86G Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



band of darker ochreous scales, and a similar but lat3ral one on each 

 side of the pygidium. 



Length 10-11 mm. ; width 5-5i mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). Found only on the plains. 



SCELOPHYSA PKUINOSA, Bumi., 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 1G9. 



Male : The description of the preceding species applies also to 

 the present one, which differs in the disposition of the blue scales on 

 the elytra, where they are dense only along the outer margins and 

 the suture, and along the base, the whole discoidal part is also 

 •covered with scales similar to the others in shape, but opaline, and 

 giving to the background, whicli is light testaceous, a lilac tinge, 

 the whole surface is briefly l)ut densely setulose ; the hind tibiae 

 are not quite so inflated in the middle as in S. trimeni. 



Female: The shape is also the same as in S. tri)ncni, but it is 

 •completely covered on the upper part with greenish-yellow scales, 

 turning to uniform yellow on the pygidium and along the upper part 

 of the abdominal segments, the scales on the lower part being silvery 

 white. I have, however, seen a few examples having the same 

 vestiture as the male, but with the blue scales on the prothorax and 

 •elytra mixed with a few greenish-yellow ones, the scales on the 

 pygidial part being of the normal j'ellow colour. 



Length 9-10 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). Seems to be met with more 

 in the mountainous parts, but it occurs also on the plains. 



Gen. LEPISL\, Serv., 

 Encyclop. Method., x., 1825, p. 374. 



Mentum ovoid, deeply constricted laterally at the point of insertion 

 of the antennae, dilated triangularly thence to the apex where it is 

 deeply and broadly emarginate, the angles are slightly oblique and 

 have a bunch of short hairs ; maxillae robust, inner lobe almost 

 rudimentary, but produced into a point at apex, upper lobe short, 

 strongly tri-dentate and penicillate at the tip, the two upper teeth 

 are set opposite one another; apical joint of labial palpi short, 

 sub-fusiform, that of the maxillary long, a little bent inwardly, 

 fusiform outwardly and obtuse at the tip ; clypeus straight at apex 

 {vircscens), dentate in the middle in the male {rupicola, ornatissima) ; 

 prothorax a little attenuate laterally in the anterior part and tlience 

 nearly straight, bi-sinuate at the base, very little convex ; scutellum 



