1896.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 331 



costa also diagonally connected twice by a raised line with the suture, 

 and each costa with a double set of thick, decumbent, short, rigid 

 hairs ; legs black ; under side of thorax and pectus covered with 

 dense, long, decumbent, white hairs. Length 21-28 mm. ; width 

 8-8^ mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (Eikatla). 



PiEziA AXILLARIS, Brulle, 



Plate IV., fig. 4. 

 Hist. Nat. Ins., iv., p. 272. 

 P. fazoglica, Thoms., Arc. Nat., 1859, p. 114. 



Head with two oblique raised lines on the anterior part and a 

 short median one, and a band of white hairs on each side ; prothorax 

 cordiform, one-third broader than long, grooved in the centre, 

 rugose, and with a longitudinal straight white band above the outer 

 margin ; elytra elongato-ovate, truncate diagonally behind but 

 with the outer angles rounded, striate with eight convex intervals 

 on each side, each interval with a duplicate series of short wdiite 

 hairs, at the base a short yellowish white band of hairs extending on 

 each side on the second and third intervals to a short distance from 

 the base, and immediately underneath two small round yellowish 

 white dots, the first one in the third interval, the other in the fifth, 

 and also a sutural elongated w^hite patch extending on each side as 

 far as the first interval ; legs and under side as in preceding species. 

 In one example from Delagoa Bay the pubescence on the second 

 and third intervals has coalesced above the costa, and looks thus 

 much broader. Length 23-24 mm. ; width 8^9 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria), Delagoa Bay (Eikatla). 



There can be no doubt that in Brulle 's type, which I have seen in 

 Chaudoir's collection, the apical sutural white patch has acci- 

 dentally been rubbed off, wdiile in P. fazoglica the patch is preserved. 



PlEZIA ANGUSTICOLLIS, BollCm., 



Insect. Caffr., i., p. 92. 



Size and colouring of P. axillaris; the prothorax is, however, 

 narrower by one-third ; the elytra are more elongated ; the basal 

 fulvous band and the two spots are identical, but the apical sutural 

 patch is narrower. Length 21-22 mm. ; width 8-9 mm. 



I have seen male examples only of this species. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom), Delagoa Bay (Louren^o-Mar- 

 quez). 



