1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 667 



propygidium, pygidium, and upper side of abdominal segments 

 covered with very closely set yellow scales ; the pygidium has a 

 median longitudinal whitish band and a round patch of the same 

 colour on each side, and from between the scales spring some short 

 black bristles ; al)domen scaly in the male, hairy in the female ; 

 anterior tibiae very strongly tri-dentate outwardly ; claws of hind leg 

 single ; clypeus slightly attenuate obliquely, more deeply emarginate 

 in the female than in the male, and reflexed at tip ; maxillae with a 

 triiid basal tooth, but having numerous hooked bristles above it. 



Length 8-9-|- mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Calitzdorp, Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage 

 Graham's Town, Seymour). 



Ebiesthis guttata, Burm., 

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



Black, with the elytra chestnut-brown; head and prothorax 

 clothed with greyish villose hairs, posterior part of the prothorax not 

 villose but having along the margin a band of sub-appressed rich 

 yellow, somewhat squamiform hairs interspersed with a few yellow 

 scales ; scutellum covered with similar hairs ; elytra somewhat 

 infuscate laterally, clothed with very short, sub-decumbent black 

 hairs, and having two transverse bands of greyish squamiform ones 

 reaching from one side to another, but twice or three times inter- 

 rupted, thus resembling spots ; posterior part of the suture and 

 apical part with a band of similar squamiform hairs ; propygidium 

 and pygidium clothed with orange-yellow squamiform hairs ; under 

 side clothed with greyish hairs, appressed on the abdomen, villose 

 on the pectus ; anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate ; claws of hind 

 legs double ; clypeus not acuminate and hardly sinuate at tip. 



Length 7-8-|- mm. ; width 4^-5 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Umvoti, Durban) ; Cape Colony (Pondoland) ; 

 Southern Ehodesia (Victoria Falls). 



Eriesthis dubiosa, n. spec. 



Black, with the elytra reddish ; shape of clypeus and also vestiture 

 of the head and prothorax similar to that of the preceding species, 

 but the hairs and scales are not such a bright yellow ; the scutellum 

 is squamose, and the elytra are covered with appressed hairs which 

 can hardly be called squamose ; anterior tibiae with a very minute 

 basal outer tooth ; maxillae armed with three short, briefly bifid teeth. 



In shape, size, and vestiture this species resembles so much E. 

 vulpina that it is difficult to distinguish the two, but in E. dubiosa 



