﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  Soutli 
  Africa. 
  765 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

   Length 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3|- 
  mm. 
  

  

  The 
  only 
  example 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  

   Blanchard's 
  type. 
  

   Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony. 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  vittiferus, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  95. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Black, 
  prothorax 
  with 
  five 
  longitudinal 
  bands 
  of 
  ashy 
  

   grey 
  squamose 
  hairs, 
  elytra 
  with 
  two 
  bands 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  scales 
  

   of 
  the 
  same 
  colour, 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  abdomen 
  densely 
  scaly 
  ; 
  head 
  

   pubescent, 
  clypeus 
  with 
  the 
  two 
  median 
  teeth 
  separated 
  by 
  a 
  very 
  

   narrow 
  space, 
  and 
  projecting 
  obliquely 
  beyond 
  the 
  two 
  lateral 
  ones 
  ; 
  

   prothorax 
  very 
  rugose 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  area 
  not 
  covered 
  by 
  the 
  five 
  

   sub-squamose 
  bands 
  slightly 
  pubescent 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  densely 
  scaly 
  ; 
  

   elytra 
  narrow, 
  elongate, 
  moderately 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  

   apex, 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  two 
  longitudinal 
  impressions 
  which 
  are 
  

   filled 
  with 
  the 
  round, 
  thick 
  scales 
  ; 
  legs 
  somewhat 
  slender, 
  the 
  

   hind 
  femora 
  and 
  tibiae 
  are 
  simple, 
  the 
  latter 
  has 
  a 
  notch 
  on 
  the 
  

   upper 
  part, 
  and 
  is 
  hardly 
  mucronate 
  inwardly 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  single, 
  

   simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Like 
  the 
  male, 
  the 
  vestiture 
  is 
  the 
  same, 
  but 
  the 
  scales 
  

   are 
  flavescent, 
  the 
  elytra 
  have 
  each 
  three 
  bands 
  of 
  scales, 
  the 
  juxta- 
  

   sutural 
  one 
  being 
  the 
  broadest 
  of 
  the 
  three, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  apical 
  part 
  

   there 
  is 
  a 
  distinct 
  horizontal 
  spine 
  at 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  from 
  the 
  

   sutural 
  angle. 
  

  

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

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (exact 
  locality 
  unknown). 
  

  

  The 
  female 
  only 
  is 
  known 
  to 
  me. 
  Burmeister 
  says 
  that 
  next 
  

   to 
  the 
  simple 
  hind 
  claw 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  small, 
  sometimes 
  hardly 
  

   discernible 
  one. 
  In 
  my 
  example 
  this 
  claw 
  is 
  simple. 
  

  

  Heterochelus 
  controversus, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Bronze, 
  covered 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  thick 
  somewhat 
  

   lanuginose 
  golden 
  yellow 
  pubescence, 
  and 
  having 
  thick 
  contiguous 
  

   scales 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  colour 
  on 
  the 
  elytra, 
  pygidial 
  part, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  ; 
  

   the 
  legs 
  are 
  red, 
  with 
  a 
  metallic 
  tinge 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  are 
  thickly 
  

   and 
  densely 
  villose 
  outwardly, 
  the 
  villose 
  hairs 
  golden-yellow 
  ; 
  

   clypeus 
  with 
  the 
  two 
  anterior 
  teeth 
  somewhat 
  broadly 
  separated 
  

   and 
  projecting 
  very 
  obliquely 
  beyond 
  the 
  lateral 
  ones 
  ; 
  the 
  pubes- 
  

   cence 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  is 
  very 
  thick 
  and 
  moderately 
  long, 
  and 
  forms 
  

   a 
  pile 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  have 
  a 
  very 
  faint 
  costule 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  the 
  pygi- 
  

  

  