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hairy, the hah-s yellow on the sides, but whitish in the middle ; legs 

 piceous, briefly villose ; claws of hind legs simple, single. 



Length 6^-7 mm. ; width 4-4^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage, Graham's Town). 



Gen. LEPITKIX, Serv., 

 Encyclop. M6th., 1825, x., p. .381. 



Mentum comparatively short and Inroad, broader than long, lobes 

 of lignla very long and moderately wide, membranaceous, setulose 

 inwardly ; apical joint of labial and maxillary palpi longer than the 

 two preceding, sub-fusiform outwardly but somewhat curved in- 

 wardly ; upper lobe of maxillae simple, broadly triangular inwardly 

 and fasciculate, but produced at apex into a narrow, elongate, mem- 

 branaceous process which is densely fasciculate at tip ; clj^eus as 

 long as the head, nearly parallel or slightly ampliate laterally in the 

 median part, depressed in the centre, more or less deeply emarginate 

 at tip, sharply carinate laterally, and horizontal, or nearly so ; pro- 

 thorax slightly longer than l)road, not much attenuated laterally in 

 the anterior part, emarginate in the posterior, base moderately 

 arcuate ; scutellum long, or very long, sharply triangular ; elytra 

 plane, much broader than the prothorax, distinctly narrowed 

 obliquely from the shoulders to the apex, and covering only the 

 base of the propygidium, which is as wide as the pygidiura, the 

 latter is triangular, vertical in the male, sloping in the female ; the 

 legs are slender, the tarsi long ; the anterior tibias are tri-dentate 

 outwardly, the teeth are equidistant, but the basal tooth is very 

 small, and the apical one is slanting outwardly ; the claws of the 

 anterior and intermediate legs are double, the inner one is cleft at 

 about the uiiddle, and the outer one is much shorter there and 

 slit^htly bifid at tip, in the posterior legs the claw is either simple and 

 single, or there are two, the inner one being thin and half the length 

 of the outer. 



Many of the insects included in this genus have on the prothorax 

 a marginal band and spots formed by fine, closely set scales, and on 

 the elytra sutural or apical bands of similar scales ; the propygidium 

 a,nd the pygidiuni are scaly, but not the abdomen. 



Key to the Species. 

 A=. Claw of hind tarsi simple. 



Piothoi'ax with a marginal and two discoidal bands of yellow 

 scales; elytra with a non-interrupted juxta-sutural band of 

 similar scales beginning at the base and continued round the 

 apex Ihieata. 



