( ifio ) 



.-■liots as a n^e. Mesosteriiuni alinnst evonly ronndetl iu S, obtusely tuberculate 

 ill ?. 



Uk//. Cape Colony to Delagoa Bay and Transvaal. 



Ti/fC from Transvaal. 



(/)) P. lactator phtpntrix (18',)3) Kolbe, Stett. Eat. Zc.it. j). 264 (Usambara). 



S ?. Frontal jiatch rednced ; no large white patch behind eye; granulation 

 of elytra more restricted than in the ])rcceding, especially in cJ, lateral posthnmeral 

 pnncturatiou heavier ; underside with a white lateral stnpe which remains lateral 

 on abdomen and is in i abbreviated ; the greater i>art of the metasternnm brown; 

 mesosternum strongly tuberculate in both sexes. 



Huh. German and Britisli East Africa. 



A i specimen from Lauderdale, Nyassaland, is rather more elongate, reminding 

 one of the form poggei. 



{r) P. lactator mashuna (1899) Bering., A7in. S. A/r. Miis. i. p. 324. t. 7. f. 5. 

 (Zambesia). 

 Similar to poggei, but frons with white quadrate area. Nut known to me. 

 JJab. " Zambesia." 



((/) P. lactator poggei (1878) Harold, Mitth. Milnch. Ent. Ver. p. 110 (Interior 

 of Angola). 



J ?. Elonc'-atc ; frons without spot ; pronotal patches small or absent ; basal 

 and subapical patches of elytra reduced, granulation restricted ; underside with 

 white side-stripe from head to end of metasternum in both sexes ; mesosteruuna 

 evenly rounded or obtusely tuberculate. Scutellum slightly sinuate. 



Uab. Angola. 



(e) P. lactator lactator (1802) Fabr., Syst. Eleuth. \). 283 (Guinea). 

 Syn. : Lamia radiata (1835) Gory, Ann. Soc. Ent. France p. 141. t. 2. A. f. 2 (Abyssinia). 



cJ ¥ . Scape of antenna not shorter than third segment in ? . Frontal patch 

 square or absent ; patch behind eye large ; pronotal patches abbreviated ; basal 

 patch of elytra also abbreviated, middle and subapical patches reduced, granu- 

 lation restricted to shoulder ; white strijie of underside remaining lateral on 

 abdomen and reaching last segment (c? or stopping at apex of metasternum ; 

 mesosternum slightly tnberculated. 



JIad. West Africa and Abyssinia. 



.57. Alphitopola lutea spec. nov. 



S. Of the same pale colour as pallida, ditferiug like this obviously from 

 bipunctata in the pale rufous antenna and legs. Eye obviously smaller than in 

 either species, the cheek being higher at the narrowest \m\ii than the scape of the 

 antenna is broad at end. Frons armed with horn, which is almost as long as the 

 scape ; the horn is horizontal, curving slightly upwards, concave on upperside, 

 roundedly and deeply sinuate at end, with the two lobes pointed. Antenna about 

 three times the length of the body ; third segment nearly thrice as long as the 

 scape, and not quite twice the length of the fourth. Prothorax as in bipunctata, 

 anterior groove almost straight above ; lateral tubercle vestigial, black ; base 

 not darker than disc. Scutellum very sliort, truncate, angles rounded. Elytra : 



