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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  marginal 
  band 
  of 
  elongate 
  opaline 
  scales 
  denser 
  on 
  the 
  apical 
  part, 
  

   and 
  ascending 
  the 
  suture 
  for 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  and 
  sides 
  of 
  

   abdomen 
  clothed 
  with 
  opaline 
  scales 
  having 
  a 
  greenish 
  sheen 
  ; 
  

   abdomen 
  and 
  pectus 
  covered 
  with 
  long, 
  villose, 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  

   head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  long, 
  black 
  villose 
  hairs, 
  and 
  the 
  

   shape 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  similar 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  P. 
  abdominalis, 
  but 
  the 
  

   elytra 
  are 
  slightly 
  more 
  parallel 
  ; 
  legs 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  preceding 
  species. 
  

  

  Male 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  9 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Eiversdale). 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  (Pherocoma) 
  abdominalis, 
  Blanch., 
  

   Catal. 
  Coll. 
  Entom. 
  Mus. 
  Par., 
  1850, 
  p. 
  59. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  and 
  the 
  tarsi 
  reddish 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  

   prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense, 
  villose 
  black 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  black, 
  but 
  

   occasionally 
  piceous-brown 
  laterally, 
  not 
  scaly 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  

   generally 
  having 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  a 
  narrow 
  basal 
  band 
  of 
  slightly 
  

   flavescent 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  and 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  ill- 
  

   defined 
  longitudinal 
  bands 
  of 
  similar 
  scales 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  dorsal 
  and 
  the 
  

   supra-marginal 
  intervals 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  a 
  little 
  attenuate 
  obliquely 
  laterally 
  r 
  

   slightly 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  of 
  the 
  apex, 
  with 
  the 
  angles 
  

   slightly 
  curved 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  sharply 
  ogival, 
  villose 
  ; 
  elytra 
  somewhat 
  

   distinctly 
  bi-costate 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  and 
  having 
  three 
  distinct 
  intervals 
  

   on 
  each 
  side, 
  they 
  are 
  closely 
  punctate 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  black 
  hairs 
  

   which 
  are 
  dense 
  in 
  the 
  basal 
  part 
  but 
  shorter, 
  less 
  dense 
  and 
  some- 
  

   what 
  seriate 
  in 
  the 
  posterior, 
  while 
  those 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  are 
  more 
  

   closely 
  set 
  and 
  more 
  bristly 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  villose, 
  the 
  hairs 
  are 
  black 
  

   and 
  not 
  squamose, 
  but 
  the 
  female 
  is 
  entirely 
  clothed 
  with 
  squami- 
  

   form 
  greyish 
  ones, 
  shorter 
  than, 
  but 
  resembling 
  those 
  with 
  which 
  the 
  

   abdomen 
  is 
  clothed 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  the 
  two 
  basal 
  segments 
  are 
  covered 
  

   with 
  thick 
  greyish- 
  white 
  scales 
  ; 
  posterior 
  tibiae 
  not 
  very 
  densely 
  

   villose 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  hind 
  legs 
  double. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  not 
  seen 
  a 
  single 
  female 
  example 
  that 
  has 
  not 
  some 
  traces 
  

   of 
  the 
  scaly 
  bands 
  left 
  on 
  the 
  elytra. 
  

  

  Length 
  9^-10 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5f-6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Stellenbosch, 
  Malmesbury, 
  Paarl, 
  Tulbagh). 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  (Pherocoma) 
  saga, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  chestnut-brown, 
  turning 
  sometimes 
  to 
  

   piceous 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  narrow 
  band 
  of 
  flavescent 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  and 
  posterior 
  margins, 
  the 
  latter 
  more 
  distinct, 
  but 
  often 
  

   nearly 
  obliterated 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  in 
  the 
  centre 
  of 
  the 
  disk 
  are 
  two 
  

  

  