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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  This 
  species, 
  of 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  seen 
  a 
  small 
  number 
  of 
  examples 
  

   only, 
  resembles 
  closely 
  P. 
  abdominalis, 
  but 
  is 
  easily 
  distinguished 
  by 
  

   having 
  only 
  one 
  simple 
  claw 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  legs. 
  Unlike 
  P. 
  abdo- 
  

   minalis, 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  male 
  which 
  in 
  this 
  case 
  has 
  scales. 
  

  

  Length 
  8J-9J 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5-5J- 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Clanwilliam). 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  uesus, 
  Oliv., 
  

   Entom., 
  i., 
  5, 
  p. 
  58, 
  pi. 
  viii., 
  fig. 
  88. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  infuscate, 
  dark 
  brownish 
  red, 
  or 
  chocolate- 
  

   brown 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  very 
  sharply 
  acuminate, 
  incised 
  or 
  bi-dentate 
  at 
  tip 
  ; 
  

   head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  long, 
  villose 
  hairs, 
  black 
  but 
  

   mixed 
  occasionally 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  greyish 
  ones 
  occurring 
  laterally 
  in 
  

   both 
  sexes, 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  trace 
  of 
  scales 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  very 
  long 
  and 
  

   sharp, 
  villose 
  ; 
  elytra 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  from 
  the 
  shoulders 
  to 
  the 
  

   apex 
  where 
  they 
  are 
  only 
  half 
  the 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  base, 
  humeral 
  costa 
  

   distinct, 
  they 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  moderately 
  short, 
  villose 
  black 
  hairs 
  

   which 
  are 
  longer 
  and 
  denser 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  long, 
  black 
  hairs 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  greyish 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  

   densely 
  villose 
  in 
  both 
  sexes, 
  the 
  villosity 
  greyish 
  white 
  ; 
  pectus, 
  

   femora 
  and 
  tibiae, 
  except 
  the 
  anterior 
  ones, 
  very 
  densely 
  villose 
  ; 
  legs 
  

   piceous-red, 
  posterior 
  tibiae 
  black 
  ; 
  there 
  is 
  very 
  little 
  difference 
  

   between 
  the 
  sexes, 
  but 
  the 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  of 
  the 
  female 
  are 
  a 
  little 
  less 
  

   densely 
  villose 
  than 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  the 
  hairs 
  are 
  more 
  greyish. 
  

  

  Length 
  9-10 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  6 
  mm. 
  

  

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

  

  Peritrichia 
  nigrita, 
  Blanch., 
  

   Catal. 
  Coll. 
  Entom. 
  Mus. 
  Par., 
  p. 
  60. 
  

   P. 
  cinerea, 
  Oliv., 
  Ent., 
  i., 
  5, 
  p. 
  57, 
  pi. 
  iv., 
  fig. 
  30. 
  

  

  Black, 
  clothed 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  with 
  black 
  villose 
  hairs 
  and 
  light 
  fulvous 
  

   ones 
  in 
  the 
  female. 
  Smaller 
  than 
  the 
  preceding 
  species, 
  and 
  with 
  

   the 
  elytra 
  more 
  attenuated 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  

   clypeus 
  is 
  similar, 
  the 
  villose 
  hairs 
  are 
  as 
  abundant, 
  but 
  they 
  are 
  

   denser 
  and 
  longer 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  which 
  show 
  no 
  trace 
  of 
  scales, 
  and 
  

   the 
  villose 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen 
  of 
  the 
  male 
  are 
  black 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  

   the 
  four 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  have, 
  besides 
  the 
  villose 
  hairs, 
  a 
  cover- 
  

   ing 
  of 
  squamose 
  appressed 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  legs 
  are 
  very 
  

   villose 
  in 
  both 
  sexes. 
  

  

  Length 
  8 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch). 
  

  

  