1907.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 341 



sculpture, and adorned with white bands or macules which often 

 disappear or are incomplete without having been rubbed off; the 

 background of the elytra is maculated with fuscous on the dis- 

 coidal part, and also on the deflexed part when the white coating- 

 does not predominate there. The white bands are more conspicuous 

 in the male, while in the female there are only a few small macules 

 on the prothorax, and hardly any on the sides of the elytra ; in 

 many males the elytra are often without bands or spots, but not so 

 the prothorax wbicb bears always strong traces of a lateral white 

 band. Clypeus lightly punctulate, margins slightly raised, head 

 sparsely hairy in the posterior part ; prothorax dull green, not 

 closely punctate, and with the punctures very shallow, it has on 

 each side a broad band of cretaceous white coating, and in the dis- 

 coidal part are a few minute dots of the same substance ; scutellum 

 impunctate ; elytra sub-testaceous with the humeral part very 

 bulging, plainly bi-costate with the suture equally raised in the 

 posterior part and weakly acuminate at apex ; the whole of the 

 deflexed sides and the posterior part are covered with a cretaceous 

 coating as well as the second costal interval and the hind part of the 

 first, but there is always a large spot of the background left un- 

 covered round the posterior callus, the costal are not free from the 

 coating ; pygidium either completely covered with a white coating or 

 only maculated with the same ; abdominal segments each with a 

 broad white band on each side, pectus also white ; in the female this 

 coating is often partly or even completely obliterated ; pectus 

 densely hairy ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate in both sexes, but having an 

 upper sinuation in the female, the basal tarsal joint of the hind legs 

 is strongly spinose outwardly. 



Length 10^—12^ mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hab. Natal, Transvaal, Cape Colony (eastern part). 



Micrelaphinis ? pumila, Bohem., 

 Insect Caffrar., ii., 1857, p. 40. 



Smaller than the preceding species, but otherwise so similar in 

 colouration and shape that had I not seen a very long series I 

 would have taken it for a dwarfish variety of it. The shape of the 

 genital armature of the male is slightly different. Tbe colour is 

 reddish bronze, the base of the clypeus is maculated with white ; the 

 opaque prothorax has a dull greenish tinge, a lateral wbite band, and 

 more or less coalescent white patches on the disk ; very often there 

 is a small white spot on each side of the base of the scutellum ; the 

 elytra are plainly bi-costate, the three dorsal intervals have each 



