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



In some examples the scales are flavescent instead of white. 



Length 23-281 mm. ; width 12-14J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Port St. John), Natal (Durban). 



Ehabdopholis albostkiata, Burm., 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 27. 

 Handb. d. Entomol., iv., 2, p. 292. 

 B. sulcipennis, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 85. 



Shape of the preceding species, but a little smaller ; the colour is 

 the same but the scales are a little finer, and fill only the interstices 

 and not the sides of the costse, which are therefore more con- 

 spicuously bare than in B. costipennis ; the head instead of one 

 longitudinal raised, denuded line has three broader ones in the 

 centre ; the prothorax is more ampliated laterally and rounded at 

 about the median part ; and has three median, broad, slightly raised, 

 denuded bands, and two lateral parallel ones above the outer 

 margin ; the tectiform costae of the elytra are bare of scales, the 

 outer ones are broader at the base than in B. costipennis, and the 

 intervals being narrowed in proportion, the line of white scales is 

 very narrow, offering a strong contrast with the broadly squamose- 

 white supra- marginal interval. The rest as in B. costipennis. 



Length 21-22-| mm. ; width 10-12 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



Ehabdopholis irrorata, Pering., 

 Trans. Entomol. Soc, London, 1896, p. 160. 



Male : Piceous, with the elytra occasionally piceous-brown, club 

 of antennae dark chestnut-brown, longer than the whole pedicel ; 

 the punctures on the head and prothorax are not filled with scales, 

 but the space between the lateral raised lines of the latter and the 

 outer margin is densely scaly ; the intervals on the elytra, the 

 pygidial part, and the under side, except the pectus are scaly ; head 

 closely and irregularly punctured, and having a plain, smooth, raised 

 longitudinal line and an elongated smooth space on each side of it, 

 the clypeal suture is somewhat faint, the clypeus is straight in front 

 with the margin much raised and not sinuate ; the prothorax is 

 similar to that of B. albostriata, closely punctate, and has likewise 

 three median, smooth raised lines and two supra-lateral ones, the 

 anterior and lateral margins are fringed with long, erect, slightly 

 flavescent hairs ; scutellum moderately scaly, smooth in the anterior 

 part ; elytra with the costae very plain and somewhat rounded, they 

 are shorter, in proportion to the size, than the other two species of 



