1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 441 



Pachnoda picturata, Bohem., 

 Ofvers. K. Vet. Akad. Forh., 1860, p. 119. 



Stramineous or flavescent on the upper side, chestnut-brown 

 on the under side, shiny on both, antennae chestnut-brown ; head 

 very closely aciculate on the clypeus and deeply punctate on the 

 vertex ; prothorax very broad, somewhat short, finely but not closely 

 punctulate, in the median part of the prothorax are two slightly 

 divaricating narrow longitudinal lines reaching the apex, but not 

 quite the base, which has a very narrow black border ; scutellum 

 narrowly edged with fuscous ; elytra with one discoidal black spot 

 before the median part, another supra-lateral past the median part, a 

 short arcuate band reaching the suture, set at some distance from 

 the apex and an apical marginal transverse band on each side, the 

 surface is very vaguely punctulate ; pygidium chestnut-red and 

 bearing six small, white spots ; under side very sparsely pubescent ; 

 each abdominal segment has two very small white macules, and 

 there are a few, also small ones, on the metasternum, sidepieces 

 and legs ; sternal process ampliate rounded laterally, bluntly arcuate 

 in front. 



This species is the most massive of the South African species of 

 Protcetia. 



Length 19J— 22 mm. ; width 13-15 mm. 



Originally described from the Lake N'Gami Eegion, this species is 

 now recorded from Zanzibar and Tabora, in East Africa. 



Pachnoda cincta, de Geer, 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 10. 



Mem. Ins., vii., p. 641, pi. 38, fig. 3. 



brachypinica, Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 237, pi. 45, fig. 1. 

 burchelli, Fish., Mem. Mosc, vi., 1823, p. 256, pi. 22, fig. 3. 



Dark green, moderately shiny only on the upper side, very shiny 

 underneath ; prothorax with a broad fiavescent border, scutellum 

 and elytra completely flavescent ; head green with a lateral white 

 band on each side reaching to a short distance from the apex of the 

 clypeus, which is narrowly yet deeply emarginate, it is closely acicu- 

 late and the frontal part deeply punctate ; prothorax deeply punctate, 

 especially on the sides, the punctures are numerous but somewhat 

 remote ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra with rows of very plain punc- 

 tures in the dorsal as well as in the deflexed parts ; pygidium dark 

 green, rufo-flavescent in the centre, and with a broad, bi-sinuate basal 



