﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  651 
  

  

  trace 
  of 
  discoidal 
  hairy 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  quite 
  

   black, 
  the 
  greyish 
  villosity 
  is 
  darker 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  they 
  have 
  a 
  

   faint 
  outer 
  marginal 
  band 
  of 
  elongate 
  scales, 
  less 
  dense 
  or 
  less 
  con- 
  

   spicuous 
  than 
  in 
  P. 
  dimidiata 
  ; 
  the 
  pygidium 
  is 
  hairy 
  and 
  scaly 
  

   only 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  the 
  villose 
  hairs 
  beneath, 
  laterally, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  

   hind 
  femora 
  have 
  no 
  admixture 
  of 
  fasciculate 
  white 
  ones 
  in 
  the 
  

   male 
  ; 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  female 
  are 
  sub-flavescent 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  single, 
  

   simple. 
  

  

  Length 
  7-J- 
  8 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4^ 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town). 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  capicola, 
  Fabr., 
  

   Syst. 
  Eleuth., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  179. 
  

  

  P. 
  hirta, 
  Fabr., 
  Syst. 
  Eleuth., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  134. 
  

  

  P. 
  irilosa, 
  Fabr., 
  Syst. 
  Eleuth., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  134. 
  

  

  P. 
  lyrohoscidea, 
  Oliv., 
  Ent., 
  i., 
  5, 
  p. 
  59, 
  pi. 
  viii., 
  fig. 
  96. 
  

  

  P. 
  distincta, 
  Blanch., 
  Catal. 
  Coll. 
  Ent. 
  Mus. 
  Par., 
  p. 
  60. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  testaceous 
  red, 
  broadly 
  marginate 
  with 
  black 
  

   outwardly 
  and 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  redder 
  and 
  not 
  infuscate 
  

   in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  sharply 
  acuminate 
  and 
  reflexed 
  at 
  tip 
  ; 
  

   the 
  villosity, 
  which 
  is 
  long 
  and 
  dense, 
  is 
  greyish 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  and 
  

   slightly 
  flavescent 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  along 
  the 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  

   there 
  is 
  a 
  narrow 
  band 
  of 
  short, 
  sub-squamose 
  hairs, 
  and 
  as 
  often 
  as 
  

   not 
  there 
  are 
  on 
  the 
  disk 
  two 
  minute 
  patches 
  of 
  similar 
  ones 
  ; 
  the 
  

   elytra 
  are 
  obliquely 
  attenuate 
  from 
  the 
  shoulders 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  

   are 
  clothed 
  with 
  long 
  greyish 
  and 
  black 
  hairs, 
  the 
  former 
  pre- 
  

   dominating 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  flavescent 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  the 
  

   pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  under 
  side 
  are 
  very 
  densely 
  

   villose 
  ; 
  legs 
  piceous, 
  hind 
  legs 
  villose 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  hind 
  legs 
  single, 
  

   simple 
  ; 
  there 
  are 
  no 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  elytra, 
  but 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  especially 
  

   the 
  white 
  hairs 
  are 
  shorter 
  and 
  denser 
  at 
  the 
  rounded, 
  apical 
  part. 
  

  

  Length 
  7J-9J 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4|— 
  5^- 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch, 
  Paarl, 
  Worcester, 
  

   Uniondale). 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  spuria, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Intermediate 
  in 
  shape 
  between 
  P. 
  capicola 
  and 
  P. 
  pistrinaria, 
  it 
  is, 
  

   however, 
  more 
  closely 
  related 
  to 
  the 
  former, 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  differs 
  by 
  

   the 
  deeper 
  and 
  much 
  less 
  closely 
  set 
  punctuation 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  

   and 
  also 
  by 
  the 
  two 
  longitudinal 
  impressions 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  elytra 
  

   which 
  are 
  divided 
  by 
  a 
  more 
  costate 
  interval 
  ; 
  the 
  colour 
  is 
  black 
  in 
  

   the 
  male, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chestnut-red 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  and 
  the 
  

  

  