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anterior tibiae very small in the male, more distinct in the female ; 

 legs piceous, tarsi piceous-red. 



Length 6-^-7 mm. ; width 4-4^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (East London) ; Natal (iMaritzhurg, New- 

 castle) ; Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Eriesthis f.\llax, Burm., 

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



Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown ; clypeus sub-parallel in 

 the male and with the outer angle slightly rounded and the apical 

 part slightly sinuated ; it is more acuminate in the female, with the 

 outer angle sharper and recurved and the apical part incised ; the 

 head and the sides of the prothorax are clothed with somewhat 

 villose, light fiavescent hairs which are not so long and are appressed 

 in the discoidal part, while along the base there is a very narrow 

 band of light yellow scales ; scutellum scaly ; elytra chestnut-brown, 

 clothed with sub -erect, short, black hairs, and having a supra- 

 marginal band of not very dense fiavescent scales ascending the 

 posterior part of the suture, and two transverse similar bands ex- 

 tending across the elytra, while along the base there is also a more 

 or less distinct band of scales ; propygidium and pygidiuni clothed 

 with lemon oi- orange-yellow squamose hairs, which turn to white 

 and are not so squamose on the abdomen. 



This species resembles very much E. guttata, but it is much 

 smaller, the hairs on the prothorax are not so villose on the disk, and 

 reach the basal scaly part, which they do not in E. (juttata, and the 

 maxillae are very different. 



Length 6-6^ mm. ; width 4 mm. 



I have seen some examples in which the scales on the elytra and 

 the villosity on the prothorax are denser and more yellow. 



Hah. Natal (Durban). 



Eriesthis stigmatica, Billb., 

 Schonh. Syn. Insect., i., 3, Append., p. 44. 



Black, covered on the head and prothorax with a very dense, short, 

 decumbent pubescence, but having along the base of the latter a 

 somewhat narrow band of golden-yellow scales ; scutellum densely 

 scaly ; elytra dark brown, distinctly ampliated laterally, clothed with 

 contiguous small yellow scales, and having on each side two round 

 black or brown spots, and past the median part three more set 

 transversely, and coalescing sometimes so as to form a band ; 



