1907.] Catalogtie of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 473 



strongly so in the male than in the female, and with a weak longi- 

 tudinal keel in both sexes ; sternal process sub-truncate at apex, not 

 projecting beyond the coxae, grooved to the tip ; anterior tibiae 

 strongly tri-dentate in both sexes ; intermediate and posterior tibiae 

 very strongly dentate on the upper side ; tarsi moderately long, 

 slender. 



The convexity of the apical part of the pygidium is not unlike that 

 obtaining in myrmecobious or termitobious species of Canochilides. 

 The genus is easily recognised by the rounded lateral shape of the 

 prothorax the central basal part of which, instead of being quite 

 straight, impinges slightly over the scutellum in the manner of 

 Discopeltis, in which genus the only species then known was formerly 

 included ; but Glaucocelis differs in the shape of the elytral costae 

 and sculpture, the latter connecting it plainly with the Leucocelides. 



Glaucocelis bellula, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., 1857, p. 17. 



thoracica, Schoch., Entom. Nachr., 1896, p. 181. 



Black, shiny, prothorax blood-red with a supra-lateral black round 

 spot at about the median part, and two basal, median broad macules 

 coalescing along the basal margin ; elytra sprinkled with a few, 

 irregularly disposed white macules ; pygidium blood-red with a few 

 white macules along the basal edge. Head and clypeus closely 

 punctulate ; prothorax covered with moderately deep punctures 

 separated from each other by an interval about equal to their own 

 diameter, outer margin with a fringe of somewhat remote, long, 

 setose hairs ; scutellum impunctate, somewhat sunk ; elytra with 

 the humeral part very strongly developed, and impressed on the 

 upper side, the first dorsal costa disappears at about the median 

 part, the second is plainly visible, the intervals of the two are broadly 

 but somewhat shallowy punctate from the base to the median part, 

 the punctures on the second interval being deeper, broader, and 

 ovate, from the median part or thereabout these punctures are 

 replaced by geminate striae, but in the deflexed part, deep, seriate, 

 sub-cicatricose punctures are very plainly discernible, and there are 

 on each side five rows of remote shoi^t, bristly, whitish grey hairs ; 

 propygidium closely, somewhat deeply aciculate and carinate longi- 

 tudinally in the centre ; pygidium with deep, uneven cicatricose 

 punctures ; under side deeply punctate, all the punctures setigerous. 



Length 10-11 mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hab. Transvaal (Waterberg, Bustenburg) ; Southern Bhodesia 

 (Victoria Falls). 



