1907.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 489 



between the median and the apical part ; the pygidium bears two 

 large white macules ; the four basal abdominal segments have a 

 band of white, and the pectus is also broadly maculated laterally 

 with white ; the spiracle of the last segment is not raised. 



Length 9 mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Hab. Mozambique (Beira). 



Mausoleopsis kubriceps, Eaffr., 



Plate XLVIL, fig. 24. 

 Rev. et. Mag. Zool., 1877, p. 334. 



Black, shiny, clypeus, antennae, pygidium, and last abdominal 

 segment red ; head plainly impressed, although not deeply, on each 

 side of the frontal part, the middle of which is thus sub-carinate, and 

 more deeply punctate there than in the clypeal part ; prothorax 

 hardly punctulate in the discoidal part in the male, regularly 

 punctulate all over in the female, in the discoidal part are two rows 

 of three white dots, and there is a white lateral median spot ; 

 scutellum impunctate ; elytra elongate, attenuate behind, the 

 punctures moderately deep, and having on each side small white 

 dots varying from twelve to fourteen ; the dark-red pygidium is 

 without white macules, finely aciculate, and somewhat depressed 

 longitudinally in the female ; the under side is without any traces of 

 white patches or dots ; in the male the hind thighs are not much 

 arcuate, but the lower edge of the tibige is laminate ; the pectus and 

 legs are very briefly setulose. 



Length 8f-10|- mm. ; width 4^-6 mm. 



Hab. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Gazaland) ; Mozambique 

 (Beira, Rikatla). 



The species was originally described from the Zanzibar mainland. 



(/ have not been able to identify the following species.) 



? Mausoleopsis albosignata, Bohem., 

 Ofv. Vet. Ak. Porhandl., 1860, p. 118. 



" Oblongo ovate, black, shiny, little convex above, sparsely 

 pubescent beneath ; prothorax moderately and little closely punctate, 

 having on each side a lateral, oblong, snow-white band ; elytra little 

 deeply but closely punctate striate, posterior part of the disk im- 

 pressed towards the suture and provided with a flexuose ridge 

 towards the apex, each one adorned with three lateral, snow-white, 

 sub-impressed macules, the first one sinuated before the middle, 

 sub-triangular and smaller than the second, the second one is in the 



