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this very variable species, and have ascertained that they are both one 

 kind ; Schaufus' description agrees also very well with P. fasciati- 

 pennis. 



Length 7-9 mm. ; width 3 J— 4f mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Eiversdale, Knysna, Port Elizabeth, Albany) ; 

 Natal (Durban, Frere, Eshowe, Upper Tongaats, Van Eenen's Pass, 

 Maritzburg) ; Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Johannesburg, Lydenburg, 

 Waterberg, Zoutpansberg). 



Pleophylla tongaatsana, n. spec, 

 Plate XLIIL, fig. 18. 



Very light testaceous, almost straw-colour, the vertex of the head 

 is slightly infuscate, and there are three longitudinal fuscous patches 

 in the discoidal part of the prothorax which is faintly iridescent ; in 

 general appearance this species resembles P. fasciatipennis , but the 

 elytra are not quite so parallel, the prothorax is wider at the base, 

 and is proportionately narrower in the anterior part ; the hairs form- 

 ing the pubescence are slightly finer, the sculpture is the same, and 

 the punctures on the pygidium also scabrose ; the genital armature 

 of the male is, however, of quite a different type from that of the 

 two preceding species ; female unknown. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 4 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Upper Tongaats). 



Gen. AUTOSEEICA, Brenske, 

 Berl. Ent. Zeits., vol. xlvii., 1902, p. 2 ; pi. i., fig. 5. 



Lepiserica, Brsk., loc. cit., p. 222. 



Mentum long, parallel, but slightly broader at the apex than at 

 the base, inciso-emarginate and with the anterior part of the outer 

 face plainly sloping towards the anterior margin ; teeth of maxillae 

 long and sharp ; clypeus simple, separated from the head by an 

 arcuate, slightly impressed line ; eyes divided by the genae as far as 

 the median part ; antennae 10-jointed, club tri-jointed in both sexes, 

 either as long or much longer than the pedicel in the male, the two 

 penultimate joints of the pedicel look occasionally as if they were 

 fused, but the suture is always visible under a high power ; body 

 elongato-convex, more or less densely sprinkled on the elytra with 

 minute scale -like hairs, but not always ; elytra striate, the intervals 

 bearing often sub-erect, very remote, short, bristle-like hairs, which 



