276 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vow. XII. 
In some examples the scales are flavescent instead of white. 
Length 23-284 mm. ; width 12-144 mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Port St. John), Natal (Durban). 
RHABDOPHOLIS ALBOSTRIATA, Burm., 
Plate XLITI., fig. 27. 
Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 292. 
RR. suleipenms, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 85. 
Shape of the preceding species, but a little smaller ; the colour is 
the same but the scales are a little finer, and fill only the interstices 
and not the sides of the coste, which are therefore more con- 
spicuously bare than in F#. costipennis ; the head instead of one 
longitudinal raised, denuded line has three broader ones in the 
centre; the prothorax is more ampliated laterally and rounded at 
about the median part; and has three median, broad, slightly raised, 
denuded bands, and two lateral parallel ones above the outer 
margin; the tectiform cost of the elytra are bare of scales, the 
outer ones are broader at the base than in Lf. costipenmis, and the 
intervals being narrowed in proportion, the line of white scales is 
very narrow, offering a strong contrast with the broadly squamose- 
white supra-marginal interval. The rest as in &. costipenms. 
Length 21-224 mm. ; width 10-12 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Durban). 
RHABDOPHOLIS IRRORATA, Péring., 
Trans. Entomol. Soc., London, 1896, p. 160. 
Male: Piceous, with the elytra occasionally piceous-brown, club 
of antenne dark chestnut-brown, longer than the whole pedicel ; 
the punctures on the head and prothorax are not filled with scales, 
but the space between the lateral raised lines of the latter and the 
outer margin is densely scaly; the intervals on the elytra, the 
pygidial part, and the under side, except the pectus are scaly ; head 
closely and irregularly punctured, and having a plain, smooth, raised 
longitudinal line and an elongated smooth space on each side of it, 
the clypeal suture is somewhat faint, the clypeus is straight in front 
with the margin much raised and not sinuate; the prothorax is 
similar to that of R. albostriata, closely punctate, and has likewise 
three median, smooth raised lines and two supra-lateral ones, the 
anterior and lateral margins are fringed with long, erect, slightly 
flavescent hairs ; scutellum moderately scaly, smooth in the anterior 
part; elytra with the coste very plain and somewhat rounded, they 
are shorter, in proportion to the size, than the other two species of 
