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



(7 have not been able to identify Die folloicing species.) 



Anisonyx fasciatus, Burm. 



Handb. d. Entom. iv. 1, p. 44. 



" Black, hairy ; elytra reddish at base and having two posterior 

 bands which, like the margins of the prothorax, consist of white 

 scales. 



Length 3^ lin. Male. 



"Somewhat shorter than A. {Pachy enema) ahdominalis, mxvowev 

 behind, and with the legs long and thick. Head black, clypeus 

 moderately long, both punctate and clothed with a black pubescence ; 

 antennal club not elongate ; prothorax quadi-ate, covered with a scat- 

 tered punctuation and some black pubescence, lateral margin set with 

 white scales, the angles of this margin extending inwardly ; scutellum 

 black, with whitish scales ; elytra red at the base, black from there, 

 and having at some distance from the base two transverse bands of 

 white scales, and some similar spots disposed in a transverse row in 

 the basal part, while in the apex there is a single, similar marginal 

 spot ; penultimate abdominal segment clothed with white scales, 

 everything else pure black and hairy, only the median tibiae some- 

 what scaly ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, the basal tooth very small ; 

 hind tibiae tolerably thick, sharply edged above and below." 



Burmeister gives the habitat of this species as " South-Eastern 

 Africa." This is doubtless a mistake, l^ecause all the other species 

 to which he affixes this habitat are from the western part of the 

 Cape Colony. 



Gen. PERITEICHIA, Bunn., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, 1844, p. 46. 



Pheroeoma, Blanch., Cat. Coll. Mus. Par. 1, p. 59, 1850. 



Mentum of Anisonyx, but moi'e gradually attenuate laterally, lobes 

 of ligula a little broader, apical joint of the labial and maxillary palpi 

 a little ampliated outwardly, but straight inwardly, and as long as 

 the two preceding joints together ; maxillae with the upper lobe 

 horny, very small or elongate and having at tip a long pencil of 

 hairs ; clypeus elongate, more or less sharply acuminate, often 

 reflexed at tip ; prothorax narrower than the elytra, densely pilose ; 

 elytra sub-parallel, or gradually attenuate laterally from the humeral 

 angle towards the apex, not entirely covering the propygidium ; 

 pygidium obtusely triangular ; abdomen completely or partly covered 

 wuth scales or squamose hairs ; anterior til)iae sharply tri-dentate, 

 apical tooth longer than the second, and likewise curved outwardly, 

 basal tooth smaller than either of the otlier two, Init sharp and 



