1907.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 343 



Length 10-10f mm. ; width 5^-6 mm. 

 Hob. Mozambique (Eikatla, Lourenco-Marquez). 

 I have seen Schoch's type of M. delagoensis, but not that of 

 M. gracilis. 



MlCRELAPHINIS NIGRITULA, Boh., 



Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 39. 



Male: Black, opaque on the upper side, elytra rufous brown, or 

 black with rufescent basal longitudinal stripes, antennal club longer 

 than the pedicel, and rufescent ; head with two white macules, 

 apical margins of the clypeus slightly more reflexed than in the 

 three preceding species ; prothorax very slightly arcuate above the 

 scutellum, deeply punctate, and having on each side a plain, unin- 

 terrupted white band, and several white spots on the discoidal part ; 

 elytra with three dorsal series of white spots and a lateral row of 

 white macules the lower of which is produced as a band rounding 

 the apical part ; under side black, shiny, abdominal segments with 

 an upper white macule, the penultimate with two. 



Female : More robust than the male, totally black, shiny ; elytra 

 with a few somewhat irregular small white dots very variable in 

 number, and occasionally totally absent ; pygidium with two small 

 white spots ; under side without white spots or macules. 



The shape of the genital forceps of the male of this pretty species 

 differs more distinctly from that of the previously described species 

 than the other three do from each other. Boheman described the 

 species from a female example. 



Length 10-10^ mm. ; width 5-5^ mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Pienaar's Eiver, Pretoria District ; Bustenburg, 

 Lydenburg, Zoutpansberg) ; Southern Bhodesia (Middle Limpopo) ; 

 Natal (Weenen). 



MlCRELAPHINIS SHEPPARDI, n. Sp. 



The colouration of this species varies much. 



Type. Male : Black, shiny, but without a metallic sheen in both 

 sexes, and thus differing from the female of M. delagoensis, antennge 

 black, slightly rufescent at apex ; prothorax with three or four white 

 macules coalescing oftener than not into a lateral marginal band, 

 on each side of the disk there is a row of three or four white dots, 

 and often a single median central dot ; scutellum concolorous ; 

 elytra with four series of white dots on each side ; pygidium with 

 two sub-transverse white patches ; pectus with several white lateral 

 macules, abdominal segments with a white dot each. Head and 

 clypeus evenly closely punctulate ; prothorax moderately closely 



