CoJeoptera from South Africa. I(j3 



the prothorax at the base, gradually attenuated from thence to the 

 apex, which is about narrower by one-fourth, plane, striate, with 

 the intervals convex, dull red, with a narrow supra- marginal 

 greyish-white band extending from the shoulder to the suture, 

 lateral and posterior margins denuded, as well as the humeral and 

 apical calluses; pygidiurn elongated, black, with two white patches; 

 underside black, punctulate ; prosternum and legs slightly pilose. 

 Length 14, width 7 mm. 



Hab. Zambezia (Salisbury). 



Gen. Cetonia, Fabr. 



C. nigropunctulata, n. sp. 

 Brownish-red, with a slight fleshy tinge, the basal part of the 

 head and the underside piceous-black ; head and clypeus punctulate, 

 lateral part of the head pubescent ; prothorax gradually attenuate 

 laterally from base to apex, dehiscent in the anterior part of the 

 disk, punctulate, and having eleven distinct and regularly arranged 

 black spots ; elytra deeply sinuate below the humeral angle, nearly 

 parallel from there towards the apex, tricostate on each side of the 

 suture, as well as punctate-striate, and having on each side twelve 

 black round spots ; pygidium without any white patch ; underside 

 tomentose, last abdominal segment rufescent. Length 14, width 

 8 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Leydenburg). 



A little more massive and more convex than C. 

 carneola, Burm.^ and redder; the black spots on the pro- 

 thorax and elytra do not commingle in the least. 



C. aspersa, n. sp. 

 Bronze, shining, covered with closely-set squamules ; head 

 closely punctured ; prothorax attenuate in front from about the 

 median part, with thick but short pubescence, closely punctured, but 

 also with narrow, irregular longitudinal impressions filled with 

 dense greyish-white squamules, median part with a smooth, longi- 

 tudinal, raised line ; elytra deeply sinuate laterally, bi-costate on 

 each side, with short pubescence, rugose, with the rugosities filled 

 with dense squamules ; pygidium and underside densely squamose. 

 Length 13, width 7 mm. 



Hah. Zambezia (Mazoe). 



Allied to C. {Fseudoprotietia) amakosa, Boh., but a little 

 larger, and very densely covered vv^ith scales. 



