1902.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 613 



Key to the Species. 



Mesosternal process very long, compressed, with a sharp upper edge ; 

 aeneous on the upper side with the elytra reddish yellow or pale 

 testaceous with a very broad discoidal black band ; intervals of elytra 

 plane })i-inuutatu. 



Mesosternal process moderately long, compressed, bluntly triangular ; 

 coppery on the upper side with the elytra flavous ; intervals of elytra 

 convex laetans. 



Mesosternal process short, cuneiform ; aeneous on the upper side 

 with the elytra pale testaceous in the anterior part, and black in the 

 posterior major. 



POPILLIA BIPUNCTATA, Ftlbr,, 



Mantiss., Insect., i., 1787, p. 25. TfcxfijC ^ / ■ , (\. ^^ 



P. Unibata, Boh., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 59. 



P. apicalis, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1892, p. 190. 



Glabrous on the upper side ; head, prothorax, and scuteUum 

 coppery red, or aeneous, elytra completely yellowish red, or 

 testaceous yellow with the median discoidal part slightly infuscate, 

 or distinctly black, leaving only a somewhat narrow marginal 

 yellowish band along the outer and posterior margins, along the 

 base and also along the suture up to about the median part ; 

 pygidium with two patches of whitish appressed hairs, the abdo- 

 minal segments are banded with similar hairs, the mesosternum is 

 entirely covered with them, and the posterior femora have a similar 

 band ; under side and legs bronze, or bronze- black ; clypeus broader 

 than long, truncate at the tip and with the outer angles rounded, 

 closely shagreened, head very closely punctured, but not rugose ; 

 prothorax distinctly attenuate laterally in front from the median 

 part, a little slightly obliquely ampliate from the middle to the 

 sharp basal angle, conspicuously tri-sinuate along the base, the 

 sinuations of equal depth, marginate in front and laterally, but only 

 for a third of the length along the base, not very convex and 

 covered with very closely set round punctures on the sides and on 

 the anterior part, but impunctate in the posterior median part ; 

 scuteUum longer than broad and sharp at tip, impunctate ; elytra as 

 broad as long, plane with the humeral and apical calluses not much 

 developed, deeply punctato-striate except on the three or four first 

 dorsal striae, intervals plane or nearly so, and impunctate ; propy- 

 gidium partly covered by the elytra, closely punctate ; pygidium 

 sub-scabroso-punctate ; femora hardly punctate, tibiae more so. 



Length 11^-13 mm. ; width 6h-S mm. 



