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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  red 
  with 
  the 
  club 
  and 
  also 
  the 
  palpi 
  black 
  ; 
  frontal 
  part, 
  prothorax, 
  

   scutellum, 
  elytra 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  under 
  side 
  similarly 
  clothed 
  in 
  both 
  

   sexes 
  with 
  small, 
  closely 
  set 
  scales, 
  narrower 
  and 
  white 
  under- 
  

   neath, 
  orange-yellow 
  above 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  greyish 
  green 
  in 
  the 
  

   female 
  ; 
  legs 
  brownish 
  red 
  with 
  the 
  hairs 
  greyish, 
  the 
  teeth 
  of 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  tibiae 
  are 
  longer 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  with 
  sparse 
  long 
  

   black 
  setae, 
  white 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  edge." 
  

  

  " 
  Scutellum 
  large, 
  triangular 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tihice 
  bi-dentate. 
  

  

  Platychelus 
  melanurus, 
  

   Ibid., 
  p. 
  145. 
  

  

  " 
  Black, 
  shining, 
  hairy, 
  elytra 
  pale 
  testaceous, 
  black 
  at 
  apex. 
  

  

  Length 
  1J 
  lin. 
  $ 
  2 
  • 
  

  

  From 
  Mr. 
  Drege. 
  Black, 
  shining, 
  with 
  long 
  hairs, 
  the 
  hairs 
  on 
  

   the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen 
  white 
  ; 
  head 
  thickly 
  punctate, 
  the 
  apical 
  

   margin 
  raised 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  very 
  sharp 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  ; 
  

   prothorax 
  with 
  rugose, 
  sparse 
  punctures, 
  and 
  having 
  long 
  hairs 
  ; 
  

   scutellum 
  also 
  punctate, 
  but 
  having 
  short 
  hairs; 
  elytra 
  testaceous, 
  

   those 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  convex 
  and 
  infuscate 
  at 
  the 
  apex 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  part 
  

   and 
  legs 
  also 
  brown 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  antennae 
  

   entirely 
  black, 
  the 
  club 
  longer 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female." 
  

  

  Platychelus 
  semihirtus, 
  Burm., 
  

   Ibid., 
  p. 
  145. 
  

  

  "Black, 
  shining, 
  hairy; 
  prothorax 
  with 
  grey 
  hairs 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   part 
  ; 
  elytra 
  testaceous. 
  

  

  Length 
  1^ 
  lin. 
  £ 
  £ 
  . 
  

  

  From 
  Mr. 
  Drege. 
  A 
  little 
  wider 
  than 
  the 
  species 
  preceding, 
  but 
  

   similar 
  otherwise 
  ; 
  black, 
  clothed 
  with 
  grey 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  anterior 
  

   part 
  only, 
  the 
  posterior 
  one 
  smooth 
  and 
  glabrous 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  with 
  

   short 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  light 
  testaceous, 
  finely 
  punctulate 
  and 
  with 
  

   appressed 
  hairs 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  the 
  pygidium 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  squamose 
  

   yellow 
  hairs, 
  tibiae 
  and 
  hind 
  legs 
  brown." 
  

  

  " 
  Platychelus 
  pusillus, 
  Burm., 
  

   Ibid., 
  p. 
  145. 
  

  

  Black, 
  shining, 
  hairy 
  ; 
  elytra 
  and 
  legs 
  fuscous, 
  abdomen 
  with 
  

   greyish 
  scales. 
  

  

  Length 
  1J 
  lin. 
  <? 
  . 
  

  

  