1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 481 



macules on each side, these macules are occasionally wanting ; 

 sternal process quite transverse. 



The variety L. verreauxi differs from the type in the absence of 

 the reddish marginal band of the prothorax, and the dark bronze 

 pygidium. So far as I know, it seems restricted to the south- 

 western parts of the Cape Colony, and is rare. The typical form 

 is abundant in the eastern parts of the Colony, and reaches Natal. 



Length 9-10 mm. ; width 5—54 mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Ceres, Tulbagh, Worcester, Graham's Town), 

 Natal (Maritzburg, Durban). 



Leucocelis ^ineicollis, Schaum, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Franc, 1844, p. 109. 

 Var. minor, Kolbe, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1895, p. 290. 



Size and shape of L. amethyst ma, but the under side and legs, 

 head, prothorax, and scutellum are bright bronze ; the prothorax is 

 remotely punctulate and has on each side a supra-marginal, some- 

 what diagonal white band, oftener than not partly obliterated, and 

 two basal discoidal white spots or impressions, the sub-median one 

 of which is very often obliterated ; the elytra are green or greenish 

 rufescent, numerously or sparingly maculated or not ; and have a 

 very distinct supra-marginal row of punctures better defined than 

 the marginal one ; pygidium bronze-rufescent. 



In the variety minor, which is much smaller than the type, the 

 hind part of the prothorax is almost impunctate and the two 

 marginal striae of the elytra are impunctate. 



Length 9-11 mm. ; width 5-6 mm. 



All the examples I have seen are from the neighbourhood of 

 Durban, Natal, the var. minor, of which one example was kindly lent 

 me by Mr. O. E. Janson, is labelled Delagoa Bay. 



Leucocelis cupricollis, Kraatz, 

 Entom. Monatsbl., ii., p. 153. 

 Under side and legs, head, prothorax, and scutellum bright bronze, 

 almost coppery ; pygidium coppery red ; elytra bright green, spotted 

 with white. Similar to L. ceneicollis, from which it differs by the 

 much more closely punctured prothorax ; the punctures, especially 

 on the sides, are elongated, and the outer margin of the elytra is as 

 plainly punctate as the supra-marginal row. 

 Length 12 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



This species is recorded from the Lake Nyassa region, and the 



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