1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 379 



The general appearance of this female resembles sufficiently well 

 the figure of Getonia pimeloides, Gor. and Perch. (Mon.,pl. 50., fig. 2) 

 to lead me to believe that it will prove to be identical. 



The only species included in this genus seems to be crepuscular in 

 its habits, and is one of the rarest in collections of the South African 

 Cetonids. 



Gariep, patera, Gor. and Perch., 

 Monogr. Get., 1833, p. 260, pi. 49, fig. 6. 



Male : Black, moderately shiny ; antennae rufescent ; head and 

 clypeus clothed with a very long flavescent pubescence ; prothorax 

 also clothed with a very long flavescent pubescence, closely shagreened 

 and having along the outer margin a somewhat broad, white band ; 

 mesothoracic epimera very densely pubescent ; scutellum covered 

 with very closely set punctures from which springs a long, appressed 

 pubescence ; elytra plane, covered with almost contiguous cicatricose, 

 irregular, nearly coalescing punctures, and having on each side 

 two tectiform discoidal costas, they are glabrous, and have on each 

 side six white patches disposed transversely along the humeral, the 

 median ani the supra-apical parts ; pygidium with two broad, white 

 macules ; pectus and anterior and median femora clothed with a 

 somewhat dense pubescence ; hind tibiae briefly pubescent. 



Female : Black, with the elytra and thighs reddish brown ; the 

 hairy coating is lost in my partly bleached specimen ; the sculpture 

 of the head and clypeus is like that of the $ , and the clypeus is 

 divided from the head by a small transverse carina ; the elytra, which 

 are also like those of the $ , retain still a white patch on the juxta- 

 sutural costae, corresponding to that seen in the $ . 



Length 16-19 mm. ; width 9-11 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Namaqualand, Calvinia, Willowmore). 



Gen. HETEEOCLITA, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entom., iii., 1842, p. 604. 



Clypeus short, slightly ampliate laterally, plainly narrowed at the 

 base, rounded in the anterior part and arcuately emarginate there, 

 the edges raised all round ; mentum very hairy, parallel, elongate, 

 with the ligular portion sinuate at tip ; the galea moderately large ; 

 last joint of all palps cylindrical, truncate at tip ; prothorax very 

 elongate, conspicuously narrowed at apex in the $ , and one-third 

 broader at the base than long, ampliate and half as long as broad in 

 the 3 , strongly arcuate emarginate above the scutellum ; clypeus 

 sharply acuminate ; elytra sub-parallel in the $ , more ampliate 



