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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  base 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  continued 
  round 
  the 
  apical 
  part; 
  pro- 
  

   pygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  densely 
  scaly 
  ; 
  the 
  scales 
  are 
  yellow, 
  but 
  

   turn 
  to 
  white 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  which 
  is 
  also 
  clothed 
  with 
  white, 
  

   villose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  legs 
  and 
  antennae 
  are 
  rufescent, 
  and 
  the 
  colour 
  of 
  

   the 
  scales 
  is 
  deeper 
  yellow 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  head 
  

   villose 
  but 
  not 
  on 
  the 
  clypeus 
  which 
  is 
  broad, 
  sub-parallel, 
  but 
  

   slightly 
  sinuate 
  laterally 
  at 
  base 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  rounded, 
  and 
  

   very 
  slightly 
  sinuate 
  at 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  margins 
  are 
  sharply 
  reflexed, 
  the 
  

   anterior 
  part 
  is 
  somewhat 
  excavate 
  and 
  smooth 
  and 
  the 
  posterior 
  as 
  

   well 
  as 
  the 
  head 
  is 
  very 
  rugose 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  a 
  little 
  obliquely 
  

   attenuated 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part, 
  then 
  straight, 
  but 
  emar- 
  

   ginate 
  from 
  there 
  to 
  the 
  base, 
  rugulose, 
  clothed 
  with 
  long, 
  dense, 
  

   slightly 
  flavescent 
  villose 
  hairs, 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  faint 
  post-median 
  

   longitudinal 
  impressed 
  line 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  very 
  long 
  and 
  acutely 
  

   triangular 
  ; 
  elytra 
  much 
  broader 
  than 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  and 
  with 
  

   the 
  shoulders 
  rounded, 
  bluntly 
  triangular 
  and 
  covering 
  the 
  base 
  

   of 
  the 
  propygidium, 
  plane, 
  not 
  costate, 
  but 
  a 
  little 
  depressed 
  along 
  

   the 
  suture 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  vertical 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  sloping 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  

   anterior 
  tibiae 
  distinctly 
  tri-dentate 
  outwardly, 
  hind 
  tibiae 
  similar 
  in 
  

   both 
  sexes 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  single, 
  simple. 
  

  

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

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch, 
  Paarl, 
  Malmes- 
  

   bury). 
  

  

  Lepitrix 
  modesta, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Shape 
  of 
  L. 
  lineata 
  but 
  a 
  little 
  smaller, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  paler 
  

   and 
  the 
  legs 
  redder 
  ; 
  the 
  prothorax 
  has 
  a 
  narrow 
  band 
  of 
  flavescent 
  

   scales 
  denser 
  along 
  the 
  anterior 
  and 
  posterior 
  part 
  than 
  on 
  the 
  

   sides, 
  and 
  is 
  sprinkled 
  on 
  the 
  discoidal 
  part 
  with 
  minute 
  scales 
  

   forming 
  usually 
  two 
  short 
  longitudinal 
  bands, 
  one 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  

   the 
  median 
  part, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  only 
  a 
  faint 
  trace 
  of 
  some 
  pallid 
  scales 
  

   round 
  the 
  apical 
  part 
  of 
  each 
  elytron 
  ; 
  the 
  sculpture 
  and 
  vestiture 
  of 
  

   the 
  head 
  are 
  similar 
  to 
  those 
  of 
  L. 
  lineata 
  and 
  L. 
  stigma, 
  but 
  the 
  

   clypeus 
  is 
  more 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  than 
  in 
  L. 
  stigma; 
  the 
  elytra 
  

   are 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  semi-erect 
  black 
  bristly 
  hairs 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  hairs 
  and 
  

   scales 
  on 
  the 
  pygidial 
  part, 
  abdomen, 
  and 
  pectus 
  are 
  similar. 
  

  

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

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Stellenbosch, 
  Paarl, 
  Tulbagh, 
  Worcester). 
  

  

  Lepitrix 
  namaqua, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

   Quite 
  similar 
  in 
  shape, 
  size, 
  and 
  sculpture 
  to 
  L. 
  modesta 
  ; 
  the 
  

   clypeus 
  is 
  still 
  more 
  deeply 
  incised 
  at 
  apex 
  ; 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  instead 
  

   of 
  scales, 
  has 
  the 
  outer 
  margins 
  clothed 
  with 
  appressed 
  squamose 
  

  

  