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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  hairy, 
  the 
  hairs 
  yellow 
  on 
  the 
  sides, 
  but 
  whitish 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  ; 
  legs 
  

   piceous, 
  briefly 
  villose 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  hind 
  legs 
  simple, 
  single. 
  

  

  Length 
  6f- 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4-4 
  \ 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hah. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Uitenhage, 
  Graham's 
  Town). 
  

  

  Gen. 
  LEPITEIX, 
  Serv., 
  

   Encyclop. 
  Meth., 
  1825, 
  x., 
  p. 
  381. 
  

  

  Mentum 
  comparatively 
  short 
  and 
  broad, 
  broader 
  than 
  long, 
  lobes 
  

   of 
  ligula 
  very 
  long 
  and 
  moderately 
  wide, 
  membranaceous, 
  setulose 
  

   inwardly 
  ; 
  apical 
  joint 
  of 
  labial 
  and 
  maxillary 
  palpi 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  

   two 
  preceding, 
  sub-fusiform 
  outwardly 
  but 
  somewhat 
  curved 
  in- 
  

   wardly 
  ; 
  upper 
  lobe 
  of 
  maxillae 
  simple, 
  broadly 
  triangular 
  inwardly 
  

   and 
  fasciculate, 
  but 
  produced 
  at 
  apex 
  into 
  a 
  narrow, 
  elongate, 
  mem- 
  

   branaceous 
  process 
  which 
  is 
  densely 
  fasciculate 
  at 
  tip 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  as 
  

   long 
  as 
  the 
  head, 
  nearly 
  parallel 
  or 
  slightly 
  ampliate 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  

   median 
  part, 
  depressed 
  in 
  the 
  centre, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  

   at 
  tip, 
  sharply 
  carinate 
  laterally, 
  and 
  horizontal, 
  or 
  nearly 
  so 
  ; 
  pro- 
  

   thorax 
  slightly 
  longer 
  than 
  broad, 
  not 
  much 
  attenuated 
  laterally 
  in 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  part, 
  emarginate 
  in 
  the 
  posterior, 
  base 
  moderately 
  

   arcuate 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  long, 
  or 
  very 
  long, 
  sharply 
  triangu 
  lar 
  ; 
  elytra 
  

   plane, 
  much 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  distinctly 
  narrowed 
  

   obliquely 
  from 
  the 
  shoulders 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  covering 
  only 
  the 
  

   base 
  of 
  the 
  propygidium, 
  which 
  is 
  as 
  wide 
  as 
  the 
  pygidium, 
  the 
  

   latter 
  is 
  triangular, 
  vertical 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  sloping 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  the 
  

   legs 
  are 
  slender, 
  the 
  tarsi 
  long 
  ; 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  are 
  tri-dentate 
  

   outwardlv, 
  the 
  teeth 
  are 
  equidistant, 
  but 
  the 
  basal 
  tooth 
  is 
  very 
  

   small, 
  and 
  the 
  apical 
  one 
  is 
  slanting 
  outwardly 
  ; 
  the 
  claws 
  of 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  and 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  are 
  double, 
  the 
  inner 
  one 
  is 
  cleft 
  at 
  

   about 
  the 
  middle, 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  one 
  is 
  much 
  shorter 
  there 
  and 
  

   slightly 
  bifid 
  at 
  tip, 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  legs 
  the 
  claw 
  is 
  either 
  simple 
  and 
  

   single, 
  or 
  there 
  are 
  two, 
  the 
  inner 
  one 
  being 
  thin 
  and 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  

   of 
  the 
  outer. 
  

  

  Many 
  of 
  the 
  insects 
  included 
  in 
  this 
  genus 
  have 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax 
  

   a 
  marginal 
  band 
  and 
  spots 
  formed 
  by 
  fine, 
  closely 
  set 
  scales, 
  and 
  on 
  

   the 
  elytra 
  sutural 
  or 
  apical 
  bands 
  of 
  similar 
  scales 
  ; 
  the 
  propygidium 
  

   and 
  the 
  pygidium 
  are 
  scaly, 
  but 
  not 
  the 
  abdomen. 
  

  

  Key 
  to 
  the 
  Species. 
  

  

  A 
  2 
  . 
  Claw 
  of 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  simple. 
  

  

  Prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  marginal 
  and 
  two 
  discoidal 
  bands 
  of 
  yellow 
  

   scales; 
  elytra 
  with 
  a 
  non-interrupted 
  juxta-sutural 
  band 
  of 
  

   similar 
  scales 
  beginning 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  and 
  continued 
  round 
  the 
  

   apex 
  lineata. 
  

  

  