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the whole of the discoidal part, the elytra have a fuscous band along 

 the scutellum and the suture, and the outer margin is also slightly 

 infuscate, but as often as not the surface is infuscate with the 

 exception of a somewhat broad supra-marginal testaceous band ; 

 clypeus sub-parabolic but a little obtuse in front, and slightly 

 attenuate and rounded latei'ally in the male, less so in the female, 

 vei'y closely and somewhat roughly punctate all over the head ; 

 prothorax covered with deep, round, very closely set punctures ; 

 elytra very deeply punctato-striate and with all the intervals dis- 

 tinctly costate and smooth, on the second interval there are only a 

 few punctures near the base, the inner claw of the anterior and 

 intermediate tarsi is cleft in both sexes, and the anterior one is very 

 broad in the male ; the pygidium in both sexes is covered with 

 almost confluent, sub-scrobiculate, somewhat deep punctures, and 

 the abdomen is very little pubescent ; the anterior tibiae are 

 bi-dentate in the female, but have a third short basal angular 

 tooth in the male. . 



Length lOA— 13 mm. ; width 6-7J mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (between the Zambesi and Limpopo 

 Elvers, Salisbury, Mazoe, Buluwayo), Transvaal (Pienaars Eiver). 



The examples with testaceous elytra and sutural infuscate band 

 resemble very much A. phtlnisica, but the males are at once dis- 

 tinguished by the broader inner anterior claw. 



Anomala fusciceps, Fflhr., 



Plate XLI., fig. 45. 



Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 62. 



Pale testaceous, with the head chestnut-brown, shining, but not 

 metallic, and having the suture and the outer margin of the elytra 

 very narrowly darker ; head very closely and deeply punctured, 

 clypeus shagreened, distinctly attenuate laterally towards the anterior 

 part which is sub-truncate with the angles broadly rounded ; pro- 

 thorax of the normal shape and having only seven setigerous 

 punctures along the outer margin, covered with dense, deep, 

 round punctures, slightly cicatricose, and smaller and still more 

 closely set along the anterior margin, in the male there is a very 

 narrow smooth longitudinal band, and a short, impressed line in the 

 female ; scutellum with punctures of nearly the same size as those 

 on the prothorax, but a little less closely set ; elytra a little elongate 

 and not much ampliate laterally past the median part in the female, 

 deeply punctato-striate and with the four juxta-sutural intervals 



