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to the rounded apical part, not convex, but gradually sloping towards 
the apex, strongly costate, the cost tectiform, with the carinate 
part smooth and the sides impunctate, the deep but narrow striz are 
filled with setigerous punctures impinging on the base of the cost 
the smooth part of which is more distinctly metallic and shiny, and 
there are some darker transverse bands, not defined enough, how- 
ever, to form a tessellation; pygidium strongly slanting backwards, 
as hairy as the elytra, scabroso-punctate; under side hairy and 
bristly as on the upper side; metasternum deeply and very closely 
punctured and emitting two long spine-like processes between the 
hind cox, abdominal segments with two transverse rows of deep 
setigerous punctures. 
Length 94-11 mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Karkloof, Upper Tongaat, Durban, Maritzburg), 
Transvaal (Johannesburg, Potchefstroom, Lydenburg, Waterberg, 
Zoutpansberg). 
PLEOPHYLLA FASCIATIPENNIS, Blanch., 
Plate XLIII., figs. 19, 20; Plate XLVI, fig. 32. 
P. ferruginea, Burm., Handl. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 181. 
P. maculipennis, Boh., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 124. 
P. pilosa, Boh., loc. cit., p. 125. 
P, flavicorms, Schauz., Nunq. Otios., 1870, p. 232. 
P. opalina, Schauf., loc. cit., p. 232. 
Smaller than the preceding species, but similarly shaped ; ferrugi- 
nous or light brownish-red, clothed on the upper and under sides 
with an appressed greyish pubescence, and having also erect setz 
on the prothorax ; antennz flavous, the inner joint of the club less 
than one-third the length of the others in the female; clypeus 
roughly punctate, frontal part deeply punctate except on the vertex ; 
prothorax very little attenuated laterally near the anterior part, 
more so in the female, closely punctured, the punctures deep and 
setigerous ; scutellum pubescent laterally, not in the middle; elytra 
elongated, almost parallel from a short distance from the shoulders. 
to the posterior rounded part, costate, the coste broadly tectiform 
and separated by narrow striz, smooth along the upper edge which 
s moderately sharp, closely punctate all over, and having on each 
side five rows of smooth, darker patches, four or five in number, 
disposed diagonally from near the outer margin towards the suture, 
these patches, however, are as often as not entirely obliterated or 
hardly visible; pygidium scabroso-punctate ; under side and legs as 
in P. navicularis. I have seen Blanchard’s and Boheman’s types of 
