1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 685 



macule on each side ; under side black, shiny : anterior fcibise acutely 

 bi-dentate outwardly. $ . 



Length 9^ mm. ; width 5 mm. 



Head rather coarsely but shallowly punctured, the base with long 

 ashy-white pubescence ; clypeus large, dilated at the sides, strongly 

 rounded in front, the margins acutely elevated, the apex shallowly 

 emarginate, slightly convex in the centre, the sides strigose, shining 

 black with a white spot on each side at the base of the clypeus ; 

 antennae pitchy black, the club long and reddish. Thorax rather 

 broader than long, the sides straight from the base to the 

 middle, anterior margin with a small elevated ridge in the middle, 

 posterior angles strongly rounded ; basal margin nearly straight ; 

 dull black, rather coarsely punctured and covered with a dense 

 ashy-white pubescence, a marginal band on each side branched 

 in the middle, and several small spots on the anterior half white. 

 Scutellum obtuse at the apex, dull black with several small white 

 spots, the base punctured and pubescent. Elytra with promi- 

 nent humeral angles, faintly punctured at the sides and apex, the 

 disc with two slightly elevated indistinct longitudinal ridges ; 

 pale yellowish red, opaque, sparsely pubescent, suture black, a 

 sutural and two discal rows of small spots and irregular confluent 

 marks and spots at the sides and apex white ; epimera black, densely 

 pubescent, and with a white spot above. Pygidium large, the margin 

 acute, black, slightly shiny, strigose, and pubescent, with a large 

 mark on each side united at the base, and several small spots in the 

 centre white. Beneath shining black, strigose and with dense long 

 ashy pubescence at the sides ; mesosternal process very short, 

 dilated and truncate at the apex ; abdomen deeply longitudinally 

 impressed in the centre, the sides with broad white stripes ; legs 

 shining black, punctured and pubescent, tarsi reddish, anterior tibiae 

 broad with two large acute lateral teeth." 



This species does certainly not belong to the genus Heteroclita. I 

 have made only a cursory examination of the type, which very greatly 

 resembles Micrelcvpkinis nigritula, Boh. J . 



Gen. EUDICELLA, White, Cat. ii., p. 390. 



EUDICELLA FEONTALIS, WestW., 



Ann. Nat. Hist., 1841, p. 204; Arcan. Entom., i., p. 176, pi. 43, 



figs. 1, 2. 



Bright very shiny golden green. The prothorax and elytra in 

 both sexes are most delicately punctured ; the suture and a broad 

 stripe down the sides of the latter are of a splendid green, the other 



