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seriate punctate, on each of them are four more or less elongated 

 fuscous or white patches astride of, or set close to the second 

 discoidal costa, on these patches there is a white macule, and in 

 addition to these there is a row of somewhat irregularly shaped 

 white macules along the outer and posterior margins, these macules 

 being more or less regularly connected with fuscous ones, the seriate 

 punctures are cicatricose in the apical part ; pygidium sub-reticulate 

 strigose, and having four white patches ; abdominal segments with 

 cretaceous bands, the band divided into two, sides of abdomen and 

 of pectus cicatricose punctate, especially the latter which is also 

 hardly pubescent. 



Length 13-16 mm. ; width 7-9J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (East London, Kimberley, Transkei) ; Natal 

 (Maritzburg, Tugela Eiver, Estcourt) ; Transvaal (Klerksdorp, Eus- 

 tenburg, Lydenburg, Potchefstroom, Pretoria) ; British Bechuana- 

 land (Macloutsie) ; Southern Ehodesia (Bulawayo, Enkeldoorn). 



PSADACOPTERA SIMONSI, Jans., 



Cist. Entomol., ii., 1868, p. 263. 



bipunctata, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1898, p. 92. 



simulatrix, Kraatz, loc. cit., 1882, p. 67. 



Var. velutina, Pering., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, iv., 2, 1886, 

 p. 103. 



Type. Black, but prothorax, scutellum, elytra, and pygidium 

 light testaceous brown, opaque ; head closely punctate, clypeus 

 gradually attenuate towards the apex, only slightly reflexed in front, 

 and not deeply emarginate there, frontal part clothed with a dense 

 fulvous pubescence ; prothorax not closely punctate and having 

 on each side of the median part of the disk a somewhat broad 

 longitudinal fuscous band acuminated towards the apex, and a small, 

 supra-marginal fuscous dot set slightly before the median part, the 

 basal part is also narrowly edged with black or fuscous ; scutellum 

 impunctate except along the edge of the base ; elytra moderately 

 deeply punctate and having along the inner dorsal part three small 

 whitish patches the median one of which is ringed with fuscous, 

 along the outer margin is a row of similar white patches ; pygidium 

 briefly pubescent and with two lateral white patches ; abdominal 

 segments with two lateral rows of flavescent laminas, and moderately 

 pubescent on the upper side, pectus and legs densely pubescent, the 

 pubescence flavescent ; the hind femora have two flavescent bands, 

 the intermediate ones one. 



Var. As often as not the whole upper side and the pygidium are 



