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glabrous, except on the mesosternum, roughly punctate like the 

 legs ; sternal process smooth, triangularly aculeate, and with 

 the suture visible on the sides ; metasternum plainly punctate in 

 the centre ; outer upper ridge of hind tibiae serrulate all along its 

 length, all tibiae densely fringed with light fulvous hairs. 



Length 17-18 mm. ; width 10 mm. 



" Feeds on various flowering shrubs and roses (Natal). I have not 

 yet seen it on flowers in Salisbury, but only feeding on the 

 stems of various herbaceous plants, also on Combretum " (G. A. K. 

 Marshall). It is principally a grass insect in Natal (C. N. Barker). 



Hob. Cape Colony (Kimberley, Graham's Town, East London, 

 Port St. John) ; Natal and Transvaal, almost everywhere ; Southern 

 Rhodesia (Salisbury, Mazoe, Enkeldoorn, Umtali) ; Mozambique 

 (Beira, Lourenco-Marquez). The whole of Eastern and East Central 

 Africa as far as Abyssinia ; also Angola. 

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[i P. maculatissima, Bohem., 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 6. , 



Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. Fork., 1860, p. 120. 



Distinguished from the preceding species by the more parallel and 

 more elongated shape and more depressed elytra, the tessellation is 

 also darker and the spots more numerous ; every abdominal segment 

 has a lateral fascicle of flavescent hairs, the metasternal process is 

 smooth in the centre, and the mesosternal is as broadly triangular 

 but distinctly shorter, and the suture is very well defined all round; 

 the shape of the genitalia of the male is different, and the habits of 

 the two species do not seem to be the same. Marshall writes that it 

 is found under the bark of dead Acacia, and on Acacia gum ; and 

 Barker says that it has arboreal habits in Natal, differing in that 

 respect from P. hebrcea. 



Length 16-19J mm. ; width 8J-10 mm. 



Hob. Eastern part of the Cape Colony, the whole Transvaal and 

 Natal ; Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury, Mpudzi River) ; Eastern and 

 East Central Africa ; Central Congo, Angola. 



CHIRINDA, n. gen. 



Strictly speaking this genus differs from Porphyronata merely by 

 the shape of the clypeus, which is parallel and only slightly sinuate 

 in front with the anterior angles slightly rounded and not reflexed ; 

 the intermediate and posterior tibiae are uni-dentate on the upper 

 si&e, and the latter are weakly serrate ; the inner part is not densely 

 ciliate. 



