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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  Lepitrix 
  setosa, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  41. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  testaceous-yellow, 
  legs 
  piceous 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  a 
  

   little 
  ampliated 
  laterally 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  rounded, 
  not 
  

   acuminate 
  and 
  very 
  slightly 
  emarginate 
  at 
  tip 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  

   densely 
  hairy, 
  the 
  hairs 
  greyish 
  or'slightly 
  flavescent, 
  but 
  mixed 
  with 
  

   appressed 
  sub-squamose 
  ones 
  which 
  are 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  squamose 
  along 
  

   the 
  base 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  clothed 
  with 
  squamose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  attenuated 
  

   laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  clothed 
  with 
  short, 
  decumbent 
  black 
  

   hairs 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  erect 
  ones 
  which 
  are 
  more 
  numerous 
  and 
  longer 
  in 
  

   the 
  basal 
  part, 
  and 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  and 
  reach- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part, 
  an 
  arcuate 
  band 
  of 
  sub-flavescent 
  

   squamose 
  hairs 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  a 
  transverse, 
  arcuate, 
  ill-defined 
  post- 
  

   median 
  patch 
  of 
  similar 
  scales, 
  the 
  suture 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  margins 
  of 
  

   the 
  elytra 
  are 
  infuscate 
  ; 
  basal 
  part 
  of 
  propygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  

   with 
  a 
  band 
  of 
  scales 
  similar 
  to 
  those 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  and 
  

   pectus 
  moderately 
  hairy; 
  the 
  pubescence 
  is 
  greyish, 
  but 
  on 
  the 
  

   abdomen 
  there 
  are 
  some 
  appressed, 
  sub-squamiform 
  hairs. 
  

  

  I 
  do 
  not 
  know 
  the 
  male 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  which 
  Burmeister 
  included 
  

   in 
  Anisonyx, 
  but 
  which, 
  I 
  think, 
  is 
  only 
  a 
  form 
  of 
  transition 
  of 
  Lepitrix 
  

   with 
  Peritrichia 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  hind 
  legs 
  simple, 
  single. 
  

  

  Length 
  5^-6 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Graham's 
  Town). 
  

  

  Lepitrix 
  pilosa, 
  Bohem., 
  

   Insect. 
  Caffr., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  144. 
  

   (Anisonyx) 
  lanata, 
  Bohem., 
  1. 
  c, 
  p. 
  145. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  very 
  pale 
  testaceous 
  edged 
  all 
  round 
  with 
  a 
  

   fuscous 
  band 
  and 
  having 
  also 
  the 
  suture 
  infuscate 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   very 
  long 
  greyish 
  or 
  fuscous 
  hairs 
  above 
  and 
  under, 
  and 
  is 
  entirely 
  

   without 
  scales 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  much 
  narrower 
  than 
  the 
  head, 
  quite 
  parallel, 
  

   but 
  slightly 
  rounded 
  laterally 
  at 
  apex 
  and 
  very 
  little 
  emarginate 
  ; 
  the 
  

   hairs 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  partly 
  recumbent, 
  but 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  they 
  

   are 
  very 
  villose 
  ; 
  the 
  legs 
  are 
  piceous-black, 
  but 
  the 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  are 
  

   rufescent. 
  In 
  the 
  examples 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  are 
  

   whitish 
  grey, 
  the 
  elytra 
  have 
  no 
  marginal 
  or 
  sutural 
  infuscate 
  band. 
  

  

  Length 
  5-5J 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  2J-3 
  mm. 
  

  

  This 
  pretty 
  little 
  species 
  is 
  as 
  much 
  an 
  Anisonyx 
  as 
  a 
  Lepitrix, 
  

   but 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  the 
  elytra 
  is 
  not 
  sub-parallel 
  as 
  in 
  the 
  former. 
  It 
  

   isomewhat 
  resembles 
  Pachycnema 
  abdominalis, 
  but 
  is 
  very 
  much 
  

   .smaller. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Durban) 
  ; 
  Transvaal 
  (Klerksdorp). 
  

  

  