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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  anterior 
  tibiae 
  very 
  small 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  more 
  distinct 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  

   legs 
  piceous, 
  tarsi 
  piceous-red. 
  

  

  Length 
  6f- 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4-4 
  \ 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (East 
  London) 
  ; 
  Natal 
  (Maritzburg, 
  New- 
  

   castle) 
  ; 
  Transvaal 
  (Potchefstroom). 
  

  

  Eriesthis 
  fallax, 
  Burm., 
  

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

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chestnut-brown 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  sub-parallel 
  in 
  

   the 
  male 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angle 
  slightly 
  rounded 
  and 
  the 
  apical 
  

   part 
  slightly 
  sinuated 
  ; 
  it 
  is 
  more 
  acuminate 
  in 
  the 
  female, 
  with 
  the 
  

   outer 
  angle 
  sharper 
  and 
  recurved 
  and 
  the 
  apical 
  part 
  incised 
  ; 
  the 
  

   head 
  and 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  are 
  clothed 
  with 
  somewhat 
  

   villose, 
  light 
  flavescent 
  hairs 
  which 
  are 
  not 
  so 
  long 
  and 
  are 
  appressed 
  

   in 
  the 
  discoidal 
  part, 
  while 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  narrow 
  

   band 
  of 
  light 
  yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  chestnut-brown, 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  sub-erect, 
  short, 
  black 
  hairs, 
  and 
  having 
  a 
  supra- 
  

   marginal 
  band 
  of 
  not 
  very 
  dense 
  flavescent 
  scales 
  ascending 
  the 
  

   posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  suture, 
  and 
  two 
  transverse 
  similar 
  bands 
  ex- 
  

   tending 
  across 
  the 
  elytra, 
  while 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  there 
  is 
  also 
  a 
  more 
  

   or 
  less 
  distinct 
  band 
  of 
  scales 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  and 
  pygidium 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  lemon 
  or 
  orange-yellow 
  squamose 
  hairs, 
  which 
  turn 
  to 
  white 
  

   and 
  are 
  not 
  so 
  squamose 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  resembles 
  very 
  much 
  E. 
  guttata, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  much 
  

   smaller, 
  the 
  hairs 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax 
  are 
  not 
  so 
  villose 
  on 
  the 
  disk, 
  and 
  

   reach 
  the 
  basal 
  scaly 
  part, 
  which 
  they 
  do 
  not 
  in 
  E. 
  guttata, 
  and 
  the 
  

   maxillae 
  are 
  very 
  different. 
  

  

  Length 
  6-6|- 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4 
  mm. 
  

  

  I 
  have 
  seen 
  some 
  examples 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  scales 
  on 
  the 
  elytra 
  and 
  

   the 
  villosity 
  on 
  the 
  prothorax 
  are 
  denser 
  and 
  more 
  yellow. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Durban). 
  

  

  Ekiesthis 
  stigmatica, 
  Billb., 
  

   Schonh. 
  Syn. 
  Insect., 
  L, 
  3, 
  Append., 
  p. 
  44. 
  

  

  Black, 
  covered 
  on 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  dense, 
  short, 
  

   decumbent 
  pubescence, 
  but 
  having 
  along 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  a 
  

   somewhat 
  narrow 
  band 
  of 
  golden-yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  densely 
  

   scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  dark 
  brown, 
  distinctly 
  ampliated 
  laterally, 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   contiguous 
  small 
  yellow 
  scales, 
  and 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  two 
  round 
  

   black 
  or 
  brown 
  spots, 
  and 
  past 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  three 
  more 
  set 
  

   transversely, 
  and 
  coalescing 
  sometimes 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  form 
  a 
  band 
  ; 
  

  

  