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fine marginal line. The scutellum obscurely red. The legs 
are blackish, with red tibiz and tarsi. The abdomen is red, 
excepting in the middle and at the base. Herr Weise, to 
whom | sent this with an example of P. rufipennis, Gerst., 
from Zanzibar, has had the kindness to examine it, and 
considers it distinct from the latter, which it very closely 
resembles, but which does not show the black cloud at the 
apex. 
Four specimens are before me—two males (with red heads 
and red angles to the thorax), one of these is from Isipingo 
and one from Malvern; and two females ?, one from Isipingo 
and the other from the Umkomaas River. 
Chilocorus cruentus, sp. n. 
Orbicularis, saturate sanguineo-rufus ; elytris nigris, singulis plagia 
magna, e maculis duabus (anteriore multo majore) formata, 
sanguinea, 
Long. 5°5 millim. 
Hab, Mashonaland, Salisbury, Lesapi River (J/arshall). 
This Chilocorus comes in the same section as C. Marshall: ; 
the head, thorax, underside, and legs are of a fine blood-red ; 
punctuation hardly exists except on the sides of the elytra ; 
the latter are deep shining black, with a large blood-red mark 
on each, evidently formed from two united spots, of which 
the anterior is much the larger; these spots may be possibly 
quite disunited in some varieties, as in the only two examples 
before me they are nearly so. Both examples were found in 
November, one in 1897, the other in 1899. 
I do not know any Chilocorus which approaches very near 
to this. 
The form of this species is oblong-ovate and rather convex, 
the colour pale straw-yellow, clouded with brown in places. 
The numerous black markings are very small and usually 
surrounded on the elytra with pale rings; they are very 
frequently absent more or less. ‘lhe thorax has an indistinct 
M, the upper and lower extremities of which are sometimes 
black-dotted, but the greater part is simply brown; there is 
in addition a black dot on each side, all of which may be 
absent. It is twice as wide as long, the sides much rounded, 
their margin reflexed. The front margin half covers the 
edges, but they are quite visible through it. 
The elytra are wider at the base than the thorax, the 
humerus raised as a small tubercle, the black linear dot on 
which is on the inner side, and, except when it forms a line 
to the base, is little visible. ‘There is a linear dot on each 
