432 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Originally described from Senegal. The var. with red thorax 

 is much more abundant in the South African area than the type 

 form which is met with in the northern limit only. 



PSEUDOCLIXTERIA CINCTICOLLIS, Burm., 



Handb. d. Entom., v., p. 554. 



Black, glabrous, moderately opaque on the upper side ; the 

 prothorax is fiavous with a very broad median black patch very 

 variable in shape ; the anterior margin is occasionally infuscate, and 

 there is on each side of the anterior part a supra-lateral black dot 

 which coalesces with the dorsal patch when the latter is greatly 

 developed. Head and clypeus deeply and closely punctate ; 

 prothorax moderately closely punctate, and very narrowly edged 

 with black along the base ; elytra plainly attenuate in the posterior 

 part, being one-third narrower at apex than at base, very faintly 

 bi-costulate, and with the suture plainly raised in the posterior part, 

 the dorsal surface bears regular series of somewhat small, ovate, 

 cicatricose, non-coalescing punctures, the deflexed part is rugulose, 

 almost reticulate; under side as in the preceding species, sternal 

 process grooved for the greatest part of the length, and sparingly 

 punctate, the suture is distinct. 



Length 10i-12i mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



II, th. Bechuan aland; Northern Damaraland; Southern Ehodesia 

 (Plumtree). 



Gboup PACHNODII. 



In this group are included three genera, Pachnoda, Atrichia, and 

 Bhabdotis, the hind tarsi of which in several species approximate 

 somewhat in shape those of the Goliathii. In Pachnoda and 

 Bhabdotis the median part of the anterior margin of the prothorax is 

 angular or tuberculate as in the first group of the Goliathii. 



Gen. ATRICHIA, Schocb., 

 Mith. Schw., Ent. Gesels., ix., 189G, p. 199. 

 Mention parallel, deeply incised in front, with the angles rounded, 

 palpi of normal shape, upper and inner lobe of maxillae sharply 

 toothed and densely eiliate ; clypeus sub-parallel, sinuate in the 

 centre of the anterior part, and with the anterior margin plainly 

 reflexed ; antenna! club of 3 slightly shorter than the pedicel ; head 

 pubescent; prothorax greatly attenuated in front, and slightly 

 tuberculate in the centre, sinuate above the scutellum, which is 



