﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Goleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  643 
  

  

  Black, 
  without 
  patches 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax 
  ; 
  elytra 
  chestnut- 
  

   brown, 
  broadly 
  edged 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  and 
  the. 
  outer 
  

   margins 
  with 
  black 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  clothed 
  with 
  black 
  hairs 
  

   and 
  having 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  a 
  broad 
  longitudinal 
  band 
  of 
  

   appressed, 
  white, 
  lanuginose 
  hairs 
  pygidialis. 
  

  

  Male 
  black, 
  with 
  the 
  prothorax 
  edged 
  with 
  white 
  squamose 
  

   hairs, 
  and 
  having 
  two 
  patches 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  ; 
  

   elytra, 
  pygidium 
  and 
  under 
  side 
  with 
  dense 
  white 
  scales 
  ; 
  

   female 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  reddish 
  brown 
  and 
  scaly 
  along 
  the 
  

   outer 
  margins 
  and 
  the 
  suture 
  pistrinaria. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chestnut-red 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  edged 
  all 
  

   round 
  with 
  squamose 
  yellow 
  hairs, 
  and 
  having 
  two 
  

   patches 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  ; 
  elytra, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  under 
  side 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  yellow 
  hairs 
  hybrida. 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  (Pherocoma) 
  tristis, 
  Burm., 
  

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

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  testaceous-red 
  or 
  light 
  testaceous 
  ; 
  there 
  is 
  

   no 
  trace 
  of 
  scales 
  except 
  on 
  the 
  two 
  basal 
  segments 
  of 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  

   which 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  whitish 
  ones; 
  clypeus 
  in 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  a 
  

   truncate 
  cone, 
  deeply 
  and 
  almost 
  triangularly 
  emarginate 
  at 
  tip, 
  and 
  

   with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  sharply 
  reflexed, 
  it 
  is 
  rugose 
  and 
  slightly 
  

   shorter 
  than 
  the 
  head 
  which 
  is 
  also 
  rugose 
  and 
  clothed, 
  like 
  the 
  

   prothorax, 
  with 
  long, 
  dense, 
  villose 
  black 
  hairs 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  slightly 
  

   ampliate 
  laterally; 
  scutellum 
  ogival, 
  a 
  little 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  

   punctulate 
  and 
  hairy 
  ; 
  elytra 
  sub-parallel, 
  but 
  not 
  much 
  elongated, 
  

   being 
  nearly 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long, 
  they 
  are 
  not 
  very 
  distinctly 
  sulcate 
  in 
  

   the 
  dorsal 
  part, 
  but 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  distinct 
  sulcus 
  above 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  

   from 
  below 
  the 
  humeral 
  angle 
  to 
  near 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  also 
  a 
  depression 
  

   under 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  they 
  are 
  covered 
  with 
  decumbent, 
  short, 
  not 
  

   very 
  dense 
  black 
  hairs, 
  and 
  have 
  seriate, 
  erect, 
  bristly 
  hairs 
  more 
  

   abundant 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  part, 
  and 
  nearly 
  as 
  long, 
  but 
  not 
  so 
  densely 
  set 
  

   as 
  those 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  closely 
  punc- 
  

   tured, 
  villose 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  hairs, 
  pectus 
  with 
  

   black 
  ones 
  ; 
  legs 
  piceous, 
  anterior 
  tibigs 
  sub-rufescent, 
  tri-dentate 
  

   outwardly 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  intermediate 
  and 
  basal 
  teeth 
  set 
  close 
  to 
  one 
  

   another, 
  and 
  occasionally 
  sub-connate. 
  

  

  Length 
  8-J-- 
  9 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Caledon). 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  (Pherocoma) 
  grata, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Black, 
  with 
  two 
  small 
  round 
  patches 
  of 
  greenish 
  opaline 
  

   scales 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax; 
  elytra 
  chestnut-brown 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  supra- 
  

  

  