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



This species, of which I have seen a small number of examples 

 only, resembles closely P. ahdominalis, but is easily distinguished by 

 having only one simple claw on the posterior legs. Unlike P. ahdo- 

 minalis, it is the male which in this case has scales. 



Length 8i-9i mm. ; width 5-5i mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Clanwilliam). 



Peritkichia ursus, Oliv., 

 Entom., i., 5, p. 58, pi. viii., fig. 88. 



Black, with the elytra infuscate, dark brownish red, or chocolate- 

 brown ; clypeus very sharply acuminate, incised or bi-dentate at tip ; 

 head and prothorax clothed with very long, villose hairs, black but 

 mixed occasionally with a few greyish ones occurring laterally in 

 both sexes, there is no trace of scales ; scutellum very long and 

 sharp, villose ; elytra attenuate laterally from the shoulders to the 

 apex where they are only half the width of the base, humeral costa 

 distinct, they are clothed with moderately short, villose black hairs 

 which are longer and denser along the suture ; scutellum clothed 

 with long, black hairs in the male, gi'eyish in the female ; abdomen 

 densely villose in both sexes, the villosity greyish white ; pectus, 

 femora and tibiie, except the anterior ones, very densely villose ; legs 

 piceous-red, posterior tibiae black ; there is very little difference 

 between the sexes, but the hind tibiae of the female are a little less 

 densely villose than those of the male, and the hairs are more greyish. 



Length 9-10 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Tulbagh, Paarl). 



Peritkichia nigrita, Blanch., 

 Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., p. 60. 

 P. cinerea, Oliv., Ent., i., 5, p. 57, pi. iv., fig. 30. 



Black, clothed in the male with black villose hairs and light fulvous 

 ones in the female. Smaller than the preceding species, and with 

 the elytra more attenuated towards the apex, the shape of the 

 clypeus is similar, the villose hairs are as abundant, but they are 

 denser and longer on the elytra which show no trace of scales, and 

 the villose hairs on the abdomen of the male are black ; in the female 

 the four abdominal segments have, besides the villose hairs, a cover- 

 ing of squamose appressed greyish hairs ; the hind legs are very 

 villose in both sexes. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 



