neiv or little kmnon Cetoniida\ 259 



suture behiud, apical sutural augles produced and acute, six 

 discal and three raarginal rows of irregular punctures on each, 

 those next the suture assuming sti'ite towards the apex ; light 

 green, very shining, a narrow interrupted marginal line, two 

 spots at the side placed transversely just behind the middle, 

 a small one on the shoulder, four or five along the centre of the 

 disc, two or three elongate spots next the suture on the apical 

 half and a large one at the apex, white ; epimera l)lack Avith a 

 Avhite spot above. 



Pygidiuni with numerous variolose punctures ; red with an 

 irregular white mark on each side. 



Beneath and legs strigose and sparsely hirsute ; shining black 

 with several white spots at the sides, the margins of the pro- 

 thorax and the abdomen red, mesosternal process broad with a 

 transverse impressed hne. 



Livingstonia, Lake Nyassa. 



AUied to 0. vitticollis, Bhn. 



Found abundantly by Mr. Simons on flowers; some specimens 

 have the white spots on the elytra larger and more or less con- 

 fluent, and the thorax is sometimes only narrowly margined 

 with red at the sides. 



Tephmea nifu-oriiatu, u. sp. 



T. ovata, depressa, atra, sub-opaca, subtiliter pimctulata ; 

 thorace marginibus (ante scutellum interruptis), vittaque abbre- 

 viata antice rufis ; elytris vitta lata obhqua longitudinali riifa 

 ornatis ; subtus nigra, nitida ; pygidio rufo. Long. 15, lat. 

 y mm. 



Head flat, very closely and finely punctiued, the base more 

 coarsely so, with a small smooth space in the centre ; clypeus 

 slightly rounded at the sides, apical margin slightly elevated and 

 emarginate ; black, slightly shining ; antennae black, the apex 

 reddish. 



Thorax rather convex, the sides shghtly prominent in the 

 middle, basal margin strongly rounded and deeply emarginate 

 above the scutellum, posterior angles slightly prominent but 

 obtuse, deeply but rather sparsely punctured ; dull black with a 

 broad marginal band, interrupted before 'the scutellum, and a 

 central longitudinal stripe from the anterior margin to just 

 behind the middle, dull red. 



