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clothed with yellowish-white hairs ; up to the middle band with rows 

 of coarse pit-like punctures, the punctures behind the middle band, 

 becoming smaller, disappearing before the apex. Legs black, with 

 long white pubescence. Metasternum and the first abdominal 

 segments red. 



Synoptic Table of the African Species of Thanasimus with red base 



of the elytra. 



1. Head black. 



2. Prothorax black. 



3. Head and prothorax coarsely punctate ; antennas yellowish brown ; under 

 side black cajncola, Westvv. 



3a. Head and prothorax finely rugulose ; antennae black ; metasternum and base 



of abdomen red pectoralis, n. sp. 



2a. Prothorax not entirely black. 



4. Prothorax red, black in front ; band before the apex white ; under side 

 black mntilluides, Hintz. 



4a. Prothorax black, red in front ; whole apex of elytra yellowish white ; abdomen 



reddish brown, with black apex ifeisei, Hintz. 



la. Head red. 



5. Elytra with red basal half, white middle band, and a white shoulder-spot ; 

 length 14 mm iiersicolor, Chevr. 



5a. Elytra in front, red along the suture only, spotted with black, two bands and 

 the apex with yellowish-white pubescence ; length 4-5 mm. . . hintzi, Schklg.* 



Gen. STIGMATIUM, Gray. 



Stigmatium rhodesianum, n. sp. (Sub-Gen, Stigmatium, s. str.) 



Convexum, opacum, nigrimi, nigro-setosu7n, prothorace elytro- 

 rumque basi rufis, elytris albo-maculatis, capite subtiliter pimctulato, 

 prothorace dense granuloso, elytris antice grosse seriatim punctatis, 

 corpore subtus, antennis pedibusque nigris. — Long. 7*5 mm. — 

 Ehodesia (Sebakwe). 



Head tolerably finely and densely punctate, with solitary black 

 hairs, in front with longer white hairs, antennae black, distinctly 

 serrated. Prothorax red, densely granulated, with a sharp trans- 

 verse impression behind the anterior margin, beset with longer 

 black and some paler hairs. Elytra red in front for about one-fifth, 

 then black, in front with very strong, somewhat irregular rows of 

 punctures, the punctures indistinct behind the middle, the inter- 

 spaces and the suture beset with solitary granules; on the black 

 part of the elytra are four whitish-yellow hairy spots, namely, one 

 on each side of the margin a little before the middle, a common 



* This name was proposed by me in "Genera Insectorum, Fam. Cleridas " 

 (Brussels, 1903), for Thanasimus hifasciatus, Hintz (1902), as the latter name had 

 alre.idy been given by Kraatz in 1900 to a species from Ceylon, 



