868 Transactions Sonth African Philosoijhical Society, [vol. xii. 



Female like the male, but a little more elongate, and with the legs 

 redder. 



Length 9-10 mm. ; width bh mm. 

 Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



Lepisia oknatissima, Bm-m., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 168. 



Male : Head, prothorax, and legs black, the prothorax has three 

 bands of greenish-yellow scales separated by two bands of purplish- 

 bi'own ones, the elytra are pui"ple-brown, have a bordering of yellowish 

 green, and are partly covered with scales of nearly the same colour as 

 the background but with a tinge of orange, and the pygidial and 

 abdominal parts have light golden scales ; head very inigose, ch'peus 

 as long as the head, slightly oblique laterally from about the median 

 part, the outer angles are distinct but not very shai-p, it is slightly 

 bi-sinuate at the tip, the margin is reflexed and produced in the 

 centre into a short, triangular tooth ; prothorax clothed with very 

 long villose golden hairs ; elytra not plainly bi-costulate on each side, 

 nearly parallel, and having along the suture a fringe of very villose 

 golden hairs which from the base to about the median part are 

 extremely long, the outer margins have a fringe of similar hairs but 

 shoi'ter and more bristly; the legs have fulvous hairs, and the pygidial 

 part is also setulose ; the hind claws are not cleft. 



Female : Shape and size of the male, but the whole upper surface 

 and that of the pygidial part is clothed with gi'eenish-yellow scales, 

 the prothorax has three bands of brighter yellow^ ones similar in 

 tint to those clothing the scutellum, and the elytra, in addition to the 

 villose hairs along the suture similar to those of the male, have each 

 eight rows of long seta? ; the apical margin of the clypeus is straight. 



Length 9-9^ mm. ; width 4§-5 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Namaqualand). 



Lepisia rupicola, Fabr., 



Syst. Entomol. Append., p. 818. 



Gu^r., Icon. Regn. Anim. Insect., pi. xxv., fig. 5. 



Male: Covered on the upper side and pygidial part with gi-een 



scales, and on the abdomen with greenish-yellow ones ; head roughly 



scabrose, clothed with a fiavescent long pubescence, the cl}^eus is 



denuded, rounded laterally at apex and produced obliquely there into 



a sharp, triangular reflexed tooth, the apical margin is also reflexed ; 



prothorax clothed in addition to the contiguous scales with long. 



