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punctured than the pygidium, each puncture bearing a somewhat 

 long, fulvous hair ; some of the legs are missing in the only example 

 that I have been able to examine, but the hind tibiae have no traces 

 of an oblique carina, and the hind spurs are sharp. 



Length 17 mm. ; width 8 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Prieska). 



Peeiclitopa varicornis, n. spec. 



Black, with the elytra light earthy-brown, vertex of head, pro- 

 thorax, scutellum, upper side of abdominal segments and pectus 

 clothed with a long, dense, greyish pubescence ; antennae black 

 with the seventh joint as well as the ninth and tenth, these last 

 two forming part of the tri-jointed club, pale testaceous, the third 

 inner joint of the club black like the pedicel, which is only a little 

 shorter than the club itself; clypeus blunt in front and with the 

 outer angles broadly rounded, somewhat short, not plainly separated 

 from the frontal part by either a suture or a keel, the vertex has no 

 distinct transverse ledge, the surface of the whole head is strongly 

 shagreened and the hairs on the frontal part are very long ; pro- 

 thorax rounded laterally and with the posterior angles distinct but 

 not sharp, finely shagreened ; scutellum closely punctate ; elytra 

 sub-parallel but plainly narrower at the posterior part than at the 

 base, very faintly costulate, finely shagreened and clothed with very 

 short appressed hairs springing from each interstice ; pygidium 

 strongly sloping backwards, plainly punctulate, each puncture with 

 a somewhat long greyish hair ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly ; 

 hind tibiae without an oblique ridge, and not much dilated at apex,, 

 hind spurs sharp ; claws reddish. 



Length 13-13J mm. ; width 6-6f mm. 



Transvaal (Lydenburg). 



Periclitopa dubiosula, n. spec. 



Closely allied to P. varicornis and differing mainly in the colour 

 of the antennae, all the joints of which are chestnut-brown ; the 

 pubescence of the head, prothorax, and pectus is greyish and 

 equally long, but the elytra are slightly more roughly shagreened 

 and chestnut-brown ; the pygidium, under side, and palpi are also 

 chestnut-brown. 



Female unknown. 



Length 15 mm. ; width 7 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Zoutpansberg). 



