1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of Soiith Africa. 655 



Prothorax with a narrow marginal and two cliscoidal bands of 

 flavescent scales ; elytra with a narrow marginal band round 

 the apical part inodcuta. 



Prothorax with a narrow marginal band of .appi'essed yellow 



hairs, but without discoidal bands ; elytra without scaly band. . >uunaqita. 



Prothorax with a marginal band of flavescent scales, disk 

 clothed with long black villose hairs ; elytra with a sutural 

 band of yellowish scales encircling the posterior part from the 

 median part of the suture to the median part of the outer 

 margin ><ti()ina. 



Prothorax without marginal band of scales and clothed with 

 rufous villose hairs ; posterior band of elytra as in the pre- 

 ceding species ]iil((rig. 



Prothorax without marginal band of scales ; elytra fulvous and 

 with an arcuate sub-longitudinal band of flavescent squamose 

 hairs, and a post-median patch or band setosa. 



Prothorax without marginal band of scales, and clothed with 

 densely villose greyish-white hairs ; elytra light fulvous and 

 with a narrow but distinct marginal and sutural fuscous band. . pilosa. 



A". Claw of hind tarsi double. 



Prothorax with a marginal band and two discoidal patches of 

 yellow scales ; elytra with a sutural band of yellow scales, 

 beginning at the base, rounding the apex, and ascending a 

 little above the outer margin oniatella. 



Prothorax with a marginal band and two discoidal patches of 

 flavescent scales ; elytra with a semicircular transverse band 

 extending on both sides, an arcuate longitudinal one on 

 each side of the posterior part along the suture, and two 

 elongate ones along the outer margin (jentiUs. 



Prothorax and elytra without scales, except for a few remote 



ones at the apex of the latter; pygidium scaly ranthoptera. 



Prothorax without scales; elytra with a juxta-sutural band of 



not closely set black scales ; pygidium without scales . . . . dichropus. 



Lepitrix line ATA, Fabric, 

 Syst. Entom. Append., p. 830 ; Oliv., Entom., 1, 6, p. 66, pl.vii., fig. 63. 



L. quadrata, de Geer., Mem. Ins., vii., p. 645, pi. xlviii., fig. 10. 



L. thoracica, Thunb., Mem. Acad. Petersb., 1818, vi., p. 444. 



Black, with the elytra light chestnut ; prothorax with a broad 

 margin all round of yellow scales and two discoidal lines of similar 

 scales reaching from the base to past the median part ; scutellum 

 with yellow scales in the basal part ; elytra with a moderately 

 broad, juxta-sutural band of yellow scales reaching from near the 



