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Philosekica vittata, Blanch., 

 Catal. Coll. Mus, 1850, p. 76. 

 P. pauper, Wall., Entom. Tidsk., 1881, p. 19. 



Black, with the head and prothorax sub-opaque, and yet very 

 faintly iridescent ; scutellum black ; elytra strongly iridescent, pale 

 testaceous, with the suture, the outer margin, and three stripes on 

 each side black ; pedicel of antennae reddish, club black ; the 

 colour of the elytra varies much, the black stripes and outer 

 margins disappear occasionally, or the black tinge has invaded the 

 whole surface which is then very iridescent ; clypeus slightly 

 bi-sinuate in front, and with the median part sub-aculeate, deeply 

 and closely punctate, the punctures bearing an upright hair, suture 

 arcuate, very plain, gense projecting, strongly developed, head 

 moderately deeply punctulate in the anterior part only, hairless ; 

 prothorax not much convex, faintly punctulate but with each punc- 

 ture bearing an upright sub-fulvous hair, and with the anterior 

 margin as densely hairy as the lateral ones, the hairs on the disk are, 

 however, often abraded ; scutellum punctulate ; elytra moderately 

 elongated, deeply punctato-striate with the intervals somewhat 

 convex and punctulate, each alternate stria has a row of stiff, 

 upright bristles, and the suture is also bristly ; the hairs on the 

 abdominal segments are long, the mesosternum is more hairy than 

 usual, and the coxae do not cover the fourth abdominal segment. 



The melanic, or concolorous varieties are all from the Transvaal, 

 but I have seen also similar examples from Sebakwe. 



Length 6^~7J mm. ; width 4-4J mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Bustenburg, Johannesburg, Pre- 

 toria) ; Southern Bhodesia (Sebakwe, Uintah, Enkeldoorn, Salisbury, 

 Buluwayo) . 



GBYPHONYCHA, n. gen. 



Men turn somewhat short, nearly as broad as long, deeply 

 emarginate in front in the usual manner, but having the depressed 

 anterior part of the inner face divided in two by a median, longi- 

 tudinal ridge ; the other features as in Neoserica, but the antennae 

 are 9- instead of 10- jointed, and the long club of the male is 

 nearly but not quite as long as the pedicel ; the anterior tibiae are 

 tri-dentate outwardly, but the basal tooth is only angular and projects 

 very little ; the anterior tarsi are somewhat short in both sexes, and 

 in the male the claws are doubled under the apical joint of the 

 anterior tarsi and of nearly the same length, the upper tooth is 



