1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 445 



median part of the clypeus, the impression often covered with a 

 white, interrupted band ; prothorax sparingly punctulate, outer 

 margin with a white band ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra somewhat 

 massive, not costulate, irregularly punctulate and having on each 

 side a white patch on the humeral callus, four transverse ones in the 

 posterior part alongside the suture, five along the outer margin, a 

 marginal white line running from the shoulder to short of the median 

 part and coalescing often with the patch below it, and a sub- 

 transverse sub-discoidal one situate between the upper two marginal 

 and the upper two juxta-sutural macules ; pygidium white with a 

 green central band, and a slanting one on each side ; under side 

 reddish green, densely hairy, abdominal segments each with an upper 

 patch and a longitudinal band; pectus white ; sternal process grooved 

 to a very short distance from the apex. 



B. intermedia, Burm., seems to be a varietal form in which the 

 prothorax has four white lines, and the elytra of which are maculate 

 at the apex only. 



The posterior dorsal white macules are often only very slightly 

 indicated. 



Length 21-22 mm. ; width 1H-12 mm. 



Hab. The whole of South Africa, except the south-western part 

 of the Cape Colony ; also East Central Africa. 



Ehabdotis semipunctata, Fabr., 

 Plate XLIIL, fig. 2. 

 Ent. Syst., i., 2, p. 140. 

 chalcea, Gory and Perch., Monogr., p. 235, pi. 44, fig. 5. 



Smaller than the preceding, and a little more slender ; the clypeus 

 is very slightly emarginate in the centre, the punctuation is a little 

 finer, the white band extends from the base of the head to nearly 

 the apex of tbe clypeus ; the very sparingly punctulate prothorax 

 has a broad silvery-white marginal band and a slender, entire 

 one on each side of the median part of the disk ; the scutellum, 

 which is oftener than not impunctate, is slightly grooved in the 

 centre at the apex ; the elytra, which are not costulate, and are 

 irregularly seriate punctate, have a discoidal diagonal white band 

 reaching to near the median part, four juxta-sutural white patches, 

 the second of which is transverse, three alongside the outer margin, 

 the apical one being plainly formed by two which have coalesced, an 

 outer marginal white band running from the shoulder, a little longer 

 than the discoidal one, and a round supra-marginal spot situated near 

 the terminal part of this marginal band ; pygidium white with a 



