614 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vol. xii. 



This species varies much in the coloration of the elytra, but it is 

 not difficult to find intermediate forms between those with concolorous 

 wing covers and those with a very broad black discoidal l)and ; this 

 latter is the P. limhata, Bohem., and any doubt as to its being 

 identical with P. hipunctata is at once removed by the examination 

 of the genital armatures of the male, which are absolutely similar. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Knysna, Graham's Town, Uitenhage, 

 Kimberley, Bedford, Somerset East, King William's Town, Fort 

 Beaufort, East London, Port St. John's) ; Natal (everywhere) ; 

 Orange Eiver Colony and Transvaal (the whole territory), Mozam- 

 bique ; probably the whole of Eastern Africa ; occurs also on the 

 "West Coast, teste Kolbe. 



POPILLIA LAETANS, U. SpeC. 



Head, prothorax, scutellum, and legs coppery, under side darker 

 bronze ; elytra flavous with the suture, and a narrow marginal line 

 bronze ; pygidium with two transverse patches of appressed white 

 hairs, abdominal segments with a lateral band of similar hairs ; this 

 species is very much like PopilUa hipunctata, the clypeus is, how- 

 ever, more rounded laterally, the shape and sculpture of the 

 prothorax is the same, but the scutellum is shorter, more triangular 

 and closely punctured ; the elytra are more roundly ampliated 

 laterally at about the median part, and have a deep, long, and broad 

 impression reaching from the seventh stria to the outer margin, the 

 striaB are deeper and more deeply punctured, the intervals are plainly 

 costate; the basal outer tooth of the anterior tibiae is short and 

 moderately sharp, but the apical one is very long and sub-horizontal, 

 and the outer claw of the intermediate tarsi is slightly cleft ; the 

 mesosternum is produced into a compressed obtusely triangular 

 process, as broad at the base as long ; pygidium closely punctate in 

 the centre, strigose laterally, and not quite so horizontal as in P. 

 hipunctata. 



Length 9 J mm. ; width 5^ mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Manica). 



POPILLIA MAJOR, Arr., 



Annals and Magaz. Nat. Hist., 1899, vol. vi., 7th ser., p. 120. 



Head and prothorax coppery, under side and legs bronze-black with 

 the tarsi piceous red ; elytra testaceous yellow with the whole of the 

 posterior part bronze-black, and having also a narx'ow sutural bronze 

 line, glabrous on the upper side, and with two transverse patches of 



