1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 645 



small patches of scales often also obliterated in the male, and on the 

 elytra, of which the humeral longitudinal costa is very distinct, there 

 is a sub-basal transverse row of three, and a post-median of two 

 moderately large patches of flavescent scales, and the apical part is 

 edged with a narrow band which occasionally coalesces along the 

 hind part of the suture with the inner of these patches ; the clypeus 

 is acuminate, more so in the female than in the male ; the hairs on 

 the head and prothorax are long, villose and black, and the shape 

 and vestiture of the elytra are similar to that of P. abdominalis, but 

 the whole abdomen of the male is clothed with appressed squamiform 

 hairs ; legs as in the preceding species. 



Length 7-J~10 mm. ; width 4-|— 5^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Wellington, Tulbagh, 

 Worcester) . 



Peritrichia guttata, Burm., 

 Handb. d, Entom., iv., 1, p. 45. 



This species is closely allied to P. saga, but the elytra are a little 

 shorter, and a little broader in proportion ; the clypeus is a little 

 more acuminate ; the villose hairs on the head and prothorax are 

 similar ; the latter part has a very narrow marginal border of scales 

 along the base, and now and then a few scattered about on the dis- 

 coidal part, but at the anterior angle, and also in the median part of 

 the outer margin there is always a small, but distinct patch ; the 

 scales are white in the male, yellow in the female; the basal part of 

 the scutellum is often squamose ; the live scaly patches and the 

 apical margin on each elytron are similar ; the propygidium, 

 pygidium, and abdomen are entirely covered with scales in both 

 sexes, and the hind femora are distinctly scaly ; the elytra are chest- 

 nut-brown and infuscate laterally in the male, redder and less 

 infuscate on the sides in the female, and the pectus is clothed with 

 long, villose white hairs ; hind claws double. 



Length 7-| mm. ; width 4^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



Peritrichia nigro-maculata, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 45. 



Black, with the elytra light chocolate-brown ; the head and pro- 

 thorax are similar in shape and vestiture to those of the preceding 

 species, but in the centre of the discoidal part of the prothorax there 

 are two round, small, velvety black patches, and no scales ; 

 scutellum hairy ; elytra clothed with the customary decumbent short 



