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In the examples from Worcester the hands and patches of scales 

 are not so well defined in the anterior part as in those from Namaqiia- 

 land and Clanwilliam, nor are the impressions on the elytra quite so 

 deep, and in the male there are two slightly denuded small patches 

 on each side of the pygidium. 



Length 7^-9 mm. ; width 4^4f mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Paarl, Worcester, Clanwilliam, Namaqua- 

 land). 



Lepiteix xanthoptera, Burni., 

 Handb. d. Entmol., iv., 1, p. 39. 



Black, with the elytra somewhat brick-red in the male, paler in 

 the female ; prothorax with only a few whitish scales along the outer 

 margins ; elytra also with only a few scales which are even very 

 often ol)literated in the rounded apical part ; pygidium and pro- 

 pygidium covered with somewhat flavescent scales ; under side 

 clothed with squamulose white hairs and a grejdsh-white pubescence ; 

 pectus densely villose, the hairs white ; clypeus deeply incised semi- 

 circularly at tip, sub-parallel and with the angles sharp ; head and 

 prothorax clothed with long black haii's ; elytra sprinkled with some- 

 what seriate black hairs longer and bristly along the suture ; anterior 

 tibiae tri-dentate outwardly ; hind claws double. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



Lepitrix dichropus, Blanch., 

 Cat. CoU. Entom. Mus. Par., 1850, p. 60. 



Black, with the elytra mahogany colour ; the head and prothorax 

 are clothed with very dense villose black hairs ; the clypeus is 

 slightly attenuated obliquely laterally from a short distance from the 

 apex which is semicircularly emarginate ; the scutellum is villose ; 

 the elytra are broadly but shallowy sulcate along the suture and have 

 this sulcus filled with black not closely set scales which also form 

 occasionally a narrow band in the posterior part above the outer 

 margin, the suture is bristly and the whole surface bears seriate, 

 black, erect hairs ; pygidium and abdomen closely punctured and 

 clothed with black hairs mixed with a few greyish ones ; legs black, 

 anterior tibye sul)-rufescent, distinctly tri-dentate ; hind claws double. 



Length 8-9 mm. ; with 4f-5 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch). 



