16-4 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Tephrj^a dichroa, Schaum., 

 Ann. Soc. Entom. Fr., 1844, p. 411 ; ibid., 1849, p. 268. 



? lutulenta, Schaum., loc. cit., 1844, p. 412. 



Type. Male : Black, with the thorax red, and the elytra dark 

 reddish brown ; the red prothorax bears two discoidal fuscous spots 

 and a supra-marginal one on each side, and the base is almost always 

 narrowly infuscate ; on each elytron are two white dots situated 

 slightly past the middle. Female ashy-grey on the upper side, and 

 having also the two white dots on each elytron, but the prothorax is 

 unspotted. Head very closely punctate, antennal club rufescent ; 

 prothorax covered with round, non-cicatricose punctures separated 

 from each other by an interval equal to twice the w T idth of their own 

 diameter, but in the centre there is a narrow longitudinal impunctate 

 line, or very narrow band, those punctures are often hidden by an 

 opaque coating in the male, but not so in the female ; scutellum with 

 a few punctures at the base ; elytra with series of cicatricose ovate 

 punctures in the intervals of the two costules as well as on the 

 deflexed part, these seriate punctures are more regular in the male 

 than in the female; pygidium shagreened, and with a lateral light 

 rufescent patch in the male, or a white spot in the female ; under 

 side almost glabrous, pectus sub-reticulate, abdominal segments with 

 a white macule on each, metasternum and epimera always maculated 

 with white or grey in the female, occasionally so on the metasternum 

 in the male. 



Var. Male : Similar to the type except that the round black spots 

 on the thorax are elongated into bands which reach neither the 

 apex nor the base. Female like the type. 



Length 12-14 mm. ; width 7^-8 mm. 



I Jab. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg, Frere, Newcastle) ; Orange 

 River Colony ; the whole of the Transvaal and of Southern Rhodesia. 



Tephr^a morosa, Schaum., 

 Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond., 1848, vol. v., p. 71. 



anccps, Dohrn., Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1868, p. 240. 



bcinlingi, Nonfr. Ent. Nachr., 18, 1892, p. 124. 



collaris, Bohem., Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 22. 



napcea, Boh., Ofv. Vet. Akad. Forh., 1860, p. 118. 



rufoornata, Jans., Cist. Entom., ii., p. 259. 



Black, sub-opaque on the upper side, and very depressed ; antennas 

 piceous, the club somewhat brownish-red at tip ; head very closely 

 punctate ; prothorax covered with deep, ovate cicatricose punctures 



