852 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



the trochanters sharply spinose ; pygidivim and propygidium clothed 

 with contiguous white scales. 



Female unknown. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 3f mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth). 



GyMNOLOMA PEKl'LEXA, U. SpeC. 



Black, with the elytra chocolate-brown ; prothorax sprinkled with 

 sub-tiavescent, numerous scales scattered on the discoidal part, but 

 not forming bands, and denser along the outer and the basal mai'gins ; 

 scutellum very little scaly ; elytra having on each side a sutiu'al and 

 two discoidal narrow bands of minute sub-flavescent scales as well as 

 a marginal one, often, however, partly obliterated or merging near the 

 shoulder into the outer discoidal one ; pygidial part and under side 

 densely scaly, the scales not quite contiguous ; clypeus very attenuate 

 obliquely laterally, sinuate at tip, rugose, brietiy bristly ; prothorax 

 closely punctured with the punctures slightly scabrose, clothed with 

 a short, erect pubescence, but having long, bristly black hairs along 

 the anteiior and outer margins ; scutellum non-scaly ; elytra very 

 closely and somewhat roughly punctured, and having on each side 

 three series of short, black bristles ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate in the 

 male, claws of anterior and intermediate legs single, cleft latei'ally ; 

 hind femora robust, simple, but with the trochanters sharply spinose ; 

 liind tibi<fi carinate beneath, the carina sharp, strongly angular near 

 the knee, and mucronate at apex ; claws of hind legs single, simple. 



Female unknown. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (exact locality unknown). 



Gymnoloma oknata, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 163. 



Male: Black, with the intermediate and posterior legs red; pro- 

 thorax with a median longitudinal band of flavescent scales, a 

 discoidal one interrupted in the middle and an outer marginal ; 

 scutellum densely scaly ; elytra with eight elongated patches of 

 yellowish scales on each side; propygidium, pygidium, and abdomen 

 clothed with contiguous yellowish scales; head closely and somewhat 

 roughly punctate and clothed with short, dense, black hairs, clj^eus 

 a little attenuate laterally, truncate at tip, and with the outer angles 

 sharp and reflexed; prothorax closely scabroso-punctate and with 

 a deep median groove tilled with scales; scutelluin short, sub-ogival ; 



