1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 649 



Peritrichia nigrovillosa, n. spec. 



Male : A little smaller than P. nigrita, Blanch., but clothed with 

 equally long and equally dense upright black hairs on the upper 

 side ; the clypeus is also greatly elongate and acuminate, but instead 

 of curving upwards from a short distance from the median parts, it 

 is refiexed at the apex only ; the hind femora are not so densely 

 villose, and the main distinctive character is the much deeper, 

 broader, and altogether more conspicuous punctuation on the head, 

 prothorax, and elytra. 



Female unknown. 



Length 6 mm. ; wadth 4^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore). 



Peritrichia nitidipennis, Blanch., 

 Catal. Coll. Entom. Mus. Par., 1850, p. 60. 



Black, with the elytra reddish brown or flavescent ; clypeus 

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

 with very long villose flavous or yellow hairs mixed with occasional 

 black ones, but with the latter less numerous ; scutellum long, sharp, 

 villose ; elytra a little ampliate laterally, and attenuate towards 

 the apex, but somewhat short, covered with very long villose yellow 

 or flavescent hairs, mixed also wdth a few^er dark ones, they have no 

 vestige of scales ; the pygidial part, the abdomen, and pectus are 

 clothed with very long hairs similar in colour to those on the upper 

 side ; hind tibiae very villose ; claws of posterior legs single and 

 simple. 



Length 7i-8i- mm. ; width 5 mm. 



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



Peritrichia cognata, n. spec. 



This species is very similar in shape and vestiture to the pre- 

 ceding, but the elytra are darker brown, and the villose hairs are 

 shorter and entirely black on the upper sides, and also on the sides 

 of the abdomen and on the legs, but in the central part of the 

 abdomen they are slightly greyish in both sexes ; claws of posterior 

 legs single and simple. 



Length 8 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Caledon). 



Peritrichia tulbaghina, n. spec. 

 Facies of preceding species ; it is also black wdth the elytra 

 brownish red and occasionally infuscate along the apical margin ; 



