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whitish-yellow dorsal bands which are each about one-third of the 

 width of each elytron from near the apex to three-fourths of the 

 length, and invade there the basal and anterior marginal parts, but 

 not the sutural ; legs and underside black. 



Very distinct from the other two South African species. 



Length 3 mm. ; width 1 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Willowmore). Dr. H. Brauns. 



GEN. PHLCEOZETUS, Peyr. 

 PHLCEOZETUS CRIBRICOLLIS, n. sp. 



Testaceous-red all over, elytra occasionally paler than the pro- 

 thorax ; head plainly but not closely punctulate ; prothorax broader 

 than long, rounded laterally in the anterior part, sinuate above the 

 sharp, reflexed basal angle, plainly impressed longitudinally and 

 having a narrow line in the median impression, covered with deep 

 and moderately closely set punctures ; elytra oblong, deeply striate, 

 with the intervals raised and tectiform. 



Not unlike P. umbraculatus, Boh., but much shorter, and conco- 

 lorous. Easily recognised from the other South African species by 

 the deeply punctured prothorax. 



Length 4f-5^ mm. ; width 2-^-2 i mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall. 



PHLCEOZETUS UMTALINUS, n. sp. 



Testaceous, with the head and the discoidal part of the prothorax 

 darker; antennse somewhat rusty red with the three basal joints 

 paler ; elytra with a bi- sinuate, fuscous, broad posterior patch ; head 

 somewhat punctato-plicate, coriaceous ; prothorax rounded laterally 

 in the anterior part, and straight from the median part to the sharp 

 basal angle, the surface is strongly wrinkly, coriaceous ; elytra four 

 times as long as the prothorax, oblong, punctate -striate, with the 

 intervals tectiform, the infuscate patch extends from the inner side 

 of the outer margin to the other, and varies in shape from a broadly 

 truncate cone to a triangle the point of which reaches about to the 

 median part, while the base is straight and situated at a short 

 distance from the apex. 



This species closely resembles P. wnbraculatus, Boh., and might 

 easily be mistaken for it. The difference between the two is in the 

 shape of the lateral posterior part of the prothorax, which in P. 



