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  Transactions 
  South. 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xir. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  examples 
  from 
  Worcester 
  the 
  bands 
  and 
  patches 
  of 
  scales 
  

   are 
  not 
  so 
  well 
  denned 
  in 
  the 
  anterior 
  part 
  as 
  in 
  those 
  from 
  Namaqua- 
  

   land 
  and 
  Clanwilliam, 
  nor 
  are 
  the 
  impressions 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  quite 
  so 
  

   deep, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  male 
  there 
  are 
  two 
  slightly 
  denuded 
  small 
  patches 
  

   on 
  each 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  pygidium. 
  

  

  Length 
  7^-9 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4^-4f 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Paarl, 
  Worcester, 
  Clanwilliam, 
  Namaqua- 
  

   land). 
  

  

  Lepiteix 
  xanthoptera, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entmol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  39. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  somewhat 
  brick-red 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  paler 
  in 
  

   the 
  female 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  with 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  whitish 
  scales 
  along 
  the 
  outer 
  

   margins 
  ; 
  elytra 
  also 
  with 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  scales 
  which 
  are 
  even 
  very 
  

   often 
  obliterated 
  in 
  the 
  rounded 
  apical 
  part 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  and 
  pro- 
  

   pygidium 
  covered 
  with 
  somewhat 
  navescent 
  scales 
  ; 
  under 
  side 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  squamulose 
  white 
  hairs 
  and 
  a 
  greyish-white 
  pubescence 
  ; 
  

   pectus 
  densely 
  villose, 
  the 
  hairs 
  white 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  deeply 
  incised 
  semi- 
  

   circularly 
  at 
  tip, 
  sub-parallel 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  angles 
  sharp 
  ; 
  head 
  and 
  

   prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  long 
  black 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  some- 
  

   what 
  seriate 
  black 
  hairs 
  longer 
  and 
  bristly 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  ; 
  anterior 
  

   tibiae 
  tri-dentate 
  outwardly 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  double. 
  

  

  Length 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Namaqualand). 
  

  

  Lepitrix 
  dichropus, 
  Blanch., 
  

   Cat. 
  Coll. 
  Entom. 
  Mus. 
  Par., 
  1850, 
  p. 
  60. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  mahogany 
  colour 
  ; 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  

   are 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  dense 
  villose 
  black 
  hairs 
  ; 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  

   slightly 
  attenuated 
  obliquely 
  laterally 
  from 
  a 
  short 
  distance 
  from 
  the 
  

   apex 
  which 
  is 
  semicircularly 
  emarginate 
  ; 
  the 
  scutellum 
  is 
  villose 
  ; 
  

   the 
  elytra 
  are 
  broadly 
  but 
  shallowy 
  sulcate 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  and 
  have 
  

   this 
  sulcus 
  filled 
  with 
  black 
  not 
  closely 
  set 
  scales 
  which 
  also 
  form 
  

   occasionally 
  a 
  narrow 
  band 
  in 
  the 
  posterior 
  part 
  above 
  the 
  outer 
  

   margin, 
  the 
  suture 
  is 
  bristly 
  'and 
  the 
  whole 
  surface 
  bears 
  seriate, 
  

   black, 
  erect 
  hairs 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  and 
  abdomen 
  closely 
  punctured 
  and 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  black 
  hairs 
  mixed 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  greyish 
  ones 
  ; 
  legs 
  black, 
  

   anterior 
  tibae 
  sub-rufescent, 
  distinctly 
  tri-dentate 
  ; 
  hind 
  claws 
  double. 
  

  

  Length 
  8-9 
  mm. 
  ; 
  with 
  4f— 
  5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Cape 
  Town, 
  Stellenbosch). 
  

  

  