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clypeus shai'ply acuminate but not incised at tip ; head and pro- 

 thorax clothed with whitish flavescent, very dense villose hairs 

 mixed with an equal quantity of black ones ; no scales on the 

 prothorax ; scutellum hairy ; elytra a little ampliate laterally towards 

 the middle, attenuate from there to the apex, and very deeply pitted ; 

 they are clothed wuth moderately dense, decumbent greyish hairs 

 mixed with a few erect black ones near the base, and each has a 

 narrow marginal band of white scales ascending the posterior part of 

 the suture, and connected there with an arcuate narrow band of 

 similar ones enclosing the posterior part above the apical callus ; 

 pygidial part, abdomen and pectus clothed with very long, greyish 

 villose hairs, and without scales ; posterior femora somewhat swollen, 

 not very villose ; claws of posterior legs single and simple. 



Length 8-8^ mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Tulbagh, Kiversdale). 



Peritrichia dimidiata, n. spec. 



Black, with the elytra slightly testaceous and very broadly 

 infuscate laterally in both sexes ; clypeus very sharply acuminate, 

 and with the apical part strongly reflexed and emarginate at tip ; the 

 head and prothox-ax are clothed with very long, greyish and black 

 villose hairs, quite white, however, along the margin of the prothorax, 

 and without any trace of scales ; the elytx'a, which are obliquely 

 attenuate from the shoulder to the apex, are clothed with hairs as 

 long and as villose as on the prothorax but with the greyish - 

 white ones more numerous, and they have a marginal band of 

 small white scales, which cannot be said to be dense, along the 

 outer margin, and forming a more distinct band along the apical part, 

 and sometimes ascending along the posterior part of the suture ; 

 pygidium clothed with long black hairs and appressed squamose 

 ones in the male, the abdomen and pectus of w4iich has a long 

 whitish villosity, but with sub-flavescent or ashy-grey ones and also 

 some appressed flavescent hairs in the female ; in the male the hind 

 legs are very densely villose, the hairs are black, but on the upper 

 side of the femora there is a very distinct Ijunch of white ones ; this 

 villosity, however, is concolorous in the female ; claws of hind legs 

 single, simple. 



Length 6-8^ mm. ; width 3i-4f mm. 



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



Peritrichia pulchella, n. spec. 

 This species, of which I have seen only a few examples, resembles 

 P. dimidiata ; and in general facies P. capicola ; but there is no 



