IN SECT A. 209 



antenme (a third, at least, longer than the body) and by the 

 excavation of the front of the head, will probably have to rank 

 in the ame genus. 



jEnidea ? pretorice, sp. n. (Tab. I. fig. 10.) 



Fulvo-testaceous; head above, scutellum, body underneath, 

 and coxae black; last four or six joints of the antennae fuscous. 

 Face rather short, lower margin of clypeus transversely raised ; 

 vertex impressed transversely between the eyes, and longitu- 

 dinally between the antennse. Sides of prothorax slightly 

 diverging from the base to the anterior third, thence converg- 

 ing; pronotum nitid and impunctate, with a transverse depres- 

 sion just behind the middle. Elytra somewhat elongate, closely 

 but not distinctly punctured ; apices somewhat sharply rounded ; 

 epipleures prolonged up to the apical border. Tibiae unarmed ; 

 first joint of hind tarsi almost as long as the three succeeding 

 joints combined. Antennae ( ? ?) almost as long as the body ; 

 scape slightly curved, third and fifth joints subequal, fourth 

 perceptibly longer, sixth and succeeding joints gradually and 

 very slightly diminishing in length. 



Fam. CASSIDID.E. 



Basipta stolida, Boh. Durban, Natal. 



Cassida punctata, Fabr. Durban, Natal. 



Cassida scripta, Fabr. Pretoria. 



Cassida hybri/la, Boh. Waterberg. 



Cassida lurida, Boh. Zoutpansberg. 



Fam. COCCINELLID/E. 



Adalia flavomaculata, De Geer. Pretoria. 



Cydonia lunata, Fabr. Pretoria. 



Cydonia quadrilineata, Muls. Pretoria. 



Alesia inclusa, Muls. Pretoria. 



E^ochomus nigromaculatus, Goeze. Pretoria. 



Epilachna dreyei, Muls. Pretoria and Durban, 



Natal. 



Epilachna hirta, Thunb. Durban, Natal. 



Epilachna bifasciata, Fabr. Pretoria. 



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