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to the rounded apical part, not convex, but gradually sloping towards 

 the apex, strongly costate, the costae tectiform, with the carinate 

 part smooth and the sides impunctate, the deep but narrow striae are 

 filled with setigerous punctures impinging on the base of the costae 

 the smooth part of which is more distinctly metallic and shiny, and 

 there are some darker transverse bands, not defined enough, how- 

 ever, to form a tessellation ; pygidium strongly slanting backwards, 

 as hairy as the elytra, scabroso-punctate ; under side hairy and 

 bristly as on the upper side ; metasternum deeply and very closely 

 punctured and emitting two long spine-like processes between the 

 hind coxae, abdominal segments with two transverse rows of deep 

 setigerous punctures. 



Length 9-§— 11 mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hob. Natal (Karkloof, Upper Tongaat, Durban, Maritzburg), 

 Transvaal (Johannesburg, Potchefstroom, Lydenburg, Waterberg, 

 Zoutpansberg). 



Pleophylla fasciatipennis, Blanch., 



Plate XLIIL, figs. 19, 20 ; Plate XLVL, fig. 32. 



P. ferruginea, Burm., Handl. d. Entom., iv., 1, p. 181. 



P. maculipennis , Boh., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 124. 



P. pilosa, Boh., loc. cit., p. 125. 



P. flavicomis, Schauz., Nunq. Otios., 1870, p. 232. 



P. opalina, Schauf., loc. cit.. p. 232. 



Smaller than the preceding species, but similarly shaped ; ferrugi- 

 nous or light brownish-red, clothed on the upper and under sides 

 with an appressed greyish pubescence, and having also erect setae 

 on the prothorax ; antennae flavous, the inner joint of the club less 

 than one-third the length of the others in the female ; clypeus 

 roughly punctate, frontal part deeply punctate except on the vertex; 

 prothorax very little attenuated laterally near the anterior part, 

 more so in the female, closely punctured, the punctures deep and 

 setigerous ; scutellum pubescent laterally, not in the middle ; elytra 

 elongated, almost parallel from a short distance from the shoulders 

 to the posterior rounded part, costate, the costae broadly tectiform 

 and separated by narrow striae, smooth along the upper edge which 

 s moderately sharp, closely punctate all over, and having on each 

 side five rows of smooth, darker patches, four or five in number, 

 disposed diagonally from near the outer margin towards the suture, 

 these patches, however, are as often as not entirely obliterated or 

 hardly visible ; pygidium scabroso-punctate ; under side and legs as 

 in P. navicularis. I have seen Blanchard's and Boheman's types of 



