Coleoptera from South Africa. 185 



P. i^rasinus, n. sp. 



The description of the preceding species applies to the present 

 one but the elytra have no greenish-white patch whatever, and the 

 whole of the upper part is not only densely squamose but also 

 briefly and densely pubescent and the prothorax is a little less 

 attenuate in the anterior part. Length 20-21, width 7-7f mm. 



Hob. Zambezia (Buluwayo). 



P. decorus, n. sp. 



Black, covered witli a very short, greyish pubescence ; pro- 

 thorax with a moderately broad, lateral whitish band ; elytra wdth 

 a lateral whitish band beginning near the shoulder, broadly dilated 

 before the median part where it reaches the fourth costa, narrowed 

 from thence and running along the seventh and eighth intervals to 

 a short distance from the apex, also with a diagonal band of the 

 same colour extending from the third interval to the suture, a 

 little beyond the median part of the disk ; head and rostrum 

 longitudinally plicate, the former with a median longitudinal 

 groove ; prothorax not broader than the head at the apex, gradually 

 ampliated from the apex to the base, the outer angles of w^hich are 

 distinctly acute, very closely granulate and with a narrow, shallow, 

 pubescent median longitudinal groove ; elytra almost truncate at 

 the base, with the shoulders hardly sloping, a little attenuate 

 behind, but not at all dilated laterally in the median part, punctate- 

 striate from the base to the middle, with the intervals slightly 

 raised and rounded : underside with long pubescence ; the joints 

 of the tarsi broad, the terminal one not very much broader than 

 the others. Length 17, width 6 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Allied to P. longiconiU and P. vestitus, Fahr. It differs 

 from tbe former in havinc^ comparatively short and more 

 slender antennae ; the prothorax is narrower ; the lateral 

 white lunule of the elytra projects more towards the 

 centre and is produced behind in a narrow band, and the 

 sutural, post-median patch is in the shape of a diagonal 

 band, the elytra themselves also being broader. 



Gen. CiMBUs, Schonh. 



C. viridanus, n. sp. 

 Black, covered with green scales, these being denser along the 

 outer part of the prothorax and elytra ; rostrum a little narrower 

 at apex than at base, grooved from the basal part to near the apex, 



