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ACROTHYKEA, Kraatz, 

 Deutsch. Ent. Zeit., xxvi., 1882, p. 76. 



rufofemorata, Burm., Handb. d. Entomol., iii., p. 422. 

 = Lipothyrea barheri, P6r., Catal. ii., p. 472. 



MAUSOLEOPSIS, Lansb. 



Mausoleopsis albomaculata, Moser, Catal. ii., p. 488. 

 (Ann. Soc. Ent., Belg., 1907, p. 322.) 

 Herr Moser considers that albomaculata, should not remain in the 

 genus Oxythyrea on account of it having no spinose spiracle on the 

 last abdominal segment, and also because the hind legs of the $ are 

 not broadened and the claws of the fore tarsi are equal. I saw three 

 examples only of this species, which I took to be females, in which 

 the fore claws are equal, but in one the spiracle is certainly distinct, 

 although not as prominent as in the other species of the genus. 

 Then again the livery is the same as that of Mausoleopsis amabilis, 

 and differs thus considerably from that of the species of the genus 

 Leucocelis. 



Mausoleopsis rubeiceps, Eaffr., Cat. ii., p. 489. 

 Herr Moser concludes also that this species should not be included 

 in Mausoleopsis nor be left in Leucocelis, and that a special genus 

 should be created for its reception. Truly in rubriceps the last 

 abdominal segment bears no spinose spiracle, but the inner claw of 

 the anterior tarsi of the $ is considerably longer and thicker than 

 the outer, in the manner of Mausoleopsis, and the pygidium is equally 

 broadly truncate at apex and equally parallel laterally. I do not 

 therefore feel justified in proposing a new genus for a species which, 

 •as is the case for albomaculata, links fairly well Leucocelis with 

 Mausoleopsis. 



Mausoleopsis zambesina, Brancs., 

 Jahr. Ver. Trencs., xvi., 1897, p. 117, pi. iv., fig. 7. 

 "Very black, oblong, shiny; head roughly punctate, clypeus 

 sinuate, with the margins neither carinate nor reflexed ; dorsal pint 

 of the prothorax silky, lateral margins with an oblong white macule 

 on each side, and a smaller one of the same colour before the 

 scutellum ; scutellum elongate triangular, whitish ; elytra silky at 

 the base, lateral margin having on each side some small white 

 macules behind the shoulders and before the apex, and a larger 



