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and legs clothed with small, appressed greyish hairs slightly denser 

 on the pectus ; head and clypeus covered with deep, round punctures 

 with aciculate intervals ; prothorax with similar punctures, more 

 than twice as broad as long, ampliated laterally past the median 

 part, and much more strongly attenuated in the anterior, not very 

 convex and grooved longitudinally in the centre ; scutellum cordate, 

 •strongly punctured ; elytra with a distinct humeral and posterior 

 callosities, somewhat plane, covering the propygidium, not plainly 

 costulate, covered with deep, nearly foveate punctures separated by 

 raised walls giving them a strongly coriaceous appearance. They 

 are sprinkled with irregular, small, metallic, brown patches, which 

 are, however, often obliterated ; pygidium slanting in each sex ; legs 

 not robust, tarsi moderately long. 



Length 14J-15J mm. • width 7-8J mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Mazoe) ; Sebakwe, Umtali. The first 

 example was described from East Africa (Lake Jipe). My examples 

 are quite similar to P. hauseri, Brsk., but they are also, I believe, 

 identical with P. cons'purcata, Gerst. 



Gen. EULEPIDA, Kolb., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. d. Belg., vol. xxxviii., 1894, p. 554. 



Mentum longer than broad, sub-parallel laterally, deeply impressed 

 either longitudinally or transversely on the outer face, the upper 

 outer angles are rounded, and the median apical part incised, the 

 suture of the mentum with the ligular part is obliterated, last joint 

 of labial palpi acuminate-ovate, or very swollen outwardly ; maxillae 

 very robust, and with three strong, more or less distinctly bifid teeth ; 

 last joint of maxillary fusiform outwardly, very little swollen inwardly, 

 broadly impressed outwardly in the male, very slightly or not at all 

 in the female ; mandibles very robust, concave, and with the upper 

 edge laminate ; clypeus shorter than the head and separated from it 

 hy a very faint sinuate transverse keel, strongly sinuate in the 

 anterior margin, anterior part sub-vertical, very short ; labium very 

 long, vertical, bi-lobate ; eyes very large, divided in the anterior 

 upper part ; antennae 10-jointed ; joints 6-8 narrow, compressed, 

 third and fourth of nearly the same length, fifth slightly shorter than 

 the fourth, basal joint slightly longer than the third and fourth taken 

 together ; the last three joints form the club, and are parallel and 

 slightly sinuate, and almost as long as the pedicel in the male, more 

 ovate and shorter in the female, in which sex the fifth, sixth and 

 seventh joint are also less compressed ; prothorax twice as broad as 



