1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 467 



PSEUDOPROT^TIA AMAKOSA, Bohem., 



Plate XLVIL, fig. 32. 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 30. 

 ? stictica, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entom. Zeitsch., 1882, p. 70. 



Bronze, shiny ; prothorax with two discoidal, plain rows of slightly 

 flavescent or flavescent-whitish macules, and also a supra-marginal 

 and a marginal one ; scutellum with a lateral patch ; elytra very 

 numerously maculated with the same colour ; greatest part of 

 pygidium almost completely covered with large patches ; the under 

 side, except the median part of the abdomen and the pectus, are 

 covered with a flavescent coating ; anterior margin of clypeus almost 

 straight, the median part slightly sub-bidentate in the male, in 

 which sex the frontal part is sub-bifoveate, densely villose, and 

 moderately closely punctate ; the prothorax is moderately closely 

 punctate, the punctures being elongated and somewhat close to each 

 other on the sides, but the median part and also the arcuate part of 

 the base are smooth, each puncture is very briefly setigerous ; 

 scutellum smooth, but narrowly punctate along the base ; epimera 

 deeply punctate ; elytra slightly attenuate behind, the basal part is 

 sparsely punctate for some distance from the base, the striae in tbe 

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

 the deflexed sides the punctures are ovate, but towards the margin 

 they turn to transverse folds, and all the punctures are glabrous ; 

 pygidium closely cicatricose punctate ; sides of pectus and legs very 

 briefly pubescent. 



Length 11-12 mm. ; width 6f mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pietersburg, Lydenburg, Eustenburg) ; Southern 

 Bhodesia (Molopos, Salisbury, Bulawayo, Enkeldoorn, Sebakwe, 

 Victoria Falls, Manica, Mtoko, Umfuli Biver). 



Gen. TBYMODEBA, Gerst., 

 Arch. f. Naturgesch., 33, 1866, p. 34. 

 Charadria, Schoch., Mith. Schw. Ent. Ges., 1898, p. 175. 



Mentum of exactly the same shape as in Eaceloma ; maxillary 

 lobes moderately robust, upper lobe sharply mucronate but not 

 hooked at tip, thickly penicillate ; apical joint of maxillary palps 

 truncate at tip ; clypeus deeply incised laterally at the base, slightly 

 ampliate there in the centre, the anterior angles are broadly rounded 

 and the anterior margin deeply and somewhat broadly incised ; head 

 simple in both sexes ; prothorax diagonally ampliate laterally in the 



