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not only in the livery but also in the shape of the prothorax, which 

 is much less ampliated laterally towards the base and has there a 

 very sharply hooked tubercle ; the tubercles on the forehead are 

 much more developed, and while the two lower ones are inermous, 

 the central and the two upper ones bear short bristles ; the elytra 

 are more deeply coarctate laterally, and the sides of the abdomen 

 show therefore more than in P. exasperans ; in my example the 

 transverse, fiexuose white lines are obliterated on the anterior 

 discoidal part, but traces of them are plainly noticeable on the 

 sides, and the space of the background separating the post-median 

 band from the supra-apical one has a dark velvety appearance ; at 

 the very apex of the elytra are also one or two wavy, interrupted, 

 transverse white lineoles. 



Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). G. A. K. Marshall. 



Phlocteis elegans, n. sp. 

 Plate VI., fig. 8. 



Atro-cyanea, capite prothoraceque tomento albido nigro variegato 

 obsitis, illo longitudinaliter canaliculato, vertice fulvo sub-fasciculoso, 

 hoc longitudine vix latiore, lateribus ab apice pone medium oblique 

 ampliatus, deinde basi attenuatis, vix sinuatis at angulo postico 

 acuto, supra antice leviter quadri-impresso, postice utrinque 

 excavato ; scutellum elongatum, acutum ; elytra prothorace basi 

 angustiora, ad medium valde sinuata at abdomine baud angustiora, 

 deinde perparum ampliata, apice leviter attenuata, singulatim sub- 

 rotundata, supra plana humeris callosis, crebre punctata, baud 

 costulata, tomento atro velutino obsita, a basi ultra medium albido 

 variegata, fascia communi sinuata lata post medium sita, et intra 

 apicem lituris plagisque nonnullis albis ornata; corpus subtus 

 cyaneum, sterno strigoso, abdominis segmentis punctatis, lateribus 

 dense albo sericeis. 



Long. 11 mm. ; lat. 4 mm. 



The shape and the livery of this handsome species is almost 

 similar to that of P. immunita, Fahr, but it is considerably larger, 

 the prothorax is much more ampliated laterally and not sinuate there 

 at about the median part ; in my examples of P. immunita the elytra 

 are clothed from the base to two-thirds of the length with a silky 

 white tomentum, and two or three round velvety black spots on each 

 side of the suture, whereas in P. elegans the black tomentum pre- 

 dominates and is sparsely variegated with white. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe). Delancey Dods. 



