iss Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiti. 



Mausoleopsis luctifera, Klug, 



Plate XLVII., fig. 26. 



Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 660. 



Peter's Eeis., 1862, p. 265, pi. 15, tig. 10. 



More robust than the large forms of M. amabilis, but differing 

 mostly in the smaller size and greater number of the white macules 

 and dots. In the prothorax, the sculpture of which is identical to 

 that of M. amabilis, both the lateral macules are reduced to a round 

 spot, and the anterior one is often wanting, as in the type ; on the 

 elytra the two lateral patches and also the apical one are greatly 

 reduced, and in addition to these three patches there are also either 

 one round spot above the upper marginal patch, or not, and in the 

 four examples that I have seen, another spot between the post- 

 median patch and the apex, in the discoidal part are three seriate 

 dots; the pygidium and the under side have the same markings as 

 in M. amabilis, and the shape of the hind legs and of the inner claw 

 of the anterior tarsi of the male are similar. In EQug's figure there 

 is only one discoidal white dot on the elytron, but the markings are 

 very variable. 



In ,1/. amabilis these small spots are frequent in many examples, but 

 the two lateral white macules are never reduced in size. M. luctifera 

 seems to me to be a varietal form of E. eustalacta, which is found in 

 Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. 



Length 13-14 mm. ; width 7-J-8 mm. 



Hah. Mozambique (locality unknown). Klug also does not men- 

 tion the pari of Mozambique from which his examples came. 



Mauseoleopsis albomaculata, Moser, 

 Berlin Entom. Zeitschr., 1904, p. 65. 

 This species might be mistaken at tirst sight for a small example 

 of M. amabilis with white dots on the discoidal part of the elytra, 

 but it differs in the shape of the prothorax which is more regularly 

 elongated laterally from the basal angle to the apex, and is less broad 

 across the base than in M. amabilis ; the sculpture of the head and 

 prothorax is the same, and the white markings of the latter arc 

 equally large, but in the elytra there is a large median marginal 

 white patch, one spot above and another below it, and a moderately 

 large apical patch, in the discoidal part there is on each side a 

 diagonal hand, consisting of two coalescing spots in the basal part of 

 the dorsal interval, two in the median part of the disk, the upper one 

 Of which is set close to the suture, and a, juxta-siitural one midway 



