570 Mr. G. C. Champion on 
Phidodonta chirinda, sp. n. 
Body elongate, black, subnitid. 
Head yugose, with a median suleation and with a row of 
silvery hairs round each eye. ‘The first joint of the antenne 
is stout, bearing a dorsal spine, the third joint longer than 
the second, which is rounded ; the fourth, fifth, and sixth 
rounded and almost equal, these joints bear a few bristly hairs ; 
the five apical joints covered with brown pubescence ; the 
apical joint pointed. Prothorax almost as long as broad, with 
the sides rounded ; on each side three small blunt horizontal 
spines, the first two having a common base, the third being 
distant from the other two; on the front margin almost 
near the anterior angles there are two pairs of spines also 
pointing horizontally outwards. ‘The dise is rugose and 
scattered over with adpressed silvery hairs ; the transverse 
shaliow depression behind the middle is more pronounced 
than the anterior one; on the alternate elevations in the 
middle there are small clear granulate areas with a central 
longitudinal impression, Sceutellum broad, granulate, with a 
depression in the middle, the apex rounded. Jilytra broader 
at the base than the prothorax, without hats, and tuberculate ; 
on each elytron there are eight ill-defined rows of large 
punctures, which are rounded or more or less hexagonal, some 
of them coalescing; the margins are toothed, with three or 
four spines at the apex. 
Length 4 mm. 
Mashonaland: Mt. Chirinda (type-locality), Nov.—Dec. 
1901 (G. A. K. Marshall) ; Upper Buzi River, Portuguese 
Kast Africa, 25. 9. 1905 (G. A. K. Marshall). 
Type in the British Museum. 
Described from six examples. 
LXVIII.—The S. African Species of Attalus, Hr., and some 
altied Forms | Coleoptera]. By G. C. Cuamrton, F.Z.S. 
In the March number of this Magazine, pp. 217-242, the 
present writer gave an account of the numerous S. African 
species of Hébeus, Er., the 8 ¢ of which exhibit remarkable 
characters in the structure of the apices of the elytra, &c. 
In the present contribution, A?¢talus, Er., and some allied 
genera are dealt within the same way, most of these insects 
