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punctured, and having on each side three short ante-median pale 

 yellow bands situated on the third, fifth, and seventh intervals, the 

 outer band being one-third longer than the other two, and a supra- 

 apical patch consisting of five coalescent, also short bands extending 

 from the third to the eighth, the second and third bands project 

 beyond the base of the others and are proportionately shorter 

 anteriorly, the third and fifth bands are of nearly the same length, 

 the first one is the shortest ; sculpture and vestiture of the under side 

 normal ; abdominal segments not crenulated on their front margin. 



Length 17|-18| mm. ; width 7-8 mm. 



The shape of the prothorax is not unlike that of C. (Episcomus) 

 pretiosus, Chaud., but it is more ampliated in the anterior part, and 

 the outer margins are more strongly reflexed ; the patches of the 

 elytra are quite different from those of C, pretiosus. 



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



TEIBE STOMINI. 



GEN. DISPHJEEICUS, Waterh. 

 DISPH.ERICUS RHODESIANUS, n. sp. 



Black, shining, glabrous ; ultimate antennal joints, somewhat 

 rusty brown ; palpi brown ; head and prothorax impunctate, the 

 former with the two frontal sulci very deep, the latter ampliate 

 ovate with the median longitudinal impressed line very plain and 

 as deep as the supra-lateral one ; elytra ovate, very convex, deeply 

 striate, the striae closely but not deeply piinctate, and the intervals 

 strongly convex, sub-tectiform, and smooth. 



Very closely allied to D. sulcostriatns, Fairm., which it closely 

 resembles, but in the latter, which is also larger, the median 

 longitudinal impressed line on the prothorax is hardly distinct, 

 whereas in D. rhodesianus it is as deep as the supra-lateral one 

 and quite conspicuous. 



Length 7-8 mm. ; width 2f-3 mm. 



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



TEIBE PLATYSMATINI. 



GEN. ABACBTUS, Dej. 

 A 2 . Prothorax, elytra, and legs glabrous ; striae of elytra impunctate. 



B 2 . Inner spur of anterior tibiae bi- or tri-cuspid. 

 Tarsi pluri-sulcate. 



