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



incised at tip, iind with the outer angles slightly reflexed ; anterior 

 tibicG tri-dentate, basal tooth very small, yet distinct ; posterior tibiue 

 villose inwardly, the villosity black. 



Length 9-10 mm. ; width 4^-5f mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Worcester). 



The examples from Riversdale are smaller than those from 

 Worcester, and the intermediate and posterior tibiae are black ; but 

 in some of the examples from Worcester the basal part of all the 

 tibia? is black or darkly infuscate. 



Anisonyx gemmeus, n. spec. 



Black, witli the elytra pale testaceous ; shape and vestiture of the 

 preceding species, l)ut the prothorax is less densely villose, and the 

 black hairs are mixed in the dorsal part with white ones ; the five 

 bands, instead of being sapphyrine, are opaline with a golden sheen ; 

 the scutellum has no scales ; the elytra, in addition to the fuscous- 

 black decumbent hairs, bear a few seriate, erect, white ones longer 

 but as numerous as the black erect ones, and there is along the 

 suture a narrow band of golden, opaline scales, a very much broader 

 one along the outer margin, and a few scales along the base ; the 

 propygidium and pygidium are clothed with long, villose, black and 

 white hairs, and are set with numerous scales which are also 

 somewhat abundant on the abdomen ; pectus clothed with greyish 

 hairs ; anterior and intermediate tibiae rufescent, the anterior ones 

 with a verj' short basal tooth ; clypeus not slender, incised at tip. 



Length 9-10 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Caledon). 



Anisonyx lynx, Fabr., 



Gen. Insect. Mant., p. 210. 



Oliv., Entom., i., 5, p. 58, pi. Ik.. Hg. 101. 



Black, with the elytra dark chocolate colour ; the head and 

 prothorax are clothed with very dense and very long black villose 

 hairs ; the clypeus is slender and not much narrowed laterally 

 towards the tip ; there are no scales on the prothorax, pygidium, 

 or abdomen, but on the elytra there is a well-detined outer marginal 

 band of opaline golden scales which do not extend round the apex ; 

 the pygidium, abdomen, pectus, and hind legs are clothed witli black 

 or greyish black villose hairs. 



Length 9-9^ mm. ; width 4-4f mm. 



Hah. This species has, so far as I know, been found only on the 

 slopes of Table Mountain. 



