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yellow or yellowish hairs according to the sexes, and there is no 

 trace of scales either on the prothorax, the scutellum, or the elytra, 

 hut the pygidial part and the abdomen are clothed with dense 

 yellowish white ones. 



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



Hab. Cape Colony (Port Nolloth). 



Lepitrix stigma, de Geer, 

 Mem. Insect., vii., p. 645, pi. Ixxxiv., fig. 9. 

 ? L.fuscipes, Thunb., M6m. Acad. Petersb., 1818, vi., p. 445. 

 L. nigripes, Fabr., Spec. Ins., i., p. 49 ; Oliv., Ent., 1, 6, p. 67, 

 pl. ix., fig. 85. 



Black, with the elytra a little darker chestnut-brown than in 

 L. lineata. The elytra are not quite so elongate and are not therefore 

 quite as triangular, and each elytron is separately rounded at apex ; 

 the prothorax has a narrow margin of yellow scales, but no discoidal 

 bands, the scutellum is covered with scales, and on the elytra there 

 is a moderately broad sutural band of flavescent scales beginning 

 past the median part and continuing round the posterior margin ; 

 head as in A. lineata, but the clypeus is slightly obliquely narrowed 

 laterally from about the median part, the outer angles are not 

 rounded, and it is somewhat deeply emarginate at apex ; elytra 

 rugulose and clothed with erect black hairs not very closely set ; 

 pygidium, under side and legs as in the preceding species. 



Length 8-9 mm. ; width 4|— 5|^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Caledon, Malmesbury, George, 

 Worcester). 



Lepitrix hilaris, n. spec. 



Facies, sculpture and vestiture of L. stigma, but the clypeus is 

 more obliquely attenuated laterally from the median part to the outer 

 angle which is distinctly sharp, whereas it is rounded in L. stigma, 

 and the emargination of the apical part is therefore more distinct, 

 although not deeper ; there is no trace of scales or appressed hairs 

 on the margins of the prothorax, but the villose hairs instead of being 

 black, or fuscous, are fulvous ; the elytra are a little redder, but also 

 clothed with black hairs, and the sutural and posterior marginal 

 band of scales are similar, but the scales are more orange-yellow ; 

 pygidium and under side similar ; the elytra of the female are very 

 distinctly punctured. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Uniondale, Port Elizabeth). 



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