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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  black 
  hairs, 
  and 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  seven 
  small, 
  velvety 
  patches, 
  of 
  

   these 
  four 
  are 
  disposed 
  longitudinally 
  above 
  the 
  outer 
  margin, 
  the 
  

   apical 
  not 
  being 
  always 
  very 
  distinct, 
  and 
  three 
  on 
  the 
  dorsal 
  part, 
  the 
  

   median 
  one 
  being 
  situate 
  closer 
  to 
  the 
  suture 
  than 
  the 
  other 
  two 
  ; 
  

   in 
  one 
  of 
  my 
  examples 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  faint 
  trace 
  of 
  a 
  few 
  slightly 
  flaves- 
  

   cent, 
  hair-like 
  scales 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  only 
  clothed 
  with 
  yellow 
  scales, 
  

   abdomen 
  and 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  with 
  squamose 
  appressed 
  white 
  hairs 
  in 
  

   both 
  sexes 
  ; 
  legs 
  black, 
  hind 
  claws 
  double. 
  

  

  Length 
  6J-7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Namaqualand). 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  hirtipes, 
  Pering., 
  

   Trans. 
  S. 
  Afric. 
  Phil. 
  Soc, 
  vol. 
  hi., 
  pt. 
  ii., 
  1885, 
  p. 
  92. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  piceous, 
  or 
  sometimes 
  piceous-red 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  

   very 
  sharply 
  acuminate, 
  bi-dentate 
  at 
  tip 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  black, 
  villose 
  hairs, 
  the 
  latter 
  has 
  a 
  faint 
  basal 
  margin 
  of 
  

   squamiform 
  hairs 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  scales, 
  a 
  lateral, 
  median 
  marginal 
  

   somewhat 
  distinct 
  patch 
  of 
  white 
  scales, 
  and 
  a 
  smaller 
  one 
  in 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  angle 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  slightly 
  scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  distinctly 
  narrowed 
  

   towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  somewhat 
  densely 
  covered 
  with 
  erect 
  black 
  hairs, 
  

   narrowly 
  marginate 
  with 
  white 
  scales 
  which 
  also 
  ascend 
  the 
  posterior 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  suture, 
  and 
  they 
  have 
  two 
  transverse, 
  somewhat 
  arcuate 
  

   bands 
  of 
  similar 
  scales 
  extending 
  across 
  the 
  dorsal 
  part 
  ; 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   pygidium, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  are 
  entirely 
  clothed 
  with 
  white 
  

   scales, 
  and 
  the 
  pectus 
  with 
  a 
  greyish-white 
  villosity 
  ; 
  legs 
  black, 
  

   posterior 
  tibiae 
  and 
  tarsi 
  very 
  densely 
  villose, 
  the 
  villosity 
  black 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  claws 
  double. 
  

  

  Length 
  6 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Namaqualand). 
  

  

  I 
  am 
  not 
  sure, 
  now, 
  that 
  the 
  female 
  of 
  my 
  original 
  description 
  is 
  

   that 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  species. 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  ditissima, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chestnut-brown 
  or 
  chestnut-red 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  

   moderately 
  acuminate 
  and 
  bi-dentate 
  at 
  tip, 
  the 
  teeth 
  not 
  set 
  close 
  

   together 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  very 
  briefly 
  pubescent, 
  the 
  latter 
  in 
  

   the 
  male 
  has 
  a 
  broad 
  basal 
  band 
  of 
  deep 
  orange-yellow 
  scales, 
  a 
  nar- 
  

   rower 
  lateral 
  and 
  apical 
  one 
  of 
  flavescent 
  scales., 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  

   part 
  an 
  arcuate 
  one 
  reaching 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  from 
  near 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  

   of 
  the 
  base 
  to 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  densely 
  

   scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  a 
  little 
  ampliated 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  narrowed 
  from 
  

  

  