1892.] to the South African Coleopterous Fauna. 85 



macules sex in prothorace clytrisque macula supra humerali atque 

 fasciis duabus transversis sinuatis in singulo nigris ; pectore tateraliter 

 nigro-plagiato. 



Long. 8, lat. 5 mm . 



Pale yellow, smooth, shining ; head slight-j impressed in the centre 

 and with a vertical black patch ; antenna? with the five first articula- 

 tions yellow, the remainder black ; prothorax very convex, smooth, 

 yellow, with a transverse anterior row of four black round spots and 

 with two more behind, one on each side of the scutellum ; scutellum 

 black ; elytra yellow, shining, seriato-punctated, each with a supra 

 humeral black patch, another in the middle, reaching from the first 

 series of punctures to the sixth, and another and broader one above 

 the apex and extending from near the suture to the outer margin, but 

 not reaching either ; both these bands seem to consist of two large 

 coalesced spots ; underside yellow, pectus with a triangular black 

 patch on each side. 



409. C. strenuus. spec. nov. 



Flavus, capitis plaga verticali triangula, ante7inarum articulis sex 

 ultimis, prothoracis margine fasciisque duabus, scutello, elytrorum 

 maculis tribus in singulo, sutura in medio subtusque 7iigris. 



Long. 6, lat. 4 mm . 



Yellow, smoeth, shining; head with a black triangular vertical 

 patch ; antennas yellow with the last six articulations black ; prothorax 

 short, convex, smooth, narrowly marginated with black, and with a 

 dorsal transverse black band and a basal one uniting on each side 

 above the outer margin ,- elytra seriato-punctated with a supra 

 humeral elongated patch, another diagonal one starting from about the 

 anterior third part of the elytra and uniting with the suture, and a 

 supra marginal one past the middle ; the suture from where it unites 

 with the discoidal patch, up to the postical one is black and dilated at 

 the apex ; underside black, legs and tarsi yellow. 



Sub-family : EUMOLPID^E. 



Gen. Pseudocolaspis. Casteln. 



410. P. aureovillosa. Mars. 



Recorded from Natal, Transvaal, Limpopo and Zambeze. 



