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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  the 
  trochanters 
  sharply 
  spinose 
  ; 
  pygidium 
  and 
  propygidium 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  contiguous 
  white 
  scales. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  3f 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Port 
  Elizabeth). 
  

  

  Gymnoloma 
  pekplexa, 
  n.^spec. 
  

  

  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  elytra 
  chocolate-brown 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  sprinkled 
  with 
  

   sub-flavescent, 
  numerous 
  scales 
  scattered 
  on 
  the 
  discoidal 
  part, 
  but 
  

   not 
  forming 
  bands, 
  and 
  denser 
  along 
  the 
  outer 
  and 
  the 
  basal 
  margins 
  ; 
  

   scutellum 
  very 
  little 
  scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  a 
  sutural 
  and 
  

   two 
  discoidal 
  narrow 
  bands 
  of 
  minute 
  sub-flavescent 
  scales 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  

   a 
  marginal 
  one, 
  often, 
  however, 
  partly 
  obliterated 
  or 
  merging 
  near 
  the 
  

   shoulder 
  into 
  the 
  outer 
  discoidal 
  one 
  ; 
  pygidial 
  part 
  and 
  under 
  side 
  

   densely 
  scaly, 
  the 
  scales 
  not 
  quite 
  contiguous 
  ; 
  clypeus 
  very 
  attenuate 
  

   obliquely 
  laterally, 
  sinuate 
  at 
  tip, 
  rugose, 
  briefly 
  bristly 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  

   closely 
  punctured 
  with 
  the 
  punctures 
  slightly 
  scabrose, 
  clothed 
  with 
  

   a 
  short, 
  erect 
  pubescence, 
  but 
  having 
  long, 
  bristly 
  black 
  hairs 
  along 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  and 
  outer 
  margins 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  non-scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  very 
  

   closely 
  and 
  somewhat 
  roughly 
  punctured, 
  and 
  having 
  on 
  each 
  side 
  

   three 
  series 
  of 
  short, 
  black 
  bristles 
  ; 
  anterior 
  tibiae 
  bi-dentate 
  in 
  the 
  

   male, 
  claws 
  of 
  anterior 
  and 
  intermediate 
  legs 
  single, 
  cleft 
  laterally 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  femora 
  robust, 
  simple, 
  but 
  with 
  the 
  trochanters 
  sharply 
  spinose 
  ; 
  

   hind 
  tibiae 
  carinate 
  beneath, 
  the 
  carina 
  sharp, 
  strongly 
  angular 
  near 
  

   the 
  knee, 
  and 
  mucronate 
  at 
  apex 
  ; 
  claws 
  of 
  hind 
  legs 
  single, 
  simple. 
  

  

  Female 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Length 
  7 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (exact 
  locality 
  unknown). 
  

  

  Gymnoloma 
  oknata, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entom., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  163. 
  

  

  Male: 
  Black, 
  with 
  the 
  intermediate 
  and 
  posterior 
  legs 
  red; 
  pro- 
  

   thorax 
  with 
  a 
  median 
  longitudinal 
  band 
  of 
  flavescent 
  scales, 
  a 
  

   discoidal 
  one 
  interrupted 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  and 
  an 
  outer 
  marginal; 
  

   scutellum 
  densely 
  scaly 
  ; 
  elytra 
  with 
  eight 
  elongated 
  patches 
  of 
  

   yellowish 
  scales 
  on 
  each 
  side; 
  propygidium, 
  pygidium, 
  and 
  abdomen 
  

   clothed 
  with 
  contiguous 
  yellowish 
  scales 
  ; 
  head 
  closely 
  and 
  somewhat 
  

   roughly 
  punctate 
  and 
  clothed 
  with 
  short, 
  dense, 
  black 
  hairs, 
  clypeus 
  

   a 
  little 
  attenuate 
  laterally, 
  truncate 
  at 
  tip, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  

   sharp 
  and 
  reflexed; 
  prothorax 
  closely 
  scabroso-punctate 
  and 
  with 
  

   a 
  deep 
  median 
  groove 
  filled 
  with 
  scales 
  ; 
  scutellum 
  short, 
  sub-ogival 
  ; 
  

  

  