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punctured than the pygidium, each puncture bearing a somewhat 
long, fulvous hair; some of the legs are missing in the only example 
that I have been able to examine, but the hind tibize have no traces 
of an oblique carina, and the hind spurs are sharp. 
Length 17 mm.; width 8 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska). 
PERICLITOPA VARICORNIS, Nn. spec. 
Black, with the elytra light earthy-brown, vertex of head, pro- 
thorax, scutellum, upper side of abdominal segments and pectus 
clothed with a long, dense, greyish pubescence; antennze black 
with the seventh joint as well as the ninth and tenth, these last 
two forming part of the tri-jointed club, pale testaceous, the third 
inner joint of the club black like the pedicel, which is only a little 
shorter than the club itself; clypeus blunt in front and with the 
outer angles broadly rounded, somewhat short, not plainly separated 
from the frontal part by either a suture or a keel, the vertex has no 
distinct transverse ledge, the surface of the whole head is strongly 
shagreened and the hairs on the frontal part are very long; pro- 
thorax rounded laterally and with the posterior angles distinct but 
not sharp, finely shagreened; scutellum closely punctate; elytra 
sub-parallel but plainly narrower at the posterior part than at the 
base, very faintly costulate, finely shagreened and clothed with very 
short appressed hairs springing from each interstice; pygidium 
strongly sloping backwards, plainly punctulate, each puncture with 
a somewhat long greyish hair; anterior tibize bi-dentate outwardly ; 
hind tibize without an oblique ridge, and not much dilated at apex, 
hind spurs sharp; claws reddish. 
Length 13-134 mm.; width 6-62 mm. 
Transvaal (Lydenburg). 
PERICLITOPA DUBIOSULA, 0. spec. 
Closely allied to P. varicornis and differing mainly in the colour 
of the antennex, all the joints of which are chestnut-brown ; the 
pubescence of the head, prothorax, and pectus is greyish and 
equally long, but the elytra are slightly more roughly shagreened 
and chestnut-brown; the pygidium, under side, and palpi are also 
chestnut-brown. 
Female unknown. 
Length 15 mm.; width 7 mm. 
Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). 
