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ZoNiTODEMA viEiDiPENNis, Fabric, 
Plate XXII., figs. 10, 10^, lOh. 
Entom. Syst. Suppl., p. 103; Casteln., Hist. Nat. d. Ins., ii., p. 276. 
Black, with the legs fuscous and the tarsi sub-rufescent ; prothorax 
red, elytra metallic green ; labrum and epistome sub-rufescent ; abdomen 
with the three abdominal apical segments pale red in the male, all the 
segments red in the female ; head triangular, strongly elongate acuminate, 
very briefly pubescent, but setulose on the long, ovate labrum, the surface 
is covered with irregular punctures somewhat scrobiculate in front and 
closely set, and in the centre of the frontal part is a smooth, raised line or 
patch, neck closely punctulate ; prothorax somewhat transverse, slightly 
ampliate rounded laterally in the middle, as broad or very nearly so at the 
apex the angles of which are rounded as at the base, moderately convex 
on the disk, weakly and sub-remotely punctulate and glabrous ; scutellum 
bluntly triangular ; elytra elongated, slightly sinuate laterally towards the 
median part, non-costulate, coriaceous shagreened, and clothed with a 
very fine greyish pubescence ; underside and legs finely aciculate, very 
briefly pubescent ; occasionally the pectus bears an ill-defined rufescent 
median patch. The upper maxillary lobe is somewhat compressed, 
hollowed inwardly, as long as the maxillary palps, glabrous, and bears 
at the tip a pencil of hairs two-thirds its own length. 
Length 6-11 mm. ; width 2^-4|- mm. 
Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Worcester, Paarl, Ceres, 
Malmesbury, King Williamstown) ; Transvaal (Bocksburg, Pietersburg, 
Pretoria, Lydenburg, Potchefstroom). 
ZONITODEMA PARENTALIS, n. Sp. 
Very similar to the preceding species from which it differs in the 
shape of the prothorax which is slightly longer than broad, and attenuate, 
although moderately so in front, and thus resembles Z. fahrmi, from 
which it can be distinguished by the upper lobe of the maxillae which 
is shaped like that of Z. viridipennis , and which with its pencil of hairs 
is not as long as the head ; the sculpture, colour, and vestiture are the 
same as in Z. viridipennis. 
Length 6-8 mm. ; width 2-3^ mm. 
Hab. Cape Colony (Port Elizabeth) ; Natal (Frere) ; Transvaal (no 
exact locality). 
ZONITODEMA FAHE^I. 
coUaris, Fahr., Ofv. Ak. Forhd., 1870, p. 355 (name preoccupied). 
Shape, size, and sculpture of Z. viridipennis ; the colour is also the 
same, that is to say black with the prothorax yellowish red and the elytra 
