Coleoptera from South Africa. 165 



scent, a little brighter than on the upper part, lateral part of 

 abdominal segments with one irregular, elougated, somewhat 

 indistinct, denuded patch. Length 23, width 9 mm. 



Hab. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



P. stataria, n. sp. 

 Bright bronze with the prothorax and underside brassy ; head 

 foveate, impressed in the anterior part, faintly grooved longitu- 

 dinally on the vertex ; prothorax very slightly attenuated laterally 

 in the anterior part, nearly straight from thence to the base, but a 

 little sinuated above it, moderately plane, with the disk separated 

 from the outersides by a deep and well defined longitudinal sulcus 

 reaching from some distance from the apex to the base, both disk 

 and sides roughly foveate, median impression on the former very 

 indistinct except beyond the middle ; elytra sinuated laterally in the 

 anterior part, acuminated from beyond the middle to the apex, which 

 ends in a short, sutural spine, convex iti the anterior part and 

 moderately depressed behind, faintly punctate-striate, with the in- 

 tervals not raised, impunctate and separated at a distance of about 

 one centimetre by a little quadrate patch of very fine punctures, 

 and having on each side a moderately broad supra-marginal 

 greyish-white pubescent band reaching from base to apex ; the 

 tessellation of the intervals of the elytra is rather indistinct ; 

 underside roughly punctured, the punctures pubescent. Length 

 26, width 10 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



P. intrusa, n. sp. 

 Bright bronze on the upper and under sides ; head very rugose, 

 slightly pubescent, and with a median longitudinal, smooth, raised 

 line ; prothorax a little attenuated in the anterior lateral part, 

 nearly straight from thence to the base, almost plane on the disk, 

 which is deeply sulcate laterally from the median part to the base 

 and has also two superimposed, round impressions on each side of 

 the median longitudinal groove, which is very shallow and more 

 distinct iu the anterior part ; elytra in the middle slightly broader 

 than the basal part, moderately aculeate behind, bi-spinose on each 

 side of the apex, with very short pubescence behind, deeply 

 punctate-striate, with the intervals also deeply and closely punc- 

 tured, the alternate ones tessellated ; underside roughly punc- 

 tured, with short pubescence. Length 20, width 8 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



