ColtopleroHs Fumilij DerinestiJa;. 427 



Piiili|)|)ii»e !■<., M!nla;;ascar, i^fauritins, etc. ^Ir. IC. E. Green 

 liiis found it huzaiiig round the trunks of Spondiaa nuvjnifera 

 trees in Ccvlttn. 



A, ijloriusn , v., is not very nearly related to the last 

 ppecies, jis Motsclnilsky has statcil. .1. plebejus, Sharp, is 

 synonymous witli f/Zorionr. 



A. ri/litidn'ctiSf Kirljy, by an ovcrsij^ljt has been catalogued 

 by Dalla Torre as a synonym of .1. j>ireu.i, as weli as in its 

 rifjlit jilace in Perimeyitoma. 



JSimilarly, Autlircnus e.rilis, Muls., lias ^ot into the Cata- 

 logue amongst the species of AlUijenus, as well as in its 

 propi r place. 



A. la t IIS, Pering., is A. hottentottus, Gu<5r. 



.1. ci/j'/ionoiden, Keitter, according to si)eciineti8 named by 

 him in our collection, has a )>roduced prosteruum, and must 

 be transferred to the genus Trogoderma. 



Attagemis japoniciis, Ueilt., was conipared by its author to 

 A. VHirginicolliif, and distiiiguishe 1 only by i\\\ almost in- 

 tangible colour-dill'erence. A. marjinicolUs and otiier torms 

 hitherto separated from it have since been sunk by iveitter 

 himself in his 'Catalogue of the European Coleoptera' as 

 synonymous with the wide-ranging ^1. piceus, Oliv. No 

 reason remains, therefore, for retaining A. japoiti'cus as more 

 than a race of that insect. 



The foUjwing new species belong to this genus : — 



AtlageuHs pardus, sp. n. 



Niger, pedibus rufis, corpore supra et subtus dense flavo-cinereo- 

 pubescenti, singuli eljtri niaculis tribus (aliaque communi media) 

 magnis subcircularibus deiiudatis, maculis postieis duubus con- 

 junctis, apicalibus, majoribus, medio cinerco-pupillatis ; corpore 

 oblongo-ovnli, valde convexo. 



Ix)ng. 3 5-4-5 mm. ; lat. 2-'2o mm. 



JJah. Rhodesia: Salisbury {G. A. K. Marshall). 



This very distinctively marked species is entirely covered 

 with greyish-yellow hair, with the exception of seven nearly 

 round areas upon the elytra, which are quite black, bare or 

 clothed witli much finer pubescence than the rest of the 

 upper snifacc. One of these patches is placed at the middle 

 of the elytral suture and the others are arranged in a circle 

 round it, one behind the scutellum on each side, one at the 

 outer margin and one occupying the sutural angle, the last 

 larger than the rest and having a central spot of grey 

 pubescence. 



It is a convex insect of elongate-oval shape. The club of 



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