1902.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 675 



B^. Pygidium with a b<asal line or band. 



Prothorax with a narrow marginal band of scales and a 

 small patch on each side ; elytra red, bristly along the 

 suture and the outer margin ; pygidium with a broad, 

 basal transverse velvety black j)atch nainaqua. 



Prothorax with the scaly outer border, but not the 

 small patch ; elytra pale testaceous, bristly all over ; 

 propygidium with a narrow, but distinct transverse, 

 apical black band saga. 



B'. Pygidium with a longitudinal denuded median band. 



Prothorax with a flavous scaly margin ; elytra reddish 

 brown, bristly along the suture and on the sides ; 

 propygidium with a narrow, velvety, apical line, 

 pygidium covered with whitish flavescent scales, and 

 having in the centre a distinct, longitudinal black 

 band lineola. 



Pachycnema striata, Burm., 



Plate XLII., fig. 8; Plate XLIV., figs. 4, 4a. 



Handb. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 57. 



Head and prothorax black ; elytra reddish-brown and having on 

 each side five broad uninterrupted bands of white scales ; legs 

 brownish red ; head deeply scrobiculate, hairy laterally, clypeus 

 elongate, slightly attenuate towards the apex, little emarginate at tip, 

 and with the outer angles sharply recurved ; prothorax greatly 

 attenuated laterally in the anterior part and not sinuate, the base is 

 arcuate and marginate, and the whole surface is covered with 

 closely set, lanceolate scales interspersed with long, flavescent hairs 

 which are denser on the sides ; scutellum a little longer than broad, 

 covered with dense, large, elongate scales ; elytra ampliated laterally 

 at a short distance from the shoulder in both sexes, and with the 

 humeral callus very pronounced, somewhat depressed in the 

 centre below the scutellum, and having on each side four slightly 

 raised costae, smooth and denuded in the male, but bearing a row 

 of remote black bristles, they are punctate and partly clothed with 

 flavous hair-like appressed scales, while the five intervals are 

 covered with small, nearly contiguous scales, white in the male, 

 yellowish in the female ; pygidium entirely covered with yellowish- 

 white scales ; abdomen and under side densely hairy ; anterior tibiae 

 with four strong outer teeth the two anterior of which are connate 

 at base, but are nearer to the third than the basal one, which is a 

 little less sharp than the other three, but broader and a little 

 shorter ; trochanters of posterior legs produced in the male into 



