NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS 



OF A FEW 



INJUKIOUS FARM AND FRUIT INSECTS 



OF 



SOUTH AFRICA. 



4 



OEDER COLEOPTEEA. 



FAM. MELOLONTHID^E. 



ERIESTHIS STIGMATICA, Billb. (Fig. 1). 



Trichius stigmaticus, Billb. Schb'nh. Syn. Ins. i. 3, App. 



p. 44. 

 Eriesthis stigmatica, Burm. Handb.d.Entom. iv. 1, p. 51. 



FIG. 1. Eriesthis stigmatica, natural size and magnified. 



Mealie Chafer : injurious to Mealies (Maize or 

 Indian Corn). 



Short-ovate ; head, thorax, under side, and legs black, 

 and densely clothed with fine grey pubescence ; base of 

 the thorax, the scutellum and elytra closely covered with 

 fine ochreous-yellow scales ; propygidium, pygidium, and 

 abdomen entirely covered with white scales, and varie- 

 gated with brownish yellow markings ; each of the elytra 

 with five small black spots arranged in two oblique rows 

 of two and three each respectively, and several ill-defined 



