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sutural interval irregularly punctate ; pygidium shiny, with scat- 

 tered aciculate punctures, and with sparse greyish hairs. Under 

 side and femora clothed with dense and long hairs, fasciculate 

 towards the sides of the segments. Antennae fuscous, with the 

 pedicel rufous. 



Length 11 mm. ; width 5 mm. $ 2 • 



Hab. Arlington, Fort Salisbury (Ehodesia)." 



Gen. PHiENOMEKIS, Cat. L, p. 619. 

 Ph^nomeris rufipennis, Brancs., Cat. i., p. 621. 



? P. magnifica t Hope, loc. cit., p. 621. 



I placed, with some doubt, however, P. rufipennis, Brancs., in 

 synonymy with P. magnifica, Hope. I am not sure now of the 

 identity of the latter, whereas I am certain of that of the former, 

 and the name must thus be transposed in the aforesaid manner : 



Ph^nomeris ditissima, n. sp. 



Head and prothorax golden green, elytra coppery red, pygidium, 

 underside and legs emerald green, tibiae and tarsi cyaneous, last 

 joint of palps and first joint of antennae cyaneous ; head roughly 

 coriaceous all over ; prothorax impunctate except for a few aciculate 

 punctures above the lateral margin and also along the sinuate part 

 of the base ; scutellum with a few scattered punctures ; elytra with 

 sharply tectiform costae which are not punctate but are slightly 

 irregularly plicate laterally, and the intervals are more deeply and 

 more roughly punctate than in the other two South African species ; 

 the punctures on the propygidium are very coarse, foveolate and 

 numerous ; abdomen and legs very coarsely punctate ; metasternum 

 closely punctate, the punctures deep and nearly contiguous, mesos- 

 ternal process cuneiform but hardly projecting beyond the coxae. 



Length 17 mm. ; width 6 J mm. 



Hab. Natal. Eastern Zululand. 



More slender than its two South African congeners ; it is also 

 distinguished by the shape of the mesosternal process. The three 

 species may be separated as follows : — 



Mesosternal process very long ; prothorax impunctate besckei. 



Mesosternal process long ; prothorax closely aciculate punctate . . . . rufipennis. 

 Mesosternal process very short ; prothorax with only a few punctures 



above the outer margins and part of the suture ditissima. 



