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marginal band of elongate opaline scales denser on the apical part> 

 and ascending the suture for a short distance ; pygidium and sides of 

 abdomen clothed with opaline scales having a greenish sheen ; 

 abdomen and pectus covered with long, villose, grejnsh hairs ; the 

 head and prothorax are clothed with long, black villose hairs, and the 

 shape of the clypeus is similar to that of P. ahdominalis, but the 

 elytra are slightly more parallel ; legs as in the preceding species. 



Male unknown. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Eiversdale). 



Pebitrichia (Pherocoma) abdominalis, Blanch., 

 Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., 1850, p. 59. 



Black, with the anterior tibiae and the tarsi reddish ; head and 

 prothorax clothed with dense, villose !)lack hairs ; elytra black, but 

 occasionally piceous-brown laterally, not scaly in the male, l)ut 

 generally having in the female a narrow basal band of slightly 

 flavescent scales on the prothorax, and on each side of the elytra ill- 

 defined longitudinal bands of similar scales in the two dorsal and the 

 supra-marginal intervals ; clypeus a little attenuate obliquely laterally, 

 slightly emarginate in the middle of the apex, with the angles 

 slightly curved ; scutellum sharply ogival, villose ; eh'tra somewhat 

 distinctly bi-costate on each side, and having three distinct intervals 

 on each side, they are closely punctate and clothed wdth black hairs 

 which are dense in the basal part but shorter, less dense and some- 

 what seriate in the posterior, while those along the suture are more 

 closely set and more bristly ; pygidium villose, the hairs are black 

 and not squamose, but the female is entirely clothed with squami- 

 form greyish ones, shorter than, but resembling those with which the 

 abdomen is clothed ; in the male the two basal segments are covered 

 with thick greyish-white scales ; posterior tibiae not very densely 

 \'illose ; claws of hind legs double. 



I have not seen a single female example that has not some traces 

 of the scaly bands left on the eh'tra. 



Length 9i-10 nun. ; width 5|-6 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Malmesbury, Paarl, Tulbagh). 



Peritrichia (Pherccojia) S.A.GA, n. spec. 



Black, with the elytra light chestnut-])rown, turning sometimes to 



piceous ; prothorax with a narrow band of flavescent scales on the 



anterior and posterior margins, the latter more distinct, but often 



nearly obliterated in the male, in the centre of the disk are two 



