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fronte transverse flavo maculata; thorace lateribus subparallelis, 
antice sat rotundato, sparsim subtiliter, ad latera fortius punctato, 
maculis tribus indistinctis fuscis vel fusco-nigris, una ad medium 
minuta (interdum vero suffusa juxta basin) alteriaque undique 
obliqua, vel minuta vel basin attingente; scutello subtriangu- 
lari, nitido nigro: elytris fortiter punctato-striatis, punctis ordi- 
natis approximatis, maculis undique 12; 3, 4 (obliquis et ma- 
joribus), 3, et ad apicem 1 ; maculis nigris, plerumque rectangulis, 
oblongis, et striis macularum circumscriptis; corpore subtus 
rufe-fusco vel fusco; abdominis apice et pedibus antennisque 
rufo-flavis. 
Long. corp. 3 lin.; lat. 23 lin. 
One of the more common species, and apparently subject to 
but slight variation: the markings on the elytra are almost 
constant, being very seldom indeed confluent; the thorax is 
subject to greater modification of colour. 
I adopt the name which I find appended to this species, 
although I cannot discover the reference to any description by 
Thunberg in ‘Act. Reg. Soc. Ups.’ vii., where he published 
several, but very insufficient, descriptions of Cape insects. 
6. P. macularis, De}. Cat., n. sp. 
P. ovalis, crebre et sat fortiter punctata, rufo-flava, nigro tristriata ; 
capite valde punctato, nigro, antice et ad medium longitudinaliter 
flavo; thorace angulis anticis subrotundatis, lente et sparsim punc- 
tato, rufo-flavo, maculis 4 irregularibus (aliquando distinctis sub- 
circularibus, aliquando magnis, longitudinaliter dispositis); scu- 
tello subcordiformi, levi, nigro, nitido; elytris sat fortiter punc- 
tatis, ordinibus macularum transversis duabus, hac ad basin plagis 
tribus, illa pone medium maculis (minoribus) tribus instructa ; 
maculis nigris, etiamque aliquando tenuiter sutura marginibusque ; 
corpore subtus nigro, abdominis segmentis rufo-flavis ; antennis 
pedibusque rufo-flavis. . 
Long. corp. lin. 22; lat. lin. 2. 
A common species at the Cape, and one that, being subject 
to some variation of pattern, has been provisionally recorded by 
collectors under different names, as P. lineolata, P. pulchra, &c. 
-It certainly is entirely distinct in all its patterns from P. notata, 
Fab., with which it has been confounded, as being a permanent 
variety. The thorax varies as to pattern, in different examples, 
from rufo-flavous, with four isolated subcircular markings, to 
black, the sides and a medial line only being flavous; and the 
elytra in some specimens before me have the two series of 
markings continued into each other: in all examples, however, 
these longitudinal markings terminate a little behind the middle, 
leaving the apex broadly rufo-flavous. In pattern the species 
approaches P. eburnipennis ; the latter insect, however, besides 
