1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 361 



hides the sculpture of the elytra, which seem to be weakly striolate 

 in the neighbourhood of the suture, the humeral costa reaches only 

 to about one-fourth of the length, and there are no traces of a 

 discoidal one ; the legs are shiny and sparingly punctate. 



This type form seems restricted to tbe extreme part of the South- 

 western Districts of the Cape Colony. 



Var. prunipennis. Like the type, but the elytra and pygidium 

 are opaque, roseate brown with a short marginal white line along 

 the humeral part, and a few white dots, they are sometimes 

 sub-seriate, in the anterior dorsal part. 



This variety occurs in Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Frere) ; Trans- 

 vaal (Potchefstroom, Lydenburg, Pretoria). 



Var. natalis. Like the var. prunipennis, but in addition to the 

 four longitudinal white bands of the prothorax there is occasionally 

 a central median very short line or elongated spots, the elytra are 

 opaque, dark bottle-green and splashed all over with white macules ; 

 some examples have no traces of a central line on the prothorax, and 

 are only sparingly splashed with white punctures. 



Burmeister described this variety as having been captured by 

 Drege in Natal. My examples are from Victoria West and 

 Dordrecht, in the Cape Colony. 



Length 21-25 mm. ; width 13-15 mm. 



Trichostetha capensis, Linn., 



Plate XLIIL, fig. 15. 



Syst. Nat., i., 2, p. 556 ; 

 Gory and Perch., Monogr. p. 257, pi. 49, fig. 2. 



albopunctata, de Geer., Mem. Ins., vii., p. 640, pi. 48, fig. 2. 



barbatula, Voet., Col., L, p. 12, pi. 2, fig. 11 ; Herbst., Kaf., hi., 

 p. 259, pi. 32, fig. 7. 



Var. fuscorubra, Voet., Col., i., p. 12, pi. 2, fig. 12 ; Herbst, Kaf., 

 p. 245, pi. 30, fig. 12. 



hirsuta, McLeay, 111. Zool. Afric, hi., p. 46. 



Jwttentota, Gor. and Perch., Monogr., p. 62. 



oculata, McLeay, loc. cit., p. 46. 



Black, opaque on the upper side, shiny underneath ; the prothorax 

 is rufescent in the centre, fuscous on the sides, and has there 

 three more or less regular series of white macules and a row of 

 white dots in the red central part ; the scutellum has a lateral basal 

 white band or several dots on each side ; the elytra are brownish red 

 and ornamented with numerous, more or less seriate white macules, 

 but the suture is always fuscous, the pygidium is also maculated 



