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rows of spaced white dots on the dorsal part, and the outer margin 

 is almost contiguously maculated with white ; these markings, how- 

 ever, are very variable in number, and are even almost completely 

 obliterated ; the three duplicate rows of punctures are distinct, but 

 there is no distinct one along the outer margin ; under side sparsely 

 pubescent, pectus and abdomen cicatricose punctate ; pygidium 

 concolorous and covered with non-contiguous, ovate, cicatricose, 

 deep punctures. 



It is well-nigh impossible to say which is the type in that most 

 variable species. It occurs everywhere in South Africa, but it would 

 seem, however, to become rarer in the Northern Transvaal, where it is 

 replaced by L. lucens, and in some parts by L. amcthystina. 



Length 11-12| mm. ; width b\-§\ mm. 



Leucocelis adspersa, Fabric, 



Plate XLVIL, fig. 21. 



Syst. Eleuth., ii., p. 154. 



adspersa, Gor. and Perch., Mon., p. 297, pi. 57, fig. 7. 



albosparsa, Schoch., Gen. and Sp. m. Cetonid, Samml., p. 110. 



attalica, Schonh., Syn. Insect., i., 3, p. 138. 



.intuitu, Thunb., Mem. Ac. Petr., vi., 1818, p. 423. 



maryinalis, Swartz. Schonh., Syn. Ins. Append., p. 55. 



Var. verreauxi, Gor. and Perch., Monogr., p. 297, pi. 57, fig. 5. 



Dark bronze, brighter on the prothorax, the outer margin of 

 which has a somewhat narrow reddish band reaching from the apex 

 to the base, but this band is occasionally quite obliterated ; the elytra 

 arc dark green or green with a faint reddish tinge ; the pygidium is 

 very dark red, and occasionally dark bronze; palpi and antenna] 

 club rufescent. Head very closely punctulate; prothorax moderately 

 closely punctate, the punctures separated by an interval about equal 

 to their own diameter in the anterior part, but more than double 

 that width in the posterior, in the discoidal part are two rows con- 

 sisting each of three white impressions, and there are two similar 

 impressions in the outer marginal part; scutellum impunctate ; 

 elytra moderately attenuate towards the posterior part, and hardly 

 impressed near the humeral part, the double rows of punctures in 

 the first two intervals are more or less distinct, and so is the double 

 one outside the discoidal costa which is well raised, the defiexed part 

 is punctate sub-seriate, but the punctures arc very shallow, and on 

 each elytron are three rows of white macules; under side greyish 

 pubescent especially on the pectus and femora; pygidium closely 

 shagreened scrobiculate, and having two or three small white 



