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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol 
  xii. 
  

  

  Heteeochelus 
  ditus, 
  n. 
  spec, 
  

   Plate 
  XLIL, 
  fig. 
  39. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  ochraceous 
  and 
  completely 
  covered 
  

   with 
  very 
  dense 
  and 
  closely 
  set, 
  appressed, 
  short 
  squamose 
  ochraceous 
  

   hairs, 
  scutellum, 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  abdomen 
  clothed 
  with 
  light 
  

   yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  densely 
  villose, 
  the 
  hairs 
  

   yellow, 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  tri-dentate, 
  and 
  the 
  prothorax 
  has 
  a 
  short 
  

   basal 
  furrow 
  filled 
  with 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  which 
  form 
  also 
  a 
  band 
  

   along 
  the 
  whole 
  margin 
  ; 
  elytra 
  elongate, 
  bi-costate 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  

   normally 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  legs 
  villose, 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  moderately 
  robust, 
  quite 
  simple, 
  trochanters 
  not 
  spinose, 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  very 
  swollen 
  inwardly 
  in 
  the 
  middle, 
  and 
  not 
  mucronate 
  

   at 
  apex, 
  nor 
  grooved 
  underneath, 
  the 
  four 
  basal 
  joints 
  of 
  hind 
  tarsi, 
  

   short, 
  triangular, 
  fourth 
  one 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinctly 
  bifid 
  inwardly, 
  

   fifth 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  four 
  together, 
  massive 
  and 
  conspicuously 
  tri- 
  

   dentate 
  underneath, 
  hind 
  claw 
  robust, 
  simple, 
  but 
  not 
  quite 
  as 
  long 
  

   as 
  the 
  fifth 
  joint. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Shape 
  and 
  vestiture 
  of 
  the 
  male, 
  the 
  elytra 
  also 
  are 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  ochraceous 
  appressed 
  hairs, 
  but 
  they 
  have 
  each 
  three 
  

   bands 
  of 
  greyish 
  ones 
  reaching 
  from 
  base 
  to 
  apex, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  

   pygidium 
  are 
  two 
  apical 
  patches 
  of 
  lighter 
  scales. 
  

  

  Length 
  7-9 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3J-4-| 
  mm. 
  

  

  The 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  greatly 
  resembles 
  that 
  of 
  

   H. 
  bivittatus. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Paarl, 
  Worcester). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  insignis, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  testaceous 
  or 
  reddish 
  brown, 
  often 
  

   a 
  little 
  infuscate, 
  and 
  almost 
  entirely 
  covered 
  with 
  round 
  not 
  

   contiguous 
  light 
  yellow 
  scales, 
  or 
  having 
  three 
  bands 
  of 
  scales 
  

   on 
  each 
  side, 
  these 
  are 
  often 
  obliterated 
  but 
  there 
  are 
  nearly 
  

   always 
  traces 
  of 
  the 
  juxta-sutural 
  one 
  left, 
  legs 
  reddish 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  

   sharply 
  tri-dentate 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  short, 
  erect 
  black 
  

   pubescence 
  mixed 
  occasionally 
  with 
  sub-villose 
  flavescent 
  hairs 
  in 
  

   fresh 
  examples, 
  in 
  which 
  case 
  half 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  disk 
  

   is 
  covered 
  with 
  yellow 
  or 
  flavescent 
  scales 
  somewhat 
  contiguous 
  in 
  

   the 
  basal 
  part, 
  the 
  median 
  groove 
  reaches 
  only 
  to 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  ; 
  

   scutellum 
  scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  distinctly 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  

   apex, 
  bi-striate 
  but 
  not 
  costulate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  and 
  

   abdominal 
  segments 
  edged 
  with 
  yellowish 
  or 
  yellowish 
  - 
  whit 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  deeply 
  punctured, 
  but 
  without 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  robust 
  and 
  simple, 
  trochanters 
  without 
  spine, 
  hind 
  tibias 
  

  

  