342 Descriptive Catalogue [1898. 



rately broad patch ; the first band which is situated at a small 

 distance from the suture reaches to about one-third of the length, 

 the second and third are of the same length, and as often as not 

 •coalesce at apex, and often form a patch at about the median part of 

 the elytron, while the third is very often interrupted at a short 

 distance from the base ; the fourth line, which may be termed a 

 supra-marginal one, is very narrow, springs from the margin at 

 some distance from the humeral angle and joins again the margin 

 at about three-fourths of the length ; the apical patch is sub- 

 triangular, does not reach the suture, but forms a part of the 

 posterior margin. Length 15-17^- mm. ; width 6J-8J mm. 



Hab. Zambesia (Enkeldoorn). 



The only species approaching this one is G. albolineatus, Catal., 

 p. 328, but in the latter the white lines on the elytra, although 

 sometimes interrupted, are narrower, and do not coalesce at tip so 

 as to form a median dorsal patch ; the fourth outer line is in no wise 

 ■connected with the outer margin. 



Gen. PIEZIA, 

 Catal., p. 329. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Elytra with a sutural white band reaching from the base to about 

 the median part, and with two transverse maculae in a line with 

 the apical part of the sutural band, Catal., p. 333 mar shall i. 



Elytra with a white band reaching from the base to about the median 

 part, but placed on the first costa and second interval, not on the 

 suture, one white spot on the third and one on the fifth interval . . licita. 



PlEZIA LICITA. 



Facies of M. angusticollis and P. marshalli ; covered with a black 

 pubescence and having on the head and prothorax two longitudinal 

 white pubescent bands ; the elytra are costulate and have on each 

 side of the suture a longitudinal white pubescent band situated on 

 the first costa and invading the second interval, one small white 

 spot on the third and one on the fifth interval in a line with the 

 apical part of the juxta-sutural longitudinal band ; at the apex there 

 is an elongate sutural white patch ; two costae near the suture are 

 obliterated under the pubescent band. Length 20-24 mm. ; width 

 7J-9 mm. 



