﻿1902.] 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  South 
  Africa. 
  667 
  

  

  propygidium, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  upper 
  side 
  of 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  

   covered 
  with 
  very 
  closely 
  set 
  yellow 
  scales 
  ; 
  the 
  pygidium 
  has 
  a 
  

   median 
  longitudinal 
  whitish 
  band 
  and 
  a 
  round 
  patch 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  

   colour 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  and 
  from 
  between 
  the 
  scales 
  spring 
  some 
  short 
  

   black 
  bristles 
  ; 
  abdomen 
  scaly 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  hairy 
  in 
  the 
  female 
  ; 
  

   anterior 
  tibiae 
  very 
  strongly 
  tri-dentate 
  outwardly 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  hind 
  leg 
  

   single 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  slightly 
  attenuate 
  obliquely, 
  more 
  deeply 
  emarginate 
  

   in 
  the 
  female 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  reflexed 
  at 
  tip 
  ; 
  maxillae 
  with 
  a 
  

   trifid 
  basal 
  tooth, 
  but 
  having 
  numerous 
  hooked 
  bristles 
  above 
  it. 
  

  

  Length 
  8-9-J 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5-6 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hob. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Calitzdorp, 
  Port 
  Elizabeth, 
  Uitenhage 
  

   Graham's 
  Town, 
  Ssymour). 
  

  

  Eeiesthis 
  guttata, 
  Burm., 
  

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

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chestnut-brown; 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  villose 
  hairs, 
  posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  prothorax 
  not 
  

   villose 
  but 
  having 
  along 
  the 
  margin 
  a 
  band 
  of 
  sub-appressed 
  rich 
  

   yellow, 
  somewhat 
  squamiform 
  hairs 
  interspersed 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  yellow 
  

   scales 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  covered 
  with 
  similar 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  somewhat 
  

   infuscate 
  laterally, 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  short, 
  sub-decumbent 
  black 
  

   hairs, 
  and 
  having 
  two 
  transverse 
  bands 
  of 
  greyish 
  squamiform 
  ones 
  

   reaching 
  from 
  one 
  side 
  to 
  another, 
  but 
  twice 
  or 
  three 
  times 
  inter- 
  

   rupted, 
  thus 
  resembling 
  spots 
  ; 
  posterior 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  suture 
  and 
  

   apical 
  part 
  with 
  a 
  band 
  of 
  similar 
  squamiform 
  hairs 
  ; 
  propygidium 
  

   and 
  pygidium 
  clothed 
  with 
  orange-yellow 
  squamiform 
  hairs 
  ; 
  under 
  

   side 
  clothed 
  with 
  greyish 
  hairs, 
  appressed 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen, 
  villose 
  

   on 
  the 
  pectus 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  strongly 
  tri-dentate 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  hind 
  

   legs 
  double 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  not 
  acuminate 
  and 
  hardly 
  sinuate 
  at 
  tip. 
  

  

  Length 
  7-8-J 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4^-5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Natal 
  (Umvoti, 
  Durban) 
  ; 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Pondoland) 
  ; 
  

   Southern 
  Ehodesia 
  (Victoria 
  Falls). 
  

  

  Eriesthis 
  dubiosa, 
  n. 
  spec. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  reddish 
  ; 
  shape 
  of 
  clypeus 
  and 
  also 
  vestiture 
  

   of 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  prothorax 
  similar 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  preceding 
  species, 
  

   but 
  the 
  hairs 
  and 
  scales 
  are 
  not 
  such 
  a 
  bright 
  yellow 
  ; 
  the 
  scutellum 
  

   is 
  squamose, 
  and 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  covered 
  with 
  appressed 
  hairs 
  which 
  

   can 
  hardly 
  be 
  called 
  squamose 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  with 
  a 
  very 
  minute 
  

   basal 
  outer 
  tooth 
  ; 
  maxillae 
  armed 
  with 
  three 
  short, 
  briefly 
  bifid 
  teeth. 
  

  

  In 
  shape, 
  size, 
  and 
  vestiture 
  this 
  species 
  resembles 
  so 
  much 
  E. 
  

   vulpina 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  difficult 
  to 
  distinguish 
  the 
  two, 
  but 
  in 
  E. 
  dubiosa 
  

  

  