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disk, white, ten rows of coarse punctures on each elytron, the first 

 and second rows assuming striae behind the middle, the second and 

 fourth interstices broader and convex, the suture elevated posteriorly 

 and obtuse at the apex. Pygidium red, with coarse ring-shaped 

 punctures. Beneath black, sides of the prothorax, a spot on the 

 upper side of the epimera, outer margin of the posterior coxae and 

 the two apical abdominal segments red ; coarsely punctate and 

 strigose, with sparse grey hairs ; mesosternal process very broad, 

 truncate in front, a transverse impressed line with a fringe of grey 

 hairs at the apex. Legs black, &c. 



Length 9-12 mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland." 



In spite of the conformation of the basal joint of the hind tarsi, it 

 is very evident that this species is a true Lcucocelite as borne out by 

 the sculpture of the elytra and the marginate sternal process. It 

 resembles examples of Leucocelis lucens, Jans., from Northern 

 Damaraland. 



Gen. MAUSOLEOPSIS, Lansb., 

 C. R. Soc. Entom., Belg., 1882, p. 29. 

 Revoil's Faun, and Flor., Comalis. Coleopt., 1882, p. 39. 

 Microthyrea, Kraatz, Deutsch. Entom. Zeitschr., 1882, p. 76. 



Buccal organs of Leucocelis ; head similarly shaped ; prothorax 

 more ampliated towards the base ; the sternal process is broader, 

 arcuate, and does not project much. The species of this genus differ 

 from Leucocelis merely in the livery, which is black splashed with 

 white macules or spots. In the males of some species the hind 

 femora are broadened and arcuate {amabilis, luctifera) or not 

 (ruhricrps), but in all the inner claw of the fore tarsi is conspicuously 

 longer than the outer, and somewhat difform. 



Key to the Species. 



A . Spiracle of the last abdominal segment conspicuously spinose. 



Prothorax with one basal white spot and two lateral white 

 patch is ; elytra with three broad lateral white patches, and 

 often with a fine sutural median white spot amabilis. 



Prothorax with one basal white spot, a small lateral white 

 patch, and also a small white dot ; elytra with three white 

 lateral patches and two or three intermixed white dots, and a 

 dorsal series of threewhite spots lucttfera, 



\'. Spiracle of last abdominal Begment normal, 



