﻿764 
  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  meister's 
  description, 
  but 
  all 
  my 
  examples 
  are 
  smaller 
  than 
  the 
  

   measurements 
  given 
  by 
  this 
  author. 
  

   Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Worcester). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  fraudulentus, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  and 
  legs 
  reddish 
  brown, 
  the 
  scu- 
  

   tellum, 
  the 
  pygidial 
  part, 
  the 
  abdomen 
  and 
  the 
  metasternum 
  are 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  contiguous 
  flavescent 
  scales, 
  and 
  the 
  elytra 
  have 
  three 
  

   narrow 
  bands 
  of 
  similar 
  ones 
  ; 
  head 
  sharply 
  tri-dentate, 
  but 
  with 
  

   the 
  median 
  tooth 
  smaller 
  than 
  the 
  lateral, 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  a 
  long, 
  villose 
  sub-flavescent 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  elytra 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex 
  but 
  not 
  sinuate 
  below 
  

   the 
  humeral 
  part 
  ; 
  they 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense, 
  greyish 
  appressed 
  

   hairs, 
  the 
  three 
  bands 
  consist 
  of 
  round 
  scales 
  situate 
  in 
  two 
  very 
  

   shallow 
  longitudinal 
  depressions, 
  and 
  the 
  outer, 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  con- 
  

   tinuation 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  marginal 
  one, 
  does 
  not 
  reach 
  the 
  humeral 
  

   angle 
  ; 
  legs 
  reddish, 
  with 
  the 
  hind 
  ones 
  piceous 
  red 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  

   femora 
  are 
  very 
  robust, 
  simple, 
  but 
  sharply 
  angular 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  

   the 
  knee 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  distinctly 
  grooved 
  underneath 
  for 
  

   the 
  whole 
  length, 
  dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  produced 
  at 
  

   apex 
  into 
  a 
  long, 
  somewhat 
  curved 
  mucro, 
  bearing 
  an 
  apical 
  spur 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  and 
  intermediate 
  claws 
  double 
  and 
  both 
  cleft 
  ; 
  the 
  inner 
  claw 
  

   is 
  about 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  robust 
  one. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  6 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3J- 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Uniondale). 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  serripes, 
  Blanch., 
  

   Catal. 
  Coll. 
  Entom. 
  Mus. 
  Par., 
  p. 
  62. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Totally 
  red, 
  elytra 
  covered 
  with 
  elongate, 
  not 
  very 
  closely 
  

   set, 
  ashy 
  scales, 
  and 
  have 
  behind 
  a 
  fuscous 
  patch 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  ; 
  

   clypeus 
  tri-dentate, 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  pubescent, 
  the 
  latter 
  with 
  a 
  

   few 
  squamose 
  hairs 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  elytra 
  not 
  much 
  attenuated 
  

   laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  somewhat 
  costulate 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  legs 
  

   are 
  robust, 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  spine 
  to 
  the 
  trochanter, 
  but 
  the 
  femur 
  is 
  

   distinctly 
  angular 
  near 
  the 
  knee 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  somewhat 
  

   curved, 
  slightly 
  dentate 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  underneath 
  and 
  

   strongly 
  mucronate 
  inwardly 
  at 
  apex, 
  there 
  is 
  an 
  apical 
  spur 
  ; 
  the 
  

   propygidium, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  have 
  elongate 
  scales 
  ; 
  hind 
  

   claws 
  double, 
  and 
  both 
  cleft 
  ; 
  the 
  inner 
  is 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  

   of 
  the 
  outer. 
  

  

  