1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 665 



Peritrichia. It has the maxillae of the latter and the clypevis is also 

 a little more acuminate than in Ericsthis, but the cicatricose punc- 

 tures of the prothorax are those of Ericsthis. 



Length 5^-6 mm. ; width 3|-4 mm. 



Hab. Orange Eiver Colony (Bothaville). 



Eriesthis vulpina, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 50. 



Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown ; clypeus hardly obliquely 

 attenuate, truncate at tip and angular laterally in the male, or very dis- 

 tinctly acuminate, bi-dentate and deeply incised in the female ; head 

 and prothorax clothed with long, villose, sub-flavescent, or sometimes 

 greyish hairs which are usually erect, there is no trace of scales, 

 and even along the base the hairs are not squamose ; scutellum 

 clothed with hairs ; elytra without any trace of scale or squamulose 

 hairs, but clothed with sub-erect l)lack and greyish, or sub-flavescent 

 hairs, the latter being more numerous ; pygidium and propygidium 

 clothed with long, dense, fulvous hairs turning to greyish or white on 

 the abdomen and the pectus ; legs thick, villose ; anterior tibiae bi- 

 dentate, but with the basal tooth often nearly obliterated in the 

 female. 



Length 6-7^ mm. ; width 3f-4i mm. 



This species is easily recognised by the absence of scales. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Seymour) ; Natal (Umvoti County, Frere). 



Eristhis vestita, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom, iv., 1, p. 51. 



Black, with the elytra light fulvous ; clypeus very little acuminate 

 laterally and having the outer angles slightly rounded and a little 

 emarginate at tip in the male, more acuminate, sharply dentate and 

 incised in the middle in the female ; head clothed with short, 

 flavescent villose hairs ; prothorax covered with ilavescent hairs 

 which are somewhat long and villose laterally, but which in the 

 discoidal part are appressed, become somewhat squamiform towards 

 the posterior part, and turn to scales along the base, these hairs and 

 scales are not dense enough to hide the black background ; scutellum 

 densely scaly, the scales rich yellow ; elytra covered with sub- 

 squamiform yellow hairs, appressed and not closely set ; the pro- 

 pygidium and pygidium are clothed with squamose, short hairs 

 covering the whole surface, but the abdomen and the legs are villose, 

 and the hairs turn to white on the abdomen ; basal outer tooth of 



