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colour as the head, turning reddish ochraceous behind ; the 
hind margin of the disc reddish castaneous. Hlytra very 
pale ochraceous, hyaline, with an oblique transverse reddish- 
ochraceous fascia in the middle and the second one of the 
same colour in the apical quarter; neither of these fasciz 
extends over the radial veins or reaches the hind margin. 
Wings perfectly hyaline, with the veins in the fore part 
very pale ochraceous. Front and middle legs with regular 
castaneous rings. Hind femora with two distinct reddish- 
castaneous fasciz on the upper side, and with a row 
of castaneous points along the lower carina of the externo- 
median area, which is almost white; the knees reddish 
ochraceous. Hind tibie bluish, armed with 8-9 pale black- 
tipped spines on each side. The underside of the body dirty 
yellowish. 
Length of the body 17 mm.; of the pronotum 38°5; of 
the elytra 18; of the hind femur 10. 
The unique type of this imteresting imsect was taken by 
Dr. Ch. K. Brain at Kenhardt, Cape Colony, 14. in. 1921. 
The genus is strikingly different from any other known, 
4. Scintharista magnifica, sp. n. 
2. A little smaller and distinctly more slender than 
S. notabilis, Walk.; much like S. forbesi, Burr. Antenne 
thin, extending a little beyond the hind margin of the pro- 
notum. Face vertical; frontal ridge shallowly impressed 
below the ocellus, with the margins very feebly raised, 
slightly approximate at the fastigium, gradually diverging 
between the antenne, slightly but rather suddenly con- 
vergent just before the ocellus, parallel below the latter 
down to the middle of the distance between the ocellus and 
clypeus, where they become distinctly divergent and lowered, 
disappearing without reaching the clypeus. Temporal 
foveole small, triangular, not well-defined. Fastigium of 
the vertex sloping, slightly narrowed anteriorly and pos- 
teriorly, feebly impressed, distinctly longer than broad, with 
a faint indication of a median carinula between the eyes; 
the distance between the eyes exceeds only a little the width 
of the frontal ridge between the antennz. Eyes very feebly 
oblique, rather small, their height subequal to two-thirds of 
the subocular space. Occiput slightly uneven. Pronotum 
distinctly compressed laterally, but scarcely constricted in 
the prozona ; its dise decidedly tectiform, with the median 
keel sharp, in profile slightly arched, deeply intersected by 
the transverse sulcus, which is placed distinctly before the 
