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SPARRMANNIA FLAVOFASCIATA, Burm., 
Plate XLVL., figs. 36, 37, 45. 
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 435. 
Fuscous-black, with the elytra testaceous, but having a broad basal 
black band and a somewhat broader apical one, the suture has a 
narrow black line, and the two bands are sometimes connected by a 
similarly narrow line along the outer margin, the width of these 
black bands varies considerably ; clypeus impunctate, anterior angles 
plainly rounded, median part incised with the two angles produced 
into a moderately recurved tooth, with a somewhat plain sinuation 
on each side of it, head granulose except along the basal part, clothed 
with erect, long, fine, moderately dense pubescent hairs ; prothorax 
clothed with a similar pubescence which does not hide the closely 
scabrose-punctate sculpture, the base is much more densely villose 
than the rest of the prothorax ; scutellum scabrose-punctate, mode- 
rately densely pubescent; elytra somewhat parallel, closely and 
somewhat densely punctate, very faintly striate, glabrous ; propy- 
gidium clothed with denser, appressed greyish-white hairs than the 
pygidium, which is somewhat comparatively denuded, owing to 
the setigerous scabrose punctures not being closely set ; the sides of 
the abdomen are clothed with a thick, appressed, greyish pubescence, 
but the median part is almost glabrous, the pubescence on the pectus 
and femora is very dense and long; the inner joint of the antennal 
club is a little shorter than the one following, and the teeth of the 
maxille are very long and sharp; in the male the upper posterior 
spur is moderately wide, but in the female it is very broadly spatu- 
late, and the lower tooth of the anterior claws is basal in the male, 
sub-median in the female. 
Length 16-174 mm.; width 8-81 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Burghersdorp), Orange River Colony (Parys), 
Natal (Newcastle). 
SPARRMANNIA BECHUANA, 0. spec. 
Somewhat of the same build as S. flavofasciata, but smaller ; it is 
black, with the elytra pale flavous and with the suture and a very 
narrow outer marginal band black; in shape the clypeus is nearly 
similar to that of S. flavofasciata, but the two median teeth are 
longer, the anterior margin is not sinuate, and it is plainly punctate 
instead of being smooth; the pubescence on the head and prothorax 
is the same, but the prothorax is much more coarsely and broadly 
