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not densely scaly ; elytra with a very faint, dorsal, longitudinal, 

 raised line, and having on each side a juxta-sutural band of white scales, 

 and a much shorter one along the humeral callus ; the edge of the 

 propygidium is scaly, the pygidium is clothed with not closely set, 

 appressed greyish, squamose hairs, but the abdomen and the whole 

 pectus are covered with large, conspicuous, silver-white scales ; legs 

 with squamose whitish appressed hairs, hind legs slender, simple, hind 

 tibiae without apical spur. 



Differs from Ci. lineolata in the shape of the clypeus, and the 

 bands of scales on the elytra are not similarly disposed. 



Length 6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). 



? GouNA viTTiGERA, Burm., 

 Gymnoloma vittigera, Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 1, p. 162. 



Burmeister places this species next to Gipnnoloma lirieolata. I 

 have not been able to identify it, nor have I seen the co-type, but 

 judging from his description, which I repeat here, it is quite possible 

 that it should be included in the genus Gouna. 



" Black, squamose, prothorax marginate with white ; elytra with 

 four bands, the internal ones broader than the others. 



Length 8=^ lin. 



Communicated by Herr v. Winthem. Altogether like G. lineolata 

 in general conformation, but covered everywhere with regularly 

 disposed scales ; clypeus a little broader, frontal part and vertex 

 with white scales ; prothorax black, white on the sides and having 

 two bands projecting from the ])lack base to the limit of the scales, 

 the median line is whiter and deeper ; scutellum scaly ; elytra with 

 four longitudinal white bands, the two near the suture broader and 

 longer than the other two which are narrower and shorter, between 

 the two juxta-sutural bands and the suture there is a sprinkling of 

 white scales ; pectus and hind part of the body scaly, but not the 

 edges of the abdominal segments ; legs black, femora and tibiae 

 sprinkled with white scales." 



Hab. Cape Colony. 



Gen. SCELOPHYSA, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entomol, iv., 1, 1844, p. 168. 



Mentum broad, ovate, constricted laterally towards the apex, 



dilated thence, shghtly sinuate at the tip, with the angles oblique and 



feebly penicillate, maxillae robust, inner lobe reduced to a point, 



