646 Transactions Smith African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



black hairs, and having on each side seven small, velvety patches, of 

 these four are disposed longitudinally above the outer margin, the 

 apical not being always very distinct, and three on the dorsal part, the 

 median one being situate closer to the suture than the other two ; 

 in one of my examples there is a faint trace of a few slightly flaves- 

 cent, hair-like scales ; propygidium only clothed with yellow scales, 

 abdomen and hind tibiae with squamose appressed white hairs in 

 both sexes ; legs black, hind claws double. 



Length 6i— 7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



Peeiteichia hietipes, Pering., 

 Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. iii., pt. ii., 1885, p. 92. 



Black, with the elytra piceous, or sometimes piceous-red ; clj^eus 

 very sharply acuminate, bi-dentate at tip ; head and prothorax clothed 

 with black, villose hairs, the latter has a faint basal margin of 

 squamiform hairs and a few scales, a lateral, median marginal 

 somewhat distinct patch of white scales, and a smaller one in the 

 anterior angle ; scutellum slightly scaly ; elytra distinctly narrowed 

 towards the apex, somewhat densely covered with erect black hairs, 

 narrowly marginate with white scales which also ascend the posterior 

 part of the suture, and they have two transverse, somewhat arcuate 

 bands of similar scales extending across the dorsal part ; the pro- 

 pygidium, pygidium, and abdomen are entirely clothed with white 

 scales, and the pectus with a greyish-white villosity ; legs black, 

 posterior tibiae and tarsi very densely villose, the villosity black ; 

 hind claws double. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



I am not sure, now, that the female of my original description is 

 that of the present species. 



Peritrichia ditissima, n. spec. 



Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown or chestnut-red ; clypeus 

 moderately acuminate and bi-dentate at tip, the teeth not set close 

 together ; head and prothorax very briefly pubescent, the latter in 

 the male has a broad basal band of deep orange-yellow scales, a nar- 

 rower lateral and apical one of flavescent scales^ and in the discoidal 

 part an arcuate one reaching on each side from near the median part 

 of the base to the median part of the outer margin ; scutellum densely 

 scaly ; elytra a little ampliated in the middle and narrowed from 



