1907.] Catalogue of the Coleojrtera of South Africa. 451 



Hab. Cape Colony (Kimberley) ; Orange Eiver Colony (Vrede- 

 ford) ; Transvaal (Lydenburg, Pietersburg, Waterburg, Pretoria, 

 Leysdorp, Rustenbiu'g) ; Natal (Weenen, Durban) ; Bechuanaland 

 (Ramoutsa) ; Southern Rhodesia (Bulawayo, Salisbury, Upper 

 Limpopo, Enkeldoorn, Sebakwe). 



NlPHETOPHOEA RH0DE8IANA, n. Sp. 



Rufescent metallic on the under side, light testaceous opaque on 

 the upper ; frontal part fuscous-green maculated with white ; pro- 

 thorax with two longitudinal, median, fuscous-green bands and a 

 supra-basal median spot, sides maculated with fuscous green, the 

 macules interspaced with numerous white dots ; scutellum con- 

 colorous ; elytra very numerously maculated with fuscous spots 

 forming an irregular patch and sprinkled over with equally 

 numerous white dots ; antennae sub-rufescent, antennal club nearly 

 as long as the pedicel in the male ; clypeus closely punctulate, 

 frontal part punctate on each side only ; on the prothorax the 

 punctures are not very closely set, and on the sides they are filled 

 with a white coating, irrespective of the white splashed dots ; 

 scutellum impunctate ; elytra uni-costate, the inner dorsal costa is 

 geminate striate, and the suture which is highly carinate behind 

 ends in a distinctly long spine ; pygidium punctulate and with short, 

 appressed, scale-like hairs and sprinkled with minute white spots ; 

 sides of abdominal segments with a white macule, punctate, the 

 punctures squamose. 



I have seen one male example only. 



Length 11^ mm. ; width 6 mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Umtali). 



Gen. PORPHYRONOTA, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., in., 1842, p. 622. 



Poecilophila, Kolbe, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1893, p. 210. 



Mentum sub-parallel, convex at the junction with the ligular part, 

 slightly sinuate in front with the outer angles moderately rounded, 

 and twice as long as broad ; last joint of palps of the normal shape ; 

 maxillae not very robust, provided at the tip with a short, bifid 

 tooth, the diverging points of which coalesce on the left maxilla, and 

 with a small inner tooth partly hidden by the thick fringe of hairs 

 lining the inner part for half the length ; clypeus moderately 

 acuminate, scooped more or less deeply in front, and with the outer 

 angles triangularly recurved ; prothorax diagonally ampliated from 



