one 
  being 
  the 
  more 
  distinct, 
  and 
  the 
  

   humeral 
  callus 
  is 
  also 
  costate, 
  the 
  three 
  intervals 
  are 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  

   densely 
  filled 
  with 
  appressed 
  whitish 
  or 
  slightly 
  flavescent 
  hairs 
  

   which 
  are 
  more 
  numerous 
  on 
  the 
  juxta-sutural 
  interval, 
  but 
  which 
  

   in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  and 
  along 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  turn 
  into 
  flavescent, 
  

   somewhat 
  rounded 
  scales, 
  in 
  the 
  fresh 
  examples 
  the 
  lateral 
  margin 
  

   has 
  also 
  a 
  line 
  or 
  narrow 
  band 
  of 
  squamiform 
  hairs, 
  but 
  these 
  hairs 
  

   are, 
  as 
  often 
  as 
  not, 
  rubbed 
  off, 
  and 
  the 
  intervals 
  are 
  seen 
  to 
  be 
  

  

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