﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Goleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  657 
  

  

  yellow 
  or 
  yellowish 
  hairs 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  sexes, 
  and 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  

   trace 
  of 
  scales 
  either 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  or 
  the 
  elytra, 
  

   but 
  the 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  the 
  abdomen 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense 
  

   yellowish 
  white 
  ones. 
  

  

  Length 
  8-8-J- 
  mm. 
  ; 
  wi^th 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Port 
  Nolloth). 
  

  

  Lepitrix 
  stigma, 
  de 
  Geer, 
  

   Mem. 
  Insect., 
  vii., 
  p. 
  645, 
  pi. 
  lxxxiv., 
  fig. 
  9. 
  

  

  ? 
  L. 
  fuscipes, 
  Thunb., 
  Mem. 
  Acad. 
  Petersb., 
  1818, 
  vi., 
  p. 
  445. 
  

   L. 
  nigripes, 
  Fabr., 
  Spec. 
  Ins., 
  i., 
  p. 
  49 
  ; 
  Oliv., 
  Ent., 
  1, 
  6, 
  p. 
  67, 
  

   pi. 
  ix., 
  fig. 
  85. 
  

  

  ■Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  a 
  little 
  darker 
  chestnut-brown 
  than 
  in 
  

   L. 
  lineata. 
  The 
  elytra 
  are 
  not 
  quite 
  so 
  elongate 
  and 
  are 
  not 
  therefore 
  

   quite 
  as 
  triangular, 
  and 
  each 
  elytron 
  is 
  separately 
  rounded 
  at 
  apex 
  ; 
  

   the 
  prothorax 
  has 
  a 
  narrow 
  margin 
  of 
  yellow 
  scales, 
  but 
  no 
  discoidal 
  

   bands, 
  the 
  scutellum 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  scales, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  there 
  

   is 
  a 
  moderately 
  broad 
  sutural 
  band 
  of 
  flavescent 
  scales 
  beginning 
  

   past 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  and 
  continuing 
  round 
  the 
  posterior 
  margin 
  ; 
  

   head 
  as 
  in 
  A. 
  lineata, 
  but 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  slightly 
  obliquely 
  narrowed 
  

   laterally 
  from 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part, 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  are 
  not 
  

   rounded, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  somewhat 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  at 
  apex 
  ; 
  elytra 
  

   rugulose 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  erect 
  black 
  hairs 
  not 
  very 
  closely 
  set 
  ; 
  

   pygidium, 
  under 
  side 
  and 
  legs 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  preceding 
  species. 
  

  

  Length 
  8-9 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4^~5J 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Caledon, 
  Malmesbury, 
  George, 
  

   Worcester). 
  

  

  Lepitrix 
  hilaris, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Facies, 
  sculpture 
  and 
  vestiture 
  of 
  L. 
  stigma, 
  but 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  

   more 
  obliquely 
  attenuated 
  laterally 
  from 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  to 
  the 
  outer 
  

   angle 
  which 
  is 
  distinctly 
  sharp, 
  whereas 
  it 
  is 
  rounded 
  in 
  L. 
  stigma, 
  

   and 
  the 
  emargination 
  of 
  the 
  apical 
  part 
  is 
  therefore 
  more 
  distinct, 
  

   although 
  not 
  deeper 
  ; 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  trace 
  of 
  scales 
  or 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  

   on 
  the 
  margins 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax, 
  but 
  the 
  villose 
  hairs 
  instead 
  of 
  being 
  

   black, 
  or 
  fuscous, 
  are 
  fulvous 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  a 
  little 
  redder, 
  but 
  also 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  black 
  hairs, 
  and 
  the 
  sutural 
  and 
  posterior 
  marginal 
  

   band 
  of 
  scales 
  are 
  similar, 
  but 
  the 
  scales 
  are 
  more 
  orange-yellow 
  ; 
  

   pygidium 
  and 
  under 
  side 
  similar 
  ; 
  the 
  elytra 
  of 
  the 
  female 
  are 
  very 
  

   distinctly 
  punctured. 
  

  

  Length 
  9 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Uniondale, 
  Port 
  Elizabeth). 
  

  

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