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  Transactions 
  SoutJi 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  deeply 
  punctate 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense, 
  

   contiguous 
  yellow 
  scales 
  somewhat 
  deeper 
  orange 
  on 
  the 
  pygidium, 
  

   abdominal 
  segments 
  clothed 
  with 
  somewhat 
  lighter 
  and 
  more 
  

   elongate 
  scales 
  ; 
  legs 
  black 
  with 
  the 
  tarsi 
  piceous 
  red, 
  hind 
  femora 
  

   somewhat 
  robust, 
  simple, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  somewhat 
  compressed 
  inwardly, 
  

   gradually 
  ampliated 
  obliquely 
  underneath, 
  simple, 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  

   very 
  long 
  apical 
  spur 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  outer 
  tooth 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  

   is 
  in 
  both 
  sexes 
  angular 
  instead 
  of 
  being 
  as 
  sharp 
  as 
  the 
  other 
  three. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male 
  ; 
  the 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  and 
  pygidium 
  are 
  

   similar, 
  but 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  pygidial 
  part 
  are 
  lighter, 
  and 
  the 
  tibiae 
  are 
  

   redder. 
  

  

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

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch, 
  Oudtshoorn, 
  

   Clanwilliam, 
  Uitenhage). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  detritus, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  20. 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  89. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  sienna-brown 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  legs, 
  

   including 
  the 
  tarsi, 
  reddish 
  ; 
  anterior 
  and 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  piceous 
  ; 
  

   head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  finely 
  and 
  very 
  densely 
  scabrose 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   a 
  short 
  but 
  erect 
  pubescence, 
  flavescent 
  on 
  the 
  head, 
  black 
  on 
  the 
  

   disk, 
  but 
  turning 
  to 
  greyish 
  above 
  that 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  base 
  which 
  

   adjoins 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  clypeus 
  very 
  sharply 
  and 
  strongly 
  tri-dentate 
  

   at 
  tip, 
  the 
  teeth 
  equal 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  very 
  diagonally 
  attenuate 
  late- 
  

   rally 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part, 
  distinctly 
  sinuate 
  past 
  the 
  middle, 
  and 
  

   having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  base 
  a 
  transverse, 
  narrow 
  impression 
  with 
  

   a 
  sharp 
  ledge 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  broadly 
  rounded 
  at 
  tip 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   dense 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  deeply 
  sinuate 
  laterally 
  and 
  strongly 
  

   narrowed 
  from 
  there 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  indistinctly 
  multi-striate, 
  and 
  

   having, 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  a 
  single 
  row 
  along 
  the 
  suture, 
  three 
  duplicate 
  

   series 
  of 
  very 
  short, 
  dark 
  brown 
  bristles 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  

   glabrous, 
  piceous 
  brown 
  ; 
  pectus 
  and 
  sides 
  of 
  abdomen 
  slightly 
  

   villose, 
  the 
  villose 
  hairs 
  greyish 
  ; 
  hind 
  femora 
  very 
  swollen 
  with 
  the 
  

   trochanters 
  non-spinose, 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  very 
  distinct 
  median 
  and 
  a 
  

   supra-apical 
  sharp 
  tooth 
  set 
  in 
  line 
  on 
  the 
  under 
  side 
  ; 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  

   triangularly 
  dilated 
  from 
  the 
  base, 
  sharply 
  pluri-dentate 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  

   and 
  having 
  two 
  distinct 
  teeth 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  edge, 
  the 
  apical 
  part 
  of 
  

   which 
  is 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  long, 
  slightly 
  curved 
  mucro 
  ; 
  posterior 
  tarsi 
  

   laminate 
  transversely 
  outwardly 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  double, 
  each 
  one 
  bifid, 
  

   inner 
  one 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  outer. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  The 
  head, 
  prothorax, 
  scutellum 
  and 
  pectus 
  are 
  covered 
  

  

  