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base to the apex, and continued round the apical part ; pro- 

 pygidium and pygidium densely scaly ; the scales are yellow, but 

 turn to white on the abdomen, which is also clothed with white, 

 villose hairs ; the legs and antennae are rufescent, and the colour of 

 the scales is deeper yellow in the male than in the female ; head 

 villose but not on the clj-peus which is broad, sub-parallel, but 

 slightly sinuate laterally at base with the outer angles rounded, and 

 very slightly sinuate at apex ; the mai-gins are sharply reflexed, the 

 anterior part is somewhat excavate and smooth and the posterior as 

 well as ths head is very rugose ; prothorax a little obliquely 

 attenuated laterally in the anterior part, then straight, but emar- 

 ginate from there to the base, rugulose, clothed with long, dense, 

 slightly flavescent villose hairs, and having a faint post-median 

 longitudinal impressed line ; scutellum very long and acutely 

 triangular ; elytra much broader than the prothorax, and with 

 the shoulders rounded, bluntly triangular and covering the base 

 of the propygidium, plane, not costate, but a little depressed along 

 the suture ; pygidium vertical in the male, sloping in the female ; 

 anterior tibiae distinctly tri-dentate outwardly, hind tibige similar in 

 both sexes ; hind claws single, simple. 



Length 9-9|- mm. ; width 5^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmes- 

 bury). 



Lepitrix modesta, n. spec. 



Shape of L. lineata but a little smaller, and with the. elytra paler 

 and the legs redder ; the prothorax has a narrow band of flavescent 

 scales denser along the anterior and posterior part than on the 

 sides, and is sprinkled on the discoidal part with minute scales 

 forming usually two short longitudinal bands, one on each side of 

 the median part, and there is only a faint trace of some pallid scales 

 round the apical part of each elytron ; the sculpture and vestiture of 

 the head are similar to those of L. lineata and L. stigma, but the 

 clypeus is more deeply emarginate than in L. stigma; the elytra 

 are sprinkled with semi-erect black bristly hairs ; and the hairs and 

 scales on the pygidial part, abdomen, and pectus are similar. 



Length Q-Q\ mm. ; width 4^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Stellenbosch, Paarl, Tulbagh, Worcester). 



Lepitrix namaqua, n. spec. 

 Quite similar in shape, size, and sculpture to L. modesta ; the 

 clypeus is still more deeply incised at apex ; the prothorax, instead 

 of scales, has the outer margins clothed with appressed squamose 



