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side and a longer one lower down, pectus, coxae and side pieces 

 with macules of the same colour. Elongated, depressed, clypeus 

 and sides of head moderately punctulate ; prothorax remotely 

 punctulate, the punctures hidden by the coating ; the scutellum is 

 im punctate ; in the dorsal part of the elytra the punctures are 

 plainly seriate ; the sides of the abdomen and pectus are punctate, 

 each puncture setigerous ; the horizontal sternal process is sub- 

 orbicular and the suture plainly distinct. In the # the under side 

 of the tarsal joints is very densely hairy. 



Length 20 mm. ; width 10 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique Lourengo-Marquez, Eikatla ; Tette, teste 

 Klug. 



Pachnoda rufovieens, Qued., 

 Berl. Entom. Zeitsch., 1884, p. 332. 



? discolor, Kolb., Stett. Ent. Zeit., vol. 56, 1895, p. 278. 



Flavous, with a triangularly elongated greenish-black band on each 

 side of the head ; prothorax with a crescent-shaped green patch the 

 horns of which are directed backwards, and reaching the base, 

 enclose there a part of the yellow background, narrowly marginated 

 with fuscous, no black supra-marginal macule in the anterior part ; 

 scutellum with a narrow fuscous basal border; elytra with a dis- 

 coidal, elongate quadrate, greenish-black patch continued at about 

 the middle as a narrow sutural border and extending above the 

 apical part into a broad transverse sinuate band slightly wider than 

 the discoidal patch, between the two, but situated outside the dorsal 

 costule, is a transverse spot the inner edge of which coalesces oftener 

 than not with the posterior band ; pygidium reddish brown, fuscous 

 along the base and having four white spots transversely disposed ; 

 under side and legs either yellow with the upper border of the 

 abdomen rufescent and a small yellowish macule on each segment, 

 or rufescent but similarly maculated. The sculpture of the upper 

 side is similar to that of P. cordata, but the sides of the pectus are 

 more villose, and the sternal process more rounded in front. 



The livery of this species closely approximates that of P. impressa, 

 but in the latter, which is also differentiated by the shape of the 

 sternal process, the green background has invaded the whole of 

 the discoidal part of the prothorax, and also the scutellum. The 

 shape of the genital armature of the two is strikingly dis- 

 similar. 



Length 17-18 mm. ; width 9J-9|- mm. 



Hab. Southern Bhodesia (Salisbury, Umtali). 



