1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 651 



trace of discoidal hairy spots on the prothorax ; the elytra are quite 

 black, the greyish villosity is darker in the male, and they have a 

 faint outer marginal band of elongate scales, less dense or less con- 

 spicuous than in P. dimidiata ; the pygidium is hairy and scaly 

 only in the female ; the villose hairs beneath, laterally, and on the 

 hind femora have no admixture of fasciculate white ones in the 

 male ; and those of the female are sub-flavescent ; hind claws single, 

 simple. 



Length 7i— 8 mm. ; width 4-^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Peeitkichia capicola, Fabr., 

 Syst. Eleuth., ii., p. 179. 



P. hirta, Fabr., Syst. Eleuth., ii., p. 134. 



P. inlosa, Fabr., Syst. Eleuth., h., p. 134. 



P. iwohoscidea, Oliv., Ent., i., 5, p. 59, pi. viii., fig. 96. 



P. distincta, Blanch., Catal. Coll. Ent. Mus. Par., p. 60. 



Black, with the elytra testaceous red, broadly marginate with black 

 outwardly and along the suture in the male, redder and not infuscate 

 in the female ; the clypeus is sharply acuminate and reflexed at tip ; 

 the villosity, which is long and dense, is greyish in the male and 

 sligbtly fiavescent in the female ; along the margins of the prothorax 

 there is a narrow band of short, sub-squamose hairs, and as often as 

 not there are on the disk two minute patches of similar ones ; the 

 elytra are obliquely attenuate from the shoulders to the apex, and 

 are clothed with long greyish and black hairs, the former pre- 

 dominating in the male, and flavescent in the female ; the 

 pygidial part and the whole of the under side are very densely 

 villose ; legs piceous, hind legs villose ; claws of hind legs single, 

 simple ; there are no scales on the elytra, but in the male especially 

 the white hairs are shorter and denser at the rounded, apical part. 



Length 7|-9| mm. ; width 4i-5^ mm. 



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

 Uniondale). 



Peritrichja spuria, n. spec. 



Intermediate in shape between P. capicola and P. pistrinaria, it is, 

 however, more closely related to the former, from which it differs by 

 the deeper and much less closely set punctuation of the prothorax, 

 and also by the two longitudinal impressions on each side of elytra 

 which are divided by a more costate interval ; the colour is black in 

 the male, with the elytra chestnut-red in the female, and the 



