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closely set, especially on the sides, but in the centre there is a longi- 

 tudinal impunctate narrow band ; scutellum with an irregular series 

 of deep punctures on each side ; elytra with seriate ovate, nearly 

 coalescing cicatricose, very deep punctures ; pygidium reddish ; 

 under side nearly glabrous, immaculate. 



Var. collaris. Black, sub-opaque on the upper side ; prothorax 

 rusty-red, narrowly marginate with fuscous ; occasionally there are 

 faint traces of two discoidal fuscous spots. 



Var. napaa. Black, with the thorax and elytra ferruginous-red, 

 the base of the thorax is narrowly edged with fuscous, and on the 

 median discoidal part are two comma-shaped black macules or two 

 small dots ; the elytra have a narrow lateral and posterior fuscous 

 margin, the suture is black and the pygidium is either ferruginous 

 or black. 



Var. rufoomata. Hardly distinguishable from the var. napcea. 



The type form is rarer than the variety collaris ; both forms occur 

 in the same locality. 



Length 11-15 mm. ; width 6J-- 9 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Eustenburg, Zoutpansberg, Pieters- 

 burg, Waterberg) ; Southern Ehodesia (Middle Limpopo, Enkel- 

 doorn, Sebakwe, Bulawayo, Salisbury) ; Damaraland. 



Gen. PSEUDOPBOTtETIA, Kraatz, 

 Deutsch. Entomol. Zeitschr., 1882, p. 76. 



Mentum elongated, sub-parallel, hardly sinuate at apex ; upper 

 lobe of maxillae with two sharp curved teeth, inner lobe simple 

 (stictica) or hooked (amakosa) ; clypeus moderately sub-parallel 

 laterally, and either diagonally narrowed towards the apex the 

 margin of which is conspicuously reflexed and incised in the $ 

 (stictica), or parallel and with the anterior margin weakly bi-dentate 

 in the centre (amakosa) ; in the ? , however, the clypeus is parallel, 

 transverse at apex, with the margin only slightly raised ; in the 

 male the antennal club is almost as long as the pedicel ; prothorax 

 sub-trapezoidal, very plainly arcuate above the scutellum ; the latter 

 is longer than broad, broad at base, but not sharply acuminate at 

 apex ; elytra broader than the thorax, not acuminate behind, and 

 each has a distinct rounded discoidal costa and a short inner one 

 connected transversely with the discoidal and also with the suture ; 

 the striae in the dorsal part are quite distinct but at the apex there 

 are traces of a very short costule uniting with the discoidal at the 

 apical callus, the suture is plainly raised and acute at apex ; sternal 

 process plane, constricted between the coxae, projecting beyond 



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