﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  665 
  

  

  Peritrichia. 
  It 
  has 
  the 
  maxillae 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  and 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  also 
  

   a 
  little 
  more 
  acuminate 
  than 
  in 
  Eriesthis, 
  but 
  the 
  cicatricose 
  punc- 
  

   tures 
  of 
  the 
  pro 
  thorax 
  are 
  those 
  of 
  Eriesthis. 
  

  

  Length 
  5|— 
  6 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3-|- 
  4 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Orange 
  Eiver 
  Colony 
  (Bothaville). 
  

  

  Eriesthis 
  vulpina, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  50. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chestnut-brown 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  hardly 
  obliquely 
  

   attenuate, 
  truncate 
  at 
  tip 
  and 
  angular 
  laterally 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  or 
  very 
  dis- 
  

   tinctly 
  acuminate, 
  bi-dentate 
  and 
  deeply 
  incised 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  head 
  

   and 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  long, 
  villose, 
  sub-flavescent, 
  or 
  sometimes 
  

   greyish 
  hairs 
  which 
  are 
  usually 
  erect, 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  trace 
  of 
  scales, 
  

   and 
  even 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  the 
  hairs 
  are 
  not 
  squamose 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  without 
  any 
  trace 
  of 
  scale 
  or 
  squamulose 
  

   hairs, 
  but 
  clothed 
  with 
  sub-erect 
  black 
  and 
  greyish, 
  or 
  sub-flavescent 
  

   hairs, 
  the 
  latter 
  being 
  more 
  numerous 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  and 
  propygidium 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  long, 
  dense, 
  fulvous 
  hairs 
  turning 
  to 
  greyish 
  or 
  white 
  on 
  

   the 
  abdomen 
  and 
  the 
  pectus 
  ; 
  legs 
  thick, 
  villose 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  bi- 
  

   dentate, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  basal 
  tooth 
  often 
  nearly 
  obliterated 
  in 
  the 
  

   female. 
  

  

  Length 
  6-7-J 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3f-4^ 
  mm. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  easily 
  recognised 
  by 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  scales. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Seymour) 
  ; 
  Natal 
  (Umvoti 
  County, 
  Frere). 
  

  

  Eristhis 
  vestita, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom, 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  51. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  light 
  fulvous 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  very 
  little 
  acuminate 
  

   laterally 
  and 
  having 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  slightly 
  rounded 
  and 
  a 
  little 
  

   emarginate 
  at 
  tip 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  more 
  acuminate, 
  sharply 
  dentate 
  and 
  

   incised 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  head 
  clothed 
  with 
  short, 
  

   flavescent 
  villose 
  hairs 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  covered 
  with 
  flavescent 
  hairs 
  

   which 
  are 
  somewhat 
  long 
  and 
  villose 
  laterally, 
  but 
  which 
  in 
  the 
  

   discoidal 
  part 
  are 
  appressed, 
  become 
  somewhat 
  squamiform 
  towards 
  

   the 
  posterior 
  part, 
  and 
  turn 
  to 
  scales 
  along 
  the 
  base, 
  these 
  hairs 
  and 
  

   scales 
  are 
  not 
  dense 
  enough 
  to 
  hide 
  the 
  black 
  background 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  

   densely 
  scaly, 
  the 
  scales 
  rich 
  yellow 
  ; 
  elytra 
  covered 
  with 
  sub- 
  

   squamiform 
  yellow 
  hairs, 
  appressed 
  and 
  not 
  closely 
  set 
  ; 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   pygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  squamose, 
  short 
  hairs 
  

   covering 
  the 
  whole 
  surface, 
  but 
  the 
  abdomen 
  and 
  the 
  legs 
  are 
  villose, 
  

   and 
  the 
  hairs 
  turn 
  to 
  white 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen 
  ; 
  basal 
  outer 
  tooth 
  of 
  

  

  