Coleo-plera from South Africa. A\?t 



fine marginal line. The scutellum obscurely red. The legs 

 are blackish, with red tibiiv and tarsi. The abdomon is red, 

 excepting in the middle and at the base. Ilcrr Weise, to 

 whom 1 sent this with an example of P. rufipennis, Gerst., 

 from Zanzibar, lias iiad tlie kindness to examine it, and 

 considers it distinct from the latter, which it very closely 

 resembles, but which does not show the black cloud at the 

 apex. 



Four specimens are before me — two males (with red heads 

 and red angles to the thorax), one of these is from Isipingo 

 and one from Malvern; and two females'?, one from Isipingo 

 and the other from the Umkomaas lliver. 



Chilocorus cruentiiSy sp. n. 



Orbicularis, saturate sanguineo-rufus ; elytris nigris, singulis plagia 

 magua, e maculis dualms (anteriore multo raajore) formata, 

 sanguinea. 



Long, o'o millim. 



Ilab. Mashonaland, Salisbury, Lesapi River {^LarshalV). 



This C/tilocorus comes in the same section as C. Mar ska Hi ; 

 the head, thorax, underside, and legs are of a fine blood-red ; 

 punctuation hardly exists except on the sides of the elytra ; 

 the latter are deep shining black, with a large blood-red mark 

 on each, evidently formed from two united spots, of which 

 the anterior is much the larger ; these spots may be possibly 

 quite disunited in some varieties, as in the only two examples 

 btfore me they are nearly so. Both examples were found in 

 November, one in 1897, the other in 1899. 



1 do not know any Chilocorus which approaches very near 

 to this. 



The form of this species is oblong-ovate and rather convex, 

 the colour pale straw-yellow, clouded with brown in places. 

 The numerous black markings are very small and usually 

 surrounded on the elytra with pale rings ; they are very 

 frequently absent more or less. The thorax has an indistinct 

 M, the upper and lower extremities of which are sometimes 

 black-dotted, but the greater part is simply brown ; there is 

 in addition a black dot on each side, all of which may be 

 absent. It is twice as wide as long, the sides much rounded, 

 their margin reflexed. The front margin half covers the 

 edges, but they are quite visilde through it. 



The elytra are wider at the base than the thorax, tlie 

 humerus raised as a small tubercle, the black linear dot on 

 which is on the inner side, and, except when it forms a line 

 to the base, is little visible. There is a linear dot on each 



