300 Mr. O. E. Janson's Notices of 



centre of each segment with a row of setiferoiis punctures ; legs 

 long, shining hlack, with coarse punctures and long pubescence, 

 anterior tibiaj with two large obtuse lateral teeth. 

 Caffraria. 



Allied to /. cuspidata, Fab, {pica, M. Ly.), and /. nasuta, 

 Schm ; but at once distinguished from the former by the form 

 of the frontal horn, and by not having the clypeus constricted at 

 the base, and from the latter by its longer and differently armed 

 clypeus, shorter antennte and different colour. The only speci- 

 men I have seen is a male in my own collection, which was 

 i-ecently l^rouglit home by Mr. Mansel Weale. 



Heterodita ? scitula, n. sp. 



II. elongata, villosa, supra nigra, opaca, thorace lateribus et 

 punctis minutis antice albis, elytris rufo-testaceis, albo-punctatis, 

 sutura nigra, pygidio utrinque albo-maculato ; subtus nigra, 

 nitida ; tibiis anticis extus acute l)identatis, $ . Long, i)!, 

 lat, 5 mm. 



Head rather coarsely but shallowly punctured, the base with 

 long ashy-white pubescence ; clypeus large, dilated at the sides, 

 strongly rounded in front, the margins acutely elevated, the 

 apex shallowly emarginate, slightly convex in the centre, the 

 sides strigose ; shining black Avith a Avhite spot on each side at 

 tlie base of the clypeus ; antenna) pitchy black, the club long 

 and reddish. 



Thorax rather broader than long, the sides straight from the 

 base to the middle, anterior margin Avith a small elevated ridge 

 in the middle, posterior angles strongly rounded, basal margin 

 nearly straight ; dull black, rather coarsely punctured and 

 covered with a dense ashy-white pubescence, a marginal band 

 on each side branched iuAvardly in the middle, and several smill 

 spots on the anterior half white. 



Scutellum obtuse at the apex, dull black with several small 

 Avhite spots, the base punctured and pubescent. 



Elytra with prominent humeral angles, faintly punctured at 

 the sides and apex, the disc with two slightly elevated indistinct 

 longitudinal ridges ; pale yellowish-red, opaque, sparsely pubes- 

 cent, suture black, a siitural and two discal rows of small spots 

 and irregular confluent marks and spots at the sides and apex 

 white ; epimera, black, densely pubescent and Avith a Avhite siiot 

 above. 



