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



EULEPIDA MASHONA, AlTOW, 



Plate XLIII, fig. 31. 

 Ann. and Magaz. Natur. Hist., ser. 7, vol. ix., 1902, p. 98. 



Dark chestnut-brown, with the legs and under side piceous ; club 

 of antennse and palpi reddish - brown ; covered with navescent, 

 elongated, contiguous scales, hiding completely the background, but 

 the pectus is clothed with a short, dense, appressed pubescence, and 

 the scales on the abdomen are whiter than on the upper side ; head 

 and clypeus closely punctured, the punctures are rounded, but less 

 deep in the basal part of the head ; prothorax obliquely narrowed 

 laterally from the median part to the apex, slightly ampliated at the 

 centre, nearly straight thence to the basal angle which is as sharp 

 as the anterior one, outer margin plainly serrate, base strongly 

 sinuate, surface closely punctate; scutellum semicircular, punctate; 

 elytra somewhat depressed and covering the propygidium, deeply 

 punctured, punctures separated from each other by a somewhat 

 coriaceous interval equal in width to their own diameter, and having 

 on each side two very faint costules, visible only in rubbed speci- 

 mens, the greatly developed posterior calluses are covered with 

 whiter and more hair-like scales ; and in none of the examples that 

 I have seen have I been able to detect traces of a supra-marginal 

 row of remote white scales. 



Length 25-29 mm. ; width 12-15 mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, between the Zambesi and 

 Limpopo Eivers, Buluwayo). 



Eulepida anatina, Brensk., 



Plate XLIII. , fig. 30. 

 Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1896, p. 185. 



Closely resembling the preceding species, the clothing of scales is 

 similar, but the scales are finer, less lanuginose, and either pure 

 white or navescent, the antennal club is flavescent, the elytra are 

 more convex, in the posterior part, somewhat narrower, and they 

 have on each side two somewhat ill-defined rows of white scales set 

 far apart, and often entirely wanting in the female examples, the 

 posterior half of the propygidium is not covered by the elytra, and 

 the pygidium is very elongated in both sexes, but especially so in 

 the male; the scales on the abdomen are very minute, and the three 

 basal abdominal segments have in the centre a very distinct, isolated 

 patch of still smaller and whiter scales, and the hairs on the pectus 

 are not squamose or lanceolate. The shape of the genital armature 



