180 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Sparrmannia flavofasciata, Burm., 



Plate XLVL, figs. 36, 37, 45. 



Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 435. 



Fuscous-black, with the elytra testaceous, but having a broad basal 

 black band and a somewhat broader apical one, the suture has a 

 narrow black line, and the two bands are sometimes connected by a 

 similarly narrow line along the outer margin, the width of these 

 black bands varies considerably ; clypeus impunctate, anterior angles 

 plainly rounded, median part incised with the two angles produced 

 into a moderately recurved tooth, with a somewhat plain sinuation 

 on each side of it, head granulose except along the basal part, clothed 

 with erect, long, fine, moderately dense pubescent hairs ; prothorax 

 clothed with a similar pubescence which does not hide the closely 

 scabrose-punctate sculpture, the base is much more densely villose 

 than the rest of the prothorax ; scutellum scabrose-punctate, mode- 

 rately densely pubescent ; elytra somewhat parallel, closely and 

 somewhat densely punctate, very faintly striate, glabrous ; propy- 

 gidium clothed with denser, appressed greyish-white hairs than the 

 pygidium, which is somewhat comparatively denuded, owing to 

 the setigerous scabrose punctures not being closely set ; the sides of 

 the abdomen are clothed with a thick, appressed, greyish pubescence, 

 but the median part is almost glabrous, the pubescence on the pectus 

 and femora is very dense and long ; the inner joint of the antennal 

 club is a little shorter than the one following, and the teeth of the 

 maxillae are very long and sharp ; in the male the upper posterior 

 spur is moderately wide, but in the female it is very broadly spatu- 

 late, and the lower tooth of the anterior claws is basal in the male, 

 sub-median in the female. 



Length 16-17|- mm. ; width 8-8 J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Burgh ersdorp), Orange Eiver Colony (Parys), 

 Natal (Newcastle). 



Sparrmannia bechuana, n. spec. 



Somewhat of the same build as S. flavofasciata, but smaller ; it is 

 black, with the elytra pale flavous and with the suture and a very 

 narrow outer marginal band black ; in shape the clypeus is nearly 

 similar to that of S. flavofasciata, but the two median teeth are 

 longer, the anterior margin is not sinuate, and it is plainly punctate 

 instead of being smooth ; the pubescence on the head and prothorax 

 is the same, but the prothorax is much more coarsely and broadly 



