1902.] Catalogue of tlic Goleoptcra of South Africa. 659 



Lepitrix ornatella, n. spec. 



Black, prothorax distinctly marginate all round with scales and 

 squamose bright yellow hairs, and having two more or less distinct 

 patches of the same colour in the discoidal part ; scutellum squa- 

 mose ; elytra with a sutural band of yellow scales beginning at a 

 short distance from the base, rounding the apical part, and ascending 

 above the lateral margin in a band which is distinct for half the 

 length, then obliterated, but there are still near the humeral angle 

 a few scales situated in the same line, the outer margin has a very 

 narrow, partly obliterated band of similar scales ; pygidium and propy- 

 gidium clothed with yellow scales and bristly black bail's ; abdomen 

 clothed with light fulvovis hairs, but having no scales ; the clypeus 

 is slightly attenuate obliquely laterally towards the tip the angles of 

 which are sharp, and it is distinctly emarginate at tip ; the hairs on 

 the head and prothorax are black and dense, and the elytra are also 

 clothed with somewhat dense bristly black hairs longer on the 

 suture ; legs black, anterior tibiae and tarsi piceous-red ; claw of hind 

 tarsi double, the outer one half the length of the inner. 



Length 8-9 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



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



Lepitrix gentilis, n. spec. 



Black, with the elytra brownish red, sometimes slightly infuscate 

 laterally ; prothorax marginate all round with flavescent scales, and 

 having in the discoidal part two small patches of similar ones ; 

 scutellum not densely scaly ; elytra impressed longitudinally on each 

 side of the humeral callus, and having near the base a semicircular 

 band of flavescent scales formed by two coalescing patches on each 

 side and extending from the inner part of one humeral angle to the 

 ■other, in the posterior part there is a longitudinal crescent-shaped 

 band along the suture and the rounded apical part, and above the 

 outer margin are two elongate patches of similar scales ; these 

 patches and bands are sometimes partly obliterated, especially when 

 the impressions on which they are situated are shallow, for they vary 

 in depth, being more shallow in examples from the neighbourhood of 

 the Cape District than further north-west ; the pygidium and pro- 

 pygidium are clothed with scales and short, squamulose hairs, and the 

 abdomen with whitish squamose hairs and a greyish pubescence ; 

 the clypeus is very deeply emarginate, almost incised, and the 

 prothorax and elytra are clothed with black sub-villose hairs ; legs 

 black, anterior tibiae piceous-red, third basal outer tooth hardly dis- 

 tinct ; hind claw double. 



