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this very variable species, and have ascertained that they are both one 
kind; Schaufus’ description agrees also very well with P. fasciati- 
pennis. 
Length 7-9 mm. ; width 3+-42 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Riversdale, Knysna, Port Elizabeth, Albany) ; 
Natal (Durban, Frere, Eshowe, Upper Tongaats, Van Renen’s Pass, 
Maritzburg) ; Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Johannesburg, Lydenburg, 
Waterberg, Zoutpansberg). 
PLEOPHYLLA TONGAATSANA, N. spec., 
Plate XLIIL., fig. 18. 
Very light testaceous, almost straw-colour, the vertex of the head 
is slightly infuscate, and there are three longitudinal fuscous patches 
in the discoidal part of the prothorax which is faintly iridescent ; in 
general appearance this species resembles P. fasciatipennis, but the 
elytra are not quite so parallel, the prothorax is wider at the base, 
and is proportionately narrower in the anterior part ; the hairs form- 
ing the pubescence are slightly finer, the sculpture is the same, and 
the punctures on the pygidium also scabrose; the genital armature 
of the male is, however, of quite a different type from that of the 
two preceding species ; female unknown. 
Length 7 mm.; width 4 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Upper Tongaats). 
Gren. AUTOSERICA, Brenske, 
Berl. Ent. Zeits., vol. xlvii., 1902, p. 2; pl. i., fig. 5. 
Lepiserica, Brsk., loc. cit., p. 222. 
Mentum long, parallel, but slightly broader at the apex than at 
the base, inciso-emarginate and with the anterior part of the outer 
face plainly sloping towards the anterior margin; teeth of maxille 
long and sharp; clypeus simple, separated from the head by an 
arcuate, slightly impressed line; eyes divided by the gene as far as 
the median part ; antennz 10-jointed, club tri-jointed in both sexes, 
either as long or much longer than the pedicel in the male, the two 
penultimate joints of the pedicel look occasionally as if they were 
fused, but the suture is always visible under a high power; body 
elongato-convex, more or less densely sprinkled on the elytra with 
minute scale-like hairs, but not always; elytra striate, the intervals 
bearing often sub-erect, very remote, short, bristle-like hairs, which 
