1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 387 



anterior tibiae of the female sharply tri-dentate, apical joint of the 

 fore tarsi simple, intermediate and posterior tibiae pubescent inwardly 

 in both sexes, the hind ones plainly dentate on the upper side in 

 both sexes. 



This genus includes only one species which ranges from Natal to 

 Mamboia and German East Africa. 



Cheirolasia buekei, Westw., 

 Arcan. Entomol., i., 1843, p. 178, pi. 45, fig. 1 ; 

 Schaum. Ann. Soc. Ent. Ft., 1849, p. 242, ? . 



hopei, Bert., Nov. Comm. Ac. Bon., x., 1849, p. 424, pi. 10, fig. 2. 



histrio, Bat., Entom. Monthl. Mag., 1881, vol. 18, p. 157. 



Male : Head and antennas rufescent, the surface of the clypeus 

 and head with the exception of the horns or aculeate parts is covered 

 with a whitish flavescent coating, and sparsely punctate and 

 pubescent ; prothorax black or fuscous black and having on each 

 side a very broad whitish flavescent band notched inwardly past 

 the middle and leaving uncovered a supra marginal, slightly ante- 

 median round, denuded black spot, in the median part of the disk 

 there is a narrow, sub-flavescent line reaching from the apex to 

 about the median part, the black surface of the disk is somewhat 

 opaque and sparsely punctured ; scutellum also sparsely punctured, 

 the punctures setigerous ; elytra piceous, moderately shiny, sparsely 

 punctate and having on each side three pale flavescent patches 

 disposed longitudinally in the dorsal part, the first one is set at 

 a small distance from the base, the second, the largest of the three, 

 is at about the middle and the third is abutting on the suture, along 

 or close to the outer margin are three patches of the same colour, 

 the first one of which, an elongated one which is occasionally 

 divided into two, is right above the metasternal lateral process, the 

 second is more or less rounded, and the third is situated on the side 

 of the apical elytral callus ; the pygidium, which is as a rule reddish 

 at apex, bears two ovate flavescent patches ; the abdominal segments 

 have each two transverse flavescent maculae on each side, the hind 

 coxae have a similar patch near the lateral edge, and the metasternum 

 is almost completely coated with the same substance, which, how- 

 ever, is sometimes divided into two large patches on each side ; on 

 the sides of the red under part of the prothorax there is also a large 

 flavescent macule ; the legs are red, and the pectus clothed with 

 moderately dense flavescent hairs. 



Female : Like the male. The head is red, except the basal part 

 of the head which is black ; the lateral band of the prothorax is 



