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



them and arcuate transverse ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, legs strong, 

 short, tarsi also short, joints of hind ones plainly angular in- 

 wardly, first and second joints also angular outwardly in both 

 sexes. 



The genus is represented by one species in Senegambia, and by 

 another in Central East Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



Prothorax with three longitudinal median, smooth, raised lines in the 

 anterior part ; upper side very closely punctate, all the punctures 

 setigerous leprosa. 



Prothorax with one longitudinal smooth median line, upper side 

 moderately closely punctate; elytra glabrous amakosa. 



Pseudopkot^tia ? lepkosa, Brum., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., v. 1847, p. 560. 



aspersa, Pering., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1896, p. 163. 



Bronze, shiny, covered on the upper side with short, erect, sub- 

 fulvescent hairs, pectus somewhat densely pubescent ; whole upper 

 side splashed with sub-contiguous, sub-opalescent whitish macules, 

 p\ -^idium, sides of abdomen, pectus and femora covered with a white 

 scale-like coating ; frontal part plainly impressed laterally, more 

 deeply punctate in the male than in the female, and densely hairy 

 in the frontal part, in the male especially ; prothorax witli a plain, 

 median smooth line running from apex to base and having on each 

 side a less distinct band coalescing with the median one at about the 

 middle, on each side are two or three faint depressions, and two 

 plainly distinct, especially the inner, along the base, the surface is 

 deeply and irregularly punctured, each puncture is setigerous ; 

 scutellum deeply pitted but with a median smooth longitudinal 

 space; elytra with the dorsal costa tectiform, the stria 1 in the 

 depressed juxta-sutural part are partly linear, partly punctate, on 

 the deflexed sides the punctures are deep, sub-cicatricose, and all 

 setigerous ; pygidium cicatricose punctate, the punctures setigerous ; 

 abdomen and pectus, except the median part, coated with a thick 

 sub-opaline coating ; sides of pectus and legs moderately densely 

 hairy. 



Length 11-12 mm. ; width 7-7i mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg) ; Southern Rhodesia (Sebakwe, 

 Manica, Salisbury). 



I am not quite sure of the identity of T. leprosa, Burm. 



