Rev. H. Clark on the Chrysomelide of South Africa, 171 
interiore inter strias 3. et 6. subtriangulari, exteriore inter striam 7. 
et marginem ; margo ipse ab humeris ad apicem flavescit ; corpore 
subtus, pedibus antennisque nigris. 
Long. corp. 2¢ lin., lat. 2 lin. 
The above diagnosis will separate this species from all others 
that have come before me; from several it is clearly separated 
also by its form (not rotundate, but subparallel) and its size. 
Its markings may be thus concisely expressed :—(1) humeral, 
continuous from the suture, round the shoulder, to the margin ; 
(2) antemedial, two distinct, circular, isolated, equidistant, and 
equal spots; (3) postmedial, two spots, not equal, not isolated, 
not circular, placed somewhat obliquely, the external being in 
front of the interior; (4) apical, two spots irregular in form, 
smaller than the preceding, each of them confluent with a flavous 
apex (but not reaching the apex), and the inner one confluent 
also with the inner postmedial marking; the surface of the 
thorax also, which is tolerably equally punctate throughout as 
to the arrangement of the punctures, separates the species clearly 
from some of its allies. 
A single specimen from M. Chevrolat’s collection from the 
Cape. 
24, P. multifida, Chev. (Dej. Cat.), n. sp. 
P, ovalis, sat robusta, punctato-striata, eneo-nigra, nitida; capite 
subruguloso, interdum etiam fovea obsoleta transversa, nigro ; 
thorace lateribus obliquis et antice rotundatis (leviter marginatis), 
angulis anticis sat acutis; disco ad medium lente et regulariter, ad 
latera fortiter et confusim punctato; scutello levi, nigro ; elytris 
lateribus parallelis, punctato-striatis, maculis flavis ineequalibus 
undique ornatis, macule hoc ordine dispositee sunt—serie prima 
(ad basin) macula una, magna, circularis, scutellum penitus at- 
tingens inter strias 1. et 5.; secunda ante medium litura una, 
subquadrata, inter strias 4. et 7.; tertia post medium macule due, 
hee interior, inter strias 2. et 7. transversa, irregularis (juxta su- 
turam latior, marginem versus attenuatior), illa exterior inter strias 
8. et 10. marginem attingit ; quarta subapicali macule duz dis- 
positee sunt, inter strias 2. et 6., iterumque inter strias 6. et 10., sub- 
confluentes, forma irregulares, heec juxta suturam cum vitta flava 
connectitur ; margo etiam ipse omnino flavus est : corpore subtus, 
pedibus antennisque nigris. 
Long. corp. lin. 33; lat. lin. 23. 
Not far removed in pattern from A. szmulator, with which it 
has been confounded in cabinets: it is, at first sight, like it in 
general markings; but the thorax is narrower and less parallel, 
the size is larger, the colouring is ceneous black (not black), and 
the markings themselves are larger in size, greater in number, 
and somewhat differently arranged. I have drawn up the above 
description from two specimens in my cabinet (from Thom- 
