■134 Mr. G. J. Arrow on the 



A single male specimen was found by Mr. G. A. K. 

 Marshall. 



It is broadly oval, strongly punctured, opaque, and pubes- 

 cent. Its upper surface is sprinkled with white spots, 

 formed of clusters of white decumbent setie, situated at the 

 margins o£ the pronotum, upon the posterior lobe, the basal 

 margin of the elytra, tliree other transverse ranges, and the 

 apical angles. The antenna of tlie male scarcely differs f lom 

 that of G. serra, except that tlie last joint is more deeply 

 emarginate at the end, becoming slightly bilobed. 



Genus Thaumaglossa. 



Anthrenus ovaUs, Fleut., is evidently the common Thauma- 

 glossa rufocapillata, Redt. 



Thaumaglossa rufocincta, sp. n. 



Nigra, antennis, pedibus, abdomine, fasciaque elytrorum lata, medio 

 nonnunquam interrupta, extus dilatata et ad humeros producta, 

 rulis ; corpore supra et subtus sat sequaliter pubescenti, capitis et 

 prothoracis pilis tiavis, fasciae rufescentibus ; pronoto baud lato, 

 subtiliter sat parce puuctato, elytris fortius et densius. 



Long. 3-4 mm. 



Hah. Rhodesia : Salisbury. 



Both sexes were taken by Mr. G. A. K. Alarshall, by 

 whom they have been presented to the British Museum. 

 They were found flying in the sun and also beaten out of a 

 tree (^Zizyphus). 



It is a very distinct species, with a transverse red band 

 upon the elytra, such as reappears so frequently in the diffe- 

 rent genera of Dermestidge. This band broadens from the 

 suture to the sides, where it reaches the shoulders, the front 

 margin being oblique, while the hind margin is almost 

 straight. The upper surface of the body is less closely punc- 

 tured than it is in the common T. rufocapillata, and the siiape 

 is less broad. The large terminal joint of the antenna of the 

 male is shorter, being little longer from base to apex than its 

 width at the base, and the eight joints forming the foot stalk 

 are very short, the last four gradually dilating to the point 

 of attachment beneath the club. In the female the last joint 

 is nearly spherical, the three preceding ones progressively 

 enlarged, and the penultimate rather rectangular. 



Thaumaglossa oothecohia, sp. n. 

 Nigra, pygidio, vel abdomine toto, antennis, tarsis elytrorumquo 



