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elongated, slightly yellowish-white scales, longer and more hair-like 
on the head and prothorax, and leaving slightly past the median 
part of the elytra three small, denuded, elongated spots set sub- 
transversely on each side; the clypeus is aculeate laterally and 
deeply emarginate in front, being thus almost hexagonal; the pro- 
thorax is plainly scrobiculate, and has no median longitudinal groove, 
but the supra-lateral elongate patch on each side of the posterior 
part is very plain; scutellum somewhat deeply punctate; elytra 
non-costulate ; propygidium clothed with very fine, slightly squami- 
form, appressed hairs, but having a band of scales along the posterior 
margin; pygidium, abdomen, and legs clothed with whitish scales, 
pectus densely hairy; anterior tibiz uni-dentate; legs, palpi, and 
antennz rufescent-brown. 
Length 13 mm. ; width 7 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Durban). 
PsILONYCHUS BARKERT, Nl. Spec. 
Male: Narrower and more cylindrical than the two preceding 
species, clothed like P. ecklonit with whitish or slightly flavescent 
scales which form on each elytron four uninterrupted bands sepa- 
rated by three narrow denuded lines; the hairs along the margins 
of the prothorax, the base especially, are plainly flavous ; the clypeus 
is more sharply emarginate in the centre and narrower than in 
P. ecklont; the prothorax has a faint median longitudinal impres- 
sion in the posterior part, and the lateral denuded patch is narrow 
but distinct ; scutellum impunctate; the elytra are not costulate, 
but the denuded lines seem to be slightly raised behind ; pygidial 
part and under side as in the preceding species; anterior tibie 
uni-dentate. 
Length 114-12 mm. ; width 54-52 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Umhlati). 
PsILONYCHUS GRACILIS, Burm., 
Plate XLIILI., fig. 27. 
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 289. 
P. decorus, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 88. 
Male: Bronze-green, with the elytra and legs often rufescent, 
clothed on the upper side with white lanceolate scales, disposed on 
the elytra in four broad bands, divided by a narrow, smooth line, 
and having a broad, sub-quadrate, denuded patch under the 
scutellum, and a narrower but longer transverse band slightly past 
