1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 439 



the clypeus which is deeply arcuately emarginate, black ; prothorax 

 with two median fusco-rufescent longitudinal bands acuminate at 

 the apex and a supra-marginal spot of the same colour in the 

 anterior part, the margin itself is very narrowly infuscate all round ; 

 scutellum with the sides narrowly fuscous ; elytra with a quadrate 

 discoidal patch deeply incised laterally and reaching short of the 

 median part, continued as a narrow, sutural line and expanding past 

 the middle in a transverse band wider than the anterior patch, and 

 connected with a supra-apical transverse band of not quite the same 

 width by a short, longitudinal patch, this apical band is sometimes 

 disconnected near the suture, there is also a large humeral infuscate 

 spot ; the greatest part of the pygidium is flavescent, the margins 

 being, however, darker. Head, clypeus, and prothorax deeply 

 punctate, the punctures somewhat closely set ; the elytra have 

 shallow punctures indistinct on the sides, seriate and fairly distinct 

 in the dorsal part ; under side glabrous ; abdomen sparsely and 

 finely punctate, pectus deeply punctate ; sternal process ampliate 

 rounded laterally, somewhat bluntly rounded in front ; pygidium 

 transversely striolate. The tooth of the upper maxillary lobe is 

 plainly bifid, and the inner lobe is slenderly dentate. 



I cannot decide if P. tridcntata, Oliv., is identical with P. cor data, 

 Drury, but I find that the South African species of the latter are, 

 even the females, more elongated than the examples from Kumasi 

 and Senegal, the pattern of the fusco-rufescent bands or patches 

 seems to be less variable, the shape of the genital valves of the 

 males are absolutely similar. 



Length 17-19 mm. ; width 11 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe, Umtali, MtChirinda), 

 Mozambique (Christmas Pass; Inhambane, teste Klug), N'Gami- 

 land, teste J. Thomson. 



Pachnoda marginella, Fabric, 



Syst. Entom., p. 46. 



Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 239, pi. 45, fig. 3. 



cuneata, Klug, Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 660. 



Green, opaque above, shiny underneath, antennae rufescent ; pro- 

 thorax with a not very broad yellow border continued along the 

 lateral and posterior margins ; pygidium with two broad median 

 longitudinal yellow bands divided by a narrow green band and a 

 small white patch at each corner of the base ; abdominal segments 

 each with a short elongated whitish tlavescent band on the upper 



