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  Transactions 
  South 
  African 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  [vol. 
  xii. 
  

  

  Female 
  like 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  a 
  little 
  more 
  elongate, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  legs 
  

   redder. 
  

  

  Length 
  9-10 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  5 
  J 
  mm. 
  

   Hah. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Namaqualand). 
  

  

  Lepisia 
  ornatissima, 
  Burm., 
  

   Handb. 
  d. 
  Entomol., 
  iv., 
  1, 
  p. 
  168. 
  

  

  Male 
  : 
  Head, 
  prothorax, 
  and 
  legs 
  black, 
  the 
  prothorax 
  has 
  three 
  

   bands 
  of 
  greenish-yellow 
  scales 
  separated 
  by 
  two 
  bands 
  of 
  purplish- 
  

   brown 
  ones, 
  the 
  elytra 
  are 
  purple-brown, 
  have 
  a 
  bordering 
  of 
  yellowish 
  

   green, 
  and 
  are 
  partly 
  covered 
  with 
  scales 
  of 
  nearly 
  the 
  same 
  colour 
  as 
  

   the 
  background 
  but 
  with 
  a 
  tinge 
  of 
  orange, 
  and 
  the 
  pygidial 
  and 
  

   abdominal 
  parts 
  have 
  light 
  golden 
  scales 
  ; 
  head 
  very 
  rugose, 
  clypeus 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  head, 
  slightly 
  oblique 
  laterally 
  from 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  

   part, 
  the 
  outer 
  angles 
  are 
  distinct 
  but 
  not 
  very 
  sharp, 
  it 
  is 
  slightly 
  

   bi-sinuate 
  at 
  the 
  tip, 
  the 
  margin 
  is 
  reflexed 
  and 
  produced 
  in 
  the 
  

   centre 
  into 
  a 
  short, 
  triangular 
  tooth 
  ; 
  prothorax 
  clothed 
  with 
  very 
  

   long 
  villose 
  golden 
  hairs 
  ; 
  elytra 
  not 
  plainly 
  bi-costulate 
  on 
  each 
  side, 
  

   nearly 
  parallel, 
  and 
  having 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  a 
  fringe 
  of 
  very 
  villose 
  

   golden 
  hairs 
  which 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  to 
  about 
  the 
  median 
  part 
  are 
  

   extremely 
  long, 
  the 
  outer 
  margins 
  have 
  a 
  fringe 
  of 
  similar 
  hairs 
  but 
  

   shorter 
  and 
  more 
  bristly; 
  the 
  legs 
  have 
  fulvous 
  hairs, 
  and 
  the 
  pygidial 
  

   part 
  is 
  also 
  setulose 
  ; 
  the 
  hind 
  claws 
  are 
  not 
  cleft. 
  

  

  Female 
  : 
  Shape 
  and 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  male, 
  but 
  the 
  whole 
  upper 
  surface 
  

   and 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  pygidial 
  part 
  is 
  clothed 
  with 
  greenish-yellow 
  scales, 
  

   the 
  prothorax 
  has 
  three 
  bands 
  of 
  brighter 
  yellow 
  ones 
  similar 
  in 
  

   tint 
  to 
  those 
  clothing 
  the 
  scutellum, 
  and 
  the 
  elytra, 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  

   villose 
  hairs 
  along 
  the 
  suture 
  similar 
  to 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  male, 
  have 
  each 
  

   eight 
  rows 
  of 
  long 
  setae 
  ; 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  of 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  straight. 
  

  

  Length 
  9-9^- 
  mm. 
  ; 
  width 
  4§-5 
  mm. 
  

  

  Hab. 
  Cape 
  Colony 
  (Namaqualand). 
  

  

  Lepisia 
  eupicola, 
  Fabr., 
  

  

  Syst. 
  Entomol. 
  Append., 
  p. 
  818. 
  

  

  Guer., 
  Icon. 
  Eegn. 
  Anim. 
  Insect., 
  pi. 
  xxv., 
  fig. 
  5. 
  

  

  Male: 
  Covered 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  side 
  and 
  pygidial 
  part 
  with 
  green 
  

   scales, 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  abdomen 
  with 
  greenish-yellow 
  ones 
  ; 
  head 
  roughly 
  

   scabrose, 
  clothed 
  with 
  a 
  flavescent 
  long 
  pubescence, 
  the 
  clypeus 
  is 
  

   denuded, 
  rounded 
  laterally 
  at 
  apex 
  and 
  produced 
  obliquely 
  there 
  into 
  

   a 
  sharp, 
  triangular 
  reflexed 
  tooth, 
  the 
  apical 
  margin 
  is 
  also 
  reflexed 
  ; 
  

   prothorax 
  clothed 
  in 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  contiguous 
  scales 
  with 
  long,. 
  

  

  