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quadrate patch ; prothorax as broad as long, ovate not wider at the 

 base than across the anterior part, scrobiculate, the scrobes divided 

 by a very thin wall, the two posterior basal impressions deep, but 

 somewhat short, the median line deep ; elytra elongate-ovate, but 

 somewhat ampliated in the posterior part ( ? ), highly costate, each 

 costa with two rows of punctures bearing stiff, upright, fairly long 

 bristle-like hairs curving backwards at tip, the first dorsal patch 

 consists of three elongated bands extending from the third to the 

 sixth stria, these bands coalesce in the interstices, and the first one 

 is longer than the other two, the posterior supra-apical one is in 

 the shape of a narrow transverse band reaching from the first to the 

 seventh stria, the ninth or outer costa is yellowish- white from the 

 base to the apex, and the apical part of the eighth and in a lesser 

 degree of the seventh is also suffused with the same colour. 



Differs from Z. tristis, Pering., by the less elongated and very 

 closely scrobiculate prothorax which is almost roughly shagreened 

 instead of the punctures being separated by smooth intervals as in 

 Z. tristis; the elytra are more ampliated, more highly costate, and 

 the disposition of the yellowish-white markings is different. 



Length 16 mm. ; width 6 rnm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Umtali). A. Bodong. 



GEN. CALLISTOMIMUS, Chaud. 

 CALLISTOMIMUS PLACENS, n. sp. 



Testaceous-red, with the basal joints of the elytra and the legs 

 more flavescent ; elytra testaceous but having cloudy greenish longi- 

 tudinal markings along the first seven intervals, these greenish 

 lines, which are somewhat interrupted, reach on the third and fourth 

 intervals from near the base to slightly past the median part, they 

 are shorter on the fifth aiid sixth, while on the first and second they 

 begin at some distance from the base and reach further behind 

 where they meet a transverse, somewhat zigzagged, evanescent band 

 of the same colour ; the head and prothorax are covered with nearly 

 contiguous deep punctures separated by a slightly raised wall, the 

 intervals of the deeply striate elytra are shagreened and briefly 

 pubescent, and the pubescence is pale yellow. 



The nearest South African ally of this species is C. itisiictus, but 

 the elytra are much less strongly shagreened, and the pattern of the 

 elytra is different. 



Length 6| mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe). D. Dods. 



