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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  pubescence 
  round 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  thorax 
  is 
  white, 
  but 
  black 
  on 
  the 
  

   dorsal 
  part, 
  and 
  the 
  erect 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  interspersed 
  with 
  

   appressed 
  white 
  squamose 
  ones 
  as 
  thick 
  as 
  in 
  P. 
  pistrinaria, 
  but 
  not 
  

   quite 
  so 
  closely 
  set 
  ; 
  the 
  rest 
  is 
  as 
  in 
  P. 
  capicola, 
  and 
  in 
  well- 
  

   preserved 
  examples 
  the 
  prothorax 
  has 
  also 
  two 
  small 
  discoidal 
  scaly 
  

   patches, 
  and 
  occasionally 
  some 
  scales 
  along 
  the 
  anterior 
  margin 
  ; 
  in 
  

   some 
  females 
  the 
  pubescence 
  is 
  yellowish 
  instead 
  of 
  being 
  white. 
  

  

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

  

  Sab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Willowmore, 
  Port 
  Elizabeth, 
  Graham's 
  

   Town, 
  Knysna). 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  puberula, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  fulvous 
  and 
  the 
  suture 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  

   margins 
  slightly 
  infuscate 
  ; 
  they 
  have 
  a 
  marginal 
  band 
  of 
  not 
  closely 
  

   set 
  greyish- 
  white 
  scales 
  ; 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus, 
  the 
  colour 
  and 
  

   disposition 
  of 
  the 
  villose 
  hairs 
  covering 
  the 
  upper 
  and 
  outer 
  side 
  in 
  

   both 
  sexes 
  is 
  similar 
  to 
  those 
  of 
  P. 
  capicola, 
  and 
  it 
  has 
  also 
  two 
  

   discoidal 
  small 
  hairy 
  spots 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  very 
  much 
  smaller, 
  the 
  elytra 
  

   are 
  more 
  acuminate 
  in 
  proportion 
  to 
  the 
  size, 
  and 
  the 
  pygidial 
  area 
  

   and 
  the 
  abdomen 
  are 
  distinctly 
  scaly 
  in 
  both 
  sexes. 
  

  

  Length 
  6 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3j 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (neighbourhood 
  of 
  Cape 
  Town). 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  pygidialis, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  testaceous 
  and 
  very 
  broadly 
  infuscate 
  

   laterally 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  sharply 
  acuminate 
  and 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  

   prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  long 
  villose 
  hairs, 
  which 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  

   are 
  white 
  along 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  

   sides, 
  but 
  are 
  mixed 
  with 
  greyish-black 
  ones 
  in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  part, 
  

   and 
  have 
  also 
  there 
  a 
  transverse 
  median 
  band 
  of 
  white 
  hairs, 
  in 
  

   the 
  female 
  these 
  hairs 
  are 
  flavescent, 
  there 
  are 
  no 
  scales, 
  nor 
  are 
  

   there 
  any 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  which 
  are 
  strongly 
  attenuate 
  laterally 
  

   towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  they 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  whitish 
  or 
  slightly 
  

   flavescent 
  hairs, 
  and 
  have 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  at 
  tip 
  a 
  small 
  outer 
  hairy 
  

   white 
  patch 
  ; 
  the 
  propygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  black 
  

   hairs, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  part 
  there 
  is 
  in 
  both 
  sexes 
  a 
  broad 
  white 
  

   band 
  consisting 
  of 
  lanuginose 
  sub-squamose 
  appressed 
  ones 
  ; 
  the 
  

   prosternum 
  and 
  mesosternum 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense, 
  villose, 
  yellow 
  

   hairs 
  in 
  both 
  sexes, 
  and 
  the 
  metasternum 
  with 
  white 
  ones 
  ; 
  the 
  

   abdominal 
  segments 
  have 
  a 
  fringe 
  of 
  squamose 
  white 
  hairs, 
  but 
  the 
  

   two 
  apical 
  segments 
  and 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  others 
  have 
  orange- 
  

   yellow 
  villose 
  hairs 
  in 
  both 
  sexes 
  ; 
  claw 
  of 
  hind 
  legs 
  single, 
  simple. 
  

  

  