﻿■664: 
  Transactioyis 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  Maxillae 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  briefly 
  trifid 
  basal 
  tooth, 
  elytra 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   appressed, 
  sub-squamiform 
  yellow 
  hairs 
  vestita. 
  

  

  Maxillae 
  with 
  a 
  simple, 
  basal 
  tooth 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  a 
  marginal 
  band 
  

   and 
  two 
  transverse 
  discoidal 
  ones 
  formed 
  by 
  small, 
  yellow 
  

   scales 
  fallax. 
  

  

  Maxillae 
  with 
  a 
  trifid 
  basal 
  tooth 
  but 
  having 
  numerous 
  hooked 
  

   eiliae 
  above 
  it 
  ; 
  elytra 
  covered 
  with 
  orange-yellow 
  scales 
  and 
  

   having 
  two 
  transverse 
  rows 
  of 
  brown 
  spots 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  .. 
  .. 
  stigmatica. 
  

  

  A 
  1 
  . 
  Maxillae 
  pluri-dentate. 
  

  

  Maxillae 
  with 
  three 
  long, 
  claw-like 
  teeth, 
  the 
  basal 
  one 
  non-bifid 
  ; 
  

   elytra 
  clothed 
  with 
  short 
  black 
  hairs 
  and 
  having 
  two 
  transverse 
  

   bands 
  of 
  yellow 
  scales 
  guttata. 
  

  

  Maxillae 
  with 
  three 
  short, 
  briefly 
  bifid 
  teeth 
  ; 
  elytra 
  covered 
  with 
  

   appressed 
  sub-squamose 
  yellow 
  hairs 
  interspersed 
  with 
  black 
  

   hairs, 
  but 
  forming 
  no 
  design 
  dubiosa. 
  

  

  Maxillae 
  with 
  three 
  long, 
  claw-like 
  teeth 
  the 
  basal 
  one 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  

   slightly 
  bifid 
  ; 
  elytra 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  dense 
  flavous 
  squamose 
  

   hairs 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  two 
  somewhat 
  denuded 
  patches 
  .. 
  .. 
  Jiypocrita. 
  

  

  Maxillae 
  with 
  slender, 
  long, 
  claw-like 
  teeth 
  ; 
  elytra 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  

   dense 
  orange-yellow 
  ovate 
  scales 
  leaving 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  a 
  sub-basal, 
  

   a 
  median, 
  and 
  a 
  supra-apical 
  denuded 
  space 
  semihirta. 
  

  

  Maxillae 
  with 
  four 
  short 
  teeth, 
  the 
  apical 
  and 
  basal 
  ones 
  of 
  which 
  

   are 
  bifid 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  a 
  supra-marginal 
  band 
  of 
  yellow 
  scales 
  

   ascending 
  the 
  suture, 
  and 
  two 
  similar 
  arcuate 
  bands 
  bi-interrupted 
  

   on 
  each 
  side 
  decora. 
  

  

  Eriesthis 
  pusilla, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  the 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  dense 
  

   erect 
  greyish 
  flavescent 
  hairs, 
  and 
  having 
  along 
  the 
  posterior 
  margin 
  

   a 
  band 
  of 
  short, 
  squamose, 
  more 
  plainly 
  flavescent 
  appressed 
  ones 
  ; 
  

   scutellum 
  clothed 
  with 
  yellow, 
  not 
  contiguous 
  yellowish 
  scales, 
  

   elytra 
  testaceous, 
  not 
  costate 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  apical 
  callus 
  well 
  developed, 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  dense 
  erect 
  greyish 
  hairs, 
  but 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  appressed, 
  

   yellowish, 
  elongate 
  scales 
  somewhat 
  hair-like 
  but 
  not 
  hiding 
  the 
  

   testaceous 
  ground 
  colour 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  part 
  clothed 
  with 
  dense 
  sub- 
  

   lanuginose 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  flavescent 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  greyish 
  in 
  the 
  

   female 
  ; 
  head 
  very 
  scabrose, 
  clypeus 
  as 
  broad 
  as 
  long, 
  plainly 
  

   narrowed 
  laterally 
  towards 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  narrower 
  and 
  more 
  

   sharply 
  acuminate 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  genus, 
  emarginate 
  

   in 
  the 
  centre 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  sharp 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  covered 
  

   with 
  contiguous 
  cicatricose 
  punctures 
  enclosing 
  a 
  smaller, 
  round, 
  

   setigerous 
  one 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  tri-dentate. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  intermediate 
  in 
  form 
  between 
  Eriesthis 
  and 
  

  

  