﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  653 
  

  

  Length 
  8J— 
  10 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5-6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Oudtshoorn, 
  Willowmore). 
  

  

  Peritrichia 
  pistrinaria, 
  Pering., 
  • 
  

   Trans. 
  S. 
  Afric. 
  Philos. 
  Soc, 
  vol. 
  iv., 
  pt. 
  ii., 
  1888, 
  p. 
  100. 
  

  

  Totally 
  black, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  of 
  the 
  female 
  fulvous, 
  or 
  

   occasionally 
  reddish 
  brown 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  very 
  sharply 
  acuminate, 
  bifid 
  

   and 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  head 
  clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  hairs 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  ; 
  pro- 
  

   thorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  somewhat 
  short 
  hairs 
  which 
  in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  

   part 
  are 
  partly 
  black 
  and 
  partly 
  grey, 
  but 
  are 
  white, 
  denser, 
  and 
  

   lanuginose 
  all 
  round 
  the 
  margins, 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  disk 
  

   are 
  two 
  distinct 
  but 
  small 
  squamulose 
  white 
  patches 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  

   squamose 
  ; 
  elytra 
  less 
  attenuated 
  towards 
  the 
  apex 
  than 
  the 
  five 
  pre- 
  

   ceding 
  species, 
  covered 
  with 
  non-contiguous, 
  elongate 
  white 
  scales 
  

   intermingled 
  with 
  erect 
  or 
  sub-erect, 
  black, 
  somewhat 
  bristly 
  hairs 
  

   which 
  are 
  longer 
  and 
  stiffer 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  

   abdomen 
  entirely 
  covered 
  with 
  white 
  appressed 
  squamose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  

   pectus 
  clothed 
  with 
  white 
  villose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  legs 
  piceous, 
  the 
  hind 
  ones 
  

   villose 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  the 
  marginal 
  band 
  on 
  the 
  

   prothorax 
  is 
  more 
  lanuginose 
  laterally 
  and 
  in 
  front, 
  more 
  squamose 
  

   along 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  yellowish 
  instead 
  of 
  white 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  have 
  

   along 
  the 
  outer 
  margins 
  a 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  distinct 
  broad 
  band 
  of 
  

   whitish 
  scales 
  which 
  also 
  ascends 
  the 
  suture 
  for 
  some 
  distance, 
  

   and 
  there 
  are 
  a 
  few 
  more 
  scattered 
  on 
  the 
  surface, 
  but 
  not 
  as 
  

   numerously 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  ; 
  the 
  abdomen 
  is 
  more 
  hairy 
  than 
  scaly, 
  

   and 
  the 
  legs 
  are 
  rufescent 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  hind 
  legs 
  simple, 
  single. 
  

  

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

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Clanwilliam, 
  Namaqualand). 
  

  

  Peeitrichia 
  hybrida, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  testaceous 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  sharply 
  acu- 
  

   minate, 
  bifid 
  and 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  head 
  covered 
  with 
  yellow 
  villose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  

   prothorax 
  edged 
  all 
  round 
  with 
  villose, 
  slightly 
  lanuginose 
  yellow 
  

   hairs 
  and 
  with 
  black 
  ones 
  mixed 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  yellow 
  ones 
  on 
  the 
  disk 
  

   in 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  two 
  small, 
  very 
  distinct 
  flavous, 
  

   squamulose 
  patches 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  the 
  hairs 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  are 
  more 
  

   squamose 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  clothed 
  with 
  yellow, 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  

   attenuate 
  laterally 
  from 
  the 
  humeral 
  part 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  very 
  long 
  and 
  very 
  dense 
  villose 
  yellow 
  hairs, 
  among 
  which 
  are 
  

   a 
  few 
  black 
  ones 
  more 
  numerous 
  near 
  the 
  base 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  and 
  

   pygidium 
  densely 
  hairy, 
  the 
  hairs 
  yellow 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  also 
  densely 
  

  

  