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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  (I 
  have 
  not 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  identify 
  the 
  following 
  species.) 
  

  

  Anisonyx 
  fasciatus, 
  Burm. 
  

  

  Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom. 
  iv. 
  1, 
  p. 
  44. 
  

  

  " 
  Black, 
  hairy 
  ; 
  elytra 
  reddish 
  at 
  base 
  and 
  having 
  two 
  posterior 
  

   bands 
  which, 
  like 
  the 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  consist 
  of 
  white 
  

   scales. 
  

  

  Length 
  3f 
  lin. 
  Male. 
  

  

  " 
  Somewhat 
  shorter 
  than 
  A. 
  (Pachy 
  enema) 
  abdoviinalis, 
  narrower 
  

   behind, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  legs 
  long 
  and 
  thick. 
  Head 
  black, 
  clypeus 
  

   moderately 
  long, 
  both 
  punctate 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  black 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  

   antennal 
  club 
  not 
  elongate 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  quadrate, 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  scat- 
  

   tered 
  punctuation 
  and 
  some 
  black 
  pubescence, 
  lateral 
  margin 
  set 
  with 
  

   white 
  scales, 
  the 
  angles 
  of 
  this 
  margin 
  extending 
  inwardly 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  

   black, 
  with 
  whitish 
  scales 
  ; 
  elytra 
  red 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  black 
  from 
  there, 
  

   and 
  having 
  at 
  some 
  distance 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  two 
  transverse 
  bands 
  of 
  

   white 
  scales, 
  and 
  some 
  similar 
  spots 
  disposed 
  in 
  a 
  transverse 
  row 
  in 
  

   the 
  basal 
  part, 
  while 
  in 
  the 
  apex 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  single, 
  similar 
  marginal 
  

   spot 
  ; 
  penultimate 
  abdominal 
  segment 
  clothed 
  with 
  white 
  scales, 
  

   everything 
  else 
  pure 
  black 
  and 
  hairy, 
  only 
  the 
  median 
  tibiae 
  some- 
  

   what 
  scaly 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  tri-dentate, 
  the 
  basal 
  tooth 
  very 
  small 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  tolerably 
  thick, 
  sharply 
  edged 
  above 
  and 
  below." 
  

  

  Burmeister 
  gives 
  the 
  habitat 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  as 
  " 
  South-Eastern 
  

   Africa." 
  This 
  is 
  doubtless 
  a 
  mistake, 
  because 
  all 
  the 
  other 
  species 
  

   to 
  which 
  he 
  affixes 
  this 
  habitat 
  are 
  from 
  the 
  western 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   Cape 
  Colony. 
  

  

  Gen. 
  PEEITEICHIA, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  1844, 
  p. 
  46. 
  

   Pherocoma, 
  Blanch., 
  Cat. 
  Coll. 
  Mus. 
  Par. 
  1, 
  p. 
  59, 
  1850. 
  

  

  Mentum 
  of 
  Anisoyiyx, 
  but 
  more 
  gradually 
  attenuate 
  laterally, 
  lobes 
  

   of 
  ligula 
  a 
  little 
  broader, 
  apical 
  joint 
  of 
  the 
  labial 
  and 
  maxillary 
  palpi 
  

   a 
  little 
  ampliated 
  outwardly, 
  but 
  straight 
  inwardly, 
  and 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  two 
  preceding 
  joints 
  together 
  ; 
  maxillae 
  with 
  the 
  upper 
  lobe 
  

   horny, 
  very 
  small 
  or 
  elongate 
  and 
  having 
  at 
  tip 
  a 
  long 
  pencil 
  of 
  

   hairs 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  elongate, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  sharply 
  acuminate, 
  often 
  

   reflexed 
  at 
  tip 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  elytra, 
  densely 
  pilose 
  • 
  

   elytra 
  sub-parallel, 
  or 
  gradually 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  from 
  the 
  humeral 
  

   angle 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  not 
  entirely 
  covering 
  the 
  propygidium 
  ; 
  

   pygidium 
  obtusely 
  triangular 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  completely 
  or 
  partly 
  covered 
  

   with 
  scales 
  or 
  squamose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  sharply 
  tri-dentate, 
  

   apical 
  tooth 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  second, 
  and 
  likewise 
  curved 
  outwardly, 
  

   basal 
  tooth 
  smaller 
  than 
  either 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  two, 
  but 
  sharp 
  and 
  

  

  