1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptem of South Africa. 643 



Black, without patches on the prothorax ; elytra chestnut- 

 brown, broadly edged along the suture and the outer 

 margins with black ; pygidium clothed with black hairs 

 and having in the centre a broad longitudinal band of 

 appressed, white, lanuginose hairs pygidialia. 



Male black, with the prothorax edged with white squamosa 

 hairs, and having two patches of the same in the centre ; 

 elytra, pygidium and under side with dense white scales ; 

 female with the elytra reddish brown and scaly along the 

 outer margins and the suture phtrinarin. 



Black, with the elytra chestnut-red ; prothorax edged all 

 round with squamose yellow hairs, and having two 

 patches in the centre; elytra, pygidium, and under side 

 clothed with yellow hairs hyhrida. 



Peritrichia (Pherocoma) tristis, Burm., 

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



Black, with the elytra testaceous-red or light testaceous ; there is 

 no trace of scales except on the two basal segments of the abdomen, 

 which are clothed with whitish ones; clypeus in the shape of a 

 truncate cone, deeply and almost triangularly emarginate at tip, and 

 with the outer angles sharply refiexed, it is rugose and slightly 

 shorter than the head which is also rugose and clothed, like the 

 prothorax, wnth long, dense, villose black hairs ; prothorax slightly 

 ampliate laterally ; scutellum ogival, a little longer than broad, 

 punctulate and hairy ; elytra sub-parallel, but not much elongated, 

 being nearly as broad as long, they are not very distinctly sulcate in 

 the dorsal part, but there is a distinct sulcus above the outer margin 

 from below the humeral angle to near the apex, and also a depression 

 under the scutellum, they are covered with decumbent, short, not 

 very dense black hairs, and have seriate, erect, bristly hairs more 

 .abundant in the basal part, and nearly as long, but not so densely set 

 as those along the sviture ; propygidium and pygidium closely punc- 

 tured, villose ; abdomen clothed with greyish hairs, pectus with 

 black ones ; legs piceous, anterior tibiae sub-rufescent, tri-dentate 

 outwardly but with the intermediate and basal teeth set close to one 

 another, and occasionally sub-connate. 



Length 8|^-9 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Caledon). 



Peritrichia (Pherocoma) grata, n, spec. 



Female : Black, with two small round patches of greenish opaline 

 :scales on the prothorax ; elytra chestnut-brown and having a supra- 



