338 transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



black, with a whitish outer marginal prothoracic band (turbid/us, 

 higens), without this outer marginal prothoracic band (minor), or 

 reddish with two discoidal black prothoracic bands reaching from 

 the base to about the middle, and the elytra immaculate or with an 

 evanescent, infuscate, transverse band in the posterior part ; but it 

 is oftener black with the prothorax and elytra brick-red and opaque ; 

 in the median part of the base there is a black patch which is some- 

 times nearly obliterated, but which invades occasionally the greatest 

 part of the disk, and on each side there is a marginal, narrow white 

 band ; scutellum partly red and black, or totally black ; elytra with 

 two arcuate irregular sinuate patches, especially the posterior ones, 

 on each side; pygidium with two white patches coalescing some- 

 times along the apical margin ; upper lateral part of abdominal 

 segments maculated with white ; frontal part and also the concavity 

 of the clypeus clothed with a fiavescent pubescence ; frontal part 

 densely punctate ; prothorax with a very distinct tubercle in the 

 centre of the anterior part, and clothed with a brief rlavescent 

 pubescence, it is very closely punctate ; scutellum sub-cicatricose 

 punctate; elytra closely punctate, bi-costate on each side; pygidium 

 reddish and having on each side a broad white patch extending 

 sometimes along the base ; sides of abdomen sparely, of pectus 

 densely pubescent ; abdominal segments and epimera maculated with 

 white, legs also pubescent, basal joint of hind tarsi longer and wider 

 than the second, sharply angular outwardly; antennal club flavous. 



Length 15^-16* mm. ; width 8i-9i mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pretoria, Rustenburg, Pietersburg) ; Bechuana- 

 land (Ramoutsa) ; Southern Rhodesia (Hamyani River, Umcheki 

 River); N'Gamiland, teste Boheman ; Ovampoland. 



Gen. PHOXOMELA, Sch., 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. d. Franc, l&U, p. 407. 



This genus, which contains one species only, differs from Micrela- 

 phinis in the shape of the clypeus, which is very sharply acuminate 

 laterally in the anterior part, and very deeply incised there ; the 

 palps cavity reach almost the centre of the outer face which thus 

 looks as if it were carinate ; the other chief differences are that the 

 prothorax is plainly arcuate above the scutellum ; the anterior tibite 

 are dentate at apex only and sinuate above it in the 3 , bi-dentate 

 in the ? ; the plane sternal process projects slightly more than in 

 Micrelaphinis, is broader, and only very weakly arcuate at tip ; the 

 elytra are costulate, and shiny ; the basal joint of the hind tarsi are 

 very sharply spinose outwardly in both sexes. 



