(^olcoplcra from South Africa. 11 I 



III tli<> typical example of this species the head aiul thorax 

 are white, the latter having; a broad central vitta and a line 

 along the base black, leaving the front niari^in and a squarish 

 snot occupying the whole side and front angle white. The 

 elytra are of a fine orange-yellow, slightly clouded on their 

 disk, with the suture and the margins (except at the base) 

 narrowly black. The punctuation is Hue and close. 'J'he 

 thorax is transverse, not so wide as the elytra, but still 

 almost forming a continuous outline with them, its base much 

 rounded and continuous with the rounded sides, so that there 

 is no hind angle. 



Ilerr Weise, to whom I sent the typical example, remarks 

 that it must stand near Cydonia circamchisa, Muls. That 

 insect was described from a single female example from 

 Benin, West Africa, and Crotch, who had seen it, considered 

 it a small example of C. dorsalis, Oliv. The Delagoa Bay 

 insect has much the appearance of a Verania, e. g. it is almost 

 marked exactly as the var. of V. discolor recorded by me as 

 bifurcata from Birina. 



The specimens from Delagoa Bay are rather smaller than 

 the single tyj)e, and have the black vitta confused in the more 

 extended black of the base. At the same time their colour 

 is not so rosy. 



Exochomus? justitice, sp. n. 



Orbicularis, nigro-piceus ; elytris sanguineis, macidu magna trans- 

 versa postmediana coinmuni, postice iaJoutita nigra, margiiie 

 suboxplanata nigroscente ; pubo pruinosa grisea vestitus. 



Long. 'So millim, 



JIab. Natal, Malvern {Marshall). 



Thorax transverse, with the front angles very much 

 deflcxcd (as in Chilocorus), the sides straight, the angles them- 

 selves acute ; the excavation for the head has the angles nearly 

 square, being straight at the base. The punctuation of the 

 thorax is only just visible on the disk, but is stronger at tlie 

 sides. The head is much deflexed (as in Cryptognalha) in 

 the single example before me; both it and the thorax arc 

 ])itchy black, with the sides of the thorax becoming reddish. 

 The elytra are of a rich blood-red, with a black mark very 

 similar to that of Cj/rlaulis sellata. This mark is jjroduced 

 backwards on the suture and somewhat obliquely at its sides 

 without reaching either the apex or the margins. The punc- 

 tuation is distinct and thick at the humeral angles and along 

 the blackish sides, but is very minute on the disk, although 

 veiy close and obsolete. The scutcllum, legs, and body arc 

 black. The whole insect above is pubescent. 



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