658 Transactions South African Philosophical Socict;/. [vol. xii. 



Lepitrix setosa, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 41. 



Black, with the elytra testaceous-yellow, legs piceous ; clypeus a 

 little ampliated laterally and with the outer angles rounded, not 

 acuminate and very slightly emarginate at tip ; head and prothorax 

 densely hairy, the hairs greyish or slightly flavescent, but mixed with 

 appressed sub-squamose ones which are a little more squamosa along 

 the base ; scutellum clothed with squamose hairs ; elytra attenuated 

 laterally towards the apex, clothed with short, decumbent black 

 hairs and a few erect ones which are more numerous and longer in 

 the basal part, and having on each side of the scutellum, and reach- 

 ing to about the median part, an arcuate band of sub-fiavescent 

 squamose hairs as well as a transverse, arcuate, ill-defined post- 

 median patch of similar scales, the suture and the outer margins of 

 the elytra are infuscate ; basal part of propygidium and pygidium 

 vfith a band of scales similar to those on the elytra ; abdomen and 

 pectus moderately hairy ; the pubescence is greyish, but on the 

 abdomen there are some appressed, sub-squamiform hairs. 



I do not know the male of this species which Burmeister included 

 in Anisonyx, but which, I think, is only a form of transition of Lepitrix 

 with Peritrichia ; claws of hind legs simple, single. 



Length 5i— 6 ram. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Graham's Town). 



Lepitrix pilosa, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caifr., ii., p. 144. 



{Anisonyx) lanata, Bohem., 1. c, p. 145. 



Black, with the elytra very pale testaceous edged all round with a 

 fuscous band and having also the suture infuscate ; it is clothed with 

 very long greyish or fuscous hairs above and under, and is entirely 

 without scales ; clypeus much narrower than the head, quite parallel, 

 but slightly rounded laterally at apex and very little emarginate ; the 

 hairs on the elytra are partly recumbent, but in the anterior part they 

 are very villose ; the legs are piceous-black, but the anterior tibise are 

 rufescent. In the examples in which the hairs on the upper side are 

 whitish grey, the elytra have no marginal or sutui'al infuscate band. 



Length 5-5^ mm. ; width 2f-3 mm. 



This pretty little species is as much an Anisonj/x as a Lcjntrix, 

 but the shape of the elytra is not sub-parallel as in the former. It 

 somewhat resembles Pachycnevui abdominalis, but is very nnich 

 .smaller. 



Hah. Natal (Durl)an) ; Transvaal (Klerksdorp). 



