896 Transactions South African PJiilosophical Society. [1902. 



Adorctus albolepidus, Arrow, loc. cit., p. 92 = A. hoplioidcs, Bohem. 



Boheman records this species from Port Natal, but although the 

 three bands of white hairs on the prothorax are less conspicuous 

 (and even sometimes nearly obliterated) in specimens from that 

 locality than in those from the Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg, 

 Zoutpansberg), or from Southern Ehodesia, there is no doubt that 

 the two species are one, and this is also proved by the shape of the 

 genital armature of the male. 



Tribe ANOMALINI. 

 Gen. POPILLIA. 



ropilUa cupijga, Arrow, loc. cit., p. 91. 



Elongated, black, shining, hirtose ; elytra testaceous with the 

 margins infuscate ; head rugose everywhere on the upper side, 

 margin of the clypeus very little reflexed ; prothorax nearly as long 

 as broad, strongly narrowed in the anterior part, and with the 

 posterior angles obtuse, hind margin broadly excised in front of the 

 scutellum, discoidal part coarsely strigoso-punctate, clothed, but not 

 thickly, with whitish hairs, but having a median line and two lateral 

 spaces with the exception of a median punctiform fascicle, denuded ; 

 elytra glabrous, strongly attenuate ]:)ehind, bearing six remote striae, 

 the second stria strongly flexed in the middle ; the punctate pygidium 

 is adorned with four white fascicles ; the propygidium with two 

 transverse ones ; wliole pectiis and all the posterior part abdominal 

 segments hairy-white ; legs black, anterior tibiae bi-dentate, meso- 

 sternum quadrate in front, not projecting ; antennae black. 



Length 10 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hah. Mashonaland (Salisbury). 



I have seen one example of this interesting species, which differs 

 from the other South African ones by the very convex, yet very 

 sloping, pygidium which is ornamented with four hairy patches. 



Tribe PH^XOMEKIINI. 



Gen. PH.^N0MERIS. 



Mr. Arrow identifies as P. rufipennis, Branes., loc. cit., p. 91, the 

 species which I take to lie P. magnifica, Hope, and to which I 

 doubtfully referred the former. 



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