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spur at about half its length; the hind claws are not denticulate 

 inwardly ; the female is of the usual shape. 



This species should follow H. armata and H. mutica (loc. cit., 

 pp. 694, 695), from which it is distinguished by the long, vertical 

 spine of the hind femora and the sharply acuminate inner angle 

 of the hind tibiae ; the elytra are also less triangularly dilated. 



Length 10-1 2^ mm. ; width 6-8 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Willowmore). 



HOPLOCNEMIS LIGHTFOOTI, n. Sp. 



Male : Upper side brownish black, very shiny, legs and under 

 side brick-red, also very shiny and clothed with a dense fulvous 

 pubescence ; clypeus very sharply acuminate, the pointed part has 

 two small teeth on each side, this clypeus is not separated from 

 the head and both are closely foveolate punctate, each puncture 

 bearing an appressed fulvous hair; prothorax longer than broad, 

 sub-parallel, obliquely attenuated in the anterior part, covered with 

 foveate setigerous punctures similar to those covering the head but 

 wider, in the anterior part, and at a short distance from the apex 

 is a median elongated, shallow impression with smooth sides; 

 scutellum with two rows of closely set punctures on each side ; 

 elytra somewhat depressed along the suture, irregularly punctate, 

 the punctures more regular on the sides and setigerous ; anterior 

 tibiae strongly tri-dentate outwardly ; hind femora very thick, nearly 

 as wide as long, simple, tibiae shorter than the femora, broadly 

 dilated triangularly, the apex is deeply excavated on the upper side, 

 the tarsi being inserted in the centre of the excavation the outer end 

 of which is produced into an incurved process, and the inner in 

 a straight mucro, slightly hooked at the tip, and twice as long as 

 the outer one. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



This interesting species is easily distinguished from all its 

 congeners by the very sharply acuminate clypeus and the shape 

 of the hind tibiae. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Saldanha Bay). 



Gen. HETEROCHELUS, Cat. i., p. 709. 



HETEROCHELUS DEFECTOR, n. Sp. 



Bronze-green with a rufescent tinge on the legs, elytra chestnut- 

 red ; head and prothorax clothed with a very thick, upright, squamose 

 yellow pubescence having no admixture of scales ; scutellum densely 



