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posterior band reaches the outer margin and is not dilated along 

 it as in natalensis, nor is it so broad; from L. fortuita it differs in 

 the size, the shape of the intervals, which are plane instead of being 

 convex, and also in being glabrous on the upper side. 



Length 4 mm. ; width It mm. 



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



Tbibe CALLIDINI. 

 Gen. POLYAULACUS, Chaud. 



POLYAULACUS PALLIDUS, n. Sp. 



Angustus, supra glaber, parum nitidus ; pallide flavus, capite 

 obscuriore, palporum articulo ultimo sub-infuscato ; capite antice 

 levi a sutura frontali confertim strigillato; prothorace latitudine 

 tertio longiore, antice nonnihil lateraliter ampliato rotundato, deinde 

 recto angulis posticis acutis, basi transverse, supra crebre punctato, 

 linea brevi media instructo ; scutello impunctato ; elytris prothorace 

 nonnihil latioribus, fere parallelis, vix convexis, profunde punctato 

 striatis, interstitiis modice convexis, sub-tectiformibus, sutura leviter 

 infuscata. 



Allied to P. hrunncus, Chaud, but smaller ; it differs by its pale 

 flavous, almost stramineous colour, and the less deeply and more 

 closely punctured prothorax ; the elytra are also slightly more parallel. 



Length 4J-5 mm. ; width If mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Sahsbury). G. A. K. Marshall. 



Tbibe ANTHIINI. 

 Gen. POLYHIRMA, Chaud. 



POLYHIRMA SAMBESINA, n. Sp. 



Nigra, nitida, capite pilis albidis nonnullis, obsito, prothorace 

 vitta longitudinali ab apice ad sextam partem elytrorum longitudinis 

 ducta, elytris macula postica communi lata albo pubescenti ornatis, 

 margine laterali interstitioque supra marginali sparse breviterque 

 albo fimbriatis. Caput nonnihil angustum, profunde quadrifariam 

 impressum, pone oculos antice baud angustius, latitudine duplo 

 longius, supra conferte punctulatum, sulco laterali postico angusto, 

 sub-sinuato, profundo, medium disci hand attingente ; elytra ovalia, 

 latitudine duplo longioria, ad basim modice convexa, deinde sub- 



