162 M. Louis Peringuey (m new genera and si^ecies of 



attenuate in front, very densely squamose ; elytra twice as long as 

 the prothorax, hardly broader at the base, a little ampliate behind, 

 moderately convex, densely covered with white scales, and with 

 two longitudinal dorsal series of five dark-green patches, separated 

 from one another by a small patch of denser and whiter scales ; in 

 the lateral series the two anterior patches are goalescent, forming 

 a band reaching from the shoulder to about the median part ; 

 underside and legs squamose. Length 9, width 4 mm. 

 Hah. Zarabezia (Buluv^ayo). 



A species very distinct from the other South African 

 ones known to me; I am, however, acquainted with 

 . A. fessulat'us, Burmeister. 



CETONIDES. 



Gi-oiap 1SCHN08T0MINI. 



Mazoe, n. gen. 



Mentum as in IscJmosto?7ia, palpi shorter; clypeus as long as the 

 head, excavate, with the frontal and lateral margins recurved and 

 sinuate in the interior part laterally, deeply constricted at the 

 junction with the head; antennise short, the club as long as the 

 clypeus; prothorax much attenuated in front, where the apical part 

 is only half the width of the base, depressed ; scutellum very long, 

 sharply triangular ; elytra depressed, as broad as the prothorax at 

 the base, sinuate laterally behind the shoulder and gradually 

 narrowed behind ; legs long, slender, claws very long, anterior 

 tibiiB bi-dentate, posterior ones with a median spine. 



Ischnostoma alhonofata, Pering. (Trans. S. Afric. Philos. 

 Society, 1885, p. 97), belongs to the present genus. 



M. juciinda, n. sp. 



Head and clypeus deeply and closely punctured, and with a few 

 bristles, the median part of both with an orange-yellow covering; 

 pi-othorax closely punctured, gradually ampliated laterally from 

 the anterior angle to the base and sinuated above it, margined, 

 depressed, deeply punctured, the whole of the disk covered with 

 an orange-yellow tomentum, and having a small quadrate denuded 

 patch in the middle of the apical part, one small lateral sj^ot on 

 each side and two sub-quadrate ones in the median part of the base 

 above the scutellum, the lateral and posterior margins also being 

 denuded ; scutellum long, triangular, denuded ; elytra as broad as 



