446 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



central green longitudinal band, and occasionally another small 

 slanting lateral band of the same colour ; under side as in R. aulica ; 

 sternal process not grooved in the anterior part. 



Var. transvaalica . Very dark green or occasionally dark blue ; 

 like the type form in build and sculpture, but noticeable by the 

 slenderness of the wide bands, the macules are reduced to slender, 

 transverse lines ; the pygidium is white with three diamond-shape 

 denuded spots and the pubescence underneath is silvery-white. This 

 variety occurs in the Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Length 14-17 mm. ; width 7-10 mm. 



Hab. The whole of South Africa. 



Ehabdotis sobkina, Gory and Perch., 



Plate XLIII., fig. 3. 



Monogr., p. 234, pi. 44, fig. 4. 



Var. virginea, Klug, Peter's Reis., 1862, p. 267, pi. 15, fig. 11. 



Olive-green, shiny ; more elongated than the preceding species ; 

 head punctate in the same manner but with the punctures deeper ; 

 prothorax also more deeply punctate, especially on the sides, in 

 additional to the marginal and discoidal bands there is a fifth one in 

 the very centre of the disk ; scutellum impressed from base to apex, 

 the line white ; elytra with a diagonal dorsal white line and five 

 white, juxta-sutural patches, the two ante-penultimate being trans- 

 verse lines, the outer marginal band is short, below it are six 

 marginal macules, and four seriate ones in the space extending 

 slightly past the median part between the juxta-sutural and the outer 

 marginal macules ; pygidium white with three longitudinal denuded 

 bands ; sternal process grooved to the apex ; under side as in B. 

 semi punctata ; inner part of tibiae and under side of tarsi very 

 densely hairy ; the pubescence on the pectus and legs is flavescent. 



Length 19-22 mm. ; width 10-1H mm. 



Hab. British Bechuanaland (Macloutsie) ; Southern Rhodesia 

 (Salisbury, Umfuli River, Matopos, Victoria Falls); Mozambique 

 (Tette) ; also East Central Africa, Somali, Kordofan, &c. 



Group ELAPHINISIL 



Gen. ELAPHINIS, Burm., 

 Handb. d. Entomol., hi., 1842, p. 595. 

 Mentum sub-oblong, palps cavity very broad and shallow, the apex 

 is deeply incised ; maxillae long, slender, upper one with a long 



