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a transverse post-median narrow black band reaching diagonally from 

 the suture to the outer margin, bisinuate on the upper edge and 

 once on the lower, throwing a short sharp spear along the suture in 

 the posterior part, while in the anterior one it is connected with the 

 scutellum by a narrow sutural black line running on the first interval ; 

 legs and under side pale yellow. Length 4 J mm. ; width 2 mm. 



The shape of the post-median transverse black band is that of 

 P. blanchis, but narrower and more oblique from the suture to the 

 outer margin, and the sutural line connecting the transverse band 

 with the base is also narrower, and does not dilate into a basal tri- 

 angular patch ; the striation is also deeper. 



Phloeozetus mashunus. 



Colour, size, and sculpture of P. gcntilis, but the elytra are a little 

 more parallel, the punctuation of the striae is identical, but the 

 bisinuated post-median patch does not ascend along the suture, and 

 the sinuate outer part extending from the fourth to the sixth interval 

 is almost obliterated ; apical part of the abdomen infuscate. Length 

 4-J mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Phlceozetus simplex, 

 Plate v., fig. 17. 



Pale brick-red, shining ; head and prothorax rugulose ; elytra 

 elongate, subparallel, narrowly punctato-striate with the intervals 

 plane, of the same colour as the head and prothorax, and with an 

 infuscate triangular post-median patch, the apical part of which 

 reaches a little short of the median part along the suture, and the 

 basal part extends as far as the fifth striae ; under side and legs 

 yellowish red. Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town). 



Phlceozetus plausibilis. 



Head light brick-red, punctulate ; prothorax and elytra pale yellow, 

 the former part rugulose on the outer sides and behind ; elytra 

 elongate, subparallel, punctato-striate, wdth the punctures very 

 broad, and the intervals plane, and with an oblong transverse black 

 patch at equal distance from the median and apical part, reaching as 

 far as the fourth stria on each side ; under side and legs pale yellow. 



Distinguishable at once from the broad punctures in the striae ; 

 the dorsal post-median black patch is not unlike that of L. si])ijjlex, 

 but not so broad and more spherical. Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Fraserburg) . 



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