﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  755 
  

  

  with 
  a 
  sub-flavescent 
  pubescence 
  denser 
  and 
  longer 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  

   male 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  sharply 
  tri-dentate, 
  and 
  the 
  elytra 
  and 
  abdomen 
  

   are 
  very 
  light 
  testaceous 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  legs 
  are 
  slightly 
  rufescent, 
  and 
  

   the 
  hind 
  inner 
  claw 
  is 
  much 
  smaller 
  than 
  the 
  outer. 
  

  

  Length 
  8^-10 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5-5-J- 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape, 
  Malmesbury, 
  Namaqualand). 
  

  

  Hetekochelus 
  unguiculatus, 
  Burm., 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  22. 
  

  

  Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  92. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  burnt 
  sienna-brown, 
  all 
  the 
  legs 
  

   ferruginous 
  red 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  short, 
  very 
  sharply 
  and 
  equally 
  tri- 
  

   dentate, 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  closely 
  and 
  densely 
  scabroso-punctate, 
  

   and 
  clothed 
  with 
  short, 
  dense, 
  greyish 
  and 
  brown 
  sub-villose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  

   the 
  prothorax 
  is 
  regularly 
  ampliated 
  and 
  rounded 
  laterally, 
  and 
  the 
  

   transverse 
  impression 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  basal 
  margin 
  has 
  no 
  carinate 
  

   upper 
  edge 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  much 
  rounded 
  at 
  tip 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  short 
  

   hairs 
  similar 
  in 
  colour 
  and 
  density 
  to 
  the 
  very 
  short 
  sub-erect 
  ones 
  

   which 
  run 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  appressed, 
  

   very 
  dense 
  and 
  not 
  squamulose 
  brown 
  hairs, 
  and 
  they 
  are 
  not 
  very 
  

   sinuate 
  laterally, 
  very 
  little 
  attenuate 
  behind, 
  and 
  cover 
  the 
  greatest 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  propygidium 
  which, 
  like 
  the 
  pygidium, 
  is 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   dense 
  black, 
  setulose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  pectus 
  is 
  somewhat 
  villose 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  are 
  very 
  thick 
  and 
  broad, 
  but 
  short, 
  and 
  have 
  past 
  the 
  middle 
  

   a 
  sharp, 
  curved 
  tooth 
  which 
  forms 
  with 
  the 
  knee-spine 
  a 
  deep 
  

   crescent, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  short, 
  curved, 
  and 
  having 
  below 
  the 
  knee 
  a 
  

   triangular 
  tooth, 
  the 
  apical 
  mucronate 
  inner 
  part 
  is 
  produced 
  into 
  a 
  

   very 
  long 
  and 
  strongly 
  curved 
  tooth 
  ; 
  joints 
  of 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  compressed 
  

   and 
  with 
  the 
  four 
  basal 
  ones 
  regularly 
  triangular. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  This 
  species, 
  like 
  the 
  one 
  preceding, 
  has 
  no 
  ally. 
  

  

  Length 
  6|— 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4 
  mm. 
  

  

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

  

  Heterochelus 
  podagricus, 
  Fabric, 
  

  

  Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  21. 
  

  

  Spec. 
  Insect., 
  i., 
  p. 
  44. 
  

  

  Oliv., 
  Entomol., 
  i., 
  5, 
  p. 
  73, 
  pi. 
  v., 
  fig. 
  51. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  elytra 
  with 
  a 
  broad 
  discoidal 
  patch 
  of 
  slightly 
  

  

  flavescent, 
  small, 
  contiguous 
  scales 
  extending 
  over 
  the 
  greater 
  part 
  

  

  of 
  the 
  discoidal 
  part, 
  but 
  bi-sinuate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  past 
  the 
  median 
  

  

  