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obscurely fulvous ; scutellum black ; elytra not more distinctly 
punctured than the thorax, convex, fulvous, the suture with a 
black pear-shaped band, widened posteriorly, breast black, legs 
and abdomen fulvous, prosternum convex between the coxa), tibiae 
with a minute spine. 
Hah. Cape Town. 
Malacosoma discoidalis, sp. n. 
Black, thorax subquadrate, strongly punctured, elytra closely 
and distinctly punctured, flavous, the disc occupied by a broad 
piceous patch, leaving the base and apex flavous only. Length, 3 
lines. 
Head black, impunctate, the frontal elevations transverse, 
flattened, carina broad, palpi moderately thickened, the apical 
joint ovate ; antennae about half the length of the body, the third 
joint one- half shorter than the fourth, somewhat triangularly 
widened like the intermediate joints, apical joints elongate ; 
thorax subquadrate, one-half broader than long, the sides and the 
posterior margin rather rounded, the surface black, shining, finely 
and rather closely punctured at the sides, the disc with an obsolete 
central smooth line ; scutellurai broader than long, black ; elytra 
much more closely punctured than the thorax, also more distinctly 
so ; the disc piceous, the base and apex flavous, this colour 
gradually widened towards the shoulders ; underside and legs 
black, clothed with white pubescence ; all the tibiae mucronate ; 
prosternum narrowly convex, anterior cotyloid cavities open. 
Hah. Mashunaland, Salisbury. 
Malacosoma (?) clypeata, sp. n. 
Testaceous, the head with one, the thorax with two piceous 
spots, impunctate, elytra greenish-aeneous, very finely and closely 
punctured. Length, 4^ lines. 
Of elongate, parallel shape, the head broad, testaceous, the 
vertex with a large round piceous spot, frontal tubercles trigonate, 
broad, clypeus divided into two broadly-flattened lateral lobes, 
testaceous ; antennas not extending to the middle of the elytra, 
pale fulvous, the third and intermediate joints rather triangularly 
widened, the apical three joints thin and elongate ; thorax pro- 
portionately very long, scarcely broader than long, subquadrate, 
the lateral margins evenly rounded, more narrowed in front, 
anterior angles obsolete, slightly thickened, posterior ones oblique, 
