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nected on the upper inner edge with the lateral band, and also con- 

 tinued transversely across the median part of the apical margin. I 

 have seen examples in which the prothoracic bands as well as the 

 elytral hand and spot have invaded the whole of the disk, leaving 

 only a very narrow line of the reddish and flavescent oi'iginal hack- 

 ground uncovered, the under side in this melanic variety is also 

 black ; head and clypeus deeply but not closely punctate, the punc- 

 tures being somewhat cicatricose ; prothorax deeply punctate except 

 on a broad, longitudinal median area, these punctures are round and 

 separated by a space equal to their own diameter, but close to the 

 outer margin they become transversal ; scutellum sparingly punc- 

 tate ; elytra somewhat short, covered with round punctures, closely 

 set but not seriate, and having no traces of costules ; pygidium 

 rufescent, closely plicatulate transversely ; abdomen very weakly 

 punctate in the male, more deeply so in the female, but the meta- 

 sternum is deeply punctate in both, and moderately briefly 

 pubescent. 



Length 15— 15$ mm. : width 8-8$ mm. 



Originally described by Harold from West Central Africa. This 

 species is recorded in South Africa from Southern Ehodesia (Mazoe, 

 Victoria Falls, Sebakwe, Salisbury, Umcheki River), and also from 

 the Transvaal (Waterberg). 



Found on flowering shrubs (G. A. K. Marshall ; D. Dod). 



Gen. PLJESIOKRHINA, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iii., p. 211. 



Dyspilophora, Kraatz, Entom. Monatsb., ii., 1880, p. 27. 



Mentum broader or slightly broader at apex than at base but with 

 the sides parallel ; inner lobe of maxillae simple, upper lobe short, 

 more or less sharply toothed ; head and clypeus simple in both 

 sexes, the latter is sub-parallel, carinate above the sides, broadly but 

 not deeply emarginate in front ; prothorax of the normal shape ; 

 scutellum as broad as long, not very much elongated, but sharp at 

 apex : elytra elongated, parallel and not attenuated behind (Plasior- 

 rhina), or only very slightly so {Dyspilophora); sternal process 

 elongated, slender, strongly curving upwards at apex ; anterior tibia' 

 dentate at apes only in both sexes ; intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 simple ainl moderately pubescent inwardly in both sexes of Dys 

 j>h<>r,i and also in the T of /'/,, tiorrhina, but dilated in the centre 

 inwardly and with a long pubescence in the posterior part of the 

 hind tibiae in the J of Plcesiorrhina. 



The genus is represented in Senegambia, Guinea, Tropical Eastern 



