1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 453 



there are also two or three series of similar punctures reaching from 

 the base to about one-fourth of the length or further down, and the 

 three alternate intervals are sub-tectiform or even tectiform, there is 

 a black, irregular tessellation ; pygidium aciculate plicate ; under 

 side glabrous except the prosternal part, black maculated with red, 

 the sides of the pectus and also the legs are irregularly foveate 

 punctate, the metasternal part is also roughly punctate and deeply 

 grooved, the receding aculeate mesosternal part is smooth and 

 triangular, and the suture is nearly always obliterated ; intermediate 

 tibiae with two sharp teeth, hind ones with four long, sharp ones set 

 at about the median part, sometimes also with six. 



The variety variegata, Bohem., is usually much darker than the 

 type form, that is to say the black tessellation has invaded the upper 

 and under surface, and there is thus a red instead of a black 

 tessellation ; and the four or six teeth on the upper side of the hind 

 tibiae are serrate rather than dentate ; the punctuation on the pro- 

 thorax is certainly broader and deeper, and on that account the 

 punctures are closer to each other, and the seriate rows of cicatricose 

 punctures on the elytra reach further down, but the size or depth of 

 these punctures is very variable ; the shape of the genital clasps 

 of the male (pi. xliii., fig. 4) are similar ; fig. 5 (type form) is not 

 quite correct. An example from Frere, Natal, is as red on the upper 

 side as the type form. 



This species is met with only under dry cow-dung, and it seems 

 to be always solitary. 



Length 17-18 mm. ; width 10^-11 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Worcester, Knysna, Malmes- 

 bury, Dordrech) ; Natal (Frere). 



P. HEBRiEA, Oliv., 



Plate XLIII., fig. 7. 



Ent., i, 6, p. 89, pi. 12, fig. 115. 



Gor. and Perch., Monogr., p. 125, pi. 18, fig. 3. 



Shape of the preceding species, but smaller and with the clypeal 

 part more acuminate in front, and the angles more sharply 

 upturned ; the colour is more flavescent, and the black macules 

 more numerous ; the sides of the prothorax are not sparsely villose, 

 or serrulate ; the punctures on the disk are greatly scattered, and 

 although deep, not cicatricose ; the scutellum is sparingly punctate, 

 and sometimes not at all ; the striae on the dorsal part of the elytra 

 are very plain and the third interval plainly tectiform ; pygidium 

 briefly pubescent towards the apical part, finely plicate ; under side 



