330 Descriptive Catalogue [1896. 



Wliite band reaching about the median part ^laskunensis. 



White band reaching the median part, a discoidal white patch 

 on each side. 



Elytra elongato-ovate Marshalli. 



Elytra not much narrowed behind dissidens. 



White band curving behind from the suture towards the median 

 part of the disk . . virgulifera. 



Elytra with a discoidal band and an apical one on each side. 



A dorsal white band connected behind with a median trans- 

 verse patch and a supra-apical diagonal band on each side . . . . Selonsi. 



A dorsal fulvous yellow band merging into a transverse one 

 past the middle, the supra-apical patch on each side small, 

 triangular Livingstoiii. 



Elytra without any dorsal white or yellow bands or patches. 



Elytra costate, the four intervals covered with dense grey hairs pilosevittata. 



PiEziA Spinol^, BertoL, 

 Nov. Comm., x., 1849, p. 409, pi. 9, fig. 2 ; Lacord., Gen. Atlas, 



pi. 6, fig. 3. 



Black ; head with a raised triangle in the anterior part, and two 

 broad lateral bands of fulvous hairs ; antennae black ; prothorax very 

 elongate, slightly ampliated in the middle, twice as long as broad, 

 with a narrow longitudinal median groove, and with a very faint 

 trace of a supra-marginal lateral fulvous band ; elytra elongato- 

 ovate, gradually ampliated from the base to past the middle, and 

 very slightly attenuated from there to the apex, where they are 

 obliquely truncated, with the outer angle and each side of the suture 

 sharp, slightly convex, each with four costae, the first one connected 

 twice with the raised suture by a slanting ridge, and coalescing with 

 the second at the apex, the first, second, and third intervals covered 

 with a fulvous pubescence, beginning at the base for the first one, 

 and at about one-third of the length for the second and third, and 

 with three lighter yellow round spots, the first one at a short distance 

 from the base of the second interval and two more a little below the 

 first, one in the second and the other in the third interval, the costas 

 with a series of moderately long whitish depressed bristles on each 

 side ; legs black, thorax underneath and pectus with long white 

 depressed hairs. Length 20-22 mm. ; width T-^— 8 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Louren^o-Marquez, Eikatla). 



PlEZIA ALGOENSIS. 



Size and shape of P. SpinolcE ; head and prothorax alike ; elytra 

 also elongato-ovate, but with six costae on each side and a raised 

 suture, the intervals without any fulvous tomentum, except in the 

 basal part of the first, which is tomentose from the^base to the same 

 distance as the first yellowish fulvous sub-basal round spot in the 

 second interval ; the other two round spots as in P. SpinolcE, the first 



