120 Rev. H. Clark on the ChrysomeUda of South Africa. 



differing in colour of thorax, is much broader medially; its 

 thorax also is more rounded in front. 



7. P. nigro-fasciata, n. sp. 

 P. ovalis, penitus rotundata, punctato-striata, flavo-rufa, nitida ; 

 capite nigro-cairuleo ; thorace transverse antice rotundato, angulis 

 anticis distinctis, lateribus tenuiter marginatis, disco sparsim 

 punctate (in medio leviter, ad latera fortius), nigro-cserulco ; scu- 

 tello leevi, nigre-cseruleo ; elytris brevibus, sat amplis, punctato- 

 striatis (punctis cenfertis distinctis sequalibus), flavo-rufis ; sutura 

 (tenuiter), vitta media (lata, marginem versus ampliere) alteraque 

 juxta apicem (inter striam 7 et suturam, indeterminata) seneo- 

 nigris ; corpere subtus, antennis pedibusque uigris. 

 Long. cerp. lin. 2\ ; lat. lin. 2. 



A very distinct and beautiful species, of which a single ex- 

 ample is in my cabinet, from the Chevrolat Collection, labelled 

 from the Cape of Good Hope. It differs from P. pulchella in 

 having the medial band extended to the margin, and the apical 

 marking not well defined as in that species, but indeterminate 

 and merging anteriorly into simply black punctures. 



8. P. pulchella, u. sp. 



P. ovata, sat convexa, punctato-striata, rufo-flava ; capite transverse 

 arcuate-foveolato, nigro : thorace transverse, latitudine fere dupla 

 lengitudinis, lateribus ad basin parallelis, ad apicem rotundatis ; 

 disco subtilissime punctate, rarius sed fertiter ad marginem ipsum, 

 seneo-nigre : scutello triangulari, laevi : elytris sat rotundatis, 

 punctato-striatis, punctis fequalibus, minutis, ad apicem obsoletis ; 

 colore rufo-flavis, niaculis quibusdam nigris, 1 . a medio basi (hand 

 suturam attingens) oblique ad striam 10"""", indeque per striam 

 10""'", apicem versus sed baud attingens ; 2. transversa, antemedia, 

 lata, a sutura usque ad striam G'""', et inde macula 1™" confluens ; 

 3. altera postmedia, brevis, obliqua apicem versus, striam 4*^"" attin- 

 gens (banc juxta undique, inter strias 4*""' et 5*"'" macula parva, 

 insulata) ; 4. apicalis, inter strias 4'*'"" et o**"", subcircularis ; sutura 

 etiam (latior) et margines (subtilissime) nigrini apparent : corpore 

 subtus, pedibus antennisque nigris. 



Long. cerp. lin. 2| ; lat. lin. 2. 



A beautiful species, and apparently quite distinct from others : 

 to be distinguished from P. nigro-fasciata [inter alia) by the 

 narrowness of the antemedial and the presence of a postmedial 

 transverse fascia. 



In the cabinet of Mr. Baly, to whom I am indebted for the 

 opportunity of describing it here with its congeners. 



9. P. leevigata, n. sp. 

 P. ovalis, sat rotundata, subtiHter punctata, rufo-nigra, nitida ; capite 

 inter pculos triangulariter depresso, nigro ; thorace lato, lateribus 



